Health Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 13, issue 12, 2004

Cost efficiency in primary care contracting: a stochastic frontier cost function approach pp. 1149-1165

Jaume Puig‐Junoy and Vicente Ortun

The impact of quality on the demand for outpatient services in Cyprus pp. 1167-1180

Kara Hanson, Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip and William Hsiao

Cost‐effectiveness with multiple outcomes pp. 1181-1190

Jakob Bjørner and Hans Keiding

Tobacco initiation, cessation, and change: evidence from Vietnam pp. 1191-1201

Ramanan Laxminarayan and Anil Deolalikar

Calculation of quality adjusted life years in the published literature: a review of methodology and transparency pp. 1203-1210

Gerald Richardson and Andrea Manca

Volume 13, issue 11, 2004

Co‐payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits – Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 1081-1089

Rainer Winkelmann

Scope and scale inefficiencies in physician practices pp. 1091-1116

Robert Rosenman and Daniel Friesner

Accounting for the cost of scaling‐up health interventions pp. 1117-1124

Benjamin Johns and Rob Baltussen

The role of public and private transfers in the cost‐benefit analysis of mental health programs pp. 1125-1136

Robert Brent

Waiting time and doctor shopping in a mixed medical economy pp. 1137-1144

Raymond Y.T. Yeung, Gabriel M. Leung, Sarah M. McGhee and Janice M. Johnston

Measuring the Gains from Medical Research, by KEVIN M. MURPHY and ROBERT H. TOPEL. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003. No. of pages: 263. ISBN 0‐226‐55178‐4 pp. 1145-1146

John A. Vernon

Letter to the editor pp. 1147-1148

Jacob M. Puliyel and Mark Miller

Volume 13, issue 10, 2004

Guest Editors' Introduction pp. 925-926

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

The sources of hospital cost variability pp. 927-939

Brigitte Dormont and Carine Milcent

The effect of practice budgets on patient waiting times: allowing for selection bias pp. 941-958

Mark Dusheiko, Hugh Gravelle and Rowena Jacobs

Distinguishing between heterogeneity and inefficiency: stochastic frontier analysis of the World Health Organization's panel data on national health care systems pp. 959-980

William Greene

A longitudinal analysis of mental health mobility in Britain pp. 981-1001

Katharina Hauck and Nigel Rice

Estimating the demand for health care with panel data: a semiparametric Bayesian approach pp. 1003-1014

Markus Jochmann and Roberto León‐González

Measurement and explanation of socioeconomic inequality in health with longitudinal data pp. 1015-1030

Andrew Jones and Ángel López Nicolás

Accounting for misclassification error in retrospective smoking data pp. 1031-1044

Donald Kenkel, Dean R. Lillard and Alan Mathios

The effect of work on mental health: does occupation matter? pp. 1045-1062

Ana Llena‐Nozal, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

The effect of the tobacco settlement and smoking bans on alcohol consumption pp. 1063-1080

Gabriel Picone, Frank Sloan and Justin Trogdon

Volume 13, issue 9, 2004

Alcohol and marijuana use among college students: economic complements or substitutes? pp. 825-843

Jenny Williams, Rosalie Pacula, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler

Health insurance and treatment seeking behaviour: evidence from a low‐income country pp. 845-857

Matthew Jowett, Anil Deolalikar and Peter Martinsson

Money for health: the equivalent variation of cardiovascular diseases pp. 859-872

Wim Groot, Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink and Erik Plug

A comparison of the EQ‐5D and SF‐6D across seven patient groups pp. 873-884

John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts, Aki Tsuchiya and Jan Busschbach

The wage effects of obesity: a longitudinal study pp. 885-899

Charles Baum and William F. Ford

Deriving welfare measures from discrete choice experiments: inconsistency between current methods and random utility and welfare theory pp. 901-907

Emily Lancsar and Elizabeth Savage

Deriving welfare measures in discrete choice experiments: a comment to Lancsar and Savage (1) pp. 909-912

Mandy Ryan

Deriving welfare measures in discrete choice experiments: a comment to Lancsar and Savage (2) pp. 913-918

João Santos Silva

Deriving welfare measures from discrete choice experiments: a response to Ryan and Santos Silva pp. 919-924

Emily Lancsar and Elizabeth Savage

Volume 13, issue 8, 2004

The productivity of health care and health production functions pp. 739-747

Çağatay Koç

Comparing alternative models: log vs Cox proportional hazard? pp. 749-765

Anirban Basu, Willard Manning and John Mullahy

Do economic cycles have a permanent effect on population health? Revisiting the Brenner hypothesis pp. 767-779

Audrey Laporte

The effect of a major cigarette price change on smoking behavior in california: a zero‐inflated negative binomial model pp. 781-791

Mei‐ling Sheu, Teh‐wei Hu, Theodore E. Keeler, Michael Ong and Hai‐Yen Sung

Assessing quality of life in the elderly: a direct comparison of the EQ‐5D and AQoL pp. 793-805

Richard Holland, Richard D Smith, Ian Harvey, Louise Swift and Elizabeth Lenaghan

The implications of linking questions within the SG and TTO methods pp. 807-818

Anne Spencer

The influence of subjective expectations about length and quality of life on time trade‐off answers pp. 819-823

Floortje van Nooten and Werner Brouwer

Volume 13, issue 7, 2004

Income‐related inequality in health and health care in the European Union pp. 605-608

Eddy Van Doorslaer and Andrew Jones

Explaining the differences in income‐related health inequalities across European countries pp. 609-628

Eddy Van Doorslaer and Xander Koolman

Explaining income‐related inequalities in doctor utilisation in Europe pp. 629-647

Eddy Van Doorslaer, Xander Koolman and Andrew Jones

On the interpretation of a concentration index of inequality pp. 649-656

Xander Koolman and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Determinants of access to physician services in Italy: a latent class seemingly unrelated probit approach pp. 657-668

Vincenzo Atella, Francesco Brindisi, Partha Deb and Furio Rosati

Access to physician services: does supplemental insurance matter? Evidence from France pp. 669-687

Thomas Buchmueller, Agnès Couffinhal, Michel Grignon and Marc Perronnin

The effect of private insurance access on the choice of GP/specialist and public/private provider in Spain pp. 689-703

Marisol Rodríguez and Alexandrina Stoyanova

Measuring horizontal inequity in Belgian health care using a Gaussian random effects two part count data model pp. 705-724

Tom Van Ourti

Measuring inequality in self‐reported health—discussion of a recently suggested approach using Finnish data pp. 725-732

Jørgen Lauridsen, Terkel Christiansen and Unto Häkkinen

To what extent do people prefer health states with higher values? A note on evidence from the EQ‐5D valuation set pp. 733-737

Jennifer Roberts and Paul Dolan

Volume 13, issue 6, 2004

Should physicians' dual practice be limited? An incentive approach pp. 505-524

Paula González

Decomposing the effects of children's health on mother's labor supply: is it time or money? pp. 525-541

Elise Gould

Aging and aggregate costs of medical care: conceptual and policy issues pp. 543-562

Dov Chernichovsky and Sara Markowitz

Using stated preference and revealed preference modeling to evaluate prescribing decisions pp. 563-573

Tami L. Mark and Joffre Swait

How property rights and patents affect antibiotic resistance pp. 575-583

John Horowitz and H. Brian Moehring

Resistance‐induced antibiotic substitution pp. 585-595

David H. Howard

Price discrimination in obstetric services – a case study in Bangladesh pp. 597-604

Mohammad Amin, Kara Hanson and Anne Mills

Volume 13, issue 5, 2004

Bernie O'Brien pp. 403-404

Michael Drummond

Cost‐effectiveness acceptability curves – facts, fallacies and frequently asked questions pp. 405-415

Elisabeth Fenwick, Bernie J. O'Brien and Andrew Briggs

Should the consumption of survivors be included as a cost in cost–utility analysis? pp. 417-427

John Nyman

When does quality‐adjusting life‐years matter in cost‐effectiveness analysis? pp. 429-436

Richard H. Chapman, Marc Berger, Milton C. Weinstein, Jane C. Weeks, Sue Goldie and Peter J. Neumann

Does NICE have a cost‐effectiveness threshold and what other factors influence its decisions? A binary choice analysis pp. 437-452

Nancy Devlin and David Parkin

Why cost‐effectiveness should trump (clinical) effectiveness: the ethical economics of the South West quadrant pp. 453-459

Jack Dowie

Regression methods for covariate adjustment and subgroup analysis for non‐censored cost‐effectiveness data pp. 461-475

Andrew R. Willan, Andrew H. Briggs and Jeffrey Hoch

Stated and actual altruistic willingness to pay for insecticide‐treated nets in Nigeria: validity of open‐ended and binary with follow‐up questions pp. 477-492

Obinna Onwujekwe and Benjamin Uzochukwu

Comorbidities and the willingness to pay for reducing the risk of a targeted disease: introducing endogenous effort for risk reduction pp. 493-498

Liqun Liu

Getting Health Economics into Practice, Edited by David Kernick. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford, 2002. No. of pages: 358. ISBN 1‐85775‐575‐8 pp. 499-500

Nancy Devlin

Health Inequalities, Edited by George Davey Smith. The Policy Press, Bristol, 2003. No. of pages: 548. ISBN 1‐86134‐322‐1 pp. 500-500

Joy Damson

Global Public Goods for Health. Health Economic and Public Health Perspectives, Edited by Richard Smith, Robert Beaglehole, David Woodward and Nick Drager. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. No. of pages: 287. ISBN 0‐19‐852798‐5 pp. 501-501

Bruce Hollingsworth

Volume 13, issue 4, 2004

Ageing and health‐care expenditure: the red herring argument revisited pp. 303-314

Meena Seshamani and Alastair Gray

Time to include time to death? The future of health care expenditure predictions pp. 315-327

Sally Stearns and Edward Norton

Quality safeguards and regulation of online pharmacies pp. 329-344

Benito Arruñada

A utility‐theoretic approach to the aggregation of willingness to pay measured in decomposed scenarios: development and empirical test pp. 345-361

Thomas Hammerschmidt, Hans‐Peter Zeitler and Reiner Leidl

Scale and scope economies in nursing homes: A quantile regression approach pp. 363-377

Eric W. Christensen

A comparison of the grade of membership measure with alternative health indicators in explaining costs for older people pp. 379-395

Paul McNamee

Modelling non‐demanders in choice experiments pp. 397-402

Mandy Ryan and Diane Skåtun

Volume 13, issue 3, 2004

Comprehensive decision analytical modelling in economic evaluation: a Bayesian approach pp. 203-226

Nicola J. Cooper, Alex J. Sutton, Keith R. Abrams, David Turner and Allan Wailoo

Cost‐effectiveness analysis of two strategies for mass screening for colorectal cancer in France pp. 227-238

Célia Berchi, Véronique Bouvier, Jean‐Marie Réaud and Guy Launoy

Labor market costs of illness: prevalence matters pp. 239-250

Thomas DeLeire and Willard Manning

The effect of prenatal care on birthweight: a full‐information maximum likelihood approach pp. 251-264

Jeffrey J. Rous, R. Todd Jewell and Robert W. Brown

Empirical assessment of the economic behaviour of Dutch general hospitals pp. 265-280

Jos Blank and A.H.Q.M. Merkies

A multi‐method approach to measuring health‐state valuations pp. 281-290

Joshua A. Salomon and Christopher J.L. Murray

A comparison of stated preference methods for estimating monetary values pp. 291-296

Mandy Ryan

Overall versus socioeconomic health inequality: a measurement framework and two empirical illustrations pp. 297-301

Adam Wagstaff and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Volume 13, issue 2, 2004

Using simulation‐based inference with panel data in health economics pp. 101-122

Paul Contoyannis, Andrew Jones and Roberto Leon‐Gonzalez

The effects of price and policy on marijuana use: what can be learned from the Australian experience? pp. 123-137

Jenny Williams

Does problem drinking affect employment? Evidence from England pp. 139-155

Ziggy MacDonald and Michael Shields

Excess capacity and expense preference behaviour in National Health Systems: an application to the Spanish public hospitals pp. 157-169

Ana Rodríguez‐Álvarez and C. Lovell

Lack of multiplicative transitivity in person trade‐off responses pp. 171-181

Michaël Schwarzinger, Jean‐Louis Lanoë, Erik Nord and Isabelle Durand‐Zaleski

Evidence of range bias in contingent valuation payment scales pp. 183-190

David K. Whynes, Jane L. Wolstenholme and Emma Frew

Bayesian estimation of cost‐effectiveness: an importance‐sampling approach pp. 191-198

Daniel F. Heitjan and Huiling Li

Managed care and shadow price pp. 199-202

Ching-to Ma

Volume 13, issue 1, 2004

Insomnia, biological clock, and the bedtime decision: an economic perspective pp. 1-8

Gideon Yaniv

Cost‐effectiveness analysis based on the number‐needed‐to‐treat: common sense or non‐sense? pp. 9-19

Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen and Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen

Cost‐effectiveness analysis and health care resource allocation: decision rules under variable returns to scale pp. 21-35

Elamin H. Elbasha and Mark L. Messonnier

Responses to standard gambles: are preferences ‘well constructed’? pp. 37-48

Rachel Baker and Angela Robinson

The effects of higher cigarette prices on tar and nicotine consumption in a cohort of adult smokers pp. 49-58

M.C. Farrelly, C.T. Nimsch, A. Hyland and M. Cummings

The value of risk‐free cigarettes – do smokers underestimate the risk? pp. 59-71

Henrik Hammar and Olof Johansson‐Stenman

Increasing patient choice in primary care: the management of minor ailments pp. 73-86

Chris Bojke, Hugh Gravelle, Karen Hassell and Zoe Whittington

Simulation of a Hirschman–Herfindahl index without complete market share information pp. 87-94

Eric Nauenberg, Mahdi Alkhamisi and Yuri Andrijuk

Thirteenth European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics pp. 100-100

Andrew Jones