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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 ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| CONFERENCES SOUTHERN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, 66th Annual Conference FORTHCOMING ARTICLES HEALTH AFFAIRS, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 1996 HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Vol. 21 No. 4, Fall 1996 JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, Vol. 15, No. 5, 1996 MEDICAL CARE, Vol. 34, No. 11: November 1996 MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW, Vol. 54, No. 1, MARCH 1997 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). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTHERN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION 66th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Washington, D.C., November 23-25, 1996 Health Economics Papers Presented "The Impact of Health Financing Reform on Equity and Access in Africa: An Overview" Charlotte Leighton "The Impact of Alternative Cost Recovery Schemes in Niger" Francois Diop "Impact of Health Financing on the Use of Preventive Care" Abdo Yazbec "Price Uncertainty and the Demand for Health Care" Jim Knowles "The Economic Organization of Health Resource Allocation: Recent History and Potential Allocation Mechanisms" Douglas L. Cocks, Thomas W. Croghan, and Stan N. Finklestein "Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs? Addiction and Dual Labor Markets" Ping Wang "Dealing with Non-Negativity, Non-Trivial Zeros, and Endogenous Switching in Econometric Modeling" Kerry Anne McGeary and Joseph V. Terza "Using Duration Models to Estimate Clinical and Economic Outcomes in the Treatment of Depression" William Crown "Physician Financial Incentives and Quality of Care" Frederick W. Derrick and Charles E. Scott "The Impact of Medical Malpractice Insurance Costs on Physician Behavior: The Role of Income Effects" James Thornton "Econometric Estimates of Technical Inefficiency in Physicians' Practices" Russell T. Burge and Gregory C. Pope "Variation in Health Insurance Coverage" William Custer "On Measuring the Effects of Health Insurance Purchasing Cooperatives" Len Nichols "Factors that Increase the Odds of a Preventable Hospitalization Among the Elderly" Steven Culler "The Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Resource Consumption: Evidence from Florida" Richard J. Arnould and Lawrence M. DeBrock "A Model to Explain the Failure of Health Care Reform" John M. Virgo and Katherine S. Virgo "A Medical Primer on CHF" Muriel D. Haim "High Cost Risk Factors in the Treatment of CHF" John A. Rizzo "Healthcare Service Utilization and Cost by Patients with CHF: A Three Year Longitudinal Assessment in Medicare" William Robert Simons "Efficiency and Exit in the Hospital Industry: Effects of Ownership Status" Mary E. Deily and Niccie L. McKay "The Contribution of Technology to Hospital Cost Growth" Patrick Redmon "The Impact of Antitrust Case Law on the Current and Future Status of Provider-Sponsored PPOs and Physician Sponsored Networks" Lisa C. DeFelice "Economic and Demographic Factors in U.S. Alcohol Demand: A Growth-Accounting Analysis" Jon P. Nelson "A Comparative Study of Alcohol Consumption in the Nordic Countries: Do Price and Income Influence Short-Run and Long-Run Demand and is There a Relationship Between the Level of Alcohol Consumption and (Alcohol-Related) Traffic Accidents?" Valdemar Smith "Drug Use, Education and Wages: Examining the Effects of Drug Use on Educational Attainment and Income" Harold W. Elder "Pregnancy and Demand for Cigarettes" W. David Bradford "Joint Selection of Health Insurance and Medical Care: An Application to Disabled Medicare Enrollees" Partha Deb, Jeffrey Rubin, Virginia Wilcox-Gok "Compensating Differentials, the Production of Health, and the Valuation of Health-Related Amenities" Edward J. Schumacher and John C. Whitehead "Breast Cancer Treatment: Do Women Value Rural Cancer Care?" Pamela B. Peele -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FORTHCOMING ARTICLES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- HEALTH AFFAIRS, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 1996 Guide To Facilitating Consumer Choice. W. HOY, ELLIOT K. WICKS, AND ROLFV A. FORLAND Consumers' Information Needs: Results Of A National Survey STEPHEN L. ISAACS. What Information Do Consumers Want And Need? SUSAN EDGMAN-LEVITAN AND PAUL D. CLEARY PERSPECTIVE: The Market Comes To Medicare: Adding Choice And Protections. MARION EIN LEWIN AND STANLEY B. JONES. SYSTEM CHANGE: Managed Care And Physician/Hospital Integration. MICHAELA MORRISEY, JEFFREY ALEXANDER, LAWTON R. BURNS, AND VICTORIA JOHNSON HEALTH TRACKING TRENDS: Length-Of-Stay After Delivery: Managed Care Versus Fee-For-Service. JULIE A. GAZMARARIAN AND JEFFREY P. KOPLAN TRENDS:Access to Care in HMOs and Traditional Insurance Plans. TAMI MARK AND CURT MUELLER. TRENDS: Downsizing The Hospital Nursing Wrokforce. LINDA A. AIKEN, JULIE SOCHALSKI, AND GERALD F. ANDERSON. MARKETWATCH: What Is Driving Health System Change? LYNN ETHEREDGE, STANLEY B. JONES, AND LAWRENCE LEWIN. FROM THE FIELD: Proving The Policy Wonks Wrong An impassioned case for the future of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. HARRY P. CAIN, II. Predicting Future Health System Change. JOSEPH M. DAVIS A Different Health Care World Than Expected. JEFF GOLDSMITH Whither Quality? ROBERT W. HUNGATE. Health System Change: Skirmish Or Revolution? UWE E. REINHARDT Chaotic, Shifting Relationships Of Purchasers, Plans. GAIL L. WARDEN. COMMENTARY: Rationalizing the Fraud and Abuse Statute. BLUMSTEIN, JAMES F. PERSPECTIVE: The Fraud And Abuse Statute: Rationalizing Or Rationalization? TIMOTHY STOLTZFUS JOST AND SHARON DAVIES. DATAWATCH Do Nonprofit Hospitals Pay Their Way? MICHAEL A. MORRISEY, GERALD J. WEDIG, AND MAHMUD HASSAN. The Home Health Visit: An Appropriate Unit For Medicare Payment? CHRISTINE E. BISHOP, RANDALL S. BROWN, BARBARA PHILLIPS, GRANT RITTER, AND KATHLEEN CARLEY SKWARA. High Hospital Admission Rates And Inappropriate Care. JOSEPH RESTUCCIA, MICHAEL SHWARTZ, ARLENE ASH, AND SUSAN PAYNE. PERSPECTIVE: On The Appropriateness Of Small-Area Analysis For Cost Containment. JOHN E. WENNBERG. The View From Managed Care Pharmacy. BRYAN R. LUCE, C. ALAN LYLES, AND ANNE M. RENTZ Cost Differences Among Women's Primary Care. BARBARA A. BARTMAN, CAR0LYN M. CLANCY, ERNEST MOY, AND PATRICIA LANGENBERG. ----------------------------------------------------------- HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Vol. 21 No. 4, Fall 1996 Strategic Options in Capital Budgeting and Program Selection under Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Frank T. Magiera and Robert A. McLean. Achieving Short-Term Medicare Savings through the Expansion of the Medicare Prospective Payment System Richard F. Averill, Michael J. Kalison, James C. Vertrees, Norbert I. Goldfield. Risk Analysis in the Valuation of Medical Practices. Sudhir Nanda, Andres Miller. Hospital Outshopping: Determinant Attributes and Hospital Choice. Susan L. Taylor, Louis M. Capella. Application of Group Process Model to Performance Appraisal Development in a CQI Environment (Warts and All). Catherine Lapenta, Georgia M. Jacobs. Enlisting Physician Support for Practice Guidelines in Hospitals. Ronald J. Lagoe, Deborah L. Aspling. A Portfolio Approach to Strategic Hospital Analysis: Exposition and Explanation. Margaret Drain, Lynn Godkin. Patient Classification System: An Optimization Approach. Lynn Maddox Walts, Asha S. Kapedia . ----------------------------------------------------------- JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, Vol. 15, No. 5, 1996 State abortion rates The impact of policies, providers, politics, demographics, and economic environment Rebecca M. Blank, Christine C. George, Rebecca A. London The effect of Medicaid abortion funding restrictions on abortions, pregnancies and births Phillip B. Levine, Amy B. Trainor, David J. Zimmerman State reproductive policies and adolescent pregnancy resolution: the case of parental involvement laws Theodore Joyce, Robert Kaestner Health insurance: the tradeoff between risk pooling and moral hazard Willard G. Manning, M. Susan Marquis Mathematical programming for the efficient allocation of health care resources Aaron A. Stinnett, A. David Paltiel ----------------------------------------------------------- MEDICAL CARE, Vol. 34, No. 11: November 1996 Proprietary Interests. Harold Goldberg and Duncan Neuhauser Health of Grandmothers Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic. Kathleen M. Roe, Meredith Minkler, Frances Saunders, and Gregg E. Thomson. Simplifying the Assessment of Rural Emergency Medical Service Trauma Transport. Robert L. Ohsfeldt, Michael A. Morrisey, Victoria Johnson, and Richard Treat. Comorbid Illness is Associated with Survival and Length of Hospital Stay in Patients with Chronic Disability: A Prospective Comparison of Three Comorbidity Indices. Paula A. Rochon, Jeffrey N. Katz, Linda A. Morrow, Regina McGlinchey-Berroth, Margaret M. Ahlquist, Medhi Sarkarati, and Kenneth L. Minaker. Development of the Multidimensional Index of Life Quality: A Quality-of-Life Measure for Cardiovascular Disease. Nancy E. Avis, Kevin W Smith, Ronald K. Hambleton,Henr-y A. Feldman, Andrew Selwyn, and Alice Jacobs. Assessing the Characteristics of Hospital Bond Defaults. Michael J. McCue and Jan R Clement. How Economic Demand Influences Access to Medical Care for Rural Hispanic Children. Margot W. Smith, Richard A. Kreutzer, Lynn Goldman, Amy Casey-Paal, and Kenneth W. Kizer. Facility and Area Variation Affecting the Use of Physical Restraints in Nursing Homes. Charles D. Phillips, Catherine Hawes, Vince Mor, Brant E. Fries, John N. Morris, and Marianne E. Nennstiel. ----------------------------------------------------------- MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW, Vol. 54, No. 1, MARCH 1997 REVIEW ARTICLE Physician-Hospital Integration and the Economic Theory of the Firm James C. Robinson Commentary Stephen M. Shortell EMPIRICAL RESEARCH Cash Flow Kings of Small Hospitals: Why are they Winners? Michael J. McCue Dissatisfaction and Disenrollment in a Subsidized Managed Care Program Donald L. Patrick, Diane P. Martin, Carolyn W. Madden, Paula Diehr, Allen Cheadle, Susan M. Skillman Use of Health Care for the Treatment of Mental Problems Among Racial/Ethnic Subpopulations Marc P. Freiman, Peter J. 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