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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 | Berli | |