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March 17, 2010

iHEAweek 2010 no. 150 (17 Mar)

iHEA’s weekly periodical


This issue of iHEAweek: 17 Mar, 2010

  • Notices
  • Health Economic Network (HEN)
  • Associated Journal Contents
  • Jobs
  • Conferences
  • Education
  • Colophon: Publication Information

NOTICES

ECHE 2010 conference

The early registration deadline of ECHE 2010 conference is two weeks away. If you wish to take advantage of the early registration fees, please register online through the conference website http://www.eche2010.fi by 1 April 2010.

Presenters must register by April 15, 2010 or their abstract risks being dropped from the program.


COMMUNITY NEWS


Health Economic Network/Social Science Research Network

The following is a list of abstract entries in the Health Economics Network (HEN) of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) for the past week. iHEA is a proud sponsor of HEN. HEN encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers from around the world. To view links to the abstracts listed below you may need to register with SSRN for free at http://ssrn.com/hen/index.html.

Beyond Patents: The Cultural Life of Native Healing and the Limitations of the Patent System as a Protective Mechanism for Indigenous Knowledge on the Medicinal Uses of Plants http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569629 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-12, 2005 Ikechi Mgbeoji York University - Osgoode Hall Law School Date Posted: March 17, 2010 Last Revised: March 17, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Patents and Traditional Knowledge of the Uses of Plants: Is a Communal Patent Regime Part of the Solution to the Scourge of Bio Piracy? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569645 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, pp. 163-186, 2001 Ikechi Mgbeoji York University - Osgoode Hall Law School Date Posted: March 17, 2010 Last Revised: March 17, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Child Labour in India: A Critical Analysis http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569938 Atin Das affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: March 17, 2010 Last Revised: March 17, 2010 Working Paper Series

Debating Reproductive Rights in Ireland http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1557390 Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 78-104, 2005 Siobhan Mullally University College Cork Date Posted: March 16, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010 Working Paper Series

AIDS and the Law: Setting and Evaluating Threshold Standards for Coercive Public Health Intervention http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569791 William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 14, 1988, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1988-04 Eric S. Janus William Mitchell College of Law Date Posted: March 16, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Organizational Change and Employee Stress http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569099 Michael S. Dahl Aalborg University Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 15, 2010 Working Paper Series

The Relationship between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569231 NBER Working Paper No. w15813 Philippe Aghion , Peter Howitt and Fabrice Murtin Harvard University - Department of Economics , Brown University - Department of Economics and Stanford University Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010 Working Paper Series

Professional Doctorate Programmes in Social Work: The Current State of Provision in the UK http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569236 British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 40, Issue 2, pp. 567-582, 2010 Jonathan Scourfield affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Managers’ and Staff Experiences of Adult Protection Allegations in Mental Health and Learning Disability Residential Services: A Qualitative Study http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569237 British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 40, Issue 2, pp. 513-529, 2010 Paul Rees and Jill Manthorpe affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Benefit Incidence Analysis: Are Government Health Expenditures More Pro-Rich Than We Think? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569335 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5234 Adam Wagstaff World Bank - Development Research Group Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010

Does Maternal Age Affect Children’s Test Scores? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569852 Australian Economic Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, pp. 12-27, March 2010 Andrew Leigh and Xiaodong Gong Australian National University - Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences and Australian National University - School of Economics Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 15, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Measuring the Impact of Health Insurance on Levels and Trends in Inequality http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1569958 NBER Working Paper No. w15811 Richard V. Burkhauser and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM) and Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM) Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 17, 2010 Working Paper Series

The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior: New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1570394 IZA Discussion Paper No. 4796 Pierre Koning and H. Dinand Webbink CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis and University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) Date Posted: March 15, 2010 Last Revised: March 15, 2010 Working Paper Series

What is Health: A Multiple Correspondence Health Index http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1568945 Jennifer Kohn Drew University Date Posted: March 13, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010 Working Paper Series

Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1568656 BuR Business Research Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2009 Oliver Tiemann and Schreyoegg Jonas Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management) Date Posted: March 12, 2010 Last Revised: March 12, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Diversify or Focus? Spending to Combat Infectious Diseases When Budgets are Tight http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1565008 RFF (References for the Future) DP 10-15 Soren T. Anderson , Ramanan Laxminarayan and Stephen W. Salant Michigan State University - Department of Economics , Resources for the Future and University of Michigan Date Posted: March 11, 2010 Last Revised: March 15, 2010 Working Paper Series

An Analysis of Utilisation of Health Services Under National Rural Health Mission: A Case Study of a Selected District of Uttar Pradesh, India 2009 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1565723 Kuldeep Kumar affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: March 11, 2010 Last Revised: March 16, 2010 Working Paper Series

Modeling the Effect of Physician Emigration on Human Development http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1568214 Alok Bhargava , Frédéric Docquier and Yasser Moullan University of Houston - Department of Economics , Catholic University of Louvain and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre Maison des Sciences Economiques Date Posted: March 11, 2010 Last Revised: March 11, 2010 Working Paper Series


Associated Journal Contents

The European Journal of Health Economics

Volume 11 Number 2 is now available on SpringerLink

Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISSN 1618-7598 (Print) 1618-7601 (Online) Pages 117-233 Subject Collection Business and Economics SpringerLink Date Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Article US health care reform: a work in progress Sean D. Sullivan http://springerlink.com/content/h6t717361732w64h/?p=e1be257497384b43b9e15d4b4549d428?=0 117-118

Article Inpatient length of stay: a finite mixture modeling analysis Chungkham Holendro Singh and Laishram Ladusingh http://springerlink.com/content/280366456301g168/?p=f28f0a5f5b9f42de8226b55f7c644b8d?=1 119-126

Article In which ways do unhealthy people older than 50 exit the labour market in France? Thomas Barnay http://springerlink.com/content/r0x5q7wv452430t3/?p=34a205e7c102419fbf8becb47e26b6ea?=2 127-140

Article The relevance of unrelated costs internal and external to the healthcare sector to the outcome of a cost-comparison analysis of secondary prevention: the case of general colorectal cancer screening in the German population Dieter K. Tscheulin and Florian Drevs http://springerlink.com/content/8x5u7017176k8456/?p=607a128bc7184197bd8d007e78302526?=3 141-150

Article Interactions between cigarette and alcohol consumption in rural China Xiaohua Yu and David Abler http://springerlink.com/content/y411133484600046/?p=100213d30a5c44c8af50898a61b57e37?=4 151-160

Article Primary care delivery, risk pooling and economic efficiency Michael C. M. Leung http://springerlink.com/content/327228t3n76h8755/?p=66b39d6152e14c4a8f565f34c554d259?=5 161-175

Article Saving lives, money and resources: drug and CABG/PCI use after myocardial infarction in a Swedish record-linkage study Lars Wilhelmsen, Lennart Welin, Anders Odén and Arne Björnberg http://springerlink.com/content/54h48303043g7346/?p=879225927898430a8576f5e9096b3935?=6 177-184

Article Hospital costs for treatment of acute heart failure: economic analysis of the REVIVE II study Greg de Lissovoy, Kathy Fraeman, John R. Teerlink, John Mullahy, Jeff Salon, Raimund Sterz, Amy Durtschi and Robert J. Padley http://springerlink.com/content/01285671470ru2wx/?p=6a3ecd8e4be748eea00f26607a94edf9?=7 185-193

Article A case study of ex ante, value-based price and reimbursement decision-making: TLV and rimonabant in Sweden Ulf Persson, Michael Willis and Knut Ödegaard http://springerlink.com/content/f0845571659m2653/?p=63869eb4c96f467b959e9d503de48d64?=8 195-203

Article A social preference valuations set for EQ-5D health states in Flanders, Belgium Irina Cleemput http://springerlink.com/content/8j4g3751k3651174/?p=9d5e1198e96b470b881f6c94e40badf1?=9 205-213

PharmacoEconomics

April2010, Volume 28, Issue 4 Review Articles 255-277 A Review of Methods Used in Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness Models of Diabetes Mellitus Treatment Jean-Eric Tarride; Robert Hopkins; Gord Blackhouse; James M. Bowen; Matthias Bischof; Camilla Von Keyserlingk; Daria O’Reilly; Feng Xie; Ron Goeree

Review Articles 279-293 Cost Effectiveness of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prophylaxis: A Critical and Systematic Review William A. Prescott, Jr; Fred Doloresco; Jack Brown; Joseph A. Paladino

Original Research Articles 295-306 Does the Funding Source Influence the Results in Economic Evaluations?: A Case Study in Bisphosphonates for the Treatment of Osteoporosis Rachael L. Fleurence; D. Eldon Spackman; Christopher Hollenbeak

Original Research Articles 307-322 Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation in Ireland: A Review of the Process Lesley Tilson; Aisling O’Leary; Cara Usher; Michael Barry

Original Research Articles 323-344 Cost Effectiveness of Etoricoxib versus Celecoxib and Non-Selective NSAIDS in the Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis Jeroen P. Jansen; Sabine Gaugris; Ernest H. Choy; Andrew Ostor; Julian T. Nash; Wiro Stam

Correspondence 345-346 Towards More Consistent Use of Generic Quality-of-Life Instruments Mattias Neyt


Jobs

Principal Health Outcomes Research Associate: Allergan http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003603.php April 29, 2010 | Researcher/Co-ordinator | Location: Irvine, California, USA

Associate Director, Health Outcomes http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003681.php May 01, 2010 | Directorship | Location: Melbourne, Australia

Senior Research Analyst http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003680.php April 07, 2010 | Research Analyst | Location: Northbrook, Illinois, USA

Residencies for Scholars and Creative Artists http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003678.php May 07, 2010 | Visiting Scholar | Location: Bellagio, Italy

Associate and full Professorships/Lectureship http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003675.php May 01, 2010 | Professorship/Lectureship | Location: Peking, China

Research Manager: Market Access http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003673.php April 29, 2010 | Researcher/Co-ordinator | Location: Bollington, UK

(Associate) Director: Market Access http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003672.php April 29, 2010 | Directorship | Location: Bollington, UK

Head of Health Economics http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003671.php April 29, 2010 | Health Economist | Location: Osaka (HQ) or Tokyo, Japan

Associate/Full Professor (12 month tenure-track): Virginia Commonwealth University http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003668.php April 29, 2010 | Professorship/Lectureship | Location: Richmond, Virginia, USA


Conferences

8th World iHEA Congress on Health Economics: Transforming Health & Economics http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003434.php July 10, 2011 | Health Economics | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Health, Healthcare and Behavior: 3rd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002903.php June 20, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Ithaca, New York, USA

8th European Conference on Health Economics (ECHE 2010) http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003326.php July 07, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Helsinki, Finland

Call for Abstracts: ORAHS2010 Conference: University Of Genova-School Of Economics http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003682.php April 15, 2010 | Health Policy | Location: Genova, Italy

Call for abstracts: HESG Summer Conference in Cork, Ireland http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003676.php April 09, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Cork, Ireland

Call for Abstracts: 31st Nordic Health Economist’s meeting (NHESG) http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003632.php April 16, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Umea, Sweden

The Canadian Assocation for Population Therapeutics Annual Conference 2010 http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003627.php March 28, 2010 | Health Care | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Call for Abstracts: Third Conjoint Analysis in Health Conference http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003615.php April 01, 2010 | Econometrics | Location: Newport Beach, California, USA

Call for Papers: First CEISUC International Workshop: Demand for Health and Health Care http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003531.php March 21, 2010 | Workshop | Location: Coimbra, Portugal

Call for Abstracts: The American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003600.php March 19, 2010 | Evaluation | Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Call for Papers: The Economic and Social Implications of Health and Safety at Work http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003586.php March 30, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Milan, Italy

Call for Papers: Social Capital and Health Global Network III Workshop on Social Capital and Health http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003547.php April 06, 2010 | | Location: Oslo, Norway

Call for Papers: 4th ISRICH Conference http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003538.php March 31, 2010 | Health Communications | Location: Paris, France

Analysing Patient Data: how to use the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to evaluate health care policy and practice http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003530.php March 29, 2010 | Workshop | Location: York, UK

Priorities 2010: Priority Setting in Difficult Economic Times http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003481.php April 23, 2010 | Health Care | Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sixth IMA International Conference on Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health Care: The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003443.php March 29, 2010 | Health Care | Location: Mary Ward House, London

69th International Atlantic Economic Conference http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003441.php March 24, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Prague, Czech Republic

GH/Innovate 2010 Global Health & Innovation Conference http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003235.php April 17, 2010 | Health Care | Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

1st Australasian Workshop On Econometrics And Health Economics http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003159.php April 07, 2010 | Workshop | Location: Melbourne, Australia


Education

Applied Welfare Analysis in Health http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003679.php April 19, 2010 | PhD | Location: Berne, Switzerland

Global Health Leadership Forum: An international executive short course: successful approaches and innovation in health policy and management. http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003674.php April 09, 2011 | Short Course | Location: Barcelona, Spain; San Francisco, California

Topics in Microeconometrics with Professor William Greenestern from the School Of Business, New York University: University of Queensland http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003670.php July 07, 2010 | Short Course | Location: Brisbane Australia

A Problem Based Introduction to Mental Health Services Research A Social Sciences and Medicine Allied in Research and Teaching (SMART) Workshop http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003669.php July 19, 2010 | Short Course | Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada

Econometric Analysis of Healthcare Demand http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003609.php March 22, 2010 | Short Course | Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Methods for the analysis of panel data in health and health care:Hosted by the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003591.php April 20, 2010 | Short Course | Location: York, UK

Three PhD Scholarships in Economics and Management Science: University of Southern Denmark http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003566.php March 24, 2010 | PhD | Location: Odense, Denmark

Regression Methods for Health Economic Evaluation http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003274.php March 24, 2010 | Short Course | Location: York, UK


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