Health Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 12, issue 12, 2003

Modelling supply and demand influences on the use of health care: implications for deriving a needs‐based capitation formula pp. 985-1004

Hugh Gravelle, Matthew Sutton, Stephen Morris, Frank Windmeijer, Alastair Leyland, Chris Dibben and Mike Muirhead

Classical versus relational approaches to understanding controls on a contract with independent GPs in South Africa pp. 1005-1020

Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills

Analysis of hospital length of stay and discharge destination using hazard functions with unmeasured heterogeneity pp. 1021-1034

Gabriel Picone, R. Mark Wilson and Shin‐Yi Chou

An experiment on simplifying conjoint analysis designs for measuring preferences pp. 1035-1047

Tara Maddala, Kathryn A. Phillips and F. Reed Johnson

Willingness to pay for a QALY pp. 1049-1060

Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen

An empirical comparison of EQ‐5D and SF‐6D in liver transplant patients pp. 1061-1067

Louise Longworth and Stirling Bryan

Volume 12, issue 11, 2003

Willingness to pay methods in health care: a sceptical view pp. 891-894

Richard Cookson

How much confidence should we place in efficiency estimates? pp. 895-907

Andrew Street

If the price is right: vagueness and values clarification in contingent valuation pp. 909-919

Alan Shiell and Lisa Gold

Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993–1998 pp. 921-933

Adam Wagstaff and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Estimating mean hospital cost as a function of length of stay and patient characteristics pp. 935-947

Elena Polverejan, Joseph C. Gardiner, Cathy J. Bradley, Margaret Holmes‐Rovner and David Rovner

Illustrating the impact of including future costs in economic evaluations: an application to end‐stage renal disease care pp. 949-958

Braden Manns, David Meltzer, Ken Taub and Cam Donaldson

Estimating the marginal value of ‘better’ research output: ‘designed’ versus ‘routine’ data in randomised controlled trials pp. 959-974

David Cohen, Mirella F Longo, John Williams, Wai‐yee Cheung, Hayley Hutchings and I.T. Russell

A view from the bridge: agreement between the SF‐6D utility algorithm and the Health Utilities Index pp. 975-981

Bernie J. O'Brien, Marian Spath, Gordon Blackhouse, J.L. Severens, Paul Dorian and John Brazier

Book Review pp. 983-983

Sherry Glied

Volume 12, issue 10, 2003

Labour markets in the NHS: an agenda for research pp. 797-801

Bob Elliott

Measuring income related inequality in health: standardisation and the partial concentration index pp. 803-819

Hugh Gravelle

Cigarette demand: a meta‐analysis of elasticities pp. 821-835

Craig A. Gallet and John List

Alternative decision modelling techniques for the evaluation of health care technologies: Markov processes versus discrete event simulation pp. 837-848

Jonathan Karnon

Willingness‐to‐pay for community‐based insurance in Burkina Faso pp. 849-862

Hengjin Dong, Bocar Kouyate, John Cairns, Frederick Mugisha and Rainer Sauerborn

Testing rank‐dependent utility theory for health outcomes pp. 863-871

Adam Oliver

The value of life: individual preferences and social choice. A comment to Magnus Johannesson pp. 873-877

Erik Nord, Paul Menzel and Jeff Richardson

Conservative versus aggressive follow up of mildly abnormal Pap smears: Testing for process utility pp. 879-884

Stephen Birch, Joy Melnikow and Miriam Kuppermann

What difference does the choice of SES make in health inequality measurement? pp. 885-890

Adam Wagstaff and Naoko Watanabe

Volume 12, issue 9, 2003

Guest editors' introduction pp. 703-704

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Wage policy in the health care sector: a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply pp. 705-719

Jan Erik Askildsen, Badi Baltagi and Tor Helge Holmås

Economics of self‐medication: theory and evidence pp. 721-739

Fwu-Ranq Chang and Pravin Trivedi

Fixed fees and physician‐induced demand: A panel data study on French physicians pp. 741-754

Eric Delattre and Brigitte Dormont

Why do the sick not utilise health care? The case of Zambia pp. 755-770

Catharina Hjortsberg

A structural econometric model of family valuation and choice of employer‐sponsored health insurance in the United States pp. 771-790

David Vanness

Willingness to pay and size of health benefit: an integrated model to test for ‘sensitivity to scale’ pp. 791-796

Raymond Y.T. Yeung, Richard D. Smith and Sarah M. McGhee

Volume 12, issue 8, 2003

Construction of the contingent valuation market in health care:a critical assessment pp. 609-628

Richard D. Smith

The missing link: on the line between C and E pp. 629-636

Werner Brouwer and Frans F.H. Rutten

The value of the change in health in Sweden 1980/81 to 1996/97 pp. 637-654

Kristina Burström, Magnus Johannesson and Finn Diderichsen

The TTO method and procedural invariance pp. 655-668

Anne Spencer

Hospital efficiency targets pp. 669-684

Rowena Jacobs and Diane Dawson

Public spending on health care and the poor pp. 685-696

Sanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven and Erwin R. Tiongson

Methodological issues raised by preference‐based approaches to measuring the health status of children pp. 697-702

Stavros Petrou

Volume 12, issue 7, 2003

Design and analysis of unit cost estimation studies: How many hospital diagnoses? How many countries? pp. 517-527

Henry A. Glick, Sean M. Orzol, Joseph F. Tooley, Daniel Polsky and Josephine O. Mauskopf

Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations ‐ a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs pp. 529-544

Nancy Devlin, Paul Hansen, Paul Kind and Alan Williams

An inquiry into the different perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health pp. 545-551

Paul Dolan, Jan Abel Olsen, Paul Menzel and Jeff Richardson

Health‐seeking behaviour and rural/urban variation in Kazakhstan pp. 553-564

Robin Thompson, Nigel Miller and Sophie Witter

Price elasticity and pharmaceutical selection: the influence of managed care pp. 565-586

Marisa Elena Domino and David Salkever

Demand for private health insurance: how important is the quality gap? pp. 587-599

Joan Costa-Font and Jaume Garcia Villar

Allocating health care resources when people are risk averse with respect to life time pp. 601-608

Michael Hoel

Volume 12, issue 6, 2003

Estimation of the determinants of household health care expenditures in Nepal with controls for endogenous illness and provider choice pp. 431-451

Jeffrey J. Rous and David R. Hotchkiss

A preliminary investigation of the effects of restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortions on female STD rates pp. 453-464

Bisakha Sen

The labour market for nursing: a review of the labour supply literature pp. 465-478

Emanuela Antonazzo, Anthony Scott, Diane Skatun and Robert. F. Elliott

Conjoint analysis. The cost variable: an Achilles' heel? pp. 479-491

Ulla Slothuus Skjoldborg and Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen

The efficiency of health production: re‐estimating the WHO panel data using parametric and non‐parametric approaches to provide additional information pp. 493-504

Bruce Hollingsworth and John Wildman

The person trade‐off method and the transitivity principle: an example from preferences over age weighting pp. 505-510

Paul Dolan and Aki Tsuchiya

A note on the decomposition of the health concentration index pp. 511-516

Philip M. Clarke, Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Luke Connelly

Volume 12, issue 5, 2003

Risk selection and matching in performance‐based contracting pp. 339-354

Mingshan Lu, Ching-to Ma and Lasheng Yuan

A critique of the World Health Organisation's evaluation of health system performance pp. 355-366

Jeff Richardson, John Wildman and Iain K. Robertson

Determinants of health care utilization by German sickness fund members ‐ with application to risk adjustment pp. 367-376

Friedrich Breyer, Martin Heineck and Normann Lorenz

Missing.... presumed at random: cost‐analysis of incomplete data pp. 377-392

Andrew Briggs, Taane Clark, Jane Wolstenholme and Philip Clarke

Threats to the estimation of benefit: are preference elicitation methods accurate? pp. 393-402

Andrew J Lloyd

A bibliometric analysis of health economics articles in the economics literature: 1991‐2000 pp. 403-414

Rose M. Rubin and Cyril F. Chang

Measles vaccination improves the equity of health outcomes: evidence from Bangladesh pp. 415-419

David Bishaia, Michael Koenig and Mehrab Ali Khan

Stratified cost‐effectiveness analysis: a framework for establishing efficient limited use criteria pp. 421-427

Douglas Coyle, Martin J. Buxton and Bernie J. O'Brien

Health Economics: An International Perspective, by Barbara Mcpake, Lilani Kumaranayake and Charles Normand. Routledge, London and New York, 2002. No. of pages: 260. ISBN 0‐415‐27736‐1 pp. 429-429

Dave Whynes

Advances in Health Economics, by Anthony Scott, Alan Maynard and Robert Elliott (Eds). John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2002. No. of pages: xxi+249. ISBN 0‐470‐84883‐9 pp. 430-430

Alan Williams

Volume 12, issue 4, 2003

Does it matter who you are or what you gain? an experimental study of preferences for resource allocation pp. 255-267

David L.B. Schwappach

Health status and heterogeneity of cost‐sharing responsiveness: how do sick people respond to cost‐sharing? pp. 269-280

Dahlia K. Remler and Adam J. Atherly

Design techniques for stated preference methods in health economics pp. 281-294

Fredrik Carlsson and Peter Martinsson

Revisiting the axiom of completeness in health care pp. 295-307

Mandy Ryan and Fernando San Miguel

The changing public/private mix in dentistry in the UK–a supply‐side perspective pp. 309-321

Mauricea Lynch and Michael Calnan

Measuring the value of time for methadone maintenance clients: willingness to pay, willingness to accept, and the wage rate pp. 323-334

Natalia N. Borisova and Allen C. Goodman

Econometric analysis of health data, by Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2002. No. of pages: 233. ISBN 0 470 84145 1 pp. 335-335

John Mullahy

Volume 12, issue 3, 2003

An exploratory instrumental variable analysis of the outcomes of localized breast cancer treatments in a medicare population pp. 171-186

Jack Hadley, Daniel Polsky, Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Jean M. Mitchell, Jane C. Weeks, Qin Wang, Yi‐Ting Hwang and Research Team Options

Preferences and person trade‐offs: forcing consistency or inconsistency in health‐related quality of life measures? pp. 187-198

Edward C. Mansley and Elamin H. Elbasha

The interaction between cost‐management and learning for major surgical procedures – lessons from asymmetric information pp. 199-215

Christian M. Ernst

The effect of cigarette prices on youth smoking pp. 217-230

Hana Ross and Frank Chaloupka

Medical care use and selection in a social health insurance with an equalization fund: evidence from Colombia pp. 231-246

Antonio J. Trujillo

A note on cost‐value analysis pp. 247-250

Lars Peter Østerdal

Comments to ‘a note on cost‐value analysis’ pp. 251-253

Erik Nord, José Luis Pinto, Jeff Richardson, Paul Menzel and Peter Ubel

Volume 12, issue 2, 2003

A cost‐minimisation study of alternative discharge policies after hip fracture repair pp. 87-100

Johan J. Polder, Romke van Balen, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Herman J.M. Cools and J. Dik F. Habbema

Medical student indebtedness and the propensity to enter academic medicine pp. 101-112

Marc Fox

The determinants of health care expenditure: testing pooling restrictions in small samples pp. 113-124

Helmut Herwartz and Bernd Theilen

Deadweight loss of bacterial resistance due to overtreatment pp. 125-138

Elamin H. Elbasha

How measures of perception from survey data lead to inconsistent regression results: evidence from adolescent and peer substance use pp. 139-148

Edward Norton, Richard Lindrooth and Susan T. Ennett

Managed care and technical efficiency pp. 149-158

H. Shelton Brown

Determining the optimal combinations of mutually exclusive interventions: a response to Hutubessy and colleagues pp. 159-162

Douglas Coyle

Formal response to ‘Determining the optimal combinations of mutually exclusive interventions: a response to Hutubessy and colleagues’ pp. 163-164

Rob M.P.M. Baltussen, Raymond C.W. Hutubessy, Jan J. Barendregt, David B. Evans and Christopher J.L. Murray

Double discounting of QALYs pp. 165-169

Linda D. MacKeigan, Amiram Gafni and Bernie J. O'Brien

Volume 12, issue 1, 2003

Announcement and Editorial pp. 1-2

John Hutton, Andrew Jones and Alan Maynard

Estimating the monetary value of health care: lessons from environmental economics pp. 3-16

Nick Hanley, Mandy Ryan and Robert Wright

A utility‐theoretic model for QALYs and willingness to pay pp. 17-31

Thomas Klose

Assessing and comparing costs: how robust are the bootstrap and methods based on asymptotic normality? pp. 33-49

Anthony O'Hagan and John W. Stevens

Eliciting several willingness to pay in a single contingent valuation survey: application to health care pp. 51-64

Stéphane Luchini, Christel Protière and Jean‐Paul Moatti

Comment on Amartya Sen's ‘why health equity’ pp. 65-66

Alan Williams

How important are economic factors in choice of medical specialty? pp. 67-73

James Thornton and Fred Esposto

Book Review pp. 75-76

John Appleby