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April 13, 2007

iHEAweek 2007 no. 090 (April 13)

iHEA’s weekly periodical http://iheaweek.com/


This issue of iHEAweek: April 13, 2007

  • Notices
  • Jobs: HERC, Roche and 28 more
  • Conferences: 8
  • Call for Abstracts: 3
  • Education: 3
  • Journal ToC: HE
  • Colophon: Publication Information

NOTICES

Notice of iHEA Election

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JOBS

Senior Research Scientist in International Health Economics: Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002408.html
April 27, 2007 | Health Economist | Oxford, England, UK

Healthcare Analyst: Roche
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002399.html
May 15, 2007 | Research Analyst | Hertfordshire (Welwyn), England, UK

Public Health Specialist / Health Economist - Global Tobacco Control: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002387.html
April 16, 2007 | Health Economist | Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Associate Director, EU Pricing & Reimbursement
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002390.html
May 17, 2007 | Directorship | Paris, France (or elsewhere in Europe)

Senior Analyst, Oxford: Oxford Outcomes
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002389.html
April 20, 2007 | Research Analyst | Oxford, England, UK

Senior Health Economist (UK Based)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002392.html
May 19, 2007 | Health Economist | UK

Economic / Statistical Analyst: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, General Internal Medicine
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002393.html
May 19, 2007 | Research Analyst | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2 Positions - Junior & Senior Outcomes Research Analyst (UK Based)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002394.html
May 20, 2007 | Research Analyst | UK

Senior Clinical Effectiveness Consultant (UK Based)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002395.html
May 20, 2007 | Consultant/Advisor | UK

Senior Consultant, European Pricing and Reimbursement: RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002396.html
May 20, 2007 | Consultant/Advisor | Manchester, England, UK or

Health Care Reform specialists: BMB Mott MacDonald
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002397.html
May 20, 2007 | Specialist | Ukraine

Health Financing Expert: BMB Mott MacDonald
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002398.html
May 20, 2007 | Health Economist | Timor Leste

Faculty - Health Economics (full time, tenured or tenure-track): The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002400.html
April 30, 2007 | Professorship/Lectureship | Houston, Texas, USA

Project Manager: i3 Innovus
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002401.html
May 20, 2007 | Manager | Uxbridge, England, UK

Research Officer in Economics / Health Economics: Said Business School, University of Oxford
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002402.html
April 25, 2007 | Researcher/Co-ordinator | Oxford, England, UK

Positions in health economics: LMI
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002409.html
June 01, 2007 | Health Economist | McLean, Virginia, USA

Research Fellow - Health Economist: National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002413.html
May 08, 2007 | Fellowship/Studentship | London, England, UK

Market Access Manager : Roche Australia
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002414.html
June 01, 2007 | Manager | Sydney, Australia

Health Sciences Specialist: The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Outcomes Research Branch, Applied Research Program
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002415.html
June 01, 2007 | Specialist | Rockville, Maryland, USA The

Professor of Health Technology Assessment: Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002416.html
May 25, 2007 | Professorship/Lectureship | Galway, Ireland

PhD Studentship in Health Economics: Newcastle University, UK
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002384.html
April 15, 2007 | Fellowship/Studentship | Newcastle, England, UK

Associate Director of Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research: Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002385.html
May 13, 2007 | Directorship | Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, USA

Full-time, tenure track Faculty Position (open rank): University of New Hampshire (UNH), Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Health and Human Services
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002377.html
June 06, 2007 | Professorship/Lectureship | Durham, New Hampshire, USA

Senior Health Economist: RTI
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002316.html
April 14, 2007 | Health Economist | Manchester, England, UK

Senior Outcomes Specialist: RTI Health Solutions
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002317.html
April 14, 2007 | Industry | UK

Manager /Senior Manager, Global Epidemiology and Outcomes Research: Bristol-Myers Squibb
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002323.html
April 15, 2007 | Manager | Uxbridge, England, UK

Senior Impact Analyst, Global Development: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002327.html
April 15, 2007 | Research Analyst | Seattle, Washington, USA

Financial Analyst, Global Health: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Financial Planning & Analysis
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002328.html
April 16, 2007 | Research Analyst | Seattle, Washington, USA

Manager, Outcomes Research: Merck & Co. Inc
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002330.html
April 14, 2007 | Manager | Munich, Germany

Manager, Health Economics
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002333.html
April 15, 2007 | Manager | San Fernando Valley, California, USA

Post-Doctoral Fellow: Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR), Tufts-New England Medical Center
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002347.html
May 19, 2007 | Fellowship/Studentship | Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Associate Director / Director, Health Economics-Statistics: Merck
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002357.html
May 02, 2007 | Directorship | Upper Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, USA

Associate Director / Director, Health Economics: Merck & Co. Inc.
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/002358.html
May 03, 2007 | Directorship | Upper Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, USA


CONFERENCES

5th Health Services Research and Policy Conference: Listening to the Past, Looking to the Future - How can Health Services Research contribute to assessing fads and fashions in health policy and practice?
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002418.html
December 02, 2007 | Health Research | Auckland, New Zealand

CHESG 2007: Sixth Annual Canadian Health Economics Study Group
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002411.html
May 17, 2007 | Health Economics | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2007 Petris Symposium: Implementing Health Care Reforms in California
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002374.html
May 04, 2007 | Public Health | Berkeley, California, USA

I. ERGIHCS International Conference Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002378.html
May 10, 2007 | Health Care | Budapest, Hungary

2007 healthcare2020.forum on Globalization, Transformation and Health
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002403.html
June 15, 2007 | Health Care | Fontainebleau, France

13th Conference of the Danish Forum of Health Economics
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002404.html
May 24, 2007 | Health Economics | Ãrhus, Denmark

Workshop in Copenhagen: The Political Economy of Health
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002405.html
July 08, 2007 | Workshop | Copenhagen, Denmark

Special Session on Future Directions in Health Care Financing (Perspectives and Debate)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002406.html
July 08, 2007 | Health Economics | Copenhagen, Denmark


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

5th Health Services Research and Policy Conference: Listening to the Past, Looking to the Future - How can Health Services Research contribute to assessing fads and fashions in health policy and practice?
http://healtheconomics.org/call-for-abstracts/002419.html
July 11, 2007 | Health Research | Auckland, New Zealand

28th Nordic Health Economists Study Group (NHESG) Meeting
http://healtheconomics.org/call-for-abstracts/002349.html
April 23, 2007 | Health Economics | Tartu, Estonia

Young voices in research for health: The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet
http://healtheconomics.org/call-for-abstracts/002381.html
April 20, 2007 | Competition


EDUCATION

Advanced Health Leadership Forum: University of California, Berkeley and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/002365.html
July 13, 2007 | Short Course | Barcelona, Spain and San Francisco, California, USA

Inequalities in Health and Health Care
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/002371.html
June 18, 2007 | Short Course | Geneva, Switzerland

Econometric Analysis of Healthcare Demand
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/002412.html
May 07, 2007 | Short Course | Geneva, Switzerland


JOURNAL ToC

HEALTH ECONOMICS: Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages 437-543 (May 2007)
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/114209623
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISSN: 1057-9230

ToC


Editorial: The slow and unnoticed changes in the funding mix (p 437-440)
Pedro Pita Barros
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1241

Health systems in East Asia: what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers? (p 441-456)
Adam Wagstaff
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1180

Consolidations and closures: an empirical analysis of exits from the hospital industry (p 457-474)
Teresa D. Harrison
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1174

An empirical analysis of US and Japanese health insurance using age-period-cohort decomposition (p 475-489)
Kosei Fukuda
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1179

Advance market commitments for vaccines against neglected diseases: estimating costs and effectiveness (p 491-511)
Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael R. Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsäcker, Heidi Williams
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1176

Graded pairs comparison - does strength of preference matter? Analysis of preferences for specialised nurse home visits for pain management (p 513-529)
Mickael Bech, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Trine Kjær, Jørgen Lauridsen, Jan Sørensen
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1159

Health Economics Letter: Comparison of alternative methods of collection of service use data for the economic evaluation of health care interventions (p 531-536)
Sarah Byford, Morven Leese, Martin Knapp, Helen Seivewright, Susan Cameron, Vanessa Jones, Kate Davidson, Peter Tyrer
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1175

Health Economics Letter: Seeing for yourself: feasibility study towards valuing visual impairment using simulation spectacles (p 537-543)
Samuel Aballéa, Aki Tsuchiya
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1184


COLOPHON

Editor
Patrick Taylor, editor@healtheconomics.org

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