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February 2013, Volume 22, Issue 2
- 168-179 Setting Pay For Performance Targets: Do Poor Performers Give Up?
by Bryan Dowd & Roger Feldman & WILLIAM Nersesian - 180-193 Incorporating Financial Protection Into Decision Rules For Publicly Financed Healthcare Treatments
by Peter C. Smith - 194-211 Regional Variation In The Productivity Of The English National Health Service
by Chris Bojke & Adriana Castelli & Andrew Street & Padraic Ward & Mauro Laudicella - 212-223 Production Cost Structure In Us Outpatient Physical Therapy Health Care
by Gregory G. Lubiani & Albert A. Okunade - 224-233 Height And Cognitive Function At Older Ages: Is Height A Useful Summary Measure Of Early Childhood Experiences?
by Cahit Guven & Wang Sheng Lee - 234-242 Differences In Length Of Stay For Hip Replacement Between Public Hospitals, Specialised Treatment Centres And Private Providers: Selection Or Efficiency?
by Luigi Siciliani & Peter Sivey & Andrew Street - 243-250 An Evaluation Of The Uk Food Standards Agency'S Salt Campaign
by Bhavani Shankar & Jose Brambila‐Macias & Bruce Traill & Mario Mazzocchi & Sara Capacci - 251-252 Surrogate, Friend Or Foe? The Need For Case Studies Of The Use Of Surrogate Outcomes In Cost‐Effectiveness Analyses
by O. Ciani & R. S. Taylor
January 2013, Volume 22, Issue 1
- 1-13 Are Anchoring Vignettes Ratings Sensitive To Vignette Age And Sex?
by Hendrik Jürges & Joachim Winter - 14-21 Neighbourhood Social Capital And Individual Self‐Rated Health In Wales
by Gindo Tampubolon & S. V. Subramanian & Ichiro Kawachi - 22-34 Cost‐Minimisation Analysis Versus Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis, Revisited
by Helen Dakin & Sarah Wordsworth - 35-51 The Price Sensitivity Of Medicare Beneficiaries: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
by Thomas C. Buchmueller & Kyle Grazier & Richard A. Hirth & Edward N. Okeke - 52-72 The Effect Of National Health Insurance On Mortality And The Ses–Health Gradient: Evidence From The Elderly In Taiwan
by Shao‐Hsun Keng & Sheng‐Jang Sheu - 73-88 The Impact Of Mental Health Insurance Laws On State Suicide Rates
by Matthew Lang - 89-105 Understanding Heterogeneity In Price Elasticities In The Demand For Alcohol For Older Individuals
by Padmaja Ayyagari & Partha Deb & Jason Fletcher & William Gallo & Jody L. Sindelar - 106-113 On The Cardinal Measurement Of Health Inequality When Only Ordinal Information Is Available On Individual Health Status
by Adi Lazar & Jacques Silber
August 2012, Volume 21, Issue S2
- 1-5 DO DIAGNOSIS‐RELATED GROUPS EXPLAIN VARIATIONS IN HOSPITAL COSTS AND LENGTH OF STAY? – ANALYSES FROM THE EURODRG PROJECT FOR 10 EPISODES OF CARE ACROSS 10 EuroPEAN COUNTRIES
by Reinhard Busse & on behalf of the EuroDRG group - 6-18 How Well Do Diagnosis‐Related Groups Explain Variations In Costs Or Length Of Stay Among Patients And Across Hospitals? Methods For Analysing Routine Patient Data
by Andrew Street & Conrad Kobel & Thomas Renaud & Josselin Thuilliez & ON BEHALF OF THE EURODRG GROUP - 19-29 Patient Classification And Hospital Costs Of Care For Acute Myocardial Infarction In Nine European Countries
by Unto Häkkinen & Pietro Chiarello & Francesc Cots & Mikko Peltola & Hanna Rättö & ON BEHALF OF THE EURODRG GROUP - 30-40 How Well Do Diagnosis‐Related Groups For Appendectomy Explain Variations In Resource Use? An Analysis Of Patient‐Level Data From 10 European Countries
by Anne Mason & Zeynep Or & Thomas Renaud & Andrew Street & Josselin Thuilliez & Padraic Ward & ON BEHALF OF THE EURODRG GROUP - 41-54 How Well Do Diagnosis‐Related Group Systems Group Breast Cancer Surgery Patients?—Evidence From 10 European Countries
by David Scheller‐Kreinsen & on behalf of the EuroDRG group - 55-65 Diagnosis Related Groups And Variations In Resource Use For Child Delivery Across 10 European Countries
by Zeynep Or & Thomas Renaud & Josselin Thuilliez & Cora Lebreton & on behalf of the EuroDRG group - 66-76 DRGs IN EUROPE: A CROSS COUNTRY ANALYSIS FOR CHOLECYSTECTOMY
by Gerli Paat‐Ahi & Maria Świderek & Paweł Sakowski & Janek Saluse & Ain Aaviksoo & on behalf of the EURODRG group - 77-88 Why Do Patients Having Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Have Different Costs Or Length Of Stay? An Analysis Across 10 European Countries
by James Gaughan & Conrad Kobel & Caroline Linhart & Anne Mason & Andrew Street & Padraic Ward & on behalf of the EuroDRG group - 89-101 Performance Of 10 European Drg Systems In Explaining Variation In Resource Utilisation In Inguinal Hernia Repair
by Jacqueline O'Reilly & Lisbeth Serdén & Mats Talbäck & Brian McCarthy & on behalf of the EuroDRG group - 103-115 Do Diagnosis‐Related Groups Appropriately Explain Variations In Costs And Length Of Stay Of Hip Replacement? A Comparative Assessment Of Drg Systems Across 10 European Countries
by Alexander Geissler & David Scheller‐Kreinsen & Wilm Quentin & on behalf of the EuroDRG group - 116-128 Patient Classification Systems And Hospital Costs Of Care For Knee Replacement In 10 European Countries
by Francesc Cots & Pietro Chiarello & Xavier Salvador & Xavier Castells & on behalf of the EuroDRG group - 129-140 Patient Classification And Hospital Costs Of Care For Stroke In 10 European Countries
by Mikko Peltola & on behalf of the EuroDRG group
June 2012, Volume 21, Issue S1
- 1-3 The 2nd Australasian Workshop On Econometrics And Health Economics
by Bruce Hollingsworth & Anthony Scott - 4-17 Income Inequality And Mental Health—Empirical Evidence From Australia
by Lucy Bechtel & Grace Lordan & D. S. Prasada Rao - 18-32 Does Donor Assistance For Hiv Respond To Media Pressure?
by Fabrizio Carmignani & Grace Lordan & Kam Ki Tang - 33-55 Do Healthcare Report Cards Cause Providers To Select Patients And Raise Quality Of Care?
by Yijuan Chen & Juergen Meinecke - 56-100 The Impact Of Health Changes On Labor Supply: Evidence From Merged Data On Individual Objective Medical Diagnosis Codes And Early Retirement Behavior
by Bent Jesper Christensen & Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb - 101-128 Alternative Approaches For Econometric Analysis Of Panel Count Data Using Dynamic Latent Class Models (With Application To Doctor Visits Data)
by Judex Hyppolite & Pravin Trivedi - 129-150 Mediating Role Of Education And Lifestyles In The Relationship Between Early‐Life Conditions And Health: Evidence From The 1958 British Cohort
by Sandy Tubeuf & Florence Jusot & Damien Bricard
December 2012, Volume 21, Issue 12
- 1387-1401 Productivity Costs Revisited: Toward A New Us Policy
by John A. Nyman - 1402-1415 Labor Mobility Of The Direct Care Workforce: Implications For The Provision Of Long‐Term Care
by Reagan A. Baughman & Kristin E. Smith - 1416-1426 Public Preferences For Responsibility Versus Public Preferences For Reducing Inequalities
by Richard Edlin & Aki Tsuchiya & Paul Dolan - 1427-1443 Los(T) In Long‐Term Care: Empirical Evidence From German Data 2000–2009
by Jasmin Häcker & Tobias Hackmann - 1444-1455 Copula Bivariate Probit Models: With An Application To Medical Expenditures
by Rainer Winkelmann - 1456-1476 Fighting Transient Epidemics—Optimal Vaccination Schedules Before And After An Outbreak
by Eric Nævdal - 1477-1495 A Second Look At Pharmaceutical Spending As Determinants Of Health Outcomes In Canada
by G. Emmanuel Guindon & Paul Contoyannis - 1496-1498 A Reply To ‘A Second Look At Pharmaceutical Spending As Determinants Of Health Outcomes In Canada’
by Pierre‐Yves CrÉmieux & Marie‐Claude Meilleur & Pierre Ouellette & Patrick Petit - 1499-1501 A Response To Crémieux, Meilleur, Ouellette And Petit
by G Emmanuel Guindon & Paul Contoyannis - 1502-1507 Pricing Of Medical Devices Under Coverage Uncertainty—A Modelling Approach
by Alan J. Girling & Richard J. Lilford & Terry P. Young - 1508-1512 Sf‐6d Population Norms
by Bernard van den Berg
November 2012, Volume 21, Issue 11
- 1257-1270 The Effect Of Taiwan'S National Health Insurance On Mortality Of The Elderly: Revisited
by Simon Chang - 1271-1285 Lowering The ‘Floor’ Of The Sf‐6d Scoring Algorithm Using A Lottery Equivalent Method
by José María Abellán Perpiñán & Fernando Ignacio Sánchez Martínez & Jorge Eduardo Martínez Pérez & Ildefonso Méndez - 1286-1299 Parallel Imports And Innovation In An Emerging Economy: The Case Of Indian Pharmaceuticals
by Andrea Mantovani & Alireza Naghavi - 1300-1317 What Factors Influence The Earnings Of General Practitioners And Medical Specialists? Evidence From The Medicine In Australia: Balancing Employment And Life Survey
by Terence Chai Cheng & Anthony Scott & Sung‐Hee Jeon & Guyonne Kalb & John Humphreys & Catherine Joyce - 1318-1335 Easing The Pain Of An Economic Downturn: Macroeconomic Conditions And Excessive Alcohol Consumption
by María E. Dávalos & Hai Fang & Michael T. French - 1336-1347 Minimum Savings Requirements In Shared Savings Provider Payment
by Gregory C. Pope & John Kautter - 1348-1366 Unfit For Service: The Implications Of Rising Obesity For Us Military Recruitment
by John Cawley & Johanna Catherine Maclean - 1367-1374 When Do Fat Taxes Increase Consumer Welfare?
by Jayson L. Lusk & Christiane Schroeter - 1375-1381 Evaluation Of Variance Estimators For The Concentration And Health Achievement Indices: A Monte Carlo Simulation
by Zhuo Chen & Kakoli Roy & Carol A. Gotway Crawford - 1382-1385 Learning Healthy Behavior? The Impact Of Training In Healthcare Professions On Lifestyles
by Donata Bessey - 1386-1386 Health Economics Distinguished Authors
by Frances Sharp
October 2012, Volume 21, Issue 10
- 1136-1154 Conditional Cash Transfers To Improve Education And Health: An Ex Ante Evaluation Of Red De Protección Social, Nicaragua
by Ranjeeta Thomas - 1155-1168 Health Service Use Among The Previously Uninsured: Is Subsidized Health Insurance Enough?
by Sandra L. Decker & Jalpa A. Doshi & Amy E. Knaup & Daniel Polsky - 1169-1182 A Markov Model To Estimate Salmonella Morbidity, Mortality, Illness Duration, And Cost
by Robert L. Herrick & Steven G. Buchberger & Robert M. Clark & Margaret Kupferle & Regan Murray & Paul Succop - 1183-1195 Accounting For Between‐Study Variation In Incremental Net Benefit In Value Of Information Methodology
by Andrew R. Willan & Simon Eckermann - 1196-1200 Research Decisions In The Face Of Heterogeneity: What Can A New Study Tell Us?
by Nicky Welton & A. E. Ades - 1201-1216 Spoilt For Choice: Implications Of Using Alternative Methods Of Costing Hospital Episode Statistics
by Claudia Geue & James Lewsey & Paula Lorgelly & Lindsay Govan & Carole Hart & Andrew Briggs - 1217-1233 Quality Of Life, Treatments, And Patients' Willingness To Pay For A Complete Remission Of Cervical Cancer In Taiwan
by Hui‐Chu Lang & Koyin Chang & Yung‐Hsiang Ying - 1234-1249 Measuring The Effect Of Policy Interventions At The Population Level: Some Methodological Concerns
by Marco D. Huesch & Truls Østbye & Michael K. Ong - 1250-1256 The Role Of Private Medical Insurance In Socio‐Economic Inequalities In Cancer Screening Uptake In Ireland
by Brendan Walsh & Mary Silles & Ciaran O'Neill
September 2012, Volume 21, Issue 9
- 1037-1039 Editors' Introduction
by Andrew Jones & Owen O'Donnell - 1040-1060 Beware Of Being Unaware: Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Chronic Illness In The Usa
by Pinka Chatterji & Heesoo Joo & Kajal Lahiri - 1061-1079 The Effect Of Medicaid Eligibility On Coverage, Utilization, And Children'S Health
by Dolores De La Mata - 1080-1100 Is There Empirical Evidence For Decreasing Returns To Scale In A Health Capital Model?
by Titus J. Galama & Patrick Hullegie & Erik Meijer & Sarah Outcault - 1101-1118 Methods For Covariate Adjustment In Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis That Use Cluster Randomised Trials
by Manuel Gomes & Richard Grieve & Richard Nixon & Edmond S.‐W. Ng & James Carpenter & Simon G. Thompson - 1119-1133 Zero‐Inflated Endogenous Count In Censored Model: Effects Of Informal Family Care On Formal Health Care
by Myoung‐jae Lee & Young‐sook Kim
August 2012, Volume 21, Issue 8
- 883-901 Estimating Adverse Selection And Moral Hazard Effects With Hospital Invoices Data In A Government‐Controlled Healthcare System
by Xiangping Liu & Danijel Nestic & Tomislav Vukina - 902-912 How Price Responsive Is The Demand For Specialty Care?
by Matthew L. Maciejewski & Chuan‐Fen Liu & Andrew L. Kavee & Maren K. Olsen - 913-927 The Effect Of Retirement On Cognitive Functioning
by Norma B. Coe & Hans‐Martin von Gaudecker & Maarten Lindeboom & Jürgen Maurer - 928-945 The Effect Of Childhood Conduct Disorder On Human Capital
by Dinand Webbink & Sunčica Vujić & Pierre Koning & Nicholas G. Martin - 946-966 The Impact Of Voluntary Health Insurance On Health Care Utilization And Out‐Of‐Pocket Payments: New Evidence For Vietnam
by Cuong Viet Nguyen - 967-976 The Effects Of Hiv Medications On The Quality Of Life Of Older Adults In New York City
by Robert J. Brent - 977-993 Response To Regulatory Stringency: The Case Of Antipsychotic Medication Use In Nursing Homes
by John R. Bowblis & Stephen Crystal & Orna Intrator & Judith A. Lucas - 994-1016 The Effects Of Insurance Mandates On Choices And Outcomes In Infertility Treatment Markets
by Barton H. Hamilton & Brian McManus - 1017-1022 Methods Used To Identify And Measure Resource Use In Economic Evaluations: A Systematic Review Of Questionnaires For Older People
by Adam Martin & Alex Jones & Miranda Mugford & Ian Shemilt & Ruth Hancock & Raphael Wittenberg - 1023-1029 The Oh‐So Straight And Narrow Path: Can The Health Care Expenditure Curve Be Bent?
by Robert S. Woodward & Le Wang - 1030-1036 Affording To Wait: Medicare Initiation And The Use Of Health Care
by Guy David & Phil Saynisch & Victoria Acevedo‐Perez & Mark D. Neuman
July 2012, Volume 21, Issue 7
- 757-777 The Determinants Of Chinese Provincial Government Health Expenditures: Evidence From 2002–2006 Data
by Jay Pan & Gordon G. Liu - 778-795 Comparing And Decomposing Differences In Preventive And Hospital Care: Usa Versus Taiwan
by Tiffany R. Hsiou & Yuriy Pylypchuk - 796-810 Economic Consequences Of Maternal Illness In Rural Bangladesh
by Timothy Powell‐Jackson & Mohammad Enamul Hoque - 811-824 Ownership And Financial Sustainability Of German Acute Care Hospitals
by Boris Augurzky & Dirk Engel & Christoph M. Schmidt & Christoph Schwierz - 825-838 Weight‐Loss Dieting Behavior: An Economic Analysis
by Odelia Rosin - 839-851 Reserve Capacity Of Public And Private Hospitals In Response To Demand Uncertainty
by Ana Rodriguez‐Alvarez & David Roibás & Alan Wall - 852-864 Improving Food Choices Among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Recipients
by Wen You & Paul D. Mitchell & Rodolfo M. Nayga - 865-877 Perceptions Of Health Risk And Smoking Decisions Of Young People
by Shelby Gerking & Raman Khaddaria - 878-882 Discounting Health And Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis: A Response To Nord
by James K. Hammitt
June 2012, Volume 21, Issue 6
- 619-632 Patient complexity and GPS' income under mixed remuneration
by K. R. Olsen - 633-652 Benefits and costs of substance abuse treatment programs for state prison inmates: results from a lifetime simulation model
by Gary A. Zarkin & Alexander J. Cowell & Katherine A. Hicks & Michael J. Mills & Steven Belenko & Laura J. Dunlap & Kimberly A. Houser & Vince Keyes - 653-668 Customization in prescribing for bipolar disorder
by Dominic Hodgkin & Joanna Volpe‐Vartanian & Elizabeth L. Merrick & Constance M. Horgan & Andrew A. Nierenberg & Richard G. Frank & Sue Lee - 669-694 Intended and unintended consequences of a proposed national tax on sugar‐sweetened beverages to combat the U.S. obesity problem
by Senarath Dharmasena & Oral Capps - 695-714 A matching method for improving covariate balance in cost‐effectiveness analyses
by Jasjeet Singh Sekhon & Richard D. Grieve - 715-729 Valuing states from multiple measures on the same visual analogue sale: a feasibility study
by Donna Rowen & John Brazier & Aki Tsuchiya & Mónica Hernández Alava - 730-741 Using qualitative methods for attribute development for discrete choice experiments: issues and recommendations
by Joanna Coast & Hareth Al‐Janabi & Eileen J. Sutton & Susan A. Horrocks & A. Jane Vosper & Dawn R. Swancutt & Terry N. Flynn - 742-756 Surrogates, meta‐analysis and cost‐effectiveness modelling: a combined analytic approach
by Neil Hawkins & Gerry Richardson & Alex J Sutton & Nicola J Cooper & Chris Griffiths & Anne Rogers & Peter Bower
May 2012, Volume 21, Issue 5
- 485-495 Should Medicare adopt the Veterans health administration formulary?
by Austin B. Frakt & Steven D. Pizer & Roger Feldman - 496-513 New drugs and the growth of health expenditure: evidence from diabetic patients in Taiwan
by Ya‐Ming Liu & Chee‐Ruey Hsieh - 514-527 Health status and the allocation of time
by Melinda Podor & Timothy J. Halliday - 528-550 Quality of life lost due to non‐fatal road traffic injuries
by Patricia Cubí‐Mollá & Carmen Herrero - 551-561 Impact of the smoking ban on the volume of bar sales in Ireland – evidence from time series analysis
by Laura Cornelsen & Charles Normand - 562-579 Parental income and child health in Germany
by Steffen Reinhold & Hendrik Jürges - 580-596 Do people become healthier after being promoted?
by Christopher J. Boyce & Andrew J. Oswald - 597-611 Quantile regression analysis of body mass and wages
by Meliyanni Johar & Hajime Katayama - 612-618 Budget allocation and the revealed social rate of time preference for health
by Mike Paulden & Karl Claxton
April 2012, Volume 21, Issue 4
- 351-366 Benefit‐incidence analysis: are government health expenditures more pro‐rich than we think?
by Adam Wagstaff - 367-385 Is there a health penalty of China's rapid urbanization?
by E. Van de Poel & O. O'Donnell & E. Van Doorslaer - 386-404 The impact of long‐term participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program on child obesity
by Maximilian D. Schmeiser - 405-427 Food insecurity and the relationship between household income and children's health and nutrition in Brazil
by Mauricio Reis - 428-443 Does managed care affect the diffusion of psychotropic medications?
by Marisa E. Domino - 444-456 The effect of waiting time and distance on hospital choice for English cataract patients
by Peter Sivey - 457-476 Time is up: increasing shadow price of time in primary‐care office visits
by Ming Tai‐Seale & Thomas McGuire - 477-483 Human health care and selection effects. Understanding labor supply in the market for nursing
by Francesca Barigozzi & Gilberto Turati
March 2012, Volume 21, Issue 3
- 209-221 Demand, selection and patient outcomes in German acute care hospitals
by Christoph Schwierz & Boris Augurzky & Axel Focke & Jürgen Wasem - 222-237 Disentangling WTP per QALY data: different analytical approaches, different answers
by Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen & Trine Kjær - 238-251 Willingness‐to‐pay for predictive tests with no immediate treatment implications: a survey of US residents
by Peter J. Neumann & Joshua T. Cohen & James K. Hammitt & Thomas W. Concannon & Hannah R. Auerbach & ChiHui Fang & David M. Kent - 252-269 Physicians' perception of demand‐induced supply in the information age: a latent class model analysis
by Ya‐Chen Tina Shih & Ming Tai‐Seale - 270-281 A model to correct for short‐run inefficiencies in economic evaluations in healthcare
by Gijs Van de Wetering & Willem H. Woertman & Eddy M. M. Adang - 282-300 Does retirement trigger ill health?
by Stefanie Behncke - 301-315 What is driving the black–white difference in low birthweight in the US?
by Aparna Lhila & Sharon Long - 316-337 Comparing costs and outcomes across programmes of health care
by Stephen Martin & Nigel Rice & Peter C. Smith - 338-350 The effect of job loss and unemployment duration on suicide risk in the United States: a new look using mass‐layoffs and unemployment duration
by Timothy J. Classen & Richard A. Dunn
February 2012, Volume 21, Issue 2
- 67-82 Regional variations in medical spending and utilization: a longitudinal analysis of US Medicare population
by Andrew J. Rettenmaier & Zijun Wang - 83-100 Public and private health‐care financing with alternate public rationing rules
by Katherine Cuff & Jeremiah Hurley & Stuart Mestelman & Andrew Muller & Robert Nuscheler - 101-112 Scope insensitivity in contingent valuation studies of health care services: should we ask twice?
by D. Gyrd‐Hansen & T. Kjær & J. S. Nielsen - 113-126 A modified measure of health care disparities applied to birth weight disparities and subsequent mortality
by Richard J. Butler & Barbara L. Wilson & William G. Johnson - 127-144 Inheritances, health and death
by Beomsoo Kim & Christopher J. Ruhm - 145-172 Discrete choice experiments in health economics: a review of the literature
by Esther W. de Bekker‐Grob & Mandy Ryan & Karen Gerard - 173-177 Labor adjustment in the Japanese health care industry: some empirical evidence
by Kazuyuki Inagaki - 178-186 Socioeconomic status and health outcomes in a developing country
by Grace Lordan & Eliana Jimenez Soto & Richard P. C. Brown & Ignacio Correa‐Valez - 187-200 Missing data in trial‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis: the current state of play
by Sian Marie Noble & William Hollingworth & Kate Tilling - 201-208 Social capital and self‐rated health in Argentina
by Lucas Ronconi & Timothy T. Brown & Richard M. Scheffler
January 2012, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 3-12 The powers and pitfalls of payment for performance
by Alan Maynard - 13-18 ‘Health Economics’ and the evolution of economic evaluation of health technologies
by John Hutton - 19-23 Let the data be our guide: trends and tools for research on health care utilization
by Carolyn M. Clancy - 24-29 The developmental origins of health
by James J. Heckman - 30-32 A little learning: reflections on 10 years of NICE technology appraisals
by Carole M. Longson - 33-40 Competition, incentives and the English NHS
by Carol Propper - 41-54 Divide et impera: protecting the growth of health care incomes (COSTS)
by Uwe Reinhardt - 55-61 How can we increase resources for health care in the developing world? Is (subsidized) voluntary health insurance the answer?
by Jacques van der Gaag & Vid Stimac
September 2011, Volume 20, Issue S1
- 1-1 The 1st Australasian Workshop on econometrics and health economics
by Bruce Hollingsworth & Anthony Scott - 1-18 Oportunidades to reduce overweight and obesity in Mexico?
by Mabel Andalón - 19-34 Managerial performance and cost efficiency of Japanese local public hospitals: A latent class stochastic frontier model
by Galina Besstremyannaya - 35-52 Preferences for new and existing contraceptive products
by Denzil G. Fiebig & Stephanie Knox & Rosalie Viney & Marion Haas & Deborah J. Street - 53-67 Overweight and obesity and the utilization of primary care physicians
by Nabanita Datta Gupta & Jane Greve - 68-86 Waiting times for elective surgery and the decision to buy private health insurance
by Meliyanni Johar & Glenn Jones & Michael Keane & Elizabeth Savage & Olena Stavrunova - 87-104 Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence
by Meliyanni Johar & Shiko Maruyama
December 2011, Volume 20, Issue 12
- 1407-1416 Thinking about it: thoughts about health and valuing QALYs
by Paul Dolan - 1417-1430 Measuring the cost of hospital adverse patient safety events
by Kathleen Carey & Theodore Stefos - 1431-1447 Which health conditions cause the most unhappiness?
by Carol Graham & Lucas Higuera & Eduardo Lora - 1448-1467 The intergenerational transmission of height: evidence from rural Vietnam
by Atheendar S. Venkataramani - 1468-1486 The effect of diabetes on female labor force decisions: new evidence from the National Health Interview Survey
by Travis Minor - 1487-1506 Information asymmetry and performance tilting in hospitals: a national empirical study
by Jong‐Yi Wang & Janice C. Probst & Carleen H. Stoskopf & Jimy M. Sanders & James F. McTigue - 1507-1522 Do associations between employee self‐reported organizational assessments and attitudinal outcomes change over time? An analysis of four Veterans Health Administration surveys using structural equation modelling
by Sonali Das & Ming‐Hui Chen & Nicholas Warren & Michael Hodgson - 1523-1531 Non‐monotonicity in the episodic random utility model
by Nicolas A. Menzies & Joshua A. Salomon
November 2011, Volume 20, Issue 11
- 1281-1297 What determines influenza vaccination take‐up of elderly Europeans?
by Hendrik Schmitz & Ansgar Wübker - 1298-1311 Inequality in prime‐age adult deaths in a high AIDS mortality setting: does the measure of economic status matter?
by Marjorie Opuni & Amber Peterman & David Bishai - 1312-1329 Effect of patient reimbursement method on health‐care utilization: evidence from China
by Hai Zhong - 1330-1348 The effect of body weight on adolescent sexual activity
by Joseph J. Sabia & Daniel I. Rees - 1349-1361 Long‐term effects of health investments and parental favoritism: the case of breastfeeding
by Jason M. Fletcher - 1362-1378 The impact of medical insurance for the poor in Georgia: a regression discontinuity approach
by Sebastian Bauhoff & David R. Hotchkiss & Owen Smith - 1379-1391 Test–retest reliability of health state valuation techniques: the time trade off and person trade off
by Suzanne Robinson - 1392-1406 Eliciting willingness to pay in obstetrics: comparing a direct and an indirect valuation method for complex health outcomes
by Denise Bijlenga & Gouke J. Bonsel & Erwin Birnie
October 2011, Volume 20, Issue 10
- 1155-1160 The concentration index of a binary outcome revisited
by Adam Wagstaff - 1161-1165 Putting the cart before the horse. A comment on Wagstaff on inequality measurement in the presence of binary variables
by Guido Erreygers & Tom Van Ourti - 1166-1168 Reply to Guido Erreygers and Tom Van Ourti's comment on ‘The concentration index of a binary outcome revisited’
by Adam Wagstaff - 1169-1183 Explaining lapse in long‐term care insurance markets
by R. Tamara Konetzka & Ye Luo - 1184-1200 The male–female gap in physician earnings: evidence from a public health insurance system
by Engelbert Theurl & Hannes Winner - 1201-1225 Family income and child cognitive and behavioural development in the United Kingdom: does money matter?
by Mara Violato & Stavros Petrou & Ron Gray & Maggie Redshaw - 1226-1240 Religious participation and risky health behaviors among adolescents
by Jennifer M. Mellor & Beth A. Freeborn - 1241-1256 The effect of dental care on cardiovascular disease outcomes: an application of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self‐selection
by Timothy Tyler Brown & Erin Dela Cruz & Stephen Scott Brown - 1257-1267 Does a mandatory telemedicine call prior to visiting a physician reduce costs or simply attract good risks?
by Chantal Grandchamp & Lucien Gardiol - 1268-1280 Hospital competition and inpatient services efficiency in Taiwan: a longitudinal study
by Chiao‐Lee Chu & Tung‐liang Chiang & Ray‐E Chang
September 2011, Volume 20, Issue 9
- 1009-1011 Editors' Introduction
by Andrew Jones & Owen O'Donnell - 1012-1024 Does the EU sugar policy reform increase added sugar consumption? An empirical evidence on the soft drink market
by Céline Bonnet & Vincent Requillart - 1025-1042 Assessing the impact of high deductible health plans on health‐care utilization and cost: a changes‐in‐changes approach
by Bijan J. Borah & Marguerite E. Burns & Nilay D. Shah - 1043-1055 Workplace smoking ban effects on unhappy smokers
by Clément de Chaisemartin & Pierre‐Yves Geoffard & Anne‐Laurence le Faou - 1056-1072 Anticipatory ex ante moral hazard and the effect of medicare on prevention
by Laure B. de Preux - 1073-1089 The choice of detecting Down syndrome: does money matter?
by Clémentine Garrouste & Jérôme Le & Eric Maurin - 1090-1109 Endogenous treatment effects for count data models with endogenous participation or sample selection
by Massimiliano Bratti & Alfonso Miranda - 1110-1125 Do French low‐income GPs choose to work less?
by Anne‐Laure Samson - 1126-1153 A smooth mixture of Tobits model for healthcare expenditure
by Michael Keane & Olena Stavrunova
August 2011, Volume 20, Issue 8
- 883-883 Symposium on genetic data in health economics research
by John Mullahy - 884-888 The validity of genes related to neurotransmitters as instrumental variables
by John Cawley & Euna Han & Edward C. Norton - 889-892 The promise and pitfalls of combining genetic and economic research
by Jason M. Fletcher - 893-896 Mendelian randomization: the use of genes in instrumental variable analyses
by Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder & George Davey Smith & Debbie A. Lawlor & Carol Propper & Frank Windmeijer - 897-916 Review of statistical methods for analysing healthcare resources and costs
by Borislava Mihaylova & Andrew Briggs & Anthony O'Hagan & Simon G. Thompson - 917-929 Health, education and time preference
by Marjon van der Pol - 930-944 Using discrete choice experiments to value informal care tasks: exploring preference heterogeneity
by Emmanouil Mentzakis & Mandy Ryan & Paul McNamee - 945-957 The monetary value of a life year: evidence from a qualitative study of treatment costs
by John McKie & Bradley Shrimpton & Jeff Richardson & Rosalind Hurworth - 958-970 Monitoring prioritisation in the public health‐care sector by use of medical guidelines. The case of Norway
by Jan Erik Askildsen & Tor Helge Holmås & Oddvar Kaarboe - 971-984 Socioeconomic status and lifestyle choices: evidence from latent class analysis
by Arnstein Øvrum - 985-1008 The relationship between baseline health and longitudinal costs of hospital use
by Bram Wouterse & Bert R. Meijboom & Johan J. Polder
July 2011, Volume 20, Issue 7
- 757-769 Health aid and governance in developing countries
by David Fielding