Health Economics

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Volume 16, issue 12, 2007

Use of evidence in economic decision models: practical issues and methodological challenges pp. 1277-1286

N. J. Cooper, A. J. Sutton, A. E. Ades, S. Paisley, D. R. Jones and On Behalf Of The Working Group On The ‘use Of Evidence In Economic Decision Models’

The impact of state physical education requirements on youth physical activity and overweight pp. 1287-1301

John Cawley, Chad Meyerhoefer and David Newhouse

The effects of pay and job satisfaction on the labour supply of hospital consultants pp. 1303-1318

Divine Ikenwilo and Anthony Scott

The role of ‘reference goods’ in contingent valuation: should we help respondents to ‘construct’ their willingness to pay? pp. 1319-1332

Richard D. Smith

The effect of cigarette taxes on smoking among men and women pp. 1333-1343

Mark Stehr

Setting priorities for research: a practical application of ‘payback’ and expected value of information pp. 1345-1357

Rachael L. Fleurence

Health insurance coverage and the use of preventive services by Mexican adults pp. 1359-1369

José A. Pagán, Andrea Puig and Beth J. Soldo

Making choices between prepayment and user charges in Zambia. What are the results for equity? pp. 1371-1387

Masahide Kondo and Barbara McPake

A DID analysis of the impact of health insurance reform in the city of Hangzhou pp. 1389-1402

Jiale Zhang

Sur model with spatial effects: an application to mental health expenditure pp. 1403-1408

Francesco Moscone, Elisa Tosetti and Martin Knapp

Volume 16, issue 11, 2007

Identification of treatment effects in Health Economics pp. 1127-1131

Andrew Jones

Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self‐selection: an application to treatments of breast cancer patients pp. 1133-1157

Anirban Basu, James Heckman, Salvador Navarro‐Lozano and Sergio Urzua

Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia pp. 1159-1184

Eddy Van Doorslaer, Owen O'Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Charu C. Garg, Deni Harbianto, Alejandro N. Herrin, Mohammed Nazmul Huq, Shamsia Ibragimova, Anup Karan, Tae‐Jin Lee, Gabriel M. Leung, Jui‐Fen Rachel Lu, Chiu Wan Ng, Badri Raj Pande, Rachel Racelis, Sihai Tao, Keith Tin, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Laksono Trisnantoro, Chitpranee Vasavid and Yuxin Zhao

Therapeutic non‐adherence: a rational behavior revealing patient preferences? pp. 1185-1204

Karine Lamiraud and Pierre Geoffard

Expected value of sample information for Weibull survival data pp. 1205-1225

Alan Brennan and Samer A. Kharroubi

Monetary valuation of informal care: the well‐being valuation method pp. 1227-1244

Bernard van den Berg and Ada Ferrer‐i‐Carbonell

Child health: evidence on the roles of family income and maternal mental health from a UK birth cohort pp. 1245-1269

Carol Propper, John Rigg and Simon Burgess

Progressivity in the financing of decentralized government health programs: a decomposition pp. 1271-1275

Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow

Volume 16, issue 10, 2007

Drug price reform in the UK: debunking the myths pp. 981-992

Simeon Thornton

Do health expenditures ‘catch‐up’? Evidence from OECD countries pp. 993-1008

Paresh Narayan

Monte Carlo probabilistic sensitivity analysis for patient level simulation models: efficient estimation of mean and variance using ANOVA pp. 1009-1023

Anthony O'Hagan, Matt Stevenson and Jason Madan

An empirical investigation of the social market for cigarettes pp. 1025-1039

Brett Katzman, Sara Markowitz and Kerry Anne McGeary

Demand for private health insurance in Chinese urban areas pp. 1041-1050

Xiao‐Hua Ying, Teh‐Wei Hu, Jane Ren, Wen Chen, Ke Xu and Jin‐Hui Huang

Demand assessment and price‐elasticity estimation of quality‐improved primary health care in palestine: a contribution from the contingent valuation method pp. 1051-1068

Awad Mataria, Stéphane Luchini, Yousef Daoud and Jean‐Paul Moatti

Psychiatric disorders and labor market outcomes: evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study pp. 1069-1090

Pinka Chatterji, Margarita Alegría, Mingshan Lu and David Takeuchi

Improving the measurement of health system output growth pp. 1091-1107

Adriana Castelli, Diane Dawson, Hugh Gravelle and Andrew Street

Population ageing and health care expenditure: a school of ‘red herrings’? pp. 1109-1126

Andreas Werblow, Stefan Felder and Peter Zweifel

Volume 16, issue 9, 2007

Guest editors' introduction pp. 871-873

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Measuring health polarization with self‐assessed health data pp. 875-894

Bénédicte Apouey

Gender differences in smoking behavior pp. 895-909

Thomas Bauer, Silja Göhlmann and Mathias Sinning

Spending to save? State health expenditure and infant mortality in India pp. 911-928

Sonia Bhalotra

Using relative distributions to investigate the body mass index in England and Canada pp. 929-944

Paul Contoyannis and John Wildman

Social norms, ideal body weight and food attitudes pp. 945-966

Fabrice Etilé

Modelling socioeconomic and health determinants of health‐care use: a semiparametric approach pp. 967-979

Jürgen Maurer

Volume 16, issue 8, 2007

An empirical analysis of the impact of choice on waiting times pp. 763-779

Luigi Siciliani and Steve Martin

The effects of income, education and age on health pp. 781-798

Olga Kiuila and Peter Mieszkowski

Quality improvement and its impact on the use and equality of outpatient health services in India pp. 799-813

Krishna Dipankar Rao and David H. Peters

Multilevel models for estimating incremental net benefits in multinational studies pp. 815-826

Richard Grieve, Richard Nixon, Simon G. Thompson and John Cairns

A comparison of approaches to estimating confidence intervals for willingness to pay measures pp. 827-840

Arne Hole

Malpractice litigation and medical costs in Mississippi pp. 841-859

Brandon Roberts and Irving Hoch

Use, option and externality values: are contingent valuation studies in health care mis‐specified? pp. 861-869

Richard D. Smith

Volume 16, issue 7, 2007

If it ain't broke, don't price fix it: the OFT and the PPRS pp. 653-665

Adrian Towse

Accounting for quality in the measurement of hospital performance: evidence from Costa Rica pp. 667-685

Pablo Arocena and Ariadna García‐Prado

A re‐examination of distance as a proxy for severity of illness and the implications for differences in utilization by race/ethnicity pp. 687-701

Jayasree Basu and Bernard Friedman

Patient preferences for managing asthma: results from a discrete choice experiment pp. 703-717

Madeleine T. King, Jane Hall, Emily Lancsar, Denzil Fiebig, Ishrat Hossain, Jordan Louviere, Helen K. Reddel and Christine R. Jenkins

Employment‐contingent health insurance, illness, and labor supply of women: evidence from married women with breast cancer pp. 719-737

Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo and Heather L. Bednarek

The association of alcohol dependency with employment probability: evidence from the population survey ‘Health 2000 in Finland’ pp. 739-754

Edvard Johansson, Hannu Alho, Urpo Kiiskinen and Kari Poikolainen

It might be premature to reject the assumption of a power curve relationship between VAS and SG data: three comments on Stevens, McCabe and Brazier's ‘Mapping between VAS and SG data; results from the UK HUI Index 2 valuation survey’ pp. 755-758

Amir Shmueli

Response to Shmueli pp. 759-761

Katherine Stevens, Christopher McCabe and John Brazier

Volume 16, issue 6, 2007

OFT, VBP: QED? pp. 545-558

Karl Claxton

A note on cointegration of health expenditures and income pp. 559-578

Zijun Wang and Andrew J. Rettenmaier

Public versus private health care in a national health service pp. 579-601

Kurt Brekke and Lars Sørgard

The relationship between road traffic accidents and real economic activity in spain: common cycles and health issues pp. 603-626

Antonio García‐ferrer, Aránzazu De Juan and Pilar Poncela

In search of a corrected prescription drug Elasticity estimate: a meta‐regression approach pp. 627-643

Marin Gemmill, Joan Costa‐Font and Alistair McGuire

Is there a case for using visual analogue scale valuations in CUA’ by Parkin and Devlin a response: ‘yes there is a case, but what does it add to ordinal data? pp. 645-647

John Brazier and Christopher McCabe

‘Is there a case for using visual analogue scale valuations in CUA? Yes there is a case, but what does it add to ordinal data?’ a rejoinder pp. 649-651

David Parkin and Nancy Devlin

Volume 16, issue 5, 2007

The slow and unnoticed changes in the funding mix pp. 437-440

Pedro Barros

Health systems in East Asia: what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers? pp. 441-456

Adam Wagstaff

Consolidations and closures: an empirical analysis of exits from the hospital industry pp. 457-474

Teresa Harrison

An empirical analysis of US and Japanese health insurance using age–period–cohort decomposition pp. 475-489

Kosei Fukuda

Advance market commitments for vaccines against neglected diseases: estimating costs and effectiveness pp. 491-511

Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael R. Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsäcker and Heidi Williams

Graded pairs comparison ‐ does strength of preference matter? Analysis of preferences for specialised nurse home visits for pain management pp. 513-529

Mickael Bech, Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen, Trine Kjær, Jørgen Lauridsen and Jan Sørensen

Comparison of alternative methods of collection of service use data for the economic evaluation of health care interventions pp. 531-536

Sarah Byford, Morven Leese, Martin Knapp, Helen Seivewright, Susan Cameron, Vanessa Jones, Kate Davidson and Peter Tyrer

Seeing for yourself: feasibility study towards valuing visual impairment using simulation spectacles pp. 537-543

Samuel Aballéa and Aki Tsuchiya

Volume 16, issue 4, 2007

Health care quality, economic inequality, and precautionary saving pp. 327-346

Tullio Jappelli, Luigi Pistaferri and Guglielmo Weber

Risk adjusted resource utilization for AMI patients treated in Japanese hospitals pp. 347-359

Edward Evans, Yuichi Imanaka, Miho Sekimoto, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Kenshi Hayashida, Haruhisa Fukuda and Eun‐Hwan Oh

Prenatal drug use and the production of infant health pp. 361-384

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

Health care funding levels and patient outcomes: a national study pp. 385-393

Margaret M. Byrne, Kenneth Pietz, LeChauncy Woodard and Laura A. Petersen

A comparison of patient and population values for health states in varicose veins patients pp. 395-405

Julie Ratcliffe, John Brazier, Simon Palfreyman and Jonathan Michaels

The economic cost of teen drinking: late graduation and lowered earnings pp. 407-419

Francesco Renna

Unrelated medical care in life years gained and the cost utility of primary prevention: in search of a ‘perfect’ cost–utility ratio pp. 421-433

Pieter H. M. van Baal, Talitha L. Feenstra, Rudolf T. Hoogenveen, G. Ardine de Wit and Werner Brouwer

Volume 16, issue 3, 2007

The institute of medicine report on the FDA: where is the science? pp. 219-221

Tomas Philipson, Anupam Jena and Eric Sun

The effects of Taiwan's National Health Insurance on access and health status of the elderly pp. 223-242

Likwang Chen, Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Ming‐Cheng Chang, Hui‐Sheng Lin, Shyh‐Dye Lee, Ya‐Ling Chiu and Yu‐Hsuan Lin

Elasticities of market shares and social health insurance choice in germany: a dynamic panel data approach pp. 243-256

Marcus Tamm, Harald Tauchmann, Juergen Wasem and Stefan Greß

Government health expenditures and health outcomes pp. 257-273

Farasat Bokhari, Yunwei Gai and Pablo Gottret

Do targets matter? A comparison of English and Welsh National Health priorities pp. 275-290

Katharina Hauck and Andrew Street

Public health expenditure and spatial interactions in a decentralized national health system pp. 291-306

Joan Costa‐Font and Jordi Pons‐Novell

Discounting in economic evaluations: stepping forward towards optimal decision rules pp. 307-317

Hugh Gravelle, Werner Brouwer, Louis Niessen, Maarten Postma and Frans Rutten

Do personal and societal preferences differ by socio‐demographic group? pp. 319-325

Peter Franks, Erica I. Lubetkin and Joy Melnikow

Volume 16, issue 2, 2007

Giving equality of opportunity a fair innings pp. 109-112

Pedro Rosa Dias and Andrew Jones

The effects of expanding patient choice of provider on waiting times: evidence from a policy experiment pp. 113-128

Diane Dawson, Hugh Gravelle, Rowena Jacobs, Stephen Martin and Peter C. Smith

A dynamic analysis of GP visiting in Ireland: 1995–2001 pp. 129-143

Anne Nolan

Family income, parenting styles and child behavioural–emotional outcomes pp. 145-162

Martin Dooley and Jennifer Stewart

True health vs response styles: exploring cross‐country differences in self‐reported health pp. 163-178

Hendrik Jürges

Seeing the NICE side of cost‐effectiveness analysis: a qualitative investigation of the use of CEA in NICE technology appraisals pp. 179-193

Stirling Bryan, Iestyn Williams and Shirley McIver

Expected value of information and decision making in HTA pp. 195-209

Simon Eckermann and Andrew R. Willan

The relationship between reliability and size of willingness‐to‐pay values: a qualitative insight pp. 211-216

Richard D. Smith

Volume 16, issue 1, 2007

Progressive segmented health insurance: Colombian health reform and access to health services pp. 3-18

Fernando Ruiz, Liliana Amaya and Stella Venegas

Does the economy affect teenage substance use? pp. 19-36

Jeremy Arkes

Predicting costs over time using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods: an application to early inflammatory polyarthritis pp. 37-56

Nicola J. Cooper, Paul C. Lambert, Keith R. Abrams and Alexander J. Sutton

Investigating the quitting decision of nurses: panel data evidence from the british national health service pp. 57-73

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

Behavioral differences between public and private not‐for‐profit hospitals in the Italian national health service pp. 75-96

Gian Paolo Barbetta, Gilberto Turati and Angelo Zago

Decomposition of health inequality by determinants and dimensions pp. 97-102

Jørgen Lauridsen, Terkel Christiansen, Jens Gundgaard, Unto Häkkinen and Harri Sintonen

Does a slump really make you thinner? Finnish micro‐level evidence 1978–2002 pp. 103-107

Petri Böckerman, Edvard Johansson, Satu Helakorpi, Ritva Prättälä, Erkki Vartiainen and Antti Uutela