___ ___ _______________ ________ / / / / / _____________/ / ___ | / / / / / / / / | | _ / / / / / / / / | | |_| / / / / / / / / | | _ / /__________/ / / /______ / /______| | | | / ___________ / / _______/ / ________ | | | / / / / / / / / | | | | / / / / / / / / | | | | / / / / / / / / | | | | / / / / / /_____________ / / | | |_| /__/ /__/ /________________/ /__/ |__| electronic HEALTH ECONOMICS ANALYSIS LETTERS |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||| Volume 1, Number 7, Part 1, November 1996 ||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| A publication of the INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION (iHEA) EDITORIAL BOARD W. David Bradford, Ph.D. Department of Economics, University of New Hampshire Jim Burgess, Ph.D. Management Science Group, Department of Veterans Affairs NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS The editors must hear from you so that eHEAL can effectively serve as a medium of communication for iHEA members. We are soliciting contributions from all members who have information relevant to the membership at large. There are a number of specific items we are seeking: * Announcement of job openings; * Announcement of conferences or seminars in health economics; * Calls for papers by journals and book editors; * Announcements of new appointments and promotions; * Articles describing activities or new initiatives at your institution, Center or firm (perhaps describing your departmental or university programs in health economics, discussing new pedagogical tools used in health economics education, describing new governmental policy initiatives or programs, and so forth). Please send any contributions via e-mail to the editors: W. David Bradford or James Burgess . ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| Contents for the Issue ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| FEATURE ARTICLES: Annoucement of two-part eHEAL CALLS FOR PAPERS Special Issue of the journal "Social Indicators Research" FORTHCOMING ARICLES Health Care Financing Review, Vol. 17., No. 4, Summer 1996 Inquiry, 33(3):Fall 1996 Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 15, No. 4, August 1996 SUBSCRIPTION AND MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is typeset in Courier 10 point font, and reads best that format. If the document is not well-aligned, reset your mail reader to display a non-proportional font (such as Courier). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEATURE ARTICLES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to the large number of job openings, eHEAL will again be published as a two-part issue. This section is Part 1. Part 2 will appear in about a week, once all job notices have been confirmed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALLS FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of the journal "Social Indicators Research" (Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers) on: Validity of Measures in Social Indicators Research Guest Editor: Professor Bruno D. Zumbo, Faculty of Health & Human Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, B.C., CANADA V2N 4Z9; Phone: 604-960-6504; Fax: 604-960-5536; e-mail: zumbob@unbc.edu Original and previously unpublished papers are solicited for a special issue of "Social Indicators Research" planned for 1998 on validity of measures used in social indicators. As an interdisciplinary domain, Sociological, Psychological, Educational, Economic, Geographic, and Health measures are commonly used in social indicators research. For example, subjective well being or perhaps happiness, which are commonly found in the Psychological, Sociological, and Educational fields, are commonly studied in Social Indicators Research. For a sense of the types of measures used please see recent issues of the journal. We invite submissions of original empirical articles, review papers, and/or theoretical and critical analyses. On the theoretical front, we are particularly interested, although not exclusively, in current conceptions of validity as embodied in, for example, the recent works of Sam Messick (ETS) and others (see, for example, Hubley & Zumbo, 1996, A dialectic on validity: Where we have been and where we are going. "Journal of General Psychology"). Please submit 4 copies to the Guest Editor by April 15, 1997. To avoid a backlog in the review process, we encourage early submission. Please see the World Wide Web page http://quarles.unbc.edu/psyc/edgeworth.html for more details on instructions to authors or consult a recent issue of the journal. "Social Indicators Research" is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that has been in existence for over 20 years. All submitted papers will be evaluated through the journal's standard peer review process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FORTHCOMING ARTICLES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- HEALTH CARE FINANCING REVIEW, Vol. 17., No. 4, Summer 1996 Service Delivery in an Evolving Managed Care Environment Monitoring and Evaluating the Delivery of Services Under Managed Care James P. Hadley and Linda F. Wolf Shifting the Paradigm: Monitoring Access in Medicare Managed Care Elizabeth R. Docteur, David C Colby, and Marsha Gold Profiling Resource Use by Primary-Care Practices: Managed Medicare Implications Stephen T. Parente, Jonathan P. Weiner, Deborah W. Garnick, Jinnet Fowles, Ann G. Lawthers, and R. Heather Palmer Bringing Mananged Care Incentives to Medicare's Fee-for-Service Sector Christopher P. Tompkins, Stanley S. Wallack, Sarita Bhalotra, Jon A. Chilingerian, Mitchell P. V. Glavin, Grant A. Ritter, and Dominic Hodgkin Health Status of Medicare Enrollees in HMOs and Fee-for-Service in 1994 Gerald Riley, Cynthia Tudor, Yen-pin Chiang, and Melvin Ingber Use of Utilization Management Methods in State Medicaid Programs Jeffrey A. Buck and Herbert A. Silvennan Medicaid Managed Care Encounter Data: What, Why, and Where Next? Embry M. Howell System Change: Quality Assessment and Improvement for Medicaid Managed Care Wally R. Smith, J. James Couer, and Louis F. Rossiter Evaluation of the Arkansas Medicaid Primary Care Physician Management Program Andreas Muller and John A. Baker Medicaid Managed Care: How Do Community Health Centers Fit? Tim Henderson and Anne Rossier Markus Potential Effects of Managed Competition in Rural Areas Rebecca T Slifkin, Thomas C Ricketts, III, and Hilda A. Howard DataView: Business, Households, and Govemment: Health Spending, 1994 Cathy A. Cowan, Bradley R. Braden, Patricia A. McDonnell, and Lekha Sivarajan DataView: Profile of Persons With Disabilities in Medicare and Medicaid Margaret H. Davis and Ellen O'Brien MCBS Highlights: Prescribed Medicines: A Comparison of FFS With HMO Enrollees Franklin J. Eppig and John A. Poisal Health Care Indicators: Hospital, Employment, and Price Indicators for the Health Care Industry: Fourth Quarter 1995 and Annual Data for 1987-95 Stephen K Heffler, Carolyn S. Donham, Darleen K. Won, and Arthur L Sensenig --------------------------------------------------------------- INQUIRY, 33(3):Fall 1996 The View From Here 'Medical Savings Accounts and Research. Opinion: The Demographic Face of America's Elderly. Linda J. Waite. Research Papers How Will Medical Savings Accounts Affect Medical Spending? Lany Ozanne. Patient Choice of Physician: Do Health Insurance and Physician Characteristics Matter? Philip F. Cooper, Len M. Nichols, and Amy K. Taylor . The Effect of Maternal Substance Abuse on the Cost of Neonatal Care. Edward C. Norton, Gary A. Zarkin, Brian Calingaert, and Cathy J. Bradley. Research Notes and Data Trends Bundling Post-Acute Care (PAC) with Medicare DRG Payments: An Exploration of the Distributional and Risk Consequences. A. James Lee, Randall P. Ellis, and Angela R. Menill. --------------------------------------------------------------- JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, Vol. 15, No. 4, August 1996 Adverse selection and regulation in health insurance markets Werner Neudeck, Konrad Podczeck Employment, unemployment, and problem drinking John Mullahy, Jody Sindelar Alcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities Christopher J. Ruhm The effects of enriched prenatal care services on Medicaid birth outcomes in New Jersey Nancy E. Reichman, Maryanne J. Florio The choice of medical providers in rural Benin: a comparison of discrete choice models Denis Bolduc, Guy Lacroix, Christophe Muller Do cigarette producers price-discriminate by state? 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