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May 2011, Volume 20, Issue 5
- 571-581 Hospital competition and financial performance: the effects of ambulatory surgery centers
by Kathleen Carey & James F. Burgess & Gary J. Young - 582-599 Estimating the extra cost of living for people with disabilities
by J. Cullinan & B. Gannon & S. Lyons - 600-619 Internationally comparable health indices
by Erik Meijer & Arie Kapteyn & Tatiana Andreyeva - 620-630 Evidence of a causal link between health outcomes, insurance coverage, and a policy to expand access: experimental data from children in the Philippines
by Stella A. Quimbo & John W. Peabody & Riti Shimkhada & Jhiedon Florentino & Orville Solon
April 2011, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 379-400 Exploring the influence of proximity to death on disease‐specific hospital expenditures: a carpaccio of red herrings
by Albert Wong & Pieter H. M. van Baal & Hendriek C. Boshuizen & Johan J. Polder - 401-416 Combat exposure and mental health: the long‐term effects among US Vietnam and Gulf war veterans
by Daniel M. Gade & Jeffrey B. Wenger - 417-431 Do cigarette taxes affect children's body mass index? The effect of household environment on health
by Jennifer M. Mellor - 432-445 Economic evaluation and the postponement of health care costs
by Pieter H. M. van Baal & Talitha L. Feenstra & Johan J. Polder & Rudolf T. Hoogenveen & Werner B. F. Brouwer - 446-460 Using HMOs to serve the Medicaid population: what are the effects on utilization and does the type of HMO matter?
by Bradley Herring & E. Kathleen Adams - 461-470 The simple economics of risk‐sharing agreements between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry
by Pedro Pita Barros - 471-483 Preference‐based index measurement of health‐related quality of life: when does it reflect only arbitrary settings of the researcher?
by Uwe Konerding - 484-504 Does leaving welfare improve health? Evidence for Germany
by Martin Huber & Michael Lechner & Conny Wunsch
March 2011, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 253-272 Do state expenditures on tobacco control programs decrease use of tobacco products among college students?
by Christina Czart Ciecierski & Pinka Chatterji & Frank J. Chaloupka & Henry Wechsler - 273-286 Does the number of choice sets matter? Results from a web survey applying a discrete choice experiment
by Mickael Bech & Trine Kjaer & Jørgen Lauridsen - 287-305 Boys will be boys: are there gender differences in the effect of sexual abstinence on schooling?
by Joseph J. Sabia & Daniel I. Rees - 306-322 The relationship between health and GDP in OECD countries in the very long run
by Robyn Swift - 323-330 How does cost matter in health‐care discrete‐choice experiments?
by F. Reed Johnson & Ateesha F. Mohamed & Semra Özdemir & Deborah A. Marshall & Kathryn A. Phillips - 331-347 Allowing for heterogeneity in monetary subjective well‐being valuations
by Emmanouil Mentzakis - 348-361 A uniform time trade off method for states better and worse than dead: feasibility study of the ‘lead time’ approach
by Nancy J. Devlin & Aki Tsuchiya & Ken Buckingham & Carl Tilling - 362-378 Foreign‐born nurses in the US labor market
by Edward J. Schumacher
February 2011, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 127-146 That instrument is lousy! In search of agreement when using instrumental variables estimation in substance use research
by Michael T. French & Ioana Popovici - 147-160 Determinants of general practitioners' wages in England
by Stephen Morris & Rosalind Goudie & Matt Sutton & Hugh Gravelle & Robert Elliott & Arne Risa Hole & Ada Ma & Bonnie Sibbald & Diane Skåtun - 161-183 Mental health parity legislation, cost‐sharing and substance‐abuse treatment admissions
by Dhaval Dave & Swati Mukerjee - 184-195 Does consumption of processed foods explain disparities in the body weight of individuals? The case of Guatemala
by Abay Asfaw - 196-211 How to make rural jobs more attractive to health workers. Findings from a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania
by Julie Riise Kolstad - 212-224 Dangerous omissions: the consequences of ignoring decision uncertainty
by Susan C. Griffin & Karl P. Claxton & Stephen J. Palmer & Mark J. Sculpher - 225-238 Multi‐tasking, quality and pay for performance
by Oddvar Kaarboe & Luigi Siciliani - 239-251 Importance of health system context for evaluating utilization patterns across systems
by James F. Burgess & Matthew L. Maciejewski & Chris L. Bryson & Michael Chapko & John C. Fortney & Mark Perkins & Nancy D. Sharp & Chuan‐Fen Liu
January 2011, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial
by Alan Maynard & Andrew Jones - 2-15 Discounting and decision making in the economic evaluation of health‐care technologies
by Karl Claxton & Mike Paulden & Hugh Gravelle & Werner Brouwer & Anthony J. Culyer - 16-26 Discounting future health benefits: the poverty of consistency arguments
by Erik Nord - 27-44 Health insurance, cost expectations, and adverse job turnover
by Randall P. Ellis & Ching‐to Albert Ma - 45-55 The effect of education on health among US residents in relation to country of birth
by Bosu Seo & Benjamin Senauer - 56-67 Measurement of QALYS and the welfare implications of survivor consumption and leisure forgone
by John A. Nyman - 68-72 Welfare, QALYs, and costs – a comment
by Bengt Liljas - 73-84 The impact of research on hospital costs of care: an empirical study
by Julia Bonastre & Marc le Vaillant & Gerard de Pouvourville - 85-100 Costs and quality of hospitals in different health care systems: a multi‐level approach with propensity score matching
by Jonas Schreyögg & Tom Stargardt & Oliver Tiemann - 101-110 Welfare properties of restrictions to health care based on cost effectiveness
by Laura Levaggi & Rosella Levaggi - 111-119 Discounting future health gains: an empirical enquiry into the influence of growing life expectancy
by Ana Bobinac & Werner Brouwer & Job van Exel - 125-126 Erratum: Estimating lifetime or episode‐of‐illness costs under censoring
by Anirban Basu & Willard G. Manning
September 2010, Volume 19, Issue S1
- 1-4 Evaluating innovative health programs
by Andrew M. Jones & Lyn Squire & Ranjeeta Thomas - 5-35 Impact evaluation of India's ‘Yeshasvini’ community‐based health insurance programme
by Aradhna Aggarwal - 36-54 Teacher training and HIV/AIDS prevention in West Africa: regression discontinuity design evidence from the Cameroon
by Jean‐Louis Arcand & Eric Djimeu Wouabe - 55-68 The short‐term impacts of a schooling conditional cash transfer program on the sexual behavior of young women
by Sarah Baird & Ephraim Chirwa & Craig McIntosh & Berk Özler - 69-94 An impact evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Program in China
by Xing Lin Feng & Guang Shi & Yan Wang & Ling Xu & Hao Luo & Juan Shen & Hui Yin & Yan Guo - 95-106 Ghana's national health insurance scheme in the context of the health MDGs: an empirical evaluation using propensity score matching
by Joseph Mensah & Joseph R. Oppong & Christoph M. Schmidt - 107-125 Evaluation of the impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine
by Olena Y. Nizalova & Maria Vyshnya - 126-158 Evaluating the impact of community‐based health interventions: evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
by Romero Rocha & Rodrigo R. Soares - 159-180 Family planning and fertility decline in rural Iran: the impact of rural health clinics
by Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani & M. Jalal Abbasi‐Shavazi & Meimanat Hosseini‐Chavoshi - 181-206 Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation
by Rebecca L. Thornton & Laurel E. Hatt & Erica M. Field & Mursaleena Islam & Freddy Solís Diaz & Martha Azucena González
December 2010, Volume 19, Issue 12
- 1385-1403 Health expenditure and income in the United States
by F. Moscone & E. Tosetti - 1404-1424 A two‐stage estimation of hospital quality using mortality outcome measures: an application using hospital administrative data
by Chew Lian Chua & Alfons Palangkaraya & Jongsay Yong - 1425-1440 Effects of venue‐specific state clean indoor air laws on smoking‐related outcomes
by Marianne P. Bitler & Christopher S. Carpenter & Madeline Zavodny - 1441-1460 Does health affect portfolio choice?
by David A. Love & Paul A. Smith - 1461-1477 Professionalism and the know‐do gap: exploring intrinsic motivation among health workers in Tanzania
by Kenneth L. Leonard & Melkiory C. Masatu - 1478-1496 Are cardiovascular diseases bad for economic growth?
by Marc Suhrcke & Dieter Urban - 1497-1501 Bridging the gap: health equality and the deficit framing of health
by Alec Morton - 1502-1509 Hypothetical versus real preferences: results from an opportunistic field experiment
by Stirling Bryan & Sue Jowett - 1510-1510 Erratum: Valuing health technologies at NICE: recommendations for improved incorporation of treatment value in HTA
by Dana Goldman & Darius Lakdawalla & Tomas J. Philipson & Wesley Yin
November 2010, Volume 19, Issue 11
- 1259-1263 Health‐care reform in Australia: advancing or side‐stepping?
by Jane Hall - 1264-1280 Estimating the impacts of cigarette taxes on youth smoking participation, initiation, and persistence: empirical evidence from Canada
by Anindya Sen & Tony Wirjanto - 1281-1299 Marijuana use and high school dropout: the influence of unobservables
by Daniel F. McCaffrey & Rosalie Liccardo Pacula & Bing Han & Phyllis Ellickson - 1300-1317 How sensitive is physician performance to alternative compensation schedules? Evidence from a large network of primary care clinics
by Lorens A. Helmchen & Anthony T. Lo Sasso - 1318-1344 The influence of traffic‐related pollution on individuals' life‐style: results from the BRFSS
by Cinzia Di Novi - 1345-1360 The possible macroeconomic impact on the UK of an influenza pandemic
by Marcus R. Keogh‐Brown & Simon Wren‐Lewis & W. John Edmunds & Philippe Beutels & Richard D. Smith - 1361-1376 Effects of state‐level public spending on health on the mortality probability in India
by Mansour Farahani & S. V. Subramanian & David Canning - 1377-1384 The effect of lone motherhood on the smoking behavior of young adults
by Marco Francesconi & Stephen P. Jenkins & Thomas Siedler
October 2010, Volume 19, Issue 10
- 1109-1116 Valuing health technologies at nice: recommendations for improved incorporation of treatment value in HTA
by Dana Goldman & Darius Lakdawalla & Tomas J. Philipson & Wesley Yin - 1117-1127 The efficiency frontier approach to economic evaluation of health‐care interventions
by J. Jaime Caro & Erik Nord & Uwe Siebert & Alistair McGuire & Maurice McGregor & David Henry & Gérard de Pouvourville & Vincenzo Atella & Peter Kolominsky‐Rabas - 1128-1131 The efficiency frontier approach to economic evaluation: will it help German policy making?
by Werner B. F. Brouwer & Frans F. H. Rutten - 1132-1136 Sins of omission and obfuscation: IQWIG's guidelines on economic evaluation methods
by Mark Sculpher & Karl Claxton - 1137-1138 IQWiG methods – a response to two critiques
by J. Jaime Caro & Erik Nord & Uwe Siebert & Alistair Mcguire & Maurice Mcgregor & David Henry & Gerard de Pouvourville & Vincenzo Atella & Peter Kolominsky‐Rabas - 1139-1141 Some essential clarifications: IQWiG comments on two critiques of the efficiency frontier approach
by Charalabos‐Markos Dintsios & Andreas Gerber - 1142-1165 Search costs and Medicare plan choice
by Ian M. McCarthy & Rusty Tchernis - 1166-1180 Equity and efficiency in HIV‐treatment in South Africa: the contribution of mathematical programming to priority setting
by Susan Cleary & Gavin Mooney & Di McIntyre - 1181-1192 Testing the Fetal Origins Hypothesis in a developing country: evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
by Richard E. Nelson - 1193-1211 Willingness‐to‐pay to avoid the time spent and discomfort associated with screening colonoscopy
by Daniel E. Jonas & Louise B. Russell & Jon Chou & Michael Pignone - 1212-1225 The cost‐effectiveness of a law banning the use of cellular phones by drivers
by Daniel Sperber & Alan Shiell & Ken Fyie - 1226-1239 DRG prospective payment systems: refine or not refine?
by Elin Johanna Gudrun Hafsteinsdottir & Luigi Siciliani - 1240-1254 Investment in antiviral drugs: a real options approach
by Arthur E. Attema & Anna K. Lugnér & Talitha L. Feenstra - 1255-1258 Comments on contingency management and conditional cash transfers
by Stephen T. Higgins
September 2010, Volume 19, Issue 9
- 1007-1009 Editors' introduction
by Andrew Jones & Owen O'Donnell - 1010-1028 Estimating lifetime or episode‐of‐illness costs under censoring
by Anirban Basu & Willard G. Manning - 1029-1047 The geography of hospital admission in a national health service with patient choice
by Daniele Fabbri & Silvana Robone - 1048-1062 The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self‐assessed health in Germany
by Patrick Hullegie & Tobias J. Klein - 1063-1074 Quantile regression analysis of the rational addiction model: investigating heterogeneity in forward‐looking behavior
by Audrey Laporte & Alfia Karimova & Brian Ferguson - 1075-1092 Double health insurance coverage and health care utilisation: evidence from quantile regression
by Sara Moreira & Pedro Pita Barros - 1093-1108 Disentangling incentives effects of insurance coverage from adverse selection in the case of drug expenditure: a finite mixture approach
by Murat K. Munkin & Pravin K. Trivedi
August 2010, Volume 19, Issue 8
- 881-885 I dreamed a dream: England reduces health inequalities and wins the world cup
by Stephen Birch - 886-905 Patient‐reported outcome measures in the NHS: new methods for analysing and reporting EQ‐5D data
by Nancy J. Devlin & David Parkin & John Browne - 906-920 Non‐pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK
by Massimiliano Bratti & Alfonso Miranda - 921-938 Inequality of opportunities in health in France: a first pass
by Alain Trannoy & Sandy Tubeuf & Florence Jusot & Marion Devaux - 939-954 Improving costing methods in multicentre economic evaluation: the use of multiple imputation for unit costs
by Richard Grieve & John Cairns & Simon G. Thompson - 955-963 Cost‐effectiveness acceptability curves – caveats quantified
by Michał Jakubczyk & Bogumił Kamiński - 964-978 The determinants of health‐care expenditure: new results from semiparametric estimation
by Helmut Herwartz & Bernd Theilen - 979-993 The impact of income on the weight of elderly Americans
by John Cawley & John Moran & Kosali Simon - 994-1001 Secondary school fees and the causal effect of schooling on health behavior
by Steffen Reinhold & Hendrik Jürges - 1002-1005 Drug development costs when financial risk is measured using the Fama–French three‐factor model
by John A. Vernon & Joseph H. Golec & Joseph A. Dimasi
July 2010, Volume 19, Issue 7
- 755-771 The value of informal care–a further investigation of the feasibility of contingent valuation in informal caregivers
by Claudine de Meijer & Werner Brouwer & Marc Koopmanschap & Bernard van den Berg & Job van Exel - 772-791 SCHIP premiums, enrollment, and expenditures: a two state, competing risk analysis
by James Marton & Patricia G. Ketsche & Mei Zhou - 792-813 The impact of health on individual retirement plans: self‐reported versus diagnostic measures
by Nabanita Datta Gupta & Mona Larsen - 814-832 Alcohol consumption and body weight
by Michael T. French & Edward C. Norton & Hai Fang & Johanna Catherine Maclean - 833-854 Alcohol use and the labor market in Uruguay
by Ana I. Balsa & Michael T. French - 855-871 Adolescent depression and educational attainment: results using sibling fixed effects
by Jason M. Fletcher - 872-880 Modelling health and output at business cycle horizons for the USA
by Paresh Kumar Narayan
June 2010, Volume 19, Issue 6
- 629-643 Bayesian methods in cost–effectiveness studies: objectivity, computation and other relevant aspects
by C. Armero & G. García‐Donato & A. López‐Quílez - 644-655 Analysing risk attitudes to time
by Adam Oliver & Richard Cookson - 656-669 Dynamics of work limitation and work in Australia
by Umut Oguzoglu - 670-682 Think twice before you book? Modelling the choice of public vs private dentist in a choice experiment
by Urpo Kiiskinen & Anna Liisa Suominen‐Taipale & John Cairns - 683-696 Shedding new light onto the ceiling and floor? A quantile regression approach to compare EQ‐5D and SF‐6D responses
by Janelle Seymour & Paul McNamee & Anthony Scott & Michela Tinelli - 697-715 A model to predict the cost‐effectiveness of disease management programs
by Afschin Gandjour - 716-729 Do regional primary‐care organisations influence primary‐care performance? A dynamic panel estimation
by Anthony Scott & William Coote - 730-754 Gatekeeping versus direct‐access when patient information matters
by Paula González
May 2010, Volume 19, Issue 5
- 503-517 Social health insurance reexamined
by Adam Wagstaff - 518-531 Dynamic versus static models in cost‐effectiveness analyses of anti‐viral drug therapy to mitigate an influenza pandemic
by Anna K. Lugnér & Sido D. Mylius & Jacco Wallinga - 532-548 The role of the staff MFF in distributing NHS funding: taking account of differences in local labour market conditions
by Robert Elliott & Ada Ma & Matt Sutton & Diane Skatun & Nigel Rice & Stephen Morris & Alex McConnachie - 549-561 Optimal clinical trial design using value of information methods with imperfect implementation
by Andrew R. Willan & Simon Eckermann - 562-580 Operating on commission: analyzing how physician financial incentives affect surgery rates
by Jason Shafrin - 581-595 The effect of newer drugs on health spending: do they really increase the costs?
by Abdülkadi̇r Ci̇van & Bülent Köksal - 596-607 QALYs: is the value of treatment proportional to the size of the health gain?
by Erik Nord & Anja Undrum Enge & Veronica Gundersen - 608-627 Health expenditure estimation and functional form: applications of the generalized gamma and extended estimating equations models
by Steven C. Hill & G. Edward Miller
April 2010, Volume 19, Issue 4
- 377-395 Supplemental health insurance and equality of access in Belgium
by Erik Schokkaert & Tom Van Ourti & Diana De Graeve & Ann Lecluyse & Carine Van de Voorde - 396-421 Mental illness, nativity, gender and labor supply
by Victoria D. Ojeda & Richard G. Frank & Thomas G. McGuire & Todd P. Gilmer - 422-437 International survey on willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for one additional QALY gained: what is the threshold of cost effectiveness?
by Takeru Shiroiwa & Yoon‐Kyoung Sung & Takashi Fukuda & Hui‐Chu Lang & Sang‐Cheol Bae & Kiichiro Tsutani - 438-448 Suboptimal provision of preventive healthcare due to expected enrollee turnover among private insurers
by Bradley Herring - 449-465 Fixing the game: are between‐silo differences in funding arrangements handicapping some interventions and giving others a head‐start?
by Leonie Segal & Kim Dalziel & Duncan Mortimer - 466-484 Social interactions and smoking: evidence using multiple student cohorts, instrumental variables, and school fixed effects
by Jason M. Fletcher - 485-490 On priority setting in preventive care resources
by Christophe Courbage - 491-500 Labour participation of people living with HIV/AIDS in Spain
by Juan Oliva
March 2010, Volume 19, Issue 3
- 252-264 Modelling opportunity in health under partial observability of circumstances
by Pedro Rosa Dias - 265-279 Gender gap in parents' financing strategy for hospitalization of their children: evidence from India
by Abay Asfaw & Francesca Lamanna & Stephan Klasen - 280-296 Valuing health: a new proposal
by Daniel M. Hausman - 297-315 New estimates of the demand for physical and mental health treatment
by Chad D. Meyerhoefer & Samuel H. Zuvekas - 316-333 Non‐parametric methods for cost‐effectiveness analysis: the central limit theorem and the bootstrap compared
by Richard M. Nixon & David Wonderling & Richard D. Grieve - 334-349 Does income‐related health inequality change as the population ages? Evidence from Swedish panel data
by M. Kamrul Islam & Ulf‐G. Gerdtham & Philip Clarke & Kristina Burström - 350-364 Systematic reviews of economic evaluations: utility or futility?
by Rob Anderson - 365-376 Determinants of Thailand household healthcare expenditure: the relevance of permanent resources and other correlates
by Albert A. Okunade & Chutima Suraratdecha & David A. Benson
February 2010, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 125-129 Preference‐based condition‐specific measures of health: what happens to cross programme comparability?
by John Brazier & Aki Tsuchiya - 130-141 Spending on new drug development
by Christopher Paul Adams & Van Vu Brantner - 142-153 Medical technology adoption, uncertainty, and irreversibilities: is a bird in the hand really worth more than in the bush?
by Joshua Graff Zivin & Matthew Neidell - 154-172 A social cost–benefit criterion for evaluating Voluntary Counseling and Testing with an application to Tanzania
by Robert J. Brent - 173-188 An instrumental variables evaluation of the effect of antidepressant use on employment among HIV‐infected women using antiretroviral therapy in the United States: 1996–2004
by Omar Galárraga & David S. Salkever & Judith A. Cook & Stephen J. Gange - 189-208 Estimating health insurance impacts under unobserved heterogeneity: the case of Vietnam's health care fund for the poor
by Adam Wagstaff - 209-226 Selection and the effect of prenatal smoking
by Angela R. Fertig - 227-242 Smoking initiation in Germany: the role of intergenerational transmission
by Silja Göhlmann & Christoph M. Schmidt & Harald Tauchmann - 243-250 Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality: an empirical comparison
by David Madden
January 2010, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 1-13 Record rewards: the effects of targeted quality incentives on the recording of risk factors by primary care providers
by Matt Sutton & Ross Elder & Bruce Guthrie & Graham Watt - 14-30 Physician's production of primary care in Ontario, Canada
by Sisira Sarma & Rose Anne Devlin & William Hogg - 31-42 Investment in quality improvement: how to maximize the return
by Afschin Gandjour - 43-55 Uncertainty and validation of health economic decision models
by Lois G. Kim & Simon G. Thompson - 56-74 Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight transition countries
by B. d'Hombres & L. Rocco & M. Suhrcke & M. McKee - 75-87 A game of two halves? Incentive incompatibility, starting point bias and the bidding game contingent valuation method
by Paul McNamee & Laura Ternent & Adjima Gbangou & David Newlands - 88-100 Beneficiary price sensitivity in the Medicare prescription drug plan market
by Austin B. Frakt & Steven D. Pizer - 101-110 Statistical implications of utility weighted and equally weighted HRQL measures: an empirical study
by Caitlyn T. Wilke & A. Simon Pickard & Surrey M. Walton & Joern Moock & Thomas Kohlmann & Todd A. Lee - 111-118 Who pays attention in stated‐choice surveys?
by Semra Özdemir & Ateesha F. Mohamed & F. Reed Johnson & A. Brett Hauber
July 2009, Volume 18, Issue S2
- 1-2 Foreword
by William C. Hsiao & Alan Maynard - 3-6 Economic analysis of China's health care system: turning a new page
by Winnie Yip & Adam Wagstaff & William C. Hsiao - 7-23 China's health system and its reform: a review of recent studies
by Adam Wagstaff & Winnie Yip & Magnus Lindelow & William C. Hsiao - 25-46 The New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China: does more coverage mean more service and better health?
by Xiaoyan Lei & Wanchuan Lin - 47-64 Health‐seeking behavior and hospital choice in China's New Cooperative Medical System
by Philip H. Brown & Caroline Theoharides - 65-82 The impact of rural mutual health care on health status: evaluation of a social experiment in rural China
by Hong Wang & Winnie Yip & Licheng Zhang & William C. Hsiao - 83-96 The Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance: a landmark reform towards universal coverage in China
by Wanchuan Lin & Gordon G. Liu & Gang Chen - 97-106 Does per‐diem reimbursement necessarily increase length of stay? The case of a public psychiatric hospital
by Weiyan Jian & Yan Guo - 107-117 Are services delivered by community health centers more cost‐effective? Evidence from urban China
by Hongli Jiang & Wen Chen & Kangning Bi & Xiaohua Ying - 119-127 Health insurance and catastrophic illness: a report on the New Cooperative Medical System in rural China
by Hongmei Yi & Linxiu Zhang & Kim Singer & Scott Rozelle & Scott Atlas - 129-136 Effects of Rural Mutual Health Care on outpatient service utilization in Chinese village medical institutions: evidence from panel data
by Zhongliang Zhou & Jianmin Gao & Qinxiang Xue & Xiaowei Yang & Ju'e Yan - 137-146 Regional inequality in China's health care expenditures
by Win Lin Chou & Zijun Wang - 147-156 An analysis of life‐course smoking behavior in China
by Don Kenkel & Dean R. Lillard & Feng Liu
April 2009, Volume 18, Issue S1
- 1-12 Health inequality and deprivation
by Mark McGillivray & Indranil Dutta & Nora Markova - 13-36 Measuring intra‐household health inequality: explorations using the body mass index
by David E. Sahn & Stephen D. Younger - 37-54 Life expectancy and welfare in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Rodrigo R. Soares - 55-75 Measuring health inequality with realization of potential life years (RePLY)
by Kam Ki Tang & Dennis Petrie & D. S. Prasada Rao - 77-88 Malnutrition, poverty, and economic growth
by Rasmus Heltberg - 89-108 The growth of poor children in China 1991–2000: why food subsidies may matter
by Lars Osberg & Jiaping Shao & Kuan Xu - 109-128 On what diseases and health conditions should new economic research on health and development focus?
by Jere R. Behrman & Julia A. Behrman & Nykia M. Perez
December 2009, Volume 18, Issue 12
- 1357-1360 Minimum pricing of alcohol
by Anne Ludbrook - 1361-1380 Provider networks and primary‐care signups: do they restrict the use of medical services?
by Partha Deb & Pravin K. Trivedi - 1381-1393 The impact of detection and treatment on lifetime medical costs for patients with precancerous polyps and colorectal cancer
by David H. Howard & Florence K. Tangka & Laura C. Seeff & Lisa C. Richardson & Donatus U. Ekwueme - 1394-1419 Malpractice litigation and medical costs in the United States
by Brandon Roberts & Irving Hoch - 1420-1439 How do physician assessments of patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening tests differ from actual preferences? A comparison in Canada and the United States using a stated‐choice survey
by Deborah A. Marshall & F. Reed Johnson & Nathalie A. Kulin & Semra Özdemir & Judith M. E. Walsh & John K. Marshall & Stephanie Van Bebber & Kathryn A. Phillips - 1440-1460 Hospital type and patient outcomes: an empirical examination using AMI readmission and mortality records
by Paul H. Jensen & Elizabeth Webster & Julia Witt - 1461-1480 Pricing in vitro fertilization procedures
by Anthony J. Dukes & Rajeev K. Tyagi
November 2009, Volume 18, Issue 11
- 1233-1236 Fish and chips all round? Regulation of DNA‐based genetic diagnostics
by Katherine Payne - 1237-1247 Adjusting life for quality or disability: stylistic difference or substantial dispute?
by Mara Airoldi & Alec Morton - 1248-1260 Prison health care: is contracting out healthy?
by Kelly Bedard & H. E. Frech - 1261-1276 Using DCE and ranking data to estimate cardinal values for health states for deriving a preference‐based single index from the sexual quality of life questionnaire
by Julie Ratcliffe & John Brazier & Aki Tsuchiya & Tara Symonds & Martin Brown - 1277-1294 Expanding wallets and waistlines: the impact of family income on the BMI of women and men eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit
by Maximilian D. Schmeiser - 1295-1306 Waiting times and socioeconomic status among elderly Europeans: evidence from SHARE
by Luigi Siciliani & Rossella Verzulli - 1307-1321 Quantile effects of prenatal care utilization on birth weight in Argentina
by George L. Wehby & Jeffrey C. Murray & Eduardo E. Castilla & Jorge S. Lopez‐Camelo & Robert L. Ohsfeldt - 1322-1338 Long‐term care and hospital utilisation by older people: an analysis of substitution rates
by Julien Forder - 1339-1356 The influence of supplementary health insurance on switching behaviour: evidence from Swiss data
by Brigitte Dormont & Pierre‐Yves Geoffard & Karine Lamiraud
October 2009, Volume 18, Issue 10
- 1109-1113 Hospital‐based pay‐for‐performance in the United States
by Andrew Ryan - 1114-1132 The influence of economic incentives and regulatory factors on the adoption of treatment technologies: a case study of technologies used to treat heart attacks
by Mickael Bech & Terkel Christiansen & Kelly Dunham & Jørgen Lauridsen & Carl Hampus Lyttkens & Kathryn McDonald & Alistair McGuire & and the TECH Investigators - 1133-1145 Dual job holding general practitioners: the effect of patient shortage
by Geir Godager & Hilde Lurås - 1146-1162 Absence of appropriate hospitalization cost control for patients with medical insurance: a comparative analysis study
by Xilong Pan & Hassan H. Dib & Minmin Zhu & Ying Zhang & Yang Fan - 1163-1175 Qualitative methodologies in health‐care priority setting research
by Neale Smith & Craig Mitton & Stuart Peacock - 1176-1187 Extensions to decomposition of the redistributive effect of health care finance
by Hai Zhong - 1188-1201 Equivalence of two healthcare costing methods: bottom‐up and top‐down
by Michael K. Chapko & Chuan‐Fen Liu & Mark Perkins & Yu‐Fang Li & John C. Fortney & Matthew L. Maciejewski