Health Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 3, issue 6, 1994

‘Marketization’—the illusory magic pill pp. 351-357

William C. Hsiao

Health care reform pp. 359-359

Robert Evans, Alan Maynard, Alexander Preker and Uwe Reinhardt

The impact of indirect costs on outcomes of health care programs pp. 385-393

Marc A. Koopmanschap and Frans F. H. Rutten

Cost‐effectiveness analysis of day care for patients with dementia disorders pp. 395-404

Anders Wimo, Bengt Mattsson, Ingvar Krakau, Tua Eriksson and Anders Nelvig

Key Issues in Health Economics: by Gavin Mooney. Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York and London, 1994. No. of pages: 195. ISBN 0‐7450‐1013‐X pp. 405-406

Walter W. Holland

Evaluating the NHS Reforms. Edited by Ray Robinson and Julian Le Grand. Policy Journals, Newbury Berks, 1994. No. of pages: 288. ISBN 0‐946967‐43‐1 pp. 406-408

Stephen Birch

Evaluating Community Care: Services for People with Learning Difficulties by Ken Wright, Alan Haycox and Ian Leedham. Open University Press, Buckingham, 1994. No. of Pages 191. ISBN 0‐335‐09496‐1 pp. 408-409

Karen Gerard

Setting Priorities in Health Care, Edited by M. Malek. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 1994. No. of pages 332. ISBN 0‐471‐94394‐0 pp. 409-410

Ray Robinson

Volume 3, issue 5, 1994

Some moral problems in medicine pp. 297-300

Baroness Warnock

The German health care system at the crossroads pp. 301-303

J.‐Matthias Graf and V. D. Schulenburg

Peritoneal cytology for suspected acute appendicitis: An economic evaluation pp. 321-332

Richard J. Stewart, Karl Perry, Robert D. Bowie and Desmond J. O'Dea

Statistical analysis of cost outcomes in a randomized controlled clinical trial pp. 333-345

Maureen P. M. H. Rutten‐ van Mölken, Eddy K. A. Van and René C. J. A. van Vliet

The Political Economy of Healthcare. By David Resisman. MacMillan Press, London, 1993. No. of pages: 267. ISBN: 0‐333‐58579‐8 pp. 347-348

Adrian Towse

Social Care in a Mixed Economy. Gerald Wistow, Martin Knapp, Brian Hardy and Caroline Allen Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994. ISBN 0 335 19044 8 (cloth) 0 335 19043 X (pbk) pp. 347-347

Sue Charles

Health Promotion in Canada. Provincial, National and International Perspectives. Edited by Ann Pederson, Michel O'Neill and Irving Rootman. W. B. Saunders, Canada, 1994. No. of pages: 401. ISBN 0‐9205‐13‐09‐3 pp. 348-349

Amanda J. Sowden

Information Management in Health Services. by Justin Keen. Open University Press, Buckingham. No. of pages: 207. ISBN: 0‐335‐19116‐9 pp. 349-350

Paul Kind

Volume 3, issue 4, 1994

Valuing future benefits pp. 221-229

John A. Cairns

Is it possible to reduce tobacco consumption via alcohol taxation? pp. 231-241

Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Jose Labeaga

Shared ‘features’ in prices: Income and price elasticities for health care expenditures pp. 267-279

Marc Saez and Carles Murillo

Measuring inequalities in health in the presence of multiple‐category morbidity indicators pp. 281-291

Adam Wagstaff and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Controlling Health Professionals: The future of work and organisation in the NHS by Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Open University Press, 1994. No. of pages: 176. ISBN 0‐335‐09643‐3 pp. 293-294

Karen Bloor

Total Quality Management in the Public Sector. Colin Morgan and Stephen Murgatroyd. Open University Press, 1994. No. of pages: 212, ISBN 0‐335‐19102‐9 pp. 294-295

David Taylor

European Pharmaceuticals: Switching to OTC Status by Sarah Rickwood and Amanda Southworth, Financial Times Management Report, 1994, No. of pages: 109. ISBN 1 85334 213 0 pp. 295-296

Gerald Richardson

Diagnosis in General Practice. Art or Science? by David Cameron Morrell. Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1993. No. of pages: 73. ISBN 0‐900574‐85‐2 pp. 296-296

Nick Bosanquet

Volume 3, issue 3, 1994

Pricing in the NHS internal market pp. 133-136

Brian Ferguson and John Posnett

Private versus social opportunity cost of time: Valuing time in the demand for health care pp. 149-155

D. J. Torgerson, C. Donaldson and D. M. Reid

A cost utility analysis of treatment options for gallstone disease: Methodological issues and results pp. 157-168

Johanna Cook, Jeff Richardson and Andrew Street

US health services employment: A time series analysis pp. 169-181

Michael Kendix and Thomas E. Getzen

Inpatient and outpatient health care demand in Cairo, Egypt pp. 183-200

Randall Ellis, D. Keith McInnes and Elizabeth H. Stephenson

The UK cochrane centre and the nhs centre for reviews and dissemination: Respective Roles Within the Information Systems Strategy of the NHS R&D Programme, Coordination and Principles Underlying Collaboration pp. 201-203

Trevor Sheldon and Iain Chalmers

Qaly league tables pp. 205-205

Tom Jefferson, Miranda Mugford and Vittorio Demicheli

Competitive Approaches to Health Care Reform. Edited by Richard J. Arnould, Robert Rich and William D. White. The Urban Institute Press, Washington, D.C., 1993. No. of pages: 361. ISBN 0‐87766‐604‐0 (paperback) pp. 206-206

Rudolf Klein

Public Hospitals in Developing Countries: Resource Use, Cost, Financing, by Howard Barnum and Josph Kutzin, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1993. No. of pages: 335. ISBN 0‐8018‐4532‐7 pp. 207-208

Tim Ensor

Market and Health by David Resiman. The Macmillan Press Ltd. London, 1993. No. of pages: 254. ISBN 0‐333‐59480‐0 pp. 207-207

Phil Shackley

Volume 3, issue 2, 1994

Jumping on the spot‐health reform New Zealand style pp. 69-72

Michael H. Cooper

The qaly—a measure of social value rather than individual utility? pp. 89-93

Erik Nord

The uptake of childhood immunization and financial incentives to general practitioners pp. 117-125

Mauricea Lima Lynch

World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health. The World Bank, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993. No. of pages: 329. ISBN 0‐19‐520890‐0 pp. 127-128

Lou Opit

Continuity and Crisis in the NHS. Edited by R. Loveridge and K. Starkey. Open University Press, Buckingham, 1992. No. of pages: 237. ISBN 0‐335‐15599‐5 pp. 128-128

John Hutton

Treatment of Mental Disorders. A Review of Effectiveness. Edited by Norman Sartorius, Giovanni Di Girolamo, Gavin Andrews, G. Allen German, and Leon Eisenberg. Published on behalf of the World Health Organization by American Psychiatric Press, INC. Washington, DC, 1993. No of pages: 501. ISBN 0‐88048‐975‐8 pp. 129-130

Fujian Song

Going Private: Why People Pay for their Health Care by M. Calnan, S. Cant and J. Gabe. Open University Press, 1993. No. of pages: 113. ISBN 0‐335‐09980‐7. Laing's Review of Private Healthcare, Laing and Buisson, London, 1993. No. of pages: 1252. ISBN 1‐85440‐030‐4 pp. 130-131

Alan Maynard

Volume 3, issue 1, 1994

Economic Evaluation of healthcare: A half‐way technology pp. 1-4

John Hutton

Variations in general practice prescribing costs and implications for budget setting pp. 47-56

Andrew T. Healey, Brian F. Yule and John P. Reid

Qaly league tables pp. 57-58

Carl Hampus Lyttkens

Resources, Needs and Outcomes in Community Based Care by Bleddyn Davies, Andrew Bebbington, Helen Charnley and Colleagues. Avebury, Aldershot, 1990. No. of pages: 493. ISBN 1‐85628‐130‐2 pp. 59-59

Ken Wright

Managerial Issues in the Reformed NHS edited by M. Malek, P. Vacani, J. Rasquinha and P. Davey, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester 1993. No. of pages xviii + 262. ISBN 0–471–94033X pp. 60-60

John H. James

Volume 2, issue 4, 1993

Priorities and research strategy in health economics for the 1990s pp. 295-302

Alan Williams

The costs and effects of open versus laparoscopic cholecystectomies pp. 303-312

K. Kesteloot and F. Penninckx

Monitoring health in Sweden: On the rationale for working environment regulations pp. 323-332

Carl Hampus Lyttkens

The contingent valuation method—appraising the appraisers pp. 357-359

Magnus Johannesson

Appraising the use of contingent valuation: A note in response pp. 361-362

Julia Fox‐Rushby

Re‐appraising the use of contingent valuation. A reply pp. 363-365

M. Gyldmark and G. C. Morrison

Cost‐effectiveness of endoscopic surgery pp. 367-369

A. Cuschieri

America's misunderstood welfare state: Persistent myths, enduring realities by Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw and Philip L. Harvey. New York, Basic Books 1992 (paperback edition‐originally published 1990). No. of pages: 268. ISBN 0‐465‐00123‐8 pp. 371-372

Rudolf Klein

The national health service—a manager's tale by Brian Edwards. The Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London, 1993. No. of pages: 208. ISBN 0 900574 83 6 pp. 371-371

Andrew Wall

The audit handbook: Improving health care through clinical audit by I. K. Crombie, H. T. O. Davies, S. C. S. Abraham and C. du V. Florey. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1993. No of pages: 225. ISBN 0‐471‐937665 pp. 372-373

Nick Freemantle

Co‐ordinating Community Care by John Øvretveit. Open university press, Buckingham, 1993. No. of pages: 232. ISBN 0‐335‐19047‐2 pp. 373-374

Christopher Jones

The making of medibank by R. B. Scotton and C. R. MacDonald. School of health services management, university of New South Wales, Australia, 1993. No. of pages: 320. ISBN 0‐85832‐081‐9 pp. 374-375

Jane Hall

Volume 2, issue 3, 1993

Controlling health care: From economic incentives to micro‐clinical regulation pp. 201-204

Michael Borowitz and Trevor Sheldon

Clinical importance, statistical significance and the assessment of economic and quality‐of‐life outcomes pp. 205-212

Michael Drummond and Bernie O'Brienm

The SF‐36 health survey questionnaire—a tool for economists pp. 213-215

John Brazier

The rand 36‐item health survey 1.0 pp. 217-227

Ron D. Hays, Cathy Donald Sherbourne and Rebecca M. Mazel

Convergent validity of two measures of the quality of life pp. 229-235

David K. Whynes and Aileen R. Neilson

A cost function analysis of residential services for adults with a learning disability pp. 247-256

Alan Shiell, Catherine Pettipher, Norma Raynes and Ken Wright

Time preferences for health gains: An empirical investigation pp. 257-265

Jan Abel Olsen

Expected social utility of life time in the presence of a chronic disease pp. 267-279

Paul G. H. Mulder and Anton L. Hempenius

Have procompetitive changes altered hospital provision of indigent care? pp. 281-289

Ellen S. Campbell and Melissa W. Ahern

Economics of health care financing—the visible hand by Cam Donaldson and Karen Gerard Macmillan: Basingstoke, 1993. No. of pages: ix & 217. ISBN 0‐333‐53870‐6 pp. 291-291

John Cullis

Strategic issues in health care management. Edited by M. Malek, J. Rasquinha and P. Vacani. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, 1993. No. of pages: 298. ISBN 0‐47 1‐93964‐1 pp. 291-292

Steve Harrison

Europe without frontiers: The implications for health. Edited by Charles E. M. Normand and J. Patrick Vaughan. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, 1993. No. of pages: 376. ISBN 0‐471‐93761‐4 pp. 292-293

Diana Sanderson

Health economics research in developing countries, (Eds) A Mills and K. Lee, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993. No. of pages: 363. ISBN 0‐19‐261620‐x pp. 293-294

Mark Wheeler

Volume 2, issue 2, 1993

Econometrics and health economics pp. 85-86

Andrew Jones

Equitable access to health care: Methodological extensions to the analysis of physician utilization in Canada pp. 87-101

Stephen Birch, John Eyles and Bruce Newbold

Individual behaviour and tobacco consumption: A panel data approach pp. 103-112

Jose Labeaga

Health care expenditure and income in Europe pp. 127-138

Carlos Murillo, Cyrille Piatecki and Marc Saez

Income transfers and the labour market participation of disabled individuals in the UK pp. 139-148

Owen O'Donnell

A cell based approach to modelling public expenditure pp. 149-161

Carol Propper

Financial incentives for physicians: The Quebec experience pp. 163-176

Lise Rochaix

The demand for health: An empirical reformulation of the Grossman model pp. 189-198

Adam Wagstaff

The economics of medical diagnosis: Technological change and health expenditures by D. P. Doessel. Avebury, Aldershot, 1992. No. of pages: 166. ISBN 1‐85628‐2740 pp. 199-200

Jim Ilunga and Thérèse Lebrun

Measuring mental health needs. Edited by Graham Thornicroft, Chris Brewin and John Wing. Gaskell Royal college of Psychiatrists, 1992. No. of pages: 328. ISBN 0‐902241‐51‐6 pp. 199-199

Ken Wright

Volume 2, issue 1, 1993

Banning tobacco advertising: Can health economists contribute to the debate? pp. 1-5

Christine Godfrey

Comment on the Jackson hole initiatives for a twenty‐first century American health care system pp. 7-14

Uwe E. Reinhardt

Equity and efficiency in Italian health care pp. 15-29

Pierella Paci and Adam Wagstaff

The cost and efficiency of public and private health care facilities in Ogun state, Nigeria pp. 31-42

Annemarie Wouters

Sometimes sensitive, seldom specific: A review of the economics of screening pp. 43-53

John Cairns and Phil Shackley

Recruitment methods for screening programmes: The price of high compliance pp. 55-58

D. J. Torgerson, C. Donaldson, M. J. Garton, D. M. Reid and I. T. Russell

Qaly league tables: Handle with care pp. 59-64

Karen Gerard and Gavin Mooney

Trends in the structure, productivity, effectiveness and unit costs of the hospital and community health services workforce in England: 1979–1991 pp. 65-75

Peter Cutler

Variation in use of hospital care. An empirical and theoretical analysis of differences in the duration of hospital stay, by Gert P. Westert. Van Gorcum, Assen/Maastricht, 1992, No. of pages: 160. ISBN 90‐232‐2710‐7 pp. 77-78

Anita Alban

Health policy in Britain: The politics and organization of the National Health Service, by Christopher Ham. MacMillan, 1992 (3rd edition, revised, extended, and updated) No. of pages: 286. ISBN 0‐333‐49496‐2 pp. 78-79

Ted Marmor

Economics, medicine and health care by Gavin Mooney. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992 (second edition) No. of pages: 179. ISBN 0‐7450‐1014‐8 pp. 79-80

Jack Dowie

Evaluating social work effectiveness by Juliet Cheetham, Roger Fuller, Gill McIvor, and Alison Petch. Open University Press, 1992. No. of pages: 170. ISBN 0‐335‐19005‐7 pp. 80-81

Ian Sinclair

Bonus options in health insurance by Peter Zweifel. Awer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1992. No. of ges: xii + 141. ISBN 0‐7923‐1722‐X pp. 81-82

Johann Graf von der Schulenburg