Health Economics

1992 - 2025

Current editor(s): Alan Maynard, John Hutton and Andrew Jones

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Volume 8, issue 8, 1999

Carrots and sticks—the fall and fall of private health insurance in Australia pp. 653-660

Jane Hall, Richard De Abreu Lourenco and Rosalie Viney

Parental use of alcohol and children's behavioural health: a household production analysis pp. 661-683

Alison Jones, Deborah J. Miller and David Salkever

The role of a pre‐scored multi‐attribute health classification measure in validating condition‐specific health state descriptions pp. 685-699

Karen Gerard, Katharine Johnston and Jackie Brown

Health state after treatment: a reason for discrimination? pp. 701-707

Jose‐Maria Abellan‐Perpiñan and Jose‐Luis Pinto‐Prades

Long‐term contracts in the NHS: a solution in search of a problem? pp. 709-720

Diane Dawson and Maria Goddard

Demand inducement as cheap talk pp. 721-733

Paul Calcott

The ethical QALY. Ethical issues in healthcare resource allocations by Andrew Edgar, Sam Salek, Darren Shickle and David Cohen. Euromed Communications, Haslemere, UK, 1998. No. of pages: 168. ISBN 1‐8‐99015‐213. The allocation of health care resources. An ethical evaluation of the ‘QALY’ approach by John McKie, Jeff Richardson, Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse. Medico Legal Series, Ashgate, Dartmouth, 1998. No. of pages: 151. ISBN 1‐85521‐9530 pp. 735-736

Alan Williams

Volume 8, issue 7, 1999

Community rating and choice between traditional health insurance and managed care pp. 563-578

Mathias Kifmann

Duplicate coverage and demand for health care. The case of Catalonia pp. 579-598

Ángel Marcos Vera‐Hernández

The impact of generic goods in the pharmaceutical industry pp. 599-612

Jorge Mestre Ferrándiz

Health care and economic well‐being: estimating equivalence scales for public health care utilization pp. 613-625

Jan Klavus

Health care spending as determinants of health outcomes pp. 627-639

Pierre-Yves Cremieux, Pierre Ouellette and Caroline Pilon

The impact of teaching status on average costs in Spanish hospitals pp. 641-651

Guillem López‐Casasnovas and Marc Saez

Volume 8, issue 6, 1999

Ageing of population and health care expenditure: a red herring? pp. 485-496

Peter Zweifel, Stefan Felder and Markus Meiers

Competition and supplier‐induced demand in a health care system with fixed fees pp. 497-508

Rune J. Sørensen and Jostein Grytten

On measuring the hospital cost/quality trade‐off pp. 509-520

Kathleen Carey and James F. Burgess

A comparison of hospital scale effects in short‐run and long‐run cost functions pp. 521-530

Vassilis H. Aletras

Costs of screening for colorectal cancer: An Australian programme pp. 531-540

Jeff Gow

A comparison of patient and social tariff values derived from the time trade‐off method pp. 541-545

Niklas Zethraeus and Magnus Johannesson

Inferring capitation rates from aggregate health plans’ costs pp. 547-552

Amir Shmueli

The Health Care Marketplace by Warren Greenberg. Springer‐Verlag, New York, 1998. No. of pages 170. ISBN 0‐387‐98457‐7 pp. 553-553

Ciaran O'Neill

Krankenhaus‐Report ’97: Aktuelle Beitrage, Trends und Statistiken edited by M. Arnold and D. Paffrath. Fischer, Stuttgart, 1997. ISBN 3‐437‐21248‐6 pp. 554-554

Florian Hollenbach

Arznei‐Verordungs‐Report ’97: Aktuelle Daten, Kosten, Trends und Kommentare edited by Ulrich Schwabe. Fischer, Stuttgart, 1997. ISBN 3‐437‐21091‐2 pp. 555-555

Florian Hollenbach

Community Care in England and France: Reforms and the Improvement of Equity and Efficiency by Bleddyn Davies, Jose Fernandez and Robin Saunders. Ashgate Arena, Aldershot 1998. ISBN 1‐840‐14584‐6 pp. 556-556

Ken Wright

Cost–Outcome Methods for Mental Health by William A. Hargreaves, Martha Shumway, Tei‐Wei Hu and Brian Cuffel, Academic Press, New York, 1998. ISBN 0‐123‐25155‐9 pp. 557-557

Martin Knapp

Screening. British Medical Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 4 edited by C. Peckham and C. Dezateux. Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1998. ISBN 1‐853‐15345‐1 pp. 558-559

Miranda Mugford

Learning from the NHS internal market. A review of the evidence edited by Julian Le Grand, Nicholas May and Jo‐Ann Mulligan. King's Fund Publishing, 1998. No. of pages: 145. ISBN 1‐857‐17215‐9. £17.95 pp. 560-560

Charles Normand

Errata pp. 561-561

Andrew Willan

Errata pp. 562-562

Erik Nord

Volume 8, issue 5, 1999

Guest editors’ introduction pp. 367-368

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Preferences for equity in health behind a veil of ignorance pp. 369-378

Fredrik Andersson and Carl Hampus Lyttkens

Gender, heroin consumption and economic behaviour pp. 379-389

Anne Line Bretteville‐Jensen

A model for the Dutch pharmaceutical market pp. 391-402

Erik Canton and Ed Westerhout

HMO selection and Medicare costs: Bayesian MCMC estimation of a robust panel data tobit model with survival pp. 403-414

Barton Hamilton

Women's participation in rural credit programmes in Bangladesh and their demand for formal health care: is there a positive impact?1 pp. 415-428

Priya Nanda

Non‐ and semi‐parametric estimation of age and time heterogeneity in repeated cross‐sections: an application to self‐reported morbidity and general practitioner utilization1 pp. 429-440

David Parkin, Nigel Rice and Matthew Sutton

Health and mortality of the elderly: the grade of membership method, classification and determination pp. 441-458

France Portrait, Maarten Lindeboom and Dorly Deeg

Sensitivity of elasticity estimates for OECD health care spending: analysis of a dynamic heterogeneous data field pp. 459-472

Jennifer Roberts

Volume 8, issue 4, 1999

Inequalities in health: an introductory editorial pp. 281-282

Alan Maynard

Income inequality in the UK pp. 283-288

Anthony Atkinson

‘Our healthier nation’? pp. 289-296

Paul Contoyannis and Martin Forster

Commentary on the Acheson Report pp. 297-299

Alan Williams

The 39 steps: the mystery of health inequalities in the UK pp. 301-308

Stephen Birch

The effects of economic reform on health insurance and the financial burden for urban workers in China pp. 309-321

Teh‐Wei Hu, Michael Ong, Zi‐Hua Lin and Elizabeth Li

Estimating uncertainty ranges for costs by the bootstrap procedure combined with probabilistic sensitivity analysis pp. 323-333

Joanne Lord and Maxwell A. Asante

Addressing the inequity of capitation by variable soft contracts pp. 335-343

Amir Shmueli and Jacob Glazer

The appropriate uses of qualitative methods in health economics pp. 345-353

Joanna Coast

Do you sincerely want to be rich? pp. 355-362

Uwe Reinhardt

Health economics of dementia by A. Wimo, B. Jönsson, G. Karlsson and B. Winblad. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1998. No. of pages: 576. ISBN 0‐471‐98376‐4 pp. 363-364

Alan Stewart

Health, health care and health economics: perspectives on distribution edited by M.L. Barer, T.E. Getzen and G.L. Stoddart. Wiley, Chichester, 1998. No. of pages: 551. ISBN 0‐471‐97879‐5 pp. 364-364

Owen O'Donnell

Pharmaceutical price regulation: national policies versus global interests by Patricia M. Danzon. The American Enterprise Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1997. No. of pages: 107. ISBN 0‐8447‐3982‐0 pp. 365-365

Panos Kanavos

Volume 8, issue 3, 1999

Redefining the analytical approach to pharmacoeconomics pp. 187-189

Bryan R. Luce and Karl Claxton

Bayesian estimation of cost‐effectiveness ratios from clinical trials pp. 191-201

Daniel F. Heitjan, Alan J. Moskowitz and William Whang

Sample size and power issues in estimating incremental cost‐effectiveness ratios from clinical trials data pp. 203-211

Andrew R. Willan and Bernie J. O'Brien

At what price significance? The effect of price estimates on statistical inference in economic evaluation pp. 213-219

Brian E. Rittenhouse, Brian Dulisse and Aaron A. Stinnett

Will the real elasticity of substitution ‘in Norwegian dentistry’ please stand up? pp. 221-232

Albert Okunade

Price competition and hospital cost growth in the United States (1989–1994) pp. 233-243

Anil Bamezai, Jack Zwanziger, Glenn A. Melnick and Joyce M. Mann

Annuitizing the human capital investment costs of health service professionals pp. 245-255

Ann Netten and Jane Knight

A Bayesian approach to stochastic cost‐effectiveness analysis pp. 257-261

Andrew H. Briggs

A Bayesian approach to sensitivity analysis pp. 263-268

James C. Felli and Gordon B. Hazen

Bayesian approaches to the value of information: implications for the regulation of new pharmaceuticals pp. 269-274

Karl Claxton

Markets and health care: a comparative analysis edited by W. Ranadae. Longman, Harlow, 1998. No. of pages: 223. ISBN 0 582 28985 8 pp. 275-276

Gwyn Bevan

Making sense of the new NHS White Paper by Mark Baker. Radcliffe Medical Press: Abingdon, Oxon, 1998. No. of pages: 143. ISBN 1‐85775‐239‐2 pp. 276-276

Paul Plant

IHEA 2nd World Conference: Private and Public Choices in Health and Health Care, 6–9 June 1999, World Trade Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands pp. 279-279

Frans Rutten

Eighth European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics; 9–11 September 1998; University of Catania, Italy pp. 280-280

Andrew Jones

Volume 8, issue 2, 1999

Medical negligence and the NHS: an economic analysis pp. 93-101

Adrian Towse and Patricia Danzon

Modelling the EuroQol data: a comparison of discrete choice conjoint and conditional preference modelling pp. 103-116

Zafar Hakim and Dev S. Pathak

The weighting exercise for the Swedish version of the EuroQol pp. 117-126

Stefan Björk and Anna Norinder

Policy‐induced changes in Maori mortality patterns in the New Zealand economic reform period pp. 127-136

Malcolm C. Brown

Varying health care provider objectives and cost‐shifting: the case of retail pharmacy in the US pp. 137-150

John M. Brooks, Bernard Sorofman and William Doucette

Internal markets and health care efficiency: a multiple‐output stochastic frontier analysis pp. 151-164

Ulf-G. Gerdtham, M. Löthgren, M. Tambour and C. Rehnberg

Health knowledge and smoking among South African women pp. 165-169

Andrew Jones and Joses M. Kirigia

Ratio‐based and net benefit‐based approaches to health care resource allocation: proofs of optimality and equivalence pp. 171-174

Eugene M. Laska, Morris Meisner, Carole Siegel and Aaron A. Stinnett

Health economics has lost its way—or why David Kernick is (partly) right pp. 175-176

Ruth Mcdonald

US and UK health economics: a reply to Joe Newhouse's paper pp. 177-177

Paul Dolan

Response to Paul Dolan pp. 179-180

Joseph Newhouse

The economics of health reconsidered by Thomas Rice. Health Administration Press, Chicago, 1998. No. of pages: 195. ISBN 1‐5679‐073‐5 pp. 181-182

Gavin Mooney

Being reasonable about the economics of health. Selected assays by Alan Williams edited by A.J. Culyer and A.K. Maynard, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. No. of pages: 371. ISBN 1 85898 648 6 pp. 182-183

Jack Dowie

Office of Health Economics publications from 1997 and 1998. Office of Health Economics, 12 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY, UK pp. 183-185

Cam Donaldson

Dictionary of evidence‐based medicine by Alain Li Wan Po. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford, 1998. No. of pages: 165. ISBN 1 85775 305 4 pp. 185-185

Nick Freemantle

Volume 8, issue 1, 1999

Calculating the global burden of disease: time for a strategic reappraisal? pp. 1-8

Alan Williams

It'll only hurt a second? Microeconomic determinants of who gets flu shots pp. 9-24

John Mullahy

Incorporating societal concerns for fairness in numerical valuations of health programmes pp. 25-39

Erik Nord, Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades, Jeff Richardson, Paul Menzel and Peter Ubel

A checklist for judging preference‐based measures of health related quality of life: Learning from psychometrics pp. 41-51

John Brazier and Mark Deverill

The economic consequences of reorganizing hospital services in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan pp. 53-64

Andrew Street and Jane Haycock

Priority care for employees: A blessing in disguise? pp. 65-73

Werner Brouwer and F.T. Schut

Response‐ordering effects: a methodological issue in conjoint analysis pp. 75-79

Shelley Farrar and Mandy Ryan

The continuum‐of‐addiction: cigarette smoking in relation to price among Americans aged 15–29 pp. 81-86

Jeffrey E. Harris and Sandra W. Chan

Purchasing population health. Paying for results by David A. Kindig. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1997. No. of pages: 194. ISBN: 0‐472 10893‐X pp. 87-88

Nick Black

Casemix for all edited by H. Sanderson, P. Anthony and L. Mountney. Radcliffe Medical Press, 1998. ISBN: 185775 217 1 pp. 88-89

Anne Ludbrook

Nuffield Occasional Papers: Health Economics Series. Series Editor, Alan Maynard, The Nuffield Trust, London, 1998 pp. 89-90

John Appleby