Health Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 10, issue 8, 2001

How reliable are hospital efficiency estimates? Exploiting the dual to homothetic production pp. 683-698

Sherman T. Folland and Richard A. Hofler

Family health effects: complements or substitutes pp. 699-714

Michael Lee Ganz

Twenty years of health care economic analysis in Spain: are we doing well? pp. 715-729

Anna García‐Altés

Changing the first line drug for malaria treatment—cost‐effectiveness analysis with highly uncertain inter‐temporal trade‐offs pp. 731-749

Catherine A. Goodman, Paul G. Coleman and Anne J. Mills

Economic evaluations of hepatitis B immunization: a global review of recent studies (1994–2000) pp. 751-774

Philippe Beutels

Methodological limitations of economic evaluations of antenatal screening pp. 775-778

Stavros Petrou

Representing uncertainty: the role of cost‐effectiveness acceptability curves pp. 779-787

Elisabeth Fenwick, Karl Claxton and Mark Sculpher

Volume 10, issue 7, 2001

Should we aggregate relative or absolute changes in QALYs? pp. 573-577

Magnus Johannesson

The desirability of a condition versus the well being and worth of a person pp. 579-581

Erik Nord

The ‘fair innings argument’ deserves a fairer hearing! comments by Alan Williams on Nord and Johannesson pp. 583-585

Alan Williams

Discounting for health effects in cost–benefit and cost‐effectiveness analysis pp. 587-599

Hugh Gravelle and Dave Smith

The impact of non‐compliance on the cost‐effectiveness of pharmaceuticals: a review of the literature pp. 601-615

Dyfrig A. Hughes, Adrian Bagust, Alan Haycox and Tom Walley

Analysing public preferences for cancer screening programmes pp. 617-634

Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen and Jes Søgaard

Paradigms and research programmes: is it time to move from health care economics to health economics? pp. 635-649

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards

The physician–patient relationship as a game of strategic information transmission pp. 651-668

Kris De Jaegher and Marc Jegers

Econometric issues in testing the age neutrality of health care expenditure pp. 669-671

Christian Salas and James P. Raftery

Reply to: econometric issues in testing the age neutrality of health care expenditure pp. 673-674

Peter Zweifel, Stefan Felder and Markus Meier

Affordability and cost‐effectiveness: decision‐making on the cost‐effectiveness plane pp. 675-680

P. Pedram Sendi and Andrew H. Briggs

Telemedicine and Telehealth: Principles, Policies, Performance and Pitfalls by Adam W. Darkins and Margaret A. Cary. Free Association Books, London, 2000. No. of pages 316. ISBN 1‐853‐43518‐X pp. 681-682

W. David Bradford

Clinical Guidelines. From Conception to Use, edited by Martin Eccles and Jeremy Grimshaw. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford, UK, 2000. No. of pages: 120. ISBN 1‐85775‐426‐3 pp. 682-682

Ian Watt

Volume 10, issue 6, 2001

The private finance initiative: a public finance illusion? pp. 479-486

Diane Dawson

The relative sensitivity of willingness‐to‐pay and time‐trade‐off to changes in health status: an empirical investigation pp. 487-497

Richard D. Smith

Cost‐effectiveness analysis with risk aversion pp. 499-508

Joshua Graff Zivin

The impact of problem drinking on employment pp. 509-521

Weiwei Feng, Wei Zhou, J. Butler, Brenda M. Booth and Michael French

Estimating hospital costs with a generalized Leontief function pp. 523-538

Tong Li and Robert Rosenman

Cost efficiency of US hospitals: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 539-551

Michael D. Rosko

Testing efficacy with detection controlled estimation: an application to telemedicine pp. 553-564

W. David Bradford, Andrew N. Kleit, M. A. Krousel‐Wood and Richard N. Re

Equity in Swedish health care reconsidered: new results based on the finite mixture model pp. 565-572

Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Pravin Trivedi

Volume 10, issue 5, 2001

Guest editors' introduction pp. 369-370

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

A discrete random effects probit model with application to the demand for preventive care pp. 371-383

Partha Deb

The performance of sample selection estimators to control for attrition bias pp. 385-398

Astrid Grasdal

Estimating treatment effects in randomized clinical trials with non‐compliance: the impact of maternal smoking on birthweight pp. 399-410

Barton Hamilton

Proportional treatment effects for count response panel data: effects of binary exercise on health care demand pp. 411-428

Myoung-jae Lee and Satoru Kobayashi

Live long, live well: quantifying the health of heterogeneous populations pp. 429-440

John Mullahy

The effect of variable health insurance deductibles on the demand for physician visits pp. 441-456

Martin Schellhorn

Effects of cost sharing on physician utilization under favourable conditions for supplier‐induced demand pp. 457-471

Carine Van De Voorde, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Erik Schokkaert

Stochastic league tables: communicating cost‐effectiveness results to decision‐makers pp. 473-477

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

Volume 10, issue 4, 2001

Science or marketing at who? A response to Williams pp. 277-282

Christopher J.L. Murray, Julio Frenk, David Evans, Kei Kawabata, Alan Lopez and Orvill Adams

Science or marketing at who? Rejoinder from Alan Williams pp. 283-285

Alan Williams

The role of permanent income and family structure in the determination of child health in Canada pp. 287-302

Lori Curtis, Martin D. Dooley, Ellen L. Lipman and David Feeny

A framework for cost‐effectiveness analysis from clinical trial data pp. 303-315

Anthony O'Hagan and John W. Stevens

Recognizing diversity in public preferences: The use of preference sub‐groups in cost‐effectiveness analysis pp. 317-324

Mark Sculpher and Amiram Gafni

Provider payment reform in China: the case of hospital reimbursement in Hainan province pp. 325-339

Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip and Karen Eggleston

The effect of health on acute care supplemental insurance ownership: an empirical analysis pp. 341-350

Amir Shmueli

Private and social time preferences for health and money: an empirical estimation pp. 351-356

Angelina Lazaro, Ramon Barberan and Encarnacion Rubio

The impact of income inequality on individual and societal health: absolute income, relative income and statistical artefacts pp. 357-361

John Wildman

Cost prediction models for the comparison of two groups pp. 363-366

Andrew R. Willan and Bernie J. O'Brien

The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse: An Integration of Econometric and Behavioral Economic Research edited by F.J. Chaloupka, M. Grossman, W.K. Bickel and H. Safer. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999. No. of pages 383. ISBN 0‐226‐10047‐2 pp. 367-368

Michael French

The Politics of Emerging and Resurgent Infectious Diseases edited by Jim Whitman. Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, 2000. No. of pages 223. ISBN 0‐333‐69127‐X pp. 368-368

Tom Jefferson

Volume 10, issue 3, 2001

Equity considerations in health care: the relevance of claims pp. 187-205

Xavier Cuadras‐Morató, José‐Luis Pinto‐Prades and José‐María Abellán‐Perpiñán

Targeted health insurance in a low income country and its impact on access and equity in access: Egypt's school health insurance pp. 207-220

Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip and Peter Berman

Demand for traditional medicine in Taiwan: a mixed Gaussian–Poisson model approach pp. 221-232

Steven T. Yen, Chao‐Hsiun Tang and Shew‐Jiuan B. Su

On the societal value of health care: what do we know about the person trade‐off technique? pp. 233-243

Colin Green

The impact of including future medical care costs when estimating the costs attributable to a disease: a colorectal cancer case study pp. 245-256

Ruth Etzioni, Scott D. Ramsey, Kristin Berry and Martin Brown

Alcohol abuse and economic conditions: Evidence from repeated cross‐sections of individual‐level data pp. 257-270

Thomas Dee

Reconsideration of discharge data to measure competition in the hospital industry pp. 271-276

Eric Nauenberg, Yuri Andrijuk and Matthew Eisinger

Volume 10, issue 2, 2001

Science or marketing at WHO? A commentary on ‘World Health 2000’ pp. 93-100

Alan Williams

Alternative approaches to obtain optimal bid values in contingent valuation studies and to model protest zeros. Estimating the determinants of individuals' willingness to pay for home care services in day case surgery pp. 101-118

Eulàlia Dalmau‐Matarrodona

Strategic interaction among hospitals and nursing facilities: the efficiency effects of payment systems and vertical integration pp. 119-134

Dwayne Banks, Elliott Parker and Jeanne Wendel

Health insurance and health services utilization in Ireland pp. 135-145

Colm Harmon and Brian Nolan

Searching for a better willingness to pay elicitation method in rural Nigeria: the binary question with follow‐up method versus the bidding game technique pp. 147-158

Obinna Onwujekwe

Citizens, their agents and health care rationing: an exploratory study using qualitative methods pp. 159-174

Joanna Coast

Aging and health care expenditures: A comment on Zweifel, Felder and Meiers pp. 175-177

Thomas E. Getzen

The death of cost‐minimization analysis? pp. 179-184

Andrew H. Briggs and Bernie J. O'Brien

Volume 10, issue 1, 2001

The world‐wide growth in obesity: an economic research agenda pp. 1-7

Tomas Philipson

Physicians' payment contracts, treatment decisions and diagnosis accuracy pp. 9-25

Izabela Jelovac

A comparison of scoring weights for the EuroQol© derived from patients and the general public pp. 27-37

Daniel Polsky, Richard J. Willke, Karen Scott, Kevin A. Schulman and Henry A. Glick

Theory versus practice: a review of ‘willingness‐to‐pay’ in health and health care pp. 39-52

Jan Abel Olsen and Richard D. Smith

Parameter solicitation for planning cost effectiveness studies with dichotomous outcomes pp. 53-66

Martin W. McIntosh, Scott D. Ramsey, Kristin Berry and Nicole Urban

Preventable illness and out‐of‐area travel of children in New York counties pp. 67-78

Jayasree Basu and Bernard Friedman

Economic evaluation alongside n‐of‐1 trials: getting closer to the margin pp. 79-82

Jonathan Karnon and Nawab Qizilbash

International health care reform: a legal, economic and political analysis. Edited by C.M. Flood. Routledge, London (2000). 315 pages. ISBN 0 415 20844 0 pp. 83-84

Gwyn Bevan

Clinical governance in primary care. Edited by T. van Zwanenberg and J. Harrison. Radcliffe Press Ltd., (1999). 199 pages. ISBN 1 85775 3968 pp. 84-84

Garry Barton

The changing hospital industry: comparing not‐for‐profit and for‐profit institutions. Edited by David M. Cutler. Chicago University Press, Chicago (2000). 384 pages, US$53.00. ISBN 0 226 13219 6 pp. 85-86

Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street

Health reform: public success, private failure. Edited by Daniel Drache and Terry Sullivan. Routledge, London (1999). 366 pages. ISBN 0 415 20236 1 pp. 86-87

Charles Normand

The global challenge of health care rationing. Edited by A. Coulter and C. Ham. Open University Press, Buckingham (2000). 267 pages. ISBN 0 335 20463 5 pp. 86-86

Ray Robinson

Pricing life: the controversial role of cost‐effectiveness in health care. Edited by Peter A Ubel. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2000). xix+208 pages, £16.95. ISBN 0 262 21016 9 pp. 87-88

Alan Williams

Drugs dilemmas and choices by a working party of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians. Gaskell, London, UK (2000). 291 pages. ISBN 1 901242 44 7.. Drugs and the law: report of the independent inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 by The Police Foundation, London, UK (2000). 148 pages. ISBN 0 947692 47 9 pp. 88-89

Christine Godfrey