Health Economics

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Volume 18, issue S2, 2009

Foreword pp. S1-S2

William C. Hsiao and Alan Maynard

Economic analysis of China's health care system: turning a new page pp. S3-S6

Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Adam Wagstaff and William C. Hsiao

China's health system and its reform: a review of recent studies pp. S7-S23

Adam Wagstaff, Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Magnus Lindelow and William C. Hsiao

The New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China: does more coverage mean more service and better health? pp. S25-S46

Xiaoyan Lei and Wanchuan Lin

Health‐seeking behavior and hospital choice in China's New Cooperative Medical System pp. S47-S64

Phil Brown and Caroline Theoharides

The impact of rural mutual health care on health status: evaluation of a social experiment in rural China pp. S65-S82

Hong Wang, Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Licheng Zhang and William C. Hsiao

The Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance: a landmark reform towards universal coverage in China pp. S83-S96

Wanchuan Lin, Gordon G. Liu and Gang Chen

Does per‐diem reimbursement necessarily increase length of stay? The case of a public psychiatric hospital pp. S97-S106

Weiyan Jian and Yan Guo

Are services delivered by community health centers more cost‐effective? Evidence from urban China pp. S107-S117

Hongli Jiang, Wen Chen, Kangning Bi and Xiaohua Ying

Health insurance and catastrophic illness: a report on the New Cooperative Medical System in rural China pp. S119-S127

Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, Kim Singer, Scott Rozelle and Scott Atlas

Effects of Rural Mutual Health Care on outpatient service utilization in Chinese village medical institutions: evidence from panel data pp. S129-S136

Zhongliang Zhou, Jianmin Gao, Qinxiang Xue, Xiaowei Yang and Ju'e Yan

Regional inequality in China's health care expenditures pp. S137-S146

Win Lin Chou and Zijun Wang

An analysis of life‐course smoking behavior in China pp. S147-S156

Donald Kenkel, Dean R. Lillard and Feng Liu

Volume 18, issue S1, 2009

Health inequality and deprivation pp. S1-S12

Mark McGillivray, Indranil Dutta and Nora Markova

Measuring intra‐household health inequality: explorations using the body mass index pp. S13-S36

David Sahn and Stephen Younger

Life expectancy and welfare in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. S37-S54

Rodrigo Soares

Measuring health inequality with realization of potential life years (RePLY) pp. S55-S75

Kam Ki Tang, Dennis Petrie and D.S. Prasada Rao

Malnutrition, poverty, and economic growth pp. S77-S88

Rasmus Heltberg

The growth of poor children in China 1991–2000: why food subsidies may matter pp. S89-S108

Lars Osberg, Jiaping Shao and Kuan Xu

On what diseases and health conditions should new economic research on health and development focus? pp. S109-S128

Jere Behrman, Julia A. Behrman and Nykia M. Perez

Volume 18, issue 12, 2009

Minimum pricing of alcohol pp. 1357-1360

Anne Ludbrook

Provider networks and primary‐care signups: do they restrict the use of medical services? pp. 1361-1380

Partha Deb and Pravin Trivedi

The impact of detection and treatment on lifetime medical costs for patients with precancerous polyps and colorectal cancer pp. 1381-1393

David H. Howard, Florence K. Tangka, Laura C. Seeff, Lisa C. Richardson and Donatus U. Ekwueme

Malpractice litigation and medical costs in the United States pp. 1394-1419

Brandon Roberts and Irving Hoch

How do physician assessments of patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening tests differ from actual preferences? A comparison in Canada and the United States using a stated‐choice survey pp. 1420-1439

Deborah A. Marshall, F. Reed Johnson, Nathalie A. Kulin, Semra Özdemir, Judith M. E. Walsh, John K. Marshall, Stephanie Van Bebber and Kathryn A. Phillips

Hospital type and patient outcomes: an empirical examination using AMI readmission and mortality records pp. 1440-1460

Paul Jensen, Elizabeth Webster and Julia Witt

Pricing in vitro fertilization procedures pp. 1461-1480

Anthony Dukes and Rajeev K. Tyagi

Volume 18, issue 11, 2009

Fish and chips all round? Regulation of DNA‐based genetic diagnostics pp. 1233-1236

Katherine Payne

Adjusting life for quality or disability: stylistic difference or substantial dispute? pp. 1237-1247

Mara Airoldi and Alec Morton

Prison health care: is contracting out healthy? pp. 1248-1260

Kelly Bedard and Harry Frech

Using DCE and ranking data to estimate cardinal values for health states for deriving a preference‐based single index from the sexual quality of life questionnaire pp. 1261-1276

Julie Ratcliffe, John Brazier, Aki Tsuchiya, Tara Symonds and Martin Brown

Expanding wallets and waistlines: the impact of family income on the BMI of women and men eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 1277-1294

Maximilian D. Schmeiser

Waiting times and socioeconomic status among elderly Europeans: evidence from SHARE pp. 1295-1306

Luigi Siciliani and Rossella Verzulli

Quantile effects of prenatal care utilization on birth weight in Argentina pp. 1307-1321

George L. Wehby, Jeffrey C. Murray, Eduardo E. Castilla, Jorge S. Lopez‐Camelo and Robert L. Ohsfeldt

Long‐term care and hospital utilisation by older people: an analysis of substitution rates pp. 1322-1338

Julien Forder

The influence of supplementary health insurance on switching behaviour: evidence from Swiss data pp. 1339-1356

Brigitte Dormont, Pierre Geoffard and Karine Lamiraud

Volume 18, issue 10, 2009

Hospital‐based pay‐for‐performance in the United States pp. 1109-1113

Andrew Ryan

The influence of economic incentives and regulatory factors on the adoption of treatment technologies: a case study of technologies used to treat heart attacks pp. 1114-1132

Mickael Bech, Terkel Christiansen, Kelly Dunham, Jørgen Lauridsen, Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Kathryn McDonald, Alistair McGuire and and the TECH Investigators

Dual job holding general practitioners: the effect of patient shortage pp. 1133-1145

Geir Godager and Hilde Lurås

Absence of appropriate hospitalization cost control for patients with medical insurance: a comparative analysis study pp. 1146-1162

Xilong Pan, Hassan H. Dib, Minmin Zhu, Ying Zhang and Yang Fan

Qualitative methodologies in health‐care priority setting research pp. 1163-1175

Neale Smith, Craig Mitton and Stuart Peacock

Extensions to decomposition of the redistributive effect of health care finance pp. 1176-1187

Hai Zhong

Equivalence of two healthcare costing methods: bottom‐up and top‐down pp. 1188-1201

Michael K. Chapko, Chuan‐Fen Liu, Mark Perkins, Yu‐Fang Li, John C. Fortney and Matthew L. Maciejewski

Mental stress in Ireland, 1994–2000: a stochastic dominance approach pp. 1202-1217

David Madden

Inequity in publicly funded physician care: what is the role of private prescription drug insurance? pp. 1218-1232

Sara Allin and Jeremiah Hurley

Volume 18, issue 9, 2009

Editors' introduction pp. 987-989

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Caring for mom and neglecting yourself? The health effects of caring for an elderly parent pp. 991-1010

Norma Coe and Courtney Van Houtven

Providing care for an elderly parent: interactions among siblings? pp. 1011-1029

Roméo Fontaine, Agnès Gramain and Jérôme Wittwer

Do current levels of air pollution kill? The impact of air pollution on population mortality in England pp. 1031-1055

Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and John Henderson

Inequality of opportunity in health: evidence from a UK cohort study pp. 1057-1074

Pedro Rosa Dias

Does job loss cause ill health? pp. 1075-1089

Martin Salm

The effects of an incentive program on quality of care in diabetes management pp. 1091-1108

Anthony Scott, Stefanie Schurer, Paul Jensen and Peter Sivey

Volume 18, issue 8, 2009

Contingent valuation: (still) on the road to nowhere? pp. 863-866

Richard D. Smith and Tracey H. Sach

Proximity to death and participation in the long‐term care market pp. 867-883

France Weaver, Sally C. Stearns, Edward Norton and William Spector

Physical inactivity and its impact on healthcare utilization pp. 885-901

Nazmi Sari

Discrete choice experiments for complex health‐care decisions: does hierarchical information integration offer a solution? pp. 903-920

Debby van Helvoort‐Postulart, Benedict Dellaert, Trudy van der Weijden, Maarten F. von Meyenfeldt and Carmen D. Dirksen

Should healthy Medicare beneficiaries postpone enrollment in Medicare Part D? pp. 921-931

Adam Atherly and Bryan Dowd

Modelling the monetary value of a QALY: a new approach based on UK data pp. 933-950

Helen Mason, Michael Jones‐Lee and Cam Donaldson

Exploring the social value of health‐care interventions: a stated preference discrete choice experiment pp. 951-976

Colin Green and Karen Gerard

Third degree waiting time discrimination: optimal allocation of a public sector healthcare treatment under rationing by waiting pp. 977-986

Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani

Volume 18, issue 7, 2009

The influence of economic incentives on reported disability status pp. 743-759

Brenda Gannon

Infant health production functions: what a difference the data make pp. 761-782

Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Dhaval Dave

Immigrants and the use of preventive care in the United States pp. 783-806

Yuriy Pylypchuk and Julie Hudson

A Bayesian model averaging approach for cost‐effectiveness analyses pp. 807-821

Caterina Conigliani and Andrea Tancredi

Why has the health inequality among infants in the US declined? Accounting for the shrinking gap pp. 823-841

Wanchuan Lin

What has influenced patient health‐care expenditures in Japan?: variables of age, death, length of stay, and medical care pp. 843-853

Emi Sato and Kiyohide Fushimi

Forgetting the learning curve for a moment: how much performance is unrelated to own experience? pp. 855-862

Marco D. Huesch and Mariko Sakakibara

Volume 18, issue 6, 2009

Tobit at fifty: a brief history of Tobin's remarkable estimator, of related empirical methods, and of limited dependent variable econometrics in health economics pp. 619-628

Kohei Enami and John Mullahy

Transferability indices for health economic evaluations: methods and applications pp. 629-643

Fernando Antonanzas, Roberto Rodríguez‐Ibeas, Carmelo Juárez, Florencia Hutter, Reyes Lorente and Mariola Pinillos

Investing time in health: do socioeconomically disadvantaged patients spend more or less extra time on diabetes self‐care? pp. 645-663

Susan L. Ettner, Betsy L. Cadwell, Louise Russell, Arleen Brown, Andrew J. Karter, Monika Safford, Carol Mangione, Gloria Beckles, William H. Herman, Theodore J. Thompson and and The TRIAD Study Group

Productive innovations in hospitals: an empirical research on the relation between technology and productivity in the Dutch hospital industry pp. 665-679

Jos Blank and Bart L. Van Hulst

Designing choice experiments with many attributes. An application to setting priorities for orthopaedic waiting lists pp. 681-696

Julia Witt, Anthony Scott and Richard H. Osborne

Learning, forgetting, and hospital quality: an empirical analysis of cardiac procedures in Maryland and Arizona pp. 697-711

Andrew Sfekas

New evidence of preference reversals in health utility measurement pp. 713-726

Han Bleichrodt and Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades

Concentration and drug prices in the retail market for malaria treatment in rural Tanzania pp. 727-742

Catherine Goodman, S. Patrick Kachur, Salim Abdulla, Peter Bloland and Anne Mills

Volume 18, issue 5, 2009

Social determinants of health: an economic perspective pp. 495-502

David Epstein, Dolores Jiménez‐Rubio, Peter C. Smith and Marc Suhrcke

Parental response to health risk information: experimental results on willingness‐to‐pay for safer infant milk formula pp. 503-518

Isabell Goldberg, Jutta Roosen and Rodolfo Nayga

Have newer cardiovascular drugs reduced hospitalization? Evidence from longitudinal country‐level data on 20 OECD countries, 1995–2003 pp. 519-534

Frank Lichtenberg

Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks pp. 535-548

Euna Han, Edward Norton and Sally C. Stearns

The influence of subjective life expectancy on health state valuations using a 10 year TTO pp. 549-558

F. E. van Nooten, X. Koolman and Werner Brouwer

Stress perception and commuting pp. 559-576

Georg Gottholmseder, Klaus Nowotny, Gerald Pruckner and Engelbert Theurl

The impact of diabetes on employment in Canada pp. 577-589

Ehsan Latif

Competition between brand‐name and generics – analysis on pricing of brand‐name pharmaceutical pp. 591-606

Ying Kong

You save money when you buy in bulk: does volume‐based pricing cause people to buy more beer? pp. 607-618

Jeremy Bray, Brett R. Loomis and Mark Engelen

Volume 18, issue 4, 2009

Affordability – the forgotten criterion in health‐care priority setting pp. 373-375

Susan M. Cleary and Di McIntyre

The impact of using different costing methods on the results of an economic evaluation of cardiac care: microcosting vs gross‐costing approaches pp. 377-388

Fiona M. Clement (Nee Shrive), William A. Ghali, Cam Donaldson and Braden J. Manns

Comparing welfare estimates from payment card contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments pp. 389-401

Mandy Ryan and Verity Watson

A linear index for predicting joint health‐states utilities from single health‐states utilities pp. 403-419

Anirban Basu, William Dale, Arthur Elstein and David Meltzer

Effects of the German reference drug program on ex‐factory prices of prescription drugs: a panel data approach pp. 421-436

Boris Augurzky, Silja Göhlmann, Stefan Greß and Juergen Wasem

Physician labour supply in Canada: a cohort analysis pp. 437-456

Thomas Crossley, Jeremiah Hurley and Sung-Hee Jeon

Specialization and competition in dental health services pp. 457-466

Jostein Grytten and Irene Skau

Priority setting in practice: what is the best way to compare costs and benefits? pp. 467-478

Edward C. F. Wilson, Stuart J. Peacock and Danny Ruta

Cross‐country disparities in health‐care expenditure: a factor decomposition pp. 479-485

Jorge Alcalde‐Unzu, Roberto Ezcurra and Pedro Pascual

The valuation of prenatal life in economic evaluations of perinatal interventions pp. 487-494

Judit Simon, Stavros Petrou and Alastair Gray

Volume 18, issue 3, 2009

A detail that may devil health‐care reformin the United States pp. 249-251

Thomas Rice

Managed competition in the Netherlands: still work‐in‐progress pp. 253-255

Wynand P. M. M. Van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut

Do microfinance programs help families insure consumption against illness? pp. 257-273

Paul Gertler, David Levine and Enrico Moretti

A comparative analysis of Medicaid long‐term care policies and their effects on elderly dual enrollees pp. 275-290

J. Bradford Rice, Judith D. Kasper and Liliana E. Pezzin

Adversities of acculturation? Prevalence of obesity among immigrants pp. 291-303

Neeraj Kaushal

Do HMO and its for‐profit expansion jeopardize the survival of hospital safety net services? pp. 305-320

Yu‐Chu Shen

Rationalising the ‘irrational’: a think aloud study of discrete choice experiment responses pp. 321-336

Mandy Ryan, Verity Watson and Vikki Entwistle

Pecuniary compensation increases participation in screening for colorectal cancer pp. 337-354

Eline Aas

Aging diseases – do they prevent preventive health care from saving costs? pp. 355-362

Afschin Gandjour

A comparison of patient and general population weightings of EQ‐5D dimensions pp. 363-372

Rachel Mann, John Brazier and Aki Tsuchiya

Volume 18, issue 2, 2009

Income, relative income, and self‐reported health in Britain 1979–2000 pp. 125-145

Hugh Gravelle and Matt Sutton

Equality of what in health? Distinguishing between outcome egalitarianism and gain egalitarianism pp. 147-159

Aki Tsuchiya and Paul Dolan

Unemployment and self‐assessed health: evidence from panel data pp. 161-179

Petri Böckerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas

Cost–benefit analysis involving addictive goods: contingent valuation to estimate willingness‐to‐pay for smoking cessation pp. 181-202

David Weimer, Aidan Vining and Randall K. Thomas

Globally optimal trial design for local decision making pp. 203-216

Simon Eckermann and Andrew R. Willan

The duration effect: a link between TTO and VAS values pp. 217-225

Benjamin M. Craig

The effects of stochastic demand and expense preference behaviour on public hospital costs and excess capacity pp. 227-235

C. Lovell, Ana Rodríguez‐Álvarez and Alan Wall

Does advanced medical technology encourage hospitalist use and their direct employment by hospitals? pp. 237-247

Guy David, Lorens A. Helmchen and Robert A. Henderson

Volume 18, issue 1, 2009

Editorial pp. 1-1

Alan Maynard, John Hutton and Andrew Jones

The effects of cigarette costs on BMI and obesity pp. 3-19

Charles L. Baum

Estimating production costs in the economic evaluation of health‐care programs pp. 21-35

Carmen Herrero and Juan D. Moreno‐Ternero

Redistribution or horizontal equity in Hong Kong's mixed public–private health system: a policy conundrum pp. 37-54

Gabriel M. Leung, Keith Y. K. Tin and Owen O'Donnell

The convergence of health care expenditure in the US states pp. 55-70

Zijun Wang

Does job satisfaction improve the health of workers? New evidence using panel data and objective measures of health pp. 71-89

Justina A. V. Fischer and Alfonso Sousa‐Poza

The impact of using different imputation methods for missing quality of life scores on the estimation of the cost‐effectiveness of lung‐volume‐reduction surgery pp. 91-101

David K. Blough, Scott Ramsey, Sean D. Sullivan and Roger Yusen

Catastrophic medical payment and financial protection in rural China: evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province pp. 103-119

Xiaoyun Sun, Sukhan Jackson, Gordon Carmichael and Adrian C. Sleigh