Health Economics

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Volume 6, issue 6, 1997

As a matter of fact: evidence‐based decision‐making unplugged pp. 547-559

Stephen Birch

Multilevel models and health economics pp. 561-575

Nigel Rice and Andrew Jones

Analysing the effect of competition on General Practitioners' behaviour using a multilevel modelling framework pp. 577-588

Anthony Scott and Alan Shiell

A comparison of economic modelling and clinical trials in the economic evaluation of cholesterol‐modifying pharmacotherapy pp. 589-601

Stephen Morris

Aiding priority setting in health care: is there a role for the contingent valuation method? pp. 603-612

Jan Abel Olsen

A study on the cost‐effectiveness of coronary revascularization: introducing the simultaneous mimic health status model pp. 613-623

Jae Sang Lee, Martin J. Bailey, Jinook Jeong, Patrick D. Mauldin and William S. Weintraub

The Interpretation of results of economic evaluation: explicating the value of health pp. 625-635

Andre Ament and Rob Baltussen

Contingent valuation with an open‐ended follow‐up question: a test of scope effects pp. 637-639

Bernt Kartman, Nils‐Olov Stålhammar and Magnus Johannesson

Book Review: Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries: Making Health Development Sustainable. P. Bernam. Harvard University Press, Boston and London, 1995. 418 pp. ISBN 0‐674‐38525‐X pp. 641-642

Sally Lake

Book Review: Care in the community: illusion or reality? Julian Leff. Wiley, Chichester, 1997. 212 pp. ISBN 0‐471‐96982‐6 pp. 642-642

Ken Wright

Volume 6, issue 5, 1997

What role for state health care in Asian transition economies? pp. 445-454

Tim Ensor

Relative inefficiencies in production between solo and group practice physicians pp. 455-465

Lisa C. DeFelice and W. David Bradford

An incentive approach to physician implementation of medical practice guidelines pp. 467-477

Seema S. Sonnad and Stephen Earl Foreman

Lifetime costs of lung transplantation: estimation of incremental costs pp. 479-489

Petra J. van Enckevort, Marc A. Koopmanschap, Elisabeth M. Tenvergert, Albert Geertsma, Wim van der Bij, Wim J. de Boer and Frans F. H. Rutten

Trying to do better than average: a commentary on ‘statistical inference for cost‐effectiveness ratios’ pp. 491-495

Andrew Briggs and Paul Fenn

The usefulness of average cost‐effectiveness ratios pp. 497-504

Eugene M. Laska, Morris Meisner and Carole Siegel

Productivity costs, time costs and health‐related quality of life: a response to the Erasmus Group pp. 505-510

Milton C. Weinstein, Joanna E. Siegel, Alan M. Garber, Joseph Lipscomb, Bryan R. Luce, Willard Manning and George W. Torrance

Productivity costs in cost‐effectiveness analysis: numerator or denominator: a further discussion pp. 511-514

Werner Brouwer, Marc A. Koopmanschap and Frans F.H. Rutten

Values and preferences are not necessarily the same pp. 515-518

Alan Shiell, Penelope Hawe and Janelle Seymour

Letter: Introduction to the special issue on the economics of substance abuse pp. 519-520

Donald Kenkel

Letter: Economic modelling of the gateway effect pp. 521-524

Rosalie Pacula

Letter: Effects of tobacco excise taxes on the use of smokeless tobacco products in the USA pp. 525-531

Robert L. Ohsfeldt, Raymond G. Boyle and Eli Capilouto

Women and work: tipplers and teetotalers pp. 533-537

John Mullahy and Jody L. Sindelar

Letter: Estimating the economic cost of substance abuse treatment pp. 539-544

Michael French and Kerry Anne McGeary

Book Review: Cost‐effectiveness in health and medicine. Edited by Marthe R. Gold, Joanna E. Siegel, Louise B. Russell and Milton C. Weinstein. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1996. ISBN 0‐19‐510824‐8 pp. 545-546

M. F. Drummond

Volume 6, issue 4, 1997

Guest Editors' introduction pp. 325-326

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Pulling cost‐effectiveness analysis up by its bootstraps: A non‐parametric approach to confidence interval estimation pp. 327-340

Andrew H. Briggs, David E. Wonderling and Christopher Z. Mooney

Saving future lives. A comparison of three discounting models pp. 341-350

John A. Cairns and Marjon van der Pol

Towards an economic model of the Dutch health care sector pp. 351-363

Kees Folmer, Johnny Stevens, Frank Van Tulder and Ed Westerhout

Health care policy evaluation using longitudinal insurance claims data: An application of the Panel Tobit estimator pp. 365-382

Paul Grootendorst

Estimating surgical volume—outcome relationships applying survival models: accounting for frailty and hospital fixed effects pp. 383-395

Barton Hamilton and Vivian H. Hamilton

Down and out: estimating the relationship between mental health and unemployment pp. 397-406

Vivian H. Hamilton, Philip Merrigan and Éric Dufresne

Age related health dynamics and changes in labour market status pp. 407-423

Marcel Kerkhofs and Maarten Lindeboom

The impact of health on retirement behaviour: empirical evidence from West Germany pp. 425-438

Sikandar Siddiqui

Cluster effects and simultaneity in multilevel models pp. 439-443

Richard Blundell and Frank Windmeijer

Volume 6, issue 3, 1997

Modelling in Ecomomic Evaluation: An Unavoidable Fact of Life pp. 217-227

Martin J. Buxton, Michael F. Drummond, Ben A. Van Hout, Richard L. Prince, Trevor A. Sheldon, Thomas Szucs and Muriel Vray

Statistical Inference for Cost–Effectiveness Ratios pp. 229-242

Eugene M. Laska, Morris Meisner and Carole Siegel

Confidence Intervals for Cost–Effectiveness Ratios: A Comparison of Four Methods pp. 243-252

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

Productivity Costs Measurement Through Quality of Life? A Response to the Recommendation of the Washington Panel pp. 253-259

Werner Brouwer, Marc A. Koopmanschap and Frans F. H. Rutten

Using Conjoint Analysis to Assess Women's Preferences for Miscarriage Management pp. 261-273

Mandy Ryan and Jenny Hughes

Economic Evaluation and the Shifting Balance Towards Primary Care: Definitions, Evidence and Methodological Issues pp. 275-294

Edward Godber, Ray Robinson and Andrea Steiner

Output Efficiency of Health Maintenance Organizations in Florida pp. 295-302

Robert Rosenman, Kris Siddharthan and Melissa Ahern

Equity in Health Care Utilization: Further Tests Based on Hurdle Models and Swedish Micro Data pp. 303-319

Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Book Review:Theory and Methods of Economic Evaluation of Health Care by MAGNUS JOHANNESSON. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1996. No. of pages: 245. ISBN 0‐7923‐4037‐X pp. 321-323

Jack Dowie

Book Reviews:Health Ecomomics for the Uninitiated by TONY LOCKETT. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford, 1996. No. of pages: 66. ISBN 1‐85775‐069‐1 pp. 322-323

Stephen Birch

Volume 6, issue 2, 1997

Citizens' Views on Health Care Systems in the 15 Member States of The European Union pp. 109-116

Elias Mossialos

Intergenerational Equity: An Exploration of the ‘Fair Innings’ Argument pp. 117-132

Alan Williams

Uncompensated Hospital Care: Charitable Mission or Profitable Business Decision? pp. 133-143

Dwayne A. Banks, Mary Paterson and Jeanne Wendel

Using Willingness To Pay To Value Close Substitutes: Carrier Screening for Cystic Fibrosis Revisited pp. 145-159

Cam Donaldson, Phil Shackley and Mona Abdalla

Economic Evaluation of Mental Health Care Interventions. A Review pp. 161-177

S. M. A. A. Evers, A. S. Van Wijk and A. J. H. A. Ament

Haggling for a Patent: What a Government Would Have to Pay for Prescription Drug Patents pp. 179-185

Robert C. Guell

Global Budgets and Excess Demand for Hospital Care pp. 187-196

Roger Feldman and Félix Lobo

Aboriginal Physician Use in Canada: Location, Orientation and Identity pp. 197-207

Bruce Newbold

Prescribing Cost Savings by GP Fundholders: Long‐Term or Short‐Term? pp. 209-211

David K. Whynes, Tara Heron and Anthony J. Avery

Book Review:The Cost of Birth Defects: Estimates of the Value of Prevention by NORMAN J. WAITZMAN, RICHARD M. SCHEFFLER and PATRICK S. ROMANO. University Press of America, Lanham, 1996. No. of pages: 261. ISBN 0‐7618‐0248‐7 pp. 215-216

Tracy Roberts

Volume 6, issue 1, 1997

Bridging the Gap Between Public Expectations and Public Willingness to Pay pp. 1-9

Clive H. Smee

National Health Accounts in Developing Countries: Appropriate Methods and Recent Applications pp. 11-30

Peter A. Berman

Health Insurance and the Homeless pp. 31-41

Brent Kreider and Sean Nicholson

Market Concentration in Secondary Health Services Under a Purchaser–Provider Split: The New Zealand Experience pp. 43-56

Toni Ashton and David Press

The Impact of Health Care Policy Initiatives on Productivity pp. 57-70

Magnus Tambour

Is the Person Trade‐off a Valid Method for Allocating Health Care Resources? pp. 71-81

Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades

The Adjustment of Cost Measurement to Account for Learning pp. 83-85

Lars K. Langkilde and Jes Søgaard

Clinical Trials and Economic Evaluations? No, There are Only Evaluations pp. 87-89

Jack Dowie

The Nature of Individual Preferences: A Prologue to Johannesson, Jonsson and Karlsson pp. 91-93

Paul Dolan

Health Economics E‐mail Discussion Lists pp. 95-97

Bruce Hollingsworth

Book Review: Managing Scarcity by Rudolf Klein, Patricia Day and Sharon Redmayne. The Open University Press, Buckingham and Philadelphia, 1996. No. of pages: 161. ISBN 0‐335‐19446X pp. 99-100

Alan Williams

Fixing Health Budgets: Experience from Europe and North America edited by Friedrich Schwartz, Howard Glennerster and Richard B. Saltman. Wiley, Chichester and New York, 1996. No. of pages: 239. ISBN 0‐471‐96497‐2 pp. 100-101

John Appleby

Social Care Markets: Progress and Prospects by Gerald Wistow, Martin Knapp, Brian Hardy, Julien Forder, Jeremy Kendall and Rob Manning. Open University Press, Buckingham, 1996. No. of pages: 200. ISBN 0‐335‐19546‐6 pp. 101-102

Sarah Byford