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7th World Congress Presentation List

Presentation Title	Presenter First Name	Presenter Last Name	Type	Session Title
A carpaccio of red herrings: exploring the influence of proximity to death on disease-specific hospital costs	Albert	Wong	Long format Presentation	TBA
A case study on evaluation of hospital “Know-how” using Contingent Valuation Methodology	Wen-hua	TIAN	Short format Presentation	TBA
A Classification System for Clinic Interventions That Serves the DRG System	Fritz	Diekmann	Organized Session	Health payment and reimbursement research in health reform and development
A Comparative Time Motion Study in Health Centre (HC) IIIs in Tororo District, Uganda.	Aloysius	Mutebi	Short format Presentation	TBA
A Comparison of Food Purchasing Behavior between Higher and Lower Income Households	Eric	Finkelstein	Organized Session	Stymie snacks and soda? Evidence on strategies to reverse trends in childhood and adolescent obesity
A comparison of national HIV/AIDS health expenditures in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia -- before and after the donor influx	Susna	De	Poster Presentation	Poster
A comparison of parametric and non-parametric methods to estimate the costs of obesity	Stephan	Gohmann	Long format Presentation	TBA
A comparison of the cost-effectiveness of diabetes prevention in the Australian and Indigenous Australian populations	Melanie	Bertram	Organized Session	Is prevention really better than cure? Methods and results of a national study evaluating the cost-effectiveness of preventive interventions (ACE-Prevention)
A comparison of the health status and health care utilisation patterns between foreigners and the national population in Spain: new evidence from the Spanish National Health Survey	Cristina	Hernández Quevedo	Organized Session	Health and health care consumption of migrants
A cost effectiveness analysis of Helicobacter pylori screening for gastric cancer in Hong Kong	Irene	Wong	Long format Presentation	TBA
A cost-benefit analysis of employer provided highly active antiretroviral therapy to HIV positive employees of a large South African mining company.	Emma	Beruter	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Decision Analysis of State Public Health System Responses to Pertussis Outbreaks	Garrett	Asay	Poster Presentation	Poster
A deterministic model for reforming health systems	William C.	Hsiao	Organized Session	What are the appropriate models for global health systems strengthening?
A Diagnostic Related Group and Its Effect on Hospital Costs: findings from Indonesia	Ni MAS	Ratna Sudewi	Poster Presentation	Poster
A discount rate in health economic evaluations in Germany	Mareike	Schad	Short format Presentation	TBA
A Discussion on NHI Pharmaceutical Price Gap in Taiwan	Juei-Hua	Lee	Poster Presentation	Poster
A Drowsy Chaperone: Major League Baseball and Doping Enforcement	Michael	Leeds	Organized Session	Policy Environments and Substance Use
A Dynamic Learning Model of Smoking Behavior	Michael	Darden	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Field Experiment of Incentives for Exercise among Workers	Mark	Stehr	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Fiscal Space Paradox? Government Spending on Health in India	Rajeev	Ahuja	Organized Session	Assessing Fiscal Space for Health: A Simple Analytical Framework and Applications to Lower and Middle-Income Countries
A foundational model of national health systems	Alan	Maynard	Organized Session	What are the appropriate models for global health systems strengthening?
A Framework for Assessing Fiscal Space for Health	Ajay	Tandon	Organized Session	Assessing Fiscal Space for Health: A Simple Analytical Framework and Applications to Lower and Middle-Income Countries
A game theory model to explain conflict in the consultation when both the doctor and the patient are faced with uncertainty.	Charitini	Stavropoulou	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Global Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of the Impact of Potential Innovations in Measles Vaccination	Louis	Garrison	Short format Presentation	TBA
A health work force model for chronic diseases: Estimating demand	Leonie	Segal	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Health-Tax Micro Simulation Model to Evaluate Hypothetical Health Benefit Programs	Loan	Nguyen	Short format Presentation	TBA
A longitudinal analysis of smoking decisions based on dynamic two-part-models and Swedish data	Gustav	Kjellsson	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Longitudinal Study Exploring Practice-Makes-Perfect Effect in Taiwan — Using Coronary Artery Bypass Graft as an Example	Yu-Chia	Chang	Long format Presentation	TBA
A look at the lives of the unemployed in Spain	Climent	Quintana-Domeque	Poster Presentation	Poster
A multiproduct cost function to analyse the effect of financial incentives on output substitution in primary care	Peter	Sivey	Short format Presentation	TBA
A non-parametric matching method for covariate adjustment in economic evaluations that use observational data	Richard	Grieve	Organized Session	Providing Best Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
A novel approach to the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals with multiple consequences under uncertainty: a theoretical application of the net benefit correspondence theorem and data envelopment analysis	Nikki	McCaffrey	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Pareto Improvement for Chinese Healthcare Sector: Enhancing the Role of Community Healthcare in China	Qi	Cao	Poster Presentation	Poster
A Pharmaceutical Innovation: Is It Worth the Money? Whose Money?"	Michèle	Sennhauser	Organized Session	Preference Measurement: New Applications
A Randomized Controlled Trial of strategies for Weight Loss	Kevin	Volpp	Organized Session	Innovative strategies for weight loss
A Review of the OCED Health Determinants Study	Ted	Frech	Poster Presentation	Poster
A review of the use of discrete choice experiments in HRH research	Mylene	Lagarde	Organized Session	Researching interventions to address the human resources for health crisis - an application of discrete choice experiments in Kenya, Thailand and South Africa.
A Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program: What Impact Does it Have on Health in Malawi?	Sarah	Baird	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) of hospital inefficiency in acute hospitals in Ontario	Audrey	Laporte	Organized Session	Quality and Efficiency Tradeoffs: Evidence from Acute and Long-Term Care
A Stochastic Frontier Model for Discrete Ordinal Outcomes: A Health Production Function	Xueyan	Zhao	Long format Presentation	TBA
A Study on Accounting of Community Health Facilities Expenditure in Shanghai	Hansheng	Ding	Short format Presentation	TBA
A Study on Patient Satisfaction in China	Annie	Chu	Organized Session	Performance of China's health system: measurement issues and policy implications
A substitute for government resource allocation to the health sector? – the role of international health aid in Rwanda	Chunling	Lu	Organized Session	International Resources for Improving Health in Developing Countries and their Effects on Government Health Expenditure
A system-wide benefit incidence analysis of health services in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania	Mariam	Ally	Organized Session	How equitable is health care financing and service utilisation in African countries: Evidence from Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa?
A systematic review of the economic costs and consequences of fall prevention interventions for older people	A-La	Park	Poster Presentation	Poster
A Tri-Nations comparison of decision making: comparing public drug formulary decisions of Australia, UK and Canada	Jing Jing	Li	Long format Presentation	TBA
A uniform framework for assessing the benefits of health care services: development of a checklist to identify the attributes of relevance for use in discrete choice experiments	Linda	Spijkers	Long format Presentation	TBA
Abolition of User fee in Nepal – Can it be sustained? (Experience from a low income country)	Badri	Pande	Poster Presentation	Poster
Abortion in Switzerland: Driven by prevalence or preference?	Peter	Zweifel	Organized Session	Government Regulation and Health Behaviors
Access to pre-hospital trauma care for Road Traffic Injuries in a middle-income country - a province based study of need and access in Iran.	Hassan	Haghparast Bidgoli	Long format Presentation	TBA
Accuracy of estimation of disease-specific costs in national health care expenditure: An example of renal failure and dialysis	Etsuji	Okamoto	Poster Presentation	Poster
Accuracy of self-reports of mental health care utilization compared to hospital records	Sven	Heinrich	Poster Presentation	Poster
Adapting health systems to multiple transition	Zhang	Zhengzhong	Organized Session	Future Health Systems: Responding to New Challenges and New Opportunities
Addressing uncertainty in (very) early economic evaluations of health care technologies	Manuela	Joore	Organized Session	Addressing uncertainty in (very) early economic evaluations of health care technologies: The application of scenario drafting and real options analysis
Adherence as an accompanied change-management process	Roland	Ernst	Poster Presentation	Poster
Adjusting measurement of health inequalities: Are current measures benchmarked against the impossible?	Jing	Shen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Adolescent body weight and classmates: is there really a peer effect?	Renna	frenna@uakron.edu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Adolescent Propensity to Engage in Risky Behaviors: The Role of Individual Resilience	Debra	Dwyer	Poster Presentation	Poster
Advantageous Selection in Social Health Insurance: Evidence from Taiwan	Ilya	Rahkovsky	Long format Presentation	TBA
Adverse Selection and Scaling up Process of Voluntary Health Insurance Coverage in India: A Rational Behavior Model of Insurance Agents under Information Asymmetry	Sukumar	Vellakkal	Long format Presentation	TBA
Affordability of supplementary health insurance in France: a social experiment	Jérôme	Wittwer	Long format Presentation	TBA
Ageing and aggregate health-care spending in Europe	Terkel	Christiansen	Organized Session	Ageing and health care expenditures
Agency relationship and the choice of generic pharmaceuticals	Toshiaki	Iizuka	Long format Presentation	TBA
Agency-incentive analysis in the design and implementation process of the equity funds in Madagascar	Ayako	Honda	Long format Presentation	TBA
Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World	Jed	Friedman	Long format Presentation	TBA
Aging and Smoothing Healthcare Spending Over Time	Dov	Chernichovsky	Organized Session	Ageing and health care expenditures
Aging, Social Capital and Health Care Utilisation in Ontario, Canada--A Lagged Analysis	Eric	Nauenberg	Long format Presentation	TBA
Alcohol Consumption and Human Capital: A Retrospective Study of the Literature	Jeannette	Lye	Long format Presentation	TBA
Alcohol Consumption and Price Elasticity in China	Feng	Liu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Alcohol consumption and sickness absence - The effect of level and pattern of consumption on short and long term absenteeism	Johan	Jarl	Short format Presentation	TBA
Alcohol policy modelling: moving beyond a healthcare perspective to include alcohol attributable crime and employment outcomes	Alan	Brennan	Organized Session	Methodological challenges and solutions in evaluation of public health policy interventions: a case study of alcohol pricing and promotion policies in England and its international generalisability
Altruism and willingness to pay for private and public health measures in stated-preference surveys	Henrik	Andersson	Short format Presentation	TBA
An analysis of efficiency in Japanese Municipal hospitals by “true” fixed effect model	Hiroyuki	Kawaguchi	Poster Presentation	Poster
An analysis of the health care use of immigrants: evidence from the California Health Interview Survey	Helene	Huber	Organized Session	Health and health care consumption of migrants
An Analysis of the Individual and Household Determinants of Health Insurance Transitions in Ireland 1994-2001: A Discrete Time Duration Approach	Claire	Finn	Short format Presentation	TBA
An analysis on the procedures utilization for the diagnosis of breast cancer: VABB vs. traditional procedures	Eva	Marchese	Short format Presentation	TBA
An assessment health care reforms in India since 1990s: All we need is Equity and fairness	SHALINI	RUDRA	Short format Presentation	TBA
An assessment of efficiency of Chinese county hospitals during economic transition: data from 1993 to 2005	Ruoyan	Gai	Poster Presentation	Poster
An economic evaluation of a delivery-fee exemption policy on maternal and child health indicators in Ghana	Karen	Grepin	Short format Presentation	TBA
An economic evaluation of treatments for HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy	Sirianong	Peyasantiwong	Poster Presentation	Poster
An Empirical Analysis of the Development of Obesity and its Determinants over the Life Cycle	Tor	Eriksson	Long format Presentation	TBA
An Empirical Analysis on Operational Efficiency of the National Health Insurance in Korea	KeeTaig	Jung	Short format Presentation	TBA
An Empirical Investigation of the Reformed Public Health Insurance in Urban China	Minglai	Zhu	Poster Presentation	Poster
An empirical test of rational polydrug addiction	Bohdan	Nosyk	Short format Presentation	TBA
An estimate and equity analysis of household Out-of-pocket health expenditure in Pakistan	Ashar	Muhammad Malik	Short format Presentation	TBA
An Examination on the Scope of Caregiver Reaction	Seiritsu	Ogura	Organized Session	Informal care in economic evaluations
An exploratory study of the long-term relationship between health and housing	Stephanie	Bernell	Poster Presentation	Poster
An Impact Evaluation of Access to Health Care In Different Social Experiments of Rural China	Qinxiang	Xue	Poster Presentation	Poster
An In Depth Look at the Barriers to Adoption of Telemedicine in California’s San Joaquin Valley: What are the Conditions for Success?	Mohammad	Rahman	Poster Presentation	Poster
An Incentive Mechanism for Using Risk Adjuster to Reimburse Health Care Providers	Charles	Yan	Long format Presentation	TBA
An input oriented parametric analysis of Queensland public hospital efficiency	Kim Huong	Nguyen	Long format Presentation	TBA
An Interactive Markov Model for the Evaluation of Home Management of Malaria Programmes in Sub Sahara Africa	Yoel	Lubell	Long format Presentation	TBA
An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Are Cigarette Price-Discount Coupons a Strategic Response to Tobacco Control Policies?	Andrew	Sfekas	Long format Presentation	TBA
Analogy research of operating cost of insurance company-operating model between government-operating model in New Rural cooperative medical system	xiaoyuan	zhou	Poster Presentation	Poster
Analysing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Case Study of Malaysia	Zurina	Kefeli	Long format Presentation	TBA
Analysing job satisfaction among health workers in Zambia	Felix	Masiye	Short format Presentation	TBA
Analysis and Thinking of the Implementary Results Based on New First Treatment System in Shenzhen Community	Guangqiang	Lai	Poster Presentation	Poster
Analysis of factors influencing medical expenditures and countermeasures in China	Lvlin	Zhou	Poster Presentation	Poster
Analysis of financial flows for cancer care: Development of National Health Account (NHA) cancer sub-accounts in England and Japan	Toshio	Ogawa	Long format Presentation	TBA
Analysis of Inpatient Services Utilization by Wealth Classes under the Linkage between NCMS and MA --- the Case of Three Counties in Rural China	Xuefei	Gu	Organized Session	Increasing Access to Health Services by the Poor: Afghanistan, China, and Uganda
Analysis of out-of-pocket health payments impact: An evidence of two focalized public programs for the poor in Mexico	Sandra G.	Sosa-Rubí	Long format Presentation	TBA
Analysis of private health services utilization, insurance claims and charges data in a randomised control trial of a chronic disease management program	Jennifer	Watts	Long format Presentation	TBA
Analysis of the Critical Access Hospital Payment System: Efficiency vs. Access	Michael	Rosko	Long format Presentation	TBA
Analysis of the Impact of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act on Pharmaceutical Patents	Enrique	Seoane-Vazquez	Long format Presentation	TBA
Analyzing health equity in the West Bank and Gaza	Awad	Mataria	Organized Session	Equity in Health: Emerging Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa Region
Analyzing the long-term impact of out-of-pocket health payments in Nicaragua (1998 -2001)	Ana Mylena	Aguilar Rivera	Long format Presentation	TBA
Anti-HPV Vaccination in Italy: Comparison of Recent Economic Evidences	Francesco	Mennini	Poster Presentation	Poster
Anticipating the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Are beneficiaries are aware of their proximity to the coverage gap?	Vicki	Fung	Short format Presentation	TBA
Anxiety disorders - Cost of illness and treatment patterns analysis from a retrospective US claims database	Clément	François	Poster Presentation	Poster
Application of discrete choice experiments to value multi-attribute health states: experimental design issues	Rosalie	Viney	Long format Presentation	TBA
Applying economics to guide policy decisions related to sexually transmitted diseases in United States	Guoyu	Tao	Organized Session	Applying health economics to disease prevention and control: The CDC experience
Approaches to Accountability	Seija	Kromm	Poster Presentation	Poster
Are community-based medical services cost saving? Evidence from urban China	Hongli	JIANG	Long format Presentation	TBA
Are Competing Insurers Bad for Your Health?	Michael	Luca	Organized Session	Competition, Organizational Structure, and Patient Health
Are Current Global HIV/AIDS Targets Reasonable?	Mark	Pearson	Poster Presentation	Poster
Are genomic diagnostics economically viable? The case of the European Inflammatory Bowel Disease DNA chip	James	Buchanan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Are Individuals Trapped In Observed Obesity Levels?	Mark	Harris	Organized Session	Obesity and economics in Australia
Are patients’ judgments of health status really different from the general population?	Paul	Krabbe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?	Michael	Anderson	Poster Presentation	Poster
Are results from costing studies overestimated?	Ramon	Luengo-Fernandez	Short format Presentation	TBA
Are there spatial and socio-economic inequities in incidence and burden and prevention of malaria? A study in southeast Nigeria	Ogoamaka	Chukwuogo	Poster Presentation	Poster
Assessing Factors Affecting Maternal and Child Health Care Using Probit and Ivprobit Model	Djoni	Hartono	Poster Presentation	Poster
Assessing fiscal space for health in Indonesia	Ajay	Tandon	Organized Session	Health care financing reforms in Indonesia: bridging health economics and policy
Assessing Quality of Life in Post-Stroke Patients, a Direct Comparison of 15D and EQ-5D	Lene	Lunde	Long format Presentation	TBA
Assessing Regional Performance in Achieving MDGs in Rwanda	Chunling	Lu	Organized Session	Efficiency measurement in developing countries
Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of a Pharmacogentic Test for Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapies in Australia	Angela	Wallace	Short format Presentation	TBA
Assessing the existence of an efficiency-equity tradeoff in developing countries: Empirical evidence from Afghanistan	Benjamin	Johns	Long format Presentation	TBA
Assessing the impact of Medicare Part D on persons with severe mental illness	Marisa	Domino	Short format Presentation	TBA
Assessing the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Health Systems: Implications Related to Aid-Dependency, Informality, and Out-of-Pocket Spending	Pablo	Gottret	Organized Session	Are Social Insurance Systems More Resilient to Macroeconomic Shocks? An Analysis of the Expected Impact of the Current Financial Crisis on Health Revenues and Expenditures
Assessing the Impact of the Recent Global Financial on Health Financing: Eastern European Perspectives	Mukesh	Chawla	Organized Session	Are Social Insurance Systems More Resilient to Macroeconomic Shocks? An Analysis of the Expected Impact of the Current Financial Crisis on Health Revenues and Expenditures
Assessing the intangible costs of gambling addiction	Dimitri	Kohler	Long format Presentation	TBA
Assessing the public health and economic impact of HPV vaccination strategies	Elamin H.	Elbasha	Organized Session	HPV Vaccine Economics
Assessing the socio-economic value of medical devices: The case of cardiac care	Corinna	Sorenson	Organized Session	The Socio-Economic Value of Medical Devices: Preliminary Evidence and Assessment Challenges
Assessment for Healthcare Utilization of Tuberculosis Pay-for-Performance Program	Cheng-Yi	Lee	Long format Presentation	TBA
Assessment of asthma control and its socioeconomic determinants as a way to reduce the burden of this chronic disease	Anissa	Afrite	Poster Presentation	Poster
Association between Insurance Gaps and Anti-hypertension Medication Adherence in a U.S. National Representative Population	Yunwei	Gai	Long format Presentation	TBA
Association between obesity and low back pain among Taiwanese adults: does higher economic status alleviate the association?	Hsiao-Yun	Hu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Avoidable consultations in general medicine: identification method and avoidable cost assessment	Christian	de Peretti	Long format Presentation	TBA
Avoidable Mortality in Italy, a regional approach	Cristina	Masseria	Short format Presentation	TBA
Awareness of Health Insurance and Stated Preferences for Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Rural Karnataka, India	Manoj	Mohanan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Bad Education? College Entry, Health and Risky Behavior	Yee Fei	Chia	Long format Presentation	TBA
Barriers to Access to Antiretroviral Treatment in Mozambique as Perceived by Patients and Health Workers in Urban and Rural Settings	Mariana	Posse	Poster Presentation	Poster
Barriers to Health Care in the World of Universal Health Care: Evidence from Rural Tamil Nadu, India	Maki	Ueyama	Long format Presentation	TBA
Basic Medical Insurance, Community Health Management and Chronic Diseases Prevention	Wang	Li	Poster Presentation	Poster
Basic Researches’ Effects on Pharmaceutical Companies’ Innovative Performances : Evidence from Japan	Hiromi	Saito	Poster Presentation	Poster
Benefits from debt relief for health sector financing: A comparative study of eleven HIPCs.	Miloud	Kaddar	Long format Presentation	TBA
Better financial protection for urban insured: financing community health services from insurance funds in Qingdao	Tatyana	Makarova	Short format Presentation	TBA
Bibliometric Analysis of Health Insurance Research in Period of 2001 to 2007	Zi-Yu	Hung	Poster Presentation	Poster
Birth outcomes and economic crises: evidence and cost assessment from Argentina`s “corralito”	Carlos G.	Bozzoli	Long format Presentation	TBA
BMS or DES for CAD Patients: Balancing Between Economic and Clinical Outcomes	Yi-Ling	Lin	Poster Presentation	Poster
Breast screening in NSW, Australia: predictors of non-attendance and irregular attendance	Minh	Vu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Building an alcohol policy model: what should be included in the relationship between price and consumption?	Robin	Purshouse	Organized Session	Methodological challenges and solutions in evaluation of public health policy interventions: a case study of alcohol pricing and promotion policies in England and its international generalisability
Building health institutions in contexts of rapid change	Gerald	Bloom	Organized Session	Future Health Systems: Responding to New Challenges and New Opportunities
Building institutions for rural health governance in China: a case study of rural New Cooperative Medical Scheme	Yunping	Wang	Organized Session	Health Care Market Failures in Low Income Countries
Bundling, risk adjustment, and provider payment systems	Randall P.	Ellis	Organized Session	Payment methods for medical care and efficiency of resource use
Can China use experience of German healthcare system in its reform?	Hengjin	Dong	Poster Presentation	Poster
Can Marriage Reduce Risky Behavior for African-Americans?	Olugbenga	Ajilore	Poster Presentation	Poster
Can Micro Health Insurance Improve the Economic Status of the Microcredit Members?	Syed Abdul	Hamid	Short format Presentation	TBA
Can Primary Care Utilization Reduce the Average Length of Hospital Stay?	Nobuyuki	Izumida	Organized Session	Demand, Social Costs and Accessibility, for Medical Care and Long-Term Care in Aging Society
Can Rawlsian maximin be the social choice for equity in the health domain ?	Roshni	Mangalore	Short format Presentation	TBA
Can subjective survival expectations explain retirement behavior?	Owen	O'Donnell	Organized Session	Subjective Expectations and Health-Related Behaviour
Can Time Trade Off be implemented online?- a case study from Australia using the EQ-5D.	Paula	Cronin	Poster Presentation	Poster
Can we increase institutional deliveries without addressing factors outside the health sector?	Frederick	Mugisha	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cancer survivors and job tenure: transitions between employment and non- employment in a continuous-time Markov model	Alain	Paraponaris	Long format Presentation	TBA
Care for the money or pay for the care? Differences in preferences for different preferred providers.	L.H.H.M. (Lieke)	Boonen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Catastrophic Health Expenditures in Latin America: A Multi-National Analysis of Social Protection	Felicia	Knaul	Organized Session	The distribution of catastrophic health expenditures and its relationship to insurance coverage – Emerging global patterns and evidence
Catastrophic Health Expenditures in the Dominican Republic: Analysis of determinants and linkages to impoverishment	Maria Isabel	Santana Perez	Short format Presentation	TBA
Challenges of efficiency improvement in medical care by payment method in China	Dahai	Zhao	Organized Session	Payment methods for medical care and efficiency of resource use
Challenges of Healthcare Practice in a Developing Economy: a Report of a Year Practice in a Primary Health Care Centre in South-Eastern Nigeria	Olawale	Oladimeji	Poster Presentation	Poster
Change in Peer’s Behaviour and the Model of Punctuated Organizational Change: Using Smoking and Driking As an Example	Christy	Pu	Short format Presentation	TBA
Changes in the Demand for Physician Services Subsequent to Negligence: Volume and Composition Effects	Subramaniam	Ramanarayanan	Short format Presentation	TBA
Changes In Utilization Of Health Services Among Poor And Rural Residents In Uganda: Are Reforms Benefitting The Poor?	David	Bishai	Organized Session	Increasing Access to Health Services by the Poor: Afghanistan, China, and Uganda
Changes in waiting time for health care service during 1991-2006, China in China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)	Jinan	Liu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Changes of Hospital Service Use and Cost in Schizophrenia Patients Treated With Long-Acting Injectable Risperidone: a One-Year Mirror Image Study Using a Population-Based Database in Taiwan	Hui-Chih	Chang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Characterising structural uncertainty in decision analytic models: A review and application of methods	Laura	Bojke	Organized Session	Explicit Characterization of Uncertainty in Health Technology Assessment: Structural and Other Uncertainties
Child development and family income in the United Kingdom: does money matter?	Mara	Violato	Long format Presentation	TBA
Child Health and the Income Gradient in Australia: The Role of Chronic Conditions	Luke	Connelly	Poster Presentation	Poster
Child health insurance coverage: a survey among temporary and permanent residents in Shanghai	Mingshan	Lu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Children with Disabilities: Impact of Comorbidities on Heath Services Use and Expenditures	Timothy	McBride	Poster Presentation	Poster
China Health Development and Health Payment Reform	Zhang	Zhengzhong	Organized Session	Health payment and reimbursement research in health reform and development
China’s Health Care Expenditure/Revenue Analysis and Forecast using Macro-Econometric Model: correspondence of statistics and transition of policy	Masayo	Sato	Short format Presentation	TBA
Choice at What Cost? Voluntary Health Insurance in Australia	Jane	Hall	Organized Session	Entitlement to Medical Care and Voluntary Medical Insurance – the Risk and the Potential
Cigarette Excise Taxation: The Impact of Tax Structure on Prices, Revenues, and Cigarette Smoking	Xin	Xu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cigarette Smoking and Body Weight: Evidence from China	Mir	Ali	Poster Presentation	Poster
Classification of diseases and health interventions	Richard	Madden	Organized Session	Health payment and reimbursement research in health reform and development
Clients’ Perceived Quality on Methadone Maintenance Treatment Service in Indonesia	Irvan	Afriandi	Poster Presentation	Poster
Clinic diagnose-and-treat person-times and patients’ clinic medical treatment cost burden changing tendency analysis in Chengdu city between 1992 and 2001	Jiannan	Yang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Columbia's National Health Insurance (NSHI) - a health financing reform organized as a model of "managed competition	Pablo	Gottret	Organized Session	What Do We Really Know About Global Health Financing Reforms: Is This Yet Another Failure of the Global Community and Academia?
Commodification or De-commodification: the health care regime in urban China and the influences on the urban poor	YANG	HUI	Short format Presentation	TBA
Community Based Health Insurance in the Context of Health Care Financing Reform in Azerbaijan	Valerie	Oliveira-Cruz	Organized Session	Scaling up community financing: key challenges faced
Comparing efficacies of treatments for chronic hepatitis B: A Bayesian mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis	Gloria	Woo	Poster Presentation	Poster
Comparing medical claim auditing strategies between Australia and Taiwan	Chun-Mei	Lin	Poster Presentation	Poster
Comparing Patient Satisfaction with Health Insurance For Poor People Program And Family Doctor For Poor People Program	ekowati	retnaningsih	Poster Presentation	Poster
Comparing Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy Between Countries; an EQ-5D based approach.	Richard	Heijink	Long format Presentation	TBA
Comparison of health care financing schemes before and after market reforms in China’s urban areas	Nuo	Wang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Comparison of perforation rate among native Taiwanese and migrants/immigrants with acute appendicitis in Taiwan, 1996-2001	Tsai-Ling	Liu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Comparison of Propensity Score Matching and Adjustment using Inverse Probability of Treatment Weights	Zhun	Cao	Long format Presentation	TBA
Comparison of the Performance of the CMS Hierarchical Condition Category (CMS-HCC) Risk Adjuster with the Charlson and Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures	Pengxiang	Li	Long format Presentation	TBA
Compensation patterns for healthcare workers in British Columbia, Canada.	Hasanat	Alamgir	Short format Presentation	TBA
Competition and substitutability in in-patent pharmaceutical markets: Empirical evidence from four therapeutic categories	Panos	Kanavos	Long format Presentation	TBA
Competition in the health care market: a “two-sided” approach	Giacomo	Pignataro	Long format Presentation	TBA
Competition versus gatekeeping in a listpatient system: A study of general practitioners’ prescription pattern for patients aged 70 and older	Inger Carhine	Kann	Long format Presentation	TBA
Complementing the Net Benefit approach: A new framework for Bayesian cost--effectiveness analysis	Miguel	Negrín	Long format Presentation	TBA
Complex systems and the economic evaluation of population health interventions	Alan	Shiell	Organized Session	Reality is horrendously complicated’ – Accommodating complexity in economic evaluation
Compliance and persistence of antihypertensive treatment in newly diagnosed patients	Pin-Hsuan	Wu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Comprehensive Risk Adjusted payment for Primary Care	Arlene S.	Ash	Organized Session	Competition, Organizational Structure, and Patient Health
Concentration in Brazilian health insurance markets and the use of ‘gravitational model’s’ to delimited geographic market.	Marina	Gama	Short format Presentation	TBA
Concept on Increasing National Macro Investments in Health and Health Related High Tech R&D to Accelerate Middle-Term Economic Growth in Russian Federa	Anatoly	Pleshanov	Poster Presentation	Poster
Conducting economic analysis to assist policy decisions for preventing diabetes	Ping	Zhang	Organized Session	Applying health economics to disease prevention and control: The CDC experience
Construction of a composite index of socio-economic status: how to derive a reliable proxy for income in low and middle income countries? Experience from Tanzania, Ghana and South Africa	Gemini	Mtei	Long format Presentation	TBA
Consumer Choice and Patient Selection in Health Care:	Geir	Godager	Organized Session	Regulation of Primary Care Physicians
Controlling Drug Price and Quality In Health Insurance at Indonesia	Budi	Setiawan	Poster Presentation	Poster
Converging the Interest of Public and Private Sectors, An Experience in Primary Health Care in Iran	Samad	Rouhani	Poster Presentation	Poster
Coordination or Integration: a Comparative Study on Performance of Health Care Delivery Systems	Ken	Aoki	Poster Presentation	Poster
Coping with the financial burden of illness: A study in rural region of a less developed district in India	Vaishnavi	Deenadayalan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Core and Context Attributes: A Test of Decision Heuristics in Discrete-Choice Experiments	Juan Marcos	González	Organized Session	Preference Measurement: New Applications
Correcting Biases in Self-report: Assessing Statistical Tools for Vignette Analysis	Emre	Ozaltin	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost and Price of inpatient examining per bed day in 8 hospitals from Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shanxi and Hubei	Yunting	Zhang	Organized Session	Improving Hospital Accountability in China: Cost, Quality of care, and Efficiency
Cost benefit analysis of an intervention program on avoidable hospitalizations.	Jose Luis	Alfonso	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost effective or cost Benifit:Barriers to condom use in developing country	Indu	Joshi	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost effectiveness analysis adjusting for baseline covariates: An observational study of spinal cord stimulators for chronic low back pain	William	Hollingworth	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost effectiveness of a Tailored Intervention to Promote Screening for Colorectal Cancer	David	Lairson	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost Effectiveness of Introducing Pneumococcus Vaccine in a Sri Lankan Community: Epidemiology and Economic Analysis - Methodology	Sanjeewa	Kularatna	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost effectiveness of telbivudine vs. entecavir and lamivudine among patients with HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B in China	Min	HU	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost effectiveness of the Vancouver Supervised Injection Facility	Gregory	Zaric	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost effectiveness of universal predischarge serum bilirubin screening in the birthing hospital to reduce kernicterus and jaundice related readmission	Bin	Xie	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost estimation of diabetic clinic attendance at the General Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka	Suneth	Agampodi	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost Implication of Using a Genomic Test in Surveillance Care for Patients with Non-Invasive Bladder Cancer	Guoqing John	Chen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost inefficiency in Finnish primary care: The effects of organisational factors and production structures	Kalevi	Luoma	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost minimising use of a new technology - wireless capsule endoscopy of the small bowel	Jenny	Bacon	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost of illness studies in overweight and obesity: wasted effort or opportunity to drive policy change?	Allison	Larg	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost of illness studies of dementia: a systematic review focusing on stage-dependency of costs	Hans-Helmut	Koenig	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost of obesity, and evaluation of policy options to reduce its prevalence in New Zealand	Guy	Scott	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost of providing the expanded programme on immunization: findings from a facility-based study in Viet Nam, 2005	Minh Van	Hoang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost recovery by the alternative healthcare financing mechanisms in Bangladesh: a comparison between user fees and micro health insurances schemes	Nahid	Jahan	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost Utlity Analysis in Cardiovascular Program: a case of study	sandra lorena	Duque Henao	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost-Benefit Analysis of an Innovative Hospital Service for Improving the Clinical Management of Patients	Sergio	Blasco	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost-effectiveness analysis alongside multinational clinical trials	Oliver	Rivero-Arias	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost-effectiveness analysis of DEXA versus existing technologies in Italy	Marco	Ratti	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to reduce overweight and obesity in Australia.	Megan	Forster	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies for cardiovascular disease in developing countries	Stephen	Lim	Organized Session	Beyond the Millenium Development Goals: Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease and injury in developing countries
Cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies for reducing road traffic injuries in developing countries	Dan	Chisholm	Organized Session	Beyond the Millenium Development Goals: Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease and injury in developing countries
Cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies to combat cancer in developing countries	Rob	Baltussen	Organized Session	Beyond the Millenium Development Goals: Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease and injury in developing countries
Cost-effectiveness analysis of use of RDT, microscopy and clinical examination/history in the diagnosis and treatment of malaria, Implications for ACT treatment Policy in Nigeria	Benjamin	Uzochukwu	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost-effectiveness analysis of verinicline versus existing smoking cessation strategies in Italy	guido	didoni	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a heart failure management program	Anja	Neumann	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost-Effectiveness Modeling for Depression among ART (HIV/AIDS) Recipient in a Public Hospital setting in India	Muniswamy	Sundar	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost-effectiveness of a Computerized Physiscian Order Entry system in hopitalized patients	Karin	Vermeulen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost-effectiveness of a pediatric dengue vaccine in Southeast Asia and Panama	Donald	Shepard	Organized Session	The conduct of health economic evaluation for children in the developing world
Cost-effectiveness of Diabetes Education in Prosthetics Clinics	Karen	Fitzner	Short format Presentation	TBA
Cost-effectiveness of Haemophilus influenza type b vaccine in low and middle income countries	Ulla Kou	Griffiths	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost-effectiveness of misoprostol and prenatal iron supplementation as maternal mortality interventions in home births in rural India	David	Bishai	Organized Session	The Economics of Maternal Mortality Reduction
Cost-effectiveness of oral triptan therapy in Korea	SeungJin	Bae	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost-effectiveness of statin therapy in Korea	Eun Young	Bae	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cost-effectiveness of subsidy for physical activity counselling in general practice, Perth, Western Australia	Anura	Amarasinghe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost-effectiveness of two weight loss programs in Australia	Linda	Cobiac	Organized Session	Is prevention really better than cure? Methods and results of a national study evaluating the cost-effectiveness of preventive interventions (ACE-Prevention)
Cost-saving or cost-effective? Choices between high-intensity and low-intensity smoking cessation programs in Sweden	Pia	Johansson	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cost-sharing Effects Among the Near-Poor in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program	Huihui	Wang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Costing Harm Reduction Interventions in Indonesia, 2007	Purwa	K Sucahya	Poster Presentation	Poster
Costs and benefits of HAART for patients with HIV in a public hospital in Mexico	Belkis	Aracena	Long format Presentation	TBA
Costs and cost-effectiveness of immunisation programmes: the role of lay health workers	Adrijana	Corluka	Poster Presentation	Poster
Costs and effects of lifestyle intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus. Results from the “Diabetes in Europe - Prevention using Lifestyle, physical Activity and Nutritional intervention” (DE-PLAN) project in Poland	Katarzyna	Kissimova-Skarbek	Long format Presentation	TBA
Costs in PSA screening for prostate cancer: evidence from Finland	Neill	Booth	Poster Presentation	Poster
Costs of methadone maintenance treatment in HIV/AIDS control among injecting drug users	Adiatma	Siregar	Poster Presentation	Poster
Costs of providing HIV/AIDS Medical Services in Fragile Countries: A Critical Component to Expanding Access to Services	Gilbert	Kombe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Costs of Service Provision over the Palliative Care Trajectory	Lisa	Masucci	Short format Presentation	TBA
Country comparison of inter-individual health inequalities	Stefan	Baeten	Long format Presentation	TBA
Country-specific recalibration of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL-2) instrument for use with adolescents	Marj	Moodie	Organized Session	QALYs for Youth: utility measurement in children and adolescents
Creating a harmonious and developing coverage mode of the medical insurance funds for the urban workers	Yumei	Sang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Criteria used for selecting patients for antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: a qualitative study	Lydia	Kapiriri	Organized Session	Multiple-criteria priority setting in health: evidence from developing countries
Critical Access Hospital Quality and Financial Performance in a Value-Based Purchasing Program	Ira	Moscovice	Short format Presentation	TBA
Critical workforce motivation strategies-Healthcare	Preethi	Pradhan	Poster Presentation	Poster
Cross Country Analysis of University Hospital Cost Efficiency in the Nordic Countries	Emma	Medin	Long format Presentation	TBA
Cross-Border Mobility in Health Care: The Case of Dental Care Tourism in Central Europe	Oesterle	August	Short format Presentation	TBA
Customization in Prescribing for Bipolar Disorders: Evidence from the STEP Study	Dominic	Hodgkin	Organized Session	Issues Facing Pharmaceutical Policy
Debt financing of public hospitals in four countries	Monika	Riedel	Short format Presentation	TBA
Decentralisation of HIV care and equity in health care use for people living with HIV and AIDS in Cameroon: A multilevel analysis to separate the role of individuals’ determinants from health care supply characteristics	Sylvie	Boyer	Long format Presentation	TBA
Decision model of physician visits: theory and empirical analysis	Hiroaki	Kakihara	Poster Presentation	Poster
Decision-making in general practice: the importance of laboratory analyses when choosing medical actions	Siri Fauli	Munkerud	Poster Presentation	Poster
Decomposing Anti-diabetes Drugs Expenditure Increase During 2001 - 2006 in Taiwan	Chung-Lin	Yang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Decomposing disparity. How economic inequalities are transmitted into adverse health outcomes	Therese	Nilsson	Short format Presentation	TBA
Decomposing Inequality in Health Care Utilisation in The Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Micro-Simulation Approach	Mohammad	Abu-Zaineh	Long format Presentation	TBA
Decomposing the Impact of Abolishing User Fees in Uganda	Susan	Sparkes	Organized Session	Health financing reforms in Africa: experiences from: Rwanda; Uganda and Zambia
Demand Elasticity in the private pharmaceutical market in Colombia	Johanna	Vasquez	Poster Presentation	Poster
Demand for a health insurance and health care consumption: empirical results from a natural experiment in France	Marc	Perronnin	Long format Presentation	TBA
Demand side financing options for improving maternal health care—Feasibility and costs of a voucher scheme in Karnataka, India	Beena	Varghese	Short format Presentation	TBA
Dental Care Expenditures and the Probability of Dental Insurance Coverage	Charles	Link	Poster Presentation	Poster
Designing SHI to meet developing countries' economic and institutional realities - the case of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme	Finn	Schleimann	Organized Session	Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme- the way forward for Sub-Saharan Africa or a hazardous experiment?
Determinants of “healer shopping” for health care of Kala Azar in Nepal	Shiva Raj	Adhikari	Short format Presentation	TBA
Determinants of child morbidity in Vietnam in the transitional period	Thong	Pham Le	Poster Presentation	Poster
Determinants of costs and QALYs in psychosis	Linda	Davies	Organized Session	Reality is horrendously complicated’ – Accommodating complexity in economic evaluation
Determinants of HIV status among women in Kenya and Uganda	Julie	Namazzi	Short format Presentation	TBA
Determinants of Length of Stay in Patients Admitted to a Surgical Intensive Care Unit in Turkey	Julide	Yildirim	Poster Presentation	Poster
Determinants of Persistence of Expenditures for High Cost Individuals	Joel	Cohen	Poster Presentation	Poster
Determinants of Utilizing Public Health Services: The Case of South Korea	Jihyun	Nam	Poster Presentation	Poster
Developing a Health Care Financing Strategy in Afghanistan	Aaron	Beaston-Blaakman	Poster Presentation	Poster
Developing cross-country comparisons of health spending by disease, age and genderunder the SHA framework	David	Morgan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Development IT based community health system for chrnic disease management in Japan	Kenji	Fujimori	Organized Session	Community health system for chronic health management
Development of a child-friendly version of EQ-5D: the EQ-5D-Y	Kristina	Burstrom	Organized Session	QALYs for Youth: utility measurement in children and adolescents
Development of a resource allocation index model for allocating resources for HIV/STI prevention	Frida	Hansdotter	Long format Presentation	TBA
Development of Casemix based evaluation system in Japan	Shinya	Matsuda	Organized Session	Payment methods for medical care and efficiency of resource use
Development of China’s Community Healthcare Network: An Effort to Improve Equity in Health	Wei	Yu	Organized Session	Community health system for chronic health management
Diabetes-related health disparities: Assessing morbidity differences between American Indians and US adults with Diabetes	Joan	OConnell	Poster Presentation	Poster
Diagnostic Based Risk Adjustment and Primary Care Performance	Manuel	Garcia Goni	Organized Session	Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling
Directly calculating individual level welfare measures from discrete choice experiments to explore heterogeneity	Emily	Lancsar	Poster Presentation	Poster
Disability and Marginal Utility of Income	Sven	Tengstam	Short format Presentation	TBA
Discrete Choice Experiment on HIV/AIDS interventions in Thailand: Different stakeholders reflect different choices?	Sitaporn	Youngkong	Short format Presentation	TBA
Discrete choice experiment to assess public preferences and willingness to pay for information services during pregnancy: A pilot study	Rebecca	Hancock	Poster Presentation	Poster
Discrimination in Waiting Times by Insurance Type and its association to Financial Soundness of Hospitals	Ansgar	Wübker	Long format Presentation	TBA
Disentangling the link between health and social capital: A comparison of immigrant and native-born populations in Spain	Alexandrina	Stoyanova	Long format Presentation	TBA
Distributional Consequences of Prioritization	Oddvar	Kaarbøe	Short format Presentation	TBA
Distributional impact of the National Health Insurance System in France: a microsimulation approach	thierry	debrand	Poster Presentation	Poster
Do Copayments Affect Emergency Department Visits of Medicaid Enrollees?	Karoline	Mortensen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Do Differences in Self-Rated Health Really Reflect Difference In Health?	Yukiko	Asada	Long format Presentation	TBA
Do donors practice what they preach? Measuring additionality for aid flows in health	Charu	Garg	Long format Presentation	TBA
Do I really need to go to rehab? I’d say no, no, no.” Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs	Nicolas	Ziebarth	Poster Presentation	Poster
Do occasional smokers’ risk perception differ from that of regular smokers?	Adrien	Adrien	Short format Presentation	TBA
Do self-perceived changes in health predict longevity?	Esen	Erdogan Ciftci	Long format Presentation	TBA
Do we need several dimensions to measure poverty in Nicaragua?	María-Paola	Zúñiga-Brenes	Short format Presentation	TBA
Do Workers Underreport Morbidity? The Effects of Worker and Job Characteristics on the Reliability of Health Self-Reports	Nabanita Datta	Gupta	Organized Session	Health Related Marginalization in the Labor Market
Doctor-diagnosed versus self-assessed depression - impact on labour market participation	Maria Isabel	Clímaco	Short format Presentation	TBA
Doctors, identity and motivational capital in health care organizations	Juan M	Cabases	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does “Right to Health” in the Constitution Matter?	Hiroaki	Matsuura	Poster Presentation	Poster
Does advance in treatment change the disease pattern? The case of Helicobacter pylori therapy and peptic ulcer	Weng-Foung	Huang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does Child Support Promote Health Insurance Coverage for Kids?	Reagan	Baughman	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does choice of inequality measure matter in assessing health care inequalities? An application to malaria treatment and prevention in Tanzania	FRED	MATOVU	Short format Presentation	TBA
Does design matter in health insurance programs? Evidence from rural China	Winnie	Yip	Organized Session	Health Equity and Financial Protection in Asia (HEFPA)
Does education reduce the probability of being overweight?	Dinand	Webbink	Organized Session	Causal effects of schooling on health?
Does Employee Body Weight Affect Employers' Behavior?	Lene	Kromann	Organized Session	Health Related Marginalization in the Labor Market
Does Good Academic Performance Prevent Suicide? Evidence from the Accountability Laws	Ning	Zhang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Does Health Status Matter to People’s Retirement Decision in Japan?: An Evaluation of “Justification Hypothesis” and Measurement Errors in Subjective Health	Junya	Hamaaki	Short format Presentation	TBA
Does Inequalities in the provision of safe water and sanitation have a bearing on health inequality?	William	Joe	Short format Presentation	TBA
Does integration of health care interventions reduce cost? Experience from an integrated programme for control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Uganda	FIONA	FLEMING	Poster Presentation	Poster
Does Joining Group Practice Increase Physicians’ Insurance Revenue?	Yu-Ping	Wen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Does Knowledge in Youth bring Health in Old Age? Health Returns to Education in the Netherlands	Hans	van Kippersluis	Organized Session	Causal effects of schooling on health?
Does Major Illness Lead to Persistent Poverty? Evidence from Rural China	Ping	Yan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does More Funding Mean Higher Coverage?: Results from an Immunization Resource Tracking Study in Tajikistan	Logan	Brenzel	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does more schooling really induce smoking in Mexico?	Mabel A.	Andalón L.	Poster Presentation	Poster
Does Pay for Performance Improve Hospital Quality of Care?	Lauren	Nicholas	Short format Presentation	TBA
Does Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade lead to lower Prices? A Game Theoretical Approach and Empirical Evidence from the European Union	Sotiris	Vandoros	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does retirement kill you? Evidence from early retirement windows	Maarten	Lindeboom	Organized Session	Understanding the health and labour relationship
Does the availability of more imaging providers per person result in more patient convenience?	Mythreyi	Chatfield	Poster Presentation	Poster
Does the choice of old-age residence impact your health?	Sarah	Borgloh	Poster Presentation	Poster
Does the Effect of Economic Cycles on Mortality Vary by the Level of Development?	Troy	Quast	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does the NHIS cover the poor?	Andreas	Bjerrum	Organized Session	Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme- the way forward for Sub-Saharan Africa or a hazardous experiment?
Does the PAL help the poor? A study on the differential effectiveness of a food support program	Paola	Gadsden	Short format Presentation	TBA
Does the QALY reflect lost earnings due to ill health? Evidence from a Dutch online survey using the EQ-5D	Carl	Tilling	Short format Presentation	TBA
Does understanding physician markets requires modelling both supply and demand? Evidence from Australian GPs.	Ian	McRae	Long format Presentation	TBA
Does variation in GP practice really matter for the length of sickness absenteeism? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP—patient data	M. Kamrul	Islam	Long format Presentation	TBA
Donor Response to Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries: Analysis of Trends and Needs	Rachel	Nugent	Organized Session	The Economics of Non-Communicable Diseases
Drop Out Disparity in US Mental Health Treatment	Chih-Nan	Chen	Poster Presentation	Poster
Dynamic modeling of physical activity and dietary intake on weight gain among Chinese men	Shu-Wen	Ng	Long format Presentation	TBA
Dynamics in work disability reporting using SHARE vignettes	Viola	Angelini	Organized Session	Use and validation of the vignettes approach to enhance comparability of reported health and health system responsiveness
Early Hospital Readmission and Related Resources Utilizations for Older Heart Failure Adults in Taiwan	Ying-Chun	Li	Poster Presentation	Poster
East Asian reform	William	Hsiao	Organized Session	Political economy of health reform: experience from three continents
Eastern European reforms	Mukesh	Chawla	Organized Session	Political economy of health reform: experience from three continents
Econometric Analysis of Advertisers’ Role in Smoking Cessation Treatment	HUA	WANG	Long format Presentation	TBA
Economic analysis of alcohol consumption and risky sexual behaviours	Ana I	Gil Lacruz	Poster Presentation	Poster
Economic analysis of pertussis illness in the Dutch population: Implications for current and future vaccination strategies	Anna	Lugnér	Short format Presentation	TBA
Economic Analysis of Pre-pandemic Influenza Vaccination Strategies in Singapore	Mei Yin	Tok	Poster Presentation	Poster
Economic Analysis of Vaccination Strategies for Influenza Pandemics	Kai Hong	Phua	Short format Presentation	TBA
Economic and geographic disparities in access: Evidence from Yemen	Heba	Elgazzar	Organized Session	Equity in Health: Emerging Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa Region
Economic barriers to implementation of innovations in health care: Is the long run–short run efficiency discrepancy a paradox?	Eddy	Adang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Economic Consequences of NCDs in Low and Middle Income Countries	Marc	Suhrcke	Organized Session	The Economics of Non-Communicable Diseases
Economic evaluation and folic acid fortification policies	Scott	Grosse	Organized Session	Applying health economics to disease prevention and control: The CDC experience
Economic evaluation of a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine in New Zealand	Richard	Milne	Poster Presentation	Poster
Economic evaluation of a skin cancer prevention program in Australia: Past achievements and future prospects	Sophy	Shih	Long format Presentation	TBA
Economic Evaluation of Strategies in Using Percent Free PSA for Prostate Cancer Detection in Chinese Men with PSA of 4.0-20.0 ng/ml	Yu Hung	Lai	Poster Presentation	Poster
Economic Evaluation Of Systems To Monitor Ketone Levels In People With Type 1 Diabetes	Jaime	Espin-Balbino	Long format Presentation	TBA
Economic evaluation of the direct healthcare savings from walking to prevent coronary heart disease in Australia	Henry	Zheng	Short format Presentation	TBA
Economic evaluations of complex interventions: could a theory-driven evaluation approach add value?	Rob	Anderson	Organized Session	Reality is horrendously complicated’ – Accommodating complexity in economic evaluation
Economic evaluations of interventions for children in the developing world: the WHO-CHOICE approach	Tessa	Tan-Torres Edejer	Organized Session	The conduct of health economic evaluation for children in the developing world
Economic Incentives for Orphan Drug Research and Development in the U.S. and Europe	Rosa	Rodriguez-Monguio	Long format Presentation	TBA
Economic valuation of informal care in Asia: A case study of care for disabled stroke survivors in Thailand	Arthorn	Riewpaiboon	Organized Session	Informal care in economic evaluations
Economic Valuations on Village Health Worker’ Recompense in Lesotho	Feng	Zhao	Short format Presentation	TBA
Economic viability of the implementation of a pharmaceutical industry producing harmonies in the State of Bahia/Brazil.	Giselia	Santana Souza	Poster Presentation	Poster
Economics of health behavior: Additional benefits of Pap smear screening, an empirical study in Taiwan	Pen-Jen	Wang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Economies of scale and scope in Danish primary care practices: What is the optimal size of a Danish general practice?	Troels	Kristensen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Education and Contraception Choice among Women in Vietnam	Jenny	Liu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Education and Elderly Cognitive Functioning	Asia	Sikora	Poster Presentation	Poster
Education vs. Taxation, Which Policy Works Better to Combat Obesity?	Kerry Anne	McGeary	Long format Presentation	TBA
Educational Attainment of Adolescents with Disability: Physical vs. Learning Disability	Lijing	Ouyang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Educational differences in smoking: a comparison between China and the United States	Feng	Liu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Effect of Drug-ceiling Policy on Physician Behavior: Example of Diabetic Medication in Taiwan	Herng-Chia	Chiu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effect of food prices on dietary intakes in US Food Stamp Program eligible populations	Qi (Harry)	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effect of insurance program on healthcare expenditures and utilizations in South Korea	Seungouk	Kim	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effect of smoking cessation advice on smokers with comorbid alcohol, drug, or mental disorders: an instrumental variable approach	Michael	Ong	Long format Presentation	TBA
EFFECT OF WAITING TIME REFORM ON THE PROVISION OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS	Hennamari	Mikkola	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effects of Demand Side Health Financing Programs in Developing Countries – Evidence from Vietnam	Ha	Nguyen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effects of discriminative user fees and cross-subsidization on financial self-sufficiency of the health sector and use of healthcare by the poor: experience of NGOs in Bangladesh	Sushil	Howlader	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effects of fixed price competition and private hospital entry on public hospital case mix: evidence from the English NHS 2001/2 to 2006/7	Richard	Cookson	Short format Presentation	TBA
Effects of global budgeting implementation on the Utilizations of Outpatient Services among Western Medicine, Chinese Medicine, and Dental Service: an empirical study in Taiwan	Hsing-Pei	Kao	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effects of Information and Convenience on Healthy Eating Decisions	Julie	Downs	Organized Session	Innovative strategies for weight loss
Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany – A Panel Data Approach Based on DEA Efficiency Scores	Oliver	Tiemann	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effects of regulation on the price competition ANTIRETROVIRAL MARKET MEDICAMENTS IN COLOMBIA	Liz	Garavito	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effects of the Pharmaceutical Price Reduction on Corporate Rates of Return and R&D	Tomofumi	Anegawa	Long format Presentation	TBA
Effects of the World Bank’s maternal and child health intervention on Indonesia’s poor: Evaluating the Safe Motherhood Project	Jennifer	Ruger	Poster Presentation	Poster
Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Illicit Drug Use	Hope	Corman	Organized Session	Policy Environments and Substance Use
Efficiency and Efficacy of Catastrophic Illness Coverage under NHI in Taiwan	Chung-Fu	Lan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Efficiency and Redistribution in Universal Health Coverage: Comparing Public versus Private Health Services Delivery in Brazil	Ignez	Tristao	Organized Session	Efficiency measurement in developing countries
Efficiency differences among hospitals and surgical departments in Ukraine	Anatoliy	Pilyavskyy	Short format Presentation	TBA
Efficiency effects of cross-border medical demand	Daniel	Lukas	Poster Presentation	Poster
Efficiency Frontier Analysis of Indian States for Achievement of Better Health Status	Riya	Dhawan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Efficiency improvements in health services over time in developing countries: new evidence from Bangladesh	Ravi	Rannan-Eliya	Organized Session	The Economics of Health Care Organization: Recent Evidence from Developing Countries
Efficiency in hospitals, in Portugal, according to the DEA methodology	Maria do Rosário	Giraldes	Long format Presentation	TBA
Efficiency in Swedish Elderly Care: a Stochastic Frontier Approach	Nils	Janlöv	Long format Presentation	TBA
Efficiency of Statutary Health Insurances in Germany	Alexander	Karmann	Short format Presentation	TBA
Efficiency of the German hospital sector – evidence on scope, scale and governmental inefficiency.	Gunnar	Dittrich	Long format Presentation	TBA
Efficient Delivery of HIV and AIDS services in Uganda: Lessons from the Uganda HIV Services Project (UHSP)	LYDIA	BUZAALIRWA	Poster Presentation	Poster
Efficient HIV/AIDS management through fuller use of local non-government resources: Capacity and strength of first-contact providers vis-à-vis HIV/AIDS care in rural Tamil Nadu, India	A. Edwin	Sam	Short format Presentation	TBA
Employing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Understand the Private Health Sector - To Identify Critical Leverage Points for Intervention - To Work in Partnership with Private Sector Entities	Indu	Adhikary	Poster Presentation	Poster
Employment, long working hours and obesity among women	Nicole	Au	Organized Session	Obesity and economics in Australia
Endogenous Patient Responses and the Consistence Principle in CEA	Liqun	Liu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Entry in the ADHD drugs market: Welfare impact of new molecules, new forms and new me-too’s	Farasat	Bokhari	Poster Presentation	Poster
Equal treatment for equal need? Effect of single person room on choice of stent type	Diana	De Graeve	Short format Presentation	TBA
Equality of opportunity in health in Europe: the long term impact of social background and parents’ length of life on health status	Sandy	Tubeuf	Organized Session	Measuring inequality of opportunity in health
Equity in met and unmet needs for access to health care services in Italy: 2004-2005	Margherita	Giannoni	Short format Presentation	TBA
Equity and financial burden of health payments in Republic of Korea: 1995-2007	Ke	Xu	Organized Session	Social welfare regimes and health system financing: experiences from Finland, France and Republic of Korea
Equity and financial protection in health care	Laksono	Trisnantoro	Organized Session	Health care financing reforms in Indonesia: bridging health economics and policy
Equity during an economic crisis: financing of the Argentine health system	Eleonora	Cavagnero	Long format Presentation	TBA
Equity in Access to Elective Surgery Services in Public Hospitals in Victoria, Australia	Ying	Chen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Equity in community health insurance schemes: Evidence and lessons from Armenia	Jonny	Polonsky	Long format Presentation	TBA
Equity in Health Care: Evidence from Marginal Groups in Kerala in South India	Subodh	Kandamuthan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Equity in healthcare financing: the case of China	Yuanli	Liu	Organized Session	Performance of China's health system: measurement issues and policy implications
Equity of Fealth Care Financing in Iran	Mohammad	Hajizadeh	Short format Presentation	TBA
Equity weights for economic evaluation: Using Discrete Choice Experiments in an Australian Population	Richard	Norman	Long format Presentation	TBA
Equity, efficiency and competitive markets: Chinese health reform in international perspective	Ake	Blomqvist	Poster Presentation	Poster
Establishing health system financing research priorities in developing countries using a participatory methodology	Michael	Ranson	Poster Presentation	Poster
Establishing social health insurance in Lesotho? Results from a financial feasibility assessment and implications	Ole	Doetinchem	Short format Presentation	TBA
Estimates of National- and State-Level Health Care Expenditures Associated With Disability	Wayne	Anderson	Short format Presentation	TBA
Estimating Effect of Medication Adherence on Health Outcomes Among Patients with Type-2 Diabetes – An Application of Marginal Structural Models	Andrew	Yu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Estimating Efficiency in Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities: An Assessment Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA)	Peter	Coyte	Organized Session	Quality and Efficiency Tradeoffs: Evidence from Acute and Long-Term Care
Estimating EVPI under sparseness of data: the use of elicitation to characterise structural uncertainty	Marta O	Soares	Organized Session	Explicit Characterization of Uncertainty in Health Technology Assessment: Structural and Other Uncertainties
Estimating preference-based Health Utilities Index Mark 3 utility scores for childhood conditions in England and Scotland	Stavros	Petrou	Organized Session	QALYs for Youth: utility measurement in children and adolescents
Estimating SES Gradients in Large Database Studies: Importance of Geographic Heterogeneity	Jie	Huang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Estimating Seven Health-Related Utilities in Chronic Disease Conditions using a U.S. National Representative Sample	Michael	Nichol	Long format Presentation	TBA
Estimating the cost of stigma for receiving antiretroviral therapy among HIV/AIDS patients in the northeast Thailand	Tsutomu	Kitajima	Poster Presentation	Poster
Estimating the costs of administering chemotherapy	Marion	Haas	Poster Presentation	Poster
Estimating the Demand For Health Services in Cape Town, South Africa.	Jolene	Skordis-Worrall	Short format Presentation	TBA
Estimating The Global Macroeconomic Cost Of Pandemic Influenza And The Cost-Effectiveness Of Mitigation Policies	Marcus	Keogh-Brown	Long format Presentation	TBA
Estimating the Health Care Cost Burden of Child Obesity over the Lifecycle	Meenakshi	Fernandes	Long format Presentation	TBA
Estimating the Medical Costs of Child Maltreatment in the United States Using a New Source of Claims Data	Curtis	Florence	Organized Session	Health Economics and Violence Prevention
Estimation from Censored Medical Cost	Onur	Baser	Organized Session	Providing Best Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Tanzania	Damien	de Walque	Organized Session	Economic incentives to promote health
Evaluating changes in women’s attitudes towards cervical screening following a screening promotion campaign and a free vaccination program	Denzil	Fiebig	Poster Presentation	Poster
Evaluating Evidence on Benefits and Risks in Regulatory Decision Making: A New Role for Patient Preferences	F. Reed	Johnson	Organized Session	New and Improved? How East/West Health Systems Evaluate New Technologies
Evaluating the Driving Forces behind Adult	Ju	Qiu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Evaluating Time Trends in Health Care Finance: The Case of South Korea	SANGHO	MOON	Long format Presentation	TBA
Evaluation of Costs for Promoting Influenza Vaccination among Healthcare Personnel	Chyongchiou J	Lin	Poster Presentation	Poster
Evaluation of interventions with system-wide effects: The nature of and gaps in completed evaluations	Taghreed	Adam	Poster Presentation	Poster
Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Ukraine	Olena	Nizalova	Short format Presentation	TBA
Evaluation of the Medical Assistance Program for the poor in the Republic of Georgia: A regression discontinuity approach	Owen	Smith	Organized Session	Econometrics of evaluating health programs and policies in developing and transition economies
Events and their Consequences: Epidemiology, Economics and Public Health	Hebe	Gouda	Poster Presentation	Poster
Evidence and implementation of strategies to stengthen health services	David	Peters	Organized Session	Future Health Systems: Responding to New Challenges and New Opportunities
Evidence based decision making in practice - a case study with an international public health NGO	Warren Stevens	Stevens	Short format Presentation	TBA
Evidence on the role of health equity funds in strengthening household coping with major illness in Cambodia	Bruno	Meessen	Organized Session	Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness: a challenge for Asian transitional economies
Examining the Role of Gender in Career Advancement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Zhuo (Adam)	Chen	Organized Session	Topics on health workforce: diversity, pay and promotion
Examining the social factors that affect youth smoking and susceptibility to smoking	Alan	Diener	Long format Presentation	TBA
Exit and Voice in Taiwan's Single Payer Health System	Tsung-Mei	Cheng	Organized Session	The influence of exit and voice in health reform in three small economies.
Expectant Mothers and the Demand for Institutional Delivery: Do Household Income and Access to Health Information Matter?-Some Insight from Ghana	Edward	Nketiah-Amponsah	Short format Presentation	TBA
Expenditure cost by Health Facility	Kiran	Dev Pant	Poster Presentation	Poster
Expenditure cost by health facility of Nepal	Kiran	Pant	Poster Presentation	Poster
Expenditures with dialysis in Public Health System - Brasil	Daniele	Szuster	Long format Presentation	TBA
Experience of A Clinician On The Implementation of The National Health Insurance Scheme In A Regional Hospital Setting In Ghana. A Case Study of the Ridge Hospital	Emmanuel Ankrah	Odame	Poster Presentation	Poster
Explore the Incentive Provision of the Preventive Goods	xu	wenying	Poster Presentation	Poster
Exploring determinants of enrolment in a community-based health insurance scheme in rural Cambodia: a household panel survey	Por	Ir	Poster Presentation	Poster
Exploring SWAp’s contribution to the efficient allocation and use of resources in the health sector in Zambia	COLLINS	CHANSA	Poster Presentation	Poster
Exploring the black box of the R&D productivity slowdown in pharmaceuticals	Laura	Magazzini	Short format Presentation	TBA
Exploring the Health-Earnings relationship across Australians	Preety	Srivastava	Long format Presentation	TBA
Exploring the Income Effect from NHI: Evidence from the Variation of Household Expenditures in Taiwan	Ya-Ming	Liu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Exploring the U.S. Latino immigrant mental health paradox using international data	Benjamin	Cook	Long format Presentation	TBA
Extending Social Security health insurance to informal sector workers in Nicaragua through microfinance institutions: A randomized evaluation	Laurel	Hatt	Long format Presentation	TBA
Extending Utilization-based Physician Demand Forecasting Models: Methods, Applications and Relevance	Kisalaya	Basu	Long format Presentation	TBA
External Resources and Aid Fungability in Health	Pablo	Gottret	Organized Session	International Resources for Improving Health in Developing Countries and their Effects on Government Health Expenditure
Factors affecting the organization of pharmaceutical retailing in developing countries	Dominic	Montagu	Organized Session	The Economics of Health Care Organization: Recent Evidence from Developing Countries
Factors associated with diagnosis delay for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients in Shandong Province, China	Lizheng	Shi	Long format Presentation	TBA
Factors associated with Health Services Utilization among Canadian Immigrants	Kednapa	Thavorn	Long format Presentation	TBA
Factors Influencing Coverage Decisions for New Cancer Drugs in Canada	Roger	Chafe	Short format Presentation	TBA
Fairness in financial contributions: Evidence from Tunis (draft title)	Chokri	Afra	Organized Session	Equity in Health: Emerging Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa Region
Family Background, Child Maltreatment, and the High School Dropout	Xiangming	Fang	Organized Session	Health Economics and Violence Prevention
Family Physician in Social Health Insurance in Indonesia: Gate Keeper and Service Assurance	Angga	Firdauzie	Long format Presentation	TBA
Feasibility of implementing an equitable resource allocation system in Bangladesh	Rumana	Huque	Long format Presentation	TBA
Female Education and HIV/AIDS: The Condoms Piece of the Puzzle for Tanzania	Robert	Brent	Poster Presentation	Poster
Finance Equity Comparison of Health Systems - Discussion of the current overall ranking of health systems by clustering these in their way of financing and equity	Christoph	Napierala	Short format Presentation	TBA
Financial Burden of Health Care Expenses among the Nonelderly Population in Turkey: 2002-2003	Seher Nur	Sulku	Long format Presentation	TBA
Financial burden of health payments in France : 1995 - 2006	Catherine	Korachais	Organized Session	Social welfare regimes and health system financing: experiences from Finland, France and Republic of Korea
Financial burden of outpatient care for chronic diseases in poor rural households in Cambodia and China	Wim	Van Damme	Organized Session	Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness: a challenge for Asian transitional economies
Financial Compensation for Kidney Donation: a Community Attitude Survey	Renata	Hasanova	Poster Presentation	Poster
Financial incentives and health technology adoption in the university hospitals in Poland	Justyna	Roj	Poster Presentation	Poster
Financial Incentives and HIV Prevention: a Field Experiment in Rural Malawi	Rebecca L.	Thornton	Organized Session	Economic incentives to promote health
Financial Performance and Patient Safety in Hospitals	Nakcheon	Choi	Poster Presentation	Poster
Financial sustainability concerns of the National Health Insurance of Korea	Inke	Mathauer	Long format Presentation	TBA
Financing options for women’s non-pregnancy health care: A study of household and other financing mechanisms in Orissa state, India	Saji Saraswathy	Gopalan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Financing Primary Health Care in Nigeria: Prospective evaluation of the Primary Health Care Development Fund	Oyeronke	Akinboye	Poster Presentation	Poster
Financing requirements for the need of maternal and neonatal health professionals at the district level in Bangladesh	Shakil	Ahmed	Poster Presentation	Poster
Financing, Pricing and Utilization of Pharmaceuticals in China	Shanlian	Hu	Organized Session	Economics of Health Care Reform in China
First application, in the Belgian setting, of budget optimization: a new tool to inform disease management strategies for cervical cancer prevention	Baudouin	Standaert	Long format Presentation	TBA
Fiscal Conditions and State Medicaid Spending	Rachel	Garfield	Poster Presentation	Poster
Fiscal Federalisn and Equity in Resource Allocation to Primary Health Care	Okore	Okorafor	Long format Presentation	TBA
Fiscal Space in "Donor Darlings": A Comparative Assessment for Uganda and Rwanda	Susan	Sparkes	Organized Session	Assessing Fiscal Space for Health: A Simple Analytical Framework and Applications to Lower and Middle-Income Countries
Flat-of-the-Curve Medicine - A New Perspective	Johannes	Schoder	Long format Presentation	TBA
Food Prices and Body Weight Among Older Americans	Yuhui	Zheng	Short format Presentation	TBA
for health care, insurance and provider’s attributes in Mexico	Alberto	Prieto Patron	Poster Presentation	Poster
From exit to voice in the reform of New Zealand's health system	Toni	Ashton	Organized Session	The influence of exit and voice in health reform in three small economies.
From Pharma to Informal Providers: Understanding the Drug Supply Chain in Chakaria, Bangladesh	M. Hafizur	Rahman	Organized Session	Health Care Market Failures in Low Income Countries
From Scheme to System: Social Health Insurance and the Transformation of health Financing in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova	Melita	Jakab	Organized Session	New Challenges in Financing Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Funding of Care	Jürgen	Wasem	Organized Session	Can the U.S. Join the Emerging Paradigm in its Allies' healthcare System
Fungibility and the Impact of Development Assistance: Evidence from Vietnam’s Health Sector	Adam	Wagstaff	Organized Session	Econometrics of evaluating health programs and policies in developing and transition economies
Gasoline Prices, Motorcyle Use and Motorcycle Fatalities	Peter	Hilsenrath	Long format Presentation	TBA
Gender differences in the health-labor productivity relationship in Brazil	Andres	Berruti	Short format Presentation	TBA
Genetic insurance and the optimal level of disease prevention	David	Crainich	Long format Presentation	TBA
Glycemic Control and Cost-effectiveness Following Initiation of Insulin Glargine or Detemir in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus—An Analysis of Electronic Medical Records	Philip	Levin	Poster Presentation	Poster
Going paperless: Information technology's impact on daily routines in healthcare	Guodong (Gordon)	Gao	Organized Session	The value of health information technology; efficiency, logistics, and quality.
GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTH CARE FUNDING: ANAMBRA STATE OF NIGERIA EXPERIENCE	Echendu	Adinma	Poster Presentation	Poster
Grandparents and grandchildren: the causal impact of income on health behaviors in South Africa	Andreea	Balan-Cohen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Grouped Duration Analysis of Retirement Times Using Objective Medical Diagnosis Codes	Malene	Kallestrup	Organized Session	Health Related Marginalization in the Labor Market
Growing-up in rural Ethiopia: A dynamic systems GMM approach to child growth	Bereket	Kebede	Poster Presentation	Poster
Harmony in Healthcare Funding: Equity, Efficiency & Quality	Jianli	Li	Long format Presentation	TBA
Hatch-Waxman after 25 Years	Richard G.	Frank	Organized Session	Issues Facing Pharmaceutical Policy
Health and Economic Consequence of Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States	Zhou	Yang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health and Economic Impact of HPV 16 and 18 Vaccination and Cervical Cancer Screening in India	Mireia	Diaz	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health and economic impact of HPV 16 and 18 vaccination to prevent cervical cancer in low and middle-income countries	Sun-Young	Kim	Organized Session	The role and use of cost-effectiveness analysis for HPV vaccine introduction decisions in low and middle income countries
Health and Economic Outcomes of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination in Selected Countries in Latin America	Dagna O.	Constenla	Organized Session	The role and use of cost-effectiveness analysis for HPV vaccine introduction decisions in low and middle income countries
Health and Foreign Direct Investments: What Matters?	Francesco	Renna	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health and health intervention coverage in China	Jing	Wu	Organized Session	Performance of China's health system: measurement issues and policy implications
Health and Healthcare Trajectories of Mexican Immigrants	Neeraj	Kaushal	Organized Session	Health Insurance, Medical Care and Health Outcomes
Health Care Financing in Finland 1990-2006: Progressivity, Incidence and Socio-Economic Determinants	Jan	Klavus	Organized Session	Social welfare regimes and health system financing: experiences from Finland, France and Republic of Korea
Health care financing in post-conflict countries: East Timor and Southern Sudan	Anna	Vassall	Short format Presentation	TBA
Health care financing options and costs	George	Schielber	Organized Session	Health care financing reforms in Indonesia: bridging health economics and policy
Health Care Specialization and Asymmetric Competition: The Dynamics of Surgery Center and Hospital Exit	Michael	Housman	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health Delivery Complements and Health Worker Emigration from Africa	Eric	Keuffel	Poster Presentation	Poster
Health Economic Evaluation Methods for Decision-Making in the Spanish Dental Care	Jaime	Pinilla	Poster Presentation	Poster
Health Economic Haemophilia Budget Allocation Case Report for China	James	Weatherall	Poster Presentation	Poster
Health equity in Lebanon: A microeconomic analysis	Jad	Chaaban	Organized Session	Equity in Health: Emerging Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa Region
Health expenditures evolution in Brazil: an analysis utilizing the model of components price and quantity	Rodrigo Mendes	Leal	Poster Presentation	Poster
Health Financing Reform and Fiscal Decentralization In China	Jiwei	QIAN	Short format Presentation	TBA
Health financing strategies targeting health equity in a group of low- and middle-income countries	Varatharajan	Durairaj	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health Incentives and their Effects on HealthCare Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda	Charles	Matsiko	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health insurance payment and its impact on hospital management	Zhu	Zibin	Organized Session	Health payment and reimbursement research in health reform and development
Health Insurance Reimbursement and Quality Of Health Care Services in Public Hospitals in Tanzania	Arnold	Kihaule	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health IT and patient safety: Evidence from panel data	Stephen	Parente	Organized Session	The value of health information technology; efficiency, logistics, and quality.
Health reform in China: a roadmap of universal coverage	Gordon	Liu	Organized Session	Economics of Health Care Reform in China
Health Resource Tracking: How Can Countries Go About Institutionalizing National Health Accounts?	Vaibhav	Gupta	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health Service Utilisation in the Absence of User Fees: Does Travel Time Matter? The Case of Tonga	Raja	Jahangeer	Short format Presentation	TBA
Health Services Financing: Effects of the Mechanism of Payment of the Integral Insurance of Health in the Primary Health Service in Peru	Pablo	Best Bandenay	Organized Session	Financing Primary Health Care in L. A.: Three experiences
Health Services Utilisation Patterns Associated with Emergency Department Closure	Ulrika	Enemark	Poster Presentation	Poster
Health shocks and labour market transitions at older ages: the role of self-employment	Eugenio	Zucchelli	Organized Session	Understanding the health and labour relationship
Health shocks, household consumption, and child nutrition	Aida	Galiano	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health status and health care use of migrants in France: what can we learn from the 2003 National Health Interview Survey?	Florence	Jusot	Organized Session	Health and health care consumption of migrants
Health System Goals and their Valuation	Margreet	Franken	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health System Reconfiguration: Urban Hospital Closure’s Impact on Health Disparities and Access	Anthony	Munroe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health Technology Appraisal in China: Diabetes Interventions	Gordon	Liu	Organized Session	The Growth of Diabetes in Asia Pacific Region and Health Technology Appraisal
Health worker job choice and selection. Unravelling the role of motivation	Pieter	Serneels	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health Workforce and Child Survival in Thailand: Results from Multilevel Random Effects Model	Piya	Hanvoravongchai	Long format Presentation	TBA
Health-related quality of life in cancer: A comparison of three utility instruments and two cancer profiles	Paulos	Teckle	Poster Presentation	Poster
Health-seeking Behavior and Hospital Choice in China’s New Cooperative Medical System	Philip	Brown	Long format Presentation	TBA
Healthcare reform without crisis, Singapore style	Meng-Kim	Lim	Organized Session	The influence of exit and voice in health reform in three small economies.
Healthcare Reforms and Out-of-pocket Health Expenditures in Turkey	Burcay	Erus	Short format Presentation	TBA
Healthy Investments: Measuring International Resources for Health by Disease and for Health System Strengthening, 1990-2006	Nirmala	Ravishankar	Organized Session	International Resources for Improving Health in Developing Countries and their Effects on Government Health Expenditure
Hearsay: Is patient self-report of health care utilization accurate?	Teresa	Longobardi	Short format Presentation	TBA
Hemodialysis Patient’s Preference on Hemodialysis Center Choice under Hierarchical Medical Care System: Does NHI in Taiwan Make Them Homogeneous or Heterogeneous?	Sheng-Hung	Chen	Poster Presentation	Poster
Heterogeneity in Health - Estimation using Latent Class Clusters	Jeonghoon	Ahn	Long format Presentation	TBA
Higher education in Anglophone West Africa: needs, costs and scaling –up approaches	Hortenzia	Beciu	Short format Presentation	TBA
HIV/AIDS and labor market	Elhadji Thierno	Diaw	Poster Presentation	Poster
HIV/AIDS programs: How they support health system strengthening	William	McGreevey	Organized Session	AIDS programs in low- and middle-income countries: efficiency, impacts, and future designs
Horizontal inequalities in Mental Health – Evidence from the German Socioeconomic Panel	David	Scheller-Kreinsen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Horizontal inequity of medical care utilization over time in Korea	Hosung	Shin	Long format Presentation	TBA
Hospital competition and perceived quality of care: Evidence from a single payer system in Taiwan	Chi-Chen	Chen	Poster Presentation	Poster
Hospital competition, vertical product differentiation and minimum quality standards	Mario	Pezzino	Long format Presentation	TBA
Hospital Cost and Quality Performance: How Is It Related to Market Structure and Hospital Characteristics?	Joanna	Jiang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Hospital financial performance and the provision of uncompensated care in California hospitals	Tae Hyun	Kim	Long format Presentation	TBA
Hospital Financial Risk Stratification for Inpatient Service in the impending TW-DRGs Reimbursement System: A Classification and Regression Trees Modeling Approach	Wu	Sheng-Hsiu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Hospital Governance in Latin America: Results from a Four Nation Survey	Jerry	La Forgia	Organized Session	The Economics of Health Care Organization: Recent Evidence from Developing Countries
HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR DIABETES MELLITUS IN BRAZIL – ESTIMATIONS OF EXPENDITURES BASED ON POPULATION ATTRIBUTABLE RISK METHODOLOGY FOR 2002 TO 2004	Roger	dos Santos Rosa	Short format Presentation	TBA
Household Health Spending and Impoverishment in India: New estimates and methods	Peter	Berman	Poster Presentation	Poster
How are individual-level social capital and poverty associated with health equity? A study from two Chinese cities	Xiaojie	Sun	Long format Presentation	TBA
How do employers change health benefit offerings in response to a pay-or-play mandate?	Carrie	Hoverman Colla	Long format Presentation	TBA
How do hospitals recruit nurses in a competitive market? A U.K. multilevel study	Jean-Baptiste	Combes	Poster Presentation	Poster
How do preferences elicited through Discrete Choice Experiments vary over time and with changing experience? The case of preferences for asthma medications	Ishrat	Hossain	Long format Presentation	TBA
How does early childhood nutrition affect later scholastic potential? A longitudinal analysis of Indonesian children	Jenny	Williams	Long format Presentation	TBA
How does quality influence the diffusion of new cancer therapies?	Rena	Conti	Long format Presentation	TBA
How effectively can the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China reduce catastrophic health expenditure among the poor and non-poor?	Luying	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
How financial protection varies in health systems in transitional European countries	Matthew	Jowett	Organized Session	Improving financial protection in transition economies
How much will long-term care cost through 2036 in Hong Kong?	Roger	Chung	Long format Presentation	TBA
How Prices and Utilization of Prescription Drugs Change when Consumer Copayments Increase: Heterogenous Treatment Effects	Niels	Skipper	Poster Presentation	Poster
How Real People Make Long Term Decisions: The Case of Retirement Preparation and Health Behavior	Katherine	Carman	Long format Presentation	TBA
How should the macroeconomic impact of AIDS be measured?	Mead	Over	Organized Session	Rethinking the economic consequences of disease and injury
How to assess hospitals’ market power when they do not compete on price? Predicted changes in patient demand due to quality changes in the market for cardiac services	Marco	Varkevisser	Long format Presentation	TBA
How to assess the economic status in rural China?—comparison between assets and income	Xiaoyun	Liang	Long format Presentation	TBA
How to develop the private health sectors in China?----a Case Study in Shanghai.	Xiaohua	Ying	Short format Presentation	TBA
How valuable are environmental health interventions? Economic evaluation of a water and sanitation project in Maharashtra, India	Jui-Chen	Yang	Long format Presentation	TBA
HTA Report – Using knee prostheses on the basis of evidence – Correlation between implant performance and costs	Antonio	Migliore	Poster Presentation	Poster
Hypertension and Occupation Among Seniors	Juan	Du	Poster Presentation	Poster
I need some companies: The effect of having other obese students in class on academic performance and self-satisfaction for obese adolescents	Cheng-yun (Christy)	Pu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Ideals versus Dollar: How Do Non-profits Respond to Quality Incentives?	Susan Feng	Lu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Identification of the poor for premium exemptions under national health insurance in Ghana: A review of feasible approaches, costs and policy trade offs	Caroline	Jehu-Appiah	Short format Presentation	TBA
Identifying and weighing criteria for priority setting in Ghana using discrete choice experiments	Rob	Baltussen	Organized Session	Multiple-criteria priority setting in health: evidence from developing countries
Identifying future high-cost cases in people with chronic diseases	Yongming	Zhao	Long format Presentation	TBA
Identifying policies to improve nurse recruitment and retention in rural Kenya: Results of a discrete choice experiment	Kethi	Mullei	Organized Session	Researching interventions to address the human resources for health crisis - an application of discrete choice experiments in Kenya, Thailand and South Africa.
Identifying the economic consequences of disease and injury: a WHO guide	David	Evans	Organized Session	Rethinking the economic consequences of disease and injury
If health systems of low- and high-income countries differ, what are the implications for health system strengthening?	Anne	Mills	Organized Session	What are the appropriate models for global health systems strengthening?
Immigration and the demand for health in spain	Natalia	Jorgensen	Poster Presentation	Poster
Impact Evaluation of Intellectual Property Rights’ Standards on Medicines’ Prices	Magdalena	Rathe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Impact Evaluation of Performance Based Contracting in Rwanda: the contribution of a qualitative study	Heleen	Vermandere	Poster Presentation	Poster
Impact of an Ageing Population on Government Health Care Expenditure in Singapore	Woan Shin	Tan	Long format Presentation	TBA
IMPACT OF CARRYING OUT OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT IN THE COSTS WITH RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY(RRT) IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN BRAZIL	Mariângela	Cherchiglia	Poster Presentation	Poster
Impact of Consumer-Directed/High-Deductible Health Plans on Health Care Utilizationa and Costs	Cyril	Chang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Impact of Economic Development on the Spread and Disparities of Childhood Obesity in Developing Countries	Youfa	Wang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Impact of indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on prevalence of asthma in the elderly people in developing country	Shambhu Dutta	Joshi	Poster Presentation	Poster
Impact of Influenza Mitigation Measures on Global Epidemiology and Economics	Georgiy	Bobashev	Short format Presentation	TBA
Impact of Medicaid/SCHIP Disenrollment on Health Care Utilization and Expenditures among Children: A Longitudinal Analysis	Jingbo	Yu	Short format Presentation	TBA
Impact of provider payment methods on the clinical practice and outcome variations in Thailand	Chulaporn	Limwattananon	Organized Session	The Holy Grail of Effective Purchasing: Implementation Challenges and Experiences
Impact of Restaurant Smoking Bans on the Demand for Smoking and Restaurant Food	Don	Kenkel	Organized Session	Government Regulation and Health Behaviors
Impact of risky jobs on health expenditure	Lengagne	Pascale	Poster Presentation	Poster
Impact of the Global Budget Payment System of Taiwan’s NHI on Outpatient Visits and Expenditures, 2001-2005	Ming-Chin	Yang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Impact of universal NHI on population health: experience in Taiwan	Yue-Chune	Lee	Poster Presentation	Poster
Impacts of Allocation of Medical Resources on Accessibility to Hospital Care and Medical Expense	Haruko	Noguchi	Organized Session	Demand, Social Costs and Accessibility, for Medical Care and Long-Term Care in Aging Society
Implementation of a health status based risk adjustment - how to define “chronic” and “severe” disease?	Rebecca	Jahn	Long format Presentation	TBA
Implementation of Nepal's Safe Delivery Incentive Programme	Timothy	Powell-Jackson	Organized Session	Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries
Implications of the analysis of financing and benefit incidence in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania for health insurance policy debates	John	Ataguba	Organized Session	How equitable is health care financing and service utilisation in African countries: Evidence from Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa?
Importing Medicine: A Look at Immigration Status for International Medical Graduates Participating in Residency and Fellowship Training in New York from 1998-2007	Michael	Richards	Poster Presentation	Poster
Improvements in risk factor control among persons with diabetes in the United States: evidence and implications for remaining life expectancy	Thomas	Hoerger	Long format Presentation	TBA
Improving comparability of self-reported health through direct or implied comparisons to anchoring vignettes	Joshua	Salomon	Organized Session	Use and validation of the vignettes approach to enhance comparability of reported health and health system responsiveness
Improving financial protection in the Kyrgyz Republic	Baktygul	Akkazieva	Organized Session	Improving financial protection in transition economies
Improving maternal health – lessons from rural China	Dale	Huntington	Organized Session	The Economics of Maternal Mortality Reduction
Improving our understanding of medicine markets in developing countries: Procurement efficiency, distribution mark-ups and affordability for patients	Chantal	Morel	Poster Presentation	Poster
Improving the Efficiency of the Use of Individual Account and Promoting the Combination of Individual Account and Community Health Services	Kaijin	Zhang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Improving welfare through budget-neutral patient vouchers	Timo	Seppälä	Short format Presentation	TBA
In what situations are economic evaluations used? A systematic literature review of macro, meso and micro pharmaceutical priority setting.	Sandra	Erntoft	Long format Presentation	TBA
Incentives and Targets in Hospital Care: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	Frank	Windmeijer	Poster Presentation	Poster
Incidence and secular trend of avoidable hospitalization for older people in Hong Kong	Steve KK	CHAN	Short format Presentation	TBA
Income and Health Care Utilization	Jacob Nielsen	Arendt	Short format Presentation	TBA
Income and mortality in a Danish population sample	Kristian	Schultz Hansen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Income Effects on Mental Health Medication Use in Australia	Joanne	Epp	Long format Presentation	TBA
Income Inequality and Mortality in Hong Kong from 1976 to 2006	Elaine	Lau	Long format Presentation	TBA
Income related inequality in health care financing in Estonia	Andres	Võrk	Organized Session	Improving financial protection in transition economies
Increasing Awareness and Changing Attitudes Towards Patient Safety: Evaluation of an Employer Initiative	Jon	Christianson	Poster Presentation	Poster
Increasing efficiency and equity for budgeting primary care services	Chiu-Ling	Lai	Long format Presentation	TBA
Increasing efficiency in the management of health supplies through multi-country procurement mechanisms	Dardane	Arifaj	Poster Presentation	Poster
Incremental Costs of Hypertension, Hyperglycemia, Hyperlipidemia, and Their Combinations	Chao-Hsiun	Tang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Individual and community social capital, racial discrimination and health	Gindo	Tampubolon	Long format Presentation	TBA
Individual’s Willingness to Pay for Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test to Access Affordable ACTs in Zambia - Pilot Study for the Zambia Access for ACT Initiative (ZAAI)	Edit	Velenyi	Long format Presentation	TBA
Individuals’ Health Care Utilisation in China	Bing	Li	Long format Presentation	TBA
Induced Demand, Catastrophic Health Expenditures and Social Insurance in Argentina	Daniel	Maceira	Organized Session	Health Expenditure, Financial Catastrophe and Impoverishment: Lessons from Colombia, Costa Rica and Argentina
Inequalities in access to and use of high technology health services	Bernard	Couttolenc	Poster Presentation	Poster
Inequalities of opportunities in health among young people: results from an English cohort study	Sandy	Tubeuf	Organized Session	Explaining disparities in child health: the role of parental health and social characteristics
Inequality and inequity in maternal - children health care access in Argentina, Bolivia and Peru	Mariana	De Santis	Long format Presentation	TBA
Inequality in Financial Burdens for Health Care, U.S. 2001-2006	Jessica	Banthin	Long format Presentation	TBA
Inequality in health care financing in Taiwan, 1995-2006	Jen-Huoy	Tsay	Short format Presentation	TBA
Inequality of opportunity in health in the Netherlands:contributions of choices and opportunities regarding health care utilisation andlifestyles	Tom	Van Ourti	Organized Session	Measuring inequality of opportunity in health
Inequities in acceptability and preferences for different benefit packages for community-based health insurance in southeast Nigeria	Obinna	Onwujekwe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Inequity in the use of Healthcare in the Reform process at a State Level in India: A Longitudinal Analysis	Maathai K.	Mathiyazhagan	Short format Presentation	TBA
Inequity in the use of physician services in Norway. Changing patterns over time?	Karin	Monstad	Long format Presentation	TBA
Infant Mortality In India: District - Level Variations and Correlations	shruti	kapoor	Poster Presentation	Poster
Informal Care and Formal Care Use in Europe and the United States	Thomas	Lufkin	Poster Presentation	Poster
Informal payments in health care in post-communist European countries - methods and obstacles in limitation the phenomenon	Krzysztof	Krajewski-Siuda	Short format Presentation	TBA
Informing the use of formula-based funding allocations in public health practice: Initial findings	Patrick	Bernet	Short format Presentation	TBA
Innovations in financing health care: Analysis of demand side financing initiatives under National Rural Health Mission	Arun	Bahuleyan Nair	Long format Presentation	TBA
Insights from Government of Tanzania-Clinton Foundation ACT Subsidy Pilot	Catherine	Goodman	Organized Session	The Prospects for a Global Subsidy for Antimalarial Combination Therapy
Insights into Maternal Health Expenditure from Mumbai Slums: Catastrophe and Coping	Noemi	Pace	Short format Presentation	TBA
Insurance status, out-of-pocket payments, and drug utilization in the patients with diabetes in the US	James	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Integrating clinical trial findings into practice through risk stratification: the case of heart failure management	David	Smith	Long format Presentation	TBA
Integrating Financing Schemes to Achieve Universal Coverage in Thailand: Analysis of the Equity Achievements	Phusit	Prakongsai	Organized Session	New Challenges in Financing Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Integrating quality-adjusted life years and quality of care in one outcome measure	Niels	Groeneweg	Short format Presentation	TBA
Intensive Statin Treatment for Italian Type 2 Diabetics: A Budget Impact Analysis on the Italian NHS	Pantaleoni	Michela	Short format Presentation	TBA
International Comparison of Public Sector Performance: The Use of Anchoring Vignettes to Adjust Self-Reported Data	Silvana	Robone	Organized Session	Use and validation of the vignettes approach to enhance comparability of reported health and health system responsiveness
Intertwined Factors of Suicide — Financial Distress and Mental Disorder	Feijun	Luo	Organized Session	Health Economics and Violence Prevention
Introduction of a DRG-system for German hospitals, 2001-2009	Frank	Heimig	Organized Session	Health payment and reimbursement research in health reform and development
Introduction of the establishment of Shanghai comprehensive community health reform’s evaluation system	Nan	Qiao	Poster Presentation	Poster
Introduction to the Korean Health Techonology Appraisal Process: Focus on Diabetes	Bong-Min	Yang	Organized Session	The Growth of Diabetes in Asia Pacific Region and Health Technology Appraisal
Investigating preference heterogeneity regarding breast cancer follow-up strategies: A Discrete Choice Experiment	Merel	Kimman	Short format Presentation	TBA
Investigating the Effects of Relative Deprivation on Mental Health and Health Behaviors	Cong	Li	Short format Presentation	TBA
Investigating Treatment Variations in Secondary Care Treatment: A Hierarchical Count Modelling Approach.	Grace	Lordan	Long format Presentation	TBA
IPW regression for IPD cost-effectiveness: bivariate vs. univariate methods	Cynthia P	Iglesias Urrutia	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is cigarette tax increase in China necessary and feasible?	Yuanli	Liu	Organized Session	Tobacco Taxation in China
Is clock-watching productive? The effect of hours harmonisation on hospital doctor outputs	Eduardo	Fe-Rodriguez	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is commission management a way out for social health insurance in china? A case study of basic health insurance for migrant workers in Shanghai	Qun	Wang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is community-based health insurance (CBHI) an equitable strategy for paying for healthcare? Experiences from southeast Nigeria	Chijioke	Okoli	Poster Presentation	Poster
Is Hospital Treatment in Australia Inequitable? Evidence from HILDA, a large nationally representative household-based panel survey	Stephen	Goodall	Short format Presentation	TBA
Is Informal Care Dynastic? Exploring Family Trends in Caregiving Behavior	Norma	Coe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?	Cathy	Mihalopoulos	Organized Session	Is prevention really better than cure? Methods and results of a national study evaluating the cost-effectiveness of preventive interventions (ACE-Prevention)
Is it more cost effective to invest in human papilloma virus (HPV) testing or to increasing coverage rates with conventional cytology (PAP/LBC) for cervical cancer prevention?	Anderson	Chuck	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is it possible to elicit valid responses from illiterate respondents using the discrete choice method? An application using visual aids in Ghana.	Laura	Ternent	Poster Presentation	Poster
Is longer waiting time associated with health outcomes, knee pain and physical function and medication use and costs in patients waiting for Total Knee Replacement? Randomized clinical trial.	Ulla	Tuominen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is More Aggressive Treatment of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Worth It?	John (Mick)	Tilford	Organized Session	Key Methodological Challenges in the Conduct of Child Health Economic Evaluation
Is risk attitude really specific within the health context domain? Further evidence from an Italian population – based survey using PE technique and face-to face interviews	Matteo	Ruggeri	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is social capital good for your health? A European perspective	Lorenzo	Rocco	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is technology, medical experience or patient behaviour that save patients’ lives? Evidence from cardiovascular diseases	Federico	Belotti	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is The ADA/EASD Treatment Guideline for The Management of Type II Diabetes Optimal in Economic Sense?	Jieling	Chen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is the Emphasis on Health Worker Staffing Targets Misplaced?	Marko	Vujicic	Long format Presentation	TBA
Is the utilisation of ART in urban South Africa equitable?	Susan	Cleary	Short format Presentation	TBA
Is there private sector crowding out in inpatient care?	Divya	Srivastava	Short format Presentation	TBA
Is there value in including health economics in an undergraduate medical curriculum?	Rohan	Sweeney	Short format Presentation	TBA
Is Willingness-to-pay an accepted method in Germany? First preliminary analyses from a midwife-led care research project	Nina	Knape	Poster Presentation	Poster
Job Retention and Working Environment of Hospital Nurses in Japan	Yasuko	Ogata	Poster Presentation	Poster
Job Satisfaction based incentives to attract and retain qualified health workers to under-served areas in western China	Lingui	Li	Poster Presentation	Poster
Knowledge is the best medicine? An investigation into the role of lay health knowledge in the production of health	Martin	Karlsson	Short format Presentation	TBA
Labeled versus unlabeled discrete choice experiments in health economics: an application to colorectal cancer screening	Esther	de Bekker-Grob	Long format Presentation	TBA
Labelled Drug-Related Health Public Expenditure in Relation to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Europe	Luis	Prieto	Poster Presentation	Poster
Labor market implications of depression and back pain among workers near retirement	MUSTAFA	KARAKUS	Poster Presentation	Poster
Labour market outcomes among adults enrolled in the Free State province’s public sector antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme (2004-2008)	Frikkie	Booysen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Latin American reforms	Maureen	Lewis	Organized Session	Political economy of health reform: experience from three continents
Length of Stay after a prospective payment reform	ROCHUT	Julie	Short format Presentation	TBA
Lessons Learned From Recent HTA Rulings on Diabetes Treatments in Australia	Jiamming	He	Organized Session	The Growth of Diabetes in Asia Pacific Region and Health Technology Appraisal
Lessons Learned- Colombia's Health System Financing	Maria-Luisa	Escobar	Organized Session	Scaling Up Health Insurance in Developing Countries - from the Implementation Perspective
Level and trends in health workers income: implications for retention and motivation of health workers in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger	Fadima I. K.	Yaya Bocoum	Poster Presentation	Poster
Lifetime cost-effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in general practice: the IMPALA modelling study	Thea	van Asselt	Poster Presentation	Poster
Linking Knowledge Management and Efficiency Analysis in Healthcare Organizations: A systematic Review	Jalila	Jbilou	Short format Presentation	TBA
Long Term Care in Italy	Vincenzo	Rebba	Organized Session	Ageing and long term care financing: an international comparison
Long Term Health Effects of Occupational Change	Olga	Lazareva	Long format Presentation	TBA
Long Term Macroeconomic impact of the Response to HIV	Erik	Lamontagne	Poster Presentation	Poster
Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality	Dennis	Petrie	Long format Presentation	TBA
Longitudinal data analyses of normal and extra contracted hours among senior doctors following contractual reform	Divine	Ikenwilo	Long format Presentation	TBA
Looking into the “Caucasian Chalk Circle”: Workplace characteristics and workplace behaviour of informal caregivers. Findings form a large-scale empirical study of informal carers	Ulrike	Schneider	Long format Presentation	TBA
Major illness, poverty and coping strategies in the context of urbanisation and changing household structures in China	Chen	Chuanbo	Organized Session	Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness: a challenge for Asian transitional economies
Making the economic case for injury prevention and safety promotion: a systematic review of the literature	David	McDaid	Poster Presentation	Poster
Malaria and Schooling: Evidence from Tanzania	Taiwo	Abimbola	Poster Presentation	Poster
Managed Care Penetration, Health Outcomes and Health Care Spending Growth	Baoping	Shang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Managerial competencies in public health spending in India: Case study of the National Rural Health Mission, Orissa	Ashis	Das	Poster Presentation	Poster
Managing Physicians Using Non-Financial Incentives	Sayeda	Haq	Organized Session	Competition, Organizational Structure, and Patient Health
Mandatory Contributions to a National Subsidy Fund as a Way to Move to Universal Coverage in a Developing Country	Heather	McLeod	Organized Session	Entitlement to Medical Care and Voluntary Medical Insurance – the Risk and the Potential
Market Conditions and General Practitioners' Referrals	Tor	Iversen	Organized Session	Regulation of Primary Care Physicians
Maternal Education Is Less Expensive Than Child Mortality	Andrea	Collado Chaves	Long format Presentation	TBA
Maternal health voucher scheme: What have we learned from the experiences in Bangladesh?	Shakil	Ahmed	Poster Presentation	Poster
Maternal mortality rates in Bolivia: Projection Scenarios and Financial Requirements	Martin	Vargas	Poster Presentation	Poster
Measles Vaccination: The Longitudinal Relationship of Coverage and Mortality across Countries	Jeremy	Goldhaber-Fiebert	Long format Presentation	TBA
Measurement of health induced vulnerability to poverty under lognormality	Gabriela	Flores	Organized Session	Health Equity and Financial Protection in Asia (HEFPA)
Measuring and Interpreting the Regional Inequity of Health Status of China	Siping	Dong	Poster Presentation	Poster
Measuring Catastrophic Burdens with Household Survey Data: How Are Results Affected by the Length of Time Used to Measure Expenditures?	Thomas M.	Selden	Organized Session	The distribution of catastrophic health expenditures and its relationship to insurance coverage – Emerging global patterns and evidence
Measuring Health Inequality with Realization of Conditional Potential Life Years (RCPLY): Estimated using Frontier Methods	Kam Ki	Tang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life among Drug Users: Lessons Learned from Indonesia	Kurnia	Sari	Long format Presentation	TBA
Measuring Public Hospital Efficiency in Victoria Using the Stochastic Frontier	Maria	Mangano	Long format Presentation	TBA
Measuring the Distribution of Health Payments and Catastrophic Effects of Health Spending in Zambia: an Interrupted Time-Series Analysis of Household-Level Survey Data	Chitalu	Chama	Organized Session	Health financing reforms in Africa: experiences from: Rwanda; Uganda and Zambia
Measuring the microeconomic impact of ill-health in China	Hong	Wang	Organized Session	Rethinking the economic consequences of disease and injury
Measuring time use in health economics: a methodological perspective	Catherine	Pitt	Short format Presentation	TBA
Media Incentives and Quality Reporting	Jonathan	Smith	Long format Presentation	TBA
Medical Devices Costs Groups: A risk adjuster for capitation payments based on the prior use of medical devices	Richard	van Kleef	Poster Presentation	Poster
Medical Malpractice and Physician Liability Under a Negligence Rule	Donald	Wright	Short format Presentation	TBA
Medication Use and Metabolic Syndrome Related Biomarker Changes	Yang	Xie	Short format Presentation	TBA
Medicine prices in urban Mozambique; A public health and economic study of pharmaceutical markets and price determinants in low-income settings	Giuliano	Russo	Short format Presentation	TBA
Medicine use in Belgian nursing homes : separating supply side characteristics form individual heterogeneity	Mike	Smet	Poster Presentation	Poster
Mental Health Services Use, Expenditures and Patient-Provider Racial Concordance	Patrick	Richard	Long format Presentation	TBA
Methods and innovation on management of military hygienic economics	Zu-Ming	Xv	Poster Presentation	Poster
METHODS FOR COST ESTIMATION: THE GLM APPROACH	Henry	Glick	Organized Session	Providing Best Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Micro Health Insurance Units In India: Are They All The Same?	David	Dror	Organized Session	Availability and financing of Healthcare in Rural India
Micro Health Insurance: building on the success of micro-finance?	Miriam	Visser	Poster Presentation	Poster
Midwifery in New Zealand: Government Policies, Provider Choice, and Health Outcomes	Andrea	Menclova	Long format Presentation	TBA
Misperceptions of self–assessed body mass in Australia: Analysis of the 1995, 2001 and 2005 National Health Surveys	Elizabeth	Savage	Organized Session	Obesity and economics in Australia
Model averaging in health economic decision models	Christopher	Jackson	Organized Session	Explicit Characterization of Uncertainty in Health Technology Assessment: Structural and Other Uncertainties
Model for Predicting Convergence of Health Care Expenditures as a Share of GDP	Bianca	Frogner	Short format Presentation	TBA
MODEL OF HEALTH INSURANCE DEMAND BASED ON ECONOMIC STATUS, ATTITUDE TOWARD HEALTH INSURANCE AND SATISFACTION OF PROVISION QUALITY	Henni	Djuhaeni	Short format Presentation	TBA
Modeling End Patient Pass-Through Rates for a Global Subsidy for Anti-malarials	Prashant	Yadav	Organized Session	The Prospects for a Global Subsidy for Antimalarial Combination Therapy
Modeling Length of Stay (LOS): Determinants for a Three-Hospital System	Art	KIng	Long format Presentation	TBA
Modeling Risk Using Fourth Order Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Methods	Alberto	Holly	Short format Presentation	TBA
Modeling the Impact of Disease on Growth	Clive	Bell	Organized Session	Health and Macroeconomics
Modeling the response to smoking bans in gambling venues	Joseph	Hirschberg	Long format Presentation	TBA
Modelling and Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Health: Evidence from a Cohort Study	Pedro	Rosa Dias	Organized Session	Measuring inequality of opportunity in health
Modelling Distributional Effects of Medical Insurance Scheme for Non-working Residents in Urban China	Linping	Xiong	Short format Presentation	TBA
Modelling health harm reductions as a fucntion of alcohol consumption changes	Rachid	Rafia	Organized Session	Methodological challenges and solutions in evaluation of public health policy interventions: a case study of alcohol pricing and promotion policies in England and its international generalisability
Modelling Pharmaceutical Price Changes in Germany: A Function of Competition and Regulation	Tom	Stargardt	Long format Presentation	TBA
Modelling the effect of increased fish intake for the general population in Denmark	Gisela	Hostenkamp	Long format Presentation	TBA
Moral hazard and its contribution to cost escalation in the private healthcare sector in South Africa	Thulani	Matsebula	Poster Presentation	Poster
More equal but heavier: A longitudinal analysis of income-related obesity inequalities in an adult Swedish cohort	Åsa	Ljungvall	Long format Presentation	TBA
Mortality, Unemployment and Economic Cycles	Mireia	Jofre-Bonet	Poster Presentation	Poster
Mother-Daughter Preference Conflicts and Willingness to Pay for HPV Vaccines	F. Reed	Johnson	Organized Session	HPV Vaccine Economics
Mothers' and Fathers' Private Demand for HPV Vaccines in Vietnam	Christine	Poulos	Organized Session	HPV Vaccine Economics
Moving from free health care system to private health insurance in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Public perception and cultural readiness.	Lameea	Al-Tahoo	Poster Presentation	Poster
Moving towards a consensus on out-of-pocket health financing in developing countries?	Robert	Yates	Long format Presentation	TBA
Multi-criteria weighing for health policy - conjoint analysis results from a nation-level workshop of health stake-holders in Brazil	Louis	Niessen	Organized Session	Multiple-criteria priority setting in health: evidence from developing countries
Mutual health insurance and financial risk protection in Rwanda	Priyanka	Saksena	Organized Session	Health financing reforms in Africa: experiences from: Rwanda; Uganda and Zambia
Narrowing Health Gap: Need of Rationalizing Health Expenditure in Nepal	Devendra	Shrestha	Short format Presentation	TBA
National Health Insurance in Ghana: Effects on Health Care Seeking and Expenditures	Sara	Sulzbach	Long format Presentation	TBA
National Health Insurance: The Challenges Facing Private Healthcare Funding in South Africa	Haroon	Wadee	Long format Presentation	TBA
Need based resource allocation as means of achieving equitable and efficient allocation in Bangladesh	Zahidul	Quayyum	Long format Presentation	TBA
Need-based Resource Allocation: Incorporating Proximity to Death	Andrea	Smith	Long format Presentation	TBA
New method (SKS method) of classification of short stature children for rGH treatment and potential economic impact of practical use of the method	Ewa	Krajewska-Siuda	Poster Presentation	Poster
New Technologies and medical costs: a Swiss perspective at the canton level	Karine	Lamiraud	Poster Presentation	Poster
Obesity and misreported food intake	Glenn	Jones	Organized Session	Obesity and economics in Australia
Obstacles to maternity service use in Afghanistan: what do we know about cost, quality and access?	Sandhya	Sundaram	Organized Session	The Economics of Maternal Mortality Reduction
of private health insurance on financial risk: Brazilian case	Maria Dolores Montoya	Diaz	Long format Presentation	TBA
On clinical errors, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks: can a private insurer be better than a public mutual fund?	Gilberto	Turati	Long format Presentation	TBA
On physicians’ reluctance to losses in earnings.	Eric	Delattre	Long format Presentation	TBA
On the Equity of Health Resource allocation in Xinjiang	yan	wang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Opportunities to gather information in the development of pharmaceuticals that is relevant for the decision-makers’ prioritisation of health-care expenditures	Krister	Järbrink	Long format Presentation	TBA
Optimal Clinical Trial Design Using Value Of Information Methods With Imperfect Implementation	Andy	Willan	Organized Session	Harmonising value of information methods with decision making in practice
Optimal Design of a Pharmaceutical Price-Volume Agreement in the Presence of Random Demand and Unobservable Marketing Effort	Hui	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Optimal Health and Retirement Policies amid Population Aging	Michael	Stolpe	Long format Presentation	TBA
Optimal Report Cards for Health Care Providers	Yin-Hing (Henry)	Mak	Short format Presentation	TBA
Organization and Management of Care Consumption, Public Health, and Private Insurance Revisited	Dov	Chernichovsky	Organized Session	Can the U.S. Join the Emerging Paradigm in its Allies' healthcare System
Overview of Issues in Economic Growth and Health	Markus	Haacker	Organized Session	Health and Macroeconomics
Panel Analysis for Health Services Utilization in China on the County Level	Guohong	Li	Long format Presentation	TBA
Panel Data vs. Cross-section: estimating the bias due to unobservable heterogeneity using quality of life survey data from 20 countries	Björn	Ekman	Short format Presentation	TBA
Panelist: Gordon G Liu	Gordon G.	Liu	Organized Session	Reforming China’s health system—Lessons from health economics
Panelist: Ling Li	Ling	Li	Organized Session	Reforming China’s health system—Lessons from health economics
Panelist: Meng Qingyue	Meng	Qingyue	Organized Session	Reforming China’s health system—Lessons from health economics
Panelist: Naoki Ikegami	Naoki	Ikegami	Organized Session	Economics of Health Care Reform in China
Panelist: Shuo Zhang	Shuo	Zhang	Organized Session	Economics of Health Care Reform in China
Panelist: William Hsiao	William	Hsiao	Organized Session	Reforming China’s health system—Lessons from health economics
Panelist: Winnie Yip	Winnie	Yip	Organized Session	Reforming China’s health system—Lessons from health economics
Paradigm shift in addressing health issues – Indian experience under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)	GANGA	MURTHY	Poster Presentation	Poster
Parallel health care market: a study on Rural Medical Practitioners in India	Barun	Kanjilal	Organized Session	Health Care Market Failures in Low Income Countries
Parental investments in child health	Miriam	Wüst	Long format Presentation	TBA
Parental Involvement Laws and Youth Suicide	Joseph J.	Sabia	Organized Session	Government Regulation and Health Behaviors
Parents’ Responsiveness to Economic Factors in Children’s Health Insurance Demand	Changwoo	Lee	Short format Presentation	TBA
Pathways and treatment of insomnia: developing a health economic costing model for New Zealand	Helen	Scott	Long format Presentation	TBA
Patient autonomy, education and moral hazard - an ethical and economic perspective	Thomas	Knetschke	Poster Presentation	Poster
Patient Safety Culture and Budget Allocation for Patient Safety-	Vetty Yulianty	Permanasari	Poster Presentation	Poster
Patients’ Choice of Public Hospitals and Waiting Times	Afsaneh	Bjorvatn	Long format Presentation	TBA
Pattern recognition in health systems research	Barbara	McPake	Organized Session	How can we achieve scientific rigour in evaluation of health system interventions?
Patterns and Determinants of Health Service Utilization Following the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand	Wanrudee	Isaranuwatchai	Long format Presentation	TBA
Pay Disparities by Race/Ethnicity Among Hospital RNs in New York City	Jean	Moore	Organized Session	Topics on health workforce: diversity, pay and promotion
Pay for Performance – empirical evidence from the UK primary care: target payment and general practitioners’ service activity	QING	WANG	Long format Presentation	TBA
Paying For Long-Term Care For Older People In England	Derek	King	Long format Presentation	TBA
Paying Informally in the Health Care Sector: A Two-Tiered Stochastic Frontier Bargaining Model	Sonila	Tomini	Poster Presentation	Poster
Payment methods for medical care and efficiency of resource use	Wei	Yu	Organized Session	Payment methods for medical care and efficiency of resource use
Pediatric Palliative Care: Describing Hospice Users and Identifying Factors that Affect Hospice Expenditures	Caprice	Knapp	Poster Presentation	Poster
Peer Effects in Hospital Markets	Wenbin	Zang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Perception and acceptability of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and other methods of diagnosing malaria in the southeast, Nigeria	ERIC	OBIKEZE	Short format Presentation	TBA
Performance of national HIV/AIDS programs in low- and middle- income countries	Wu	Zeng	Organized Session	AIDS programs in low- and middle-income countries: efficiency, impacts, and future designs
Performance-Based Contracting for HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Rwanda	Sergio	Bautista-Arredondo	Long format Presentation	TBA
Pharmaceutical Assistance Judicialization As Guarantee Mechanism of Access and/or Incorporation of New Technologies to the State Health System in Brazil	Eli Iola Gurgel	Andrade	Poster Presentation	Poster
Pharmaceutical Patents and Access to HIV/AIDS treatment in Brazil: an analysis of antiretroviral drug price evolution	Constance	Meiners	Poster Presentation	Poster
Physical Activity and the Production of Health: Evidence from Canada	Jane	Ruseski	Short format Presentation	TBA
Physician Acquisition of CT, Financial Incentives, and Use of CT Equipment in the United States	Laurence	Baker	Organized Session	Physician Financial Self-interest (FSI) in Imaging: Magnitude and Implications for Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, and Policy
Physician payment and quality of care: evidence from Australia	Anthony	Scott	Short format Presentation	TBA
Physician Payment Reform and Infant Health Outcomes	Kathleen	Mullen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Physician Performance Measure for Adult Primary Care: Avoidable Emergency Department Use	Tzu-Chun	Kuo	Organized Session	Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling
Physicians’ Payment Schemes: Does One Model Fit All?	Olga	Milliken	Poster Presentation	Poster
Physicians’ Responsiveness to Financial Incentives: Evidence from Drug Choice	Maria	Trottmann	Long format Presentation	TBA
Physicians' provision behavior under different payment systems - An experimental investigation	Daniel	Wiesen	Organized Session	Regulation of Primary Care Physicians
Piloting a Social Health Insurance Scheme among the Rural Hard Core Poor: What needs to be considered?	Azaher	Ali Molla	Short format Presentation	TBA
Political economy of decentralised resource allocation to health:Intervention of the state legislature in Kerala	Anu	Sasidharan Nair	Poster Presentation	Poster
Population ageing, longevity, health care systems and funding arrangements: can low/middle/high income countries learn from each other’s experiences?	Agnes	Walker	Organized Session	Ageing and long term care financing: an international comparison
Population-based estimates of long-term health care costs attributable to hepatitis C	Hla-Hla	Thein	Long format Presentation	TBA
Population-derived estimates of direct medical costs among late-stage hepatitis C patients with diabetes	Wendong	Chen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Post-War Labor Force Participation and Mental Health Production in Bosnia-Herzegovina	Andrew	Barnes	Long format Presentation	TBA
Potential Impact of Medical Tourism on the Workforce and Health System in India	Indrajit	Hazarika	Poster Presentation	Poster
Poverty effect of indirect taxes on pharmaceuticals	Nora	Markova	Poster Presentation	Poster
Poverty Impact of Household Smoking Expenditures in Malaysia	Chiu-Wan	Ng	Poster Presentation	Poster
Precautionary Savings, Health Expenditures and the Demand for Health Insurance	Petra	Schumacher	Short format Presentation	TBA
Predictability of Aid in Health for Low and Middle Income Countries	Geir Sølve Sande	Lie	Poster Presentation	Poster
Predicting the costs and effects of strategies to scale up case management of malaria across health system and transmission settings	Valerie	Crowell	Long format Presentation	TBA
Predictive equation for the cost-effectiveness in Alzheimer’s disease: simultaneous evaluation of symptomatic and disease-modifying treatments	Benoît	Rive	Long format Presentation	TBA
Predictors of Medical Expenditures in Hypertension Patient in Taiwan－ a Quantile Regression Approach	Hsiu-Ying	Fang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Preference of living arrangement and the demand for long-term care insurance	Shou-Hsia	Cheng	Long format Presentation	TBA
Preferences and Attitudes in Health Care: A Conceptual Framework and Comparative Analysis	M. Kate	Bundorf	Organized Session	Preferences and Attitudes in Health Care: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Preferences and Attitudes in Health Care: Evidence from the U.S. and Australia	Francesco	Paolucci	Organized Session	Preferences and Attitudes in Health Care: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Preferences and Attitudes in Healthcare: Evidence from Korea and China	Minah	Kang Kim	Organized Session	Preferences and Attitudes in Health Care: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Preferences and household willingness to pay for cataract surgery in rural India	Muralikrishnan	Radhakrishnan Kartha	Long format Presentation	TBA
Preferences for job characteristics among hospital physicians in Japan	Hiroshi	Sano	Short format Presentation	TBA
Preferences of Informal Carers Providing Home-based	Yuanyuan	Gu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Preferred health care financing options: a contingent ranking and valuation study in Hong Kong	Keith YK	Tin	Short format Presentation	TBA
Prenatal Care and Postpartum Smoking	Nancy E	Reichman	Organized Session	Policy Environments and Substance Use
Prepayment schemes in Tanzania: examining their potential for increasing access to health care	Jane	Macha	Poster Presentation	Poster
Present and future desirability and options in the development of basic packages in China	Yuhua	Shi	Organized Session	Socio-economic rationales to define national benefits packages: applications countries in Europe, N-America, & China
Prevalence elastic demand for influenza vaccination among the U.S. elderly	Byung-Kwang	Yoo	Short format Presentation	TBA
Price adjustment in the hospital sector	Luigi	Siciliani	Long format Presentation	TBA
Primary Care Physician Responses to Financial Incentives	Gioia	Buckley	Long format Presentation	TBA
Primary Health care in Chile: Harmonizing Health and Economics	Aristides	Torche	Organized Session	Financing Primary Health Care in L. A.: Three experiences
Primary Health Care Provision and Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Brazil	Angelica	Sousa	Long format Presentation	TBA
Primary prevention of lethal diseases - long-term effects on age-specific health care expenditure	Walter	Ried	Short format Presentation	TBA
Priority setting for high-cost renal replacement therapy for end-stage renal disease in Thailand	Ole Frithjof	Norheim	Organized Session	Multiple-criteria priority setting in health: evidence from developing countries
Private Health Insurance and Dental Service Utilization in Australia	Xiaohui	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Private healthcare provision in China: a study of its role and potential	Cunrui	Huang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Private Hospital Accreditation and Inducement of care under the Ghanaian National Insurance Scheme	Eugenia	Amporfu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Private Provision of Primary Health care in Rural Andhra Pradesh (AP), India	Meenakshi	Gautham	Organized Session	Availability and financing of Healthcare in Rural India
Private sector role in eye care services in Africa	Keerti	Pradhan	Poster Presentation	Poster
Private sector role in Health Sector: Empirical Evidences in Nepal	Raghu	Bir Bista	Poster Presentation	Poster
Probabilistic and threshold analysis as economic evaluation of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in pregnancy	Elisa	Sicuri	Short format Presentation	TBA
Prospective Payments for Medicare Drug Benefits – Risk Adjustment Performance and Perverse Market Incentives	John	Hsu	Short format Presentation	TBA
Providing and financing aged care in Australia	Henry	Ergas	Organized Session	Ageing and long term care financing: an international comparison
Providing health care in Germany: daunting enough to leave the country? An internet survey of medical doctors in private practice	Konrad	Obermann	Short format Presentation	TBA
Public and Private Health Care Provision in a National Health Insurance System	Hu	Lu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Public and private health care systems: a taxonomy (for the SHA)	Vittorio	Mapelli	Long format Presentation	TBA
Public expenditures on illicit drugs in Germany	Sarah	Mostardt	Poster Presentation	Poster
Public Health Insurance for the Poor: Targeting and Impact of Indonesia’s Askeskin Programme	Robert	Sparrow	Organized Session	Health Equity and Financial Protection in Asia (HEFPA)
Public private partnership: Cost benefit of telemedicine in access to specialty care in remote areas of Andhra Pradesh (AP), India	Veerabhadraiah	Narumanchi	Poster Presentation	Poster
Public Private Partnerships; A mechanism to improve access to the health services for the poorest in Andhra Pradesh (AP), India	Lipika	Nanda	Poster Presentation	Poster
Public programs and the incidence and consequences of health shocks: Evidence from a vulnerability survey in Laos	Adam	Wagstaff	Organized Session	Health Equity and Financial Protection in Asia (HEFPA)
Public social policy development and implementation in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme	Irene	Akua	Organized Session	Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme- the way forward for Sub-Saharan Africa or a hazardous experiment?
Purchasing health care in China: competing or non-competing third-party purchasers?	Weiwei	Xu	Short format Presentation	TBA
PUSKESMAS MANAGEMENT AUTONOMY MODEL, ITS EFFECT PUSKESMAS PERFORMANCE (MEASURED BY BALANCE SRORE CARD)	Atikah	Adyas	Poster Presentation	Poster
Putting economic evaluation in its place: the complexity of family physicians, decision-making and economic evaluation	Chantale	Lessard	Organized Session	Reality is horrendously complicated’ – Accommodating complexity in economic evaluation
Quality issues in Private Health Sector in India	Sandhya	Srigiriraju	Poster Presentation	Poster
Quality of life following antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infection	Ava	John-Baptiste	Poster Presentation	Poster
Quality of Life Lost Following Traffic Accidents	Carmen	Herrero	Short format Presentation	TBA
Quality Of Life On Dialysis In Malaysia	Faridah	Aryani Md. yusof	Poster Presentation	Poster
Quit, Cut, Switch, or Roll: How Thai Smokers Compensate for Cigarette Price Increases	Justin	White	Long format Presentation	TBA
Race Differentials in Employment Effects of Psychological Distress: A Study of non-Hispanic Whites and African-Americans in the United States	Pierre	Alexandre	Long format Presentation	TBA
Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Mental Health Care Utilization	Jie	Chen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Rare diseases and access to medicines in developing countries: Can global partnerships provide a model for access?	Panos	Kanavos	Long format Presentation	TBA
Rationalizing multivariate adjustment following propensity score matching	Bijan	Borah	Long format Presentation	TBA
Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women	Dhaval	Dave	Organized Session	Health Insurance, Medical Care and Health Outcomes
Re-research on the peasant-paid proportion in China’s new rural corporative medical insurance system	Lin	Zheng	Poster Presentation	Poster
Recognizing Hospital Fraud and Abuse: Claim Analysis of Social Health Insurance Enrolees in Indonesia	Andi	Afdal	Short format Presentation	TBA
Reducing Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan	Natalie	Carvalho	Organized Session	The Economics of Maternal Mortality Reduction
Reflections on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Health Systems	Maureen	Kewis	Organized Session	Are Social Insurance Systems More Resilient to Macroeconomic Shocks? An Analysis of the Expected Impact of the Current Financial Crisis on Health Revenues and Expenditures
Reforming public long-term care insurance and the caregivers burden in Japan: How to relieve the cost of Care?	Fumiaki	Yasukawa	Short format Presentation	TBA
Regional and social differences in population health-related quality of life in China	Sun	Sun	Long format Presentation	TBA
Regional disparities in mortality by heart attack: Evidence from France	Carine	Milcent	Long format Presentation	TBA
Regional Variation in Medicare Spending and Utilization: A Historical View	Zijun	Wang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Relations between mood and sleep in adolescence: an econometric analysis	Lara	Gitto	Long format Presentation	TBA
Relative cost-effectiveness of various policy interventions to address nurses’ shortages in rural South Africa	Duane	Blaauw	Organized Session	Researching interventions to address the human resources for health crisis - an application of discrete choice experiments in Kenya, Thailand and South Africa.
Reporting Bias in the VAS? A quantile Approach	Katrine	Løken	Long format Presentation	TBA
Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Health: The Case of Elderly in India	Bradley	Chen	Short format Presentation	TBA
Research applied for the activities, the employment and the perspectives of the pharmaceutical companies in Greece.	Elli	Vitsou	Poster Presentation	Poster
Research on biopharmaceutical companies cooperative innovation mode based on the fill-vacancy alliance	Pi	Xing	Poster Presentation	Poster
Research on Expenditure Accounting of Public Hospitals in Shanghai	Chunlin	Jin	Short format Presentation	TBA
Research on Expenditure Accounting of Traditional Chinese Medical Hospitals in Shanghai	Hai	Lin	Poster Presentation	Poster
Research on influencing factors of effective reimbursement rate in New Cooperative Medical Scheme	Xiaoming	Cheng	Long format Presentation	TBA
Research on the Economic operation of Community Health Services in Nanjing, China	Xiao-guang	Huang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Resource Use for Chronic Condition Management: Substantial Differences Between the Danish and Kaiser Health Systems	Michaela	Schiøtz	Long format Presentation	TBA
Responding to adversity: Quasi-experimental evidence of dynamic social capital and its relation to mental health	Joanna	Maselko	Poster Presentation	Poster
Response mapping for transforming SF36 data into utility scores	Duncan	Mortimer	Short format Presentation	TBA
Response shift in quality of life measurement in patients with tinnitus	Iris	Maes	Long format Presentation	TBA
Retirement and the Demand for Health	Raquel	fonseca	Short format Presentation	TBA
Retirement saving, consumption, and hyperbolic discounting	Jeremy	Barofsky	Long format Presentation	TBA
Review of cost-effectiveness of Injecting Drug User Interventions to Prevent HIV in Asia.	Anita	Alban	Poster Presentation	Poster
Review on provider payment reforms in China	Qingyue	Meng	Organized Session	Economics of Health Care Reform in China
Rising Health Care Inequalities in Transition China: What Do We Really Know?	Chung-Ping	Loh	Poster Presentation	Poster
Risk Adjusted Utilization in Provider Contracting	Rong	Yi	Organized Session	Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling
Risk Adjustment - Is Full Efficiency and Full Equity too good to be True?	Ralph	Bradley	Long format Presentation	TBA
Risk adjustment capitation payments assessment in the Colombian health insurance system	Mery	Bolivar	Short format Presentation	TBA
Risk adjustment in coronary bypass grafting: how EuroSCORE is related to cost, health related quality of life, and cost-effectiveness.	unto	Häkkinen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Risk And Factors of Surgery Fraud Claim PT. Jamsostek at Bekasi Branch Office, Indonesia	Yaslis	Ilyas	Poster Presentation	Poster
Risk Equalisation in Australia	Francesco	Paolucci	Organized Session	Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets: the cases of Australia, Ireland and South Africa
Risk Equalisation in Ireland	John	Armstrong	Organized Session	Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets: the cases of Australia, Ireland and South Africa
Risk Equalisation in South Africa	Heather	McLeod	Organized Session	Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets: the cases of Australia, Ireland and South Africa
Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets: a three-country comparison	Wyand	van de Ven	Organized Session	Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets: the cases of Australia, Ireland and South Africa
Risk equalization and the recalculation of risk-adjusted payments: efficiency in production versus reduction in risk	Rudy	Douven	Long format Presentation	TBA
Risky jobs: differences in choices and disability outcomes between immigrants and native-born Spaniards	Meritxell	Sole	Short format Presentation	TBA
Robust Comparative Effectiveness Without Head-to-Head Trials: Leveraging Primary Clinical Trial Data for Indirect Comparisons	James	Signorovitch	Long format Presentation	TBA
Role of economic evaluation in the development of cervical cancer control policy in Thailand	Sripen	Tantivess	Organized Session	The role and use of cost-effectiveness analysis for HPV vaccine introduction decisions in low and middle income countries
Role of health insurance in averting economic hardship in families following acute stroke in China	Stephen	Jan	Short format Presentation	TBA
Role of Public Private Partnerships in Pakistan Health Care Scenario: A Qualitative Study.	Faheem	Ahmed	Poster Presentation	Poster
Scaling Methods for Categorical Self-Assessed Health Measures	Patricia	Cubí-Mollá	Long format Presentation	TBA
Scaling Up Health Insurance for the Poor in India - What We have Learned from Implementation	Robert	Palacios	Organized Session	Scaling Up Health Insurance in Developing Countries - from the Implementation Perspective
Scenario drafting as a tool to perform early cost-effectiveness analyses: the case of the 70-genes prognosis signature in breast cancer	Valesca P	Retèl	Organized Session	Addressing uncertainty in (very) early economic evaluations of health care technologies: The application of scenario drafting and real options analysis
SCHIP's Impact in the Small-Group Health Insurance Market	Curtis S.	Florence	Organized Session	Health Insurance, Medical Care and Health Outcomes
Schooling Difficulties of physically disabled children in Mayo (Alnasr) Area	Hawida	Ahmed	Poster Presentation	Poster
Screening, Prevention and Treatment of Cervical Cancer - A Global and Regional Generalized Cost Effectiveness Analysis	Gary	Ginsberg	Organized Session	The role and use of cost-effectiveness analysis for HPV vaccine introduction decisions in low and middle income countries
Selection effects of the Dutch health insurance reform	Jonneke	Bolhaar	Long format Presentation	TBA
Selective Contracting in Hospital-Insurer Bargaining	Rein	Halbersma	Long format Presentation	TBA
Sensitivity analysis in economic evaluation: An audit of NICE current practice and a review of its use and value in decision making	Lazaros	Andronis	Poster Presentation	Poster
Sequential or integral analysis of making decisions about clinical guidelines and strategies for implementing them? An application in diabetes care	Ties	Hoomans	Long format Presentation	TBA
Service- and population-based exemptions: are these the way forward for equity and efficiency in health financing in low income countries?	Sophie	Witter	Poster Presentation	Poster
Severity-of-illness and priority-setting: a review of the literature	Koonal	Shah	Poster Presentation	Poster
Sex Differences in Management and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients- The Role of Health Information	Nicole	Huang	Long format Presentation	TBA
Share of supplier-induced demand in household out-of-pocket spending: A case of non-fatal road traffic injuries in Kerala, India	S	Godwin	Long format Presentation	TBA
Short and long run effects of health shocks on employment and income: Dutch evidence from linked hospital admission and tax records	Pilar	García-Gómez	Organized Session	Understanding the health and labour relationship
Should health gains by children be given the same value as health gains by adults in an economic evaluation framework?	Stavros	Petrou	Organized Session	Key Methodological Challenges in the Conduct of Child Health Economic Evaluation
Signing up Medicare Part D: What were the Main Determinants of Enrollment Time	Xiaohui	Zhuo	Long format Presentation	TBA
Similar children, dissimilar deliveries? The importance of patient information	Jostein	Grytten	Long format Presentation	TBA
Simulating the Effects of Complex Health Insurance Products Using a Utility-Maximization Framework	James	Cardon	Long format Presentation	TBA
Simulation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Malaria Vaccines	Fabrizio	Tediosi	Long format Presentation	TBA
Simulation of Tobacco Tax Increase on Chinese Economy	Zhengzhong	Mao	Organized Session	Tobacco Taxation in China
Small-area variation (SAV) in the extent of physician financial self-interest (FSI) in imaging and its effect on variations in imaging and non-imaging costs	Mythreyi	Bhargavan	Organized Session	Physician Financial Self-interest (FSI) in Imaging: Magnitude and Implications for Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, and Policy
Smoking Behavior and the Residential Characteristics: An Analysis Based on the Compound Poisson Model	Ryoko	MOROZUMI	Poster Presentation	Poster
Smoking during pregnancy in Romania and associated risk factors	Cristian	Meghea	Short format Presentation	TBA
Smoking Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Physicians in Jakarta, Indonesia	Pujiyanto	Pujiyanto	Poster Presentation	Poster
Smoking, Time Preference, and Educational Outcome: Evidence from High School Graduate Cohort	Jaeun	Shin	Long format Presentation	TBA
Social Capital and Health - Exploring the Causality Issue at the Individual Level	Nicolas	Sirven	Poster Presentation	Poster
Social Grants and the Incentive to Trade-Off Health for Income among Individuals on HAART in South Africa	Atheendar	Venkataramani	Long format Presentation	TBA
Social Health Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia	Rodrigo	Moreno-Serra	Organized Session	Econometrics of evaluating health programs and policies in developing and transition economies
Social Health Protection: Providing access to health services for the poor in Sierra Leone	Xenia	Scheil-Adlung	Poster Presentation	Poster
Social inequality and self-rated health: exploring policy pathways conducting a cross-sectional analysis of the health gradient in Mexico	Adolfo	Valle	Short format Presentation	TBA
Social interaction in risky behavior by college student in Japan	Sachiko	Shimizu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Socially Optimal Subsidy for Entry: The Case of Medicare Payments to HMOs	Shiko	Maruyama	Long format Presentation	TBA
Societal versus individual health state valuations: a case study of low back pain	Raymond	Ostelo	Long format Presentation	TBA
Socio-economic and Policy constraints to scaling up HIV control strategies in southeast Nigeria	Nneka	Okongwu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Socio-economic gradients in childhood obesity rates: A comparison between Denmark and the UK	Jane	Greve	Organized Session	Explaining disparities in child health: the role of parental health and social characteristics
Socio-economic rationales to define National Benefits Packages: a conceptual framework and policy implications	Francesco	Paolucci	Organized Session	Socio-economic rationales to define national benefits packages: applications countries in Europe, N-America, & China
Socioeconomic and Area Disparity in Eye Care for Children under NHI in Taiwan	Yi-Ting	Fang	Short format Presentation	TBA
Socioeconomic determinants of catastrophic health expenditures in Colombia	Ursula	Giedion	Organized Session	Health Expenditure, Financial Catastrophe and Impoverishment: Lessons from Colombia, Costa Rica and Argentina
Socioeconomic differences in treatment intensity in GP practise	Roar	Gjelsvik	Long format Presentation	TBA
Socioeconomic Disparities in Behavioral Risk Factors and Health Outcomes	Hak-Ju	Kim	Short format Presentation	TBA
Socioeconomic gradients in hypertensive risk factors for older adults in rural Shandong, China	SHIYI TU	TU	Short format Presentation	TBA
Socioeconomic Position and History of Workplace Eye Injury: Examples from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System	Xinzhi	Zhang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Socioeconomic Status and Lifestyle Choices: Evidence from Latent Class Aanalysis	Arnstein	Ovrum	Long format Presentation	TBA
Soft Drink Taxes and Adolescent Obesity: Evidence from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System	Nathan	Tefft	Organized Session	Stymie snacks and soda? Evidence on strategies to reverse trends in childhood and adolescent obesity
Solidarity in the Dutch healthcare system, a lifecycle approach	Bram	Wouterse	Long format Presentation	TBA
Solutions to Dissensions between Patients and Doctors With Causes and Social Roots	Fengnian	Zhu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Some econometrics of evaluating health system reform impacts	Adam	Wagstaff	Organized Session	How can we achieve scientific rigour in evaluation of health system interventions?
Spend Now to Save Later: Identifying Economic Tradeoffs in Use of Asthma Medications	SHUBHAYU	SAHA	Long format Presentation	TBA
Sri Lanka - Health Financing Reform in the context of a National Health Service	Ravi P.	Rannan-Eliya	Organized Session	What Do We Really Know About Global Health Financing Reforms: Is This Yet Another Failure of the Global Community and Academia?
Staffing in Day-Care Institutions and Teacher Sickness Absenteeism	Mette	Gørtz	Long format Presentation	TBA
Stakeholder Analysis on Pharmaceuticals Management in Community Health Services in China	Yanchun	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
State Medicaid Psychiatric Drug Policies and Access to Needed Prescription Drugs by Medicaid Adult Beneficiaries with Mental Health Diagnoses	Hae Kyung	Yang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Stated-Preference Measures Evaluating Evidence on Benefits and Risks in Regulatory Decision Making: A New Role for Patient Preferences	F. Reed	Johnson	Organized Session	Preference Measurement: New Applications
Stimulating pharmaceutical R&D in neglected diseases: why an integrated, coordinated approach?	Ebenezer	Tetteh	Long format Presentation	TBA
Strategic hospital planning for university medical centers by use of population and disease rate adjusted calculation of expected patient volume. Definition of time-dependent catchment areas between hospitals and combined visualization with further ...	Dr. Daniel Matthias	Duerr	Long format Presentation	TBA
Strategies of Launch and Dynamics of Pricing for Oral Anti-diabetics and Lipid Lowering Drugs in the US and EU5	Nebibe	VAROL	Short format Presentation	TBA
Strategies to develop an essential healthcare package: Evidence from international experience	YANG	Li	Poster Presentation	Poster
Strategies to Tackle Unhealthy Lifestyles and Chronic Diseases: a Micro-Simulation Analysis	Michele	Cecchini	Short format Presentation	TBA
Structural quality of health services in Mexico: a constraint for human capital formation	Juan Pablo	Gutierrez	Poster Presentation	Poster
Structuring the United States Health Care System	Arleen	Leibowitz	Organized Session	Can the U.S. Join the Emerging Paradigm in its Allies' healthcare System
Study of the Impact of Salmonella	Andreia Costa	Santos	Short format Presentation	TBA
Study on Demands and Utilization of Health Service for migrant workers in Taiyuan	Wei-ping	Liang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Study on Health Disparity and Equity in Beijing Area, China	Hongpeng	Fu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Study on Health Insurance Benefit Package Based on Community Preference	Ali	Ghufron Mukti	Short format Presentation	TBA
Study on Health Service Utilization Equity and its Determinants in Chinese Western Rural Area	Zhongliang	Zhou	Long format Presentation	TBA
Study on the efficiency of flow process under four-handed dentistry	Xiao-hong	Liu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Study on the Program of Quick Evaluation of NCMS by Excel or SPSS Package	Bao-Jun	PAN	Poster Presentation	Poster
Subjective Health Expectations	Juergen	Jung	Organized Session	Subjective Expectations and Health-Related Behaviour
Subnational assessment of health system performance in Mexico	Chunling	Lu	Organized Session	Efficiency measurement in developing countries
Substitutability between Hospital Care and Long-Term Care under the National Insurance Scheme	Jun	Kikuchi	Organized Session	Demand, Social Costs and Accessibility, for Medical Care and Long-Term Care in Aging Society
Supply of health care and avoidable mortality in Germany	Leonie	Sundmacher	Poster Presentation	Poster
Supply- vs. Demand-Side Rationing in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia’s Novel 'Régimen Subsidiado	Marcos	Vera-Hernandez	Organized Session	Econometrics of evaluating health programs and policies in developing and transition economies
Supporting Healthcare Policy Initiatives through Modeling and Microsimulation Efforts: Issues of Data Capacity and Statistical Quality	Steven	Cohen	Poster Presentation	Poster
Surviving breast cancer in Boston: The impact of racial disparities in health care access	Chao	Zhou	Short format Presentation	TBA
Sustainability of long-term care financing in the Netherlands	Frederik T.	Schut	Organized Session	Ageing and long term care financing: an international comparison
Sustainability of the Village Midwives Program: How do village midwives earn a living in rural area? A lesson from two districts in Indonesia	Mardiati	Nadjib	Short format Presentation	TBA
Taking Occams Razor to value of information methods: what is useful to informing decisons	Simon	Eckermann	Organized Session	Harmonising value of information methods with decision making in practice
Targeting financial barriers to delivery care in South Asia – comparison of the Bangladesh and Nepalese approaches	Tim	Ensor	Organized Session	Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries
Targeting high risk groups or the general public? Using mathematical programming to choose between preventive interventions	Talitha	Feenstra	Long format Presentation	TBA
Targeting prisoners for hepatitis C screening and treatment-A cost-effectiveness and health utility analysis	Andrew John	Sutton	Short format Presentation	TBA
Technical efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Zhejiang province, China	Jin	Ma	Organized Session	Improving Hospital Accountability in China: Cost, Quality of care, and Efficiency
Technical efficiency and quality of care in Ontario acute care Hospitals	Walter	Wodchis	Organized Session	Quality and Efficiency Tradeoffs: Evidence from Acute and Long-Term Care
Technical Efficiency and Technological changes of Health Care Services in Ontario: An Application of Non Parametric Approach	Hedayet	Chowdhury	Short format Presentation	TBA
Technological progress as a means to improve hospital productivity - easy to observe but difficult to measure	Kirsi	Vitikainen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Technology Preference and Diffusion of Medical Innovations	Victoria	Serra-Sastre	Short format Presentation	TBA
Teen Drinking Behaviors and Expectations	Frank A.	Sloan	Organized Session	Subjective Expectations and Health-Related Behaviour
Telemedicine Utilization in a Southern State of India Focusing on Physician and Telemedicine Center Characteristics	ALLEN	UGARGOL	Poster Presentation	Poster
Ten Years of DRG Prospective Payment System in Korea	Soonman	Kwon	Organized Session	Payment methods for medical care and efficiency of resource use
Testing the community identification criterion of the poor for exemption under the national Health Insurance Scheme: Is it a Valid Criterion? A case study of the Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana	Patricia	Akweongo	Poster Presentation	Poster
Testing the paradox of health in Barcelona, 1994-2006	Anna	García-Altés	Poster Presentation	Poster
Testing the Rationale for Medicare Payment Reforms: Specialty Hospital Impact in General Hospitals Markets	Sujoy	Chakravarty	Long format Presentation	TBA
Testing the validity of the vignettes approach to correcting reporting heterogeneity in health	Teresa	Bago d’Uva	Organized Session	Use and validation of the vignettes approach to enhance comparability of reported health and health system responsiveness
The applicability of measurement techniques in developing countries	Bruce	Hollingsworth	Organized Session	Efficiency measurement in developing countries
The application of performance appraisal in Chinese military hospitals	Guohong	Lin	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Applied Research of EQ-5D in Evaluation of Rural Insurance Schemes in China	Jianmin	Gao	Poster Presentation	Poster
The association between alcohol drinking patterns and violence among the Thai population	Wantanee	Kulpeng	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Association between Prior Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Short Term outcomes after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Evidence form Turkey	Nadir	Ocal	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Attitude of Registered Nurses to Integrating Economic Considerations in Medical Care	Racheli	Magnezi	Short format Presentation	TBA
The catastrophic and out pocket expenditures puzzle: Did out-of-pocket expenditures (oops) could be translated into catastrophic expenditures? What does the Costa Rican health care system shows?	Maria	Paola Zuniga	Organized Session	Health Expenditure, Financial Catastrophe and Impoverishment: Lessons from Colombia, Costa Rica and Argentina
The catastrophic and out pocket expenditures puzzle: Did out-of-pocket expenditures (oops) could be translated into catastrophic expenditures? What does the Costa Rican health care system shows?	María-Paola	Zúñiga B	Poster Presentation	Poster
The catastrophic effects of out-of-pocket payment for health care across three African countries - Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania	John	Ataguba	Organized Session	The distribution of catastrophic health expenditures and its relationship to insurance coverage – Emerging global patterns and evidence
The Chinese Health Care System: Structure, Problems and Challenges	Jens Leth	Hougaard	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Coexistance of Public and Private Mechanisms in Health Care Provision: the Italian Intramoenia Regime	Giuseppe	Turchetti	Poster Presentation	Poster
The comparative review of satisfaction of patients in KHC “ Zemun” in depend of method of work of permanent doctor and permanent nurse in 2004. and 2007.yr	Snezana	Dimitrijevic	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Comparison Research of the American Health Market System and the British Health Plan System	zhi-dong	Xuan	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Complexity of Assessing Quality Differences between Public and Private Hospitals: Some Evidence from China	Karen	Eggleston	Organized Session	Improving Hospital Accountability in China: Cost, Quality of care, and Efficiency
The construct of the caring experience	Hareth	Al-Janabi	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Cost Effectiveness of a Law Banning the Use of Cellular Phones by Drivers	Daniel	Sperber	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Cost Effectiveness of Intermittent Preventative Treatment for Malaria in Infants in Sub Saharan Africa	Lesong	Conteh	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Cost of Acute Care Hospital Stays by Medical Condition in Canada, 2004-2005	Ruolz	Ariste	Poster Presentation	Poster
The cost-effectiveness of coronary stents in AMI patients under real world conditions: Results from Germany	Michael	Baeumier	Organized Session	The Socio-Economic Value of Medical Devices: Preliminary Evidence and Assessment Challenges
The Cost-Effectiveness of Glucosamine Sulfate Treatment among Elderly Knee Osteoarthritis Patients	Li-Jung	Ku	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Cost-Effectiveness of Ontario’s Universal Influenza Immunization Program	Beate	Sander	Long format Presentation	TBA
The cost-effectiveness of two school-based interventions promoting fruit and vegetable intake among 11-year-old children	Lennert	Veerman	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Costa Rican primary health sector: the keystone of the success	Juan Rafael	Vargas	Organized Session	Financing Primary Health Care in L. A.: Three experiences
The demand for cigarettes amongst vulnerable women: Evidence from Indonesia	Budi	Hidayat	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Determinants of Enrolment in Community-Based Health Insurance in Lao PDR	Sarah	Alkenbrack	Organized Session	Scaling up community financing: key challenges faced
The dilemma of vacant beds: Did lenient CON policies toward hospitals make nursing homes ‘sick’?	Jennifer	Troyer	Short format Presentation	TBA
The direct and indirect costs of obesity and overweight in Germany	Alexander	Konnopka	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Direct Medical Cost Associated with Type 2 Diabetes and its Complications in Managed Care Organizations in the United States	Rui	Li	Long format Presentation	TBA
The District Health System in Enugu State, Nigeria: An analysis of policy development and implementation	Soludo	Eze	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Driving Forces behind Health Worker Migration	Martine	Rutten	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Dynamic Relationship Among Health Knowledge, Health Sector, Health and Education	Steven	Lehrer	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Dynamic Relationship between Income, Access to Medications and Health: Evidence from Elderly Women in Russia	Alica	Sparling	Long format Presentation	TBA
The dynamics of socioeconomic status and physical and mental health: a longitudinal analysis of older Taiwanese with health-related non-response	Miaw-Chwen	LEE	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Early Retirement Decision and Its Impact on Health –What the Chinese Mandatory Retirement Reveals	Yingying	Dong	Long format Presentation	TBA
The economic costs of smoking in Austria	Thomas	Czypionka	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Economic Determinants of Physical Activity Behaviour of Working Age Adults: Evidence from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey	Heather	Brown	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Economic Impact of CVD and Cancers in India: Estimates based on a Propensity Score Matching Approach	Anup	Karan	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Economic Impact of Priority Setting in Research and Development in Pharmaceutical Products in Thailand	Siripen	Supakankunti	Short format Presentation	TBA
The economic implications of treating atherothrombotic disease in the community	Zanfina	Ademi	Short format Presentation	TBA
The economic valuation of informal care	Bernard	van den Berg	Organized Session	Informal care in economic evaluations
The Economics of Lifestyles and Obesity	Franco	Sassi	Organized Session	The Economics of Non-Communicable Diseases
The Economics of Youth Tobacco Use	RENU ANN	JOSEPH	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect capitation payment on GP’s performance: Indonesian Case	Julita	Hendrartini	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of a Psychosocial Intervention on Costly Outcomes and Behaviors among Adolescents	Michael	Foster	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Child Weight on Academic Performance: Evidence using Genetic Markers	Stephanie	von Hinke Kessler Scholder	Poster Presentation	Poster
The effect of community based health insurance in an Indonesian district on access and financial protection	sigit	riyarto	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Effect of Competition on Nursing Home Quality Choice	Min Michelle	Chen	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of consumer quality information on health plan choice	Trea	Laske	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of different muscle stretching techniques on hamstring muscles group flexibility of in boys students	Khodadad	Letafatkar	Poster Presentation	Poster
The effect of direct-to-consumer genetic tests on health care utilization and patient welfare	Aslam H.	Anis	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Drug Coverage Limitations on Medicare Beneficiaries using Antidepressants	Mary	Price	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Health on Labor Market Behaviors in China	Judy	Xu	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of health policy changes on treatment intensity in outpatient child and adolescent mental health services	Halsteinli	Vidar	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Effect of HIFA Medicaid Waivers on the Rate of Uninsurance	Adam	Atherly	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of HIV-AIDS on education attainment, theoretical ambiguity but conclusive empirics	bruno	ventelou	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Housing Attributes on Occupant Health in a Less Developed Country: Evidence from Uganda	Michelle	Amaral	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of ICU organizational models on hospital quality	Michelle	Kim	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of income inequality on health: a multilevel analysis of Chinese communities	Bao	Liu	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of income on direct valution of health state	Thomas	Davidson	Poster Presentation	Poster
The effect of informal care on the labour market participation	MANUEL	GARCÍA-GOÑI	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Informal Caregiving on Labor Market Outcomes in South Korea	Young Kyung	Do	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Medicare’s New Technology Add-on Payment Policy on Hospital Utilization of New Technologies	Lindsay	Bockstedt	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Mental Health on Unemployment Duration and Destination States after Unemployment	Henrik Lindegaard	Andersen	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Mothers’ Employment and Child Care Decisions on the Body Mass Status of Young Children	Mai	Hubbard	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effect of multi-hospital system ownership on adoption of new technologies	Shenyi	Jiang	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Physician Practice Organizational Form on Physician Behavior and Adoption of Health Information Technology	Carol	Simon	Organized Session	Health information technology and the production of quality
The Effect of Retirement on Cognitive Functioning	Hans-Martin	von Gaudecker	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Effect of Sleep on Education and Labor Market Outcomes	Eric	Eide	Short format Presentation	TBA
The effect of tobacco control interventions on the hazards of starting and	Joachim	Marti	Short format Presentation	TBA
The effect of universal coverage on catastrophic health expenditures in the AP region: evidence from South Korea and Taiwan	Jui-fen Rachel	Lu	Organized Session	The distribution of catastrophic health expenditures and its relationship to insurance coverage – Emerging global patterns and evidence
The effect of user fees on quality and access in a post-conflict setting: evidence from a health financing pilot study in Afghanistan	Laura	Steinhardt	Organized Session	Increasing Access to Health Services by the Poor: Afghanistan, China, and Uganda
The Effects of Direct to Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals on Adherence	Mark	Showalter	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Effects of Illness on Household Consumptions in Dai Dong, a Rural Commune of Hanoi Vietnam	Kim	Nguyen	Long format Presentation	TBA
The effects of state health insurance mandates on employer health insurance provision	Xiaoyang	Li	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Effects of Vending Machine Restrictions on Children's Soft Drink Consumption and Weight	Jason	Fletcher	Organized Session	Stymie snacks and soda? Evidence on strategies to reverse trends in childhood and adolescent obesity
The English experience of commissioning: a case of continuous reform?	Maria	Goddard	Organized Session	The Holy Grail of Effective Purchasing: Implementation Challenges and Experiences
The estimated cost-effectiveness of school closure to mitigate pandemic influenza	M Zia	sadique	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Estonian Health Insurance Fund - a Single Payer Health Mandatory Health Insurance model in a post-socialist transition economy	Toomas	Palu	Organized Session	What Do We Really Know About Global Health Financing Reforms: Is This Yet Another Failure of the Global Community and Academia?
The Evaluation of the Initial Impact of the Medical Assistance Program for the Poor in Georgia	Xiaohui	HOU	Short format Presentation	TBA
The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence	Jinhu	Li	Long format Presentation	TBA
The evolving two-tier health system in Malawi	Elvis	Mpakati Gama	Organized Session	The Economics of two-tier health systems: demand function interdependencies and implications for equity
The glass is half full or half empty: heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labour market participation	Stefanie	Schurer	Organized Session	Understanding the health and labour relationship
The Healer or the Druggist: Impacts of Two Health Care Reforms in Taiwan on the Substitution between Physician and Pharmacist Services	Kang-Hung (Simon)	Chang	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Health Care Safety Net and Health Insurance: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation	Xuezheng	Qin	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Health Impact of Rapid Urbanization in China	Ellen	Van de Poel	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Health Returns to Schooling - What can we learn from Twins?	Petter	Lundborg	Organized Session	Causal effects of schooling on health?
The historical effects of colorism on the health of U.S. blacks	Tiffany	Green	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Impact of 7-Valent Conjugate Streptococcal Pneumoniae Vaccination and its Herd Effects in Manitoba, Canada	Kevin	Chan	Organized Session	The Value of Vaccination: Long Term Economic Benefits and Herd Immunity
The Impact of Aging on Healthcare Expenditure: A Consistent Approach	Peter	Zweifel	Organized Session	Ageing and health care expenditures
The impact of AIDS funding on health care system: a controlled study from Rwanda	Donald S.	Shepard	Organized Session	AIDS programs in low- and middle-income countries: efficiency, impacts, and future designs
The Impact of Cancer Screening on Cancer Detection: Evidence from Canada and the U.S.	Erin	Strumpf	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Food Stamp Program Participation on Adult Obesity	Maximilian	Schmeiser	Poster Presentation	Poster
The impact of food supplementation on infant weight gain in rural Bangladesh; an assessment of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutritional Program (BINP)	Housne	Begum	Long format Presentation	TBA
The impact of government financing on utilization of essential Health Care——A comparative study of China and Thailand	Qian	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Health Financing and Household Health Spending on Financial Equity and Impoverishment in Chile	Ricardo	Bitran	Organized Session	Household Strategies to Cope with Health Expenditure: Lessons from Mexico, Chile and Peru
The Impact of Health Information Systems (HIS) on China’s Healthcare Delivery System	Ling	Li	Organized Session	Health information technology and the production of quality
The impact of health insurance on utilisation and health expenditure: evidence from three African countries	Filip	Meheus	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Health Policy and Market Structure on Hospital Indigent Care	Eunkyeong	Lee	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of HIT on China healthcare	Ming	Li	Poster Presentation	Poster
The impact of immigration, income, and marriage on obesity	Katharina	Hauck	Organized Session	Obesity and economics in Australia
The impact of income polarization on happiness and health	Denise	Doiron	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Impact of Malaria on Land Use -- Empirical Evidence from Amazon	Shufang	Zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Medical Savings Accounts Balances on Outpatient Services Probability of Usage and Expenditures in China	Vivienne Hui	ZHANG	Long format Presentation	TBA
The impact of medical technology on health outcomes: evidence from the cardiovascular setting in Italy	Giulia	Cappellaro	Organized Session	The Socio-Economic Value of Medical Devices: Preliminary Evidence and Assessment Challenges
The Impact of Modest Financial Incentives in Promoting Sustained Weight Loss: A Group Randomized Trial	Eric A.	Finkelstein	Organized Session	Innovative strategies for weight loss
The Impact of National Health Insurance on Infant Health Outcome: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan	Shin-Yi	Chou	Organized Session	Health Insurance, Medical Care and Health Outcomes
The impact of NHI drug reimbursement adjustment on prescribing pattern and patient outcomes in Taiwan	Yiying	Lin	Short format Presentation	TBA
The impact of OOP costs on cervical screening: evidence from an Australian panel dataset	Kees	van Gool	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Pay-for-Performance on the Performances of Community Health Centers in Shanghai	Wen	Chen	Organized Session	Road to A Harmonious Society: Evaluation of China’s Health Care Reform Experiments
The impact of pharmaceutical policy measures: a structural-break approach	Pedro	Barros	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement: referencepricing and no reference pricing	Yi-Che	Hong	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Poor Health on Academic Performance: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers	Weili	Ding	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Impact of Provider Payment Reform: Experience from A Pilot Experiment in Zhenjiang City	Yan	Guo	Organized Session	Road to A Harmonious Society: Evaluation of China’s Health Care Reform Experiments
The Impact of Remittances on Catastrophic and Impoverishing Health Spending in Mexico	Felicia M.	Knaul	Organized Session	Household Strategies to Cope with Health Expenditure: Lessons from Mexico, Chile and Peru
The impact of social capital on health service use among Canadian Immmigrants	Deborah	Samek	Short format Presentation	TBA
The impact of structural assumptions in breast cancer natural history models on the evaluation of screening programmes	Jason	Madan	Long format Presentation	TBA
The impact of the context on individuals’ capacities to elicit willingness to pay values: a further evidence from the West Bank and Gaza.	Anne	Johansen	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme: Does It Improve Access to Care and Financial Risk Protection for China’s Rural Population?	Ling	Xu	Organized Session	Road to A Harmonious Society: Evaluation of China’s Health Care Reform Experiments
The Impact of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Expansion on Health Insurance Coverage in Hawaii.	Gerard	Russo	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance Scheme on Access to Care and Financial Risk Protection in Urban China	Gordon	Liu	Organized Session	Road to A Harmonious Society: Evaluation of China’s Health Care Reform Experiments
The Impact of the US Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit on Use of Antibiotic Medications	Yuting	zhang	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Impact of Tied Selling of Mandatory Basic and Voluntary Supplementary Health Insurance: Evidence from the Netherlands.	Erik	Schut	Organized Session	Entitlement to Medical Care and Voluntary Medical Insurance – the Risk and the Potential
The impact of tobacco prices on smoking onset in Viet Nam: duration analyses of retrospective data	G Emmanuel	Guindon	Long format Presentation	TBA
The impact of Upcoding, Cream Skimming and Readmissions on Italian hospitals’ efficiency. A population-based study	Giuditta	Callea	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Impacts of Ob/gyn Market Competition on Health Care Costs Birth Outcomes in Taiwan	Ke-Zong (Michelle)	Ma	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Implementation Experience of Social Health Insurance Scheme in Tanzania	Emmanuel	Humba	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Imprint of Time: the Evolution of the Effect of Family Income on Child Health	Benedicte	Apouey	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Incentives to Merger: Estimates from a Matching Model of Hospital Mergers	Robert	Town	Organized Session	Incentives and Competition in Hospital and Physician Markets
The incidence of health care financing in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania	James	Akazili	Organized Session	How equitable is health care financing and service utilisation in African countries: Evidence from Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa?
The Income and the Substitution Effects in Physician-induced Demand: Empirical Evidence from the screening data of medical fee bills	Michio	Yuda	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Increase of Indonesian Government Health Budget: Its	Ede Surya	Darmawan	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Inequity of Informal Payments for Health Care in India	Krishna Dipankar	Rao	Poster Presentation	Poster
The influence of alcohol expenditure on the crowding out of household consumption in Thailand	Win	Techakehakij	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Influence of Calorie Information Fast Food Choice: A First Look From Low-Income Communities	Brian	Elbel	Poster Presentation	Poster
The influence of visit fee on the utilization of outpatient care in Hungary	Imre	Boncz	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood	Katja	Coneus	Organized Session	Explaining disparities in child health: the role of parental health and social characteristics
The internal capacity to spend allocated health care resources: issues, concerns and policies of low income countries.	Khushbu	Lalwani	Poster Presentation	Poster
The lifestyle solidarity of Dutch citizens with the new Managed-Competition Health Insurance in the Netherlands; a contingent valuation survey with the use of different perspectives	Sanne	Van de Star	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Long Term Effects of Vaccination against Neonatal Tetanus in Matlab	David	Canning	Organized Session	The Value of Vaccination: Long Term Economic Benefits and Herd Immunity
The Long-Term Effects of the Chinese Health System Reform In 1978	Jing	Guo	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Market Structure of Supply Chains for Antimalarials in the Private Sector in Uganda and Zambia	Sarah	Tougher	Organized Session	The Prospects for a Global Subsidy for Antimalarial Combination Therapy
The Mexican Healthcare System and the Emerging Paradigm in Modern Systems	Dov	Chernichovsky	Organized Session	New Challenges in Financing Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Money-Time Poverty Threshold in at Home Food Production: A Cost Difference Approach	Wen	You	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Mystery of the Health Insurance Experiment: An Extended Attrition Analysis	Jeremy	Green	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Nature of Individual Social Capital and Community Social Capital: Is One Just a Summation of the Other?	Paul	Dourgnon	Organized Session	Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Capital
The Neuroeconomics of Advertising for Food	Julian	Jamison	Short format Presentation	TBA
The New Agenda of Reform Policy for the Pharmaceutical Supply Security System in China	Shanlian	Hu	Organized Session	Issues Facing Pharmaceutical Policy
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Rural China: Does More Coverage Mean More Service and Better Health?	Wanchuan	Lin	Short format Presentation	TBA
The New Rural Medical Cooperative Scheme- Implementing Health Insurance in Rural China	Shanlian	Hu	Organized Session	Scaling Up Health Insurance in Developing Countries - from the Implementation Perspective
The option value of delay in deciding upon particle therapy in lung cancer	Janneke PC	Grutters	Organized Session	Addressing uncertainty in (very) early economic evaluations of health care technologies: The application of scenario drafting and real options analysis
THE OUTPATIENT BENEFIT PACKAGE FOR THE POOR: PHILIPPINE EXPERIENCE	Madeleine	De Rosas-Valera	Organized Session	Community health system for chronic health management
The Paletinian Health Care System: Towarsd a More Equitable Approach	Rasha	Khatib	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Paris Declaration in practice: challenges of health sector aid coordination at the district level in Zambia	Jesper	Sundewall	Poster Presentation	Poster
The payment source for health care treatment among patient with HIV and its co-morbidity in Surabaya, Indonesia	hendri	hartati	Poster Presentation	Poster
The perceptions of formal-sector employees on the health insurance scheme in Nigeria: Can it be an eye-opener to re-direct policy-making?	Shafiu	Mohammed	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Petris Index for measuring community level social capital. Weaknesses and Strengths	Timothy	Brown	Organized Session	Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Capital
The politcal Economy of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa	Hyacinth	Ichoku	Poster Presentation	Poster
The political economy of the “reform-crises” in the Hungarian healthcare system	Eva	Orosz	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Politics of National Health Insurance of Indonesia:	Hasbullah	Thabrany	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Position and Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China’s Health System Reform	XinJian	Fan	Poster Presentation	Poster
The potential cost-effectiveness of adding a human papillomavirus vaccine to the cervical cancer screening programme in South Africa	Edina	Sinanovic	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Predictive Value of Various Anthropomorphic Measures of Obesity	Richard	Dunn	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Price and Income Elasticity of Cigarette Demand in China: a New Estimate	Xiulan	Zhang	Organized Session	Tobacco Taxation in China
The principles of Yin & Yang in long-term care funding systems: How does the combination of selective & universal benefits impact on the utilisation of social care services? Insights from a large-scale study in Austria.	Birgit	Trukeschitz	Poster Presentation	Poster
The problematic development of voluntary health insurance in Russia.	Benoit	Mathivet	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Process and Development of Chinese Quality Indicators: The Case of AMI and CABG	Hude	Quan	Organized Session	Improving Hospital Accountability in China: Cost, Quality of care, and Efficiency
The Productivity and Efficiency of Procedural Physician Practices: Radiology as a Case Study	Jonathan	Sunshine	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Purchasing Function in the Colombian Health System after the Introduction of Universal Health Insurance	Maria-Luisa	Escobar	Organized Session	The Holy Grail of Effective Purchasing: Implementation Challenges and Experiences
The Putnam Index for measuring community level social capital. Weaknesses and Strengths	Sherman	Folland	Organized Session	Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Capital
The Quality of Health Care Services in Public and Private Hospitals of Bangladesh: A Comparison	Shamsuddin	Ahmad	Poster Presentation	Poster
The real cost of strategy development and implementation of integrated delivery of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants	Fatuma	Manzi	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Regional Differences of Demand for Health Care in Japan	Akiko	Yokota	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Relationship between Incidence of Falls and Nurse Staffing, the Patient’s Risk of Falling, and the Cost of Prevent Falls	Sachiko	Iijima	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Relationship between Smoking and Depression among Low-Income Koreans	Eunjeong	Kang	Poster Presentation	Poster
The relationship bewteen the use of subsidised pharmaceutcials and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by individuals in Australia	Jean	Spinks	Poster Presentation	Poster
The relationship of financial self-interest in imaging to economic and medical outcomes	Danny R.	Hughes	Organized Session	Physician Financial Self-interest (FSI) in Imaging: Magnitude and Implications for Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, and Policy
The research on state-owned assets management system	Zhang	Jin	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Research on the Abilities to Pay for Health Care of Xi’an City Dwellers with Hypertension Participating in Medical Insurance	Ying	Mao	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Response of Hospital Supply to Exogenous Changes in Risk-Sharing under Prospective Payment System	Richard C.	Lindrooth	Organized Session	Incentives and Competition in Hospital and Physician Markets
The return to work of cancer survivors two years after diagnosis: a gender analysis of a French population based sample.	Anne-Gaëlle	Le Corroller Soriano	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Role of Chronic Conditions in Canadian Children’s Health Status	Claire	de Oliveira	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Role of Economics in Global Health Research	Xingzhu	Liu	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Role of Health Insurance and Patient Co-payment on Cost and Quality of Care of AMI patients	Meina	Liu	Organized Session	Improving Hospital Accountability in China: Cost, Quality of care, and Efficiency
The role of patients’preferences in doctors’ prescription decisions.	Simone	Ghislandi	Long format Presentation	TBA
The role of people’s preferences and attitudes in the organization of the Netherlands health care system	Frederik T.	Schut	Organized Session	Preferences and Attitudes in Health Care: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
The Role of Private Sector in Health Care Services: Empirical Evidence from a Less Developed Region in India	Sailabala	Debi	Long format Presentation	TBA
The role of technical progress in lipid lowering drugs: The case of statins	Francesco	D’Amico	Short format Presentation	TBA
The role of the private sector in financing and utilization of HIV/AIDS services in developing countries	Wenjuan	Wang	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Role of the Service Contract in Regulating Provider Behavior under the NRCMS	Daping	Song	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Role of Trust in the Demand for Community-Financed Schemes in Cambodia	Sachiko	Ozawa	Organized Session	Health Care Market Failures in Low Income Countries
The Standard of Medical Expenditure control based on Residents’ Affordability	Zheng	Xiaohua	Poster Presentation	Poster
The study and practice of hospital health economic “three managements in one system” management model based on Closed Loop Idea	Jun-lan	Liu	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Study On Health Care Equity Between Urban and Rural Areas In Xinjiang	OuYang	Jing	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Study on Medical Liability Insurance and Harmonious Doctor-patient Relationship	Haibo	Wu	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Syndrome of the Soft Budget Constraint and bailouts	csaba	dózsa	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Time Preference on Intertemporal Choice and Preventing Efficiently the Chronic Diseases.	Gao	Qifa	Poster Presentation	Poster
The tooth is out there ... calculating the changes in utilisation and expenditure on key dental services in Australian as a consequence of the introduction of 3 levels of government subsidy	Ben	Levett	Long format Presentation	TBA
The Trade-Off Between Costs and Outcomes: The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction	Jonas	Schreyögg	Poster Presentation	Poster
The Tradeoff between Centralized and Decentralized Health Services: Evidence from a Major Anti-Poverty Program in Mexico	Arturo	Vargas Bustamante	Long format Presentation	TBA
THE TRANSFERABILITY OF ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS. TESTING THE MODEL OF WELTE	Sivia	Evers	Organized Session	Transparancy of transferability
The unavoidable issue of Chinese Healthcare Reform:Is non-for-profit organizational model applicable to Chinese state-owned hospitals?	Hufeng	Wang	Long format Presentation	TBA
The use of Health Facility Surveys in measuring Health Service Delivery	Valerie	Moran	Long format Presentation	TBA
The use of Swedish health care registers in the calculation of costs of diabetic retinopathy	Emelie	Heintz	Short format Presentation	TBA
The use of targeted vouchers and health equity funds to increase supervised deliveries in Cambodia	Wim	Van Damme	Organized Session	Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries
The use of value of information methods is the design and evaluation of clinical trials	Andy	Willan	Organized Session	Key Methodological Challenges in the Conduct of Child Health Economic Evaluation
The value of computerized physician order entry and complementary organizational inputs in the production of quality	Jeffrey S.	McCullough	Organized Session	Health information technology and the production of quality
The value of measles vaccination: Examining the long-term economic consequences of childhood vaccines	Damian	Walker	Organized Session	The Value of Vaccination: Long Term Economic Benefits and Herd Immunity
The Volume-Outcome Relationship: is it the same in different procedures?	Chentong	Hsu	Short format Presentation	TBA
The Vulnerability of the Uninsured to the Health Shocks in Peru	Martin	Valdivia	Organized Session	Household Strategies to Cope with Health Expenditure: Lessons from Mexico, Chile and Peru
The willingness to travel for hospital quality	Lucy	Kok	Poster Presentation	Poster
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Physician-Induced Demand in Health Care Market in China	Jun-Shan	Li	Poster Presentation	Poster
Therapeutic Reference Pricing(TRP): Implications for Patients and the Health Care System	Nesrin	Cilingiroglu	Long format Presentation	TBA
Threat of Medical Malpractice and Choice of Practice Location: The Case of Obstetrics and Gynecologists in the USA	Mahmud	Khan	Long format Presentation	TBA
Time allocation and health	France	Portrait	Long format Presentation	TBA
Time and risk preference parameters and the success of smoking cessation	Rei	Goto	Short format Presentation	TBA
Time is Up: The Increasing Shadow Price of Time in Primary Care Office Visits	Ming	Tai-Seale	Poster Presentation	Poster
To Love or to Pay: On Consumption, Health and Health Care	Loretti	Dobrescu	Short format Presentation	TBA
To Profit or Not to Profit: An Empirical Study of Competition, Ownership Conversions and Nursing Home Performance	Min Michelle	Cheng	Poster Presentation	Poster
Tobacco Tax Reform and Challenges in China	Teh-wei	Hu	Organized Session	Tobacco Tax Reform and Challenges in China, Indonesia, and Russia
Tobacco Tax Reform and Challenges in Indonesia	Sarah	Barber	Organized Session	Tobacco Tax Reform and Challenges in China, Indonesia, and Russia
Tobacco Tax Reform and Challenges in Russia	Hana	Ross	Organized Session	Tobacco Tax Reform and Challenges in China, Indonesia, and Russia
Too much information? Using priors from published meta-analyses to inform a cost-effectiveness model of intensive-dose statin therapy in acute coronary syndrome patients.	Stephanie	Thurston	Short format Presentation	TBA
Total Health Expenditure (THE), GDP and Out-of-Pocket: An Analysis on propagations and relationships of these 3 ratios	Jian	Wang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Towards greater equity in the financing of Primary Health Care in Chile	Sergio	Poblete	Poster Presentation	Poster
Tracking Revenue and Gauging Financial Sustainability Under User Fee Removal in the Health Sector in Zambia	Caesar	Cheelo	Poster Presentation	Poster
TRANSFERABILITY OF MODEL-BASED ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS: THE CASE OFTRASTUZUMAB FOR THE ADJUVANTTREATMENT OF HER2-POSITIVE EARLY BREAST CANCER IN THE NETHERLANDS	Manuela	Joore	Organized Session	Transparancy of transferability
Transitions in Depression Status and Labor Market Outcomes	Zhehui	Luo	Short format Presentation	TBA
Treatment Choices for Fevers in Children Under Five Years in a Rural Ghanaian District	Justice	Nonvignon	Short format Presentation	TBA
Trends in Investment Portfolios between Not-for-Profit and Investor Owned Hospitals	Paula	Song	Long format Presentation	TBA
Trends of foreign-educated nurse migration to the US: A new estimation method	Tomoko	Ono	Long format Presentation	TBA
Two business models competing for dominance in the drug distribution industry -- The role of information technology	Mingzhi	Li	Organized Session	The value of health information technology; efficiency, logistics, and quality.
Two decades of reforms – are patients the winners? Assessment of the healthcare reforms in the Russian Federation.	Vladimir	Gordeev	Poster Presentation	Poster
Two-tier health system in Brazil: implications for equity	Edson	Araujo	Organized Session	The Economics of two-tier health systems: demand function interdependencies and implications for equity
Two-tier issues in low income countries’ health systems	Barbara	McPake	Organized Session	The Economics of two-tier health systems: demand function interdependencies and implications for equity
U.S. Cigarette Demand: 1944-2004	Kai-Wen	Cheng	Poster Presentation	Poster
Uncertainty around the Incremental Cost-Utility Ratio Accounting for Mapping Interpolation	Carole	Siani	Long format Presentation	TBA
Understanding Current and Future Direct Costs of Delivering Tuberculosis Treatment Services in Low Resource Settings	Arin	Dutta	Long format Presentation	TBA
Understanding demand for community-based health insurance in Senegal: the role of social capital and related determinants	Philipa	Mladovsky	Short format Presentation	TBA
Understanding Persistent Differences in Insurance Coverage between Poor Adolescents and Their Younger Peers in the United States	Lindsey	Leininger	Short format Presentation	TBA
Understanding processes to explain impact	Kara	Hanson	Organized Session	How can we achieve scientific rigour in evaluation of health system interventions?
Unionization and the Wage Structure of Nursing	Joanne	Spetz	Organized Session	Topics on health workforce: diversity, pay and promotion
Universal Coverage in China: Challenges & Strategies	Ren	Ran	Long format Presentation	TBA
Up close and personal in Zambia… a case-study approach to evaluate the impact of user fee removal	Barbara	Carasso	Poster Presentation	Poster
Use and costs of diabetes-related treatments for individuals with diabetes and comorbid schizophrenia	Jur-Shan	Cheng	Poster Presentation	Poster
Use and Impact of Physician Non-Compete Agreements	William D.	White	Organized Session	Incentives and Competition in Hospital and Physician Markets
Use of Bayesian Methods to Inform Health Technology Assessment Decision-Making	Keith	Abrams	Long format Presentation	TBA
Use of Outpatient Care in VA and Medicare among VAMC and CBOC Patients	Chuan-Fen	Liu	Short format Presentation	TBA
Using Computable General Equilibrium analysis in health economics: an application to pandemic influenza	Richard	Smith	Organized Session	Health and Macroeconomics
Using Cost-Effectiveness in Evaluation of New Technologies: The Example of HPV Vaccine in Taiwan	Raoh-Fang (Jasmine)	Pwu	Organized Session	New and Improved? How East/West Health Systems Evaluate New Technologies
Using discrete choice experiment to investigate doctors’ job preferences in Thailand	Nonglak	Pagaiya	Organized Session	Researching interventions to address the human resources for health crisis - an application of discrete choice experiments in Kenya, Thailand and South Africa.
Using Electronic Clinical History for Improving Health Services Quality	Pereira	Mercedes	Poster Presentation	Poster
Using Health Status to Predict Out-of-Pocket Payment for Health Care under Taiwan’s NHI system	Chunhuei	Chi	Long format Presentation	TBA
Using Market Response to Evaluate New Drugs: The Diffusion of New Drugs in Taiwan	Yi-Wen (Ivy)	Tsai	Organized Session	New and Improved? How East/West Health Systems Evaluate New Technologies
Using Preferences to Inform Health Technology Assessments: A comparison of results from a universal system (Canada) and a private/public system (US) and implications for future research	Deborah	Marshall	Organized Session	New and Improved? How East/West Health Systems Evaluate New Technologies
UTILITIES OF THE EQ-5D: TRANSFERABLE OR NOT?	Saskia	Knies	Organized Session	Transparancy of transferability
Utility adjusted contributory social insurance for developing countries. A study for Colombian middle income informal workers	Fernando	Ruiz	Long format Presentation	TBA
Utilizing Registered Nurse Capacity for Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Procedures in Ontario: A Cost-Effectiveness Study	Sarah	Costa	Short format Presentation	TBA
Valuation of Avoiding Arsenic in Drinking Water in Rural Bangladesh: an Averting Behavior Analysis	Sonia	Aziz	Short format Presentation	TBA
Value of information and risk sharing: local ang global perspectives	Adrian	Towse	Organized Session	Harmonising value of information methods with decision making in practice
Valuing the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program: attributes and values of key stakeholder groups	Lisa	Gold	Long format Presentation	TBA
Variation in Pill Use: Do Abortion Laws Matter?	Amanda	Felkey	Poster Presentation	Poster
Variation in women’s preferences for microbicide distribution strategies in South Africa: Analysis of a discrete choice experment.	Fern	Terris-Prestholt	Poster Presentation	Poster
Variations in physician prices in a US population of commercially insured	Caixia	Shen	Long format Presentation	TBA
Vertical Equity and Inequality of Allotments for Japanese Municipal Hospitals	Narimasa	Kumagai	Poster Presentation	Poster
Vertical Scaling up of Community Based Health Insurance in Armenia	Dina	Balabanova	Organized Session	Scaling up community financing: key challenges faced
Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS: A study of the Awareness and willingness to pay for VCT among students in tertiary institutions in Enugu State Nigeria.	Nkolika	Uguru	Short format Presentation	TBA
Voluntary health insurance, equity and efficiency	Sandrine	Chambaretaud	Poster Presentation	Poster
Waiting for elective surgery: a multilevel econometric model	Anthony	Harris	Poster Presentation	Poster
Waiting times for elective surgeries in Austria: A question of transparency	Markus	Kraus	Poster Presentation	Poster
What do we know about the private sector supply chain for antimalarials? Findings from a systematic literature review	Edith	Patouillard	Organized Session	The Prospects for a Global Subsidy for Antimalarial Combination Therapy
What does the Comparative Study of Health care services utilization show us?	Milena	Gajic-Stevanovic	Poster Presentation	Poster
What drives the AIDS epidemic in Central and Eastern Europe - The impact of social and biological aspects	Diana	Sonntag	Long format Presentation	TBA
What influences male partner to take an HIV test during antenatal care?	Elin	Larsson	Poster Presentation	Poster
What is the cost of asthma to society?	Sarah	Link	Short format Presentation	TBA
What is the Impact of an Emerging Private Sector for Health Care Provision on Health Facility Utilization and Quality of Care? Evidence from Indonesia	John T.	Giles	Organized Session	Health care financing reforms in Indonesia: bridging health economics and policy
What motivates Russian physicians to work?	Sergey	Shishkin	Short format Presentation	TBA
What need is there for guidance on the conceptual basis and practice of economic impact studies in health?	David	Bishai	Organized Session	Rethinking the economic consequences of disease and injury
What share of illness-related costs is financed by borrowing among rural poor in AP, India?	Erika	Binnendijk	Organized Session	Availability and financing of Healthcare in Rural India
What to do with future unrelated costs in health economic analysis?	Andreas	Gerber	Organized Session	Key Methodological Challenges in the Conduct of Child Health Economic Evaluation
What’s the optimal list size in list based General Practice systems?	Dorte	Gyrd-Hansen	Organized Session	Regulation of Primary Care Physicians
Who Drives up the Ratio of Health Expenditure to GDP Most? -- A Theoretical Model	Li	Zhang	Poster Presentation	Poster
Who governs global health?	Eduardo	Missoni	Long format Presentation	TBA
Who joined the camp? Clinicians and primary care in Taiwan	Mei-ling	Sheu	Poster Presentation	Poster
Who Pays and What Causes Households to Make Catastrophic Payments?: Socio-Economic Determinants of Catastrophic Payments in India	Sakthivel	Selvaraj	Short format Presentation	TBA
Why we need specific guidance for economic evaluations of childhood vaccines	Damian	Walker	Organized Session	The conduct of health economic evaluation for children in the developing world
Why we should not minimise costs per QALY or maximise net value in a context of a national health scheme: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence	Jeff	Richardson	Poster Presentation	Poster
Widening the scope of comparative effectiveness analysis in reimbursement decisions – surveys of policy-makers in Europe, the US and Canada	Elizabeth	Kinter	Organized Session	Socio-economic rationales to define national benefits packages: applications countries in Europe, N-America, & China
Will we ever have Paris? Trends in donor funding for health in Zambia; 2003-2006	Dale	Mudenda	Long format Presentation	TBA
Willingness to accept conditional cash transfers for HIV and STI prevention among high-risk populations in Mexico City / Performance-Based Contracting for HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Rwanda	Sergio	Bautista	Organized Session	Economic incentives to promote health
Willingness to accept conditional cash transfers for HIV and STI prevention among high-risk populations in Mexico City / Performance-Based Contracting for HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Rwanda	Omar	Galarraga	Organized Session	Economic incentives to promote health
Willingness to pay for antiretroviral therapy of HIV-positive patients in Cameroon: Implications for health financing model	Sandrine	Loubière	Long format Presentation	TBA
Willingness to pay for PET cancer screening	Chisato	Hamashima	Poster Presentation	Poster
Willingness-to-Pay for a Quality-Adjusted Life-Year Based on Community Member and Patient Preferences for Temporary Health States Associated with Zoster	Ismael	Ortega-Sanchez	Short format Presentation	TBA
Worsening Renal Function at Early Hospitalization and Economic Impact: Analysis of 852,735 Admissions in 74 USA Hospitals between 2003 to 2006	Ying	Tabak	Long format Presentation	TBA