Health Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 14, issue S1, 2005

The contestable nature of health policy analysis pp. S3-S6

Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos and Alan Maynard

Monitoring political decision‐making and its impact in Austria pp. S7-S23

Adolf Stepan and Margit Sommersguter‐Reichmann

Health care reform in Belgium pp. S25-S39

Erik Schokkaert and Carine Van de Voorde

The Danish health care system: evolution ‐ not revolution ‐ in a decentralized system pp. S41-S57

Kjeld Møller Pedersen, Terkel Christiansen and Mickael Bech

Rationing and competition in the Dutch health‐care system pp. S59-S74

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

The English National Health Service: 1979‐2005 pp. S75-S99

Adam Oliver

The impact of changes in Finland's health care system pp. S101-S118

Unto Häkkinen

The search for the Holy Grail: combining decentralised planning and contracting mechanisms in the French health care system pp. S119-S132

Martine M. Bellanger and Philippe R. Mossé

Analysing the impact of health‐care system change in the EU member states – Germany pp. S133-S149

Markus Wörz and Reinhard Busse

Analysing the Greek health system: a tale of fragmentation and inertia pp. S151-S168

Elias Mossialos, Sara Allin and Konstantina Davaki

The Irish health system: developments in strategy, structure, funding and delivery since 1980 pp. S169-S186

Miriam M. Wiley

The Italian health‐care system pp. S187-S202

George France, Francesco Taroni and Andrea Donatini

Health care reform in Portugal: an evaluation of the NHS experience pp. S203-S220

Monica Oliveira and Carlos Gouveia Pinto

Diversity and regional inequalities in the Spanish ‘system of health care services’ pp. S221-S235

Guillem Lopez‐Casasnovas, Joan Costa‐Font and Ivan Planas

Swedish healthcare under pressure pp. S237-S254

Anders Anell

European health policy challenges pp. S255-S263

Alan Maynard

Volume 14, issue 12, 2005

Socioeconomic status, depression disparities, and financial strain: what lies behind the income‐depression relationship? pp. 1197-1215

Frederick J. Zimmerman and Wayne Katon

Methods for incorporating covariate adjustment, subgroup analysis and between‐centre differences into cost‐effectiveness evaluations pp. 1217-1229

Richard M. Nixon and Simon G. Thompson

Regulation versus practice ‐ the impact of accessibility on the use of specialist health care in Norway pp. 1231-1238

Tor Iversen and Gry Stine Kopperud

Auctions vs negotiations: a study of price differentials pp. 1239-1251

Egil Kjerstad

Risk selection in the German public health insurance system pp. 1253-1271

Robert Nuscheler and Thomas Knaus

Smoke‐free laws and bar revenues in California – the last call pp. 1273-1281

David W. Cowling and Philip Bond

QALYs and capabilities: a comment on Cookson pp. 1283-1286

Paul Anand

QALYs and capabilities: a response to Anand pp. 1287-1289

Richard Cookson

Using cost‐effectiveness analysis to improve health care: opportunities and barriers, by PETER J. NEUMANN. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. No. of pages: 224. ISBN 0 19 517186 1 pp. 1291-1292

Andrea Manca

Volume 14, issue 11, 2005

Unemployment, labor force composition and sickness absence: a panel data study pp. 1087-1101

Jan Erik Askildsen, Espen Bratberg and Øivind Nilsen

Developing a relativities approach to valuing the prevention of non‐fatal work‐related accidents and ill health pp. 1103-1115

Jonathan Karnon, Aki Tsuchiya and Paul Dolan

Are HMOs bad for health maintenance? pp. 1117-1131

John Rizzo

Benefits and costs of methadone treatment: results from a lifetime simulation model pp. 1133-1150

Gary A. Zarkin, Laura J. Dunlap, Katherine A. Hicks and Daniel Mamo

Hospital ownership, reimbursement systems and mortality rates pp. 1151-1168

Carine Milcent

An investigation into the empirical validity of the EQ‐5D and SF‐6D based on hypothetical preferences in a general population pp. 1169-1189

Stavros Petrou and Christine Hockley

Think of a number… any number? pp. 1191-1195

David K. Whynes, Zoë Philips and Emma Frew

Volume 14, issue 10, 2005

Why economics is good for your health. 2004 Royal Economic Society Public Lecture pp. 987-997

Carol Propper

The effect of health changes and long‐term health on the work activity of older Canadians pp. 999-1018

Doreen Wing Han Au, Thomas Crossley and Martin Schellhorn

Schooling, cognitive ability and health pp. 1019-1034

M. Christopher Auld and Nirmal Sidhu

A panel data study of physicians' labor supply: the case of Norway pp. 1035-1045

Badi Baltagi, Espen Bratberg and Tor Helge Holmås

GP reimbursement and visiting behaviour in Ireland pp. 1047-1060

David Madden, Anne Nolan and Brian Nolan

Tobacco industry price‐subsidizing promotions may overcome the downward pressure of higher prices on initiation of regular smoking pp. 1061-1071

John P. Pierce, Todd P. Gilmer, Lora Lee, Elizabeth A. Gilpin, Joy de Beyer and Karen Messer

Allocating health care resources under risk: risk aversion and prudence matter pp. 1073-1077

Phuong Bui, David Crainich and Louis Eeckhoudt

Effects coding in discrete choice experiments pp. 1079-1083

Mickael Bech and Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen

Public health, ethics and equity by SUDHIR ANAND, FABIENNE PETER AND AMARTYA SEN. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. No. of pages: 316. ISBN 0‐19‐927636‐6 pp. 1085-1086

Richard Cookson

Volume 14, issue 9, 2005

Latent class models for use of primary care: evidence from a British panel pp. 873-892

Teresa Bago d'Uva

Assessing household health expenditure with Box–Cox censoring models pp. 893-907

Jean‐Paul Chaze

Estimating the price elasticity of expenditure for prescription drugs in the presence of non‐linear price schedules: an illustration from Quebec, Canada pp. 909-923

Paul Contoyannis, Jeremiah Hurley, Paul Grootendorst, Sung-Hee Jeon and Robyn Tamblyn

A dynamic analysis of disability and labour force participation in Ireland 1995–2000 pp. 925-938

Brenda Gannon

Utilization of public health centres in Portugal: effect of time costs and other determinants. Finite mixture models applied to truncated samples pp. 939-953

Óscar Lourenço and Pedro Ferreira

Road injuries and long‐run effects on income and employment pp. 955-970

Anne Moller Dano

Waiting lists, waiting times and admissions: an empirical analysis at hospital and general practice level pp. 971-985

Frank Windmeijer, Hugh Gravelle and Pierre Hoonhout

Volume 14, issue 8, 2005

The analysis of incomplete cost data due to dropout pp. 763-776

Jan B. Oostenbrink and Maiwenn J. Al

Determinants of influenza vaccination timing pp. 777-791

Byung Kwang Yoo and Kevin Frick

Analysis of a pharmaceutical risk sharing agreement based on the purchaser's total budget pp. 793-803

Gregory S. Zaric and Bernie J. O'Brien

A propensity score approach to estimating the cost–effectiveness of medical therapies from observational data pp. 805-815

Nandita Mitra and Alka Indurkhya

QALYs and the capability approach pp. 817-829

Richard Cookson

Increasing socio‐economic inequalities in life expectancy and QALYs in Sweden 1980–1997 pp. 831-850

Kristina Burström, Magnus Johannesson and Finn Diderichsen

AIDS education, condom demand, and the sexual activity of American youth pp. 851-867

Carol Horton Tremblay and Davina C. Ling

The politics of medicare: who gets what, when and how by GWENDOLYN GRAY. UNSW Press, Australia, 2004. No. of pages: 111. ISBN 0‐86840‐703‐8 pp. 869-870

Jane Hall

Volume 14, issue 7, 2005

Optimal allocation of resources over health care programmes: dealing with decreasing marginal utility and uncertainty pp. 655-667

Maiwenn J. Al, Talitha L. Feenstra and Ben A. van Hout

The importance of age in allocating health care resources: does intervention‐type matter? pp. 669-678

Mira Johri, Laura J. Damschroder, Brian J. Zikmund‐Fisher and Peter A. Ubel

The gap effect: discontinuities of preferences around dead pp. 679-685

Peep F. M. Stalmeier, Jan J. V. Busschbach, Leida M. Lamers and Paul F. M. Krabbe

Preferences for hospital quality in Zambia: results from a discrete choice experiment pp. 687-701

Kara Hanson, Barbara McPake, Pamela Nakamba and Luke Archard

Information and sorting in the market for obstetrical services pp. 703-719

Darren Grant

Determinants of physicians' decisions to specialize pp. 721-735

Robert Gagné and Pierre Leger

The impact of HMO penetration on the relationship between nurse staffing and quality pp. 737-753

Barbara A. Mark, David Harless and Michael McCue

Correcting for bias when estimating the cost of hospital‐acquired infection: an analysis of lower respiratory tract infections in non‐surgical patients pp. 755-761

Nicholas Graves, Diana Weinhold and Jennifer A. Roberts

Volume 14, issue 6, 2005

Using covariates to reduce uncertainty in the economic evaluation of clinical trial data pp. 545-557

F. J. Vázquez‐Polo, M. A. Negrín Hernández and B. González López‐Valcárcel

Technology and managed care: patient benefits of telemedicine in a rural health care network pp. 559-573

Matthew Berman and Andrea Fenaughty

Outcome versus service based payments in health care: lessons from African traditional healers pp. 575-593

Kenneth Leonard and Joshua Graff Zivin

Effects of socio‐economic status on mortality: separating the nearby from the farther away pp. 595-608

Jeroen Smits, Ingeborg Keij‐Deerenberg and Gert Westert

‘Threats’ to and hopes for estimating benefits pp. 609-619

Mandy Ryan and Mabelle Amaya‐Amaya

The welfare loss from hospital cost‐shifting behavior: a partial equilibrium analysis pp. 621-626

Rexford Santerre

The effect of Taiwan's tax‐induced increases in cigarette prices on brand‐switching and the consumption of cigarettes pp. 627-641

Yi‐Wen Tsai, Chung‐Lin Yang, Chin‐Shyan Chen, Tsai‐Ching Liu and Pei‐Fen Chen

Is silence golden? A test of the incorporation of the effects of ill‐health on income and leisure in health state valuations pp. 643-647

Pedram Sendi and Werner Brouwer

Inequality decomposition and geographic targeting with applications to China and Vietnam pp. 649-653

Adam Wagstaff

Volume 14, issue 5, 2005

Correcting for compensating mechanisms related to productivity costs in economic evaluations of health care programmes pp. 435-443

Karin H. M. Jacob‐Tacken, Marc A. Koopmanschap, Willem Jan Meerding and Johan L. Severens

Stochastic league tables: an application to diabetes interventions in the Netherlands pp. 445-455

Raymond C. W. Hutubessy, Louis Niessen, Rob F. Dijkstra, Ton F. Casparie and Frans F. Rutten

Risk aversion and uncertainty in cost‐effectiveness analysis: the expected‐utility, moment‐generating function approach pp. 457-470

Elamin H. Elbasha

Assessing generalisability by location in trial‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis: the use of multilevel models pp. 471-485

Andrea Manca, Nigel Rice, Mark Sculpher and Andrew H. Briggs

Estimating mean QALYs in trial‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis: the importance of controlling for baseline utility pp. 487-496

Andrea Manca, Neil Hawkins and Mark Sculpher

The effect of welfare reform on prenatal care and birth weight pp. 497-511

Robert Kaestner and Won Chan Lee

On a policy of transferring public patients to private practice pp. 513-527

Paula González

Inter‐rater and test–retest reliability of three contingent valuation question formats in south‐east Nigeria pp. 529-536

Obinna Onwujekwe, Julia Fox‐Rushby and Kara Hanson

The impact of diabetes on employment: genetic IVs in a bivariate probit pp. 537-544

H. Shelton Brown, José A. Pagán and Elena Bastida

Volume 14, issue 4, 2005

Editorial pp. 325-326

Alan Maynard, John Hutton and Andrew Jones

Country specific cost comparisons from multinational clinical trials using empirical Bayesian shrinkage estimation: the Canadian ASSENT‐3 economic analysis pp. 327-338

Andrew R. Willan, Eleanor M. Pinto, Bernie J. O'Brien, Padma Kaul, Ron Goeree, Larry Lynd and Paul W. Armstrong

Probabilistic sensitivity analysis for NICE technology assessment: not an optional extra pp. 339-347

Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher, Christopher McCabe, Andrew Briggs, Ron Akehurst, Martin Buxton, John Brazier and Tony O'Hagan

Empirical investigation of experimental design properties of discrete choice experiments in health care pp. 349-362

Rosalie Viney, Elizabeth Savage and Jordan Louviere

The economic value of informal care: a study of informal caregivers' and patients' willingness to pay and willingness to accept for informal care pp. 363-376

Bernard van den Berg, Han Bleichrodt and Louis Eeckhoudt

Inequalities in self‐reported physical health in the United States, 1993‐1999 pp. 377-389

Saloua Sehili, Elamin H. Elbasha, David G. Moriarty and Matthew M. Zack

Access to health care resources in the UK: the case of care for arthritis pp. 391-406

Carol Propper, Jenny Eachus, Philip Chan, Nicky Pearson and George Davey Smith

State motor vehicle laws and older drivers pp. 407-419

Michael Morrisey and David C. Grabowski

Parametric modelling of cost data: some simulation evidence pp. 421-428

Andrew Briggs, Richard Nixon, Simon Dixon and Simon Thompson

The bounds of the concentration index when the variable of interest is binary, with an application to immunization inequality pp. 429-432

Adam Wagstaff

Getting health reform right: a guide to improving performance and equity by Marc J. Roberts, William Hsaio, Peter Berman and Michael R. Reich. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2004. No. of pages: 332. ISBN 0‐19‐516232‐3 pp. 433-434

Alan Williams

Volume 14, issue 3, 2005

Modelling EuroQol health‐related utility values for diabetic complications from CODE‐2 data pp. 217-230

Adrian Bagust and Sophie Beale

Health state values for the HUI 2 descriptive system: results from a UK survey pp. 231-244

Christopher McCabe, Katherine Stevens, Jennifer Roberts and John Brazier

Measuring the productive efficiency and clinical quality of institutional long‐term care for the elderly pp. 245-256

Juha Laine, Miika Linna, Unto Häkkinen and Anja Noro

Smokers' expectations to quit smoking pp. 257-267

Henrik Hammar and Fredrik Carlsson

The impact of price regulation on the launch delay of new drugs—evidence from twenty‐five major markets in the 1990s pp. 269-292

Patricia Danzon, Y. Richard Wang and Liang Wang

Warm glow, free‐riding and vehicle neutrality in a health‐related contingent valuation study pp. 293-306

Franz Hackl and Gerald Pruckner

‘Irrational’ stated preferences: a quantitative and qualitative investigation pp. 307-322

Fernando San Miguel, Mandy Ryan and Mabelle Amaya‐Amaya

Volume 14, issue 2, 2005

Public and private pharmaceutical spending as determinants of health outcomes in Canada pp. 107-116

Pierre-Yves Cremieux, Marie‐Claude Meilleur, Pierre Ouellette, Patrick Petit, Martin Zelder and Ken Potvin

Habit formation and college students' demand for alcohol pp. 119-134

Jenny Williams

Predictors of elderly mortality:health status, socioeconomic characteristics and social determinants of health pp. 135-148

Cem Mete

Testing the internal consistency of the lottery equivalents method using health outcomes pp. 149-159

Adam Oliver

Testing the internal consistency of the lottery equivalents method using health outcomes: a comment to Oliver pp. 161-167

A. Spencer, J. Covey, S. Chilton and M. Taylor

Economic valuation of informal care: the contingent valuation method applied to informal caregiving pp. 169-183

Bernard van denBerg, Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel and Marc Koopmanschap

Using multilevel models for assessing the variability of multinational resource use and cost data pp. 185-196

Richard Grieve, Richard Nixon, Simon G. Thompson and Charles Normand

QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature pp. 197-208

Paul Dolan, Rebecca Shaw, Aki Tsuchiya and Alan Williams

Influences of the absence of random assignment of bids on estimating willingness to pay using a discrete‐choice question pp. 209-213

Shinji Takemura, Takashi Ohida, Tomofumi Sone, Takashi Fukuda and Yukie Takemura

Volume 14, issue 1, 2005

Examining the link between price regulation and pharmaceutical R&D investment pp. 1-16

John A. Vernon

Does more choice reduce waiting times? pp. 17-23

Luigi Siciliani

The role of consumer knowledge of insurance benefits in the demand for preventive health care among the elderly pp. 25-38

Steve Parente, David S. Salkever and Joan DaVanzo

Are QALYs based on time trade‐off comparable? – A systematic review of TTO methodologies pp. 39-53

Trude Arnesen and Mari Trommald

Willingness to pay for low‐lung‐cancer‐risk cigarettes in Taiwan pp. 55-67

Man‐Ser Jan, Tsu‐Tan Fu and Chung L. Huang

Measuring the health of populations: the veil of ignorance approach pp. 69-82

José‐Luis Pinto‐Prades and José‐María Abellán‐Perpiñán

Valuation of the risk of SARS in Taiwan pp. 83-91

Jin‐Tan Liu, James Hammitt, Jung‐ Der Wang and Meng-Wen Tsou

Comparing costing results in across country economic evaluations: the use of technology specific purchasing power parities pp. 93-99

Sarah Wordsworth and Anne Ludbrook

Motivation, agency and public policy: of knights and knaves, pawns and queens, by Julian Le Grand. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. No. of pages: 191. ISBN 0‐19‐926699‐9 pp. 101-102

Karen Bloor