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July 11, 2011

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Ballroom CentreMaternal Health
Room: Ballroom Centre
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Removal of User Fees for Maternal and Child Health Services in South East Nigeria: Experiences of the Community and Health Care Providers
    Presenter: Benjamin Uzochukwu (College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu-campus)
  2. A Cost Study of Maternal and Child Health Services in Malawi in Support of Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) Financing
    Presenter: Aaron Beaston-Blaakman (EPOS Health Management)
  3. Using Demand-side Financing to Encourage Maternal Health Service Utilization: An Evaluation of the Bangladesh Voucher Program
    Presenter: Ha Nguyen (Abt Associates Inc.)
  4. Utilization and Household Level Cost of Maternal Health Care in India (Northern Karnataka)
    Presenter: Beena Varghese (Karnataka Health Promotion Trust/Univ of Manitoba)
Structural Models
Room: Ballroom Centre
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Untangling the Direct and Indirect Effects of Body Mass Dynamics on Earnings
    Presenter: Euna Han (Gachon University of Medicine & Science)
  2. A Dynamic Structural Model of Lifetime Smoking, Health and Addiction
    Presenter: Eugenio Zucchelli (University of York)
  3. Are Households Well Insured Against Illness? Evidence from Colombia
    Presenter: Marcos Vera-Hernandez (University College London)
  4. Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard and the Demand for Medigap Insurance
    Presenter: Olena Stavrunova (University of Technology Sydney)
Drug Pricing
Room: Ballroom Centre
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Generic Substitution, Prices and Market Structure: Empirical Evidence from Finnish Pharmaceutical Markets
    Presenter: Joni Hokkanen (National Institute for Health and Welfare )
  2. Contracting for Preferred Generic Supplier Status with a Health Insurances: Evaluating Strategic Options for Manufacturers
    Presenter: Rudolf Blankart (University of Hamburg)
  3. Determinants of Branded Prescription Medicine Prices in OECD Countries
    Presenter: Sotiris Vandoros (London School of Economics)
Health Status Instruments
Room: Ballroom Centre
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Lowering the 'floor' of the SF-6D scoring algorithm using a lottery equivalent method
    Presenter: Jose Maria Abellan Perpiñan (University of Murcia)
  2. Do Preference-based Measures Agree about Identifying Patients Who Change over Time? Cautionary Results from Cataract and Heart Failure Patients
    Presenter: David Feeny (Kaiser Permanente Northwest)
  3. Convergence of the Health Status at the Local Level: Empirical Evidence from Austria
    Presenter: Martin Gächter (University of Innsbruck)
  4. Measuring Preference-weighted Scores for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Comparison of Generic Instruments
    Presenter: Nalin Payakachat (University of Arkansas for Med Sciences)
 Spatial Health Econometrics: Explaining Regional Differences in Public Health Care Provision
Room: Ballroom Centre
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Regional Variability in Public Long-term Care Expenditure in England: the Significance of Local Autonomy, Exogenous Influences and Local Spillovers
    Presenter: Jose-Luis Fernandez (London School of Economics)
  2. State Differences in the Efficiency of Health Production: An Artifact of Spatial Dependence?
    Presenter: Harald Tauchmann (Rhine-Westphalia Research Institute Essen)
  3. Health Care and Amenable Cancer Mortality in Germany
    Presenter: Reinhard Busse (Berlin University of Technology)
  4. Spatial Interdependence and Health System Satisfaction: Does Devolution Make a Difference?
    Presenter: Joan Costa i Font (London School of Economics)
Cost-effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent and Control Noncommunicable Diseases
Room: Ballroom Centre
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Cost-effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent and Control Diabetes
    Presenter: Ping Zhang (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
    Presenter: Rui Li (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
    Discussant: Henry Glick (University of Pennsylvania)
  2. Cost-effectiveness of Hypertension Control
    Presenter: Guijing Wang (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
    Discussant: Henry Glick (University of Pennsylvania)
  3. Cost-effectiveness of the National Cancer Prevention and Control Programs: A Case of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program for Low-income Women in the United States
    Presenter: Donatus Ekwueme (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  4. Cost-effectiveness of tobacco control programs: a systematic review
    Presenter: Xin Xu (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Ballroom EastWhat Affects Smoking?
Room: Ballroom East
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. What is the effect of origin country smoking prevalence on smoking among immigrants?
    Presenter: Leigh Ann Leung (CUNY Graduate Center)
  2. Cigarette Excise Taxation: The Impact of Tax Structure on Prices, Revenues and Cigarette Smoking
    Presenter: Xin Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  3. Shifting Pattern of Tobacco Price Elasticity in India, 1983 to 2004-05
    Presenter: Sakthivel Selvaraj (Public Health Foundation of India )
  4. Investigating the Price Sensitivity of Older Smokers
    Presenter: Cong Li (McMaster University)
Using Child Health Economic Evidence in Decision-making
Room: Ballroom East
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Assessing the Full Societal Benefits and Costs of Interventions in Child Health
    Presenter: Werner Brouwer (Erasmus University)
  2. Should Health Gains by Children Be Given the Same Value As Health Gains by Adults in an Economic Evaluation Framework?
    Presenter: Stavros Petrou (University of Warwick)
  3. Health Economics and Decision Making for Preventative Interventions in Child Health
    Presenter: Andreas Gerber (Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG))
  4. Comparing Methods of Assessing ‘Value for Money’ for Policy-makers: The Case of Newborn Hearing Screening
    Presenter: Scott Grosse (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Cancer Treatment
Room: Ballroom East
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Inequities in Receipt of and Wait Times for Care among Colorectal Cancer Patients in Nova Scotia
    Presenter: Yukiko Asada (Dalhousie University)
  2. Real-world Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Cancer Drugs: Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Retrospective Canadian Registry Data before and after Drug Approval
    Presenter: Sara Khor (Cancer Care Ontario)
  3. Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Innovative Radiotherapy Techniques in the Absence of Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Case of Proton Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer
    Presenter: Bram Ramaekers (Maastricht University)
Bayesian Methods
Room: Ballroom East
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Bayesian Modeling Assessing the Effectiveness of a Vaccination Strategy to Prevent HPV-related Diseases the Best Study
    Presenter: Francesco Saverio Mennini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
  2. The Impact of Using Informative Priors in a Bayesian Cost-effectiveness analysis: An Application of Endovascular versus Open Surgical Repair for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in High Risk Patients
    Presenter: C. Elizabeth McCarron (McMaster University)
  3. The Vetted Bootstrap: A Practical Sampling Algorithm to Incorporate External Evidence in Trial-based CEAs
    Presenter: Stirling Bryan (University of British Columbia)
  4. Economic Evaluation of Outpatient Smoking Cessation Program Using the Bayesian Method
    Presenter: Yue-chune Lee (National Yang-Ming University)
Economic Perspectives on Health Workforce Planning
Room: Ballroom East
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Integrating Workforce Planning within Health Care Planning
    Presenter: Stephen Birch (McMaster University)
  2. An Evidence-based Health Workforce Model: What Should a Regional Primary Care Team Look Like?
    Presenter: Leonie Segal (University of South Australia)
  3. Local Labour Markets and Nursing Skill Mix in England
    Presenter: Bob Elliott (Aberdeen)
Determinants of Physician Behaviour Using the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) Longitudinal Survey of Doctors.
Room: Ballroom East
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Measuring the Monetary Motivation of Physicians
    Presenter: Anthony Scott (University of Melbourne)
  2. Does Competition Influence Prices Charged by GPs?
    Presenter: Peter Sivey
  3. Non-pecuniary and Pecuniary Factors and Physician Labour Supply
    Presenter: Terence Cheng (University of Melbourne)
  4. Skills, Practice Style or Children: What Explains the Gender Wage Gap of GPs?
    Presenter: Stefanie Schurer
Ballroom WestAssessing Health Expenditure Trends
Room: Ballroom West
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. The Persistence of Health Expenditures over Time
    Presenter: Raisa Deber (University of Toronto)
    Presenter: Kenneth Cheak Kwan Lam (University of Toronto)
  2. Impact of Rising Public Health Spending on Other Areas of Public Spending and Private Spending in Canada
    Presenter: Hu Lu (Health Canada)
  3. Measuring the Impact of Some Health Care Cost Drivers in Canada During the Last Decade
    Presenter: Ruolz Ariste (Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI))
    Presenter: Chris Kuchciak (CIHI)
  4. Lesson the US Could Learn from Canadian and Japanese Health Expenditure History
    Presenter: Robert Woodward (University of New Hampshire)
Long Term Care Systems: Governance, Funding and Provision
Room: Ballroom West
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Challenges of Designing New LTC Insurance: CLASS Act in the US
    Presenter: Edward Norton (University of Michigan)
  2. Unveiling Home Care Demand: Independence and/or 'Institutionalisation Aversion'
    Presenter: Joan Costa-i-Font (London School of Economics)
  3. The Impact of Economic Incentives on the Assignment to Type of Long Term Care in Norway
    Presenter: Henning Øien (University of Oslo)
  4. Some Notes on How to Catch a Red Herring: Ageing, Time to Death & Care Costs for Older People in Sweden
    Presenter: Martin Karlsson (TU Darmstadt)
  5. Integrating Medical and Long Term Care Insurances: Discussion of the Dutch Reforms
    Presenter: Bernard Van den Berg (University of York)
Effect of Access
Room: Ballroom West
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Investigating the Role of Healthcare Centre Accessibility on the Decision to Attend for Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Ireland
    Presenter: John Cullinan (National University of Ireland, Galway)
  2. The Causal Effect of Over-the-counter Access to Emergency Contraception Pill on Youth STDs: A Case Study of the Washington State Using Synthetic Control Method
    Presenter: Ruoding Tan ( City University of New York, Graduate Center )
  3. Reconciling Expenditure and Access Based Concepts of Underinsurance
    Presenter: Ann Holmes (IUPUI)
Smoking Cessation
Room: Ballroom West
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Probabilistic Markov Model to Assess the Cost-effectiveness of a Community Pharmacist Aided (CPA) Smoking Cessation Program in Hong Kong
    Presenter: Jing Chen (University of Hong Kong)
  2. The Impact of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) on Smoking Cessation
    Presenter: W. David Bradford (University of Georgia)
  3. Cross-price Elasticities of Smoking Cessation: The Role of Smoking Cessation Products
    Presenter: Dean Lillard (Cornell University)
  4. Quitting Behaviour of Cigarette Smokers: Are There Direct Effects of a Screening Program?
    Presenter: Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen (Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research)
Long-term Effects of Health Interventions and Shocks
Room: Ballroom West
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Long Term Effects of Civil Conflict on Women’s Health Outcomes in Peru
    Presenter: Sonia Laszlo (McGill University)
    Discussant: Tania Barham
  2. Effects of Early Childhood Health on Adolescent Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Matlab in Bangladesh
    Presenter: Tania Barham (University of Colorado at Boulder)
    Discussant: Sarah Baird
  3. Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of Child Health Gains
    Presenter: Sarah Baird
    Discussant: Sonia Laszlo
Risk Equalization in Competitive Health Insurance: Where Are We Now?
Room: Ballroom West
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Does Risk Equalization Sufficiently Reduce Incentives for Risk Selection?
    Presenter: Richard van Kleef (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  2. Does Risk Equalization Sufficiently Maintain Incentives for Efficiency?
    Presenter: Konstantin Beck (CSS Institute for empirical health economics)
  3. Risk Equalization and Incentives at the Aggregate Level: The Case of Region
    Presenter: Florian Buchner (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences)
City HallWhat Affects Health 1
Room: City Hall
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. The Effects of Health Care Benefits for Individuals with Disabilities: A Randomized Control Trial
    Presenter: Charles Michalopoulos (MDRC)
  2. Soaking Up the Sun: The Role of Vitamin D and Race in the Production of Infant Health
    Presenter: Karen Conway (University of New Hampshire)
  3. The Influence of Sibling Health on One Own's Development
    Presenter: Nicole Hair (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  4. Health Investment, Structural Breaks and Economic Output in Regional China: A Panel Cointegration Analysis
    Presenter: Gang Chen (Monash University)
Payment Systems for Medical Homes
Room: City Hall
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Risk-Based Comprehensive Payment for the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Building and Testing a Partial Capitation Model
    Presenter: Arlene S Ash (University of Massachusetts School of Medicine)
  2. Risk-Based Bonus Payments for the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Findings in Support of a Partial Capitation Innovation
    Presenter: Randall P Ellis (Boston University)
  3. Bending the Cost Curve? Preliminary Results from a Patient-centered Medical Home Pilot Using Risk-based Payment in Upstate New York
    Presenter: Sonal Vats (Boston University)
Obesity
Room: City Hall
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Estimating Peer Effects in Weight Gain among Young Adults Using Randomized Roommate Assignment As a Natural Experiment
    Presenter: Olga Yakusheva (Marquette University)
  2. Analysis of Obesity- and Smoking-related Healthcare Cost in an Unconditional Quantile Regression Framework
    Presenter: Bijan Borah (Mayo Clinic)
  3. Is There Convergence in the BMI of Immigrants to That of Native Born Residents? Evidence from Canadian Longitudinal Data
    Presenter: Kednapa Thavorn (University of Toronto)
Disease Management Programs
Room: City Hall
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Indirect Cost of Community Health Volunteers in the Implementation of Community Management of Under-five Fevers in a Rural Setting in Ghana
    Presenter: Justice Nonvignon (University of Ghana)
  2. Why Don't Disease Management Programs (DMP) Take Off? The Barriers That Affect Decision Makers
    Presenter: Racheli Magnezi (1 The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research,)
  3. Expenditure Impact of the Introduction of a Care Management Program for a High Risk Medicaid Population
    Presenter: Gwendolyn Morrison (IUPUI & Regenstrief Institute)
  4. Economic Evalutation of Disease Management Programs for Cardiovascular Diseases
    Presenter: Matteo Ruggeri (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Health Econometrics: Methods for Health Expenditures, Comparative Effectiveness, and Risk Adjustment
Room: City Hall
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Empirical Comparative Effectiveness Research: Data, Statistical Analysis, and the Evidence Base of Evidence-based Healthcare
    Presenter: John Mullahy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    Discussant: Anirban Basu (University of Washington, Seattle)
  2. Measuring Overfitting in Nonlinear Models: Whatever Your Mistake, Better Make It Twice!
    Presenter: Willard Manning (The University of Chicago)
    Discussant: Randall Ellis (Boston University)
  3. Modeling Risk Adjustment Using Fourth Order Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Method
    Presenter: Alberto Holly (Emeritus Professor University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Visiting Professor Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
    Discussant: Andrew Jones (University of York)
Alternative Economic Evaluations of Impact of Vaccines in Low and Middle Income Countries
Room: City Hall
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Case Study: Presenting the Impact of Rotavirus Vaccination in a Low Income Country
    Presenter: Mark Jit (Health Protection Agency)
  2. Economic Assessment of Health Care Revisited?
    Presenter: Baudouin Standaert (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals)
  3. Generalized Cost-effectiveness of Existing, Underused and New Vaccines for Infants and Children
    Presenter: Mira Johri (Université de Montréal )
  4. The Macroeconomic Impact of Pandemic Influenza Vaccination in a Low Income Country
    Presenter: Richard Smith (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Civic NorthNational Drug Systems
Room: Civic North
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Time to Reimbursement: A Duration Analysis of Public Coverage Decisions for Pharmaceuticals in Australia
    Presenter: Jing-Jing Li (Monash University)
  2. A Two-dimension Oligopolistic Product Differentiation Model for Canadian Prescription Drug Market
    Presenter: Zhe (Jerry) Ren (Dalhousie University)
  3. The Role of Political Pressure and Learning in Policy Making: Evidence from Canadian Provinces' Formulary Listing Decisions
    Presenter: Arvind Magesan (University of Calgary)
  4. Enhancing Public Sector Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management in Zambia: A Randomized Evaluation of Alternative Supply Chain Structures
    Presenter: Jed Friedman (World Bank)
Social Dimensions of Obesity: Social Marginalization, Physical Attractiveness & Measurement Error
Room: Civic North
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. The Influence of Body Weight on Social Network Ties among Adolescents
    Presenter: Aliaksandr Amialchuk (University of Toledo)
    Discussant: Mary Burke (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston )
  2. Black-White Differences in the Beauty-Weight Relationship
    Presenter: Frank Heiland (Baruch College)
    Discussant: Aliaksandr Amialchuk (University of Toledo )
  3. Explaining Gender-specific Racial Differences in Obesity Using Biased Self-reports of Food Intake and Physical Activity
    Presenter: Mary Burke (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston )
    Discussant: Andrew Stivers (Food & Drug Administration)
  4. Can We Use Existing Obesity Cost Estimates to Measure Benefits from Obesity Abatement?
    Presenter: Andrew Stivers (Food & Drug Administration)
    Discussant: Frank Heiland (Baruch College)
Hospital Quality
Room: Civic North
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Diagnosis Discrepancies and Length of Stay, Costs of Care and Readmission
    Presenter: Tricia Johnson (Rush University)
  2. Community-based Quality Improvement Programs and Hospital Quality
    Presenter: Dennis Scanlon (Pennsylvania State University)
  3. Cost-effectiveness and Quality Improvements from a Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Hospital Re-admissions
    Presenter: Birger Forsberg (Karolinska Institutet)
Conditional Cash Transfers
Room: Civic North
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Conditional Cash Transfers to Improve Education and Health: An Ex ante Evaluation of Red de Protección Social
    Presenter: Ranjeeta Thomas (University of York)
  2. Health Impacts of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Burkina Faso
    Presenter: Damien de Walque (The World Bank)
  3. The Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Basic Health Care Services in Indonesia
    Presenter: Budi Hidayat (University of Indonesia)
  4. Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers to prevent HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Tanzania: 1-Year Post-intervention Follow-up
    Presenter: William Dow (University of California - Berkeley)
The Medical Knowledge Economy: Selling Smarter Medical Care in Low Income Settings
Room: Civic North
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Quantity, Quality, and Price in Informal Market for Anti-malarials in Nigeria
    Presenter: Oladimeji Oladepo (University of Ibadan)
    Discussant: Barun Kanjilal (Indian Institute of Hospital Management and Research)
  2. Understanding the Incremental Cost of Increasing Access to Maternal Health Care Services: Perspectives from a Voucher Scheme in Eastern Uganda
    Presenter: Chrispus Mayora (Makerere University )
    Discussant: Barun Kanjilal (Indian Institute of Hospital Management and Research)
  3. Research on the Implementation Models of Essential Drug System with Local Health Facilities in Rural China
    Presenter: Wang Yunping (China National Health Development Research Center)
    Discussant: Barun Kanjilal (Indian Institute of Hospital Management and Research)
Disinvesting in Health Care: Lessons from the International Experience
Room: Civic North
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Health Technology Assessment and Disinvestment in Australian Medicare
    Presenter: Adam Elshaug (The University of Adelaide)
  2. Programme Budgeting, Marginal Analysis and Disinvestment in Canadian Health Care
    Presenter: Craig Mitton (University of British Columbia)
  3. Implementation of Disinvestment Decisions: Evidence from the English NHS
    Presenter: Iestyn Williams (University of Birmingham)
Civic SouthInsuring Sub-Populations
Room: Civic South
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Ex-ante Moral Hazard in Health Care Insurance for Obese Populations: A Cross-border Study
    Presenter: Teresa Longobardi (University of Puerto Rico)
  2. Does Public Health Insurance for Children Improve Parents’ Use of Health Services?
    Presenter: Alan Monheit (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
  3. Health Insurance and Self-employment
    Presenter: Yunwei Gai (Babson College)
  4. Behavioral Responses to Programmatic Features of States’ Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP)
    Presenter: Jose Escarce (RAND)
Economics of Mixed Public and Private Systems: Financing and Outcomes
Room: Civic South
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. The Political Economy of Mixed Systems of Finance: The Impact of Alternative Configurations of Public and Private Roles
    Presenter: Katherine Cuff (McMaster University)
  2. An Experimental Investigation of the Demand for Private Insurance and of Health Systems Outcomes under a Mixed System of Public and Private Finance
    Presenter: Jeremiah Hurley (McMaster University)
  3. Hospital Utilisation Near the End of Life and Private Hospital Insurance: Does More Choice Lead to Less Use?
    Presenter: Jongsay Yong (University of Melbourne)
  4. Do Public Sector Savings Achieved through Subsidies on Private Health Insurance Offset the Cost of the Subsidy?
    Presenter: Terence Cheng (University of Melbourne)
Health Insurance
Room: Civic South
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. The Impact of State Minimum Wage Increases on Employer-sponsored Insurance
    Presenter: Jessica Vistnes (AHRQ)
  2. Immigrant Health Care Utilisation in France: the Role of Supplemental Health Insurance
    Presenter: Caroline Berchet (Paris Dauphine Université)
  3. The Interplay of Private Insurance Subsidy and Public Insurance Spending: Evidence from the Long-term Care Partnership Program
    Presenter: Haizhen Lin (Indiana University)
Primary Care
Room: Civic South
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Small Is Beautiful or Bigger Is Better? An assessment of French Experiment of New Mechanism of Remuneration for Multidisciplinary Group Practices in Primary Care
    Presenter: Mousquès Julien (IRDES)
  2. Reliance on VA Outpatient Services by Medicare-eligible Veterans
    Presenter: James Burgess (VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University)
  3. What Factors Predict Primary Care Choice among Top Performing Physicians in Internal Medicine?
    Presenter: Bradley Gray (American Board of Internal Medicine)
  4. Team-based Primary Health Care Practice and Patient Perceptions of Health Care Outcomes: A Propensity Score Matching (PSM) Analysis Using Data from the 2007-2008 Canadian Survey of Experiences with Primary Health Care (CSC-PHC)
    Presenter: Shammima Jesmin (Post-Doc Fellow, The University of Western Ontario)
New Findings from OECD/international Comparisons of Health and Health Systems
Room: Civic South
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Preferences for Health Insurance in Germany and the Netherlands: A Tale of Two Countries
    Presenter: Peter Zweifel (University of Zurich)
    Discussant: Joanne Spetz (University of California San Francisco)
  2. Critique and a Road Map for Comparisons of Health System Performance
    Presenter: Stephen T. Parente (University of Minnesota)
    Discussant: Robert Ohsfeldt (Texas A & M)
  3. Explaining Differences in Life Expectancy across Countries
    Presenter: John E. Schneider (Oxford Outcomes, Inc.)
    Discussant: Stephen Parente (University of Minnesota)
Long-term Growth of Public Health Expenditures
Room: Civic South
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Age-specific Health Care Expenditures for Decedents and Survivors: What Is the Impact of Medical Progress?
    Presenter: Walter Ried (University of Greifswald)
  2. Public Health Care Spending in the OECD: The Role of Partisan Cycles and Campaign Promises
    Presenter: Robert Nuscheler (University of Augsburg)
  3. Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditures: A New Test for Germany
    Presenter: Friedrich Breyer (University of Konstanz & DIW, Berlin)
Conference BIssues in Reproductive Health
Room: Conference B
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Early Childbearing in the Next Generation
    Presenter: Yuxiu Zhang (Graduate Center, the City University of New York)
  2. The Effect of Information and Promotion on Preferences for Contraceptive Products
    Presenter: Stephanie Knox (University of Technology, Sydney)
  3. Talking About Contraception: How Do Doctors Decide What to Discuss and Recommend?
    Presenter: Rosalie Viney (University of Technology, Sydney)
  4. The Implementation of Family Planning Waivers in Six States, Effects on Unintended Pregnancy and Birth Control Use
    Presenter: Genevieve Kenney (The Urban Institute)
Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health Profiles: Principles and Initial Results
Room: Conference B
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Valuing Health Related Quality of Life in Adolescence: Application of Best Worst Scaling Discrete Choice Experiment Methods to Obtain Adolescent Specific Values for the Child Health Utility 9D
    Presenter: Julie Ratcliffe (Flinders University)
  2. Using a Discrete Choice Experiment to Value EQ-5D Health States
    Presenter: Richard Norman (University of Technology, Sydney)
  3. Why Value My Life through the Eyes of the Average Citizen? Quantifying the Effects of Experience and Individual Characteristics Upon Preferences for Attributes of Quality of Life
    Presenter: Terry Flynn (University of Technology, Sydney)
  4. Mapping DCE Results on to Cardinal Scales
    Presenter: John Brazier (University of Sheffield)
What Affects Health 2
Room: Conference B
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Does More Schooling Make People Healthier? Evidence from a Stochastic Dynamic Model in Taiwan
    Presenter: Ke-Zong Michelle Ma (Kaohsiung Medical University)
  2. Poverty and Health Behavior: A Dynamic Analysis
    Presenter: Katja Aue (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
  3. Applying Instrumental Variable Estimators to Randomized Interventions: The Effect of Added Pharmacist Time on Blood Pressure Reduction and Costs
    Presenter: Puttarin Kulchaitanaroaj (University of Iowa)
Impact of Business Cycles
Room: Conference B
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Business Cycles and Mortality
    Presenter: Emmanuelle Piérard (University of Waterloo)
  2. Health Status and Portfolio Choice: Does Feeling Better Affect Your Attitude Towards Risk?
    Presenter: Noemi Pace (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
  3. The Pure Effect of Macroeconomic Fluctuations on Medical Care Utilization
    Presenter: Danny Hughes (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)
  4. How Does the Business Cycle Affect Time on Eating and Physical Activities?
    Presenter: Ning Zhang (University of Rochester School of Medicine)
Health System Analysis: What Have We Learned, How Can We Do Better?
Room: Conference B
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Health Systems Analysis for Better Health System Strengthening
    Presenter: Peter Berman (Harvard School of Public Health)
  2. Measuring Health System Performance
    Presenter: Peter Smith (Imperial College, London)
  3. Health Systems Assessments: Lessons from multiple country experiences
    Presenter: Mursaleena Islam (Abt Associates)
Physician Agency and the Demand for Health Care Services
Room: Conference B
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. The Effects of Publicity on Demand: The Case of Anti-cholesterol Drugs
    Presenter: Andrew Ching (University of Toronto)
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  2. Doctor-Patient Agency Relationship and Diffusion of Generic Pharmaceuticals
    Presenter: Toshiaki Iizuka (University of Tokyo)
    Discussant: Simon Chang (Central University of Finance and Economics, , Beijing)
  3. Prescribers' Financial Incentives and Health Care Expenditure: The Case of Drug Dispensing
    Presenter: Maria Trottmann (University of Zurich)
    Discussant: Randy Ellis (Boston University)
Conference CMeasuring Catastrophic Health Payments
Room: Conference C
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Out-of-Pocket Expenditures for Hospital Care in Iran: Who Is at Risk of Incurring Catastrophic Payments?
    Presenter: Mohammad Hajizadeh (The University of Queensland)
  2. The Drivers of Catastrophic Expenditure: Outpatient Services, Hospitalization or Medicines?
    Presenter: Priyanka Saksena (World Health Organization)
  3. “Chronic” and “Transient” Catastrophic Health Care Payments
    Presenter: John Ataguba (University of Cape Town)
  4. Measuring Catastrophic Health Care Payments: An Alternative Approach
    Presenter: Subrata Mukherjee (Institute of Development Studies Kolkata)
Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage: Comparing Cost, Quality and Consumer Satisfaction
Room: Conference C
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Utilization of Services in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare: A National Comparison
    Presenter: Bruce Landon (Harvard Medical School)
  2. Quality of Care in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare: A National Comparison
    Presenter: John Ayanian (Harvard University)
  3. Medicare Private Plans and Beneficiary Enrollment: Nothing Either Good or Bad, but Selective Assessment May Have Made It So
    Presenter: John Hsu (Harvard Medical School)
Drug Insurance
Room: Conference C
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Cost Sharing of Prescription Drugs and Demand for Health Care Utilization among Seniors with Rheumatoid Arthritis
    Presenter: Xin Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  2. The Tax Implications of Medicare Part D
    Presenter: Alexandra Minicozzi (Congressional Budget Office)
  3. How Does Drug Treatment for Diabetes Compare between MAPD and PDP Plans?
    Presenter: Mujde Erten (University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy)
Assessing Cancer Treatment
Room: Conference C
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. The CHEUAL Breast Cancer Model: Interactive Cost-Utility Analysis to Support Decision-Making
    Presenter: Denise Santos (CEEFE/UAL)
  2. Real-world Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Second- and Third-line Chemotherapy for Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer
    Presenter: Ian Cromwell (Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control (ARCC))
  3. Preliminary Analysis for a Cancer-specific Multi-dimensional Health State Classification System Based on the FACT-G Items
    Presenter: Helen McTaggart-Cowan (British Columbia Cancer Agency)
  4. Estimating a Preference-based Single Index for Cancer-specific Instruments from the EQ-5D and SF-6D
    Presenter: Paulos Teckle, PhD (Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control (ARCC))
Economics of Implementing Rapid Diagnostics into Health Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries
Room: Conference C
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. The Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis with Xpert MTB-RIF Assay in Developing Countries: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis
    Presenter: Anna Vassall (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  2. Efficiency versus Equity in Screening: Informing Roll-out of Rapid Syphilis Tests in Remote Tanzanian Clinics Based on Relative Economies of Scale and Increased Access
    Presenter: Sedona Sweeney (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  3. The Potential of the Private Sector to Promote the Integration of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria into Developing Country Health Systems: A Multi-country Study
    Presenter: Benjamin Palafox (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  4. Provider Practices May Constrain the Cost-effectiveness of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests: Evidence from Cameroon
    Presenter: Lindsay Mangham (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine )
Coverage and Care for Low-income Populations in the US: Implications of Health Reform
Room: Conference C
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Expanding Coverage to Low-Income Childless Adults in Massachusetts: Implications for National Health Reform
    Presenter: Sharon Long (University of Minnesota School of Public Health)
    Discussant: Lindsay Sabik (Virginia Commonwealth University)
  2. US Health Care Reform and the Indigent Care Programs of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers
    Presenter: Gloria Bazzoli (Virginia Commonwealth University)
    Discussant: John Langenbrunner (World Bank)
  3. Closing the Gap: Can Safety Net Hospitals Reduce Disparities between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Populations?
    Presenter: Cathy Bradley (Virginia Commonwealth University)
    Discussant: Audrey Laporte (University of Toronto)
Conference FTreating Orphan Disease
Room: Conference F
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. The Priority Review Voucher and Other Incentives for Neglected Diseases
    Presenter: David Ridley (Duke University)
  2. The Cost- effectiveness of Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT) for Infantile Pompe´s Disease: Comparative Perspective from a High Income Country (England) and a Middle Income One (Colombia)
    Presenter: Hector Eduardo Castro Jaramillo (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  3. How Cost-effective Is the Integration of Health Interventions? Experiences with the Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme in Uganda
    Presenter: Fred Matovu (Makerere University)
  4. The Influence of Regional Health Care Structures on the Diagnostic Quality of Rare Diseases: The Case of Marfan's Syndrome
    Presenter: Kathrin Roll (University of Hamburg)
Topics in Substance Abuse Economics
Room: Conference F
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Understanding Heterogeneity in Price Elasticities in the Demand for Alcohol
    Presenter: Jody Sindelar
    Discussant: Will Manning (University of Chicago)
  2. Do the Benefits of Alcohol Treatment Justify Its Costs? Modeling Lifetime QALYs and Health Care Costs over Time
    Presenter: Carolina Barbosa
    Discussant: Gary Zarkin (RTI International)
  3. Taxes, Youth Smoking, and the Social Market for Cigarettes
    Presenter: Joseph Sabia
    Discussant: Kerry Anne McGeary (Ball State University)
  4. The Impact of Economic Conditions at School-leaving on Substance Use: Evidence from Panel Data
    Presenter: Catherine Maclean
    Discussant: Jeremy Bray (RTI International)
  5. Alcohol Use and Crime: Findings from a Longitudinal Sample of U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults
    Presenter: Michael French
    Discussant: Hope Corman (Rider University)
International Comparisons
Room: Conference F
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Vested Interests, Public Finance, and the Political Economy of Health Financing Reform: International Comparisons
    Presenter: Ake Blomqvist (Central University of Finance and Economics)
  2. Ranking of Countries Based on Total Health Spending: How Valid?
    Presenter: Hans Olav Melberg (University of Oslo)
  3. Curbing the Growth of Pharmaceutical Expenditure: A Panel-data Analysis of International Reforms
    Presenter: Thomas Czypionka (Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS))
Assessing Reproductive Health
Room: Conference F
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Implementation Experiences and Utilization Trends in a Private Sector Voucher Program in Uganda
    Presenter: Ben Bellows (Population Council)
  2. An Economic Assessment of a Canadian-wide Program Targeted at Disadvantaged, At-risk Pregnant Women
    Presenter: Dale McMurchy (Dale McMurchy Consulting)
  3. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Three Health Interventions to Prevent Malaria in Pregnancy in an Area of Low Transmission in Uganda
    Presenter: Kristian Hansen (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  4. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Franchising Model: Meeting the Need of Family Planning Needs in Rural and Underserved Pakistan
    Presenter: Syed Khurram Azmat (Marie Stopes Society)
How will the Mentally Ill Fare under U.S. Health Care Reform?
Room: Conference F
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. The Impact of National Health Reform on Adults with Mental Disorders
    Presenter: Julie Donohue (University of Pittsburgh)
  2. The Impact of Part D Plan Generosity on Use of Psychiatric Medications among Dually-eligible Nursing Home Residents
    Presenter: Haiden Huskamp (Harvard Medical School)
  3. Serving the Mentally Ill in Primary Care-based Medical Homes
    Presenter: Marisa Domino (The University of North Carolina)
Economics of Home Health Care
Room: Conference F
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. On the Influence of Firm Boundaries on the Allocation of Tasks between Assets: Evidence from Home Health
    Presenter: Guy David (University of Pennsylvania)
    Discussant: Avi Dor (George Washington University)
  2. The Influence of Competitive Markets on Improving Quality of Care through Public Reporting: The Case of Home Health Care
    Presenter: Daniel Polsky (University of Pennsylvania)
    Discussant: Courtney Van Houtven (Duke University)
  3. Public Reporting and Market Area Exit Decisions by Home Health Agencies
    Presenter: Kyoungrae Jung (The Pennsylvania State University)
    Discussant: Sally Stearns (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Conference GAdverse Outcomes
Room: Conference G
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Cost Analysis of a New Stent Positioning Device in Coronary Artery Disease: A US Payer Perspective
    Presenter: Paul Delatore (Cordis Corporation)
  2. Disentangling Spillover Effects of Antibiotic Consumption: A Spatial Panel Approach
    Presenter: Giuliano Masiero (University of Bergamo)
  3. The Sensitivity of Adverse Event Cost Estimates to Diagnostic Coding Error
    Presenter: Gavin Wardle (University of Toronto)
  4. Child Mortality at Pediatric and Other Hospitals
    Presenter: John Moran (Penn State University)
Morals or Monitoring? Getting Better Agent Performance in Health Systems in Asia and Africa
Room: Conference G
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Towards Equal Access to Primary Health Care Services in Rural China
    Presenter: Gerald Bloom (University of Sussex)
  2. Impact of Voucher System on Access to MCH Services in Eastern Uganda
    Presenter: John Bua (Makerere University )
  3. Medical Representatives in Rural Bangladesh: Who are They and What Is Their Role in the Drug Market?
    Presenter: M. Hafizur Rahman (Johns Hopkins University)
  4. The Role of the Private Sector in Child Health in Developing Countries
    Presenter: April Harding (World Bank)
Immunization
Room: Conference G
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Challenges in Assessing the Cost-effectiveness of Public Health Interventions: The Example of Influenza Immunization Programs in Ontario
    Presenter: Beate Sander (Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion)
  2. Cost-effectiveness of Rotavirus Immunization in Vietnam: Results and Challenges
    Presenter: Hong Anh Thi Tu (University of Groningen)
  3. The Long-term Effect of School-entry Immunization Laws: How Mandated Immunization for School-aged Children Led to External Health Benefits for Children in Utero
    Presenter: Courtney Ward (Dalhousie University)
Long Term Care
Room: Conference G
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Demographic Change and the Labor Market for Long-term Care in Germany
    Presenter: Carsten Pohl (Institute for Employment Research (IAB))
  2. How to Set Incentives for German Social Health Insurance to Actively Counter Long-term Care Risks
    Presenter: Rebecca Jahn (University of Duisburg-Essen)
    Presenter: Anke Walendzik (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  3. Willingness to Pay for Long-term Care Insurance in China
    Presenter: Qun Wang (Fudan University)
  4. Economic Analysis of Care Needs for Stroke Survivors in Rural Areas of Shandong Province, China
    Presenter: Lizheng Shi (Tulane University)
Military Conflict and Health
Room: Conference G
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
    Presenter: John Cawley (Cornell University & NBER)
    Discussant: Hope Corman (Rider University and NBER)
  2. Military Service and Young Adults’ Mental Health
    Presenter: Joseph Sabia (United States Military Academy)
    Discussant: Laura Argys (University of Colorado Denver)
  3. The Effect of Armed Conflict on Infant Mortality: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada
    Presenter: Hani Mansour (University of Colorado Denver)
    Discussant: Joseph Price (Brigham Young University & NBER)
Productive Efficiency, Costs and Quality Across National Health Systems: Evidence from Australia, Lebanon and the United States
Room: Conference G
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Choice between Public/private Hospital Care: Does Quality Matter?
    Presenter: Anurag Sharma (Monash University)
  2. An Economic Analysis of the Lebanese Health System
    Presenter: Ali Mokdad (University of Washington)
  3. The Costs of Quality in the U.S. Health System: An Analysis of HCUP Inpatient Data, 2003-2008
    Presenter: Michael Hanlon ( University of Washington)
Dominion NorthHospital Payment
Room: Dominion North
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. The Longer-term Impact of Medicare Payment Cuts on Hospital Quality
    Presenter: Vivian Wu (USC)
  2. Paying for Quality in Hospital Care: Who Should Be paid?
    Presenter: Søren Rud Kristensen (University of Southern Denmark)
  3. The Influence of Activity Based Financing on Hospital Length of Stay for Elderly Patients Suffering from Heart Diseases
    Presenter: Jun Yin (Akershus University Hospital)
  4. Impact of a Hospital Pay-for-quality Programme in the North West of England on Patient Mortality Risk
    Presenter: Silviya Nikolova (University of Manchester)
Explaining Japan’s Paradox: Best Health Indices and Low Costs
Room: Dominion North
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Panellist: Naoki Ikegami - Universal Health Insurance
    Presenter: Naoki Ikegami (Keio University School of Medicine)
  2. Panelist: Hideki Hashimoto - Quality of Japan’s Health Care System
    Presenter: Hideki Hashimoto (School of Public Health, University of Tokyo)
  3. Panellist: Naoki Kondo - Population Health and Social Determinants of Health in Japan
    Presenter: Naoki Kondo (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, Yamanashi University)
  4. Panellist: Haruko Noguchi - Population Health and Social Determinants of Health in Japan
    Presenter: Haruko Noguchi (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
Financial Incentives
Room: Dominion North
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Medication Indication or Financial Incentive: Evidence from Taiwan Birth Data 2003-2007
    Presenter: Yi-Chen Hong (Chinese Culture University)
  2. Stimulating Demand: The Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Increasing Maternal and Child Health Service Utilization in Afghanistan
    Presenter: Ahmad Shah Salehi (Ministry of Health, Afghanistan )
  3. The Impact of Financial Incentives for Improvements in the Quality of Primary Care on Emergency Hospital Admission Rates
    Presenter: Mark Harrison (The University of Manchester)
Dealing with Obesity
Room: Dominion North
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Incentive Design for a Weight Loss Program to Enhance Reach
    Presenter: Wen You (Virginia Tech)
  2. An Economic Evaluation of Phone and Email Lifestyle Counseling among Overweight Employees
    Presenter: Marieke van Wier (EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center)
  3. Financial Incentives for Weight Loss
    Presenter: Joshua Price (University of Texas at Arlington)
  4. Using Financial Incentives to Encourage Weight Loss
    Presenter: Sue Kim (MDRC)
Impact of Recent Health Care Reforms in Asia on Access and Financial Protection.
Room: Dominion North
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Effects of Universal Health Care Coverage Introduction on Health Care Access and Payments in Thailand
    Presenter: Supon Limwattananon ( International Health Policy Program (IHPP))
  2. The Impacts of Hospital Autonomization: Evidence from Vietnam
    Presenter: Adam Wagstaff (World Bank)
  3. Does facility Reimbursement of User Fee Exemptions Improve Access and Financial Protection? The Impact of Health Equity Funds in Cambodia
    Presenter: Owen O'Donnell (Univ of Macedonia)
  4. Evaluating the Impact of a Social Experiment on Improving Financial Risk Protection for Chronic Patients in Rural China
    Presenter: Winnie Yip (Oxford University)
New Evidence on Employer-based Wellness Programs
Room: Dominion North
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Effect of Employer-Sponsored Cessation Programs on Cigarette Smoking
    Presenter: Feng Liu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
  2. Promoting Healthy Behavior Using Economic Incentives and Information
    Presenter: Jennifer Schultz (University of Minnesota - Duluth)
  3. Is Regular Exercise Associated with Reduced Medical Costs and Absenteeism? Evidence from an Employer-based Wellness Program
    Presenter: Jean Abraham (University of Minnesota)
Dominion SouthProvider Incentives
Room: Dominion South
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Standardization under Group Incentives
    Presenter: Pierre Thomas Léger (Institute of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal. )
  2. Financial Incentives to Increase Health Promotion in General Practice: A Random Experiment Guided by the “Intrinsic – Extrinsic Motivation Approach”
    Presenter: Yann Videau (Aix Marseille University, IRD)
  3. Recommendations to Improve Motivation: What are Physicians Telling Us?
    Presenter: Ahmad Azam Malik (University of Heidelberg)
  4. The Young and the Lucrative: Does Paying More for Older Patients Result in Over-servicing of the Old?
    Presenter: Dominika Wranik (Dalhousie University )
Cost of Health Inequalities in Canada: Evidence, New Approaches and Next Steps
Room: Dominion South
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Health Status and Direct Health Cost by Income Level in Canada
    Presenter: Olga Milliken (Public Health Agency of Canada)
    Discussant: Michel Grignon (McMaster University)
    Discussant: William H. Dow (University of California)
  2. Indirect Health Costs by Income Level in Canada: A Methodological Framework for Estimating the Indirect Cost of Socioeconomic Health Inequalities
    Presenter: Emile Tompa (Institute for Work and Health)
    Discussant: Peter C. Smith (Imperial College Business School & Centre for Health Systems and Policy)
    Discussant: Florence Jusot (IRDES, Research and information institute for health economics, and Paris-Dauphine University, LEGOS )
Technology
Room: Dominion South
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Value of Research and Value of Development in Early Stages of the Development of New Medical Technologies
    Presenter: Valesca Retel (Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  2. The Value of the New Technology Add-on Payment Policy
    Presenter: Lindsay Bockstedt (Medtronic, Inc.)
  3. Innovation in Health Technology: Why Don’t Prices Come Down?
    Presenter: Omar Galarraga (Brown University)
Hospital Utilization
Room: Dominion South
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Consumption of Hospital Services in Norway
    Presenter: Fredrik Alexander Gregersen (Akershus University Hospital / University of Oslo)
  2. Coordination and Switching costs, Service Mix and the Division of Labor in General Medical Care: Understanding the Rise of Hospitalists in the United States
    Presenter: David Meltzer
  3. Will Increased Hospital Capacity Reduce Waiting Times and Sick Leave Costs? An Empirical Analysis of a Norwegian Health Policy Reform
    Presenter: Egil Kjerstad (SNF/UNI Rokkan)
Employer-sponsored Insurance: An International Perspective
Room: Dominion South
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. A Comparison of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance Benefits between Private Employers and State and Local Governments
    Presenter: Alice Zawacki (US Department of the Census)
    Discussant: Elizabeth Savage (University of Technology Sydney)
  2. Who Actually Pays for the Health Care and Long Term Care Insurance in Japan? An Empirical Analysis of the Incidence of Employer’s Contributions for Social Insurance Programs Covering Only the Regular Workers
    Presenter: Sereitsu Ogura (Hosei University)
    Discussant: Shintaro Yamaguchi (McMaster University)
  3. Can Supplementary Health Insurance Provide Better Access to Health Care for All? Evidence from a Dynamic Analysis of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in France
    Presenter: Marc Perronnin (IRDES)
    Discussant: Michel Grignon (McMaster University)
Economic Factors and Obesity
Room: Dominion South
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. The Effect of Restaurant Taxes on Food Away from Home Consumption
    Presenter: Euna Han (U of Illinois at Chicago)
    Discussant: Susan Chen (University of Alabama)
  2. Soda Taxes and Adolescent Weight Outcomes: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth '97
    Presenter: Lisa Powell (U of Illinois at Chicago)
  3. The Effects of Food Prices and Food Advertising on Body Composition of Children
    Presenter: Roy Wada (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Discussant: John Cawley (Cornell University)
EssexCancer Outcomes
Room: Essex
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Weibull Modelisation of the Return to Work of Cancer Survivors Two Years after Diagnosis: A Gender Analysis of a French Population Based Sample
    Presenter: Anne-Gaëlle Le Corroller Soriano (INSERM UMR912)
  2. The Implications of Cancer Survivorship for Spousal Employment
    Presenter: Christopher Hollenbeak (Pennsylvania State University)
  3. Does Health Insurance Affect Health? Evidence of Medicare’s Impact on Cancer Outcomes
    Presenter: Erin Strumpf (McGill University)
  4. Distance to Providers, Hospital Choice and Chemotherapy Receipt among the N.C. Medicaid-enrolled Colon Cancer Population
    Presenter: Alica Sparling (Davidson College)
DRG Systems and Hospital Care in 11 European Countries: Empirical Results on Costs, Performance, and Quality
Room: Essex
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Panelist: Reinhard Busse
    Presenter: Reinhard Busse (Technische Universität Berlin)
  2. Panelist: Miriam Wiley
    Presenter: Miriam Wiley (Economic and Social Research Institute)
  3. Panelist: Unto Häkkinen
    Presenter: Unto Häkkinen (National Institute for Health & Welfare, Finland)
  4. Panelist: Zeynep Or
    Presenter: Zeynep Or (IRDES)
Disease Management 1
Room: Essex
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Dialysis Treatment Choice: A Discrete Choice Study to Elicit Preferences from Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
    Presenter: Rachael L Morton (University of Sydney )
  2. The Impact of a Disease Management Pilot Program on Expenditures and Utilization by Chronically Ill Medicaid Beneficiaries: Results from California
    Presenter: Gerald Kominski (University of California, Los Angeles)
  3. Cystic Fibrosis: Towards a Better Understanding of Treatment Patterns, Costs and Outcomes
    Presenter: Yuanyuan Gu (University of Technology Sydney)
Access to Drugs
Room: Essex
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Estimation of Levels of Access to Medicines in Sri Lanka, and the Cost of Raising Coverage to Developed County Levels
    Presenter: Shiyam Mohamed (Institute for Health Policy)
  2. Customization in Antidepressant Prescribing and Its Relation to Treatment Duration and Cost
    Presenter: Dominic Hodgkin (Brandeis University)
  3. Prices, Availability and Affordability of Antimalarial Medicines in Nigeria: The Role of Local Retail Market
    Presenter: Charles Ezenduka (HPRG, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus)
  4. National Essential Drug System of China and Its Role
    Presenter: Tao Dai (Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)
China Forum
Room: Essex
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. China's Health Care Reform
    Presenter: Ling Li (Peking University)
  2. Progress of Healthcare Reform in China
    Presenter: Yu Wei (Shanghai University of Finance & Economics)
  3. The role of Government in Health Care System Reform in China
    Presenter: Zhang Yuhui (China National Health Development Research Center)
  4. From Research to the Bedside: Evidence-Based Payment Reform
    Presenter: Tsung-Mei Cheng (Princeton University)
New Developments in the Purchasing of Health Services in Tax-funded Systems: An Economic Perspective
Room: Essex
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. New Developments in Purchasing in the English National Health Service: Liberation or Liability?
    Presenter: Maria Goddard (University of York)
  2. Partnership across the Purchaser-provider Divide: Current Developments in Purchasing Health Care and Social Services in Finland
    Presenter: Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen (University of Tampere)
  3. From Big Bang to Incremental Change in Purchasing Practices in New Zealand
    Presenter: Toni Ashton (University of Auckland)
HuronIssues in Methodology
Room: Huron
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Multi-criteria Decision Making: How Can Discrete-choice Experiments Help to Integrate Patient Preferences into Health Technology Assessment?
    Presenter: Axel Muehlbacher (Duke University)
  2. Using a Happiness Index to Measure the Benefits for a CBA of ARVs for Older Adults with HIV in New York City
    Presenter: Robert Brent (Fordham University)
  3. Resource Use and Costs in Heart Failure: Economic Evaluation by Severity of Disease
    Presenter: Janine Biermann (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  4. Does Cost-effectiveness Analysis Discriminate Against Patients with Shorter Life Expectancy?
    Presenter: Mike Paulden (University of Toronto)
Back to the Future? New Methodologies and Data for Health Workforce Planning.
Room: Huron
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Edward Salsberg
    Presenter: Edward Salsberg (US Department of Health and Human Services)
  2. Geoff Ballinger
    Presenter: Geoff Ballinger (Canadian Institute for Health Information)
  3. Peter Sharp
    Presenter: Peter Sharp (Centre for Work Intelligence (England) – representing the Department of Health, UK)
Health Status
Room: Huron
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Healthcare Mediates Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Self-rated Health: A Cross-sectional Study of Norwegian Women
    Presenter: Eline Aas (University of Oslo)
  2. Using Relative Distributions to Investigate the Changes of Happiness over Time in England
    Presenter: Jing Shen (Newcastle University)
  3. Significant Others in Economic Evaluations
    Presenter: Marieke Krol (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Socio-Economic Inequality
Room: Huron
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. On the Life Course Perspective in Income-related Health Inequalities: A Semiparametric Concentration Index
    Presenter: Martin Siegel (Albertus-Magnus-University of Cologne)
  2. Socioeconomic Differences in Waiting Times
    Presenter: Meliyanni Johar (University of Technology Sydney)
  3. The Impact of Income Growth and Disparities on Health Inequalities: Is China Swimming Against the Tide?
    Presenter: Steef Baeten (Erasmus University)
  4. Patterns of Socio-economic Inequalities in Mortality in a Developing Economy Using Small Area Methods: Sri Lanka
    Presenter: Chamara Anuranga (Institute for Health Policy)
Equity in access, use and financial risk protection in Asia-Pacific health systems: New results from the Equitap collaboration
Room: Huron
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Catastrophic Payments for Healthcare in Asian Health Systems
    Presenter: Jui-fen Rachel Lu (Chang Gung University)
  2. The Levels and Trends in the Effect of Payments for Healthcare on Poverty in Asia
    Presenter: Sarah Bales (Equitap)
  3. The Incidence of Public Health Expenditures in Asian Economies
    Presenter: Ravindra Rannan-Eliya (Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka)
    Discussant: Robert Yates (DFID)
The Effects of Health Savings Accounts on Health Care Spending
Room: Huron
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Variation in Lifetime Health Care Expenditures
    Presenter: Albert Wong (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment / Tilburg University)
  2. The Impact of Health Savings Accounts on Social Welfare in the Netherlands
    Presenter: Esther Mot (Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB))
  3. The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts
    Presenter: Juergen Jung (Towson University)
  4. Insurance Choice and Tax Preferred Health Savings Accounts
    Presenter: Mark Showalter (Brigham Young University)
OsgoodeSocio-Economic Role in Obesity
Room: Osgoode
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Disparities in Weight Gain among Pregnant Women and Subsequent Birth Outcomes
    Presenter: Chyongchiou Jeng Lin (University of Pittsburgh)
  2. Time Trends and Disparities in Body-mass Index among U.S. Adults 1960-2008: Implications for Understanding the Obesity Epidemic
    Presenter: Åsa Ljungvall (Lund University)
  3. Race, Place and Obesity: The Complex Relationships among Community Racial/Ethnic Composition, Individual Race/Ethnicity, and Obesity in the US
    Presenter: Lan Liang (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
  4. Socioeconomic Differences in Obesity and Changes in Time Spent Producing Meals and Eating, 1987-2009
    Presenter: Jane Greve (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit)
Physician Altruism, Incentive, and Competition
Room: Osgoode
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Gatekeeping and Access to Health Care
    Presenter: Tor Iversen (University of Oslo)
    Discussant: Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir (University of Iceland)
  2. Profit or Patient’s Health Benefit? An Enquiry into the Heterogeneity of Physician Altruism
    Presenter: Geir Godager (University of Oslo)
    Discussant: Ismo Linnosmaa (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland)
  3. Health Insurance, Treatment Plan, and Delegation to Altruistic Physician
    Presenter: Ching-to Albert Ma (Boston University)
    Discussant: Pedro Pita Barros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Hospital Structure
Room: Osgoode
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. The Impact of Market Competition on Health Care Production, Costs and Cost Variation in Dutch Hospitals
    Presenter: Yvonne Krabbe (VU University Amsterdam)
  2. Employment Effects of Hospital Privatization in Germany: A Difference-in-Difference Approach with Propensity Matching
    Presenter: Mareike Heimeshoff (University of Hamburg)
  3. The Effect of Hospital Unions on Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes in California
    Presenter: Joanne Spetz (University of California, San Francisco)
Child Health & Income
Room: Osgoode
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Chronic Conditions and Child Health: Does Income Mediate?
    Presenter: Rasheda Khanam (University of Southern Queensland)
  2. Inheritances, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Accumulation of Health
    Presenter: Katherine Carman (Tilburg University)
  3. Ethnic Differences in the Income/Child Health Gradient: The Role of Antenatal Care and Maternal Health Behaviours
    Presenter: Mara Violato (University of Oxford)
  4. The Role of Child Health in the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status and Its Impact on Adulthood Health in Europe
    Presenter: Ansgar Wuebker (Witten/Herdecke University)
Macro Health: Labor Markets and Health Care Reform
Room: Osgoode
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. A Life Insurance Deterrent to the Spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa
    Presenter: Pedro de Araujo (Colorado College)
  2. Entrepreneurship and Health Insurance
    Presenter: Raquel Fonseca (Université du Québec à Montréal, ESG-UQÀM)
  3. Consequences of Valuing Health on the Labor Wedge: A Macroeconomic Perspective
    Presenter: Zhigang Feng (Swiss Banking Institute - University of Zurich)
  4. The Efficiency, Insurance and Welfare Effects of the U.S. Health Care Reform 2010
    Presenter: Juergen Jung (Towson University)
Labor Policy and Health
Room: Osgoode
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Self-Rated Health Status
    Presenter: Swati Mukerjee (Bentley University)
    Discussant: Susan Averett (Lafayette College)
  2. Health Behaviors and the Labor Market: The Effect of the Icelandic Economic Collapse
    Presenter: Tinna Laufey Asgiersdottir (University of Iceland)
    Discussant: Swati Murkerjee (Bentley University)
  3. Women and Illicit Drug Use: The Role of Welfare Reform
    Presenter: Dhaval Dave (Bentley University)
    Discussant: Anca Cotet (Ball State University)
  4. The Effects of EITC Payment Expansion on the Health Behaviors of Low-income Mothers
    Presenter: Susan Averett (Lafayette College)
    Discussant: Dhaval Dave (Bentley University)
Simcoe/DufferinSelf-Reported Health Status
Room: Simcoe/Dufferin
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Inflated Responses in Measures of Self-assessed Health
    Presenter: Mark Harris (Monash University)
  2. Which Domains of Self-rated Health Better Predict Medical Care Expenditure for General Adults? Analysis Using Administrative Data
    Presenter: Yiing-Jenq Chou (National Yang-Ming University)
  3. Disentangling 'True' Underlying Health from Response Styles: A Separate Identification of Direct Health Effects from Self-categorization Effects
    Presenter: Luis Pina Rebelo (Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Faculdade de Economia e Gestão)
  4. Does Social Assistance Participation Lead to Lower Self-reported Health?
    Presenter: Lori Curtis (University of Waterloo)
Do We Need a New Paradigm for Health Economics?
Room: Simcoe/Dufferin
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. A New Paradigm for Health Economics: But Recognising It Is Our Health and Our Health Service
    Presenter: Gavin Mooney (University of Sydney & University of Cape Town)
  2. Africanising the Social Determinants of Health: Re-Examination of Inequalities in Health
    Presenter: Hyacinth Eme Ichoku (University of Nigeria)
  3. Rethinking the Notion of Efficiency in Health Economics
    Presenter: Robert G. Evans (Centre for Health Services and Policy Research)
Methods
Room: Simcoe/Dufferin
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Economic Evaluation Should Account for Learning-by-doing Effects: The Case of Lung Transplantation
    Presenter: Luís Manuel Mendonça (Portuguese National School of Public Health & Military Hospital of Lisbon)
  2. Survival Modelling for Economic Evaluations: Presenting a Process for Selecting Appropriate Models to Avoid Inconsistencies between Health Technology Assessments
    Presenter: Nicholas Latimer (University of Sheffield)
  3. Can Contextual Measures Compensate for Data Limitations Inherent in the Medicare CCW Data?
    Presenter: Amy Davidoff (University of Maryland School of Pharmacy)
Insuring the Poor
Room: Simcoe/Dufferin
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Financial protection of rural health insurance in China
    Presenter: Julie Shi (Boston University)
  2. Does Community-based Health Insurance Protect Household Assets? Evidence from Rural Africa
    Presenter: Divya Parmar (Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University)
  3. Do Social Health Insurance Schemes in Developing Country Settings Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce the Impoverishing Effect of Healthcare Payments for the Poorest People? A Systematic Review
    Presenter: Arnab Acharya (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  4. Health Insurance Coverage and Healthcare Consumption in France: Evidence from a Low-income Population
    Presenter: Sophie Guthmuller (Paris-Dauphine University)
Reform in Health System Finance in Selected Middle East Countries
Room: Simcoe/Dufferin
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Panelist: Burcay Erus
    Presenter: Burcay Erus (Bogazici University)
  2. Panelist: Guy Navon
    Presenter: Guy Navon (Bank of Israel)
  3. Panelist: Sawsan Abdulkarim
    Presenter: Sawsan Abdulkarim (Economic Development Board, Bahrain)
The Impacts of Innovative Provider Financial Incentives on Health and Health Care
Room: Simcoe/Dufferin
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Innovations in Provider Payment and Vertical Coordination of Care: Complex ‘Fundholding’ Experiment in Hungary
    Presenter: Tamás Evetovits (WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening)
  2. Impacts of Capitation and Pay-for-performance on Health Expenditure and Vertical Integration: A Social Experiment in Rural China
    Presenter: Winnie Yip (Oxford University)
  3. Comparing the Effects of Using Financial Incentives for Primary Health Care in Argentina and Brazil
    Presenter: Pia Schneider (World Bank)
    Discussant: Adam Wagstaff
Windsor EastEquity
Room: Windsor East
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Factors Affecting Ghana’s Ability to Meet the Millennium Development Goal 5
    Presenter: Eugenia Amporfu (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
  2. What Is the Impact of Tax Deduction Associated with Private Health Expenditures on Equity in Health Care Financing?
    Presenter: João Pereira (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
  3. A Visit Is not a Visit? Exploring Quality and Intensity of Care in Assessing Equity in Health Care Use
    Presenter: Jui-fen Rachel Lu (College of Management, Chang Gung University)
  4. Free Health Care Delivery in PHC in Nepal and Its Implication in Equity: A Review
    Presenter: Badri Raj Pande (Nepal Health Economics Association)
The Effects of Competition from Alternative Delivery Settings and Physician-Hospital Arrangements on Surgery Location, Services and Quality
Room: Windsor East
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. Hospitals As Physicians’ Workshops: New Theory and Empirical Evidence of Hospital Decision Making
    Presenter: Jane Ruseski (University of Alberta)
  2. Fight or Flight: The Threat of Specialty Competition and the Service Offerings of General Hospitals
    Presenter: Robert Huckman (Harvard University)
  3. Migration of Physicians to Competitive Outpatient Care Centers: Escape from High-risk Hospitals?
    Presenter: Gary Fournier (Florida State University)
Cost Sharing
Room: Windsor East
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. Does Competition Lead Physicians to Consider Patients’ Out-of-pocket Expenses?
    Presenter: Hai Fang (University of Colorado Denver)
  2. The Effects of Cost Sharing on Utilization in Children's Medicaid and CHIP
    Presenter: Karoline Mortensen (University of Maryland)
  3. Predicting Consumption Expenditure for the Analysis of the Incidence of Health Care Out of Pocket Payments
    Presenter: Gemini Mtei (Ifakara Health Institute)
Out-of-Pocket Expenditure
Room: Windsor East
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Community health insurance versus prepayment including savings schemes in developing countries?
    Presenter: Veronica Vargas (University Alberto Hurtado)
  2. Out of Pocket Expenditures for Emergency Department Visits
    Presenter: Paula Song (The Ohio State University)
  3. Out-of-pocket Spending and Sources of Private Coverage in the United States
    Presenter: Steven C. Hill (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
  4. Determinants of Making Out-of-pocket Expenditure and the Role of Different Health Insurance Schemes in Tanzania
    Presenter: Suzan Makawia (Ifakara Health Institute)
Emergency Medicine
Room: Windsor East
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. What Explains the Diffusion of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Capability at U.S. Hospitals? A Longitudinal Analysis of Firm and Market Characteristics, 2004-2008
    Presenter: Thomas Concannon (Tufts Medical Center)
  2. Income Shocks and the Demand for Health Care: Evidence from the 2008 Tax Rebate Experiment
    Presenter: Tal Gross (Columbia University)
    Discussant: Guy David (University of Pennsylvania)
  3. Does Improved Access to Medical Care Reduce Health Disparities between Blacks and Whites?
    Presenter: Elizabeth Ty Wilde (Columbia University)
    Discussant: Joseph Newhouse (Harvard University)
Efficiency Improvement: Risk Pooling Among Multiple Health Insurance Plans
Room: Windsor East
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Demographic Scales for Ex-ante Risk Equalisation in the Australian Private Health Insurance Market
    Presenter: Francesco Paolucci (The Australian National University)
  2. Efficiency of Risk Pooling for Migrating Rural Labors in China
    Presenter: Hua Li (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
  3. Optimal Insurance Consolidation Within Japan’s Public Universal Insurance System
    Presenter: Byung-Kwang Yoo (University of Rochester)
Windsor WestHealth Human Resource
Room: Windsor West
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
  1. Using Optimal Resource Use to Evaluate the Performance of a Health Insurance Program in Nigeria: Health Care Providers Perspectives
    Presenter: Shafiu Mohammed (University of Heidelberg)
  2. A Comparative Analysis of Financial Incentive Strategies to Motivate and Retain Health Workers in South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi
    Presenter: Steve Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
  3. Job Preferences of New Graduates in Nursing
    Presenter: Denise Doiron (University of New South Wales)
  4. Linking the Health Workforce with National Health Expenditures
    Presenter: Ani Turner (Altarum Institute)
Advances in the Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control: The Role of Taxation
Room: Windsor West
When: 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  1. The Effectiveness of Tax and Price Policies for Tobacco Control: IARC Cancer Prevention Handbook 14
    Presenter: Frank J Chaloupka (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  2. Price Responsiveness among Chinese Urban Adult Smokers: Findings from ITC China Survey
    Presenter: Jidong Huang (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  3. The Impact of Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on the Use of Tobacco Products in India
    Presenter: Arindam Nandi (Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy)
  4. Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project
    Presenter: G Emmanuel Guindon
Health Shock
Room: Windsor West
When: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  1. The Long-run Effects of Prenatal Exposure to the Dutch Famine of the Winter of 1944-1945 on Income and Health
    Presenter: Maarten Lindeboom (VU University Amsterdam)
  2. Activity Cycles of General Practitioners and Their Adaptation to Epidemic Shocks: The Hidden Cost of Deregulated Fees
    Presenter: Mohammad Abu-Zaineh (Université Aix Marseille, IRD, INSERM, U912 (SE4S))
  3. Economic Consequences of Ill Health Shocks in Rural India
    Presenter: Marta Quintussi (Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences)
Self-Managed Care
Room: Windsor West
When: 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
  1. Cognition and the Education Gradient on Prevention among Diabetics and Hypertensives
    Presenter: Antonio Trujillo (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
  2. Modelling the Interaction between Patient Behaviours and Outcomes in Type 1 Diabetes
    Presenter: Jen Kruger (University of Sheffield)
  3. Cost-effectiveness of Self-managed versus Physician-managed Oral Anticoagulation Therapy in Norway
    Presenter: Siri Fauli Munkerud (Norwegian Medical Association)
  4. Assessing the Value of Diabetes Self-management Education Provided by Diabetes Educators
    Presenter: Karen Fitzner (American Association of Diabetes Educators)
Value-based Pricing: A Practical Route to Static and Dynamic Efficiency in Pharmaceutical Markets?
Room: Windsor West
When: 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  1. Value Based Pricing for Pharmaceuticals: It Role and Prospects in a Newly Devolved UK NHS
    Presenter: Karl Claxton (University of York)
  2. Value-based Differential Pricing
    Presenter: Patricia Danzon (University of Pennsylvania )
  3. Institutional Lessons from Value Based Pricing for Pharmaceuticals in France
    Presenter: Lise Rochaix (Haute Autorité de Santé )
The Economic Burden of Illness in Canada
Room: Windsor West
When: 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  1. Hospital Costs
    Presenter: Jacqueline Dugas (Public Health Agency of Canada)
  2. Drug Costs
    Presenter: Ken Eng (Public Health Agency of Canada)
    Discussant: Michael Wolfson (University of Ottawa)
    Discussant: Werner Brouwer (Erasmus University)
    Discussant: Luca Lorenzoni (OECD)
  3. Lost production due to disability
    Presenter: Patricia Lau (Public Health Agency of Canada)
    Discussant: Michael Wolfson (University of Ottawa)
    Discussant: Werner Brouwer (Erasmus University)
    Discussant: Luca Lorenzoni (OECD)
  4. Lost production due to premature mortality
    Presenter: Sameer Rajbhandary (Public Health Agency of Canada)
    Discussant: Michael Wolfson (University of Ottawa)
    Discussant: Werner Brouwer (Erasmus University)
    Discussant: Luca Lorenzoni (OECD)