Health Economics

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Volume 17, issue S1, 2008

Variability in healthcare treatment costs amongst nine EU countries – results from the HealthBASKET project pp. S1-S8

Reinhard Busse, Jonas Schreyögg and Peter C. Smith

Health service costs in Europe: cost and reimbursement of primary hip replacement in nine countries pp. S9-S20

Tom Stargardt

The hospital costs of care for stroke in nine European countries pp. S21-S31

David Epstein, Anne Mason and Andrea Manca

Variations in hospitalisation costs for acute myocardial infarction – a comparison across Europe pp. S33-S45

Oliver Tiemann

What can we learn from a cross‐country comparison of the costs of child delivery? pp. S47-S57

Martine M. Bellanger and Zeynep Or

A micro‐costing approach to estimating hospital costs for appendectomy in a Cross‐European context pp. S59-S69

Jonas Schreyögg

Cost and reimbursement of cataract surgery in Europe: a cross‐country comparison pp. S71-S82

Giovanni Fattore and Aleksandra Torbica

Costs and prices of single dental fillings in Europe: a micro‐costing study pp. S83-S93

Siok Swan Tan, W. Ken Redekop and Frans F. H. Rutten

Cross‐country comparisons of costs: the use of episode‐specific transitive purchasing power parities with standardised cost categories pp. S95-S103

Jonas Schreyögg, Oliver Tiemann, Tom Stargardt and Reinhard Busse

Volume 17, issue 12, 2008

Darzi on NICE: the case for clinician engagement in HTA pp. 1323-1327

Stirling Bryan

Explaining the characteristics of the power (CRRA) utility family pp. 1329-1344

Peter Wakker

Hospital ownership and quality of care: what explains the different results in the literature? pp. 1345-1362

Karen Eggleston, Yu‐Chu Shen, Joseph Lau, Christopher H. Schmid and Jia Chan

Heterogeneity in preferences for smoking cessation pp. 1363-1377

Robert W. Paterson, Kevin Boyle, Christopher Parmeter, James E. Neumann and Paul De Civita

Distributional consequences of the transition from age‐based to income‐based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada pp. 1379-1392

Gillian E. Hanley, Steve Morgan, Jeremiah Hurley and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Coping with health‐care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty pp. 1393-1412

Gabriela Flores, Jaya Krishnakumar, Owen O'Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Impact of the recall period on measuring health utilities for acute events pp. 1413-1419

Nick Bansback, Huiying Sun, Daphne P. Guh, Xin Li, Bohdan Nosyk, Susan Griffin, Paul G. Barnett and Aslam H. Anis

Volume 17, issue 11, 2008

Adolescent depression: diagnosis, treatment, and educational attainment pp. 1215-1235

Jason Fletcher

Testing for an economic gradient in health status using subjective data pp. 1237-1259

Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

Go out or stay in? The effects of zero tolerance laws on alcohol use and drinking and driving patterns among college students pp. 1261-1275

Lan Liang and Jidong Huang

Optimal drug pricing, limited use conditions and stratified net benefits for Markov models of disease progression pp. 1277-1294

Gregory S. Zaric

Estimating differences between male and female physician service provision using panel data pp. 1295-1315

Alexandra Constant and Pierre Thomas Léger

Partially wrong? Partial equilibrium and the economic analysis of public health emergencies of international concern pp. 1317-1322

P. Beutels, W. J. Edmunds and R. D. Smith

Volume 17, issue 10, 2008

The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery pp. 1107-1128

Bruce Hollingsworth

Publicly funded medical savings accounts: expenditure and distributional impacts in Ontario, Canada pp. 1129-1151

Jeremiah Hurley, G Emmanuel Guindon, Vicki Rynard and Steve Morgan

Assessing horizontal equity in medication treatment among elderly Mexicans: which socioeconomic determinants matter most? pp. 1153-1169

Jürgen Maurer

The role of permanent and transitory shocks in explaining international health expenditures pp. 1171-1186

Paresh Kumar Narayan and Seema Narayan

Pharmaceutical expenditure, total health‐care expenditure and GDP pp. 1187-1206

Jesus Clemente Lopez, Carmen Marcuello and Antonio Montañés

Incorporating feelings related to the uncertainty about future health in utility measurement pp. 1207-1213

Afschin Gandjour

Volume 17, issue 9, 2008

Editors' Introduction pp. 997-999

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Expenditure dispersion and dietary quality: evidence from Canada pp. 1001-1014

Timothy Beatty

Infant mortality and child nutrition in Bangladesh pp. 1015-1035

Diane Dancer, Anu Rammohan and Murray D. Smith

Medical demography and intergenerational inequalities in general practitioners' earnings pp. 1037-1055

Brigitte Dormont and Anne-Laure Samson

Cost and technical efficiency of German hospitals: does ownership matter? pp. 1057-1071

Annika Herr

The quantile regression approach to efficiency measurement: insights from Monte Carlo simulations pp. 1073-1087

Chunping Liu, Audrey Laporte and Brian S. Ferguson

Genetic information, obesity, and labor market outcomes pp. 1089-1104

Edward Norton and Euna Han

Volume 17, issue 8, 2008

Maternal employment and overweight children: does timing matter? pp. 889-906

Stephanie von Hinke

Explaining trends in concentration of healthcare commissioning in the English NHS pp. 907-926

Mark Dusheiko, Maria Goddard, Hugh Gravelle and Rowena Jacobs

Social costs of robbery and the cost‐effectiveness of substance abuse treatment pp. 927-946

Anirban Basu, A. David Paltiel and Harold A. Pollack

Projections of the costs associated with colorectal cancer care in the United States, 2000–2020 pp. 947-959

K. Robin Yabroff, Angela B. Mariotto, Eric Feuer and Martin L. Brown

Out‐of‐pocket payment for medical care under Taiwan's National Health Insurance system pp. 961-975

Chunhuei Chi, Jwo‐Leun Lee, Shu‐Ling Tsai and Wen‐Yi Chen

Hospital financial condition and the quality of patient care pp. 977-995

Gloria J. Bazzoli, Hsueh‐Fen Chen, Mei Zhao and Richard Lindrooth

Volume 17, issue 7, 2008

Cost‐effectiveness analysis of a multinational RCT with a binary measure of effectiveness and an interacting covariate pp. 777-791

Andrew R. Willan and Matthew E. Kowgier

Employee choice of flexible spending account participation and health plan pp. 793-813

Barton H. Hamilton and James Marton

A comparison of the performance of the EQ‐5D and SF‐6D for individuals aged ≥ 45 years pp. 815-832

Garry R. Barton, Tracey H. Sach, Anthony J. Avery, Claire Jenkinson, Michael Doherty, David K. Whynes and Kenneth R. Muir

Cost inefficiency and hospital health outcomes pp. 833-848

Niccie L. McKay and Mary E. Deily

Demand for medical care in the urban areas of Iran: an empirical investigation pp. 849-862

Majid S. Kermani, Hossein Ghaderi and Ayoub Yousefi

Aggregation rules for cost–benefit analysis: a health economics perspective pp. 863-875

Josephine Borghi

Can we fix it? Yes we can! But what? A new test of procedural invariance in TTO‐measurement pp. 877-885

Arthur Attema and Werner Brouwer

Volume 17, issue 6, 2008

Should the capability approach be applied in Health Economics? pp. 667-670

Joanna Coast, Richard Smith and Paula Lorgelly

The analysis of efficiency among a small number of organisations: How inferences can be improved by exploiting patient‐level data pp. 671-681

Kim Rose Olsen and Andrew Street

Price increase causes fewer sales of factory‐made cigarettes and higher sales of cheaper loose tobacco in Germany pp. 683-693

Reiner Hanewinkel, Christian Radden and Tobias Rosenkranz

Do nutrition labels improve dietary outcomes? pp. 695-708

Jayachandran N. Variyam

Preferences for ‘life‐saving’ programmes: Small for all or gambling for the prize? pp. 709-720

Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen and Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen

The effect of information in the utilization of preventive health‐care strategies: An application to breast cancer pp. 721-731

Julia Witt

Youth smoking, cigarette prices, and anti‐smoking sentiment pp. 733-749

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Yoon‐Jeong Shin and Jae‐Young Lim

Giving greater financial independence to hospitals—does it make a difference? The case of English NHS Trusts pp. 751-775

Giorgia Marini, Marisa Miraldo, Rowena Jacobs and Maria Goddard

Volume 17, issue 5, 2008

Fitting observed and theoretical choices – women's choices about prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome pp. 557-577

Valerie Seror

On future non‐medical costs in economic evaluations pp. 579-591

Bengt Liljas, Göran S. Karlsson and Nils‐Olov Stålhammar

HPV triage testing or repeat Pap smear for the management of atypical squamous cells (ASCUS) on Pap smear: is there evidence of process utility? pp. 593-605

Kirsten Howard, Glenn Salkeld, Kirsten McCaffery and Les Irwig

Contingent valuation in health care: does it matter how the ‘good’ is described? pp. 607-617

Richard D. Smith

Health and labour force participation of older people in Europe: What do objective health indicators add to the analysis? pp. 619-638

Adriaan Kalwij and Frederic Vermeulen

A note on the dynamic interaction between waiting times and waiting lists pp. 639-647

Luigi Siciliani

The adoption of hospital information systems pp. 649-664

Jeffrey S. McCullough

Volume 17, issue 4, 2008

Paying for performance: the power of incentives over habits pp. 449-451

Jody L. Sindelar

Predicting risk selection following major changes in medicare pp. 453-468

Steven Pizer, Austin B. Frakt and Roger Feldman

Valuing reductions in on‐the‐job illness: ‘presenteeism’ from managerial and economic perspectives pp. 469-485

Mark V. Pauly, Sean Nicholson, Daniel Polsky, Marc L. Berger and Claire Sharda

Does age or life expectancy better predict health care expenditures? pp. 487-501

Baoping Shang and Dana Goldman

Prevention and cure efforts both substitute and complement pp. 503-511

David Hennessy

Attribute substitution in early enrollment decisions into Medicare prescription drug plans pp. 513-521

Austin B. Frakt and Steven Pizer

Longevity bias in cost‐effectiveness analysis pp. 523-534

Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving

US health economists: who we are and what we do pp. 535-543

Michael Morrisey and John Cawley

Does the quality of care in Medicaid MCOs vary with the form of physician compensation? pp. 545-550

Troy Quast, David Sappington and Elizabeth Shenkman

Effects of youth, price, and audience size on alcohol advertising in magazines pp. 551-556

Jon Nelson and Douglas J. Young

Volume 17, issue 3, 2008

Consumer channeling by health insurers: natural experiments with preferred providers in the Dutch pharmacy market pp. 299-316

Lieke H. H. M. Boonen, Frederik T. Schut and Xander Koolman

Healthy, wealthy and insured? The role of self‐assessed health in the demand for private health insurance pp. 317-334

Denise Doiron, Glenn Jones and Elizabeth Savage

Effects of ownership, subsidization and teaching activities on hospital costs in Switzerland pp. 335-350

Mehdi Farsi and Massimo Filippini

Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities? pp. 351-375

Teresa Bago d'Uva, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Maarten Lindeboom and Owen O'Donnell

Equity in health and health care in a decentralised context: evidence from Canada pp. 377-392

Dolores Jiménez‐Rubio, Peter C. Smith and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Informal and formal care among single‐living elderly in Europe pp. 393-409

Kristian Bolin, B. Lindgren and Petter Lundborg

Eliciting the demand for long‐term care coverage: a discrete choice modelling analysis pp. 411-433

Rinaldo Brau and Matteo Lippi Bruni

Presenting results of probabilistic sensitivity analysis: the incremental benefit curve pp. 435-440

Mohan V. Bala, Gary A. Zarkin and Josephine Mauskopf

Cost‐effective public health guidance: asking questions from the decision‐maker's viewpoint pp. 441-448

Kalipso Chalkidou, Anthony Culyer, Bhash Naidoo and Peter Littlejohns

Volume 17, issue 2, 2008

Health service delivery in China: a literature review pp. 149-165

Karen Eggleston, Li Ling, Meng Qingyue, Magnus Lindelow and Adam Wagstaff

Is waiting‐time prioritisation welfare improving? pp. 167-184

Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani

Changes in the demand for private medical insurance following a shift in tax incentives pp. 185-202

Marisol Rodríguez and Alexandrina Stoyanova

Does free complementary health insurance help the poor to access health care? Evidence from France pp. 203-219

Michel Grignon, Marc Perronnin and John N. Lavis

The analysis of a cardiological network in a regulated setting: a spatial interaction approach pp. 221-233

Matteo Lippi Bruni, Lucia Nobilio and Cristina Ugolini

Exploring differences in empirical time preference rates for health: an application of meta‐regression pp. 235-248

Francis Asenso‐Boadi, Tim J. Peters and Joanna Coast

What is the relationship between income inequality and health? Evidence from the BHPS pp. 249-265

Paula Lorgelly and Joanne Lindley

Should we brush twice a day? Determinants of dental health among young adults in Finland pp. 267-286

Lien Nguyen, Unto Häkkinen, Matti Knuuttila and Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin

Subject variation more than values clarification explains the reliability of willingness to pay estimates pp. 287-292

Alan Shiell and Karen McIntosh

On survival consumption costs – a reply to Nyman pp. 293-297

Douglas Lundin and Joakim Ramsberg

Special issue of Health Economics: China's health care system pp. 298-298

Winnie Yip, Adam Wagstaff and William C. Hsiao

Volume 17, issue 1, 2008

Globalization: the key challenge facing health economics in the 21st century pp. 1-3

Richard Smith

The cost of quality improvements due to integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) in Uganda pp. 5-19

David Bishai, Gita Mirchandani, George Pariyo, Gilbert Burnham and Robert Black

The role of private providers in treating child diarrhoea in Latin America pp. 21-29

Hugh R. Waters, Laurel E. Hatt and Robert E. Black

The construction of standard gamble utilities pp. 31-40

Sylvie M. C. van Osch and Anne M. Stiggelbout

Care‐giver advice as a preventive measure for drinking during pregnancy: zeros, categorical outcome responses, and endogeneity pp. 41-54

Joseph Terza, Donald Kenkel, Tsui‐Fang Lin and Shinichi Sakata

Willingness‐to‐pay for a statistical life in the times of a pandemic pp. 55-66

Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen, Peder Andreas Halvorsen and Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen

Estimating the cost‐effectiveness of an intervention in a clinical trial when partial cost information is available: a Bayesian approach pp. 67-81

Paul C. Lambert, Lucinda J. Billingham, Nicola J. Cooper, Alex J. Sutton and Keith R. Abrams

The demand for statin: the effect of copay on utilization and compliance pp. 83-97

Patrick Thiebaud, Bimal V. Patel and Michael Nichol

An opportunity cost approach to sample size calculation in cost‐effectiveness analysis pp. 99-107

A. Gafni, S. D. Walter, S. Birch and P. Sendi

Different dental care setting: does income matter? pp. 109-118

Sukanya Tianviwat, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong and Stephen Birch

Predictability of drug expenditures: an application using morbidity data pp. 119-126

Manuel García‐Goñi and Pere Ibern

Social capital and its relationship with measures of health status: evidence from the Health Survey for England 2003 pp. 127-143

Stavros Petrou and Emil Kupek