| Tuesday | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm | Session: Poster |
| T1 | Cost-effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer: Results from a randomized trial | Eline Aas | University of Oslo | Authors: Eline Aas |
| T2 | Provision of Health Care to Physically Disabled Children in Sudan | Howaida Ahmed | | Authors: Howaida Ahmed |
| T3 | Identification of critical attributes of function of health in a rural West African population | Anayo Fidelis Akunne | University of Heidelberg | Authors: Anayo Fidelis Akunne, Mamadou Sanon, Rainer Sauerborn |
| T4 | Predictors of Outpatient Mental Heath Services Use among Adolescents | Pierre Alexandre | Johns Hopkins University | Authors: Pierre Alexandre |
| T5 | Cost-Benefit Analysis of an intervention program in avoidable hospitalizations | Jose Luis Alfonso | University General Hospital Consortium | Authors: Jose Luis Alfonso, S Biasco, JM Iranzo, R Zarazoga, A Ruiz, L Sempere |
| T6 | Process utility in care-giving: Insights from qualitative research | Hareth Al-Janabi | University of Bristol | Authors: Hareth Al-Janabi, Joanna Coast, Terry Flynn |
| T7 | Effects of IMCI on efficiency in health facilities in Northeast Brazil | Debora Amorim | Federal University of Ceara | Authors: Débora Amorim, A. Taghreed, J. Amaral, E. Gouws, J. Bryce, C.G. Victora |
| T8 | Workplace-based genetic screening for the prevention of HFE-associated hereditary haemochromatosis: an exploratory cost-effectiveness analysis | Rob Anderson | Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth | Authors: Rob Anderson, Katie J. Allen, Martin B. Delatycki, Lawrie Powell, Jane P. Hall, Amy E. Nisselle, Lyle Gurrin |
| T9 | Coverage and impact of high complexity procedures in the Brazilian health system from 2000 to 2004 | Eli Iola Gurgel Andrade | Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) | Authors: Eli Iola Gurgel Andrade, Grazielle Dias da Silva, Augusto Afonso Guerra Júnior, Daniel Resende Faleiros, Francisco de Assis Acúrcio, Mariângela Leal Cherchiglia, Daniele Araújo Campos Szuste et al |
| T10 | Costs and benefits of treatment with HAART on survival of HIV-infected adults in Mexico? | Belkis Aracena | National Institute of Public Health, Mexico | Authors: Belkis Aracena, Atanacio Valencia, Steven Forsythe, Jesús Oaxaca |
| T11 | Health Insurance for Children: Do Child Support Policies Make a Difference? | Laura Argys | University of Colorado at Denver | Authors: Laura Argys, Helen Beaty |
| T12 | Public-Sector Expenditures and Utilization of Home Care Services in Canada: Exploring the Data | Ruolz Ariste | Canadian Institute for Health Information | Authors: Ruolz Ariste, Adam Rondeau |
| T13 | Copayments in the German Health System -- Do They Work? | Boris Augurzky | RWI Essen, Germany | Authors: Boris Augurzky, Thomas Bauer, Sandra Schaffner |
| T14 | In Sickness and in Health: Marital Status and Adult Health | Susan Averett | Lafayette College | Authors: Susan AverettLaura Argys, Asia Sikora |
| T15 | Comparative Analysis Of Inpatient Treatment Costs For Pneumonia, Malaria And Meningitis In Children Under Five Years In Kenya | Philip Ayieko | Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) | Authors: Philip Ayieko, Angela Akumu, Ulla Griffiths, Mike English |
| T16 | Better Data, Better Decisions: Quality of Information in Human Resource Planning | Andrea Baumann | | Authors: Andrea Baumann |
| T17 | Costs Of Treating ESRD Patients With Various Dialysis Therapies In Mexico | Samir Bhattacharyya | Baxter Healthcare Corporation | Authors: Samir Bhattacharyya, Isabel Prieto, Jose Divino, Ramon Paniagua |
| T18 | Expected value of perfect information: an application to a decision analytic cost-effectiveness model for drug eluting stents | Matthias Bischof | University of Basel | Authors: Matthias Bischof |
| T20 | A Social Cost-Benefit Criterion for Evaluating Voluntary Counseling and Testing with an Application to Tanzania | Robert Brent | Fordham University | Authors: Robert Brent |
| T21 | Choice Of Foreign Provider For The German Patient: Issues And Prospects | Percivil Carrera | University of Heidelberg | Authors: Percivil Carrera |
| T22 | Logistic Investigation of the Effects of Race and Insurance Coverage on Potentially Avoidable Hospitalization in Tennessee | Cyril Chang | | Authors: Cyril Chang |
| T23 | Factors Affecting the Uptake of New Medicines in Secondary Care | Deven Chauhan | Office of Health Economics (OHE) | Authors: Deven Chauhan, Anne Mason |
| T24 | Health Care Financing in Zambia: A Study of the Possible Policy Options for Implementation | Caesar Cheelo | University of Zambia | Authors: Caesar Cheelo, Felix Masiye, Venkatesh Seshamani, Chrispin Mphuka, Knut Odegaard |
| T25 | Variation in Hospital Cost for Acute Myocardial Infraction in Taiwan | Chin-Shyan Chen | National Taipei University/Taipei Wan-Fang Hospital | Authors: Chin-Shyan Chen, Tsai-ching Liu |
| T26 | A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Hepatitis C Screening Among Immigrants in Canada | Wendong Chen | University of Toronto | Authors: Wendong Chen, Katherine Dinner, Tom Wong, Jenny Heathcote, Murray Krahn |
| T27 | Health Service Utilization Patterns Associated with Regional Supply of Health Care Resource _Multilevel Analysis | Yen-Chien Chen | National Yang-Ming University | Authors: Yen-Chien Chen, Yue-Chune Lee |
| T28 | Higher Health State and Health Consumption for 50+ CPH Insured in Europe? | Hélène Chevrou-Séverac | University of Lausanne | Authors: Hélène Chevrou-Séverac, Thomas Lufkin, Jacques Huguenin |
| T29 | Economic Globalization and Developing Nations' Health Status | Chunhuei Chi | | Authors: Chunhuei Chi |
| T30 | Hearing impairment and Labor Supply | Vibeke Christensen | AKF, Institute of Local Government Studies - Denmark | Authors: Vibeke Christensen |
| T31 | Inequities in health seeking behaviour, cost burdens and coping strategies among rural and urban housheolds in Coastal Kenya | Jane Chuma | Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) | Authors: Jane Chuma, Catherine Molyneux |
| T32 | Determinants of Persistence of Expenditures for High Cost Individuals | Joel Cohen | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Authors: Joel Cohen, John Fleishman |
| T33 | Health state valuation for ARMD visual impairment states using simulation lenses | Carolyn Czoski-Murray | University of Sheffield | Authors: Carolyn Czoski-Murray, J Carlton, J Brazier, T Young, K Kang, N Papo |
| T34 | Evolution of public expenditure on high cost medicines in the Brazilian health system | Francisco de Assis Acurcio | Federal University of Minas Gerais | Authors: Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Eli Iola Gurgel Andrade, Mariângela Leal Cherchiglia, Grazielle Dias da Silva, Augusto Afonso Guerra Júnior, Daniele Araújo Campos Szuter, Daniel Resende Faleiros et al |
| T35 | Medium-term consequences of low birth weight | Mette Deding | Danish National Institute of Social Research | Authors: Mette Deding, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Mette Lausten |
| T36 | Assessing the risk of cervical cancer development when introducing new prophylactic management schemes at country level using a Markov model: the case applied to France | Bruno Detournay | CEMKA-EVAL | Authors: Bruno Detournay, Abdelkader El-Hasnaoui, Nadia Demarteau, Baudouin Standaert |
| T37 | Social inequality as determinant of health state,needs of health care and utilization of health care of population of Serbia | Snezana Dimitrijevic | Institute of Public Health of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia | Authors: Snezana Dimitrijevic, Vesna Horozovic |
| T38 | The feasibility of community-based health insurance in rural tropical Ecuador | Martin Eckhardt | Foundation Human Nature e.V. (NGO), Germany | Authors: Martin Eckhardt, Dorothee Wolf, Birger Forsberg, Antonio Crespo |
| T39 | Improvement In The Process Of Induction Of Labour Using Isosorbide Mononitrate (Imn) For Cervical Ripening | Oya Eddama | university of Oxford | Authors: Oya Eddama, S. Petrou, J. Henderson |
| T40 | Measuring the Productivity of Diabetes Treatment, 1997-2005 | Karen Eggleston | UCLA/Harvard Kennedy School | Authors: Karen Eggleston, Kirsten Hall Long, Steven Smith, Nilay Shah, Amy Wagie, Arthur Williams, Ernst Berndt et al |
| T41 | Sickness Certification | Margareta Ekbladh | Lund University | Authors: Margareta Ekbladh |
| T42 | An economic analysis of health outcomes among ethnic minorities in Vietnam | Björn Ekman | Lund University | Authors: Björn Ekman, Henrik Axelsson, Nguyen Tanh Liem, Ha Anh Duc, Gunilla Krantz |
| T43 | Comparing Treatment Compliance, Hospitalization, and Cost of Elderly MDD Patients on Escitalopram and Citalopram | M. Haim Erder | Forest Research Institute | Authors: M. Haim Erder, Eric Wu, Elaine Yang, Paul Greenberg, Marique Buessing |
| T44 | Determining the Cost of Bleeding in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Implications for Economic Analyses of Randomized Trials | Edward Ewen | Christiana Care Health System | Authors: Edward Ewen, Liping Zhao, Paul Kolm, Dogan Fidan, William Weintraub |
| T45 | The burden of malaria to the poorest households is unjust but redeemable: Inequities in incidence, morbidity and costs of its control | Soludo B Eze | University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital | Authors: Soludo B Eze, Obinna Onwujekwe, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Chijioke Okoli, Eric Obikeze |
| T46 | Use of a Depriviation Index in Analysing Health Disparities in Quebec, Canada | Marc Ferland | | Authors: Marc Ferland |
| T47 | Factors explaining variability in older people social care expenditure in England: local autonomy, widespread inefficiency? | Jose-Luis Fernandez | LSE | Authors: Jose-Luis Fernandez, J Forder |
| T48 | Preferences for new and alternative cervical screening technologies: Results from a discrete choice experiment with nested choices | Denzil Fiebig | University of New South Wales | Authors: Denzil Fiebig, Marion Haas, Rosalie Viney |
| T49 | Private health care in low- and middle-income countries - A content analysis of published articles | Birger Forsberg | Karolinska Institutet | Authors: Birger Forsberg, Anne Lindfors |
| T51 | An Evaluation of Propensity Score Matching estimators in Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Progresa/Oportunidades program in Mexico | Omar Galarraga | Mexican School of Public Health | Authors: Omar Galarraga, Sandra Sosa-Rubi, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo |
| T52 | Modelling the R&D process for global diseases driven by Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) | Martina Garau | Office of Health Economics (OHE) | Authors: Martina Garau, Paul Fenn, Adrian Towse, Clive Pritchard, Ed Godber, Alastair Gray |
| T53 | Equity In The Access To Long-Term Care In Spain | Anna Garcia Gonzalez | University of Barcelona | Authors: Anna Garcia Gonzalez, Joan Costa Font |
| T54 | Assessing a Structured, Quantitative Health Outcomes Approach to the Risk-Benefit Analysis of Pharmaceuticals | Louis Garrison | University of Washington | Authors: Louis Garrison, Brian Bresnahan, Adrian Towse |
| T55 | Comparative analysis of community and micro health insurance schemes in India | AV George | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: AV George, Jolly Jose |
| T56 | Healthcare Utilisation Under the 30-Baht Scheme Among the Urban Poor in Mitrapap Slum, Khon Kaen, Thailand | Christian Gericke | | Authors: Christian Gericke |
| T57 | An Econometric Analysis of OECD Countries Health Expenditure | Lara Gitto | | Authors: Lara Gitto |
| T58 | Discrete choice experiment of smoking cessation behaviour in Japan | Rei Goto | Konan University | Authors: Rei Goto, Shuzo Nishimura, Takanori Ida |
| T59 | Falling through the gap: The role of free primary care, hospital exemptions and unconditional grants in protecting poor households from catastrophic costs | Jane Goudge | University of Witwatersrand | Authors: Jane Goudge, Tebogo Gumede, Lucy Gilson, Steve Tollman, Anne Mills |
| T60 | The Impact of Governance Mechanisms on Performance in a Single Payer System: The Case of Estonia | Triin Habicht | Estonian Health Insurance Fund | Authors: Triin Habicht, Maris Jesse |
| T61 | The Relationship Between Cost and Recommendations of Cancer Care Guidelines in Japan | Chisato Hamashima | | Authors: Chisato Hamashima |
| T62 | Implantable cardiac defibrillators for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death in high-risk patients: a meta-analysis and a review of cost-effectiveness | Chuong Ho | Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) | Authors: Chuong Ho, Huimin Li, Hussein Noorani, Karen Cimon, Kaitryn Campbell, Anthony Tang, David Bernie |
| T63 | What Have You Done Lately? An Investigation of the Impact of Recent Surgical Volume on Patient Health Outcomes | Jason Hockenberry | LeHigh University | Authors: Hsienming Lien |
| T64 | Are Surgical Outcomes Related to the Surgeon's Other Procedures? Practice Makes Perfect and Cross-Volume Effects in Carotid Endarterectomy | Christopher Hollenbeak | | Authors: Christopher Hollenbeak |
| T65 | The Risk of Bankruptcy Before and After Brain or Spinal Cord Injury | William Hollingworth | | Authors: William Hollingworth |
| T66 | Where are the global firms? Barriers to globalization in a health care market in Ontario, Canada | Paul Holyoke | University of Toronto | Authors: Paul Holyoke, Raisa Deber |
| T67 | User Fees Policy and Health Equity Fund in Madagascar: An Analysis of the Design and Implementation Process from an Agency-Incentive Perspective | Ayako Honda | LSHTM | Authors: Ayako Honda, Kara Hanson |
| T68 | The effect of market competition on real out-of-pocket premium of Medicare managed care plans | Chun-Chih Huang | MedStar Research Institute | Authors: Chun-Chih Huang, Mahmud Khan |
| T69 | Impact of Drug Price Regulation on the Market Structure of Drugs in Taiwan's Mecical Care System Under National Health Insurance: The Case of Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs | Weng-Foung Huang | National Yang-Ming University | Authors: Weng-Foung Huang, Fei-Yuan Hsiao, Yi-Wen Tsai |
| T70 | Factors Driving Increases in Drug Expenditures in Korea | Soonim Huh | Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) | Authors: Soonim Huh, Jong Chan Jung, Ho Yong Lee |
| T71 | A cost effectiveness analysis of dialysis graft thrombosis treatment | Yen-Ni Hung | National Yang-Ming University | Authors: Yen-Ni Hung, Po-Jen Ko, Shiao-Chi Wu |
| T72 | Devising an appropriate method of allocating resources in the health sector of Bangladesh | Rumana Huque | University of Leeds | Authors: Rumana Huque |
| T73 | Access-capacity and cost-effectiveness for future HIV Vaccines | Raymond Hutubessy | WHO | Authors: Raymond Hutubessy, Daniel Barth-Jones |
| T74 | Designing a case-mix based reimbursement system for Japanese long-term care hospital beds | Naoki Ikegami | Keio University School of Medicine | Authors: Naoki Ikegami |
| T75 | Health Care Expenditure and GDP: An African Perspective | Vishal Chandr Jaunky | University of Mauritius | Authors: Vishal Chandr Jaunky, Ahmed Jameel Khadaroo |
| T76 | Do the Near Elderly Delay Needed Care for Chronic Conditions? A Qualitative Analysis | Tricia Johnson | Rush University | Authors: Tricia Johnson, Scott King, Andy Garman, Anthony Perry |
| T77 | The Economic Burden Of Disabled Children On Families In Kerala In South India | Subodh Kandamuthan | Institute of Health Systems | Authors: Subodh Kandamuthan, Murugan Kandamuthan |
| T78 | The waiting time of CT & MRI examination under quasi-global-budgeting system | Feng-yu Kao | Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taiwan | Authors: Shin-Chung Huang, Maoting Sheen, Feng-yu Huang |
| T79 | An Empirical Study On Old Aged Caregivers's Household Income, Health Condition And Life Satisfaction In Japan | Masashi Kasuya | Miyagi University | Authors: Masashi Kasuya, Yasuyoshi Sekita |
| T80 | Perceived Job Security, Health Status and Sick-Leave: A Study on Moral Hazard in the Swedish Social Sickness Insurance System | Jahangir Khan | Karolinska Institutet | Authors: Jahangir Khan, Kristina Burström, Clas Rehnberg |
| T81 | The Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on the Health Care of Native American Elders | Alana Knudson | University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences | Authors: Alana Knudson, Chunhuei Chi |
| T82 | Microsimulation or cohort modelling? A comparative case study in HIV infection | Felicitas Kohne | PharmacoConsult; i3 Innovus | Authors: Felicitas Kühne, Jeremy ChancellorPatrick MollonWilliam Powderly |
| T83 | Incremental costs of introducing jet injection technology for delivery of vaccinations in Brazil, South Africa, India and Kenya | Ulla Kou Griffiths | LSHTM | Authors: Ulla Kou Griffiths, Erica Roberts, Dipika Matthias, Andreia Santos |
| T84 | A SWOT Analysis of the Greek Pharmaceutical Sector | Hara Kousoulakou | Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research | Authors: Hara Kousoulakou |
| T85 | How is One Percent of the Population Consuming 35% of Alberta's Health Budget? | Gordon Kramer | Capital Health | Authors: Gordon Kramer, Dan Friesen, Tapan Chowdhury, Habib Fatoo, Kasia Kunikiewicz, Cindy Phung |
| T86 | Patient or Consumer: Implications for the Canadian Health Care System | Seija Kromm | University of Calgary | Authors: Seija Kromm |
| T87 | Shortfalls of Public Owned Hospitals in Germany: Empirical Findings 1998-2004 | Bjo?rn Kuchinke | Ilmenau University of Technology | Authors: Bjo?rn Kuchinke, Ansgar Wu?bker |
| T88 | Eliciting patients' preferences for health states associated with vertigo: a prospective study of the stability of preferences over time | Daniel Kuessner | Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg | Authors: Daniel Kuessner, Stefan Felder, York Zoellner |
| T89 | Women's willingness to pay for barrier methods for HIV prevention in South Africa: A comparison of the female condom, diaphragm, and microbicides | Lilani Kumaranayake | LSHTM | Authors: Fern Terris-Prestholt, Lilani Kumaranayake, Catherine MacPhail, Helen Rees, Charlotte Watts |
| T90 | Costing village midwifery services in two districts of Indonesia: Lessons for efficiency and cost-effectiveness analysis of community level midwifery care as safe motherhood strategy | Purwa Kurnia Sucahya | University of Indonesia | Authors: Purwa Kurnia Sucahya, Zahidul Quayyum, Mardiati Nadjib, Tim Ensor |
| T91 | What Friends and Media Tell Us? An Empirical Study about Information and the Risk of Age-Related Female Infertility | Elina lampi | | Authors: Elina lampi |
| T92 | Patients' Willingness to Pay to Sustain and Expand National Health Insurance Services in Taiwan | Hui-Chu Lang | National Yang-Ming University | Authors: Hui-Chu Lang, Mei-Shu La |
| T93 | An Economic Analysis of Obesity on Wages | Rachel Lange | University of Kentucky | Authors: Rachel Lange |
| T94 | A Funding Methodology with Adjustment for Hospital Quality Performance | Jianli Li | St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto | Authors: Jianli Li, Michael Stewart, Robert Fox |
| T95 | The Research of Non-governmental medical services in Guangdong Province, China | Haocai Liang | The School of Public Health of Sun Yat-sen University, China | Authors: Haocai Linag, Cunrui Huang |
| T96 | Alcohol Attributable Fractions and Costs in Portugal | Elvira Lima | University of Minho | Authors: Elvira Lima, Anabela Veloso, Ligia Pinto, Paula Veiga |
| T97 | Cost and Utilization Impacts of Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy and Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy: A Comparison by Propensity Score Analysis | Ching-Wei Lin | I-Shou University | Authors: Ching-Wei Lin |
| T98 | Expenditures and outcomes associated with newly diagnosed metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with 5-FU/LV, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin | Jur-Shan Cheng | National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan | Authors: Jur-Shan Cheng, Weng-Foung Huang, Yi-Wen Tsai, Fu An-Chen |
| T99 | Influence of hospices on health care expenditures and the aggressiveness of medical care for terminal cancer patients in Taiwan | Chia-Nien Liu | National Open University | Authors: Chia-Nien Liu, Ming-Chin Yang |
| T100 | An exploration of incremental net health benefit analysis: a quantitative assessment of the benefit-harm profile of natalizumab in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis | Kate Lovibond | City University | Authors: Kate Lovibond, Adam Hutchings, Martin O'Leary |
| T101 | The impact of National Health Insurance on the incidence of household out-of-pocket catastrophic health spending: Evidence from Taiwan | Jui-fen Rachel Lu | Chang Gung University | Authors: Jui-fen Rachel Lu |
| T102 | Long Term Care and Hospital Length of Stay for Elderly Patients | Hilde Luras | Akershus University Hospital | Authors: Hilde Lurås, Tor Helge Holmas, Egil Kjerstad, Frode Kristiansen |
| T103 | Tests of Benefits of Insuring the Poor | Anthony E. Bopp | | Authors: Anthony E. Bopp |
| T104 | Community Based Health Financing and Child Health, Results from Ghana, Mali, and Senegal | Marty Makinen | Abt Associates | Authors: Marty Makinen |
| T105 | Technical efficiency of Swiss nursing homes - A DEA and stochastic frontier analysis | Joachim Marti | University of Neuchatel | Authors: Joachim Marti, Claude Jeanrenaud |
| T106 | The Quality of Life of Palestinians under a Chronic Political Conflict: Assessment and Determinants | Awad Mataria | Birzeit University | Authors: Awad Mataria, Rita Giacaman, Angelo Stefanini, Nirmala Naidoo, Paul Kowal, Somnath Chatterji |
| T107 | Improving Health Outcomes in Uganda: Linkages between the Public and Private Health Sectors | Charles Matsiko | Ministry of Health- Uganda | Authors: Charles Matsiko |
| T108 | Assessing the Market Dynamics for Thermostable Vaccine Products | Dipika Matthias | Program For Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) | Authors: Dipika Matthias, Debra Kristensen, Isaac Armar, Vivek Srinavasan, Balaji Ananth Kanduri, Srilatha Sivalenka, Erica Jacoby et al |
| T109 | Obesity and Health Service Utilisation: Exploring Relationships | Meghan McMahon | University of Toronto | Authors: Meghan McMahon, Audrey Laporte, Paul Grootendorst, Peter Coyte |
| T110 | Organizing and regulating hospital and physician substitutes | Misja Mikkers | Dutch Healthcare Authority | Authors: Misja Mikkers, Peter Bogetoft |
| T111 | Pharmaceutical Patents and Access to HIV/AIDS Treatments: The Brazilian Experience | Jean-Paul Moatti | | Authors: Jean-Paul Moatti |
| T113 | Trends in the incidence of herpes zoster using a national insurance database: United States, 1993-2003 | Noelle-Angelique Molinari | CDC | Authors: Noelle-Angelique Molinari, Jessica Leung, Rafael Harpaz |
| T114 | Global Health Initiatives Scale-Up and Its Effect on Privat Health Institutional Systems Capacity: Selected Cases from Kenya and Nigeria | Deus Mubangizi | | Authors: Deus Mubangizi |
| T115 | Cost-effectiveness analysis of the Togo Integrated Child Health Campaign - efficiency gains by joint delivery of multiple interventions | Dirk Mueller | LSHTM | Authors: Dirk Mueller, Virginia Wiseman, Désiré Bakusa, Kodjo Morgah |
| T116 | Benefit-Cost Analysis of Brief Intervention to Reduce College Alcohol Abuse | Marlon P. Mundt | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Authors: Marlon P. Mundt, Larissa Zakletskaia |
| T117 | A Time Motion Study in Health Center (HC) IVs in Busia District, Uganda | Aloysius Mutebi | Makerere Univeristy Institute of Public Health | Authors: Aloysius Mutebi, GB Oundo |
| T118 | An Exploratory Study of the Resources Used By, and the Coping Strategies of Poor Urban Households Affected by HIV/AIDS in Harare City, Zimbabwe | Vimbayi Mutyambizi | | Authors: Vimbayi Mutyambizi |
| T119 | The learning curve for coronary surgery: an stochastic frontier model approach | Miguel Negrin | University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | Authors: Miguel Negrin, Jaime Pinilla, Francisco Vázquez-Polo, Carles Murillo |
| T120 | Measurement of informal care giving time: Exploring the validity | Simone Neubauer | GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health | Authors: Simone Neubauer, Rolf Holle, Elmar Gräßel |
| T121 | Cost-effectiveness of trastuzumab in Early Stage Breast Cancer | Mattias Neyt | Belgian Health-Care Knowledge Centre | Authors: Mattias Neyt, M Huybrechts, F Hulstaert, F Vrijens, D Ramaekers |
| T122 | The impact of social health insurance on health service utilization and catastrophic health expenditure | Thi Kim Phuong Nguyen | Vietnam WHO office | Authors: Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong, Tran Tuan |
| T123 | Informational Spillovers and Strategic Launch Delay of Pharmaceutical Drugs | Pau Olivella | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Authors: Pau Olivella, Begoña Garcia-Mariñoso |
| T124 | Policy Shift to Use of Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (ACTs) in Nigeria: Do Current Socioeconomic and Geographic Differentials in Costs of Treatment for Malaria Constitute a Challenge? | Chima Onoka | | Authors: Chima Onoka |
| T125 | Spatial and Socio-Economic Differences in Catastrophic Malaria Treatment Expenditures in Nigeria | Obinna Onwujekwe | | Authors: Obinna Onwujekwe |
| T127 | The impact of accreditation at hospital cost efficiency: a panel-data study using Stochastic Frontier Analysis | Jorge Luis Padovan | Federal University of São Paulo | Authors: Jorge Luis Padovan |
| T128 | Patterns of care do effect prognosis and costs: the case of lung cancer | Eva Pagano | University of Torino | Authors: Eva Pagano, Daniela Di Cuonzo, Claudia Filippini, Enrico Ruffini, Dario Gregori, Franco Merletti |
| T129 | Regional Mortality Dispatities by Economic Status in Quebec, Canada | Michel Pageau | Quebec Region Health and Social Services Agency | Authors: Michel Pageau, Marc Ferland |
| T130 | Effect of Armed Conflict on Health Delivery- A Study in Low-income Country | Badri Raj Pande | Nepal Health Economics Association | Authors: Badri Raj Pande |
| T131 | Delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria to Ghanaian children: a cost-effectiveness study | Edith Patouillard | LSHTM | Authors: Edith Patouillard, Margaret Kweku, Lesong Conteh, Fred Binka, Samuel Abudey, Jayne Webster, Brian Greenwood et al |
| T132 | The economic impact of pharmacogenetic testing: evaluation before implementation | Katherine Payne | University of Manchester | Authors: Katherine Payne, Emily Fargher, Karen Tricker, Rachel Elliott |
| T133 | Delivery of Community Health Services: Assessing the Purchasing and Provision of Basic Health Services in Honduras | Christine Lao Pena | World Bank | Authors: Christine Lao Peña, Christine Lao Peña, Olympia Icochea |
| T134 | Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Root Canal Treatment using Conventional Approaches versus Replacement with an Implant | Mark Pennington | Newcastle University | Authors: Mark Pennington, Phil Shackey, Christopher VernazzaNigel ArmstrongJames SteeleJohn Whitworth |
| T135 | Capacity Development Model in Enhancing Health Care - Most Cost-Effective for Replication | Keerti Bhusan Pradhan | Avarind Eye Care System | Authors: Keerti Bhusan Pradhan |
| T137 | Financing Capital Investments in Health Care in Developing Countries: The Story of Debt and Equity | Alexander Preker | World Bank | Authors: Alexander Preker, Caroline Ly, Guy Ellena |
| T138 | Factors Influence On The Inappropriate Treatments In Pediatric Population In China On The Cases Of Diarrhea And Common Cold | Ren Ran | Dalian Medical University | Authors: Ren Ran, Feng Xu, Guiqing Yao |
| T139 | Assessing the relative importance attached to access, equity and cost-effectiveness by health care decision makers: a comparison of DCE and attitudinal questions | Julie Ratcliffe | University of Sheffield | Authors: Julie Ratcliffe, Hilary Becker, Paul Dolan |
| T140 | Imposing sanctions on smokers or offering positive incentives for non-smoking: A survey on the practicability and effectiveness of anti-smoking measures | Gerhard Reichmann | Graz University | Authors: Gerhard Reichmann, Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann |
| T141 | The evolution of public expenditure with renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Brazil - 2000 to 2004 | Daniel Resende | Ministry of Health, Brazil | Authors: Mariangela Leal Cherchiglia, Grazielle Dias da Silva, Francisco de Assis Acúrcio, Eli lola Gurgel Andrade, Daniel Araújo Campos Szuter, Augusto Afonso Guerra Júnior, Daniel Resende Faleiros et al |
| T142 | Combining Severity And Health Gain Into A Single Measure Of Benefit | Jeff Richardson | Monash University | Authors: Jeff Richardson, Stuart Peacock |
| T143 | Inequalities in the Transition from Good to Not Good Health: Duration Analysis of Spanish Adults | Marisol Rodriguez | | Authors: Marisol Rodriguez |
| T144 | Cost-effectiveness of drug-eluting stents compared with bare-metal stents and coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Spain | Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Barrios | Medtronic | Authors: Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Barrios, J. Brosa, J. Moreu, P. Brasseur, JM. Hernandez, F. Fernandez, JM Ruiz-Nodar |
| T145 | Death-related costs in the public inpatient and outpatient sector in Austria | Gerald Roehrlin | Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) | Authors: Gerald Röhrling, Monika Riedel, Thomas Czypionka, Markus Kraus |
| T146 | Relationship between medical technology and cost effectiveness of hospital in Poland | Justyna Roj | Pozna University of Economics | Authors: Justyna Rój |
| T147 | What is evidence on the impact of pharmaceutical policies? | Joan Rovira | University of Barcelona | Authors: Joan Rovira, Jaime Espin, Jaume Puig, Joan Costa, Panos Kanavos |
| T148 | Disentangling the relationship between health and socio-economic status: a Markov approach | Klarita Sadiraj | Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands | Authors: Klarita Sadiraj, Arjan Heyma, Inge Groot |
| T149 | Economic Contributions of Physical Activity Programs to the Publicly Funded Healthcare System | Nazmi Sari | University of Saskatchewan | Authors: Nazmi Sari, Recep Gezer, Elizabeth Harrison, Karen Chad, Nigel Ashworth, Anne Paus Jenssen, Bruce Reeder et al |
| T150 | A comparison of utilization pattern in diabetes patients in an health management organization and in a universal tax financed healthcare system | Michaela Schiøtz | University of Copenhagen | Authors: Michaela Schiøtz, Jes Søgaard, Murray Ross, Anne Frølich, Allan Krasnik, Finn Diderichse |
| T151 | Joint evaluation versus separate evaluation of multiple willingness-to-pay for health interventions | Michael Schwarzinger | Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) | Authors: Michaël Schwarzinger, Stéphane Luchini |
| T152 | Asymmetric Information and Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Medicine Advertising: A Policy Review | Helen Scott | | Authors: Helen Scott |
| T153 | An Economic Impact Scale for Outdoor Health and Safety Management | W. Scott | | Authors: W Scott |
| T154 | Factors determining children's demand for medical care: The case of Japan | Wataru Senoh | Heisei International University | Authors: Wataru Senoh |
| T155 | Changes in QALYs in Finland 1996-2004 | Timo Seppälä | National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health | Authors: Timo Seppälä |
| T156 | Effect of the Ownership of Dialysis Facilities on Patients' Survival | Ji-Tian Sheu | Chang Gung University | Authors: Ji-Tian Sheu, Hsien-Ming Lien |
| T157 | Income growth, health expenditure, education investment: the effects on population growth | Yuhua Shi | Australian Center for Economic Research on Health | Authors: Yuhua Shi |
| T159 | Does health insurance matter in improving the health status of children? The case of the Philippines | Raymunda Silfverberg | Lund University | Authors: Raymunda Silfverberg, Anna LindgrenBjorn Lindgren |
| T160 | Imperfect quality information in a quality-competitive hospital care market | Peter Sivey | University of York | Authors: Peter Sivey |
| T161 | Mental Health Literacy and Service Outcomes in a Medicaid Population: Test of an Empirical Measure of Mental Health Literacy | Richard Smith | University of South Florida St. Petersburg | Authors: Richard Smith, Mary Armstrong, Christine Davis, Christine Epps, Oliver Massey, Roxann McNeish |
| T162 | How open to trade is the health sector? | Richard Smith | University of East Anglia | Authors: Richard Smith |
| T163 | The Role of Social Capital on Health Systems' Efficiency: A cross-country comparison | Ana Paula Amazonas Soares | Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco/Universidade do Minho | Authors: Ana Paula Amazonas Soares, Anabela Botelho |
| T164 | Gambling, Prevalence, Intensity and Comorbidity | Paul Solano | University of Delaware | Authors: Paul Solano, Simon Condliffe |
| T165 | Accelerating the development of an AIDS vaccine: Supporting developing countries as an alternative? | Diana Sonntag | Chemnitz University of Technology | Authors: Diana Sonntag |
| T166 | Parental Work Schedules and Child Obesity | Jennifer Stewart | Carleton University | Authors: Jennifer Stewart, James Chowhan |
| T167 | Construction of automatic syndromic surveillance for early detection of bioterrorism attack | Tamie Sugawara | National Institute of Infectious Diseases | Authors: Tamie Sugawara, Yasushi Ohkusa, Hiroaki Sugiura, Kazuo Kodama, Takushi Horie, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Kiyosu Taniguchi etal |
| T168 | Reasons for visiting non-governmental health care providers - results from exit interviews in two districts in Zambia | Jesper Sundewall | Karolinska Institutet | Authors: Jesper Sundewall, Webby Wake, Dale Mudenda, Margaret Maimbolwa, Birger Carl Forsberg |
| T169 | Social Consequences of Antiretrovirals Programmes in Thailand: Analyzing from Cost Effectiveness Prospective | Siripen Supakankunti | Chulalongkorn University | Authors: Siripen Supakankunti |
| T170 | Health Financing Policies In Ghana: The Journey to National Health Insurance Strategy | Gina Teddy | University of York | Authors: Gina Teddy |
| T171 | Quality of private health services in Vietnam | Phan Thanh Thuy | Ministry of Health, Vietnam | Authors: Phan Thanh Thuy, Nguyen Hoang Long, Birger Carl Forsberg |
| T172 | The Cost-Effectiveness of Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing in the Detection of Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection | Hla-Hla Thein | University Health Network | Authors: Hla-Hla Thein, Ava John-Baptiste, Qilong Yi, Beate Sander, Mel Krajden, Murray Krahn |
| T173 | Physical healh, Mental health and Household structure are determinants of labour force participation for the older persons in Europe | Debrand Thierry | IRDES | Authors: Debrand Thierry |
| T174 | The Role Of Poor People Health Insurance On The Utilization Of Maternal & Neonatal Health Services In Bogor District, West Java Indonesia | Trihono Trihono | School of Public Health University of Indonesia | Authors: Trihono Trihono |
| T175 | First Public Brazilian 16 Detector-Row Computed Tomography Compared with Invasive Coronary Angiography: Systematic Appraisal, One Year Utilization Review and Health Care System Impact Analysis | Evelinda Trindade | University of São Paulo Medical School | Authors: Evelinda Trindade, Carlos Eduardo Rochitte, Tiago Senna Garcia Santos, Pedro Lemos, Jose Ramires, Sandra Fujii et al |
| T176 | Determinants of Gender Differences in Health among Elderly in Latin America | Antonio Trujillo | University of Central Florida | Authors: Antonio J. Trujillo, Thomas A. Mroz |
| T177 | Screening to prevent Pre-term Birth: a model based economic analysis based on data from systematic reviews of accuracy and effectiveness literature | Angelos Tsourapas | University of Birmingham | Authors: Angelos Tsourapas, Tracy Roberts, Pelham Barton, Sue Jowett |
| T178 | Health Inequalities Among the Poor or Income Inequalities Among the Sick: An Asymmetrical Approach of Health Inequalities | Sandy Tubeuf | | Authors: Sandy Tubeuf |
| T179 | Outpatient Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: the cost-effectiveness of Schema-Focused Therapy versus Transference-Focused Psychotherapy | Thea van Asselt | University Hospital Maastricht | Authors: Thea van Asselt, Carmen Dirksen, Arnoud Arntz, Josephine Giesen-Bloo, Richard van Dyck, Philip Spinhoven, Willem van Tilburg et al |
| T180 | Cost-effectiveness of 4 Neonatal Screening Strategies | Elske van den Akker | TNO | Authors: Elske van den Akker, Paul Verkerk, Jeannette Dankert-Roelse |
| T181 | Shifted Deductibles: More Effective In Reducing Moral Hazard Than Traditional Deductibles | Richard van Kleef | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: Richard van Kleef, Wynand van de Ven, René van Vliet |
| T182 | Determinants of Economic Impact of HIV In Southern African Firms | Andrew van Zyl | Aurum Institute for Health Research | Authors: Andrew van Zyl, Debbie Muirhead, Charles Hongoro, Moreblessing Chanakira, Lilani Kumaranayake |
| T183 | Decomposing the determinants of the non-use of health care | Marcos Vera-Hernandez | University College London | Authors: Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Begoña Alvarez |
| T184 | Measles Supplemental Immunization Activities Improve Measles Vaccine Coverage and Equity: Evidence from Kenya | Maya Vijayaraghavan | CDC | Authors: Maya Vijayaraghavan, Rebecca M. Martin, Nalinee Sangrujee, Geoffrey N. Kimani, Sammy Oyombe, Akpaka Kalu, et al |
| T185 | The Performance Of The Regional Health Systems In Italy | Vittorio Vittorio Mapelli | University of Milan | Authors: Vittorio Vittorio Mapelli |
| T186 | Discontinuation of Antidepressant Medication Among Latinos in the US | Joanna Volpe-Vartanian | Brandeis University | Authors: Joanna Volpe-Vartanian, Dominic Hodgkin, Margarita Alegría |
| T187 | The long and winding road to general reimbursement of glitazones in treatment of type 2 diabetes patients in Denmark | Hindrik Vondeling | University of Southern Denmark | Authors: Hindrik Vondeling, Peter Iversen |
| T188 | Frontline health economics - what health economics is relevant at the district level in low income countries? | Catriona Waddington | HLSP Institute | Authors: Catriona Waddington |
| T189 | Assessing the Challenges of Applying Standard Methods of Economic Evaluation to Public Health Interventions | Helen Weatherly | University of York | Authors: Helen Weatherly, M Drummond, York Public Health Economics Research Group |
| T190 | Group Practice in Taiwan: Geographic Distribution and Scale | Yiu-Ping Wen | Chang Gung University | Authors: Yiu-Ping Wen |
| T191 | Factors Affecting Public and Private Discharges: Do They Differ? | Miriam Wiley | Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Authors: Miriam Wiley, Jacqueline O'Reilly, Fionnola Kelly, Aisling Mulligan, Patricia Holmes, Brian McCarthy |
| T192 | Factors Influencing the Need for Dental Care Amongst the Elderly in the Republic of Ireland | Noel Woods | | Authors: Noel Woods |
| T193 | Adopting Genomic Technologies in Health Care: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Microarrays in Learning Disability | Sarah Wordsworth | University of Oxford | Authors: Sarah Wordsworth |
| T194 | The Causes of Increased Demand of A&E Attendances in the UK | Guiqing Lily Yao | University of Birmingham | Authors: Guiqing Lily Yao, Mark Harley, Nick Freemantle, Ann Anthony |
| T195 | Market Behaviour of Commercial Medical Insurance in China | Raymond Yeung | Swiss Re | Authors: Raymond Yeung |
| T196 | Who pays more: household health expenditure in Malaysia | Chai Ping Yu | University of Nottingham | Authors: Chai Ping Yu, David Whynes, Tracey Sach |
| T197 | Multilevel analysis of learning effects in maternal treatment of the sick child in developing country | Shambhu Dutta Joshi | Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital | Authors: Shambhu Dutta Joshi, Gyanuka Shahi, RP Bhandari |
| T198 | Knowledge of Healthcare Cost Taking into Consideration Treatment by the Primary Physician | Magnezi, Racheli | The Ariel College of Judea and Samaria | Authors: Racheli Magnezi, Rachel Wilf-Miron, Lilach Elzam, Yaniv Kliker, Ron Kedem, Isaac Ashkenazi, Gil Fire |
| T199 | The Linkage of Childhood Breastfeeding to Reduced Incidence of Obesity Among US Youths | Albert Okunade | Indiana University, Bloomington | Authors: Albert Okunade, Adeyinka Kevin Okunade |
| T200 | Micro Finance As A Health Care Financing Option In Kerala, India | Saji Gopalan | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Saji Gopalan |
| T201 | Fruit and Vegetable Expenditure: An Application of a Double Hurdle Model | Frank Crowley | University College Cork | Authors: Frank Crowley |