| Monday | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm | Session: Poster |
| M1 | Does lower polyclinic efficiency increase efficiency in hospitals? | William Aaronson | Temple University | Authors: William Aaronson, Anatoly Pilyavsky, Michael Rosko, Patrick Bernet, Vivian Valdmanis |
| M2 | The Role of Malaria in the Supply of Labor and Human Capital Accumulation in Sub-Sahara Africa | Taiwo Abimbola | University of South Florida | Authors: Taiwo Abimbola |
| M3 | Differences In The Quality Of Care And Resulting Outcomes In Childbirth Between Family Physicians And Obstetricians: Comparison Of A Matched Cohort | Eugenia Amporfu | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | Authors: Eugenia Amporfu, Xin Li, Aslam Anis |
| M4 | The relevance of economic theory to improving economic evaluation of public health interventions: The case of physical activity interventions | Nana Anokye | Brunel University | Authors: Nana Anokye, Julia Fox-Rushby |
| M5 | The Welfare Effect of Banning Signaling in Not-For-Profit Industries | Ken Aoki | | Authors: Ken Aoki |
| M6 | Probit models with binary endogenous regressors or sample selection - with an application to physician advice on physical activity | Jacob Nielsen Arendt | University of Southern Denmark | Authors: Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Anders Holm |
| M7 | Alcohol Problems And Labor Supply: The Case Of Iceland | Tinna Asgeirsdottir | University of Iceland | Authors: Tinna Asgeirsdottir |
| M8 | Cost and Case Mix Among Patients With Alzheimer's Disease | Arlene Ash | DxCG | Authors: Arlene Ash, Tzu-Chun Kuo, Yang Zhao, Marilyn Schlein Kramer, Sharada Weir |
| M9 | Reproductive Health Expenditures in Mexico: Composition, Distribution and Trends for the 2003/2005 Period | Leticia Avila | National Institute of Public Health, Mexico | Authors: Leticia Avila, Lucero Cahuana, Belkis Aracena |
| M11 | Demonstration Effects in Preventive Care | Ritesh Banerjee | Mayo Clinic | Authors: Ritesh Banerjee, Ethan Cohen-Cole, Giulio Zanella |
| M12 | Dynamic Patterns and Small-area Variation in Hospital Admissions | Mickael Bech | | Authors: Mickael Bech |
| M13 | Im(Mortality) and the Baseball Hall of Fame: An Investigation into the Role of Status in Life Expectancy | David Becker | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Authors: David Becker, Kenneth Chay, Shailender Swaminathan |
| M14 | Substantial budget saving could be achieved by increasing utilization of peritoneal dialysis therapy in Chile | Juan Carlos Blackburn | Baxter Export Corporation | Authors: Juan Carlos Blackburn, David Walker, Samir Bhattacharyya, Jose Divino, Vito Sciaraffia |
| M15 | What are the economic implications of 'feminisation' of the UK medical workforce? | Karen Bloor | University of York | Authors: Karen Bloor |
| M16 | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Antihypertensive Interventions According to Finnish Evidence-Based Guidelines | Neill Booth | | Authors: Neill Booth |
| M17 | Quality-of-Life Weights for the U.S. Population: Self-reported Health Status and Priority Health Conditions, by Demographic Characteristics | John Nyman | University of Minnesota | Authors: John Nyman |
| M18 | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of The Skilled Care Initiative, A Maternal Health Program, In Kenya And Tanzania | Stephanie Boulenger | Abt Associates | Authors: Stephanie Boulenger, Tania Dmytraczenko |
| M19 | Projected Value of Life Lost Due to Cancer Death in the United States | Martin Brown | National Cancer Institute | Authors: Martin Brown, Robin Yabroff, Cathy Bradley, Eric Feuer |
| M20 | The Longterm Costs of Stroke Sub-Types from the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS) | Rob Carter | University of Melbourne | Authors: Rob Carter |
| M21 | Fast Food Outlet Density and the Incidence of Overweight and Obesity across Canadian Metropolitan Areas | Sean Cash | University of Alberta | Authors: Sean Cash, Ellen Goddard, Ryan Lacanilao |
| M22 | Cigarette Taxation as a Self-Control Mechanism: how much cigarette price is prohibitive? | Pei-Fen Chen | National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan | Authors: Pei-Fen Chen, Yi-Wen Tsai, Yu-Wen Wen, Chia-Rung Tsai |
| M23 | Financing Long-Term Care in Taiwan: A Multi-Tier Approach | Wen-Hui Peter Cheng | Tatung Institute of Commerce and Technology | Authors: Wen-Hui Peter Cheng, Tai-Lung Chou |
| M24 | Obesity and Health Care Expenditure: Importance of Age, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status | Yiing-Jenq Chou | National Yang-Ming University | Authors: Yiing-Jenq Chou, Nicole Huang |
| M25 | Impact of Public Health Expenditures on the Alberta Economy | Tapan Chowdhury | Alberta Health and Wellness | Authors: Tapan Chowdhury, Habib Fatoo, Dan Friesen, Gordon Kramer |
| M26 | Projection of Long-term Care Costs Related to the Aging Population Structure in Hong Kong | Roger Chung | University of Hong Kong | Authors: Roger Chung, Benjamin Cowling, Mary Schooling, Gabriel Leung |
| M27 | Direct non sanitary costs, productivity losses and the cost-effectiveness of alternative treatments of superficial ischemic foot lesions in diabetic patients | Anna Micaela Ciarrapico | University of Rome Tor Vegata | Authors: Anna Micaela Ciarrapico, Roberto Gnadini, Carlo Reale, Luigi Uccioli |
| M29 | Contracting-In Management to Strengthen Publicity Financed Primary Health Services - The Experience of Punjab, Pakistan | Agnes Couffinhal | World Bank | Authors: Agnes Couffinhal, Benjamin Loevinsohn, Inaam ul Haq, Aakanshe Pande |
| M30 | Ordinal valuation of health states: a eight country comparison | Benjamin Craig | UW-Madison | Authors: Benjamin Craig, Jan van Busschbach, Joshua Salomon |
| M32 | Extending the DCE technique to investigate policy-making for safe motherhood in developing countries | Lucia D'Ambruoso | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Lucia D'Ambruoso, Anna Coates, Julia Hussein, Zahidul Quayyum, David Newlands |
| M34 | Do Individuals Consider Expected Income When Valuing Health States? | Thomas Davidson | Linköping University | Authors: Thomas Davidson, Lars-Åke Levin |
| M35 | A comparison of the cost-effectiveness of Haloperidol, Olanzapine and Risperidone using the net-benefit regression approach | Annemieke De Ridder | University of Antwerp | Authors: Annemieke De Ridder, Diana De Graeve |
| M36 | Infant feeding practices and nutritional status during early childhood in Tabasco, Mexico | Marcelo Delajara | Universidad de las Americas, Puebla | Authors: Marcelo Delajara |
| M37 | The Impact of Chronic Work Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Chronic Physical Conditions on Disability Among Canadian Workers | Carolyn Dewa | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Authors: Carolyn Dewa, Elizabeth Lin, Mieke Koehoorn, Elliot Goldner |
| M38 | Retention and Turn-over Index as measure of quality of ipolipidemic drugs use in real practice in Italy | Guido Didoni | Pfizer Italia | Authors: Guido Didoni, Giovanni Bader, Giampaolo Murri, Marco Ratti |
| M39 | Differential perceived and technical quality of malaria treatment services provided by public and private healthcare providers in southeast Nigeria | Nkem Dike | University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus | Authors: Nkem Dike, O Onwujekwe, Kara Hanson, Uzochukwu Eze Soludo |
| M40 | Reasons For Private Health Insurance In A Universalistic National Health Service | Marco Doglia | Istat/University of Rome Tor Vergata | Authors: Marco Doglia, Pierluigi Borgia, Federico Spandonaro |
| M41 | ABC and VED analyses of drug management in a government tertiary care hospital in Kerala | Riddhi Doshi | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Riddhi Doshi, Nilam Patel, Nayan Jani, Maitraye Basu, Simy Mathews |
| M42 | Cost Analysis of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) - Selected States, 2003-2004 | Donatus Ekwueme | CDC | Authors: Donatus Ekwueme, James Gardner, Sujha Subramanian, Florence Tangka |
| M43 | Health services consumption, reasons for contact and mortality associated with closing an emergency department | Ulrika Enemark | University of Aarhus | Authors: Ulrika Enemark, Kristian Schultz Hansen, Anders Foldspang |
| M44 | The Effects of Global Budget System of Primary Care on the Distribution of Primary Physicians in Kao-Ping Areas of Taiwan | Hsiu-Ying Fang | Bureau of National Health Insurance Kao-Ping Branch, Taiwan | Authors: Hsiu-Ying Fang, Jen-Sin Lee, Lin-Wen Mau, Lu Tsai, Chin-Feng Yang, Chih-Kuei Chang |
| M45 | Financial Incentives and the Supply of Laboratory Tests in General Practice | Siri Fauli | | Authors: Siri Fauli |
| M46 | Impact of exercise electrocardiogram test on cost of coronary artery disease diagnosis: a new version of The Ugly Duckling'?' | Alberto Ferrando | University of Torino | Authors: Alberto Ferrando, Riccardo Bigi, Eva Pagano, Michele Petrinco, Dario Gregori |
| M47 | The welfare costs of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe: an empirical assessment using the value-of-life approach | Julia Fimpel | Andrássy Universität Budapest | Authors: Julia Fimpel, Michael Stolpe |
| M48 | Direct costs of treatment of COPD in a German sickness fund | Antje Freytag | Institute for Healthcare and Social Research (IGES), Ltd. | Authors: Antje Freytag, Philipp Storz, Ernst-Günther Hagenmeyer, Ariane Höer, Manfred Caeser, Bertram Häussler, Holger Gothe |
| M49 | Disability and age discrimination in the labour market | Brenda Gannon | National University of Ireland, Galway | Authors: Brenda Gannon, Meg Munley |
| M50 | Quality of Care and Characteristics of Participants of Outpatient Disease Management Programs (DMP) for Chronic Heart Disease Patients in Germany | Oliver Gapp | GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health | Authors: Oliver Gapp, Rolf Holle, Bernd Schweikert, Christine Meisinger |
| M51 | Health Shocks, Employment and Income in the European Labour Market | Pilar Garcia Gomez | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Authors: Pilar Garcia Gomez |
| M52 | Labour and income effects of caregiving across Europe: an evaluation using matching techniques | Pilar Garcia Gomez | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Authors: David Casado Marin, Pilar García GómezÁngel López Nicolás |
| M53 | Geographic, gender, and social class inequalities in the performance of Catalan health services | Anna Garcia-Altes | Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona | Authors: Anna García-Altés, Josep Benet, David Elvira, Joan Mendivil, Cristina Colls, Diana Porrata, Joan Torrens et al |
| M54 | Are the Global measurements of Out of Pocket spending consistent? | Charu Garg | WHO | Authors: Charu Garg |
| M55 | Determinants Of Inequalities In Health Status Of Italian Children And Adolescents | Margherita Giannoni Mazzi | University of Perugia | Authors: Margherita Giannoni Mazzi |
| M56 | The Impact of Health Insurance on Access, Utilization and Health Status: The Case of Colombia | Ursula Giedion | | Authors: Ursula Giedion, Yadira Diaz, Eduardo Alfonso |
| M57 | Papanicolaou Tests in Canada and the US - Does Type of Insurance Matter? | Stephan Gohmann | | Authors: Stephan Gohmann |
| M59 | Donor investment choices in developing countries: a methodology and some illustrative results based on Public-Private partnerships for product development (PD PPPs) | Alastair Gray | University of Oxford | Authors: Alastair Gray, Paul Fenn, Martina Garau, Ed Godber, Clive Pritchard, Adrian Towse |
| M60 | Can We Assume Research Participants are Utility Maximisers? | Gethin Griffith | | Authors: Gethin Griffith |
| M61 | Horizontal Equity in Health Care Utilization in Canada: | Michel Grignon | | Authors: Michel Grignon |
| M62 | The Association between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Risk for Child Maltreatment | Scott Grosse | CDC | Authors: Lijing Ouyang, Scott Grosse, Ruth Perou |
| M63 | Using routinely collected multi centre data to evaluate treatment effect and cost factors: The case of psychotherapeutic day treatment programs in Norway | Vidar Halsteinli | SINTEF Health | Authors: Vidar Halsteinli, Sigmund Karterud, Geir Pedersen |
| M64 | Does Micro Health Insurance Raise the Health Awareness and Health Status of Microcredit Members in the Rural Areas in Bangladesh? | Syed Abdul Hamid | University of Sheffield | Authors: Syed Abdul Hamid, Jennifer Roberts, Paul Mosley |
| M65 | Parental Appraisal Of The Morbidity Of Diarrhoea In Infants (Pamodi-Study): Results And Correlation Of Subjective Appraisal With A Clinical Measure Of Disease Severity | Thomas Hammerschmidt | GlaxoSmithKline, Germany | Authors: Thomas Hammerschmidt, Johannes Forster, Ulrich Heininger, Reinhard Roos, Hans-Iko Huppertz |
| M66 | International comparison of cost of illness | Richard Heijink | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) | Authors: Richard Heijink, Marc Koopmanschap, Johan Polder |
| M67 | Pharmacogenetic screening for CYP-polymorphisms in the treatment of depression - using discrete choice experiments to disclose patients' and publics' preferences | Louise Herbild | Danish Institute for Health Services Research | Authors: Louise Herbild, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Mickael Bech |
| M68 | The Dynamics of Health Limitations Across Europe: A Longitudinal Analysis Using the European Community Household Panel | Cristina Hernandez Quevedo | | Authors: Cristina Hernandez Quevedo |
| M69 | Cost-Effectiveness of the Artificial Liver Support System MARS - Methodological Challenges in Evaluating a High-Priced Medical Device for a Rare Disease | Franz Hessel | | Authors: Franz Hessel |
| M70 | Bootstrapping the Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio Using A Fieller Method | Joe Hirschberg | University of Melbourne | Authors: Joe Hirschberg, Jenny Lye |
| M71 | What factors determine the demand for health expenditure data in Sub-Saharan Africa? | Frida Hjalte | | Authors: Frida Hjalte, Anna Glenngård |
| M72 | Using Longitudinal Data to Estimate Lost QALYs for Different Subgroups: A Comparison of Three Quality of Life Measurement Methods | Jonas Hjelmgren | | Authors: Jonas Hjelmgren |
| M73 | From public health institutions to autonomous Health Centers: a first step towards the implementation of the primary health care finance reform in Albania | Flora Hobdari | University Research Co. PRO Shëndetit Project | Authors: Flora Hobdari, Erol Como, Leonora Horanlliu |
| M74 | Does Workplace Accommodations Increase the Labour Market Attachment of Disabled Employees? | Jan Hogelund | Danish National Institute of Social Research | Authors: Jan Høgelund, Anders Holm |
| M75 | The Influence of Health Care System on the Incentives of Physicians' Prescription | Yi-Chen Hong | | Authors: Yii-Chen Hong |
| M76 | Health-related quality of life of von Willebrand's disease patients in Canada | John Horsman | McMaster University | Authors: John Horsman, Ronald Barr, David Lillicrap, Jennifer McGugan |
| M77 | Does Reduction in Poverty Lead to Increased Demand for Health Care?: Empirical Evidence from Nepal | David Hotchkiss | Tulane University | Authors: David Hotchkiss, Subhash Pokhrel, Ajay Tandon |
| M78 | The Role of Health Knowledge on Adoption of Medical Technology and Health Outcome - The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Taiwan | Nicole Huang | National Yang-Ming University | Authors: Nicole Huang, Yiing-Jenq Chou |
| M79 | International Comparisons of Prices and Volumes in Health Care | Manfred Huber | European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research | Authors: Manfred Huber |
| M80 | The distribution of dentists in Taiwan under the global budget payment system | Hsin-Chia Hung | Meiho Institute of Technology | Authors: Hsin-Chia Hung, Mei-Chin Chiu |
| M81 | Equity Effects of Direct Healthcare Financing under Alternative Decomposition Frameworks | Hyacinth Eme Ichoku | University of Nigeria | Authors: Hyacinth Eme Ichoku, William M. Fonta, John O. Ataguba |
| M82 | The Cost Effectiveness of Infection Control: Surgical Site Infections after Large-Bowel Operations | Sachiko Iijima | | Authors: Sachiko Iijima |
| M83 | Testing the compression of morbidity hypothesis: evidence from 1986-2000 National Health Interview Survey | Kumiko Imai | CDC | Authors: Kumiko Imai |
| M84 | HIV/AIDS Policies and Absorptive Capacity in South Africa: Identifying the Bottlenecks, Unleashing the Capacity | Maria Teresa Irurzun Lopez | | Authors: Maria Teresa Irurzun Lopez |
| M85 | Service Utilization in Long Term Care Insurance and the effectiveness of the service | Nobuyuki Izumida | National Institute of Population and Social Security | Authors: Nobuyuki Izumida, Masahiro Kawagoe |
| M86 | Is There a Link between Organisational Culture and Hospital Performance?: Evidence from the English NHS | Rowena Jacobs | | Authors: Rowena Jacobs |
| M87 | Valuing institutional change in health economic evaluation: examples from programs to tackle HIV/AIDs in Southern Africa | Stephen Jan | George Institute for International Health | Authors: Stephen Jan, Paul Pronyk, Julia Kim |
| M88 | The cost of reduced life expectancy due to air pollution: assessing the value of a life year (VOLY) using contingent valuation | Claude Jeanrenaud | University of Neuchatel | Authors: Claude Jeanrenaud, Joachim Marti, Sonia Pellegrini |
| M89 | Not eating and not enjoying: Understanding the relationships between Distorted Own-Body-Image Perception, Anorexia, Productivity and some measures of Life Satisfaction | Mireia Jofre-Bonet | City University | Authors: Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Joan Costa-Font |
| M90 | A systematic evaluation of payback of publicly funded health research in Hong Kong since 1993 | Janice Johnston | Health, Welfare and Food Bureau (HWFB), Hong Kong, China | Authors: Janice Johnston, Patrick Kwan, Anne Fung, Doris Chong, Richard Collins, Su Vui Lo |
| M91 | Which price for sight? How good must lucentis be relative to avastin to be cost effective? | Jeremy Jones | University of Southampton | Authors: Jeremy Jones, James Raftery, Seng Chuen Tan, David Turner |
| M92 | A Study to Evaluate Support for the Health Sector Devolution Policy in Zambia: An Actor Analytic Perspective | Solomon Kagulula | Ministry of Health, Zambia | Authors: Solomon Kagulula, Steve Thomas, Okore Okorafor |
| M93 | Analysis of demand for PET examination and health literacy of the testees in Japan | Hiroaki Kakihara | Ritsumeikan University | Authors: Hiroaki Kakihara |
| M94 | Effect of weight restriction by AR-DEA comparing with Composite Indicator - empirical analysis about NHS trust hospital data | Hiroyuki Kawaguchi | Hitostubashi University | Authors: Hiroyuki Kawaguchi |
| M95 | The Effects of Temporary Job Loss on Prevention Behaviors - A Panel Data Analysis | Eric Keuffel | | Authors: Eric Keuffel |
| M96 | Use the National Wealth Index but Beware the Sample Weights | Suhaila Khan | Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine | Authors: Suhaila Khan, Paul Hutchinson, Mahmud Khan, David Hotchkiss |
| M97 | What factors determine doctors' preferences for original drugs and their willingness to prescribe generic drugs in Korea? | SeongOk Kim | National Health Insurance Corporation | Authors: SeongOk Kim, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Alyce Adams, Anita Wagner, Stephen Soumerai |
| M98 | Exploratory INDs: Can they reduce the cost of pharmaceutical development? | Elizabeth Kinter | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Authors: Elizabeth Kinter, John Bridges, Kevin Frick, Lewis Kinter |
| M99 | Work-force Participation Rate of Physicians by Age and Gender in Japan | Yasuki Kobayashi | University of Tokyo | Authors: Yasuki Kobayashi, Chie Kaneto, Satoshi Toyokawa, Kazuo Inoue |
| M100 | Economic evaluation of anti-smoking measures in cancer control strategy using a system model | Nobuo Koinuma | Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine | Authors: Nobuo Koinuma, Michiya Ito |
| M101 | Quantification of health states with non-metric multidimensional scaling | Paul Krabbe | St Radboud University Medical Centre | Authors: Paul Krabbe, JA Salomon, CJL Murray |
| M103 | A systematic review of economic analyses of pharmaceutical therapies for advanced colorectal cancer | Marieke Krol | Erasmus MC University Medical Center | Authors: Marieke Krol, Miriam Koopman, Carin Uyl-de Groot, Cornelis J.A. Punt |
| M104 | Health care market in Kerala, India: Defining characteristics | Godwin Sree Kulakkal | KNM Government College | Authors: Godwin Sree Kulakkal |
| M105 | Conducting Surveys in the Era of Cell Phones: Review of the Use of Online Panels in the Medical Literature | Nathalie Kulin | McMaster University | Authors: Nathalie Kulin, DA Marshall, F. Reed Johnson, S Van Bebber |
| M106 | An Empirical Examination of Health Care Constraints on Outpatients in Japan | Narimasa Kumagai | Kinki University | Authors: Narimasa Kumagai |
| M108 | Human Capital and Health as predictors of Labour Market Success: Overweight and bad health negatively affect labour market position | Mattijs Lambooij | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) | Authors: Mattijs Lambooij, Johan Hansen |
| M109 | Universal screening for rare newborn genetic conditions: Establishing cost-effectiveness before implementation | Jose Leal | University of Oxford | Authors: Jose Leal, Sarah Wordsworth, Alastair Gray, Juliet Oerton, Carol Dezateux |
| M110 | Can Directly Observed Treatment for tuberculosis be made more efficient? | Marcus Lem | Health Canada | Authors: Marcus Lem, Igor Zverev |
| M111 | Issues of complexity and reflexivity in economic evaluation | Chantale Lessard | University of Montréal | Authors: Chantale Lessard |
| M112 | Demand-Driven And Affordable Next Generation Vaccines For Preventing Japanese Encephalitis In Asia And Meningococcal Meningitis In Sub-Saharan Africa | Carol Levin | PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) | Authors: Carol Levin, Chutima Suraratdecha, Julie Jacobson, Marc La Force |
| M113 | Making Health Systems Work: Governance and Anti-corruption in Developing and Transition Countries | Maureen Lewis | World Bank | Authors: Maureen Lewis |
| M114 | Healthcare Financing - reconciling ideology and reality in developed and developing countries | Meng-Kin Lim | National University of Singapore | Authors: Meng-Kin Lima |
| M115 | Variations in Physician Prescribing Patterns for Statins: A Probit and Multinomial Logit Analysis | Charles Link | University of Delaware | Authors: Charles Link, Simon Condliffe |
| M116 | Longevity Bias in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Liqun Liu | Texas A & M | Authors: Liqun Liu, Andrew Rettenmaier, Thomas Saving |
| M117 | Modelling the Supply of Informal Care to the elderly in Mexico | Mariana Lopez-Ortega | LSHTM | Authors: Mariana Lopez-Ortega |
| M118 | Trends in Interest on Empowerment in Health | Svetla Loukanova | University of Heidelberg | Authors: Svetla Loukanova, Rachael Molnar, John Bridges |
| M119 | A Revaluation of the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Wages | Jenny Lye | University of Melbourne | Authors: Jenny Lye, Joe Hirschberg |
| M120 | Explorations In The Field Of Cross-Country Comparisons Of Health/Development Outcomes In Developing Countries | Qamar Mahmood | Global Equity Gauge Alliance | Authors: Qamar Mahmood |
| M121 | Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and the Publiication of Public Summary Documents: Impact of Economic Evaluations on Decision Making | Kelly Makarounas-Kirchmann | | Authors: Kelly Makarounas-Kirchmann |
| M122 | Income-related inequalities in the use of mental health services by ethnic minorities in Britain | Roshni Mangalore | LSE | Authors: Roshni Mangalore, Martin Lapp |
| M123 | Financial inclusion and involvement of banks in health sector: An appraisal of banks' stake in Indian health sector | Muralikannan Marimuthu | Vijaya Bank | Authors: Muralikannan Marimuthu, Varatharajan Durairaj |
| M124 | Changing Contractual Relations in the English NHS - Transaction Costs Analysis | Giorgia Marini | University of York | Authors: Giorgia Marini, Andrew Street |
| M125 | Intellectual Property & External Consumption Effects: | Stephane Mechoulan | University of Toronto | Authors: Stephane Mechoulan, Tomas J. Philipson, Anupam B. Jena |
| M126 | The Impact of Job Loss on Family Mental Health | Silvia Mendolia | University of New South Wales | Authors: Silvia Mendolia |
| M127 | Cost and effectiveness of treating hepatitis C for injecting drug users in New Zealand | Green, Terri | University of Canterbury | Authors: Terri Green, Ian Sheerin |
| M128 | Variability in deinstitutionalisation policy achievement between mental health care sector organisations in France and consequences in terms of acess to care | Julien Mousques | IRDES | Authors: Julien Mousques, Philippe Le Fur, Véronique Lucas, Marc Perronnin |
| M129 | Pre-Paid Health Care Scheme as an Exit Strategy of Suspension of the Health Sector Social Safety Net Program in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia | Ali Ghufron Mukti | Gadjah Mada University | Authors: Ali Ghufron Mukti |
| M130 | Poverty-ill-health linkage: How best Indian health policies address | Anu Sashidaran Nair | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Anu Sashidaran Nair, Varatharajan Durairaj |
| M131 | Fighting Transient Epidemics - Optimal Vaccination Schedules Before and After an Outbreak | Eric Navdal | University of Oslo | Authors: Eric Nævdal |
| M132 | The Demand for Student Health Insurance in Vietnam | Ha Nguyen | University of California, Berkeley | Authors: Ha Nguyen, James Knowles |
| M133 | The Choice of Health Care Services by Households in Ghana | Justice Nonvignon | University of Dar es Salaam | Authors: Justice Nonvignon, Peter Aglobitse |
| M134 | Health Reform in the Republic of Armenia and the Role of the State | Misak Norekyan | | Authors: Misak Norekyan |
| M135 | A Study on the Workplace Preference by Visiting Nurses -An Application of Conjoint Analysis | Yasuko Ogata | Chiba University | Authors: Yasuko Ogata, Tadashi Fukuda, Chizo Yoshida, Michio Hashimoto, Kayo Otosaka, Atsuko Nitta |
| M136 | Analysis of "process delays" in care pathways: Cost estimation of waiting times for patients with fractured neck of femur (FNOF) in acute hospital setting | Toshio Ogawa | Imperial College London | Authors: Toshio Ogawa, Timothy D Heymann, Namrata Syngal, Rifat A Atun |
| M137 | Application of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Appropriate Pricing in Public Health Insurance | Yasushi Ohkusa | National Institute of Infectious Diseases | Authors: Yasushi Ohkusa, Hisataka Anezaki |
| M138 | Research priorities in the equity-efficiency trade-off | Sylvie Olifson | Global Forum for Health Research | Authors: Sylvie Olifson |
| M139 | An Extension Of The Real Option Approach To The Evaluation Of Health Care Technologies: The Case Of Positron Emission Tomography | Paolo Pertile | University of Verona | Authors: Paolo Pertile |
| M140 | Robust Non-Parametric Estimation of Hospital and Ambulatory Care Efficiency in Ukraine | Anatoliy Pilyavskyy | Lviv Academy of Commerce | Authors: Anatoliy Pilyavskyy, Matthias Staat, Michael Golubchikov |
| M141 | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Sorafenib versus Best Supportive Care in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma in Spain | Carme Pinol | Q.F. Bayer, SA | Authors: Carme Piñol, Pablo Maroto, Humberto Villavicencio, Leyre Urruticoechea |
| M142 | Modeling Self-Protective Behaviors Against Infectious Disease: Estimates of Prevalence Elasticity' for Malaria' | Christine Poulos | RTI International | Authors: Christine Poulos, Subhrendu Pattanayak, George Van Houtven, Jui-Chen Yang, Kelly Jones |
| M143 | Quality and efficiency of non-government for-profit dental care | Banuru Muralidhara Prasad | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai | Authors: Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Varatharajan Durairaj |
| M144 | Health Economics of Drug Addiction Treatments: An European Standpoint | Luis Prieto | European Monitoring Centre for Drug and Drug Addictions (EMCDDA) | Authors: Luis Prieto |
| M145 | QALYs and terminal stages of life | Clive Pritchard | Office of Health Economics (OHE) | Authors: Clive Pritchard, Ed Godber |
| M146 | Do poor mothers have access to village level midwifery services and public facilities for obstetric care?: Evidence from two districts in Indonesia | Zahidul Quayyum | University of Aberdeen/University of Dhaka | Authors: Zahidul Quayyum, Purwa Kurnia Sucahya |
| M147 | Public Hospitals - Organization and Incentives | Eric Rehn | Lund University | Authors: Eric Rehn |
| M148 | Aging, technical progress and health care expenditures - a theoretical analysis | Walter Ried | University of Greifswald | Authors: Walter Ried |
| M149 | Costing Dementia: The Influence of Behavioural Symptoms on Resource Utilisation | Benoit Rive | Lundbeck SAS | Authors: Chantal Guilhaume, JM Orgogozo, S Gaichies, JF Dartigues, Bill Rive, M Toumi |
| M150 | The Geography Of Hospital Admissions In A National Health Service With Patient Choice: Evidence From Italy | Silvana Robone | University of York/University of Bologna | Authors: Silvana Robone, Daniele Fabbri |
| M151 | The Rationale for the Regionalization of Pediatric Services During Large Scale Disasters | Andrew Rucks | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Authors: Andrew Rucks, CA Fargason, MS Wingate, PM Ginter |
| M152 | A Zero Augmented Negative Binomial Model in the Analysis of Medical Care Count Data | Gerard Russo | University of Hawaii | Authors: Rui Wang, Gerard Russo |
| M153 | Individual Health Expenditure And Income | Rodrigo Ruz Torres | National Sickness and Disability Insurance Institute/Dullbea-ULB, Belgium | Authors: Rodrigo Ruz Torres |
| M154 | Are People Willing to Pay for Services from which they Can't Benefit Directly? | Tracey Sach | | Authors: Tracey Sach |
| M155 | Politically Favorable Alternatives For Japan's Public Health Policy Reform - Evaluation Of Risk Recognition And Preference - | Masayo Sato | Hokkaido University | Authors: Masayo Sato, Toshiyuki Uemura |
| M156 | The German strategy for quality assurance in health care | Dirk Sauerland | WHL Graduate School of Business and Economics | Authors: Dirk Sauerland |
| M157 | The Cost-effectiveness of Maternity Care in the United Kingdom | Elizabeth-Ann Schroeder | University of Oxford | Authors: Elizabeth-Ann Schroeder, Stavros Petrou |
| M158 | Shedding new light onto the ceiling and floor? A quantile regression approach to compare EQ-5D and SF-6D responses | Janelle Seymour | University of Melbourne | Authors: Janelle Seymour, Paul McNamee, Anthony Scott, Michela Tinelli, Christine Bond |
| M159 | Out-migration of health care workers and its impact on domestic health care in Kerala | Muhammed Shaffi | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Muhammed Shaffi, Amar Niranjan Shah, Divya Bhagianadh, Abhay Kumar Bohara |
| M160 | How Can We Efficiently Cover the Uninsured? A Micro-Simulation Model of Health Insurance Coverage | Asako Shimazaki | Carnegie Mellon University | Authors: Asako Shimazaki |
| M161 | Decentralized Health Care Delivery System and Estimation of Expenditure Needs: A Case of Nepal | Devendra Shrestha | Tribhuvan University | Authors: Devendra Shrestha |
| M162 | General Internists at the hospital: cost saving or big spenders? | Ana Simões | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Authors: Pedro Pita Barros, Sara Ribeirinho Machado, Jorge Nunes, Ana Maria Simões |
| M163 | Quality of Tuberculosis Care Provided in Different Models of Public-Private Partnership in South Africa | Edina Sinanovic | University of Cape Town | Authors: Edina Sinanovic, Lilani Kumaranayake |
| M165 | Can Decision Field Theory Improve Our Understanding of Health Seeking Behaviour? A Demonstration Using Data from Cape Town, South Africa | Jolene Skordis | LSHTM | Authors: Jolene Skordis, Zaid Chalabi |
| M166 | The influence of information and prices on a healthy diet | Sinne Smed | Institute of Local Government Studies (AKF) | Authors: Sinne Smed |
| M167 | Household 'welfare losses' in financing injury care: A decomposition of causal factors in Kerala | Godwin Sree Kulakkal | KNM Government College | Authors: Godwin Sree Kulakkal, Varatharajan Durairaj |
| M168 | Comparison of the Effect of Retrospective and Prospective data on Cost Calculations for Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Renee Stark | GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health | Authors: Renee Stark, Hans-Helmut Koenig, Reiner Leidl |
| M169 | The Impact of New Drug Launches on the Loss of Labor from Disease and Injury: Evidence from German Panel Data | Michael Stolpe | Kiel Institute for the World Economy | Authors: Michael Stolpe, Van Bui |
| M171 | Defining and Measuring Knowledge Capital in healthcare | Sumathi Sundram | University of East Anglia | Authors: Sumathi Sundram, Charles Normand, Miranda Mugford, Richard Fordham |
| M172 | Microcosting study of intensive care in the Netherlands: the impact of mechanical ventilation | Siok Swan Tan | Erasmus MC University Medical Center | Authors: Siok Swan Tan, Leona Hakkaart, Maiwenn Al, Jan Bakker |
| M173 | On Measuring Effective Coverage using Household Survey Data | Ajay Tandon | Asian Development Bank | Authors: Ajay Tandon, Somnath Chatterji |
| M174 | Using discrete choice experiments to elicit preferences for maternal health care in Ghana | Laura Ternent | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Laura Ternent, Aba Daniels, David Newlands, Felix Asante, Paul McNamee |
| M175 | Efficiency and Equity Issues in Managing Surgical Elective Waiting Lists | Angela Testi | University of Genova | Authors: Angela Testi, Elena Tanfani |
| M176 | The Impact of Askeskin, insuring 60 million people in two years, on Hospital Market Strategy in Indonesia | Hasbullah Thabrany | Center for Health Economics, University of Indonesia | Authors: Hasbullah Thabrany, Gede Subawa, Usman Sumantri |
| M177 | Stress Perception and Commuting | Engelbert Theurl | University of Innsbruck | Authors: Engelbert Theurl, Georg Gottholmseder, Klaus Nowotny, Gerald Pruckner |
| M178 | Pro-poor interventions for infectious diseases: When and how do they work? | Michael Thiede | University of Cape Town | Authors: Michael Thiede, Marianela Castillo Riquelme |
| M179 | The Single Market and Pharmaceutical Industry in the European Union: Is There Any Evidence of Price Convergence? | Aysegul Timur | University of South Florida and International College | Authors: Aysegul Timur, Gabriel Picone, Jeffrey DeSimone |
| M180 | Evaluating The Cost Of Epilepsy | Chiara Tosi | University of Southern California, Los Angeles | Authors: Chiara Tosi |
| M181 | Incentive Strategies in Zambia: How to Retain a Motivated Public Sector Nursing Workforce in an Era of International Migration? | Naomi Toyoshi | LSHTM | Authors: Naomi Toyoshi |
| M182 | A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Willingness to Pay (WTP) for Malaria Prevention and Treatment in Endemic Areas | Marta Trapero-Bertran | | Authors: Marta Trapero-Bertran |
| M183 | Sub-markets in health: An analysis of patient care, diagnostics and financing submarkets in a city of Kerala | Allen Prabhaker Ugargol | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (AMCHSS) |
| M184 | Inequity in Utilizing Maternal Health Services in Urban Nigeria | Nkoli Pamela Uguru | University of Nigeria | Authors: Nkoli Pamela Uguru, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Obinna Onwujekwe, Eric Obikeze, Chima Onoka |
| M185 | Health and Employment of Eldery People in Mexico | Edwin van Gameren | El Colegio de México, A.C. | Authors: Edwin van Gameren |
| M186 | The future of the European pharmaceutical market: three scenarios | Ewout van Ginneken | Berlin University of Technology | Authors: Ewout van Ginneken, Christian Gericke, Jonas Schreyögg, Reinhard Busse |
| M187 | Realizing Global Pharma Price Optimization in a Cost-Contained Environment: How an Inter-Country Pricing Simulator Contributes to Revenue and Profit Improvement Quantifying the Impact of the Currently Multiple Challenges to Drug Pricing | Chris Van Mol | Alliance Concepts | Authors: Chris Van Mol |
| M188 | Market Concentration of Ambulatory Drugs in Colombia | Johanna Vasquez | Universidad de Antioquia and Universidad del Norte | Authors: Johanna Vásquez, Sandra Rodriguez |
| M189 | The Impact of Smoking on Medicaid Spending with Acute Care in Massachusetts and Potential Cost-Savings of Smoking Cessation | Maria Cecilia Vieira da Silva | MGH Institute for Health Policy | Authors: Maria Cecilia Vieira da Silva |
| M190 | Mushrooming of private medical schools in India, the present student profile and cost of medical education and its impact on equity, health care accessibility, cost and perceived quality of health care | Shibu Vijayan | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Sheetal Joy, Rekha Ravindran, Allen Prabhakar Ugargol, Shibu Vijayan |
| M191 | Cost-effectiveness in low- and middle-income countries: A review of the debates surrounding decision rules | Damian Walker | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Authors: Damian Walker, Samuel Shillcutt, Catherine Goodman, Anne Mills |
| M193 | Performance Management in Long-Term Care With Composite Measures of Quality | Walter Wodchis | University of Toronto | Authors: Walter Wodchis, Gary Teare |
| M194 | Utilization of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine by Patients with Chronic Disease | Pin-Hsuan Wu | Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taiwan; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | Authors: Pin-Hsuan Wu |
| M195 | Factors Associated with Re-visiting and Switching Clinics among Adults with Upper Respiratory Infection Symptoms in Taiwan | Wen-chi Wu | Naitonal Health Research Institutes | Authors: Wen-chi Wu, Chia-Hsuan Wu, Hsing-yi Chang |
| M196 | Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Nurses' Successful Job Search in Japan | Fumiaki Yasukawa | | Authors: Fumiaki Yasukawa |
| M197 | Addressing Data Challenges in the Economic Modelling of Public Health Interventions for Canadian First Nations Populations | Louise Yazdani | Health Canada | Authors: Louise Yazdani, Douglas Coyle, Ulrick Auguste, Gina Dumaresq, Anita Tuharsky, Marcus Lem |
| M198 | Does Education Reduce Youth Obesity | Ning Zhang | Cornell University | Authors: Ning Zhang |
| M199 | Willingness to pay for characteristics on fracture fixation devices of out-of-pocket in Taiwan | Chia-Hung Chu | Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Taiwan | Authors: Chia-Hung Chu, Chiao-Lee Chu |
| M200 | Government Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes | Farasat Bokhari | Florida State University | Authors: Farasat A.S. BokhariYunwei Gai, Pablo Gottrett |