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| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Access to health care: Bridging the gap between concepts and policy | Chair: Stephen Birch | ||
| Access as a policy-relevant concept in low- and middle-income countries | Di McIntyre | University of Cape Town | Authors: Di McIntyre, Mike Thiede, Stephen Birch |
| Access to health care - the British perspective | Maria Goddard | University of York | Authors: Maria Goddard |
| Access as a cultural concept | Gavin Mooney | Curtin University of Technology | Authors: Gavin Mooney |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Accounting for Family Spillover Effects in Economic Evaluations of Health Interventions | Chair: Scott Grosse | ||
| A time trade-off method to elicit preferences of spouses about the influence of their husbands' potential prostate cancer health states on themselves | Anirban Basu | University of Chicago | Authors: Anirban Basu, William Dale, Arthur Elstein, David Meltzer |
| Effects of informal care: too important to ignore | Werner Brouwer | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: Werner Brouwer |
| Correlates of caregiver preference scores in child disability models | Mick Tilford | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Authors: J. Mick Tilford |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Applying economics to realities of health care priority setting | Chair: Stuart Peacock | ||
| Coverage of new health care technologies in the US: an investigation of principles, processes and the use of cost-effectiveness information | Stirling Bryan | University of Birmingham | Authors: Stirling Bryan, Alan Garber, Marthe Gold |
| Priority setting in the 'real-world' - from principles to processes and performance | Angela Bate | Newcastle University | Authors: Angela Bate, Craig Mitton, Madeleine Murtagh, Cam Donaldson |
| The ACE (Assessing Cost Effectiveness) Approach to Priority Setting | Rob Carter | University of Melbourne | Authors: Rob Carter, Theo Vos, Marj Moodie, Cathy Mihalopoulos, Michelle Haby |
| Ranking of priorities based on PBMA taking into account the social welfare function | Pedro Plans-Rubió | Health Department of Catalonia, Spain | Authors: Pedro Plans-Rubió, Stuart J. Peacock, Craig R. Mitton |
| Setting Priorities for Managing Renal Failure in Ramallah Hospital (Palestine): a Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) approach | Nader Zaidan | Birzeit University | Authors: Nader Ziedan, Awad Mataria, Angela Bate, Cam Donaldson |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Assessing the impact of health system reforms intended to benefit the poor: Experiences from Vietnam, Thailand and Mexico | Chair: Stephen Lim | Discussants: Julio Frenk, Christopher JL Murray | |
| Assessing the effect of the 2001-2006 Mexican health reform: an interim report card | Emmanuela Gakidou | Harvard University | Authors: Emmanuela Gakidou, Rafael Lozano, Eduardo Gonzalez-Pier, Jesse Abbott-Klafter, Jeremy Barofsky, Chloe Bryson-Cahn, Dennis Feehan, Diana Lee, Hector Hernandez-Llamas, Christopher Murray |
| Beyond averages: have health sector reforms reduced inequality in child mortality in Thailand? | Margaret Hogan | University of Queenslan/Ministry of Public Health, Thailand | Authors: Patama Vapattanawong, Margaret C. Hogan, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Emmanuela Gakidou, Theo Vos, Alan D. Lopez, Stephen S. Lim |
| Evaluating the impact of the universal coverage policy on financial risk protection, health care financing, and benefit incidence of Thai households | Phusit Prakongsai | Ministry of Public Health, Thailand | Authors: Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Kanjana Tisayatikom, Viroj Tangcharoensathien |
| Evaluating the impact of a targeted program on health utilization and expenditure in Vietnam using quasi-experimental methods | Henrik Axelson | WHO, Hanoi, Vietnam & Lund University | Authors: Henrik Axelson, Björn Ekman, Ha Anh Duc, Nguyen Thanh Liem, Ulf-G Gerdtham |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Assets, Wealth, and Health Care | Chair: Randall Ellis | Discussants: Kanika Kapur, Cristina Hernandez Quevedo, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin | |
| Wealth and the Affordability of Health Insurance | William Encinosa | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Authors: Didem Bernard, Jessica Banthin, Bill Encinosa |
| Measurement of socioeconomic inequality in health in 10 European countries: An exploratory analysis of SHARE using three approaches | Cristina Masseria | LSE | Authors: Cristina Hernandez Quevedo |
| Health Savings Accounts: Are Wealth and Health Portfolio Choices Joint and Rationale? | Stephen Parente | University of Minnesota | Authors: Stephen T. Parente, Roger Feldman |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Balancing equity and efficiency: tools for multicriteria priority setting in health | Chair: David Evans | ||
| Identifying and weighing various criteria for priority setting in Nepal using discrete choice experiments | Rob Baltussen | UMC St. Radboud / Erasmus University | Authors: Rob Baltussen, AHA ten Asbroek, X Koolman, P Bhattarai, LW Niessen |
| District Health Priority Setting: Integrating across information sources via local government expenditure databases - Experience from Tanzania | Don de Savigny | Swiss Tropical Institute | Authors: Don de Savigny, Harun Kasale, Conrad Mbuya, Graham Reid, Graham Wilson |
| Criteria for priority-setting in health care in Uganda: exploration of stakeholders' values | Lydia Kapiriri | University of Toronto | Authors: Lydia Kapiriri, Bjarne Robberstad, OF Norheim, DK Martin |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Bargaining in health care | Chair: Misja C. Mikkers | ||
| Sophisticated Bargaining between Hospitals and Insurers | Andrew E. Sfekas | Northwestern University | Authors: Andrew E. Sfekas, David Dranove, Mark Satterthwaite |
| Consumer Choice and Selective Contracting in Hospital-Insurer Bargaining | Rein S. Halbersma | Dutch Healthcare Authority | Authors: Misja C. Mikkers, Rein S. Halbersma |
| Price Negotiations in Health Care Services: Netherlands' Home Care | Victoria Shestalova | Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) | Authors: Misja C. Mikkers, Ilaria Mosca, Marc Pomp, Victoria Shestalova |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Costing | Chair: Amalia Donia | ||
| Costs and Consequences from the ACHOIS Randomized Trial of Treatment of Mild Gestational Diabetes Mellitus | John Moss | University of Adelaide | Authors: John Moss, Caroline Crowther, Janet Hiller, Kristyn Willson, Andrew McPhee, William Jeffries, Jeffrey Robinson |
| Survival Models For Cost Data: The Forgotten Additive Approach | Michele Petrinco | University of Torino | Authors: Michele Petrinco, Eva Pagano, Alessandro Desideri, Riccardo Bigi, Dario Gregori |
| An assessment of cost studies from a methodological perspective | Sarath Samarage | Sri Lankan Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition | Authors: Sarath Samarage, Amala de Silva, Aparnaa Somanathan |
| Multiple imputation for estimating unit costs in multicentre economic evaluations | Richard Grieve | LSHTM | Authors: Richard Grieve |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Wait Times | Chair: Adam Oliver | ||
| Waiting times vs distance: An analysis of the determinants of choice of hospital for cataract operations in the NHS | Peter Sivey | University of York | Authors: Peter Sivey |
| Estimating waiting time dynamics with time series data | Luigi Siciliani | University of York | Authors: Luigi Siciliani, Fabrizio Iacone, Steve Martin, Pete C. Smith |
| Targets and Waiting Times: Exploiting a Quasi-Experiment to Evaluate the Use of Targets in the Provision of Health Care in the UK | Frank Windmeijer | University of Bristol | Authors: Frank Windmeijer, Carol Propper, Matt Sutton, Carolyn Whitnall |
| I'll Tell You Which Patient is Most Bothered About Waiting Time: Estimating Individual Preferences from Discrete Choice Experiments | Terry Flynn | University of Bristol | Authors: Terry Flynn, Jordan Louviere, Shan Li, Tim Peters, Joanna Coast |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Hospital Competition | Chair: Anthony Scott | ||
| A Competition Index for Differentiated Product Oligopoly with an Application to Hospitals | Yaa Owusua D. Akosa Antwi | Carnegie Mellon University | Authors: Yaa Owusua D. Akosa Antwi, Martin Gaynor, William Vogt |
| Cross Subsidization and the Welfare Impact of Specialty Entry | Robert Huckman | Harvard Business School | Authors: Robert Huckman, Jonathan Kolstad |
| Is Entry Efficient When Inputs are Constrained? Lessons from Cardiac Surgery | Jonathan Kolstad | Harvard University | Authors: Jonathan Kolstad, David Cutler, Robert Huckman |
| Market Competition, Hospital Investment and Quality of Care | Chi-Chen Chen | National Taiwan University | Authors: Chi-Chen Chen, Shou-Hsia Cheng |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Home care | Chair: Anita Alban | ||
| The Effect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 on Home Health Services | Meredith Kilgore | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Authors: Meredith Kilgore, Michael Morrisey, Christine Ritchie, Julie Locher |
| Labour Force Participation, Labour Supply, and Unpaid Caregiving in Canada | Meredith Lilly | University of Toronto | Authors: Meredith Lilly, Audrey Laporte, Pat Armstrong, Peter Coyte |
| Performance Evaluation of Home and Community Care | Julie Polisena | University of Toronto | Authors: Julie Polisena, Audrey Laporte, Peter Coyte, Ruth Croxford |
| Competing Values in Priority Setting in the Home Care Sector in Ontario, Canada | Michele Kohli | University of Toronto | Authors: Michele Kohli |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Methodology 1 | Chair: Alan Diener | ||
| Using indirect evidence in clinical guideline development: feasibility and acceptibility | Judit Simon | University of Oxford | Authors: Judit Simon, Stephen Pilling, Rachel Burbeck, Emma McIntosh, John Geddes |
| Is the value of a life-year saved context specific? | Duncan Mortimer | Monash University | Authors: Duncan Mortimer, Leonie Segal |
| Measurement Error in Household Expenditure Data: The World Health Survey | Ke Xu | Authors: Ke Xu | |
| Preference Based Measurement of Vision-related Quality of Life: Are we mixing apples and oranges? | Steven Kymes | Washington University School of Medicine | Authors: Steven Kymes, Bryan Lee, Robert Nease, Walton Sumner |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Generics 1 | Chair: Alastair Gray | ||
| Testing the Generics Paradox: An Estimation of the Price and Expenditure Elasticities of Generic and Brand-Name Drugs | Marin Gemmill | Authors: Marin Gemmill | |
| Determinants of Competition Between Generics in the Omeprazole and Fluoxetine markets in the UK, US and Germany | Seeley Liz | LSE | Authors: Liz Seeley |
| Generic Competition in Drug Markets and the Impact of Regulation | Joan Costa Font | LSE | Authors: Joan Costa Font |
| Modelling the Market Behavior of Antidepressants after Patent Expiries: Evidence from The Netherlands | Petros Pechlivanoglou | University of Groningen | Authors: Petros Pechlivanoglou, Cornelis Boersma, Sipke Visser, Lolkje de Jong-van den Berg, Maarten Postma |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Inequality | Chair: Albert Okunade | ||
| Health, Retirement and Inequality: can Germany and the UK learn from each other? | Martin Schellhorn | GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health | Authors: Martin Schellhorn, Jennifer Roberts, Nigel Rice, Andrew Jones |
| Trends in Socioeconomic Inequality in Mortality in Taiwan: 1980-2005 | Shu-Fang Shih | National Health Research Institutes/National Taiwan University | Authors: Shu-Fang Shih, Tung-Liang Chiang, Likwang Chen |
| The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans | Martin Salm | Authors: Martin Salm | |
| Impact of health-care systems on inequalities in health care consumption | Zeynep Or | IRDES | Authors: Zeynep Or, Florence Jusot |
| Monday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Compliance | Chair: Art King | ||
| Improving prevention compliance through appropriate incentives | Udo Schneider | University of Bayreuth | Authors: Udo Schneider, Jürgen Zerth |
| The Association between Noncompliance in Hemodialysis Sessions and Composite Rate Costs for ESRD Patients | Chien-Chia Chuang | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Authors: Chien-Chia Chuang |
| The impact of non-adherence to medication on societal costs in patients with schizophrenia, analysis of data from the QUATRO study | Derek King | LSE | Authors: Derek King, Martin Knapp, Paul McCrone, Anita Patel |
| Doctor-patient relationship: a game theoretical approach to explain non-adherence to medication | Charitini Stavropoulou | LSE | Authors: Charitini Stavropoulou |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Catastrophic and Impoverishing Health Spending and Financial Protection in Latin America: Country-level analysis | Chair: Amanda Glassman | ||
| Catastrophic and Impoverishment Health Spending: The Case of Colombia | Ursula Giedion | Authors: Ursula Giedion, Carmen Elisa Florez | |
| Financial Protection in Health in Middle-Income Countries in LAC: evidence on systemic responses from the Mexican Popular Insurance Program | Felicia Marie Knaul | Fundación Mexicana para la Salud/Ministry of Public Education of Mexico | Authors: Felicia Knaul, Hector Arreola, Oscar Mendez, Julio Frenk |
| Financial Protection Against Health Catastrophes in Peru | Martin Valdivia | Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) | Authors: Martin Valdivia, Juan Jose Diaz |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: The uncertain allocation problem: mathematical programming approaches to resource allocation | Chair: David Epstein | ||
| The influence of decision makers' risk attitude on priority setting over groups of mutually exclusive interventions | Talitha Feenstra | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) | Authors: Talitha Feenstra, Maiwenn Al |
| Back to the future: Mathematical programming as the solution to resource allocation problems in health care | Amiram Gafni | McMaster University | Authors: Amiram Gafni, Stephen Birch |
| Uncertainty and value of information when allocating resources within and between healthcare programmes | Claire McKenna | University of York | Authors: Claire McKenna, Zaid Chalabi, David Epstein, Karl Claxton |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Comparison of EQ-5D and SF-6D derived utilities for health | Chair: Paul FM Krabbe | ||
| Comparing SF-6D & EQ-5D: data from 4 patient populations | Johan L. Severens | Maastricht University | Authors: Danielle E.M. Brunenberg, Manuela A. Joore, Annelies Boonen, Patricia J. Nelemans, Petra M.J.C. Kuijpers, Adriaan Honig, Peter W. de Leeuw, Johan L. Severens |
| Exploring patterns of differences between EQ-5D and SF-6D: a systematic review | Manuela A. Joore | University Hospital Maastricht | Authors: Manuela A. Joore, Danielle E.M. Brunenberg |
| Does range matter? Comparing incremental cost-effectiveness ratios based on both EQ-5D and SF-6D utility | Annelies Boonen | University Hospital Maastricht | Authors: Danielle E.M. Brunenberg, Danielle Willems, Annelies Boonen, Patricia J. Nelemans, Emiel Wouters, Petra M.J.C. Kuijpers, Adriaan Honig, Peter W. de Leeuw, Johan L. Severens, Manuela A. Joore |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Competition in Hospital and Nursing Home Markets | Chair: Alison Cuellar | Discussants: Brigitte Dormont, Gary Fournier, Roger Feldman | |
| Information Technology Adoption and Market Structure | Alison Cuellar | Columbia University | Authors: Alison Cuellar, Cory Capps |
| Ownership Conversions and Nursing Home Performance | David C. Grabowski | Harvard Medical School | Authors: David C. Grabowski, David G. Stevenson |
| The Welfare Effects of Entry and Exit of Hospital Specialty Units | Richard C. Lindrooth | Medical University of South Carolina | Authors: Richard C. Lindrooth, David Dranove, Cory Capps |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Competition in pharmaceutical R&D and pharmaceutical markets | Chair: Adrian Towse | ||
| Competition and Regulation in Pharmaceutical Markets | Patricia Danzon | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Patricia M. Danzon, Michael F. Furukawa |
| Patent value and R&D competition in pharmaceuticals | Fabio Pammolli | IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies | Authors: Fabio Pammolli, Adrian Towse, Massimo Riccaboni, Laura Magazzini, Martina Garau |
| Generic entry in a regulated pharmaceutical market | Joan-Ramón Borrell | Universitat de Barcelona | Authors: Iván Moreno-Torres, Jaume Puig-Junoy, Joan-Ramon Borrell-Arqué |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Complex Models of Disease | Chair: Lee R. Mobley | ||
| What is the impact of patient compliance on outcomes and cost of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening? | Sujha Subramanian | RTI International | Authors: Sujha Subramanian, Georgiy Bobashev, Robert J. Morris, Michael Gallaher |
| Global Epidemic Model (GEM) as a Tool for Studying the Spread and Containment of Pandemic Flu | Georgiy Bobashev | RTI International | Authors: Georgiy Bobashev, J.M. Epstein, D.M. Goedecke, F. Yu, D.K. Wagener, R.J. Morris |
| Modeling Primary Prevention of Chronic Diseases: Lessons from Diabetes | Thomas Hoerger | RTI International | Authors: Thomas Hoerger |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Contracting for health in Africa | Chair: Barbara McPake | ||
| Distortions of the Penalty and Reward system in the Aid Contract: A Case Study of Uganda | Valeria Oliveira Cruz | LSHTM | Authors: Valeria Oliveira Cruz, Barbara McPake |
| Incentives and Sanctions: Considerations for the Use of Performance-based Contracts for Health Districts in Cameroon | Maia Ambegaokar | LSHTM | Authors: Maia Ambegaokar, Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, Toupouri Aly, Emmanuel Betsi, Jean-Marie Fouda, Barbara McPake |
| Performance management and hospital response to performance-based contracting | Freddie Ssengooba | Makerere University Institute of Public Health | Authors: Freddie Ssengooba, Barbara McPake, Natasha Palmer |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: User Charges | Chair: TBA | ||
| Effects of user fees and improvements in quality of health services on demand for health care: findings from rural areas of Bangladesh | Nahid Akhter Jahan | University of Dhaka | Authors: Nahid Akhter Jahan, Barkat-e-Khuda |
| The Impact of Abolishing User Fees in Africa - Recent Developments in Burundi, Zambia and Uganda | Rob Yates | Authors: Rob Yates | |
| Healthcare Reform And The Number Of Doctor Visits At A State Level In India: Challenges And Options | Maathai Mathiyazhagan | National University of Singapore | Authors: Maathai Mathiyazhagan |
| Estimating cost sharing in a prospective payment system | Elin Hafsteinsdottir | University of York | Authors: Elin Hafsteinsdottir, Luigi Siciliani |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Prescription Utilization | Chair: Avi Dor | ||
| Post-entry market analysis of new drug for Diabetes: penetration and concentration of Thiazolidinediones (TZD) | Tsai Yi-Wen | National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan | Authors: Tsai Yi-Wen, Weng-foung Huang, Yu-Wen Wen, Pei-Fen Chen |
| The Impact of Extending Immunosuppression Medication Coverage for Kidney Transplant Recipients on Medicare's Cash Flow | Robert Woodward | University of New Hampshire | Authors: Robert Woodward, Timothy Page |
| Joint Determination of Prices, Research, and Marketing Expenditure by Pharmaceutical Firms: A Theoretical Model of Profit-Maximizing Behavior | Arthur King | Lehigh University | Authors: Arthur King, Stephen Snyder |
| Duplicative medications in patients who visit multiple medical institutions and their implications for drug expenditures in Japan | Hiroki Kinoshita | University of Tokyo | Authors: Hiroki Kinoshita, Yasuki Kobayashi, Takashi Fukuda |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Medical Expenditures | Chair: Adam Wagstaff | ||
| Use of Econometric Models to Estimate Disease-Specific Shares of Medical Expenditures | Justin Trogdon | Authors: Justin Trogdon | |
| The Effect of Generalist Care Management on Expenditures for Medicare Beneficiaries | Kenneth McConnell | Authors: Kenneth McConnell | |
| Building A Categorized Disease Burden System to Manage Health Care Expenditures | Chiu-Ling Lai | Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taiwan | Authors: Chiu-Ling Lai |
| Modifiable Health Risk Factors and Medical Expenditures- the Case of Taiwan | Tsui-Fang Lin | National Taipei University | Authors: Tsui-Fang Lin |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: TTO | Chair: Stephen Birch | ||
| Valuing Health States of the Korean EQ-5D Using Time Trade-Off | Eunjeong Kang | Authors: Eunjeong Kang | |
| Respondents' subjective life expectancy influences responses in a 10-year TTO | FE van Nooten | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: FE van Nooten, Xander Koolman, Werner Brouwer |
| Eliciting preferences for hypothetic health states from patients: a comparison between time trade-off and EQ-5D in subjects with diabetes | Samuel Aballea | i3 Innovus | Authors: Samuel Aballea, Sandy Cure, Jeremy Chancellor, Rob Sheldon, Nick Marchant |
| HPV Testing Matters - Findings from a Time Trade-Off Survey in England | Boyka Stoykova | Authors: Boyka Stoykova | |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Moral Hazard | Chair: Bruce Hollingsworth | ||
| Moral Hazard And The Demand For Physician Services: New Evidence From France | Valerie Albouy | INSEE, National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, France | Authors: Valerie Albouy, Bruno Crepon |
| Optimal Demand Management Policies with Probability Weighting | Ana B. Ania-Martinez | Authors: Ana B. Ania-Martinez | |
| To Wait Or To Pay For Treatment? Restraining Ex-Post Moral Hazard In Health Insurance | Stefan Felder | University of Magdeburg | Authors: Stefan Felder |
| A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care in Ireland | Jonneke Bolhaar | VU University Amsterdam | Authors: Jonneke Bolhaar, Bas van der Klaauw, Maarten Lindeboom |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: ART 1 | Chair: Beate Sander | ||
| Cost of receiving antiretroviral therapy in northeast Thailand - from the patients' perspective | Tsutomu Kitajima | Kyorin University | Authors: Tsutomu Kitajima, Yasuki Kobayashi, Nonglak Pagaiya, Hajime Sato, Satoshi Toyokawa, Kittisuk Nasungchon |
| Rapid Recovery of Labor Productivity Among Kenyan Agricultural Workers Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV/AIDS | Bruce Larson | University of Connecticut | Authors: Bruce Larson, Matthew Fox, Sydney Rosen, Margaret Bii, Carolyne Sigei, Douglas Shaffer, Fredrick Sawe et al |
| Barrier to Access ART and other HIV/AIDS Treatment in Indonesia: the role of financial factor | Sigit Riyarto | Gadjah Mada University | Authors: Sigit Riyarto, Budi Hidayat , Adi Utarini, Yodi Mahendadratta , Ari Probandari, Laksono Trisnantoro |
| Achieving universal access to ART: should second-line be offered to patients failing first-line antiretroviral treatment? | Susan Cleary | University of Cape Town | Authors: Susan Cleary |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Effect of Health Insurance | Chair: Bruce Stuart | ||
| Impact of the Indonesian Healthcard on Child Health Care Use | Aparnaa Somanathan | Authors: Aparnaa Somanathan | |
| Insurance Effect on Individuals' Health Behavior and Health Care Utilization-A Dynamic Selection Approach | Yingying Dong | Boston College | Authors: Yingying Dong |
| Changes in quality-of-care and health status disparity between people with and without health insurance in the U.S. population with diabetes, 1996 to 2005 | Ping Zhang | CDC | Authors: Ping Zhang |
| The Equity and Adequacy of Co-payment Exemption Policy for Catastrophic Illness under Taiwan's National Health Insurance | Jen-Huoy Tsay | National Taiwan University | Authors: Jen-Huoy Tsay, Yiing-Jenq Chou |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Labor Markets | Chair: Cam Donaldson | ||
| Estimating the Effects of Children and Adolescent with Emotional and Behavioral Problems on Their Parents' Labor Market Outcomes | Patrick Richard | Johns Hopkins University | Authors: Patrick Richard |
| Long term labor market participation and earnings of individuals claiming to have whiplash associated disorders | Søren Leth-Petersen | AKF, Institute of Local Government Studies - Denmark | Authors: Søren Leth-Petersen, Gabriel Pons Rotger |
| Testing Unitary Models of Labor Supply on Decision-making Systems | Ryoko Morozumi | University of Toyama | Authors: Ryoko Morozumi |
| The impact of physical and sexual abuse in childhood on adult economic outcomes: Evidence from the Ontario Child Health Study | Paul Contoyannis | McMaster University | Authors: Paul Contoyannis, Martin Dooley |
| Monday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 2.01 | |
| Session: Pharmaceutical Safety and Trade | Chair: Ernst Berndt | ||
| Do Speedier New Drug Reviews at the FDA Increase Safety Risks to Patients? | Henry Grabowski | Duke University | Authors: Henry G. Grabowski, Y. Richard Wang |
| Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade | Margaret Kyle | London Business School, NBER and CEPR | Authors: Margaret Kyle |
| FDA and Product Liability for Medical Products | Tomas J. Philipson | University of Chicago | Authors: Tomas Philipson, Eric Sun |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Determinants of Nutritional Status and Anthropometric Health Outcomes among Children: Evidence from Four Developing Countries | Chair: Adam Wagstaff | ||
| Impact Of a MCH-FP Program on Children's Nutritional Status: Evidence From Matlab, Bangladesh | Anoshua Chaudhuri | San Francisco State University | Authors: Anoshua Chaudhuri |
| Childhood Malnutrition in China: Change of Inequality in a Decade | Zhuo (Adam) Chen | University of Chicago | Authors: Zhuo (Adam) Chen |
| Nutrition Interventions in Northern Ghana: Impacts on Mothers' Vitamin A Knowledge and Children's Vitamin A Consumption | Krista L. Jacobs | formerly University of California, Davis | Authors: Krista L. Jacobs |
| Interactions between short- and long-term anthropometric health outcomes among children in rural Ethiopia | Bereket Kebede | University of East Anglia | Authors: Bereket Kebede |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Doctors (and Nurses) Without Borders: What Economists Can and Can Not Contribute to the Health Worker Migration Debate | Chair: Jane Hall | ||
| From Barbados to Boca Raton: Willingness to Pay for Exportable Nurse Training in the Caribbean | Christoph Kurowski | World Bank | |
| Do Visas Kill? The effects of African health worker emigration | Michael Clemens | Center for Global Development | |
| Different Yard Sticks, Same Yard: 'Measuring' Migration Out of the Health Sector in Developing Countries | Marko Vujicic | World Bank | |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Economic Analyses Across the Cancer Continuum: A Case Study of Colorectal Cancer | Chair: Martin L. Brown | ||
| The Role of Health Insurance and Race-ethnicity in the Receipt of Guideline Therapy and Outcomes for Individuals Diagnosed with Colorectal Cancer | Deirdre Cronin | Aarhus University Hospital | Authors: Linda C. Harlan, Lin Clegg, Deirdre P. Cronin |
| Use of Financial Incentives for Colorectal Cancer Screening by Health Plans in the United States | Carrie Klabunde | National Cancer Institute | Authors: Carrie Klabunde, Steven Clauser, Martin L. Brown |
| Trends in the Costs of Care for Elderly Colorectal Patients in the United States, 1991 to 2002 | Joan Warren | National Cancer Institute | Authors: Joan Warren, Elizabeth Lamont, Robin Yabroff, Martin L. Brown |
| Projecting the national economic burden of colorectal cancer for the U.S. through the year 2020 | Robin Yabroff | National Cancer Institute | Authors: Robin Yabroff, Martin Brown, Angela Mariotto, Eric Feuer |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Economic Consequences of Obesity | Chair: Tomas Philipson | Discussants: Bo MacInnis, Kosali Simon, William Encinosa | |
| Body size and employment - evidence using genetic markers | Maarten Lindeboom | VU University Amsterdam | |
| The Role of Weight Status in Intergenerational Correlations of Education | Tim Classen | Loyola University Chicago | Authors: Tim Classen |
| Effects of Obesity on Children's Educational Achievement | Robert Kaestner | University of Illinois at Chicago | Authors: Michael Grossman, Robert Kaestner |
| Genetic Information, Obesity, and Labor Market Outcomes | Edward Norton | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Affordability and Sustainability of Immunization Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Chair: Ruth Levine | Discussant: David Bishai | |
| The Financial Sustainability of New Vaccine Introduction in the Poorest Countries - Evidence from the First Phase of GAVI | Patrick Lydon | WHO | Authors: Patrick Lydon |
| Beyond 80%: Are there new ways of increasing vaccination coverage? | Logan Brenzel | World Bank | Authors: Tania Barham, Logan Brenzel |
| Can Countries Afford New Vaccines?: Implications for Fiscal Space | Santiago Cornejo | World Bank | Authors: Santiago Cornejo, Logan Brenzel |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Patient Outcomes and Costs related to Nurse Staffing | Chair: Joanne Spetz | ||
| The Association between Nursing Factors and Patient Mortality in the Veterans Health Administration: The View from the Nursing Unit Level | Anne Sales | University of Alberta | Authors: Anne Sales, Nancy Sharp, Yu-Fang Li, Elliott Lowy, Gwendolyn Greiner, Chuan-Fen Liu, Anna Alt-White, Cathy Rick, Julie Sochalski, Pam Mitchell, Gary Rosenthal, Cheryl Stetler, Paulette Cournoyer, Jack Needleman |
| The Relationship between Line Authority for Nurse Staffing and Patient Care Cost | Chuan-Fen Liu | VA & University of Washington | Authors: Chuan-Fen Liu, Yu-Fang Li, Elliott Lowy, Nancy Sharp, Anne Sales, Matthew Maciejewski, Jack Needleman |
| Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes in Hospitals: Current Findings and Future Directions | Jack Needleman | University of California, Los Angeles | Authors: Jack Needleman, Anne Sales, Chuan-Fen Liu |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Economic Modeling of a Chronic, Progressive Disease: The History, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Diabetes Mellitus | Chair: Ulf Persson | ||
| Some Additional Opportunities for Economic Modeling in T2DM | Michael Willis | Swedish Institute for Health Economics | |
| Background & History of DM Modeling | William Herman | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| What Can Be Learned From A Decade of T2DM Economic Modeling? | Panel led by William Herman | William Herman, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Fenwick (invited), University of Glasgow; Joakim Ramsberg, LFN; Clare McGrath, Pfizer, Inc. | |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Access in Developing Regions | Chair: Haim Erder | ||
| Access to Health Care in Rural Uganda | Joseph Konde-Lule | Authors: Joseph Konde-Lule | |
| Access and Inequity in Maternal and Infant Health Programs in Latin America in the 2000 | Mariana De Santis | National University of Cordoba, Argentina | Authors: Mariana De Santis |
| The Impact of Health Insurance on Financial Protection and Access to Care: Simulation Analysis for Kenya | Priyanka Saksena | Authors: Priyanka Saksena, Ke Xu and Guy Carrin | |
| Potential areas for public-private partnerships in health: the case of Zambia | Dale Mudenda | University of Zambia | Authors: Dale Mudenda, Webby Wake, Jesper Sundewall, Margaret Maimbolwa, Birger Carl Forsberg |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Drug Advertising | Chair: Cyril Chang | ||
| Advertising in Response to Entry: An Empirical Analysis of the Prescription Drug Market | Winghan Jackie Kwong | Authors: Winghan Jackie Kwong | |
| Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Welfare: A Structural Model of Consumers and Firms in the Market for Prescription Drugs | Jayani Jayawardhana | Medical University of South Carolina | Authors: Jayani Jayawardhana |
| The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Cholesterol Reducing Drugs on Diagnosis and Treatment of Cholesterol | Hae Kyung Yang | Cornell University | Authors: Hae Kyung Yang, Alan Mathios, Rosemary Avery , Don Kenkel , Dean R. Lillard |
| The Impact of DCA on Switching Between Statin Drugs and the Duration of Lipid-Lowering Therapy | W. David Bradford | Medical University of South Carolina | Authors: W. David Bradford, Andrew Kleit |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Asthma | Chair: Chris Roebuck | ||
| Resource Consumption and Disease Management of Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in Taiwan | Ying-Chun Li | Authors: Ying-Chun Li | |
| Relationship between family income and child asthma: an econometric perspective | Mara Violato | University of Oxford | Authors: Mara Violato, Stavros Petrou, Ron Gray |
| Structured modelling for the synthesis of evidence on multi-state Markov transitions: a cost-effectiveness analysis of treatments for asthma | Malcolm Price | University of Bristol | Authors: Malcolm Price, Nicky Welton, Tony Ades |
| Family Structure and the (Under)Treatment of Childhood Asthma | Jose Escarce | UCLA School of Medicine | Authors: Jose Escarce, Alex Chen |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Obesity and Adolescents | Chair: Chunling Lu | ||
| Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures | Alan Monheit | Authors: Alan Monheit | |
| Can adolescents' obesity be a consequence of peers lifestyles? | Maria Isabel Climaco | ISCAC | Authors: Maria Isabel Climaco, Pedro Pita Barros, Óscar Lourenço |
| What are the 'Best Buys' for Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents? | Marjory Moodie | Authors: Marjory Moodie | |
| Peer Effect on Adolescent Weight Status | Francesco Renna | University of Akron | Authors: Francesco Renna, Irina Grafova, Nidhi Thakur |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Pharmacutical Innovation | Chair: Christian Kronborg | ||
| The Diffusion of New Drug in Medical Care System of Taiwan: the Case of Cyclooxygennase-2 Inhibitors | Fei-Yuan Hsiao | National Yang-Ming University | Authors: Fei-Yuan Hsiao, Weng-Foung Huang, Yi-Wen Tsai |
| The role of information in the diffusion of new pharmaceuticals: the case of antidepressants | Victoria Serra-Sastre | LSE | Authors: Victoria Serra-Sastre, Alistair McGuire |
| Pharmaceutical innovation and cancer survival | Frank Lichtenberg | Columbia University | Authors: Frank Lichtenberg, Bengt Jonsson, Nils Wilking |
| Pharmaceutical Innovation, Increasing Longevity, and Health Care Expenditures | Yasemin Ilgin | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt | Authors: Yasemin Ilgin, Roland Eisen |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Hospital Costs | Chair: Denzil Fiebig | ||
| Estimating Cost of Hospital Treatment for Patients in a Randomized Clinical Trial | Gregory de Lissovoy | United BioSource Corporation | Authors: Gregory de Lissovoy, Kathy Fraeman, Raimund Sterz, Amy Durtschi, John Mullahy |
| Hospital Expenditures in Western Australia in the Last Years of Life: A Population-Based Record Linkage Study | Rachael Moorin | University of Western Australia, ACERH | Authors: Rachael Moorin, D'Arcy Holman |
| Spillover Effects: Prescription Drugs and Hospital Costs | Avi Dor | George Washington University & NBER | Authors: Avi Dor, Bill Encinosa, Didem Bernard |
| Prison Health Care: Is Contracting Out Healthy | Ted Frech | University of California, Santa Barbara | Authors: Ted Frech, Kelly Bedard |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Contingent Valuation | Chair: Daniel Maceira | ||
| A comparison between conjoint analysis discrete choice and contingent valuation to estimate willingness-to-pay from an ex-ante insurance-based perspective | Debby van Helvoort-Postulart | University Hospital Maastricht | Authors: Debby van Helvoort-Postulart, Hans Ouwersloot, Hans Kasper, Jos van Engelshoven, Carmen Dirksen |
| Group Deliberation and the Contingent Valuation Process | Josephine Borghi | LSHTM | Authors: Josephine Borghi |
| Testing the External Validity of Contingent Valuation: a Field Experiment comparing hypothetical and real payments | Mandy Ryan | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Mandy Ryan |
| Researchers' Stated Preferences for Stated-Preference Methods | Semra Ozdemir | RTI International | Authors: Semra Ozdemir, F. Reed Johnson |
| Monday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Modelling Vaccines | Chair: David Smith | ||
| Cost-effectiveness analysis of a quadrivalent HPV-(6,11,16&18) vaccine : adaptation and calibration of a Markov Model to Germany | Nathalie Largeron | Sanofi Pasteur MSD | Authors: Nathalie Largeron |
| Use of modelling techniques to estimate the number of additional events avoided through early versus delayed intervention: the case of rotavirus vaccination | Baudouin Standaert | GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals | Authors: Baudouin Standaert |
| The effect of perceived risks on the demand for vaccination: a discrete choice experiment | Zia Sadique | City University | Authors: Zia Sadique, John Edmunds, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin |
| Impact of the age of vaccination against cervical cancer on long-term public health and economic effects in Germany: results from a Markov model | Uwe Siebert | UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology | Authors: Uwe Siebert, T.F. Schwarz, R.M. Rogoza, N. Ferko, Achim Schneider, Thomas Hammerschmidt |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Extending Health Insurance to the Informal Sector | Chair: Magnus Lindelow | ||
| The impact of social health insurance in the Philippines 1972-2007 | Matthew Jowett | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) | Authors: Matthew Jowett, Eduardo Banzon |
| Preliminary Impact and Lessons of Ghana's National Health Insurance Law | Chris Atim | PATH-MVI / HLSP | Authors: Chris Atim, Patrick Apoya, William Sabi |
| Extending Health Insurance to the Informal Sector: An Impact Evaluation of China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme | Adam Wagstaff | World Bank | Authors: Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow, Gao Jun, Xu Ling, Qian Juncheng |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Health worker labor supply in sub-Saharan Africa | Chair: Anne Mills | ||
| Using qualitative research in designing a discrete choice experiment: case study on employment preferences of registered nurses in Malawi | Lindsay Mangham | University of Oxford | Authors: Lindsay Mangham, Kara Hanson |
| Health worker preferences for job attributes in Ethiopia: Results of a discrete choice experiment | Kara Hanson | LSHTM | Authors: Kara Hanson, William Jack |
| The long term effects of rural postings on health workers' careers in Ethiopia: results of a natural experiment | William Jack | Georgetown University | Authors: William Jack, Joost de Laat |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Economics of new and underused vaccines: Rotavirus, pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines | Chair: Arnab Acharya | Discussants: Damian Walker, Deborah Atherly, Raymond Hutubessy | |
| Country level decision analytic model for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination | Ulla Kou Griffiths | LSHTM | Authors: Ulla Griffiths, Andrew Clark, Brad Gessner, Jose Guzman |
| Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine: A review of pharmacoeconomic evaluations in Australia, Europe and North America | G. Thomas Ray | Kaiser Permanente | Authors: G. Thomas Ray |
| Impact of delays in immunization timing and disparities in access on the effect and cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination | Rick Rheingans | Emory University | Authors: Rick Rheingans |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Effects of Education on Health | Chair: Michael Grossman | Discussants: Kristian Bolin, Björn Lindgren, Robert Kaestner | |
| How Does Parental Education Affect Child Health? | Dean R. Lillard | Cornell University | Authors: Dean Lillard, Kosali Ilayperuma Simon, Maki Ueyama |
| Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence | Adriana Lleras-Muney | Princeton University & NBER | Authors: Adriana Lleras Muney, David Cutler |
| Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan | Shin-Yi Chou | Lehigh University & NBER | Authors: Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu, Michael Grossman, Ted Joyce |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Efficiency Measurement in Health Care | Chair: Andrew Street | ||
| James F. Burgess | Boston University School of Public Health | Authors: Jim Burgess | |
| The state of the art | Bruce Hollingsworth | Monash University | Authors: Bruce Hollingsworth |
| Comparing efficiency between Nordic Hospitals | Miika Linna | Stakes, Center for Health Economics | Authors: Miika Linna, Unto Häkkinen, Jon Magnussen, Sverre Kittelsen, Clas Rehnberg |
| The analysis of efficiency among a small number of organisations: how inferences can be improved by exploiting patient-level data | Kim Rose Olsen | Danish Institute for Health Services Research | Authors: Kim Rose Olsen, Andrew Street |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Ensuring Access to Essential Health Services for Poor Populations | Chair: Alex Preker | ||
| Effects of Social Franchised Reproductive Health Services on Access to Care | David Bishai | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Authors: David Bishai, Wenjuan Wang, Nirali Shah |
| Can Output Based Aid Improve STD Access for the Poor in Western Uganda? | Ben Bellows | University of California, Berkeley | Authors: Benjamin W. Bellows |
| Targeting the poorest for risk protection: how much do they need? | Barun Kanjilal | Indian Institute of Health Management Research | Authors: Barun Kanjilal |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: European perspectives on the monetary value of a QALY | Chair: Jan Abel Olsen | ||
| Towards valuing QALYs in the Netherlands | Werner Brouwer | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: Werner Brouwer |
| Extending the work on QALY valuation in Denmark | Dorte Gyrd-Hansen | DSI Danish Institute for Health Services Research | Authors: Dorte Gyrd-Hansen |
| International experiences from using Q-methodology to explore adjustments to the value of a QALY | Rachel Baker | Newcastle University | Authors: Rachel Baker, Job van Exel, Helen Mason |
| EuroVaQ: the European value of a QALY project | Cam Donaldson | Newcastle University | Authors: Cam Donaldson, Richard Smith, Mandy Ryan, Jan Abel Olsen, Werner Brouwer, Jean Paul Moatti, Ulf Persson, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Laszlo Gulacsi, Andrea Manca, Adam Kozierkiewicz, Awad Mataria, Jose Luis Pinto Prades, |
| Swedish Experiences on willingness to pay for a QALY | Ulf Persson | Swedish Institute of Health Economics | Authors: Ulf Persson |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Vaccines | Chair: David Dror | ||
| Using Epidemiological Data to Value the Positive Externality of Vaccination | Joseph Cook | UNC, Chapel Hill/University of Washington | Authors: Joseph Cook |
| Costs and outcomes relating to hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine policy options: A Uganda case study | Humphrey Karamagi | WHO | Authors: Humphrey Karamagi, Rosamund Lewis |
| Cumulative Investment In Child Health: The Case Of Immunization In Nepal | Subhash Pokhrel | Brunel University | Authors: Subhash Pokhrel, Devendra Gnawali, David Hotchkiss |
| Predicting the impact of a cervical cancer vaccine on cancer incidence and mortality in Canada: a modeled cancer registry based analysis | Andrea Anonychuk | GlaxoSmithKline Canada | Authors: Andrea Anonychuk, Mihn Do, Ba Pham, Georges Van-Kriekinge, Baudouin Standaert |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Marital Status | Chair: Glenn Blomquist | ||
| Divorce, Widowhood and Health: Is there a causal relationship? | Katherine Carman | Tilburg University | Authors: Katherine Carman, Neva Navarro |
| Quantifying the importance of marriage for health: Is being married better for your health? | Alexandrina Petrova Stoyanova | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Authors: Alexandrina Petrova Stoyanova, Luis Díaz-Serrano, William Nilsson |
| The Role of Health Insurance in the Joint Retirement of Married Couples | Kanika Kapur | Authors: Kanika Kapur, Jeannette Rogowski | |
| Social Security, Elderly Divorced Women Living Arrangements, and Changes in Health Status | Cristian Meghea | Michigan State University | Authors: Cristian Meghea |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Malaria | Chair: David Meltzer | ||
| Assessing The Financial Priority Of Malaria In Rwanda; Who Spends? How Much? And For What Services? | Susna De | Abt Associates | Authors: Susna De, Ken Carlson, J. Kagubare, Daniel Ngamije, Claude Sekabaraga, Emmanuel Kabanda |
| Supply of Malaria Treatment in Southeast Nigeria is Not Pro-Poor | Eric Nwabuike Obikeze | University of Nigeria | Authors: Eric Nwabuike Obikeze, Obinna Onwujekwe, BSC Uzochukwu, SB Eze, EN Shu |
| Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy Reduces Expenditure on Malaria Treatment: Comapring Findings from Kwazulu Natal and Mpumalanga Provinces (South Africa) | Charlotte Muheki Zikusooka | Authors: Charlotte Muheki Zikusooka | |
| Cost-Effectiveness of Artemether-Lumefantrine as First Line Malaria Treatment in Zambia: A Modelling Approach Accounting for Parasite Resistance Growth | Ola Ghatnekar | Authors: Ola Ghatnekar | |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Coverage | Chair: Marisa Domino | ||
| Effects of State Breast Cancer Surgery Inpatient Coverage Laws on Utilization of Outpatient Breast Cancer Surgery in the U.S | Joseph Lipscomb | Emory University | Authors: Joseph Lipscomb |
| Do Immigrants Substitute Health Care in Their Home Country for Health Insurance in the United States? The Role of Distance to Home Country | Shelton Brown | University of Texas School of Public Health | Authors: Shelton Brown |
| Efficiency in attaining coverage of key health interventions across Municipalities in Brazil: the impact of human resources | Angelica Sousa | WHO | Authors: Angelica Sousa, Ajay Tandon, Mario Dal Poz, David B. Evans |
| What Does the Future Hold for Health Funding in Low Income Countries? | Mark Pearson | Authors: Mark Pearson | |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Prostate Health | Chair: Eric Nauenberg | ||
| Cost effectiveness of surgical strategies for the treatment of Benign Prostatic Enlargement | Nigel Armstrong | Newcastle University | Authors: Nigel Armstrong, Mark Deverill |
| Prostate Cancer: Predictors of Stage-Specific and Lifetime Costs | Murray Krahn | University of Toronto | Authors: Murray Krahn, Steven Carcone, Karen Bremner, Brandon Zagorski, Natalie Forde, Audrey Laporte, Shabbir Alibhai et al |
| Using Choice Experiments To Estimate QALYs: An Application To Prostate Cancer | Rosalie Viney | University of Technology, Sydney | Authors: Rosalie Viney, Elizabeth Savage, Madeleine King, Ishrat Hossain |
| Time costs and out-of-pocket costs of prostate cancer survivors in Ontario, Canada | Murray Krahn | University of Toronto | Authors: Murray Krahn, Steven Carcone, Karen Bremner |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Aging | Chair: Roger Feldman | ||
| On the Macroeconomic Implications of Population Ageing for Health and Education Policies | Evangelos Dioikitopoulos | Athens University of Economics and Business | Authors: Evangelos Dioikitopoulos |
| Will healthy ageing save the French medical public insurance system? | Sophie Thiebaut | Authors: Sophie Thiebaut, Bruno Ventelou | |
| Time Trends in the Cost-of-Dying: Implications for Population Aging and Expenditures | Greg Payne | University of Toronto | Authors: Greg Payne, Audrey Laporte, David Foot, Peter Coyte |
| Does the concentration index of health change with aging of population? Evidence from Swedish panel data | Kamrul Islam | Lund University | Authors: Kamrul Islam, Ulf Gerdtham, Philip Clarke, Kristina Burström |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Substance Abuse 1 | Chair: Sherman Folland | ||
| Cost-effectiveness of Drop-In-Centres to prevent HIV among Injecting Drug Users, IDUs, in Karachi, Pakistan | Anita Alban | EASE International | Authors: Anita Alban, Ditte Hjort Hansen, Mehreen Fatima |
| Modelling the Cost-Effectiveness of Substitution Therapy for Opioid-Dependent Patients in Scotland | Carl Gibbons | Schering-Plough | Authors: Carl Gibbons, Alison Davie, Monique Martin, James Morris |
| A Slippery Slope? Examining Three Hypotheses For A Higher Probablity Of Hard Drug Use Among Cannabis Users | Liana Jacobi | University of Melbourne | Authors: Liana Jacobi, Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen |
| The Role of Deductibles in Estimating Mental Health / Substance Abuse Parity Costs | Maia Platt | University of Detroit Mercy | Authors: Maia Platt, Allen Goodman |
| Monday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Private Health Insurance | Chair: Gary M. Fournier | ||
| Private Health Insurance in Brazil: Features and Impact on Access and Utilization | Bernard Couttolenc | Authors: Bernard Couttolenc | |
| The effect of private health insurance on health care utilization | Denise Doiron | University of New South Wales | Authors: Denise Doiron, Vineta Salale, Elizabeth Savage |
| Modelling Dynamic Choice: Private Health Insurance in Australia | Denzil Fiebig | University of New South Wales | Authors: Denzil Fiebig, Elizabeth Savage, Denzil Fiebig, Denise Doiron |
| Private health insurance in the Netherlands: first experiences | Ewout van Ginneken | Berlin University of Technology | Authors: Ewout van Ginneken, Reinhard Busse, Christian Gericke |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Evaluating the performance of Global Health Initiatives providing in combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and Tuberculosis | Chair: Julio Frenk | ||
| Evaluating the Impact of the Global Fund on Fighting against Tuberculosis | Chunling Lu | Harvard Initiative for Global Health | Authors: Chunling Lu, Andrew C. Stokes, Christopher M. Murray |
| A review of progress towards Global Malaria targets | Felix Masiye | Harvard University | Authors: Catherine M. Michaud, Felix Masiye, Christopher Murray |
| Measuring the Performance of Global Fund and PEPFAR monies on the Expansion of ART coverage | Christopher Murray | Harvard University | Authors: Chunling Lu, Andrew C. Stokes, Catherine M. Michaud, Christopher M. Murray |
| Is the DOTS strategy sufficient for global tuberculosis control? An analysis of case finding and treatment success | Ziad Obermeyer | Harvard University | Authors: Ziad Obermeyer, Jesse Abbot-Klafter, Christopher J.L. Murray |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Evaluation of Pilot Experiments in Health Care Financing and Delivery in Rural China | Chair: William C Hsiao | ||
| Medical Savings Accounts versus Risk-Pooled Models: Which One Performs Better in Improving the Use and the Equitable Distribution of Outpatient Services in Rural China | Shanlian Hu | Fudan University | Authors: Shanlian Hu, Qin Jiang, Bao Liu, Yanli Zuo, Wei Fu |
| The Impact of Health Insurance in Rural China: Evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme | Magnus Lindelow | World Bank | Authors: Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow, Gao Jun, Xu Ling, Qian Juncheng |
| The effects of RMHC on HRQoL improvement in rural China | Hong Wang | Yale University | Authors: Hong Wang, Winnie Yip, Licheng Zhang, William Hsiao |
| Catastrophic or Basic Health Care? Impacts of Two Pilot Experiments on Financial Risk Protection in Rural China | Winnie Yip | Harvard University | Authors: Winnie Yip, Hong Wang, William Hsiao |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Economics of Health Behavior: Smoking | Chair: Joe Sabia | Discussants: John Cawley, Tsui-Fang Lin, Joe Sabia | |
| Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys | Christopher Carpenter | University of California - Irvine & NBER | Authors: Christopher Carpenter |
| New evidence on the impact of cigarette excise taxes on maternal smoking and birth outcomes | Philip DeCicca | McMaster University | Authors: Philip DeCicca |
| The Evolution of the Schooling-Smoking Gradient | Don Kenkel | Cornell University | Authors: Don Kenkel, Dean Lillard, Alan Mathios |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Food Policy and the Social Determinants of Dietary Health | Chair: Sean B. Cash | Discussant: Julian M. Alston | |
| Estimating the distribution of the body mass index | John A.L. Cranfield | University of Guelph | Authors: John W. Cranfield, Timothy K.M. Beatty |
| Are food guides enhancing healthy eating? | Ellen W. Goddard | University of Alberta | Authors: Ellen W. Goddard, Jose Lomeli, Sean B. Cash |
| Effects of potential modifications to the U.S. food stamp program so as to allow only healthy food to be purchased with food stamps | Julian Alston | University of California, Davis | Authors: Julian M. Alston, Conner Mullally, Daniel A. Sumner, Stephen A. Vosti |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Getting rid of the black box: Health Accounts revisited | Chair: Bengt Jonsson | ||
| The policy value of NHA | Anne Mills | LSHTM | |
| Revision of the System of Health Accounts: key methodological issues | Eva Orosz | OECD | |
| Health Insurance: killing or easing the process? | Cornelis van Mosseveld | EUROSTAT | |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Health Economics and Health Systems Research in the European Commission's Research Programme: Past and Future | Chair: Christian Gericke | ||
| Health system reforms in Europe: priorities for research | Peter Smith | University of York | |
| Health baskets and payment mechanisms in European countries: completed and necessary research | Reinhard Busse | Berlin University of Technology | |
| The role of health economics and health information systems in current health reforms in Central and Eastern Europe | Adam Kozierkiewicz | Jagiellonian University Medical College | |
| Opportunities for health economics and health systems research under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission | Jan Paehler | European Commission | |
| The research-policy interface: better evidence for better health policies in Europe | Magdalena Rosenmöller | IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain | |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Economics of Health Information Technology | Chair: Stephen Parente | ||
| Do Computerized Physician Order Entry and Bar Code Medication Administration Improve Quality of Care? | Joanne Spetz | University of California, San Francisco | Authors: Joanne Spetz, Ciaran Phibbs |
| The Effect of IT Capital on Hospital Efficiency | Michael G. Housman | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Michael G. Housman, Lorin M. Hitt, Kinga Elo, Nicolas Beard |
| Physician-Hospital Integration and Information Technology Adoption | Jeffrey S. McCullough | Medical University of South Carolina | Authors: Jeffrey S. McCullough |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Influenza | Chair: David Bishai | ||
| Cost-effectiveness of antiviral drug stockpiling and near patient testing for pandemic influenza | John Edmunds | Health Protection Agency | Authors: John Edmunds, M. Ruby Siddiqui |
| Dynamic versus static modeling of cost-effectiveness of therapeutic use of antiviral drugs during an influenza pandemic | Anna Krabbe-Lugner | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) | Authors: Anna Krabbe-Lugner, Sido Mylius, Jacco Wallinga |
| Economic evaluation of influenza pandemic mitigation strategies in the US using a stochastic microsimulation influenza model | Beate Sander | University of Toronto | Authors: Beate Sander, Ira Longini, Jr, Azhar Nizam, Maaten Postma, Louis Garrison |
| Avian influenza: (De) centralized provision of preventive measures? | Diana Sonntag | Chemnitz University of Technology | Authors: Diana Sonntag, Katja Drechsel |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Injury | Chair: Gabriel Leung | ||
| Estimating Pre-Injury and Injury Status in Quality-of-Life Terms: An Application to Health Losses Due to Road Crashes | Patricia Cubí-Mollá | Authors: Patricia Cubí-Mollá | |
| One Year Treatment Costs of Trauma Care | Sharada Weir | University of Massachusetts Medical School | Authors: Sharada Weir, David Salkever, Frederick Rivara, Averry Nathens, Ellen MacKenzie |
| Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a multidisciplinary falls prevention program in community-dwelling elderly people | Marike Hendriks | Maastricht University | Authors: Marike Hendriks, Silvia Evers, Michel Bleijlevens, Jolanda van Haastregt, Harry Crebolder, Jacques van Eijk |
| The Effects Of Household Compositon And Care Giving Intensity On Labor Market Participation Of Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury | Clara Dismuke | Medical University of South Carolina | Authors: Clara Dismuke, W. David Bradford, James Krause |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Outcomes | Chair: Gabriel Picone | ||
| Medicare Spending and Outcomes after Post-Acute Care | Neeraj Sood | RAND | Authors: Neeraj Sood, Partha Deb, Jose Escarce, Carrie Hoverman, Neeraj Sood |
| Cost and Effectiveness of AIDS Treatment Delivery in South Africa: How Much Does It Cost to Achieve a Successful Outcome? | Lawrence Long | Health Economics Research Office | Authors: Sydney Rosen, Lawrence Long, Ian Sanne |
| Is Mortality the Right Measure? Using Competing Risks Duration Modeling to Explore Alternative Measures of the Impact of Surgeon Volume on Cardiac Patient Health Outcomes | Jason Hockenberry | Lehigh University & NBER | Authors: Jason Hockenberry, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsienming Lien |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Demand | Chair: Dominic Hodgkin | ||
| A Macro-Prediction of the Use of Care Provisions Based on a Nested Logit Model | Jedid-Jah Jonker | Social and Cultural Planning Office | Authors: Jedid-Jah Jonker, Isolde Woittiez |
| Estimating the Demand for Medical Care Using a Multiple Sample Selection Model | Tzu-Chun Kuo | DxCG | Authors: Tzu-Chun Kuo |
| Mental and Physical Health Capital | Nathan Tefft | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Authors: Nathan Tefft |
| Fertility Rate, Use of Cesarean Delivery and the Role of Information Gap: Evidence from Taiwan | Ke-Zong Ma | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Authors: Ke-Zong Ma, Edward C. Norton, Shin-Yi Chou, Yiing-Jenq Chou |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Bayesian Statistics | Chair: Joanna Coast | ||
| Bayesian Multivariate Analysis of Resource Use Data Collected Alongside Multinational Randomised Controlled Trials | Andrea Manca | University of York | Authors: Andrea Manca, Stefano Conti, Paul Lambert, Keith Abrams |
| Bayesian Multivariate Modelling of Patient Level Healthcare Resource Use Data in RCTs | Stefano Conti | University of York | Authors: Stefano Conti, Andrea Manca, Paul Lambert, Keith Abrams |
| Accounting for statistical model uncertainty in economic decision models - A Bayesian Approach | Keith Abrams | University of Leicester | Authors: Keith Abrams, Alex Sutton, Nicola Cooper, Paul Lambert |
| Accounting for preference heterogeneity in discrete choice experiments using hierachical Bayes | Dean Regier | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Dean Regier, Mandy Ryan, Euan Phimister, Carlo Marra |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Social Health Insurance | Chair: Raymond Hutubessy | ||
| Addressing Inequities in the Irish Health Care System Through Social Health Insurance | Steve Thomas | Authors: Steve Thomas | |
| Extending social health insurance coverage to the informal sector: results of a randomized evaluation in Nicaragua | Tania Dmytraczenko | Abt Associates | Authors: Tania Dmytraczenko, Barbara Magnoni, Susna De, Rebecca Thornton |
| Social health insurance growth and insurance market power in Colombia | Fernando Ruiz | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | Authors: Fernando Ruiz, Liz Garavito |
| Improvement of Risk Adjustment in German Social Health Insurance: What are the Implications for Interregional Transfers? | Stefan Gress | University of Duisburg-Essen | Authors: Stefan Gress, Dirk Göpffarth, Klaus Jacobs, Jürgen Wasem |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Risk | Chair: Hindrik Vondeling | ||
| Surgical volume-outcome relationships: competing risk modelling of competing outcomes | Maria Raikou | LSE | Authors: Maria Raikou, Alistair McGuire |
| Hybrid Risk Adjustment for Total Health Expenditures | Manuel Garcia Goni | Authors: Manuel Garcia Goni | |
| Comparing the Predictive Power in Terms of Total Health Expenditures of Two Patient Classification Systems: DCGs and CRGs | Pere Ibern | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Authors: Pere Ibern |
| Does risk adjustment always reduce incentives for cream-skimming? | Elisabeth Meyer | University of Munich | Authors: Elisabeth Meyer |
| Monday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: QALYs | Chair: Ivar Kristiansen | ||
| Lost in Translation? Over-Reliance on QALYs May Lead to Neglect of Relevant Evidence | Michael Schlander | Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care (InnoVal-HC) | Authors: Michael Schlander |
| A Mixed Method Approach to Estimating Monetary Values of QALYs | Helen Mason | Authors: Helen Mason | |
| Do members of the public wish to give more weight to some QALYs than others?: Results of a population-based study in the UK | Angela Robinson | University of East Anglia | Authors: Angela Robinson, Rachel Baker, Ian Bateman, Cam Donaldson, Graham Loomes, Jose Luis Pinto, Mandy Ryan |
| Comparing Individual and Public Preferences for Health States | Johan Lyth | Linköping University | Authors: Johan Lyth |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Health Insurance, Moral Hazard and Health Behaviors | Chair: Jody Sindelar | Discussants: Ellen Meara, Henry Saffer, Michael French | |
| Medicare, Ex Ante Moral Hazard, and Health Behaviors | Dhaval Dave | Bentley College & NBER | Authors: Dhaval Dave, Robert Kaestner |
| Federal Medicaid Assistance to States: Impact on Prenatal Care | Swati Mukerjee | Bentley College | Authors: Swati Mukerjee, Michael A. Quinn |
| Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance | Inas Rashad | Georgia State University & NBER | Authors: Inas Rashad, Sara Markowitz |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Health System Economics: What Is It? | Chair: Uwe Reinhardt | ||
| National health system development | David Cutler | Harvard University | |
| A deterministic model approach to conceptualize national health systems | William C. Hsiao | Harvard School of Public Health | |
| A functional approach to conceptualize national health systems | Anne Mills | LSHTM | |
| The microeconomic foundation of national health systems | Mark Pauly | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Economics of Racial Disparities in Healthcare | Chair: Willard Manning | Discussants: Scott E. Harrington, Will Manning, Tamara Konetzka | |
| Social Networks and Use of Health Care By Hispanics | José J. Escarce | University of California at Los Angeles & RAND | Authors: Carole Roan Gresenz, José J. Escarce |
| Short- and Long-term Mortality after an Acute Illness for Elderly whites and blacks | Daniel Polsky | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Daniel Polsky, Ashish Jha, Judith Lave, Mark Pauly, Kevin Volpp |
| Measuring Trends in Racial/Ethnic Health Care Disparities | Benjamin Cook | Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. | Authors: Benjamin Le Cook, Thomas G. McGuire, Samuel H. Zuvekas |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Hospitals and the Market Environment | Chair: Michael Chernew | Discussants: Richard Lindrooth, Cory Capps, Carol Propper | |
| The Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers | Robert Town | University of Minnesota & NBER | Authors: Robert Town, Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman, Lawton R. Burns |
| Hospital Financial Condition and the Quality of Patient Care | Gloria J. Bazzoli | Virginia Commonwealth University | Authors: Gloria J. Bazzoli, Hsueh-Fen Chen,Mei Zhao, Richard C. Lindrooth |
| Is the Impact of Managed Care on Hospital Prices Decreasing? | William D. White | Cornell University | Authors: William D. White, David Dranove, Richard Lindrooth, Jack Zwanziger |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: How Can Private Providers be Engaged in Serving the Poor? | Chair: Hugh Waters | ||
| India's Experience with Subsidized Health Insurance for the Poor | Peter Berman | World Bank & Harvard University | |
| Competitive Voucher Schemes for Health | Anna Gorter | Instituto CentroAmericano de la Salud | |
| Avoiding misunderstanding when engaging private providers in serving the poor | Dominic Montagu | University of California, San Francisco | |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Hypothetical Questions, Hypothetical Answers, or Real Values? Improved Methods for Measuring Willingness to Pay | Chair: John Bridges | ||
| Cheap Talk and Stated Preferences: Patients' WTP for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatments | F. Reed Johnson | RTI International | Authors: F. Reed Johnson, Semra Ozdemir, A. Brett Hauber |
| Eliciting Willingness to Pay without Bias using Follow-up Certainty Statements: Comparisons between Probably/Definitely and a 10-point Certainty Scale | Glenn C. Blomquist | University of Kentucky | Authors: Glenn C. Blomquist, Karen Blumenschein, Magnus Johannesson |
| Comparison of physician and patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening using a discrete choice experiment | Deborah Marshall | McMaster University | Authors: Deborah A. Marshall, F. Reed Johnson, Nathalie A. Kulin, Semra Ozdemir, Kathryn Phillips, John Marshall, Stephanie van Bebber, Judith Walsh |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Emerging trends in activity based funding | Chair: Tor Iversen | Discussant: James Burgess | |
| The Association of DRG-Based Financing with Case-Mix Adjusted Costs and Quality of Healthcare in OECD Countries: Evidence from Recent Implementations | Dana A. Forgione | University of Texas at San Antonio | Authors: Dana A Forgione, Thomas E.Vermeer, John A. Wrieden, Irvine Lapsley, Inger Johanne Pettersen |
| Efficiency effects from a move towards activity-based payments to hospitals | Pedro Pitra Barros | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Authors: Pedro Pita Barros |
| Heterogeneity in hospitals' responses to a financial reform: a random coefficient analysis of the impact of activity-based financing on efficiency in Norway | Erik Biorn | University of Oslo | Authors: Erik Biorn, Terje P. Hagen, Tor Iversen |
| Activity based funding in the English NHS: measuring the effect on quality | Shelley Farrar | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Shelley Farrar, Deokhee Yi, Matt Sutton, Anthony Scott, Martin Chalkley |
| Emerging Trends in Quality Purchasing Through Pay for Performance in the Hospital Sector in the United States | Gary J. Young | Boston University School of Public Health | Authors: James F. Burgess, Jr., Dan Berlowitz, Barbara G. Bokhour, Mark Meterko, Karen M. Sautter, Bert White, Gary J. Young |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Discrete Choice in Physician Care | Chair: Hong Wang | ||
| A role for qualitative research in discrete choice experiments: A case study of 'Advanced Access' to general practice services in England | Karen Gerard | University of Southampton | Authors: Karen Gerard, Catherine Pope, Chris Salisbury, Jon Banks, Val Lattimer |
| Decisions About Pap Tests: What Influences Women And Providers? | Marion Haas | Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation | Authors: Marion Haas, Denzil Fiebig, Ishrat Hossain, Rosalie Viney |
| Modelling heterogeneity in patients' preferences for the attributes of a general practitioner appointment | Arne Risa Hole | University of York | Authors: Arne Risa Hole |
| Which preferred providers are really preferred? Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment | Lieke Boonen | Authors: Lieke Boonen | |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Substance Abuse 2 | Chair: Joan Costa-i-Font | ||
| Is cannabis a gateway to hard drugs? | Hans Olav Melberg | University of Oslo/Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research | Authors: Hans Olav Melberg, Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen, Andrew Jones |
| Measuring intermediate outcomes: the economic evaluation of young peoples' substance misuse interventions | Kevin Marsh | Matrix RCL | Authors: Kevin Marsh |
| Is health really the link between alcohol and wage? A study on alcohol related medical care costs of low alcohol consumption | Johan Jarl | Lund University | Authors: Johan Jarl, Ulf Gerdtham |
| Priority Setting in the Prevention of Illicit Drug Use | Chris Doran | University of Queensland | Authors: Chris Doran |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Utilization | Chair: Jan Askildsen | ||
| Decomposing the Effect of Medicaid on Emergency Department Use | Karoline Mortensen | Rice University | Authors: Karoline Mortensen, Paula Song |
| Prenatal Care Utilization and its Effects on Infant Health in Samples of Normal versus Abnormal Births from South America | Robert Ohsfeldt | Texas A & M | Authors: George L Wehby, Jeffrey C. Murray, Jorge Lopez-Camelo, Eduardo E. Castilla, Robert L. Ohsfeldt |
| An inter-state analysis of emerging health care utilisation pattern in India | Arun Bahuleyan Nair | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Arun Bahuleyan Nair, Varatharajan Durairaj |
| From Best Evidence to Best Practice - Effect of Guidelines-Based Practice on Patient Outcomes and Health Care Utilization | Dan MacCarthy | British Columbia Medical Association | Authors: Dan MacCarthy, Liza Kallstrom |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Employer-Based Health Insurance | Chair: Jaume Puig | ||
| Risky Business: Could Employment-Based Health Insurance Protect The Urban Poor Of Bangladesh? | Sangeeta Mookherji | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Authors: Sangeeta Mookherji, David Bishai |
| The Effect of Mandatory Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance on Workers' Wages | Gerard Russo | University of Hawaii | Authors: Gerard Russo, Sang-Hyop Lee, Rui Wang, Thamana Lekprichakul |
| Premium Growth between 1997 and 2004 and Its Effect on Employer-Sponsored Insurance | Jessica Vistnes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Authors: Jessica Vistnes, Thomas Selden |
| Evaluating Health Plan Benefit Change: A Finite Mixture Model Approach | Nilay Shah | Mayo Clinic | Authors: Nilay Shah, Benjamin Craig, Ritesh Banerjee, Sidna Scheitel, James Naessens |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Equity | Chair: John Cawley | ||
| Measurement Of Equity In Irish Health Care Financing. Updating Analysis From The 1980s And Investigation Of Measurement Issues In The Irish Context | Samantha Smith | Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland | Authors: Samantha Smith |
| Equity in health care use in Canada and its provinces | Sara Allin | LSE | Authors: Sara Allin |
| Burden Space Measures Of Equity: Determinants For Impoverishment And Catastrophic Payments | Federico Spandonaro | University of Rome Tor Vergata | Authors: Federico Spandonaro, Marco Doglia |
| Using NHA And DHS Indicators To Assess Equity In LAC | Magdalena Rathe | Fundacion Plenitud | Authors: Magdalena Rathe, Laura Rathe |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Determinants of health | Chair: Matthew Jowett | ||
| The Puzzling SES Gradients in Costa Rican Adult Health and Mortality | William Dow | University of California, Berkeley | Authors: William Dow, Luis Rosero-Bixby |
| Dying Slowly but Surely: A Multi-Period Model of the Delayed Effects of Pathological BMI on All-Cause Mortality of US Adults, 2000 - 2005 | Albert A. Okunade | University of Memphis | Authors: Albert A. Okunade, Chutima Suraratdecha, Adeyinka Kevin Okunade, Mustafa Karakus, Deepraj Mukherjee |
| Determinants of health of people living in the community and institutions | Keiko Asakawa | University of Alberta | Authors: Keiko Asakawa, David Feeny, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Jeffrey Johnson, Darryl Rolfson |
| Demand for Sanitation in Salvador/Brazil | Andreia Costa Santos | LSHTM | Authors: Andreia Costa Santos |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Issues in Mental Health | Chair: John T Hsu | ||
| Development of and preliminary results of a survey instrument to measure the family costs associated with child mental health conditions | Frances Lynch | Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente | Authors: Frances Lynch, Nancy Vuckovic, Jennifer Schneider, Allison Firemark |
| Befriending Carers of People with Dementia: A Cost Utility Analysis | Edward Wilson | Authors: Edward CF Wilson, Mariamma Thalanany, Lee Shepstone, Georgina Charlesworth, Fiona Poland, Miranda Mugford | |
| Antidepressant and Counseling Utilization Among Older Women with Low Income in the United States | Virginia Wilcox-Gok | Northern Illinois University | Authors: Virginia Wilcox-Gok |
| Early Intervention Services (EIS) for people with serious mental illness: An econometric analysis | Billingsley Kaambwa | University of Birmingham | Authors: Billingsley Kaambwa, Stirling Bryan, Helen Lester, Helen Rodgers, Nicola Morris-Jones, Max Birchwood |
| Monday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Insuring the Poor 1 | Chair: Kathryn Antioch | ||
| Risk Pooling Insurance, Self-Insurance And Self-Protection: Regional Study On Politics For Protecting The Poor From Health Shocks --The Case Of Colombia | Ricardo Bitran | Bitran y Asociados | Authors: Ricardo Bitran, Ursula Giedion, Rodrigo Muñoz |
| Effects of regulation on the market concentration in the subsidized insurance in Colombia | Liz Garavito | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | Authors: Liz Garavito, Fernando Ruiz |
| Applying Propensity Score Matching to assess the impact of community health insurance on the demand for health care in rural Burkina Faso | Devendra Prasad Gnawali | Heidelberg University | Authors: Devendra Prasad Gnawali, Subhash Pokhrel, Mamado Sanon, Manuela De Allegri, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Medisave as An Option for Financial Risk Protection: A Field-Based Medisave Model for Rural Women in Karnataka, India | Varatharajan Durairaj | World Health Organzation | Authors: Varatharajan Durairaj, Muralikannan Marimuthu, Saji Saraswathy Gopalan |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Implementing economic evidence through Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs): International experience | Chair: Mike Drummond | Discussants: Ron Akehurst, Mark Sculpher, Werner Brouwer | |
| Integrating economic evidence into Guidelines Practice Guidelines and clinical practice: National and health services perspectives in Australia | Kathryn Antioch | Monash University | Authors: Kathryn Antioch, Michael Walsh |
| Moving from health economic models to budget impact to encourage implementation | Jennifer Field | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, London UK | Authors: Jennifer Field, Joanne Lord, Gillian Leng, Michael Drummond |
| Implementation of economic-based clinical practice guidelines: top-down and bottom-up approaches in The Netherlands | Louis Niessen | Erasmus MC University Medical Center | Authors: Louis Niessen, Frans Rutten |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Improving End-of-Life Care | Chair: Edward C. Norton | ||
| Is there a survival advantage of admission to a "high intensity" hospital? | Amber E. Barnato | University of Pittsburgh | Authors: Amber E. Barnato, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Maxwell H. Farrell, Judith R. Lave, Derek C. Angus |
| The Medicare Hospice Payment System: A Preliminary Consideration of Potential Refinements | Nancy Nicosia | RAND | Authors: Nancy Nicosia, Elaine Reardon, Joanne Lynn, Karl Lorenz, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin |
| Differences between Non-Profits and For-Profits in the Hospice Industry: Patient Selection and Quality | Sabina Ohri | University of California, Irvine and the Public Policy Institute of California | Authors: Sabina Ohri |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Inequalities of opportunities in health | Chair: Lise Rochaix | Discussants: Aki Tsuchiya, Andrew Jones, Cristina Masseria | |
| Disability and work: the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances | Maarten Lindeboom | VU University Amsterdam | Authors: Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw |
| Unfair inequalities in health and health care | Erik Schokkaert | KU Leuven | Authors: Marc Fleurbaey, Erik Schokkaert |
| Social background and parent's health : what are their impact on health status in adulthood ? | Alain Trannoy | EHESS | Authors: Sandy Tubeuf, Florence Jusot, Alain Trannoy, Marion Devaux |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Influences of policy and income on access to long-term care | Chair: Sally C. Stearns | ||
| The effect of economic status on care decisions: results arising from the Free Personal Care policy in Scotland | Paul McNamee | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Paul McNamee |
| Certificate of Need Regulation in the Nursing Home Industry: Has it Outlived its Usefulness? | Barbara Caldwell | Saint Leo University | Authors: Gabriel Picone, Barbara J. Caldwell |
| Effect of income on long-term care insurance coverage | France Weaver | Pennsylvania State University, US | Authors: France Weaver, Monika Setia, John Moran |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Comparable measurement of health | Chair: Christopher JL Murray | ||
| Response incomparability in self-reported mobility | Emre Özaltin | Harvard University | Authors: Emre Özaltin, Joshua A Salomon, Saeid Shahraz, Christopher JL Murray |
| Comparability of self-rated general health: findings from five national U.S. surveys | Joshua A Salomon | Harvard University | Authors: Joshua A Salomon, Shefali Oza, Christopher JL Murray |
| Comparability problems in "culture-fair" cognition tests | Saeid Shahraz | Harvard University | Authors: Saeid Shahraz, Emre Özaltin, Christopher JL Murray, Joshua A Salomon |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Informal care: economic approaches | Chair: Stephen Birch | ||
| More, less, or all the same? The difference midlife caregiving makes for women's adjustment | Ulrike Schneider | Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration | Authors: Katharina Spiess, Ulrike Schneider |
| Understanding the preferences of informal caregivers providing palliative care at home | Jane Hall | University of Technology, Sydney | Authors: Jane Hall, Jordan Louviere, Patsy Kenny |
| External effects of paying informal caregivers | Bernard van den Berg | VU University Amsterdam | Authors: Bernard van den Berg |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Innovative models of the demand for health care services | Chair: Willard G. Manning | Discussants: Vanessa Azzone, M. Kate Bundorf, James Burgess | |
| Effects of patient copayments on retention in substance abuse and mental health treatment | Dominic Hodgkin | Brandeis University | Authors: Dominic Hodgkin, Elizabeth L. Merrick, Constance M. Horgan |
| Optimal insurance with multiple health goods | Randall P. Ellis | Boston University | Authors: R.P. Ellis, W..G. Manning |
| Spatial competition and market definition in the nursing home industry | Aditi Mehta | Boston University | Authors: Aditi Mehta |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: HIV/AIDS & Work | Chair: Kathleen Carey | ||
| Exploring the impact of HIV/AIDS and its treatment on individual worker, team and firm level productivity in South Africa | Debbie Muirhead | Aurum Institute for Health Research | Authors: Debbie Muirhead, Lilani Kumaranayake, Nigel Rice |
| Absenteeism And Separation From The Labour Force: What Is The HIV Impact? | Lilani Kumaranayake | LSHTM | Authors: Lilani Kumaranayake, Gavin Churchyard, Salome Charalambous |
| Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa | Jane Fortson | Princeton University | Authors: Jane Fortson |
| Are Healthy People More Trusting or Trustworthy? Evidence from Experimental Economics Games in Rural Malawi | Li-Wei Chao | Authors: Li-Wei Chao | |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Prescription Insurance | Chair: Kelly Makarounas-Kirchmann | ||
| The Effects of Taiwan's Prescription Drug Reimbursement Rate Reduction Policy on the Average Price of Drugs Used in the National Health Insurance Program - The Case of Elderly Diabetes Patients' Drug Utilization | Likwang Chen | Authors: Likwang Chen | |
| Managing Prescription Drug versus Total Health Care Expenditures: The Implications of Medicare Part D | Marisa E. Domino | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Authors: Marisa E. Domino |
| Should Healthy Medicare Beneficiaries Buy FFS Medicare Drug Coverage? | Adam Atherly | Emory University | Authors: Adam Atherly, Bryan Dowd |
| Linking Social Health Insurance, Essential Drug Program and Private Pharmacies: The Case of the Revolving Drug Insurance Fund in Southern Leyte, Philippines | Konrad Obermann | Authors: Konrad Obermann | |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Marketing Pharmaceuticals | Chair: Kosali Simon | ||
| Socio-economic Status and Free Medication Samples | James Zhang | University of Chicago | Authors: James Zhang |
| On Pharmaceuticals and Price Sensitivity | Niels Skipper | University of Aarhus | Authors: Niels Skipper, Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper |
| Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade in Europe: Stakeholder and competition effects | Divya Srivastava | LSE | Authors: Divya Srivastava, Panos Kanavos, Joan Costa-Font |
| Pharmaceutical Detailing and Medication Choice: A Micro-Level Analysis of Statins | Gregory Kruse | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Gregory Kruse |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Access | Chair: Tamara Konetzka | ||
| Use of Elective Surgery in Public Hospitals: Modelling Access-Cost Quality Trade-offs in a Spatial Framework | Anurag Sharma | Monash University | Authors: Anurag Sharma, Anthony Harris, Jeff Richardson |
| Barriers to Health Care and Role of Health Insurance Among Non-Elderly Women with Disabilities | Jaeun Shin | KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea | Authors: Jaeun Shin, Sangho Moon |
| Impact of Payer Type on the Utilization of Drug-Eluting Stents for Patients With and Without Acute Myocardial Infarction | Kirsten Hall Long | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine | Authors: Kirsten Hall Long, Nilay D. Shah, Ritesh Banerjee, Douglas L. Wood, Charanjit S. Rihal, Henry H. Ting |
| Effects Of Market-Oriented Reforms On Small Area Socio-Economic Inequality Of Utilization In The English NHS 1991-2001 | Richard Cookson | University of York | Authors: Richard Cookson, Mark Dusheiko, Geoffrey Hardman |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Obesity and Health | Chair: Konstantin Beck | ||
| The Effect of Obesity on Hospitalization | Euna Han | Authors: Euna Han | |
| Estimating hospital resource utilization for illnesses caused and aggravated by obesity | Katharina Hauck | Monash University | Authors: Katharina Hauck, Bruce Hollingsworth |
| Impact of concomitant obesity on health care resource consumption in patients with diabetes | Ernst-Günther Hagenmeyer | Institute for Healthcare and Social Research (IGES), Ltd. | Authors: Ernst-Günther Hagenmeyer, Thomas von Lengerke, Holger Gothe, Guido Schiffhorst, Michael Happich, Bertram Haeussler |
| Fast-food restaurant density and obesity | Richard A. Dunn | UW-Madison | Authors: Richard A. Dunn |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Innovation | Chair: Steven Kymes | ||
| Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Health Care Technology Assessment Procedures | Tomas Philipson | University of Chicago & NBER | Authors: Tomas Philipson, Anupam B. Jena |
| Medical innovation in presence of new practice adoption cascades | Jaehee Lee | Korea Economic Research Institute | Authors: Jaehee Lee |
| Reimbursement Of New Health Technologies In A DRG-System | Stéphanie Briswalter | GlaxoSmithKline GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, Germany | Authors: Stéphanie Briswalter, Robert Welte |
| Research and Innovation Behaviour of German Medical Devices Industry - Empirical Analysis and Health Policy Assessment | Bulent Akmaz | Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg, Germany | Authors: Bulent Akmaz |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Cancer Screening | Chair: Lisa Gold | ||
| Ethnic enclaves, safety net location and cancer screening: Amenity or Penalty? | Ninez Ponce | UCLA School of Public Health | Authors: Ninez Ponce |
| Cost-Effectiveness Of Population-Based Screening For Colorectal Cancer In Hong Kong Chinese | Pauline Woo | University of Hong Kong | Authors: Pauline Woo, TK Cheung, Karen Kuntz, Eddy Lam, Benjamin Wong, Gabriel Leung |
| Funding the Breast Cancer Screening Program in Croatia: a discrete choice experiment | Ana Bobinac | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: Ana Bobinac, Ana Bobinac, Xander Koolman, Marc Koopmanschap, Mirna Bobinac |
| Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted vs. Tailored Interventions to Promote Mammography Screening Among Women Military Veterans in the United States | David Lairson | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Authors: David Lairson, Wenyaw Chan, Yu-Chia Chang, Yen-Peng Li, Sally Vernon |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Primary Care | Chair: Laura Argys | ||
| Characteristics of demand for antibiotics in primary care: a linear approximate almost ideal demand system approach | Giuliano Masiero | University of Lugano | Authors: Giuliano Masiero, Rui Li |
| The Efficiency of Philippine Provinces in Providing Primary Health Care Programs | Rouselle Lavado | Hitotsubashi University | Authors: Rouselle Lavado |
| Primary Care Characteristics and their Impact on Health Care Expenditures | Lippi Bruni Matteo | University of Bologna | Authors: Lippi Bruni Matteo, Gianluca Fiorentini, Cristina Ugolini |
| A Disease Management Programme For Secondary Prevention Of Coronary Heart Disease And Heart Failure In Primary Care : A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | David Turner | University of Southampton | Authors: David Turner, Sanjoy Paul, Margaret Stone, Iain Squire, Ariadna Juarez-Garcia, Kamlesh Khunti |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Norwegian Hospital Reform | Chair: Bengt Jönsson | Discussant: Toni Ashton | |
| Hospital reform and hospital efficiency - a Nordic comparative study | Sverre Kittelsen | University of Oslo | Authors: Jon Magnussen, Sverre Kittelsen |
| Prioritization and patients' rights: Does the hospital reform lead to more equal practises among hospitals? | Jan Erik Askildsen | Health Economics Bergen | Authors: Jan Erik Askildsen, Oddvar Kaarbøe, Tor Helge Holmås |
| Allocation of labour to somatic and psychiatric specialist care - The influence of a hospital owner reform on earmarked grant effects | Jorid Kalseth | SINTEF Health | Authors: Vidar Halsteinli, Jorid Kalseth, Solveig O Ose |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Recent Developments In Economic Evaluation Methods Guidelines for Decision Making: Experience from Four Countries | Chair: Michael Drummond | Discussant: Mark Sculpher | |
| Review of cost-utility analysis guidelines in New Zealand | Rachel Grocott | PHARMAC (Pharmaceutical Management Agency) | Authors: Rachel Grocott, Rico Schoeler |
| Economic Evaluation Guidelines in Canada - Recent Developments | Karen Lee | Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) | Authors: Karen Lee |
| Learning from experience: revision of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee Guidelines | Andrew Mitchell | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing | Authors: Andrew Mitchell, Rosalie Viney |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Investing in Health | Chair: David Hotchkiss | Discussants: Stephen Jan, Rob Baltussen, Obinna Emmanuel Onwujekwe, Arnab Acharya | |
| The moral economy of investing in child health: considerations in resource poor settings | Daniel Reidpath | Brunel University | Authors: Daniel Reidpath, Pascale Allotey, Subhash Pokhrel |
| Time preference from an economist's and anthropologist's perspective | Rainer Sauerborn | Heidelberg University | Authors: Rainer Sauerborn, Adijma Gbangou, M Sanou, Hengjin Dong, M van der Pol |
| The implications of socially entrusted decision-making on willingness to pay (WTP): the case of insectide treated nets (ITNs) in India | Julia Fox-Rushby | Brunel University | Authors: Julia Fox-Rushby, Subhash Pokhrel, Laura Vallejo-Torres, Mrigesh Bhatia |
| Ownership and use of insecticide-treated nets in sub-Saharan Africa: households striking a balance between economic considerations and normative socio-cultural expectations | Subhash Pokhrel | Brunel University | Authors: Manuela De Allegri, Subash Pokhrel, Bocar Kouyaté, Justin Tiendrebéogo, Albrecht Jahn, Olaf Müller |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Issues in private insurance for mental health and substance abuse | Chair: Frances Lynch | ||
| Benefit limits for behavioral health care in private US health plans | Dominic Hodgkin | Brandeis University | Authors: Dominic Hodgkin, Constance M. Horgan, Deborah W. Garnick, Elizabeth L. Merrick |
| Comparison of Mental Health Service Utilization across Different Types of Insurance - Evidence from a Multicultural Sample in the United States | Zhun Cao | Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School | Authors: Zhun Cao, Margarita Alegria |
| Effect of Parity Legislation on Substance Abuse Treatment | Vanessa Azzone | Harvard University | Authors: Vanessa Azzone, Richard G. Frank, Sharon-Lise Normand, Thomas G. McGuire |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Lessons from an American Integrated Delivery System: What Translates to a European Setting? | Chair: Murray N. Ross | ||
| Self-Management and Integrated Care: A Comparison of the Danish Health System and Kaiser Permanente | Anne Frolich | Bispebjerg Hospital and University of Copenhagen | |
| The Kaiser Permanente/NHS Exchange: What Have We Learned? | Christopher J. Ham | University of Birmingham | |
| Population-Oriented Integrated Care: Does Kaiser Permanente Offer Lessons for Germany? | Sophia Schlette | Ministry of Health, Germany | |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Limited Service Facilities in the U.S. Hospital Industry | Chair: Jim Burgess | Discussants: Robert Ohsfeldt, Gary Fournier, Jonathan Sunshine | |
| The Effects of Single Specialty Hospital Entry on Hospital Market Competition | Kathleen Carey | Boston University School of Public Health | Authors: Kathleen Carey, Jim Burgess, Gary Young |
| Utilization Changes Associated with Physician Ownership of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) | Jean M. Mitchell | Georgetown University | Authors: Jean M. Mitchell |
| Spatial Competition in the U.S. Hospital Industry and the Economic Effects of Specialty Hospital Entry | John E. Schneider | University of Iowa | Authors: John E. Schneider, Robert Oshfeldt |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Micro Health Insurance - Gaining Insight From Being On-Site | Chair: Peter C. Smith | ||
| Reinsurance as an alternative to capital in micro health insurance - A simulated exercise to compare the cost of the alternatives | John Armstrong | Voluntary Health Insurance Board of Ireland | Authors: John Armstrong, David M. Dror |
| Improving the distributional impact of an Indian community-based health insurance scheme among its rural membership: cluster-randomised controlled trial | Anne J. Mills | LSHTM | Authors: M Kent Ranson, Tara Sinha, Mirai Chatterjee, Fenil Gandhi, Rupal Jayswal, Falguni Patel, Saul S Morris, Anne J Mills |
| Drop-out analysis of community-based health insurance membership at Nouna, Burkina Faso | Hengjin Dong | University of Heidelberg | Authors: Hengjin Dong, Devendra Gnawali, Manuela De Allegri, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Financial protection at the bottom of the pyramid: Evidence from India on the impact of micro health insurance on households | Edit V. Velenyi | University of York | Authors: Edit V. Velenyi, David M. Dror |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Choice | Chair: Louis W Niessen | ||
| A Step Past the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index: Developing and Applying an Index to Examine the Effectiveness of Choice Reforms in the United States and United Kingdom | Zachary Cooper | LSE | Authors: Zachary Cooper |
| The effect of retirement on the probability to switch of private health Insurance company | Marc Perronnin | IRDES | Authors: Marc Perronnin, Carine Franc, Aurelie Pierre |
| Sickness Fund Competition in Germany: The Impact of Print Media Advertising on Public Health Insurance Switching | Silke Uebelmesser | Authors: Silke Uebelmesser | |
| Using data on hypothetical choices by potential consumers to estimate the welfare effects of changes in health care and health insurance services | Milena Pavlova | Maastricht University | Authors: Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Paying Doctors | Chair: Benjamin M. Craig | ||
| Effectiveness of paying physicians for performance in terms of achievement of health care service delivery goals | Dominika Wranik | Dalhousie University | Authors: Dominika Wranik |
| Wage differentials among general practitioners in Norway | Afsaneh Bjorvatn | University of Bergen | Authors: Afsaneh Bjorvatn, Jan Erik Askildsen, Hugh Gravelle |
| Multitasking in Physician Office Visits: Implications for Physician Payments | Ming Tai-Seale | Texas A & M | Authors: Ming Tai-Seale, Thomas McGuire |
| Do we pay our doctors equitably? | Paola Pesci | Azienda Sanitaria di Bologna (Italy) | Authors: Paola Pesci, Francesca Isola |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Hospital Efficiency | Chair: Liqun Liu | ||
| The Relationship between Hospital Cost Inefficiency and Debt Ratings | Patrick Bernet | Florida Atlantic University | Authors: Patrick Bernet, Michael Rosko, Vivian Valdmanis |
| Efficiency and ownership of German hospitals: A stochastic frontier analysis | Annika Frohloff | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Authors: Annika Frohloff |
| Efficiency of the German hospital sector: evidence after the German reunification | Gunnar Dittrich | TU Dresden | Authors: Gunnar Dittrich, Alexander Karmann |
| The Efficiency Impact of Medicare's Rural Hospital Flexibility Program | Michael Rosko | Authors: Michael Rosko | |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Prevention | Chair: Lee Mobley | ||
| Do Health Shocks Affect Preventive Behavior? | Padmaja Ayyagari | Duke University | Authors: Padmaja Ayyagari |
| Why Do People Decline Free Preventive Health Care? | Katie Carman | Tilburg University | Authors: Katie Carman, Peter Kooreman |
| Inequities in prevention of malaria: Experiences with bednet utilisation from a low-income setting in Tanzania | Fred Matovu | Makerere University & LSHTM | Authors: Fred Matovu, Catherine Goodman, Virginia Wiseman |
| Rosiglitazone: The not so magic bullet for diabetes | Melanie Bertram | University of Queensland | Authors: Melanie Bertram |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Nursing | Chair: Marcos Vera-Hernandez | ||
| RN Educational Level and the Decision to Work in Hospitals | Lynn Unruh | University of Central Florida | Authors: Lynn Unruh |
| Registered Nurse Employment Behaviour | Michelle Cunich | University of Sydney | Authors: Michelle Cunich, Stephen Whelan |
| The Importance of Nurse Employment Categories in Determining Exit Rates from Nursing | Frieda Waisberg | University of Toronto | Authors: Frieda Waisberg, A Laporte, C Levinton, R Deber, A Baumann, L O'Brien-Pallas |
| Nursing Assistant Retention and Turnover: Effects of Wages & Benefits Relative to Other Individual & Facility Characteristics | Sally Stearns | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Authors: Sally Stearns, Jeongyoung Park |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Economic Evaluation Methodology | Chair: Marc Saez | ||
| The Effect Of Different Types Of Survival Curves To Extrapolate Observed Events From A 1-Year Rct To Lifetime - The Case Of Eptifibatide Use In Coronary Stenting | Sarah Dewilde | United BioSource Corporation | Authors: Sarah Dewilde, Robert Welte, Bernd Brüggenjürgen, Stefan Willich |
| How useful are disease specific reference cases for improving economic evaluations? a systematic review | Nick Bansback | University of British Columbia | Authors: Nick Bansback, Annelies Boonen, Hans Severens, Aslam Anis |
| Covariate adjusted confidence intervals for the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio in non randomized trails, comparing Fieller- and bootstrap methods. An example from the SARAH Study | Bernd Schweikert | GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health | Authors: Bernd Schweikert |
| Pros and cons of event based modelling in economic evaluation | Martin Henriksson | Linköping University | Authors: Martin Henriksson |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Maternal Health | Chair: Marcelo Delajara | ||
| Association between Mode of Delivery and Maternal Rehospitalization: Vaginal vs. Elective Cesareans | Tsai-Ching Liu | National Taipei University | Authors: Tsai-Ching Liu, Chin-Shyan Chen |
| Financial barriers to the procurement of maternal and newborn care services in rural Bangladesh | Amnesty LeFevre | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Authors: Amnesty LeFevre, Hugh Waters, Saifuddin Ahmed, Sabbir Hyder, Shams El Arifeen, Uzma Syed, AH Baqui et al |
| A Feasibility Study on Demand Side Financing (DSF) in Maternal Healthcare Services at Rural Bangladesh | Azaher Ali Molla | Dhaka University, IHE | Authors: Azaher Ali Molla |
| Cost of obstetric care and economic consequences for the households: Are poor mother protected? Lessons from two districts in Indonesia | Mardiati Nadjib | University of Indonesia | Authors: Mardiati Nadjib, Zahidul Quayyum, Tim Ensor, Purwa Kurnia Sucahya, Amila Megraini |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Childhood Health | Chair: Martin Henriksson | ||
| Coping with some adverse events during childhood protects health | Georges Menahem | IRDES | Authors: Georges Menahem |
| The Tradeoff between Family Size and Child Health in the United States | Daniel Rees | University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center | Authors: Daniel Rees, Brian Duncan |
| Quantifying the Cost of Passive Smoking on Child Health: Evidence from Children's Cotinine Samples | Michael Shields | Authors: Michael Shields | |
| Indoor Air Pollution, Child Health and Fuel Subsidies in Guatemala | Atheendar Venkataramani | Yale University | Authors: Atheendar Venkataramani, Brian Fried |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 2.01 | |
| Session: Medical Research and Development | Chair: Henry Grabowski | ||
| The Globalization of Clinical Trials for New Medicines: Where Are the Trials Going and Why? | Ernst Berndt | MIT | Authors: Ernst R. Berndt, Iain M. Cockburn, Fabio Thiers |
| The Cost of Biopharmaceutical R&D: Is Biotech Different? | Joe DiMasi | Tufts University | Authors: Joseph A. DiMasi, Henry G. Grabowski |
| Follow-On Bans and Patent Races: Evidence from Pharmaceuticals | David Ridley | Duke University | Authors: James J. Anton, David B. Ridley |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Modeling the Economics of AIDS Vaccines | Chair: Robert Hecht | ||
| Assessing the Global Demand for Preventive AIDS Vaccines | Gian Gandhi | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative | Authors: Gian Gandhi, Robert Hecht, Shilpa Vuthoori |
| Modeling the Impact of AIDS Vaccines | John Stover | Futures Institute | Authors: John Stover, Lori Bollinger, Robert Hecht, Clara Williams |
| HIV Vaccine R&D - Modeling the Path to Speedier Success | Holly Wong | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative | Authors: Holly Wong, Chris Gingerich, Katherine White, Josh Michaud |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Moving towards equity: how can policy implementation be strengthened? | Chair: Di McIntyre | ||
| The CREHS case studies: an economist's view of what they add to understanding of policy implementation | Umakant Dash | Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | |
| What influences how policies are implemented and with what gains? An overview of the CREHS case studies in Africa and Asia | Lucy Gilson | University of Witwatersrand/LSHTM | |
| The CREHS case studies: developing the field of policy analysis | Ermin Erasmus | Univesity of Witwatersrand | |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: New challenges for Latin American health systems | Chair: Jaume Puig | ||
| Contracting external primary care providers in Central America for better responsiveness, efficiency of health care and public governance: a framework for analysis | Jean Macq | Universite Libre de Bruxelles | |
| Catastrophic expenditure and co-morbidity in Chile | Aristides Torche | Universidad Católica de Chile | |
| Living Arrangement and the Role of Caregivers among Elderly in Latin America | Antonio J. Trujillo | University of Central Florida | |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: New Findings from Consumer Driven Health Plans | Chair: Stephen T. Parente | Discussant: Jeff McCullough | |
| High deductible health plans and health care spending: revisiting the Rand Health Insurance Experiment | Laurence Baker | Stanford University | Authors: Laurence Baker, M. Kate Bundorf, Anne Royalty |
| Demand for High-Deductible and "Consumer-Directed" Health Plans | Roland McDevitt | Authors: Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Roland McDevitt | |
| Do Economic Incentives in Consumer Directed Health Plans Affect Consumer Behavior? | Roger S. Feldman | University of Minnesota | Authors: Stephen T. Parent, Roger Feldman |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Non-financial Factors in Technology Adoption | Chair: Jean Mitchell | ||
| Enabling characteristics of mammography facilities: disparities based on racial/ethnic composition of location | Mythreyi Bhargavan | American College of Radiology | Authors: Mythreyi Bhargavan, Jonathan H. Sunshine |
| Productivity-Enhancing Technologies in Radiology: Which Practices Are Early Adopters and Which Do Without? | Jonathan H. Sunshine | American College of Radiology | Authors: Nikhil Nayak, Jonathan H. Sunshine, Cristian Meghe |
| The International Teleradiology Industry: Successes and Failures | Frank Levy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Authors: Frank Levy, Kyoung-Hee Yu |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Occupation, Retirement, and Health: Determining Causal Relationships? | Chair: Michael T. French | Discussants: Don Kenkel, Edward Norton, Maarten Lindeboom | |
| The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes | Dhaval Dave | Bentley College & NBER | Authors: Dhaval Dave, Inas Rashad, Jasmina Spasojevic |
| Health and Retirement in Europe | Andrew M. Jones | University of York | Authors: Ronald Hagan, Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice |
| How Occupation Affects Health: What are the Mechanisms? | Jody L. Sindelar | Yale University | Authors: Jody L. Sindelar, Jason M. Fletcher, Tracy Falba, Patricia Keenan, William T. Gallo |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Optimal Trial Design and Decision Making in Health Technology Assessment | Chair: Cam Donaldson | ||
| The global value of information: optimal trial design and decision making across jurisdictions | Simon Eckermann | Flinders University | Authors: Simon Eckermann, Andy Willan |
| Applying a Bayesian approach to the iterative process of health technology assessment | Elisabeth Fenwick | University of Glasgow | Authors: Elisabeth Fenwick, Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher, Steve Palmer, Keith Abrams, Alex Sutton |
| Optimal decision making and trial design within jurisdiction | Andy Willan | SickKids Research Institute and University of Toronto | Authors: Andy Willan, Simon Eckermann |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Employment | Chair: Marty Makinen | ||
| Health-Related Quality of Life in the Homeless | Sun Sun | Stockholm County Council | Authors: Sun Sun, Robert Irestig, Kristina Burström, Bo Burström |
| The Effects of Unemployment on Childbearing | Andrea Kutinova | University of Canterbury | Authors: Andrea Kutinova |
| Measuring the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mortality | Henrik Lindegaard Andersen | AKF, Institute of Local Government Studies - Denmark | Authors: Henrik Lindegaard Andersen |
| Maternal Employment and Overweight Children in the United Kingdom | Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder | University of Bristol | Authors: Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Willingness-to-Pay | Chair: Martin Brown | ||
| Sensitivity of Community Values to Economic Valuation Technique: Evidence and Explanations | Lisa Gold | Authors: Lisa Gold | |
| Household demand for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in Surat, India: moving from willingness to pay for one to many ITNs | Laura Vallejo-Torres | Brunel University | Authors: Laura Vallejo-Torres, Julia Fox-Rushby, Subhash Pokhrel, Mrigesh Bhatia |
| What does Willingness-to-Pay reveal about hospital market power in merger cases? | Gary Fournier | Florida State University | Authors: Gary Fournier, Yunwei Gai |
| Comparing Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept elicited with a Discrete Choice Experiment | Janneke Grutters | University Hospital Maastricht | Authors: Janneke P.C. Grutters, Alfons G.H. Kessels, Carmen D. Dirksen, Debby van Helvoort-Postulart, Lucien J.C. Anteunis, Manuela A. Joore |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Supplementary Health Insurance | Chair: Morris Barer | ||
| Supplemental Health Insurance And Equality Of Access In Belgium | Carine Van de Voorde | KCE (Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center) | Authors: Carine Van de Voorde |
| Dental Health, the Probability of Dental Insurance Coverage and Utilization of Dental Care | Katherine McCann | University of Delaware | Authors: Katherine McCann, Charles Link |
| Do financial incentives for supplementary private health insurance reduce pressure on the public system? Evidence from Australia | Elizabeth Savage | University of Technology, Sydney | Authors: Elizabeth Savage, Mingshan Lu |
| The Effect of Supplemental Private Health Insurance on Health Care Purchases, Health and Welfare in Brazil | John Nyman | University of Minnesota | Authors: John Nyman, Nathan Barleen |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Discrete Choice Design | Chair: Mickael Bech | ||
| Alternative Approaches to Deriving Welfare Estimates in Discrete Choice Experiments | Michela Tinelli | Authors: Michela Tinelli, Mandy Ryan, Maria Odejar | |
| Heterogeneous designs for discrete choice experiments using prior beliefs | Dean Regier | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Dean Regier, Mandy Ryan, Euan Phimister, Carlo Marra |
| Does the Number of Choice Sets Matter? Results from a Web Survey Applying Discrete Choice Experiment | Trine Kjaer | University of Southern Denmark | Authors: Trine Kjaer, Mickael Bech, Jørgen Lauridsen |
| Choosing not to choose: Considering serial nonparticipation in discrete choice experiments | Verity Watson | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Verity Watson, Mabel Amaya-Amaya |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Hospital Utilization | Chair: Mike Drummond | ||
| Predicting the Length of Hospital Stay after Stroke Episode in Italy | Aleksandra Torbica | Bocconi University | Authors: Aleksandra Torbica, Giovanni Aguzzi, Giovanni Fattore |
| International Differences in Length of Stay and Discharge Destination following Hospitalizaiton for Acute Myocardial Infarction | Teresa Kauf | University of Florida | Authors: Teresa Kauf |
| Predicting the impact of public health interventions in cardio-vascular disease risk factors on the number and cost of acute hospital admissions over a five to ten year period | Malcolm David Whitfield | University of Sheffield | Authors: Malcolm David Whitfield, Michael Gillett |
| The Effect of a Tiered Hospital Benefit and Safety Incentive on Hospital Admissions: Evidence from Stated and Revealed Preference Data | Dennis Scanlon | Pennsylvania State University | Authors: Dennis Scanlon, Richard Lindrooth, Jon Christianson |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Utility Measurement | Chair: Michael Grossman | ||
| Comparison of minimal important differences' of the EQ-5D and SF-6D utilities in patients with paranoid schizophrenia' | Oliver Guenther | University Leipzig | Authors: Oliver Guenther, Hans-Helmut König |
| Should Measures Of Utility Derived From The EQ-5D Be Used For Predicting Outcomes Of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes? | Philip Clarke | University of Sydney | Authors: Philip Clarke, Alison Hayes, Paul Glasziou, John Simes, Tony Keech |
| Mapping SF-36 onto the EQ-5D index: how stable is the relationship? | Donna Rowen | University of Sheffield | Authors: Donna Rowen, Fotios Psarras, John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts |
| Comparison Of Population Health Status In Six European Countries: Results Of A Representative Survey Using The EQ-5D Questionnaire | Hans-Helmut Koenig | University of Leipzig | Authors: Hans-Helmut Koenig, Sebastian Bernert, Matthias Angermeyer, Herbert Matschinger, Montse Martinez, Gemma Vilagut, Jordi Alonso |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Quality of Care | Chair: Mark Showalter | ||
| The connection between structure, process and outcomes of care within Germany exemplified by acute myocardial infarction | Ansgar Wuebker | WHL Graduate School of Economics | Authors: Ansgar Wuebker |
| Trade-Off Between Quality Of Care And Cost At The First Level Outpatient Facilities In Rural Bangladesh | Mahmud Khan | Tulane University | Authors: Mahmud Khan, Shams Arifeen |
| The Impact of Information Disclosure on Quality of Care in HMO Markets | Kyoungrae Jung | University of Minnesota | Authors: Kyoungrae Jung |
| Are teaching hospitals even better than we think? | Amol Navathe | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Amol Navathe, Jeffrey Silber, Paul Rosenbaum, Yanli Wang, Kevin Volpp |
| Tuesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Does What We Do Matter? | Chair: Jean Paul Moatti | ||
| Does Health Policy Really Work? Results from a Pooled Time Series Analysis of OECD countries | Bart Verbelen | CEPS/INSTEAD | Authors: Bart Verbelen |
| Does Cost-Effectiveness Influence Funding Decisions in Health: A Review of 245 Australian Health Economic Evaluations? | Leonie Segal | Uni SA | Authors: Leonie Segal |
| The Production of Published Research By U.S. Health Economists | Michael Morrisey | University of Alabama, Birmingham | Authors: Michael Morrisey |
| The use of economic evaluation for public health interventions‚ desert or oasis? A systematic review of the literature | David McDaid | LSE | Authors: David McDaid, Justin Needle |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Policy Perspectives on Obesity, Disability and the Vulnerable Populations | Chair: Tomas Philipson | Discussants: John Cook, Curtis Florence, John Cawley | |
| The Impact of Minimum Wage Mandate on Body Weight: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: 1984-2005 | David O. Meltzer | University of Chicago | Authors: David Meltzer, Zhuo (Adam) Chen |
| Income-Related Inequalities in Obesity and Disability in the United States, 1985-2004 | Kakoli Roy | CDC | Authors: Kakoli Roy, Zhuo (Adam) Chen, Anne C. Haddix, Stephen B. Thacker |
| Impact of Local Food Prices on the Relationship between Food Stamp Program Participation and Bodyweight Status of Adults in the South | Qi (Harry) Zhang | Old Dominion University | Authors: Qi (Harry) Zhang, Zhuo (Adam) Chen |
| Do Disability Rates Explain State Level Differences in the Quality of Medicare Beneficiary Medical Care | Brian Armour | CDC | Authors: Brian Armour, M. Melinda Pitts |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Insurance coverage and financial protection in former Soviet countries: lessons from the experience of Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova | Chair: Joseph Kutzin | Discussants: Peter C. Smith | |
| The depth of coverage - analyzing out-of-pocket payments and catastrophic risk in Estonia | Jarno Habicht | WHO | Authors: Jarno Habicht, Ke Xu, Joseph Kutzin, Agnes Couffinhal |
| Evaluating Effects of Health Care Reforms on Coverage in the Kyrgyz Republic 1991-2006 | Elina Manjieva | Center for Health System Development, Ministry of Health, Kyrgyzstan | Authors: Melitta Jakab, Elina Manjieva |
| Health finance reform in Moldova: a step backwards, two steps forward | Sergey Shishkin | Independent Institute for Social Policy, Moscow, Russia | Authors: Sergey Shishkin, Gintaras Kacevicius |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Intra-Household Dynamics and Disability | Chair: R. Tamara Konetzka | Discussants: Sally C. Stearns, France Weaver, Courtney Harold Van Houtven | |
| The Impact of Home-Improvement Service on Functional Prognosis and Formal Care Use under the Japanese Long-term Care Insurance System | Hideki Hashimoto | University of Tokyo | Authors: Hideki Hashimoto, Eiji Yano, Haruko Noguchi |
| A Dynamic Model of Policy and Health Effects on Living Arrangement Transitions of Elderly Persons | Brad Rice | Boston University | Authors: Liliana E. Pezzin, Judith A. Kasper, J. Bradford Rice |
| Marital Disruption, Disability and Longevity | Liliana E. Pezzin | Medical College of Wisconsin | Authors: Liliana E. Pezzin, Barbara S. Schone |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Preferences for Life Extensions vs Risk Reductions: Some Theoretical and Methodological Contributions | Chair: Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen | ||
| Small for all or gambling for the prize? | Dorte Gyrd-Hansen | DSI Danish Institute for Health Services Research | Authors: Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen |
| Loosing and gaining health: Depreciation and investment vs risks and prevention | Jan Abel Olsen | University of Tromsø | Authors: Jan Abel Olsen, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen |
| Statistical challenges in analysis of life extensions | Torbjørn Wisløff | Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services | Authors: Torbjørn Wisløff, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Productivity costs: compensated absenteeism and impaired presenteeism | Chair: Frans FH Rutten | ||
| Compensating mechanisms in paid working time: an exploration in a population of smokers | Silvia Evers | Maastricht University | Authors: Silvia Evers, Janneke Kaper, Werner B.F. Brouwer, A.(Lex) Burdorf, J. Hans L. Severens |
| More or less compensation while absent from work? | Marc Koopmanschap | Erasmus MC University Medical Center | Authors: Marc Koopmanschap, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Siok Swan Tan |
| Valuing reductions on on the job illness: presenteeism from managerial and economic perspective | Sean Nicholson | Cornell University | Authors: Sean Nicholson, Mark V. Pauly, Daniel Polsky, Marc L. Berger, Claire Sharda |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Quality and Incentives in Primary Care | Chair: Alan Maynard | ||
| The impact of quality perception on patients switching physicians in a list patient system | Tor Iversen | University of Oslo | Authors: Tor Iversen, Hilde Lurås |
| Paying for quality: British general practitioners' performance under the quality and outcomes framework | Matt Sutton | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Hugh Gravelle, Matt Sutton, Ada Ma |
| Incentives, Quality and the Primary Care: The Case of Depression | Richard G. Frank | Harvard University | Authors: Richard G. Frank, Max Kates |
| Incentives and the quality of primary care in Australia: do regional primary care organisations make a difference? | Anthony Scott | University of Melbourne | Authors: Anthony Scott, Bill Coote |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Rhetoric versus Reality: Major Issues in Social Health Insurance for Developing Countries | Chair: Philip Musgrove | ||
| Squeezing the Middle: enrolling informal sector workers into the national health insurance programme in the Philippines | Matthew Jowett | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) | Authors: Matthew Jowett |
| Challenges Facing Social Health Insurance in Devloping Nations | William C. Hsiao | Harvard School of Public Health | Authors: William C. Hsiao, K.T. Li |
| Effects of provider contracting and payments on cost and patient outcomes: Evidence from Thailand | Viroj Tangcharoensathien | Ministry of Public Health, Thailand | Authors: Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon, Chulaporn Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Infants and Health | Chair: Peter Zweifel | ||
| Health Endowments and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India | Arkadipta Ghosh | Pardee Rand Graduate School | Authors: Arkadipta Ghosh, Ashlesha Datar, Neeraj Sood |
| Women's Preferences and Child Survival in American History | Grant Miller | Stanford University | Authors: Grant Miller |
| Toxic Releases and Infant Health: Evidence from New Panel Data | Janet Currie | Columbia University | Authors: Janet Currie |
| The Effect of a Community Health Worker Home Visiting Randomized Trial on the Health of Newborn Children | Cristian Meghea | Michigan State University | Authors: Cristian Meghea |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Modelling | Chair: Konrad Obermann | ||
| Micro-simulation of implementing medical saving accounts in Hong Kong | Keith Tin | University of Hong Kong | Authors: Keith Tin, Wai-Sum Chan, Pak-Wing Fong, Gabriel M. Leung |
| A Two-Part Quantile Regression Model of Ambulatory Health Care Expenditures in Rural India | Bijan Borah | i3 Innovus | Authors: Bijan Borah |
| Using mixed treatment comparisons and meta-regression to perform indirect comparisons to estimate the efficacy of biologic treatments in Rheumatoid Arthritis | Richard Nixon | MRC Biostatistics Unit | Authors: Richard Nixon, Nick Bansback, Alan Brennan |
| Validation of health economic decision models, with application to abdominal aortic aneurysm screening | Lois Kim | UK Medical Research Council | Authors: Lois Kim, Simon G. Thompson, Helen E. Campbell, Andrew H. Briggs |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Physician Practice | Chair: Seiritsu Ogura | ||
| Knowledge of Healthcare Cost Taking into Consideration Treatment by the Primary Physician | Racheli Magnezi | The Ariel College of Judea and Samaria | Authors: Racheli Magnezi, Rachel Wilf-Miron, Lilach Elzam, Yaniv Kliker, Ron Kedem, Isaac Ashkenazi, Gil Fire |
| Physicians' Practice Choice in a Single Payer System: the Case of Clinicians in Taiwan | Mei-ling Sheu | Taipei Medical University | Authors: Mei-ling Sheu, Yue-chune Lee |
| Optimal Contractual Arrangements for Public on Private Physicians | Paula Gonzalez | Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla | Authors: Paula Gonzalez, Inés Macho-Stadler |
| Impact of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness on Provider's Time: A Multi-Country Analysis | Taghreed Adam | Authors: Taghreed Adam | |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Health Insurance Theory and Design | Chair: Francesco Paolucci | ||
| Broken Arrow | Robert Evans | University of British Columbia | Authors: Robert Evans, Kimberlyn McGrail, Morris Barer |
| Measuring Consumer Price Elasticities In Health Insurance: A New Approach | Rudy Douven | CPB, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis | Authors: Rudy Douven, Harm Lieverdink, Marco Ligthart, Ivan Vermeulen |
| Health Insurance Theory: The Case of the Missing Welfare Gain | John Nyman | University of Minnesota | Authors: John Nyman |
| Guaranteed Renewability in Health Insurance: How much Frontloading? | Patrick Eugster | University of Zurich | Authors: Patrick Eugster, Peter Zweifel |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Health Status 1 | Chair: Paul Grootendorst | ||
| Does Poor Health Cause Myopic Preferences? An Investigation of Time Preference in Townships around Durban, South Africa | Helena Szrek | Universidade do Porto | Authors: Helena Szrek, Li-Wei Chao, Nuno Sousa Pereira, Mark Pauly |
| A Qualitative Analysis of the Lottery Equivalents Method | Adam Oliver | Authors: Adam Oliver | |
| The Case For Reflection: Do Respondents Really Have Well Articulated Preferences Or Do They Need Time To Discuss And Reflect Before Making Their Health State Preference | Suzanne Robinson | University of Birmingham | Authors: Suzanne Robinson, Stirling Bryan, Tim Freeman |
| Preference-Based Methods For Valuing Health Gains In Children | Stavros Petrou | University of Oxford | Authors: Stavros Petrou |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Health Care Financing | Chair: Enrique Seoane-Vazquez | ||
| The Redistrbutive Effects of Health Care Financing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Decomposition Analysis Approach | Mohammad Abu-Zaineh | French National Institute of Medical Research - Unit 379 | Authors: Mohammad Abu-Zaineh, Awad Mataria, Stephane Luchini, Jean-Paul Moatti |
| Increasing financial deficit of the OEP, the single Hungarian health care financing agency | Imre Boncz | National Health Insurance Fund Administration (OEP) | Authors: Imre Boncz |
| Russian Health Care Reform during the 1990s - What Led to the Institutional Trap? | Benoit Mathivet | University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne & EHESS | Authors: Benoit Mathivet |
| Purchasing Health Services in a Decentralised Health System | Toni Ashton | University of Auckland | Authors: Toni Ashton |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Nutrition | Chair: Pierre Alexandre | ||
| An evaluation of the impact of the Oportunidades Program on Child's Linear Growth: A Regression Discontinuity Design | Mabel A. Andalon Lopez | Cornell University | Authors: Mabel A. Andalon Lopez |
| Organic Milk - Who and Why? | Laura Mørch Andersen | AKF, Institute of Local Government Studies - Denmark | Authors: Laura Mørch Andersen |
| The Impact of Droughts on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program - Evidence from Rural Mexico | Xiaohui Hou | World Bank | Authors: Xiaohui Hou |
| Time to Give Nutrition Interventions a Higher Profile: Cost Effectiveness of 10 Nutrition Interventions | Kim Dalziel | Authors: Kim Dalziel | |
| Tuesday | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Economic Evaluation | Chair: SeongOk Kim | ||
| Systematic reviews and economic evaluations in tecchnology appraisals conducted for NICE in the UK: A game of two halves? | Michael Drummond | University of York | Authors: Michael Drummond, C Iglesias, N Cooper |
| Economic Evaluation of Point-of-Care Monitoring Devices for Long-Term Oral Anticoagulation Therapy | Allan Brown | Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) | Authors: Allan Brown, Phil Wells, James Jaffey, Lynda McGahan, Man-Chiu Poon, Karen Cimon |
| Is The Elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis From Bangladesh, India and Nepal Economically Justified? | Shiva Adhikari | Authors: Shiva Adhikari | |
| Activity and outcome efficiency in the Swedish health care sector: A DEA approach | Nils Janlov | Lund University | Authors: Nils Janlov |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Risk Adjustment: When Is the Sum of the Parts Greater than the Whole? | Chair: Randall P. Ellis | Discussants: Randall P. Ellis, James F. Burgess, Manuel García-Goñi | |
| Analyzing Health Care Cost Data in the Presence of Heterogeneous Patients: Wouldn't Three Pieces Be Better than One? | James F. Burgess | Boston University School of Public Health | Authors: James F. Burgess, Jr., Chuan Zhou, Paul A. Fishman, Li Wang, Kevin L. Sloan |
| Does service-level spending show evidence of selection across plan types? | Shenyi Jiang | Boston University | Authors: Shenyi Jiang, Randall P. Ellis, Tzu-chun Kuo |
| Risk Equalization in Health Insurance: Effectiveness and Sustainability | Konstantin Beck | ||
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Risk-Benefit Analysis for New Pharmaceuticals: Are There Better Alternatives to Muddling Through? | Chair: A. Brett Hauber | ||
| Taking Calculated Risks: What do Patients Want? | F. Reed Johnson | RTI International | Authors: F. Reed Johnson, George Van Houtven |
| Balancing Benefits and Risks of Biopharmaceuticals: An Industry Perspective | Steven Hass | Elan Pharmaceuticals | Authors: David W Miller, Steven L. Hass, Will Maier |
| First steps in developing a risk-benefit analysis framework: a systematic review and critical evaluation of risk-benefit analysis methods | Mark J. Sculpher | University of York | Authors: Mark J. Sculpher, Larry D. Lynd, Andrew R. Willan |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Setting Health Priorities: Empirical Evidence | Chair: Philip Musgrove | ||
| Avoiding to Set Priorities - the German Case | Juergen Wasem | University of Duisburg-Essen | Authors: Stefan Gress, Jürgen Wasem |
| Defining and Costing Basic Package of Care in Kosovo | Fatime Arenliu - Qosaj | Ministry of Health, Kosovo | Authors: Fatime Arenliu - Qosaj, Veronica Vargas |
| Prioritization of Health Care Services - the Chilean Case | Veronica Vargas | Alberto Hurtado-Georgetown University | Authors: Veronica Vargas, Sergio Poblete |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: SHIELD - Strategies for health insurance mechanisms to address health system inequities in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania | Chair: Michael Thiede | Discussants: Phil Compernolle, Clas Rehnberg | |
| SHIELD - South Africa | Moremi Nkosi | University of the Witwatersrand | Authors: Moremi Nkosi, Di McIntyre, Michael Thiede, Ermin Erasmus, Lucy Gilson, Jane Goudge |
| SHIELD - Ghana | Bertha Garshong | Health Research Unit (HRU) | Authors: James Akazili, Moses Aikins, John Gyapong, Frank Nyanator, Bertha Garshong |
| SHIELD - Tanzania | Gemini Mtei | Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (IHRDC), Tanzania | Authors: Gemini Mtei, Jo Mulligan |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Social Capital and Health: An International Perspective | Chair: Timothy Brown | Discussants: Tor Iverson, Sherman Folland, Lorenzo Rocco, Timothy Brown | |
| Associations between individual and community social capital and self-assessed health | Tor Iversen | University of Oslo | Authors: Tor Iversen |
| Health and Community Characteristics: On the Problem of Reconciling Two Approaches to Social Capital Measurement | Sherman Folland | Oakland University | Authors: Sherman Folland |
| Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight transition countries | Lorenzo Rocco | University of Padova (Italy) | Authors: Béatrice d'Hombres, Lorenzo Rocco, Marc Suhrcke, Martin McKee |
| Aging, Social Capital, and Utilization of Health Services in Canada | Eric Nauenberg | University of Toronto | Authors: Eric Nauenberg, Audrey Laporte, Leilei Shen |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Space, Place, and Access to Health Care | Chair: Sujha Subramanian | ||
| Accessing Medical Services Among Women Living in Inner-City Areas of the US | Janis Barry; Nancy Breen | Fordham University and the National Cancer Institute | Authors: Janis Barry, Nancy Breen |
| Preventable Hospitalization Patterns of Medicare Beneficiaries and Propensity to Travel Outside Local Markets | Jayasree (Joy) Basu | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Authors: Jayasree Basu, Lee Mobley, Kuo Tzy-Mey |
| Using GIS-Based Cluster Control Systems to Optimize Definition of Health Care Service Areas | James Cajka | RTI International | Authors: James Cajka, Marianne Daye |
| Mammography Use in California: the Relative Importance of Supply, Demand, and Local Impedance Factors | Lee R. Mobley | RTI International | Authors: Lee Mobley, Tzy-Mey Kuo, Linda Andrews, Matthew Urato, Laurel Clayton, Luc Anselin |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Substance Abuse and Adolescents | Chair: Jody L. Sindelar | Discussants: Anne Line Bretteville Jensen, Gary Zarkin | |
| Does the Economic Evaluation of Adolescent Addiction Programs Raise Additional Methodologic Challenges? | Michael T. French | University of Miami | Authors: Michael F. Drummond, Jenny F. Homer, Michael T. French |
| Potential Gains in Education Attainment from Treating Adolescent Drug Dependence | Daniel Polsky | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Daniel Polsky |
| Alcohol Policies and Child Maltreatment | Michael Grossman | CUNY & NBER | Authors: Michael Grossman, Sara Markowitz |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Catastrophic Expenditures | Chair: John Nyman | ||
| Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being | Karine Lamiraud | University of Lausanne | Authors: Karine Lamiraud, Ramses Abul Naga |
| The Catastrophic Expenditure and the Financial Protection in Health: the Case of Costa Rica | James Cercone | Sanigest | Authors: James Cercone, Rodrigo Briceño |
| Financial Protection in Health in Latin America | Hugh Waters | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Authors: Hugh Waters, Laurel Hatt |
| Are the Costs of Malaria for Households in Mozambique and South Africa Catastrophic? | Marianela Castillo-Riquelme | University of Cape Town | Authors: Marianela Castillo-Riquelme |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Hospital Payments | Chair: Qi Zhang | ||
| The effect of Payment by Results on the HRG creep in English hospitals: an empirical investigation | Deokhee Yi | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Deokhee Yi, Emma Pugh, Shelley Farrar |
| All-Payor Hospital Pay for Performance (P4P) - Development of a Composite Measurement Tool for Purposes of Quality-based Reimbursement | Robert Murray | Authors: Robert Murray | |
| Hospital Response to the Global Budget Program Implemented by Taiwan's National Health Insurance | Shou-Hsia Cheng | National Taiwan University | Authors: Shou-Hsia Cheng, Wei-Ling Chang |
| Do Incentives Matter to Hospitals? A Fixed-Effects Approach to Estimating the Effects of Financial Incentives on Hospital Treatment Patterns In Florida | Daniel Maeng | Cornell University | Authors: Daniel Maeng |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Physician Utilization | Chair: David Bradford | ||
| The impact of New Labour on General Practice: An Analysis of the Changing Pattern of GP Utilisation | P McGregor | University of Ulster | Authors: P McGregor, P McGee, C O'Neill |
| GP Quality, Imperfect Information and the Demand for GP Service: An Analysis of Matched Doctor-Patient Panel Data | Geir Godager | University of Oslo | Authors: Geir Godager, Erik Biørn |
| The Effect Of Supplier-Induced Demand On Utilization Of Private Hospital Services By Insured Patients In South Africa | Thulani Matsebula | Council for Medical Schemes | Authors: Thulani Matsebula, Alex van den Heever |
| Provider Monitoring and Pay-for-Performance When Multiple Providers Affect Outcomes: An Application to Renal Dialysis | Richard Hirth | University of Michigan School of Public Health | Authors: Richard Hirth, Marc Turenne, John Wheeler, Qing Pan, Joseph Messana |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Obesity Internationally | Chair: Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio | ||
| Obesity with comorbid depression and early retirement | Mustafa Karakus | WESTAT | Authors: Mustafa Karakus, Albert Okunade |
| The obesity epidemic in mediterranean countries: evidence from a comparison of Italy and Spain | Joan Gil | Universitat de Barcelona | Authors: Joan Gil, Joan Costa-Font, Daniele Fabbri |
| Has Australia become obese for the same reasons as the US? | Glenn Jones | Macquarie University | Authors: Glenn Jones, Ynon Gablinger, Carol Propper, Elizabeth Savage |
| The related double W: Weight and Wages in Europe | Vincenzo Atella | University of Rome Tor Vergata | Authors: Vincenzo Atella, Noemi Pace, Daniela Vuri |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: National Health Insurance | Chair: Rosalie Viney | ||
| Measuring Institutional Strength: Seguro Popular' Implementation in Mexican States from 2002 to 2006 | Jeremy Barofsky | Harvard University | Authors: Jeremy Barofsky, Diana Lee, Chloe Bryson-Cahn, Christopher Murray, Emmanuela Gakidou |
| Public Support for National Health Insurance: The Roles of Attitudes and Beliefs | M. Kate Bundorf | Stanford University School of Medicine | Authors: M. Kate Bundorf, Victor Fuchs |
| Efficiency Versus Quality in the Portuguese NHS: Explicative Model | Maria Giraldes | Authors: Maria Giraldes | |
| The Willingness to Pay for the Health Care Under Taiwan's National Health Insurance | Wen-Yi Chen | Authors: Wen-Yi Chen | |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 1 | Chair: Angela Testi | ||
| Cost-effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation in the elderly: misaligned incentives | Donald Shepard | Brandeis University | Authors: Donald Shepard |
| Speed cameras in the beltways of Barcelona: A cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis | Joan Mendivil | Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona | Authors: Joan Mendivil, Anna García-Altés, Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo, Catherine Pérez |
| Is the Short-Term Cost-Effectiveness of an Early Psychosis Program Maintained at 8-Year Follow-Up? | Cathy Mihalopoulos | Authors: Cathy Mihalopoulos | |
| Cost utility analysis of the Ministry of Health dialysis programme | Faridah Aryani Md. Yusof | Clinical Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia | Authors: Faridah Aryani Md. Yusof, Adrian Goh, Lim Teck Onn, Ghazali Ahmad, Zaki Morad Mohd. Zaher |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Income inequality | Chair: Tracey Sach | ||
| Wealth Related Disparities in Preventive Care, Access, and Coverage among the Chronically Ill | Jessica Banthin | AHRQ | Authors: Jessica Banthin, Wealth Related Disparities in Preventive Care, Access, and Coverage among the Chronically Ill |
| Income-related Inequalities & Inequities in Irish Health Care Utilisation | Jane Bourke | University College Cork | Authors: Jane Bourke |
| Neighbourhood income inequality and health status in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional, multilevel analysis | Irene Wong | School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong | Authors: Irene Wong, Benjamin Cowling , SV Lo, Gabriel Leung |
| Do Public Goods Explain the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Birthweight? | Aparna Lhila | Authors: Aparna Lhila | |
| Tuesday | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Costs | Chair: Tom Rice | ||
| Exploring specialist cost increases in South Africa | Haroon Wadee | Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa | Authors: Haroon Wadee |
| Malpractice Liability and Medical Costs | Seth Seabury | RAND | Authors: Seth Seabury, Darius Lakdawalla |
| Validation of Proportional Distribution Method (PDM) for Estimating Disease-Specific Costs from Health Insurance Claims: An Empirical Approach | Etsuji Okamoto | Authors: Etsuji Okamoto | |
| Geographical Variance and Convergence of Health, Medical Cost, Social Common Capital in Japan | Tomofumi Anegawa | Keio University | Authors: Tomofumi Anegawa |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: The complex interaction between basic and supplementary health care financing schemes: a three-country perspective | Chair: Wynand van de Ven | ||
| The Role of Supplemental Insurance: The Case of Ireland | John Armstrong | Voluntary Health Insurance Board of Ireland | Authors: John Armstrong |
| Public and private health insurance in Australia: substitutes or complements? | Jim Butler | Australian Center for Economic Research on Health | Authors: Jim Butler, Luke Connelly |
| Economic rationales for the design of health care financing schemes | Francesco Paolucci | Australian Center for Economic Research on Health/Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: Francesco Paolucci, Erik Schut, Wynand van de Ven |
| Can supplementary health insurance be used as a tool for risk selection in basic health insurance? Evidence from the Netherlands | Erik Schut | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: Doeska de Bruijn, Erik Schut, Wynand van de Ven |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: What Is the Value of Choice? | Chair: Robert Town | ||
| Modeling Employee Choice of Health Care Plans | Caroline Carlin | University of Minnesota | Authors: Caroline S. Carlin, Robert J. Town |
| Are Thre Too Many Choices in Medicare? | Roger Feldman | University of Minnesota | Authors: Steven D. Pizer, Austin Frakt, Roger Feldman |
| Which Therapeutic Progress Shall Be Paid by Social Health Insurance? | Juergen Wasem | University of Duisburg-Essen | Authors: Jürgen Wasem, Hans-Dietrich Nolting, Yvonne Grabbe, Stefan Loos |
| Measuring Preferences for Health: A Tale of Two Countries | Peter Zweifel | University of Zurich | Authors: Peter Zweifel |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: The Economics of Risky Behaviors | Chair: Dhaval Dave | Discussants: John Cawley, Lisa Marie Powell, Swati Mukerjee, Michael Grossman | |
| An Economic Analysis of Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions | Swati Mukerjee | Bentley College | Authors: Dhaval Dave, Swati Mukerjee |
| Overweight and Suicidal Behaviors among Adolescents: Correlation or Causation? | Inas Rashad | Georgia State University & NBER | Authors: Dhaval Dave, Inas Rashad |
| The effect of eliminating federal disability benefits for substance abusers on labor market, health, and criminal behavior outcomes | Ellen Meara | Harvard Medical School & NBER | Authors: Ellen Meara, Pinka Chatterji, Jeff DeSimone |
| The Effect of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Advertising on Youth Smoking | Henry Saffer | NBER | Authors: Henry Saffer, Melanie Wakefield, Yvonne Terry-McElrath |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: The role of capability in health economics | Chair: Paula Lorgelly | Discussants: John Brazier, Jeff Richardson | |
| Capability indicators, health and wellbeing poverty | Paul Anand | Open University | Authors: Paul Anand |
| An index of capability for older people in the UK: values for decision making | Joanna Coast | University of Birmingham | Authors: Joanna Coast, Terry Flynn, Lucy Natarajan, Kerry Sproston, Tim Peters |
| Developing the Capability Approach to Assess Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Pain | Philip Kinghorn | University of East Anglia | Authors: Philip Kinghorn, Richard Smith, Angela Robinson |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Findings from the First implementation of Standards-based Health Accounts in OECD and Developing Asia: Similarities and Differences | Chair: Gabriel Leung | ||
| Findings from the first SHA implementations in 15 Asian countries - What this tells about how Asian countries differ, and how the region is different or the same as the OECD | Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya | Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka | Authors: Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Tharanga Fernando |
| Financing health care: a comparative analysis | Sandra Hopkins | OECD | Authors: Sandra Hopkins, David Morgan, Roberto Astolfi |
| Cornelis van Mosseveld | EUROSTAT | ||
| Joseph Kutzin | WHO | ||
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: The Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance | Chair: David Grabowski | Discussants: Richard Hirth, Michael Chernew, Walter Wodchis | |
| Financing Nursing Home Care: New Evidence on Spend-Down Behavior | Norma Coe | Tilburg University | Authors: Norma Coe |
| Subjective Burden of Informal Care Givers and the Rationing in the Long Term Care Insurance Benefits of Japan | Seiritsu Ogura | Hosei University | Authors: Seiritsu Ogura, Wataru Suziki, Nobuyuki Izumida |
| Bequests and the Demand for Long-term Care Insurance: A Panel Data Approach | Paul McNamara | University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana | Authors: Paul McNamara |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Political Economy of Health Systems Reforms in Developing Nations | Chair: Daniel Maceira | ||
| Policy Perspectives on India's New Health Initiatives | Peter Berman | World Bank | |
| Health Care Reforms in Africa. A Political Economy Perspective | Lucy Gilson | University of Witswatersrand | |
| Policy Making Process in Health Care Reforms. The Experience of Central and Eastern Europe | Mukesh Chawla | World Bank | |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Insuring the Poor 2 | Chair: Thomas Selden | ||
| The impact of the introduction of the popular health insurance programme on the utilisation of health services among the most vulnerable population in Mexico | Sandra G. Sosa-Rubí | National Institute of Public Health, Mexico | Authors: Sandra G. Sosa-Rubí and Omar Galarraga |
| Do Mutual Health Organizations Improve Access to Health Care? Evidence from West Africa | Slavea Chankova | Abt Associates | Authors: Slavea Chankova, Sara Sulzbach, Francois Diop |
| Managed Care and the Safety Net. More Pain for the Uninsured? | Nuria Mas | IESE Business School | Authors: Nuria Mas |
| Involving the rural poor in Rajasthan in health insurance benefit package design | PR Sodani | Indian Institute of Health Management Research | Authors: PR Sodani, David Dror, Erika Binnendijk, Amitava Bannerjee, BCT Neeru, Marion Danis, Xiaoxian Huang |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Treating Mental Health Problems | Chair: Richard Brooks | ||
| Pharmacoeconomic Positioning of Sertindole Among Atypical Antipsychotics in the Management of Schizophrenia in Turkey | Karina Hansen | H. Lundbeck A/S | Authors: Karina Hansen, Robert Launois, Christophe Sapin |
| Cost-effectiveness of escitalopram versus citalopram and venlafaxine in treatment of severe depression in Norway | Natalya Danchenko | H. Lundbeck A/S | Authors: Natalya Danchenko, Karina Hansen, Fred Holsten, Nicholas Despiegel |
| Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Rural Telemedicine Intervention for Depression | Jeffrey Pyne | Center for Mental Health Outcomes Research | Authors: Jeffrey Pyne, John Fortney, Shanti Tripathi, Matt Maciejewski, Keith Williams |
| The Cost Effectiveness Of Maintenance Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Of Major Depression In The Netherlands | Pieter van Baal | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) | Authors: Pieter van Baal, Matthijs van den Berg, Sylvia Vijgen, Theo Vos |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Retirement | Chair: Vicente Ortun | ||
| Impact of Rising Healthcare Cost on Early Retirement: The Role of Medical Innovation | Bo MacInnis | University of Michigan | Authors: Bo MacInnis |
| The Health Gradient and Early Retirement in Germany: Evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel | Gisela Hostenkamp | University of Kiel | Authors: Gisela Hostenkamp, Michael Stolpe |
| Health and Retirement Among Older Working Couples in Australia | Eugenio Zucchelli | Authors: Eugenio Zucchelli, Anthony Harris, Andrew M Jones, Nigel Rice | |
| Do Health Shocks Increase Retirement When Workers are Universally Insured? | Mona Larsen | Danish National Institute of Social Research | Authors: Mona Larsen, Nabanita Datta Gupta |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Long-Term Care | Chair: Virginia Wilcox-Gok | ||
| Prospective Payment for Long-term Care Hospitals | Soonman Kwon | Seoul National University | Authors: Soonman Kwon, Sunmee Jang, Jung-hoe Kim, Ji-Yun Lee |
| Can the Elderly Have Too Much Choice?: Insurance for Prescription Drugs and Long-Term Care | Thomas Rice | UCLA | Authors: Thomas Rice |
| International comparison of long term care use: a micro-analysis of differences between countries | Isolde Woittiez | Social and Cultural Planning Office | Authors: Isolde Woittiez, Edwin van Gameren, Evert Pommer, John Stevens |
| The Long-term Care Insurance System in Japan and its Effects on Welfare | Tadashi Yamada | University of Tsukuba | Authors: Tadashi Yamada, Weihong Zeng, Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Gender Differences | Chair: William Dow | ||
| The Effect Of Micro Health Insurance On Gender Inequity In Utilization Of Health Care In India | Xander Koolman | Erasmus MC University Medical Center | Authors: Xander Koolman, Vanessa Alleyne |
| Do Men Underinvest in Health? | Jane Greve | Aarhus School of Business | Authors: Jane Greve, Nabanita Datta Gupta |
| The Male-Female Gap in Physician Earnings | Hannes Winner | University of Innsbruc | Authors: Hannes Winner, Engelbert Theurl |
| Inequity in health care delivery: a gender perspective | Ceu Mateus | Nova University of Lisbon | Authors: Ceu Mateus, Julian Perelman, Ana Almeida Fernandes |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Hospital Financing | Chair: William Aaronson | ||
| Estimating the Price Elasticity of Hospital Outpatient Services in Taiwan: Observation of a Natural Experiment | Shing Chen | National Taiwan University | Authors: Shing Chen, Shou-Hsia Cheng, Shu-Ling Tsai |
| Price setting behavior in the hospital sector in Belgium | Diana De Graeve | University of Antwerp | Authors: Diana De Graeve, Ann Lecluyse, Erik Schokkaert, Carine Van de Voorde, Tom Van Ourti |
| Hospital Financing: a Bargaining Approach | Marisa Miraldo | University of York | Authors: Marisa Miraldo, Matteo Galizzi |
| Clinical Process Variation in Acute Care Hospitals Examined by Fee-for-Service Administrative Data in Japan | Kiyohide Fushimi | Authors: Kiyohide Fushimi | |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 2 | Chair: Ke Xu | ||
| The cost effectiveness of adult intensive care | Stephen Morris | Brunel University | Authors: Stephen Morris, Saxon Ridley, Stephen Morris |
| Cost-Effectiveness Of C-Leg Compared To Non Microprocessor Controlled Knees | Thor-Henrik Brodtkorb | Linköping University | Authors: Thor-Henrik Brodtkorb, Martin Henriksson, Kasper Johannesen-Munk, Fredrik Thidell |
| Estimating the cost-effectiveness of detecting cases of chronic hepatitis C infection on reception into prisons in England and Wales | Andrew Sutton | Health Protection Agency | Authors: Andrew Sutton, John Edmunds, Noel Gill |
| Cost-effectiveness of using statins in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases | Anja Neumann | University of Duisburg-Essen | Authors: Anja Neumann, Till Neumann, Petra Schnell-Inderst, Franz Hessel, Volker Klauss, Jürgen Wasem |
| Tuesday | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Health and Education | Chair: James Zhang | ||
| Reading, Writing, and Sex: The Effect of Losing Virginity on Adolescent Academic Performance | Joseph Sabia | University of Georgia | Authors: Joseph Sabia |
| Sleep and Student Achievement | Eric Eide | Brigham Young University | Authors: Eric Eide, Mark Showalter |
| Returns to education: the case of mortality | Laurent Lequien | INSEE, National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, France | Authors: Laurent Lequien, Valérie Albouy |
| Examining the Link Between Youth Body Mass Index and Student Achievement | Mark Showalter | Authors: Mark Showalter | |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: The Emerging Paradigm in Developed Health Systems- Germany, France, Israel, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA | Chair: Gabriel Martinez | ||
| Israel and the Emerging Paradigm | Dov Chernichovsky | Ben Gurion University of the Negev | |
| The Netherlands and the Emerging Paradigm | Wynand van de Ven | Erasmus University Rotterdam | |
| Germany and the Emerging Paradigm | Juergen Wasem | University Duisburg-Essen | |
| France and the Emerging Paradigm | Claude Le Pen | University of Paris-Dauphine | |
| The Emerging Paradigm and the USA | Arleen Leibowitz | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| The Emerging Paradigm and the UK | Alan Maynard | University of York | |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Role of Private Sector in Health Care: Past Experiences, Current Situations, and Future Opportunities | Chair: Sara Bennett | ||
| Government Collaboration with Private Providers in India: Taking Stock | Peter Berman | World Bank | |
| The Private Sector Programme in Health (PSP) - New Evidence and their Policy Implications | Annie Chu | Harvard School of Public Health | |
| Recent developments of policies towards the role of the private sector in health care in China | Qingyue Meng | Shandong University | |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Informal Care | Chair: Edward C. Norton | Discussants: Norma Coe, Jose-Luis Fernandez, Barbara Schone | |
| Informal Care and Medical Care Utilization in Europe and the United States | Alberto Holly | University of Lausanne | Authors: Alberto Holly, Thomas M. Lufkin, Edward C. Norton, Courtney Harold Van Houtven |
| Your next of kin or your own career? Caring and working among the 50+ of Europe | Petter Lundborg | Free University/Lund University | Authors: Petter Lundborg, Kristian Bolin, Bjorn Lindgren |
| Is a home-care network necessary to access the Medicare hospice benefit? | Courtney Harold Van Houtven | Durham VA & Duke University | Authors: Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Donald H. Taylor |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: The value of sample information: a decision theoretic approach to research design | Chair: Karl Claxton | ||
| Dimensions of design space: a decision-theoretic approach to optimal research portfolio design | Stefano Conti | University of York | Authors: Stefano Conti, Karl Claxton, Neil Hawkins |
| Expected value of sample information in survival trials using bayesian approximation with the weibull proportional hazards model | Alan Brennan | University of Sheffield | Authors: A Brennan, SA Kharroubi |
| Expected value of research for cluster designed randomised controlled trials: application and discussion | Nicky J. Welton | Medical Research Council | Authors: Nicky J Welton, AE Ades |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Health financing systems that improve equity: evidence from Africa, Asia and the former Soviet Union | Chair: Adam Wagstaff | Discussant: Abdo Yazbeck | |
| Key issues in equitable health care financing in Africa | Di McIntyre | University of Cape Town | Authors: Di McIntyre |
| Puncturing pessimism: the success of old-fashioned tax-funded systems | Ravi P Rannan-Eliya | Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka | Authors: Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, Gabriel Leung |
| Social health insurance and equity in post-Soviet health systems | Joseph Kutzin | WHO | Authors: Joseph Kutzin |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: A sure thing? The importance of decision uncertainty | Chair: Martin Buxton | Discussant: Adrian Towse | |
| The irrelevance of the error probability? Summary measures of decision uncertainty | Elisabeth Fenwick | University of Glasgow | Authors: Elisabeth Fenwick, Karl Claxton, Andrew Briggs |
| Expected value of information and decision making in HTA | Simon Eckermann | Repatriation General Hospital | Authors: Simon Eckermann, Andy Willan |
| Dangerous omissions: the consequences of ignoring decision uncertainty | Susan Griffin | University of York | Authors: Susan Griffin, Karl Claxton, Stephen Palmer, Mark Sculpher |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Whose outbreak is it anyway? Perspectives on the cost-effectiveness of infectious disease prevention and control measures | Chair: John Edmunds | ||
| The cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination from different perspectives | Mark Jit | Health Protection Agency | Authors: Mark Jit, W. John Edmunds, John Harris |
| Partially wrong? Partial equilibrium and the economic analysis of infectious disease interventions | Philippe Beutels | Antwerp University, Belgium & University of Sydney, Australia | Authors: Philippe Beutels, John W Edmunds, Richard D Smith |
| Economic Impact Of Influenza: The Macro Perspective | Marcus Keogh-Brown | University of East Anglia | Authors: Marcus Keogh-Brown, Richard D Smith, John W Edmunds, Philippe Beutels |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Generics 2 | Chair: Tadashi Yamada | ||
| Reimbursement Price of Pharmaceuticals and Brand Name - Generic Drugs Utilization: Evidence from Oral Hypoglycemic Agents for Ambulatory Care in Taiwan | Ya-Ming Liu | National Cheng Kung University | Authors: Ya-Ming Liu, Yea-Huei Kao Yang, Pei-Chen Chen |
| Generic-Name Prescription and Perceived Quality in the Demand for Pharmaceuticals in Argentina | Daniel Maceira | Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES) | Authors: Daniel Maceira, Rafael Kurtbart |
| Drug Benefit Restrictions: Economic Effects of Generic-only Coverage for Patients on Statin Drugs | John Hsu | Kaiser Permanente Division of Research | Authors: John Hsu, Mary Price, Jie Huang, Richard Brand, Vicki Fung, Bruce Fireman, Rita Hui et al |
| Generic versus brand-name drugs: does it really matter? | Sara R Machado | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Authors: Sara R Machado, Pedro P. Barros |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Health Expenditures | Chair: Dick Arnould | ||
| What values drive health care expenditure: a survey of health professionals across 8 countries | Glenn Salkeld | University of Sydney | Authors: Glenn Salkeld, David Henry, Nick Freemantle, Danielle Lang, Suzanne Hill, Jeff D'Assuncao |
| Long-term Growth Modeling of Healthcare Spending in OECD Countries, 1970-2004 | Bianca Frogner | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Authors: Bianca Frogner, Gerard Anderson |
| Benefit Incidence of Public Health Care Spending in the United States | Thomas Selden | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Authors: Thomas Selden, Merrile Sing |
| A system-level analysis of health expenditure growth determinants | Jan Klavus | STAKES | Authors: Jan Klavus, Lien Nguyen, Hennamari Mikkola, Markku Pekurinen |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Controlling Smoking | Chair: Toni Ashton | ||
| Is Low Consumption Not a Problem? Effect of Tobacco and Alcohol Crowding-Out from a Low Consumption Country | Cheng-yun Pu | Authors: Cheng-yun Pu | |
| Examining the effects of tax increases on discount and premium cigarettes in Canada, 2002-2005 | Alan Diener | Health Canada | Authors: Alan Diener, Rashid Ahmed, Murray Kaiserman, Michael Farnworth |
| The Effects of Cigarette Prices and Tobacco Control Programs on Youth Smoking Initiation in a U.S. Sample of Adolescents | Matthew Farrelly | RTI International | Authors: Matthew Farrelly, J. Nonnemaker |
| The Effect of Tobacco Taxes and Clean Indoor Air Laws on Smokeless Tobacco and Cigarette Use | Mark Stehr | Drexel University | Authors: Mark Stehr |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Economic Evaluation 2 | Chair: Jim Burgess | ||
| Programme costing in economic evaluation of health promotion: Should cost of health asset assessment and participatory programme development count? | Silke Britta Wolfenstetter | GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health | Authors: Silke Britta Wolfenstetter, Bernd Schweikert, Jürgen John |
| Design Issues For Economic Evaluations Of Alternative Screening Technologies: Are Randomised Controlled Trials Always The Optimal Design? | Rosa Legood | University of Oxford | Authors: Rosa Legood, Alastair Gray |
| An Empirical Comparison Of An Individual Sampling Model And Markov Model For Screening Of Atrial Fibrillation: Final Results | Sue Jowett | University of Birmingham | Authors: Sue Jowett, Pelham Barton, David Fitzmaurice, Stirling Bryan |
| Adverse drug reactions in economic evaluations | Dyfrig Hughes | University of Wales, Bangor | Authors: Dyfrig Hughes |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Discrete Choice Experiments | Chair: Terkel Christiansen | ||
| Exploring the Social Value of Health Interventions Using the Discrete Choice Framework | Colin Green | Authors: Colin Green | |
| Advances in accounting for income effects in the derivation of welfare measures from DCEs | Emily Lancsar | Newcastle University | Authors: Emily Lancsar, Emily Lanscar, Cam Donaldson |
| Using a discrete choice experiment to elicit public views regarding priority setting of new pharmaceuticals | Gillian Currie | University of Calgary | Authors: Gillian Currie, Seija Kromm, Marjon van der Pol, Mandy Ryan, Braden Manns |
| Societal preferences for the surgical treatment of basal cell carcinoma: results of a discrete choice experiment | B.A.B. Essers | University Hospital Maastricht | Authors: B.A.B. Essers, CD Dirksen, HAM Neumann, MH Prins |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Economics and Child Health | Chair: Randy Ellis | ||
| An economic view on health and child labour in Brazil | Alexandre Nicolella | University of São Paulo | Authors: Alexandre Nicolella, Ana Lúcia Kassouf , Alexandre Mendonça de Barros |
| Understanding the Origins of the Income Gradient in Children's Physical Health: Revisit of the Canadian Case | Claire de Oliveira | McMaster University | Authors: Claire de Oliveira |
| Can Poverty Alleviation Reduce Adolescent Risk Behavior? | Juan-Pablo Gutierrez | National Institute of Public Health | Authors: Juan-Pablo Gutierrez, Stefano Bertozzi |
| Socio-demographic determinants of child health services utilization in Nepal | Brian Chin | Harvard University | Authors: Brian Chin |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Issues in Pharmaceuticals | Chair: Bob Evans | ||
| Formulary Pricing with Optional Participation: Reconciling Static and Dynamic Efficiency | Hu Lu | Health Canada | Authors: Hu Lu |
| Prescription drug effectiveness: a re-examination of the aggregate data | Paul Grootendorst | University of Toronto | Authors: Paul Grootendorst, Emmanuelle Piérard |
| A cost-effectiveness analysis of infliximab for severe psoriasis | Xenia Caporis | Schering-Plough | Authors: Xenia Caporis, Graeme Roberts, James Morris |
| Clinical Trials: the Effects of Registries and Results Databases | Nicolas Porteiro | Universidad Pablo de Olavide | Authors: Nicolas Porteiro |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Burden of Disease | Chair: Tom Getzen | ||
| Estimation of Monetary Value of Economic and Non-Economic Effects of a Disease: Application of a New Measure for Two Diseases in Bangladesh | Sushil Ranjan Howlader | University of Dhaka | Authors: Sushil Ranjan Howlader |
| Impact Of Disease On Health-Related Quality Of Life: The Case Of Cerebrovascular Diseases | Ramon Luengo-Fernandez | University of Oxford | Authors: Ramon Luengo-Fernandez, Alastair Gray, Peter Rothwell |
| A new model to measure the economic burden of illness: An application to schizophrenia in some EU countries | Indalecio Corugedo | Universidad Complutense | Authors: Indalecio Corugedo |
| The Economic Impact of Chronic Disease in Rural China | Li Yang | Authors: Li Yang | |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Work, Welfare, and Health | Chair: Jessica Vistnes | ||
| Has Welfare Reform Affected Insurance Coverage During Pregnancy for Unmarried Low-Skilled Women? | Kosali Ilayperuma Simon | Cornell University | Authors: Arden Handler, Kosali Simon |
| Retention, Learning-by-Doing and Performance in Emergency Medical Services | Guy David | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Guy David, Tanguy Brachet |
| Maternal Job Stress and Birth Outcomes | M. Melinda Pitts | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Authors: Brian S. Armour, M. Melinda Pitts, Mary Beth Walker |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Health shocks in perspective | Chair: Ana Revenga | ||
| Health shocks and the labor supply decision of older workers: Evidence from urban China | John Giles | Michigan State University | Authors: John Giles |
| Can Health Insurance Mitigate Shocks to Consumption? Evidence from China | Philip H. Brown | Colby College and International Food Policy Research Institute | Authors: Philip H. Brown, Alan de Brauw, Yang Du |
| Health shocks in perspective. How do health shocks compare to agricultural and labor market shocks? Evidence from rural China | Adam Wagstaff | World Bank | Authors: Adam Wagstaff, Shubham Chaudhuri, Ana Revenga |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Improving Take-Up and Access to Care Under Medicaid/SCHIP | Chair: Katherine Swartz | ||
| Reaching Uninsured Children: Factors Influencing Take Up of Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage in the U.S | Jessica S. Banthin | AHRQ | Authors: Julie L. Hudson, Thomas M. Selden |
| Why Do Poor Children Lose Health Insurance in the SCHIP Era?: The Role of Family Health | Hope Corman | Rider University | Authors: Anne Carroll, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy Reichman |
| Medicaid Eligibility and Hospital Care for Mothers and Newborns | Sandra L. Decker | CDC | Authors: Sandra Decker, Robert Kaestner, Kosali Simon |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: Methods for reducing bias and conducting subgroup analysis in economic evaluation | Chair: Richard Grieve | Discussant: James Burgess | |
| Covariate adjustment and subgroup analysis in costeffectiveness evaluations | Richard Nixon | Novartis Pharma AG | Authors: Richard Nixon, Simon Thompson |
| Selection bias in economic evaluation with observational data | Dan Polsky | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Dan Polsky, Anirban Basu |
| Bias adjustment in the economic evaluation of observational data: the use of a non-parametric approach (Genetic Matching) | Jasjeet Sekhon | University of California, Berkeley | Authors: Jasjeet Sekhon, Richard Grieve |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Impact Evaluation of Health Interventions in Developing Countries | Chair: Anne Mills | ||
| Arnab Acharya | LSHTM | ||
| Omar Galarraga | Mexican School of Public Health | ||
| William Savedoff | Social Insight | ||
| Winnie Yip | Harvard University | ||
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Which side are you on? Normative foundations for informing decisions in health care | Chair: Aki Tsuchiya | ||
| Extra-welfarism, communitarianism and empirical ethics as inputs to informed decision making in health care: Improvements on the capabilities approach or simply non-Sen's methods? | Stephen Birch | McMaster University | Authors: Stephen Birch, Jane Hall, Amiram Gafni |
| Welfarism vs. extra-welfarism | Werner Brouwer | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Authors: Werner Brouwer, Anthony Culyer, Job van Exel, Frans Rutten |
| Mark versus Luke? Decision making with multiple objectives and multiple constraints | Karl Claxton | University of York | Authors: Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher, Anthony Culyer |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Economic Development and Fertility | Chair: Tamara C. Fox | ||
| Recent fertility trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Disentangling the effects of poverty at the household level and the contribution of change in fertility behavior | Jean-Christophe Fotso | African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) | Authors: Alex C. Ezeh, Jean Christophe Fotso, Rose Towett |
| Life Cycle Consequences of a Family Planning Program for Women and their Families | T. Paul Schultz | Yale University | Authors: T. Paul Schultz, Shareen Joshi |
| The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Market Participation and Poverty in Indonesia | David Canning | Harvard School of Public Health | Authors: David Canning, Heather Schofield |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Patients | Chair: Dorte Gyrd-Hansen | ||
| Mobility of Italian Patients within European Union | Amalia Donia Sofio | University of Roma Tor Vergata | Authors: Amalia Donia Sofio, A Gabellini |
| What Can be Learned from Medicare's Least Costly Beneficiaries? | Bruce Stuart | University of Maryland Baltimore | Authors: Bruce Stuart, Amy Davidoff, Ruth Lopert |
| Using Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measures to Improve Patient Care | David Feeny | Kaiser Permanente Northwest | Authors: David Feeny, Richard Meenan, David Labby, Mark Spofford, David Mosen, Rebecca Ramsay |
| Balanced billing in the Belgian health care system: how to predict the financial burden for certain groups of patients? | Ann Lecluyse | University of Antwerp | Authors: Ann Lecluyse, D De Graeve, E Schokkaert, C Van de Voorde, T Van Ourti |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Disparities | Chair: Jane Hall | ||
| Are there Racial Disparities in Emergency Medical Services? Evidence from Mississippi | Scott Harrington | University of Pennsylvania | Authors: Scott Harrington, Guy David |
| Global view of population health status and socioeconomic and geographical health disparities | Jose_e Bourdages | Ministry of Health and Social Services, Québec | Authors: Jose_e Bourdages, Michel Pageau, Marc Ferland, Robert Choinie?re |
| Socioeconomic inequalities in the burden of chronic diseases | Anderson Eduardo Stanciole | University of York | Authors: Anderson Eduardo Stanciole, Dele Abegunde |
| Psychosocial resources and health inequalities in France | Florence Jusot | IRDES | Authors: Florence Jusot, Michel Grignon, Paul Dourgnon |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: Income and Health | Chair: Teh-wei Hu | ||
| The Impact of Income Shocks on Health: Evidence from English Cohorts | Hans-Martin von Gaudecker | Mannheim University | Authors: Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Jérôme Adda, James Banks |
| The impact of income on self-assessed health: Do assumptions about unobserved heterogeneity really matter? | Stefanie Schurer | RWI Essen, Germany | Authors: Stefanie Schurer, Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice |
| Income, Employment, and Suicidal Behavior | Noelle-Angelique Molinari | CDC | Authors: Noelle Molinari, David E. Kalist, Freddy Siahaan |
| Health and Income: The Case of Iceland | Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir | University of Iceland | Authors: Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Alternate Care | Chair: Tor Iversen | ||
| Valuing Informal Care Using Compensating Income Variation | Emmanouil Mentzakis | University of Aberdeen | Authors: Emmanouil Mentzakis, Paul McNamee, Matt Sutton, Mandy Ryan |
| Incentives for providers of personal assistance to persons with physicial and/or mental disablilities. An empirical application of agency theory using longitudinal microdata | Katarina Steen Carlsson | Lund University | Authors: Katarina Steen Carlsson, Magnus Roos |
| The Effect of Medicare Home Health Care Payment on Informal Care Use | Ezra Golberstein | University of Michigan School of Public Health | Authors: Ezra Golberstein, David Grabowski, Kenneth Langa, Mohammed Kabeto, Michael Chernew |
| Motivation theory applied to informal care | Bernard van den Berg | VU University Amsterdam | Authors: Bernard van den Berg |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Litigation/Antitrust | Chair: Bengt Jonsson | ||
| An Analysis of Fraudulent Qui Tam Actions over Time in the United States | Karen Fitzner | Northwestern University | Authors: Karen Fitzner, Charles Bennett, Cara Tigue, Neal Dandade, Davide De Masi |
| Risk or Benefit? Expenditures with medicines demanded by judicial decisions against Brazilian National Public Health System (SUS) and the risk of damage to patients by medicines interactions | Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior | Ministry of Health, Brazil | Authors: Daniel Faleiros, Augusto Afonso Guerra Júnior, Grazielle Dias da Silva, Eli Iola Gurgel Andrade, Daniele Araújo Campos Szuter, Elias Antonio Jorge et al |
| Nursing Home Litigation and Quality of Care | R. Tamara Konetzka | University of Chicago | Authors: R. Tamara Konetzka, Elmer Abbo, Robert Ellis |
| Market Definition in the Hospital Industry: A Structural Approach | Kleiner Samuel A. | Carnegie Mellon University | Authors: Samuel A. Kleiner, William B. Vogt, Martin S. Gaynor |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: HIV/AIDS | Chair: Tom McGuire | ||
| A cost function for HIV prevention services. Is there a 'U' shape? | Lorna Guinness | LSHTM | Authors: Lorna Guinness, Lilani Kumaranayake, Kara Hanson |
| Donor investment choices: The efficiency of funding R&D for neglected diseases as compared to greater access to existing treatments for HIV AIDS, malaria and TB | Adrian Towse | Office of Health Economics (OHE) | Authors: Adrian Towse, Ed Godber, Martina Garau, Clive Pritchard, Alastair Gray, Paul Fenn |
| How effective are partnerships in the management and control of HIV/AIDS? Evaluation of existing partnerships in Tamil Nadu state of India | Edwin Sam Asirvatham | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology | Authors: Edwin Sam Asirvatham, Varatharajan Durairaj |
| Subsidized HIV Treatment in Nigeria is not pro poor: A case study of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu | Chijioke Ifeanyi Okoli | University of Nigeria | Authors: Chijioke Ifeanyi Okoli, Nkem Dike, Obinna Onwujekwe, Soludo Eze, JC Chukwuka |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Labor Shortages | Chair: Kjeld Møller Pedersen | ||
| Anatomy of a doctor shortage | Morris Barer | University of British Columbia | Authors: Morris Barer, Robert Evans, Charlyn Black, Kimberlyn McGrail, Steven Morgan, Greg Stoddart, Diane Watson |
| Lasting Global Shortages and Surpluses of Physicians: New Estimates | Jenny Liu | University of California, Berkeley | Authors: Richard M. Scheffler, Jenny X. Liu, Mario R. Dal Poz, Yohannes Kinfu |
| Forecasting health workforce supply and demand: From the survey to the models | Joanne Spetz | University of California, San Francisco | Authors: Joanne Spetz |
| Will Raising Salaries Help Alleviate the Nurse Faculty Shortage? | Lynn Unruh | University of Central Florida | Authors: Lynn Unruh, Jennifer Nooney |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Health Promotion | Chair: Uwe Reinhardt | ||
| Testing the Use of Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Sedentary Adults: Results of a Stated Preference Survey and Revealed Preference Field Experiment | Derek Brown | RTI International | Authors: Derek Brown, Eric Finkelstein |
| Do Workplace Health Promotion Programs Promote Healthy Behavior? | Curtis Florence | Emory University | Authors: Curtis Florence |
| Estimating the expected health benefits to non-smokers of policies to reduce exposure to environmental tobacco smoke | Paulos Teckle | BC Cancer Agency | Authors: Paulos Teckle |
| Community-Based Health Promotion in Poland - A Multilevel Analysis of Expenditures of County Level Self-Governments | Krzysztof Krajewski-Siuda | Authors: Krzysztof Krajewski-Siuda | |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 01 | |
| Session: Economic Determinants of Obesity | Chair: Tomas Philipson | ||
| Impact of Income on the BMI and Clinical Weight Classification of Elderly Americans | John Cawley | Cornell University | Authors: John Cawley, John Moran, Kosali Simon |
| Obesity and Depression: Establishing Causality | Inas Rashad | Georgia State University & NBER | Authors: Inas Rashad |
| Why Is The Developed World Obese? | David M. Cutler | Harvard University | Authors: Sara Bleich, David Cutler, Chris Murray, Alyce Adams |
| Food Prices, Access to Food Outlets and Child Weight Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis | Lisa M. Powell | University of Illinois at Chicago | Authors: Lisa M. Powell, Yanjun (Carol) Bao |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 03 | |
| Session: Economic evaluation of implementation strategies | Chair: Silvia Evers | ||
| The value of implementation and the value of information: combined and uneven development. | Elisabeth Fenwick | University of Glasgow | Authors: Elisabeth Fenwick, Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher, Ties Hoomans, Steve Palmer |
| Economic decision modeling: how to calculate the total net monetary benefits of implementing guidelines into clinical practice? | Ties Hoomans | Maastricht University | Authors: Ties Hoomans, Andre Ament, Silvia Evers, Hans (J.L.) Severens |
| Cost Effects of Computer Reminders to Improve Prescribing Behaviour among GPs | Jody Martens | University Hospital Maastricht | Authors: Jody D Martens, Hans (J.L.) Severens, Trudy van der Weijden, Daisy de Bruyn, Ron AG Winkens |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 05 | |
| Session: Societal Costs & Benefits of Drug Abuse Treatment | Chair: Peter Ginter | ||
| A Critical Review of Accounting and Economic Methods for Estimating the Costs of Addiction Treatment | William S. Cartwright | George Mason University | Authors: William Cartwright |
| Exploring New Areas in the Evaluation of Substance Abuse Treatment Costs: Results from the Client DATCAP and Caretaker DATCAP | Kathryn E. McCollister | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine | Authors: Kathryn E. McCollister, Michael T. French |
| A Comparison of Compulsory and Voluntary Admission to Substance Abuse Treatment | Paul L. Solano | University of Delaware | Authors: Paul L. Solano, Mary Joan McDuffie |
| Employment of the Homeless After Drug Abuse Treatment with Abstinent Contingent Housing | Stephen T. Mennemeyer | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Authors: Stephen T. Mennemeyer, Joseph E. Schumacher,Stefan Kertesz, Jesse B. Milby, Dennis Wallace |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 07 | |
| Session: What is the role of condition specific measures in economic evaluation? | Chair: John Cairns | Discussant: David Parkin | |
| The role of condition specific measures in economic evaluation: it's a trade-off | John Brazier | Health Economics and Decision Making | Authors: John Brazier, Aki Tsuchiya |
| Condition-specific measures will rarely be appropriate if the maximand is health | Jack Dowie | LSHTM | Authors: Jack Dowie |
| A condition-specific preference-based instrument: the Asthma Quality of Life utility index (AQL-5D) | Yaling Yang | University of Sheffield | Authors: Yaling Yang |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 08 | |
| Session: Preferences for Health and Health Care: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous? | Chair: Peter Zweifel | ||
| Effects of Patient Self-Selection on Cost-Effectiveness of Diabetes Therapy by Age | David O. Meltzer | University of Chicago | Authors: David O. Meltzer, Elbert S. Huang, Sydney E.S. Brown, Qi Zhang |
| Preference heterogeneity with regard to supply of health care: evidence from Germany | Karolin Becker | Plaut Economics | Authors: Karolin Becker, Angelika Braendle, Harry Telser |
| The English Patient: Homogeneous Choices for Heterogeneous Citizens | Tony Hockley | LSE | Authors: Tony Hockley |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 10 | |
| Session: Health Status 2 | Chair: Mandy Ryan | ||
| Why are the Greek healthier than the English? Explanation of subjective health differences between six European countries with a decomposition analysis | Inge Groot | University of Amsterdam | Authors: Inge Groot, Klarita Sadiraj, Arjan Heyma |
| Health status and the cost of ICU treatment | Walter Ried | University of Greifswald | Authors: Walter Ried |
| Health status in french urban underprivileged areas | Thierry Debrand | IRDES | Authors: Véronique Lucas-Gabrielli, Caroline Allonier, Thierry Debrand, Aurélie Pierre, Thierry Rochereau |
| Estimating historical health gains using WTP for quality adjusted life expectancy (QALE) | Kerry Hickson | LSE | Authors: Kerry Hickson |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 12 | |
| Session: Paying Providers | Chair: Anne Mills | ||
| Occupational Selection and Employment Duration Effects of Medicaid Wage Pass-Through Policies | Reagan Baughman | University of New Hampshire | Authors: Reagan Baughman, Kristin Smith |
| Financial Incentives And Primary Care: Paying For Performance In Depression Treatment | David Smith | Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest | Authors: David Smith, Adrianne Feldstein, Jennifer Schneider, Jeff Showell, Mara Kalter, Lynn DeBar, Nancy Vuckovic |
| How Much Performance Does P4P Buy? | Lorens Helmchen | University of Illinois at Chicago | Authors: Lorens Helmchen, Anthony Lo Sasso |
| Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets and Skills on Hospital Quality and Productivity | Carol Propper | Authors: Carol Propper | |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 13 | |
| Session: Hospital Investment | Chair: Kristian Bolin | ||
| New firms formation in the health sector over space and time | Cristina Carias | Technical University of Lisbon | Authors: Cristina Carias, Cristina Carias, Francisco Lima |
| Entry and Operations of Physician Owned Specialty Hospitals | Sujoy Chakravarty | Carnegie Mellon University | Authors: Sujoy Chakravarty |
| Factors Influencing Hospital Capital Investment: 1998-2001 | Tae Hyun Kim | Governors State University | Authors: Tae Hyun Kim |
| The Impact of U.S. Prospective Payment on Hospital Capital Formation: An Initial Analysis of the 1991 Change in Medicare Reimbursement for Capital Costs | Arthur King | Lehigh University | Authors: Arthur King, Susan Zumas |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 14 | |
| Session: Smoking Behavior | Chair: Ulf Persson | ||
| An Econometric Analysis of Smoking Behaviour in Ireland | Aileen Murphy | University College Cork | Authors: Aileen Murphy |
| Gender, risk perception, and smoking behaviour | Henrik Andersson | Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute (VTI) | Authors: Henrik Andersson, Petter Lundborg |
| The effect of social capital on smoking-related behavior among the poor in Korea | Tae-Jin Lee | Hallym University | Authors: Tae-Jin Lee, Kyeong-Hwa Kang, Gihong Yi, Jae-Young Lim, Sang-Soo Bae |
| Analysis of Tobacco Consumption in Australia | Xueyan Zhao | Monash University | Authors: Xueyan Zhao, Mark Harris |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: s. 16 | |
| Session: ART 2 | Chair: Jes Sogaard | ||
| Public Procurement and Price Discrimination of Antiretroviral Therapy | Rodriguez-Monguio Rosa | Ohio State University | Authors: Rodriguez-Monguio Rosa, Enrique C. Seoane- Vazquez |
| Effective Patent Life of Antiretroviral Drugs in the U.S 1987-2006 | Seoane Vazquez Enrique C. | Ohio State University | Authors: Seoane Vazquez Enrique C., Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio |
| Determinants of Non-Adherence to Anti-Retroviral Treatment in Southeast Nigeria | Benjamin Uzochukwu | Authors: Benjamin Uzochukwu | |
| Cost of HIV Treatment in Emergency Plan Focus Countries: A Methodological Guide | Andre Berruti | Macro International | Authors: Andre Berruti, Rick Berzon, Scott Filler, Nick Menzies, Tedd Ellerbrock, Brian Wheeler, John M. Blandford |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.07 | |
| Session: Methodology 2 | Chair: Björn Lindgren | ||
| Use of Individual Patient Data to evaluate cost-effectiveness across heterogeneous population | Borislava Mihaylova | University of Oxford | Authors: Borislava Mihaylova, Andrew Briggs, Alastair Gray |
| Health economics reconsidered: is transaction costs a relevant supplementary paradigm? | Kjeld Møller Pedersen | University of Southern Denmark | Authors: Kjeld Møller Pedersen |
| Willingness-to-Pay: The Banker vs. the Economist | Eric Nauenberg | University of Toronto | Authors: Eric Nauenberg |
| Separating gains and losses in health when calculating the minimal important difference for mapped utility measures | Michael Nichol | University of Southern California | Authors: Michael Nichol, Joshua Epstein, Tom Dow, Jason Doctor |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.08 | |
| Session: Life Cycle | Chair: Carl Hampus Lyttkens | ||
| Health, Survival and Consumption over the Life Cycle: individual vs. social optimum | Michael Kuhn | University of Rostock | Authors: Michael Kuhn, Alexia Prskawetz, Stefan Wrzaczek, Gustav Feichtinger |
| Determinants of health care expenditures: an overview of international comparisons and a panel data analysis | Esther Mot | CPB, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis | Authors: Esther Mot, Roel Adriaan van Elk |
| Is it possible to assess options for change over a whole disease area using the patient pathways from patient presentation to end of life? | Hazel Pilgrim | University of Sheffield | Authors: Hazel Pilgrim, Paul Tappenden, Jim Chilcott Matthew Bending |
| A Dynamic Lifecycle Demand for Medical Care | Jennifer Kohn | Rutgers University | Authors: Jennifer Kohn, Robert Patrick |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.12 | |
| Session: Out-of-Pocket | Chair: Katarina Steen Carlsson | ||
| The Determinants of Out-of-Pocket Payments: Evidence from Turkey | Erdoğan Yilmaz, Mehmet Okyar | Ministry of Health, Turkey | Authors: Erdoğan Yilmaz, Julide Yildirim, Mehmet Okyar |
| Informal payments and the quality of health care - the case of Tanzania | Ottar Mæstad | Chr Michelsen Institute | Authors: Ottar Mæstad, Gaute Torsvik, Aziza Mwisongo |
| Health care use and financial burden of out-of-pocket spending in Argentina | Eleonora Cavagnero | WHO | Authors: Eleonora Cavagnero, Ke Xu, Guy Carrin |
| Coping with Out-of-Pocket Health Payments: An Empirical Analysis of Six African Countries | Adam Leive | World Bank | Authors: Adam Leive |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.13 | |
| Session: Allocation | Chair: Stefan Björk | ||
| Allocation of Resources Based on Program Budgeting, Marginal Analysis and the Social Welfare Function | Pedro Plans-Rubio | Institut d'Estadistica de Catalunya | Authors: Pedro Plans-Rubio |
| Preferences Over Equity in the Allocation of Health Care Resources | Jeremiah Hurley | McMaster University | Authors: Jeremiah Hurley, Neil Buckley, Kate Cuff, Mita Giacomini, Michel Grignon, Stuart Mestelman, Andrew Muller et al |
| Health gain maximization - an ethically defendable criterion for decisions on how to allocate health care resources? | Juergen John | GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health | Authors: Juergen John |
| Public expenditure on health: is its allocation based on health needs?. Evidence for Mexico 2000-2004 | Leticia Avila | National Institute of Public Health, Mexico | Authors: Lucero Cahuana, Edson Servan, Leticia Avila |
| Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Room: 1.14 | |
| Session: Using Clinical Trials | Chair: Anders Anell | ||
| Building an economic model using data from a large multinational randomised controlled trial to extrapolate the results from the within trial analysis | Oliver Rivero-Arias | University of Oxford | Authors: Oliver Rivero-Arias, Alastair Gray, Jane Wolstenholme, Mei-Yin Tok |
| Matching and Extending the Results of Randomized Trials Using Observational Data and Causal Models: An Application to the HOPE Trial | Paul Hebert | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | Authors: Paul Hebert, MaryAnn McLaughlin, Anu Lala, Jodi Casabianca |
| An application of Value of Information analysis to help design a multi centre clinical trial | Nick Bansback | University of British Columbia | Authors: Nick Bansback, Roberta Ara, Sue Ward, Aslam Anis, Hyon Choi |
| Pragmatic economic trials: an application to alternative therapies for burns | Vilelmine Carayanni | University of Piraeus | Authors: Vilelmine Carayanni, E Tsati, I Ioannovits |