Venue: The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1 Towerview Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0120

 

Session

Poster Session

Room: Kirby Winter Garden

When: Monday 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Presentations
TitlePresenterDiscussant
Did 'targets and terror' reduce waiting times in England for hospital care? Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol)
Adverse Events for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Is there a difference between HMO and FFS enrollees? Jayasree Basu (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Mothers and Childhood Asthma: Does Behavior Really Matter? Tiffany L. Green (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Interpreting Econometric Interaction Effects in Nonlinear Models in Health Economics John Mullahy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Effects of Economic Activity on Health Behaviors Xin Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
The Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA) on Health Outcomes Dana Costea (Lehigh University)
Evaluation of Horizontal and Vertical Equity Concerns in Healthcare Utilization by the US Population Aniket A Kawatkar (University of Southern California)
Natural History of Chronic HCV Infection Obtained Through Injection Drug Use: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis Ava John-Baptiste (University of Toronto)
The association between costs and nurses' perception of practice environment in acute inpatient nursing Chuan-Fen Liu (VA Puget Sound Health Care System)
Implications of Medicaid Nonpayment for Inpatient Pediatric Richard B. Smith (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg)
Evaluating the Effect of Medical Resident Work-hour Reform on Hospital Productivity: 80 Hours Work Restriction on Medical Residents Jose M. Fernandez (University of Louisville)
Can Healthcare IT Save Babies? Amalia R Miller (University of Virginia)
Access and public expenditure on high cost medicines in the Brazilian health system, 2000-2004 Francisco Acurcio (Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG))
Protectionism or Precautionsim: The Controversy on U.S. Drug Imports Anne Boring (Université Paris Dauphine)
International Valuation Set for EQ-5D Health States Benjamin M. Craig (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute)
Financial Cost Implications and Sustainability fo Scaling up Antiretroviral Programs in Africa: A case study of Uganda and Senegal Lennie Kyomuhangi (AIDSRelief-CRS Nigeria)
Exploring the effect of the menopause transition on labor force participation and wages Mercy Mvundura (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Evaluating the Impact of Policy on Free Health Care for Children under Six in Vietnam Ha Nguyen (University of California, Berkeley)
When and when not generic drugs are prescribed? Toshiaki Iizuka (Aoyama Gakuin University)
The Contribution of Social Participation to Health Status An International Comparison of Europeans Aged Fifty and Over Thierry Debrand (Research and Information Institute for Health Economics (IRDES))
Screening for At-Risk College Alcohol Use: How Much is Too Much? Marlon P. Mundt (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Rebate Later or Discount Directly Yi-Chen Hong (Chinese Culture University)
Psychiatric disorders and the labor market: an analysis by psychiatric profiles Alexander J. Cowell (RTI International)
Prison Health Care: Is Contracting Out Healthy? H.E. Frech III (University of California, Santa Barbara)
(In)Consistency of Preference Ratings: Results Using Three Methods of Preference Elicitation Kathleen N. Gillespie (Saint Louis University School of Public Health)
Using discrete choice experiments to assess smokers’ preferences for hypothetical cessation medications Joachim Marti (University of Neuchatel)
TV Viewing and Obesity Among Children: New Insights from Time Diary Data Frederick J. Zimmerman (University of Washington)
The Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity of Health Care Delivery Bruce Hollingsworth (Monash University)
Is there catastrophic health expenditure after Universal Coverage: Which household is at risk? Tewarit Somkotra (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
The Economic Burden of Occupational Skin Disease in the US Laura A. Blanciforti (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Temporal Trends in the Relative Cost of Dying: Evidence from Canada Audrey Laporte (University of Toronto)
Assessing the value of a life year (VOLY) using contingent valuation in the context of air pollution Claude Jeanrenaud (University of Neuchâtel)
Measuring the Value of a Pneumococcal Vaccine in Bangladesh: A Comparison of Multiple Contingent Valuation Elicitation Methods John Bridges (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Inequalities among users' payments of the French Health Care System: microsimulation of several reforms and measure of equity and social acceptability Anne-Line Couillerot (Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS))
The evolution of public expenditure with renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Brazil - 2000 to 2004 Francisco Acurcio (Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG))
New Ways of Increasing Vaccination Coverage: Evaluation of CCT Programs in Nicaragua and Mexico Tania Barham (University of Colorado Boulder)
The Effect of Cholera and Measles Vaccination on Educational Outcomes David Canning (Harvard School of Public Health)
Results from estimating the incremental costs of providing behavioral change services in primary care physician practices Martey S. Dodoo (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Does Breastfeeding Yield Schooling Benefits? Evidence from Sibling Pairs in Add Health Daniel I. Rees (University of Colorado Denver)
Height and Adolescent Psychological Wellbeing Laura M. Argys (University of Colorado Denver)
The effect of switching physicians on patient health Andrew Sfekas (Northwestern University)
Do Changes in Profits Influence the Quality of Care Provided by Medicaid MCOs? Troy Quast (Sam Houston State University)
Whose opinion matters? A contingent valuation survey to assess the differences in husband, wife and aggregated household demand for a malaria vaccine from slums of Navi-Mumbai, India Vimalanand Shrikant Prabhu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Value of Gains in Cancer Survival Eric Sun (University of Chicago )
Dual Use of VA & Non-VA Services among Primary Care Patients with Depression Chuan-Fen Liu (VA Puget Sound Health Care System)
Use of Primary Care in VA and Medicare among VAMC and CBOC Patients Chuan-Fen Liu (VA Puget Sound Health Care System)
Factors Associated with Veterans' Dual Use of VA and Medicare Primary Care Services Matthew Maciejewski (VA Puget Sound Health Care System)
Global Health Inequalities: An International Comparison Hak-Ju Kim (Dongguk University)
Mathematical modeling: bridging the gap between controlled trials and economic evaluation in public health in developing countries David Jeffries (UKMRC Tropical Disease Research Unit)
Medical Cost of Osteoporosis in the Elderly Medicare Population Wing Chan (United BioSource Corporation)