Health Economics

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Volume 15, issue 12, 2006

The productivity of health care pp. 1257-1259

Karen Bloor and Alan Maynard

Underage alcohol use, delinquency, and criminal activity pp. 1261-1281

Michael French and Johanna Maclean

Dynamics in the use of drugs pp. 1283-1294

Jan van Ours

A taxonomy of model structures for economic evaluation of health technologies pp. 1295-1310

Alan Brennan, Stephen E. Chick and Ruth Davies

Informing the efficient use of health care and health care research resources ‐ the case of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in Sweden pp. 1311-1322

Martin Henriksson, Fredrik Lundgren and Per Carlsson

Prudence and optimal prevention for health risks pp. 1323-1327

Christophe Courbage and Beatrice Rey

The economic value of fatal and non‐fatal occupational risks in Mexico City using actuarial‐ and perceived‐risk estimates pp. 1329-1335

James Hammitt and María Eugenia Ibarrarán

Volume 15, issue 11, 2006

The bogus conflict between efficiency and vertical equity pp. 1155-1158

Anthony Culyer

The empirical relationship between community social capital and the demand for cigarettes pp. 1159-1172

Timothy T. Brown, Richard M. Scheffler, Sukyong Seo and Mary Reed

East–west: does it make a difference to hospital efficiencies in Ukraine? pp. 1173-1186

Anatoly I. Pilyavsky, William E. Aaronson, Patrick M. Bernet, Michael D. Rosko, Vivian Valdmanis and Mikhail V. Golubchikov

The consumer welfare implications of the hospital ownership mix in the US: an exploratory study pp. 1187-1199

Rexford Santerre and John A. Vernon

Health, schooling and lifestyle among young adults in Finland pp. 1201-1216

Unto Häkkinen, Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin, Gunnar Rosenqvist and Jaana Laitinen

Ordering effect and price sensitivity in discrete choice experiments: need we worry? pp. 1217-1228

Trine Kjær, Mickael Bech, Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen and Kristian Hart‐Hansen

Comparison of EQ‐5D and SF‐6D utilities in mental health patients pp. 1229-1236

L. M. Lamers, C. A. M. Bouwmans, A. van Straten, M. C. H. Donker and L. Hakkaart

Enhancing the private provision of care through premiums for ability: the case of tuberculosis care in the Philippines pp. 1237-1244

Stella Luz Quimbo

The impact of prenatal care on birthweight: the case of Uruguay pp. 1245-1250

R. Todd Jewell and Patricia Triunfo

Choice of dialysis treatment and type of medical unit (private vs public): application of a recursive bivariate probit pp. 1251-1256

Lara Gitto, Domenico Santoro and Giuseppe Sobbrio

Volume 15, issue 10, 2006

The market for efficiency analysis of health care organisations pp. 1055-1059

Bruce Hollingsworth and Andrew Street

Job displacement and stress‐related health outcomes pp. 1061-1075

Martin Browning, Anne Moller Dano and Eskil Heinesen

Empirical implications of response acquiescence in discrete‐choice contingent valuation pp. 1077-1089

Raymond Y. T. Yeung, Richard D. Smith, Lai‐Ming Ho, Janice M. Johnston and Gabriel M. Leung

Scale of interest versus scale of estimation: comparing alternative estimators for the incremental costs of a comorbidity pp. 1091-1107

Anirban Basu, Bhakti V. Arondekar and Paul J. Rathouz

The economics of diagnosis pp. 1109-1120

George Laking, Joanne Lord and Alastair Fischer

The Dutch tariff: results and arguments for an effective design for national EQ‐5D valuation studies pp. 1121-1132

L. M. Lamers, J. McDonnell, P. F. M. Stalmeier, P. F. M. Krabbe and J. J. V. Busschbach

The effect of distance to provider on employee response to changes in mental health benefits pp. 1133-1141

Richard Lindrooth, Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Ithai Z. Lurie

The compensating income variation of cardiovascular disease pp. 1143-1148

Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink

A theoretical framework for TTO valuations of health pp. 1149-1154

Ken Buckingham and Nancy Devlin

Volume 15, issue 9, 2006

Guest editors' introduction pp. 873-874

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Drug compliance, co‐payment and health outcomes: evidence from a panel of Italian patients pp. 875-892

Vincenzo Atella, Franco Peracchi, Domenico Depalo and Claudio Rossetti

Rational alcohol addiction: evidence from the Russian longitudinal monitoring survey pp. 893-914

Badi Baltagi and Ingo Geishecker

A mixed logit model of health care provider choice: analysis of NSS data for rural India pp. 915-932

Bijan J. Borah

Treatment intensity and provider remuneration: dentists in the British National Health Service pp. 933-946

Martin Chalkley and Colin Tilley

Health expenditure growth: reassessing the threat of ageing pp. 947-963

Brigitte Dormont, Michel Grignon and Hélène Huber

Income‐related reporting heterogeneity in self‐assessed health: evidence from France pp. 965-981

Fabrice Etilé and Carine Milcent

Estimating the out‐of‐hospital mortality rate using patient discharge data pp. 983-995

Mehdi Farsi and Geert Ridder

Health shocks, employment and income in the Spanish labour market pp. 997-1009

Pilar Garcia-Gomez and Ángel López Nicolás

Nonparametric bounds on the effect of deductibles in health care insurance on doctor visits – Swiss evidence pp. 1011-1020

Michael Gerfin and Martin Schellhorn

Matching estimates of the impact of over‐the‐counter emergency birth control on teenage pregnancy pp. 1021-1032

Sourafel Girma and David Paton

A sequential model of older workers' labor force transitions after a health shock pp. 1033-1054

Sergi Jiménez‐Martín, Jose Labeaga and Cristina Vilaplana Prieto

Volume 15, issue 8, 2006

Free choice of health plan combined with risk‐adjusted capitation payments: are switchers and new enrolees good risks? pp. 763-774

René C.J.A. van Vliet

Valuing avoided morbidity using meta‐regression analysis: what can health status measures and QALYs tell us about WTP? pp. 775-795

George Van Houtven, John Powers, Amber Jessup and Jui‐Chen Yang

Deleting ‘irrational’ responses from discrete choice experiments: a case of investigating or imposing preferences? pp. 797-811

Emily Lancsar and Jordan Louviere

The physician–patient relationship: the impact of patient‐obtained medical information pp. 813-833

Bin Xie, David M. Dilts and Mikhael Shor

Relative risk of a shuffled deck: a generalizable logical consistency criterion for sample selection in health state valuation studies pp. 835-848

Benjamin M. Craig and Sulabha Ramachandran

Causal effects of alcoholism on earnings: estimates from the NLSY pp. 849-871

Alison Jones and David W. Richmond

Volume 15, issue 7, 2006

Is there a case for using visual analogue scale valuations in cost‐utility analysis? pp. 653-664

David Parkin and Nancy Devlin

Towards a better QALY model pp. 665-676

José‐María Abellán‐Perpiñán, José‐Luis Pinto‐Prades, Ildefonso Méndez‐Martínez and Xabier Badía‐Llach

Whither trial‐based economic evaluation for health care decision making? pp. 677-687

Mark Sculpher, Karl Claxton, Mike Drummond and Christopher McCabe

Towards a multi‐criteria approach for priority setting: an application to Ghana pp. 689-696

Rob Baltussen, Elly Stolk, Dan Chisholm and Moses Aikins

Who does the hat fit? Teenager heterogeneity and the effectiveness of information policies in preventing cannabis use and heavy drinking pp. 697-718

Fabrice Etilé

Transitions between the public mental health system and jail for persons with severe mental illness: a Markov analysis pp. 719-733

Edward Norton, Jangho Yoon, Marisa Elena Domino and Joseph P. Morrissey

A re‐examination of the impact of reference pricing on anti‐hypertensive drug plan expenditures in British Columbia pp. 735-742

Paul Grootendorst and David Stewart

The effect of managed care on use of health care services: results from two contemporaneous household surveys pp. 743-760

Partha Deb, Chenghui Li, Pravin Trivedi and David Zimmer

Erratum to ‘Health state values for the health utilities index mark 2 descriptive system: results from a UK valuation survey’ Health Economics 2005; 14(3): 231–244 pp. 761-761

Christopher McCabe, Katherine Stevens, Jennifer Roberts and John Brazier

Volume 15, issue 6, 2006

Does the whole equal the sum of the parts? Patient‐assigned utility scores for IBS‐related health states and profiles pp. 543-551

John Brazier, Paul Dolan, Korina Karampela and Isabel Towers

A preference‐based index for the SF‐12 pp. 553-564

D. Stratmann‐Schoene, T. Kuehn, R. Kreienberg and Reiner Leidl

Non‐linearity in the cost‐effectiveness frontier pp. 565-577

Joanne Lord, George Laking and Alastair Fischer

Measuring the effect of husband's health on wife's labor supply pp. 579-601

Michele J. Siegel

Does non‐profit health insurance reduce financial burden? Evidence from the Vietnam living standards survey panel pp. 603-616

Ardeshir Sepehri, Sisira Sarma and Wayne Simpson

Alcohol advertising and alcohol consumption by adolescents pp. 617-637

Henry Saffer and Dhaval Dave

Some indicators of socio‐economic status may not be reliable and use of indices with these data could worsen equity pp. 639-644

Obinna Onwujekwe, Kara Hanson and Julia Fox‐Rushby

Self‐reported health: reliability and consequences for health inequality measurement pp. 645-652

Philip M. Clarke and Christopher Ryan

Volume 15, issue 5, 2006

A Bayesian approach to analysing the cost‐effectiveness of two primary care interventions aimed at improving attendance for breast screening pp. 435-445

J. Brown, N. J. Welton, C. Bankhead, S. H. Richards, L. Roberts, C. Tydeman and T. J. Peters

Measurement of informal care: an empirical study into the valid measurement of time spent on informal caregiving pp. 447-460

Bernard van den Berg and Pol Spauwen

Maternal health: does prenatal care make a difference? pp. 461-488

Karen Smith Conway and Andrea Kutinova

Illicit drug use and educational attainment pp. 489-511

Pinka Chatterji

Longitudinal analysis of censored medical cost data pp. 513-525

Onur Baser, Joseph C. Gardiner, Cathy J. Bradley, Hüseyin Yüce and Charles Given

Mapping between Visual Analogue Scale and Standard Gamble data; results from the UK Health Utilities Index 2 valuation survey pp. 527-533

Katherine J. Stevens, Christopher McCabe and John Brazier

Federalism and regional health care expenditures: an empirical analysis for the Swiss cantons pp. 535-541

Luca Crivelli, Massimo Filippini and Ilaria Mosca

Volume 15, issue 4, 2006

Latent class models for utilisation of health care pp. 329-343

Teresa Bago d'Uva

Does the profit motive make Jack nimble? Ownership form and the evolution of the US hospital industry pp. 345-361

Sujoy Chakravarty, Martin Gaynor, Steven Klepper and William Vogt

Bayesian cost‐effectiveness analysis with two measures of effectiveness: the cost‐effectiveness acceptability plane pp. 363-372

Miguel A. Negrín and Francisco J. Vázquez‐Polo

Evidence synthesis, parameter correlation and probabilistic sensitivity analysis pp. 373-381

A. E. Ades, Karl Claxton and Mark Sculpher

Identifying key parameters in cost‐effectiveness analysis using value of information: a comparison of methods pp. 383-392

Bas Groot Koerkamp, M. G. Myriam Hunink, Theo Stijnen and Milton C. Weinstein

Exploring challenges to TTO utilities: valuing states worse than dead pp. 393-402

Angela Robinson and Anne Spencer

Economic evaluation of health effects with preference imprecision pp. 403-417

María Xosé Vázquez Rodríguez, Jorge Araña and Carmelo J. León

Cost inefficiency and mortality rates in Florida hospitals pp. 419-431

Mary E. Deily and Niccie L. McKay

Volume 15, issue 3, 2006

A microeconometric analysis of Canadian health care utilization pp. 219-239

Sisira Sarma and Wayne Simpson

Health status and labour force participation: evidence from Australia pp. 241-261

Lixin Cai and Guyonne Kalb

Sometimes more equal than others: how health inequalities depend on the choice of welfare indicator pp. 263-279

Magnus Lindelow

It's not just what you do, it's the way that you do it: the effect of different payment card formats and survey administration on willingness to pay for health gain pp. 281-293

Richard D. Smith

Performance‐based budgeting in the public sector: an illustration from the VA health care system pp. 295-310

Suthathip Yaisawarng and James F. Burgess

In defence of societal sovereignty: a comment on Nyman ‘the inclusion of survivor consumption in CUA’ pp. 311-313

Jeff Richardson and Jan Abel Olsen

Consumption costs and earnings during added years of life ‐ a reply to Nyman pp. 315-317

Afschin Gandjour

More on survival consumption costs in cost‐utility analysis pp. 319-322

John Nyman

On the lottery equivalents method: a response to Spencer et al pp. 323-325

Adam Oliver

Volume 15, issue 2, 2006

Measuring the effects of work loss on productivity with team production pp. 111-123

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

The relationship between education and health behavior: some empirical evidence pp. 125-146

Alexander J. Cowell

Efficient allocation of resources to prevent HIV infection among injection drug users: the Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP) needle exchange program pp. 147-158

Zoë K. Harris

Value of life and behavior toward health risks: an interpretation of social capital pp. 159-171

Sherman Folland

Use of primary health care services according to the different degrees of obesity in the Girona Health Region, Spain pp. 173-193

Marc Saez, Carme Saurina Canals, Germà Coenders and Sònia González‐Raya

Testing the construct validity of willingness to pay valuations using objective information about risk and health benefit pp. 195-204

Zoë Philips, David K. Whynes and Mark Avis

How common is the ‘prominence effect’? Additional evidence to Whynes et al pp. 205-210

Judith Covey and Richard D. Smith

Willingness to pay for reductions in health risks when probabilities are distorted pp. 211-214

Han Bleichrodt and Louis Eeckhoudt

Multi‐method approach to valuing health states: problems with meaning pp. 215-218

Erik Nord, Paul Menzel and Jeff Richardson

Volume 15, issue 1, 2006

Discounting and cost‐effectiveness in NICE – stepping back to sort out a confusion pp. 1-4

Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher, Anthony Culyer, Christopher McCabe, Andrew Briggs, Ron Akehurst, Martin Buxton and John Brazier

Pharmaceutical promotion and GP prescription behaviour pp. 5-18

Frank Windmeijer, Eric de Laat, Rudy Douven and Esther Mot

Horizontal equity in utilisation of care and fairness of health financing: a comparison of micro‐health insurance and user fees in Rwanda pp. 19-31

Pia Schneider and Kara Hanson

Why worry about awareness in choice problems? Econometric analysis of screening for cervical cancer pp. 33-47

Rochelle Belkar, Denzil Fiebig, Marion Haas and Rosalie Viney

Revisiting physicians' financial incentives in Quebec: a panel system approach pp. 49-64

Abdelhak Nassiri and Lise Rochaix

National road casualties and economic development pp. 65-81

David Bishai, Asma Quresh, Prashant James and Abdul Ghaffar

Are mental health insurance mandates effective? Evidence from suicides pp. 83-97

Jonathan Klick and Sara Markowitz

Making health continuous: implications of different methods on the measurement of inequality pp. 99-104

Ann Lecluyse and Irina Cleemput