Health Economics, Policy and Law

2006 - 2025

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Volume 3, issue 4, 2008

Social capital, economics, and health: new evidence pp. 321-331

Richard M. Scheffler and Timothy T. Brown

An economic model of social capital and health pp. 333-348

Sherman Folland

An exploratory study of associations between social capital and self-assessed health in Norway pp. 349-364

Tor Iversen

Access to psycho-social resources and health: exploratory findings from a survey of the French population pp. 365-391

Florence Jusot, Michel Grignon and Paul Dourgnon

Aging, social capital, and health care utilization in Canada pp. 393-411

Audrey Laporte, Eric Nauenberg and Leilei Shen

Social capital and the social formation of health-related preferences and behaviours pp. 413-427

Joan Costa-Font and Philipa Mladovsky

Volume 3, issue 3, 2008

Addressing legal and political barriers to global pharmaceutical access: Options for remedying the impact of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the imposition of TRIPS-plus standards pp. 229-256

Jillian Clare Cohen-Kohler, Lisa Forman and Nathaniel Lipkus

Willingness to pay for alternative policies for patients with Alzheimer’s Disease pp. 257-275

Miguel A. Negrín, Jaime Pinilla and Carmelo J. León

Valuing lives and life years: anomalies, implications, and an alternative pp. 277-300

Paul Dolan, Robert Metcalfe, Vicki Munro and Michael C. Christensen

Consumer-directed health care: promise or puffery? pp. 301-311

Daniel Callahan

Aid, truth, and policy: what do we know? pp. 313-319

Tony Barnett

Volume 3, issue 2, 2008

Nursing home performance in resident care in the United States: is it only a matter of for-profit versus not-for-profit? pp. 115-140

Frederic H. Decker

Public–Private Partnerships in the health sector: the Danish experience pp. 141-163

Vrangbæk*, Karsten

Aging, health expenditure, proximity to death, and income in Finland pp. 165-195

Unto Häkkinen, Pekka Martikainen, Anja Noro, Elina Nihtilä and Mikko Peltola

Systematic reviews – do they ‘work’ in informing decision-making around health inequalities? pp. 197-211

Mark Petticrew and Helen Roberts

Health economics made easy: guiding the initiated and uninitiated pp. 213-218

Charles Normand

Volume 3, issue 1, 2008

Defining hospital markets for antitrust enforcement: new approaches and their applicability to The Netherlands pp. 7-29

Marco Varkevisser, Cory S. Capps and Frederik T. Schut

Global public–private partnerships against neglected diseases: building governance structures for effective outcomes pp. 31-50

Sebastian Buckup

Prescription drug co-payments and cost-related medication underuse pp. 51-67

Todd H. Wagner, Michele Heisler and John D. Piette

Developing methods that really do value the ‘Q’ in the QALY pp. 69-77

Paul Dolan

Valuing health properly pp. 79-83

Daniel M. Hausman

Are subjective well-being measures any better than decision utility measures? pp. 85-91

Dylan M. Smith, Stephanie L. Brown and Peter A. Ubel

In defence of subjective well-being pp. 93-95

Paul Dolan

Shaping the future of humankind: three commentaries on the ethics of enhancement pp. 97-105

Robert Dingwall

Volume 2, issue 4, 2007

Physicians’ career satisfaction, quality of care and patients’ trust: the role of community uninsurance pp. 347-362

José A. Pagán, Lakshmi Balasubramanian and Mark V. Pauly

Mental health service delivery in Ontario, Canada: how do policy legacies shape prospects for reform? pp. 363-389

Gillian Mulvale, Julia Abelson and Paula Goering

The complexity of governance change: reforming the governance of medical performance in Germany pp. 391-407

Viola Burau

Specialization and physician-ownership in the US hospital industry: beyond the moratorium pp. 409-418

Kathleen Carey, Burgess, Jr, James F. and Gary J. Young

Activity based financing in England: the need for continual refinement of payment by results pp. 419-427

Andrew Street and Alan Maynard

Hospital cost differences and payment by results pp. 429-433

James Malcomson

Activity-based payments and reforms of the English hospital payment system pp. 435-444

Randall Ellis and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

Payment by results: qualified ambition? pp. 445-448

Andrew Street and Alan Maynard

Coping accountably in a dangerous world pp. 449-455

David Chinitz

Letter pp. 457-457

Julian Le Grand

Volume 2, issue 3, 2007

Who switches sickness funds in Israel? pp. 251-265

Amir Shmueli, Jacques Bendelac and Leah Achdut

Funding pharmaceutical innovation through direct tax credits pp. 267-284

Kristina M. Lybecker and Robert A. Freeman

Lawsuit activity, defensive medicine, and small area variation: the case of cesarean sections revisited pp. 285-296

Henry Brown

Family history of chronic disease and participation in healthy behaviours pp. 297-315

Godfrey A. Gibbison and C. Douglas Johnson

Visible hand or invisible fist?: the new market and choice in the English NHS pp. 317-325

Calum Paton

Taking the iron fist a little further pp. 327-331

Ian Greener

Peering through a glass: darkly pp. 333-335

Nicholas Timmins

Politics over economics, fist over hand pp. 337-339

Calum Paton

America's health care dilemma: not a pretty sight pp. 341-346

David Wilsford

Volume 2, issue 2, 2007

Patient reactions to hospital choice in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden pp. 125-152

Karsten Vrangbæk, Katarina Østergren, Hans Okkels Birk and Ulrika Winblad

Implementing accountability for reasonableness – the case of pharmaceutical reimbursement in Sweden pp. 153-171

Sandra Jansson

Supplementary health insurance as a tool for risk-selection in mandatory basic health insurance markets pp. 173-192

Francesco Paolucci, Erik Schut, Konstantin Beck, Stefan GREß, Carine van de Voorde and Irit Zmora

Economists’ dream or nightmare? Maximizing health gains from available resources using the NICE guidelines pp. 193-202

Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni

NICE: A nightmare worth having? pp. 203-208

Michael Drummond

A response to Birch and Gafni – some reasons to be cheerful about NICE pp. 209-216

Marthe Gold and Stirling Bryan

Being naughty about NICE? Questioning the methods used to maximize health gains from NHS resources pp. 217-221

Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni

Organizational innovations and health care decentralization: a perspective from Spain pp. 223-232

Guillem López-Casasanovas

The American right-wing policy agenda pp. 233-239

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Volume 2, issue 1, 2007

Financial incentives and psychiatric services in Australia: an empirical analysis of three policy changes pp. 7-22

D. P. Doessel, Roman W. Scheurer, David C. Chant and Harvey Whiteford

Medicaid policy changes in mental health care and their effect on mental health outcomes pp. 23-49

Alison Evans Cuellar and Sara Markowitz

Regionalization versus competition in complex cancer surgery pp. 51-71

Vivian Ho, Robert Town and Martin J. Heslin

A new approach to the comparative analysis of health systems: invasive treatment for heart disease in the US, France, and their two world cities pp. 73-92

Michael K. Gusmano, Victor G. Rodwin, Daniel Weisz and Dhiman Das

Inconsistent objectives – reflections on some selective health care policy developments in Europe pp. 93-106

Adam Oliver

The hedgehog and the fox: Glouberman and Marmor on ‘Healthy Public Policy’ Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy Sholom Glouberman Ottawa: Canadian Health Policy Networks, 2004, 92 pp. Fads in Medical Care Management and Policy Theodore Marmor London: The Nuffield Trust, 2004, 72 pp pp. 107-115

Carolyn Hughes Tuohy