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<strong>8th</strong> <strong>European</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on Health Economics
ECHE 2010
HELSINKI FINLAND
7–10 JULY 2010
PROGRAMME

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Contents
Welcome to ECHE 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Programme outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Scientific programme – Thursday, 8 July 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Scientific programme – Friday, 9 July 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Scientific programme – Saturday, 10 July 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Floor plan of Finlandia Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Poster presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Social programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Organisers, supporters and sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Map of Helsinki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
<strong>Conference</strong> secretariat
ECHE 2010 <strong>Conference</strong> Secretariat
CONGREX / Blue & White <strong>Conference</strong>s Oy
P.O. Box 81, FI-00371 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358-9-5607500
Fax: +358-9-56075020
E-mail: eche2010@congrex.fi

Welcome to ECHE 2010
Dear colleagues,
It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the <strong>8th</strong> <strong>European</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on
Health Economics (ECHE 2010). The biennial <strong>European</strong> conference has been
designed by the <strong>European</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> Committee of the International Health
Economics Association (iHEA) to rotate among the <strong>European</strong> countries and falls
between iHEA’s related world congresses. The 2010 conference is hosted by the
Finnish Society for Health Economics in beautiful Helsinki, the "Daughter of the
Baltic Sea" and capital of Finland.
Together with the world congresses, ECHE 2010 offers the principal platform for
leading researchers with an interest in health economics. This facilitates sharing of
results, policy debate and knowledge exchange and also contributes to the
foundation of networks in addition to improving the quality of research on health
economics. The theme of the 2010 conference is Connecting Health and
Economics.
Living in a country with great variety in seasonal changes, we are happy to
welcome participants to join the ECHE 2010 <strong>Conference</strong> during the warmest and
brightest period of the year and sense the unique quality of our northern climes as
well as the beat of the city. We are confident that you enjoy both the scientific
programme and the social events.
Enjoy your stay in Helsinki!
Markku Pekurinen
Chair of the Organising Committee
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Programme outline
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 Thursday, 8 July 2010
07:30
07:45
Registration open
08:00
08:15
07:30–17:00
08:30
08:45
09:00
Opening plenary 08:30-09:45
09:15
09:30
T1-01
09:45
10:00
Coffee break 09:45-10:15
10:15
10:30
10:45
Parallel sessions 10:15-11:30
11:00
11:15
T2-01 T2-10
11:30 Break 11:30-11:45
11:45
12:00
12:15
Parallel sessions 11:45-13:00
12:30
12:45
T3-01 T3-10
13:00
13:15
Registration open
Lunch and posters 13:00-14:30
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15
13:00–21:00
14:30
14:45
15:00
Parallel sessions 14:30-15:45
15:15
15:30
T4-01 T4-10
15:45 Coffee break 15:45-16:00
16:00
16:15
16:30
Parallel sessions 16:00-17:15
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
T5-01 T5-10
18:15
18:30
18:45
Get-together at Finlandia Hall City reception at Helsinki City Hall
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00
21:15
21:30
21:45
22:00
18:00-21:00
18:00-19:30

Friday, 9 July 2010 Saturday, 10 July 2010
Registration open 08:00-17:00
Registration open 08:00-13:00
07:30
07:45
08:00
08:15
Parallel sessions 08:30-09:45 Parallel sessions 08:30-09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
F1-01 F1-10 S1-01 S1-10
09:15
09:30
Coffee break 09:45-10:15 Coffee break 09:45-10:15
09:45
10:00
Parallel sessions 10:15-11:30 Parallel sessions 10:15-11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
F2-01 F2-10
S2-01 S2-10
11:00
11:15
Break 11:30-11:45 Break 11:30-11:45 11:30
Parallel sessions 11:45-13:00
Closing plenary 11:45-13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
F3-01 F3-10
S3-01
12:30
12:45
Lunch and posters 13:00-14:30
Closing reception 13:00-13:30
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15
Parallel sessions 14:30-15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
F4-01 F4-10
15:15
15:30
Coffee break 15:45-16:00 15:45
Parallel sessions 16:00-17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
F5-01 F5-10
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
Bus transfers to Market Square
18:15
18:30
18:15-19:00 18:45
Boat transfers to Kulosaari
19:00-20:00
<strong>Conference</strong> dinner at Restaurant
Kulosaaren Casino
20:00-00:30
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00
21:15
21:30
21:45
22:00
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Scientific programme
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Committees
Scientific committee
Fernando Antonanzas Villar, Universidad de La Rioja
Jan-Erik Askildsen, University of Bergen
Marja Blom, University of Helsinki
Mike Drummond, University of York
Uf Gerdtham, Lund University
Thomas Getzen, Temple University
Wolfgang Greiner, Universität Bielefeld
Laszlo Gulacsi, Corvinus University of Budapest
Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, University of Southern Denmark
Unto Häkkinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Tor Iversen, University of Oslo
Philip Jacobs, University of Alberta
Zoltan Kalo, Eotvos Lorand University
Martin Knapp, London School of Economics
Guillem López-Casasnovas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Kersti Meiesaar, University of Tartu
Francesco Mennini, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Arto Ohinmaa, University of Alberta
Adam Olivier, London School of Economics
Markku Pekurinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Joao Pereira, Lisbon Nova University
Pedro Pita Barros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Clas Rehnberg, Karolinska Institutet
Pekka Rissanen, University of Tampere
Lise Rochaix, Haute Autorité de Santé
Frans Rutten, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Harri Sintonen, University of Helsinki
Hannu Valtonen, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio Campus)
Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich
Local Programme Committee
Marja Blom, University of Helsinki
Neill Booth, University of Tampere
Maj-Britt Hedvall, Hanken School of Economics
Unto Häkkinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Raimo Jämsén, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Aki Kangasharju, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT)
Ismo Linnosmaa, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Kalevi Luoma, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT)
Janne Martikainen, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio Campus)
Hennamari Mikkola, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela)
Markku Pekurinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Chair
Pekka Rissanen, University of Tampere
Harri Sintonen, University of Helsinki
Hannu Valtonen, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio Campus)
Kari Vinni, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Local Organising Committee
Pasi Aronen, University of Helsinki
Marja Blom, University of Helsinki
Neill Booth, University of Tampere
Tarja Honkalampi, Tehy, the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals
Urpo Kiiskinen, Oy Eli Lilly Finland Ab
Jan Klavus, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Teija Kotomäki, Pfizer Oy
Hennamari Mikkola, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela)
Suvi Mäklin, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Merja Paimensaari, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Markku Pekurinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Chair
Päivi Putkonen, Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Ulla Tuominen, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela)

Scientific programme
T1-01
Main Hall
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:40
08:50
09:00
09:10
09:30
09:40
09:45 – 10:15
Opening ceremony and plenary –
Connecting health and economics
Chair: Markku Pekurinen
Music by Jean Sibelius and Oskar Merikanto
Allegros Quartet
Opening and FSH Welcome
Markku Pekurinen, FSH President, Professor
Welcome address
Pekka Puska, Director General, Professor, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Opening speech
Paula Risikko, Minister of Health and Social Services, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Plenary Speech
Hugh Gravelle, Professor, Center for Health Economics, University of York
Closing Comments
Markku Pekurinen, FSH President, Professor
Music
Allegros Quartet
Coffee break / posters
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Scientific programme
T2-01
Main Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:30 – 11:45
Equity
Chair: Michael Thiede
Equity in public financing in Argentina: The relationship between national and sub national government
Ernesto Báscolo and Gabriela Blejer, Juan Lazarte Health Institute
How pro-poor is government spending for health services in Tamil Nadu (India)? An analysis of
factors influencing patterns of utilization with respect to inpatient and maternity services during
1995-2004
Girija Vaidyanathan, Debashis Acharya, Vangal R Muraleedharan and Vaishnavi S.D
Indian Institute of Technology
Equity to Access to Health Care Resources. A Longitudinal Analysis for Stroke in Spain: Multilevel Approach
Borja Garcia, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Health Policy and Horizontal Inequity of Health Care Utilization in Australia: 1983-2005
Mohammad Hajizadeh, Luke Connelly and James Butler
School of Economics and Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH)
T2-02
Helsinki Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
Formal and informal patient payments:
Substitutes or complements?
Chair: Wim Groot
Formal and informal patient payments in Europe
Marzena Tambor, Milena Pavlova, Christoph Sowada, Stanislawa Golinowska and Wim Groot
Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum
Short-term effects of the introduction of official patient fees on the level of informal payments for
health care services: The case of Hungary
Petra Baji, Milena Pavlova, Laszlo Gulacsi and Wim Groot, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
Paying informally in the Albanian health care sector: A two-tiered stochastic frontier model
Sonila Tomini, Wim Groot and Milena Pavlova, Maastricht University
11:00 The scope and scale of informal patient payments in Europe: a re-examination of empirical
evidence
Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga and Wim Groot
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
T2-03 Hospital efficiency
Elissa Hall
10:15 – 11:30 Chair: William Aaronson
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
Capacity utilization and efficiency of Greek public hospitals
Roxani Karagiannis, Centre for Planning and Economic Research
Measuring efficiency in the Hungarian hospital sector
Csaba Dózsa, Adrienn Ecseki and Barbara Borcsek, Corvinus University of Budapest
Applying the Swedish Performance Assessment Framework in Practise:
Assessment of efficiency and quality of health care
Rosita Wigand, Marie Lawrence, Max Köster, Björn Nilsson, Cecilia Dahlgren, Kristina Eklund,
Bertil Lindahl and Fredrik Westander, National Board of Health and Welfare
Testing for increasing returns to scale for hospital’s intensive care units
James Moises, Herve Leleu, Vivian Valdmanis and Patrick Bernet
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Break

T2-04
Hall A
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
T2-05
Hall B
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
Pricing based on risk-sharing, what is it and is it relevant
for the US and Europe?
Chair: Jaana Martikainen
Comparing utility measures
Chair: Paula Lorgelly
11:00 The impact of different HRQoL instruments and basic assumptions on the number of QALYs
gained and cost per QALY gained in intensive care or high-dependency unit patients
Tarja Vainiola, Ville Pettila, Risto Paavo Roine and Harri Sintonen, Helsinki University Central Hospital
T2-06 Screening
Room 21
10:15 – 11:30 Chair: Carmen Herrero
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
Pricing based on risk-sharing, what is it and is it relevant for the US and Europe?
Alistair McGuire
London School of Economics
Pricing based on risk-sharing, what is it and is it relevant for the US and Europe?: Comment
Suvi-Anne Siimes
Pharma Industry Finland
Pricing based on risk-sharing, what is it and is it relevant for the US and Europe?: Comment
Tuomas Sukselainen
Finnish Ministry of Finance
Comparison of the Statistical Inference and Multi-Attribute Utility Theory Models to
Develop a Preference-Based Instrument: The EXACT-U as a Case Study
Jennifer Petrillo and John Cairns, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Another study showing that the EQ-5D and SF-6D are not interchangeable:
But why would we expect them to be?
David Whitehurst, Stirling Bryan and Martyn Lewis, University of Birmingham
Is 15D more sensitive than other utilities to common diabetes complications?
Nick Kontodimopoulos, Zina Chadjiapostolou, Eleni Arvanitaki and Dimitris Niakas
Hellenic Open University
Economic evaluation of Chagas disease screening of pregnant Latin American women and of their
infants in a non endemic area
Elisa Sicuri, José Muñoz, Maria Jesús Pinazo, Elizabeth Posada, Joan Sanchez, Pedro L Alonso and
Joaquim Gascon, CRESIB
Economic evaluation of cervical cancer screening strategies
Zoltan Voko, Laszlo Nagyjanosi, Zoltan Kalo, Barnabas Margitai, Tamas Koos and Rita Kovi
Eotvos Lorand University
Deriving the optimal screening strategy for familial intracranial aneurysms: A cost-utility analysis
Stijntje Bor, Hendrik Koffijberg, Marieke Wermer and Gabriel Rinkel
University Medical Center Utrecht
Comparison of the cost of antidepressants in a prostate cancer screening trial population
Adela Ratiu, Neill Booth, Anna-Maija Koivisto and Pekka Rissanen, University of Tampere
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Scientific programme
T2-07
Rooms 22-23
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
T2-08
Rooms 25-26
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:30 – 11:45
Human health resources
Chair: Milena Gajic-Stevanovic
The effect of country of training on the occupational mobility of Registered Nurses in New South
Wales, 1993-2002
Michelle Cunich, The University of Sydney
Relative cost-effectiveness of various policy interventions to address nurses’ shortages in rural South Africa
Mylene Lagarde, Duane Blaauw, Ermin Erasmus and John Cairns
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Relative magnitude of presenteeism and absenteeism and work related factors affecting them
among health care professionals
Risto Tuominen and Iina Rantanen, Department of Public Health, University of Turku
Comparing treatment of migrant and non-migrant dentists in the British National Health Service
Shaolin Wang, Martin Chalkley and Colin Tilley, University of Dundee
Sub-national health expenditure
Chair: Gerard de Pouvourville
The effects of local authority break-ups on health care costs and efficiency
Antti Moisio and Kalevi Luoma, Government Institute for Economic Research
Decentralised public health expenditure and health outcomes: Effect on infant mortality rate in
Colombian municipalities
Victoria Eugenia Soto Rojas and Vincent Lorant, Université Catholique de Louvain
Does Fiscal Discipline towards Sub-national Governments Affect Citizens’ Well-being?
Evidence on Health
Massimiliano Piacenza and Gilberto Turati, University of Torino
Geographical Variation and Convergence of Medical Services and Social Capital
Tomofumi Anegawa, Keio University
Break

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
T2-09
Chydenius
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
T2-10
Ball Room
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
Migrant health
Chair: Anne Nolan
Diagnosing dementia in migrants: An analysis with data from the German statutory health
insurance scheme
Anna Marie Passon, Guido Büscher and Markus Lüngen, University Hospital Cologne
Migrants inequalities in access to health care in the EU: The role of national policies toward
integration
Margherita Giannoni, Giuliano Masiero and Zahara Ismail, University of Perugia
Health disparities between French and immigrant population: A Oaxaca Decomposition analysis
Caroline Berchet and Florence Jusot, Paris Dauphine Université
The Healthy Immigrant Effect: Evidence for Ireland
Anne Nolan, Economic and Social Research Institute
Impact of obesity
Chair: Heather Brown
Does physical appearance matter? Overweight and labor market discrimination
Michela Braga and Giovanna Labartino, Bocconi University
Hospital consumption and costs in a cohort of obese patients from Northern Italy
Eva Pagano, Enrica Migliore, Dario Mirabelli, Ileana Baldi, Maria Letizia Petroni, Dario
Gregori, Carlo Zocchetti and Franco Merletti, University of Turin
Obese and Absent? Exploring the Relationship between Obesity and Sickness Absence in Sweden
Margareta Dackehag and Ulf-G Gerdtham, Lund University
Future health care costs of obesity: Results from the KORA case cohort study, 1995-2005
Silke B. Wolfenstetter
Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health
Finlandia Hall
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Scientific programme
T3-01
Main Hall
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
T3-02
Helsinki Hall
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
T3-03
Elissa Hall
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
13:00 – 14:30
Informal care
Chair: Stefano Calciolari
Informal Care as Intergenerational Transfer: Late Life New Parent-Child Coresidence in Japan
Meliyanni Johar, Shiko Maruyama and Sayaka Nakamura, University of New South Wales
The future of informal care
Klarita Sadiraj, Joost Timmermans, Isolde Woittiez, Michiel Ras and Alice de Boer
The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP
Because they’re worth it! The contingent valuation method applied to informal care in France
Bérengère Davin, Alain Paraponaris and Christel Protière, INSERM
The impact of informal care on formal care: Do caregivers facilitate access to care?
Giovanni Fattore, Alessandra Susi and Aleksandra Torbica, Bocconi University
Financing
Chair: Brian Potter
Regional transfers in the German health care financing system by different risk adjustment models
Florian Buchner, Dirk Göpffarth and Jürgen Wasem, University Duisburg-Essen
The effects of changes in the financing of the Russian public healthcare sector
Vladimir S. Gordeev, Wim Groot and Milena Pavlova, Maastricht University
Free-riding and funding of health care: Insights from a public goods experiment
Rafael Pinedo Villanueva and Matthew Taylor, University of Southampton
Financing health care in an integrated Europe
Susanna Kochskaemper, Institute for Economic Policy at University of Cologne
Applying technology assessment
Chair: Marcos Feres
A New Pharmaceutical: Is it Worth the Money? Whose Money?
Michèle Sennhauser and Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich
A Review of Health Technology Assessment Reports on Devices for Insulin Administration
Caroline Kaas, Erpur Johan Adalsteinsson and Michiel Erik Henk Hemels
University of Copenhagen
Do Electronic Medical Record Systems Improve the Quality of Health Care?
Emilia Simeonova, Stockholm University
Beyond cost effectiveness analysis: The organizational impact of technological change in health
care – Application to innovations in colorectal cancer screening
Jean-Michel Josselin, Denis Heresbach, Pauline Chauvin and Jacques Grolier
University of Rennes 1
Lunch break / posters

T3-04
Hall A
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
T3-05
Hall B
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
T3-06
Room 21
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
Cross-country comparison of costs and efficiency
in the Nordic countries
Chair: Clas Rehnberg
Cost of cancer: a cost of illness comparison between the Nordic countries
Jorid Kalseth
SINTEF
Casemix comparison in Finnish and Swedish hospitals using different output specifications
Kirsi Vitikainen
National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
A comparative analysis of specialized health services in the Nordic countries
Sverre Kittelsen
University of Oslo
Political economy of health reform
in Developing and Transition Economies
Chair: Heikki Hiilamo
Summary of Latin American reforms and the political economy issues
Maureen Lewis
World Bank
Summary of Eastern <strong>European</strong> reforms and the political economy issues
Mukesh Chawla
World Bank
Summary of East Asian reforms and the political economy issues
Bill Hsiao
Harvard University
Retirement
Chair: Joan Gil
The Impact of Co-payment Exemption on Pharmaceuticals Consumption: Evidence from Spain
Ana Tur-Prats and Jaume Puig-Junoy
CRES (Centre for Research in Economics and Health), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Healthy enough to work longer?
Maria Isabel Climaco, Pedro Pita Barros and Oscar Lourenço, ISCAC
Modelling the Effect of Aging and Incentives for Delayed Voluntary Retirement Age on the
demand for health care: The case of Joint Replacement Therapy
Ruben Mujica Mota, Aleksandra Torbica and Elio Borgonovi
Universita Bocconi/<strong>European</strong> Health Technology Institute
Measuring Disability Status and Older People’s Receipt of Disability Benefits in British Household
Surveys: A Latent Variable Structural Equation Approach
Marcello Morciano, Francesca Zantomio, Stephen Pudney and Ruth Hancock, University of Essex
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Scientific programme
T3-07
Rooms 22-23
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
T3-08
Rooms 25-26
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
13:00 – 14:30
Reform
Chair: Haizhen Mou
Integrated Resource Mechanisms within Health Care and across Health and Social Care: Evidence
from the International Literature
Maria Goddard, Anne Mason, Helen Weatherly and Kath Wright, University of York
An analysis of the impact of the 2006 dental reforms on NHS dentistry usage
William Whittaker and Stephen Birch, University of Manchester
The link between health care systems and their financing: Economic evaluations of global
budgeting and fee-for-service payment systems
Eero Siljander, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Beyond transaction cost economics: Towards a synthesised approach for analysing contracting in
health care markets and experience from the Australian private health care setting
Ronald Donato, University of South Australia
What affects health?
Chair: Mijung Park
A Study for the determinant of Health Inequality in Taiwan
Yi-Chen Hong and Chin-Hung Lin, Chinese Culture University
Stronger sex but earlier death: A multi-level socioeconomic analysis of gender differences in mortality
Martin Gächter, Peter Schwazer and Engelbert Theurl
University of Innsbruck
Socioeconomic status and breast cancer risk: A new methodology to estimate the association
Mariya Melnychuk, University of Alicante
State-protection and self-protection in health
Eleonora Fichera, Matthew Sutton, Alastair Hall and Iain Buchan, University of Manchester
Lunch break / posters

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
T3-09
Chydenius
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
Willingness-to-pay
Chair: Marian Shanahan
12:30 The maximum willingness to pay for a life year and QALY gained among physicians in Finland
in 2006: A postal survey
Vesa Jormanainen, Helka Hosia-Randell, Markku Koskenvuo and Harri Sintonen
Finnish Medicines Agency (Fimea)
T3-10 Impact of employment on health
Ball Room
11:45 – 13:00 Chair: Eric Delattre
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
Willingness-to-pay for maternity care: Challenges, Chances and Limitations of this approach
in the German Health system
Nina Knape, Rainhild Schäfers and Manfred Haubrock, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck
The effect of using non-linear utility function on the willingness-to-pay estimates in a discrete-choice
experiment: An application to consumer preferences for health insurance in the Netherlands
Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot, Maastricht University
Willingness to pay for Home Based Technology Programmes for Older People in Ireland
Aoife Callan and Eamon O'Shea, NUI Galway
Valuing the Productivity Loss Associated with Presenteeism in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Wei Zhang, Nick Bansback, Lindsey Colley, Carlo Marra, Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Network ERAN and Aslam Anis, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences
Measuring causality between health and employment in professional life cycle in France
Thomas Barnay, François Legendre, ERUDITE
Care-related and work-related factors in determining informal caregivers’ intention to change jobs
or exit the labour market
Ulrike Schneider, Birgit Trukeschitz, Richard Mühlmann and Ivo Ponocny
Vienna University of Economics and Business
The effects of changes in health status on labor market behavior
Caren Tempelman, SEO Economic Research
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Thursday, 8 July 2010
16
Scientific programme
T4-01
Main Hall
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
T4-02
Helsinki Hall
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
T4-03
Elissa Hall
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:45 – 16:00
Maternal health
Chair: Jutta Järvelin
Determinants of household health expenditure on maternal care
Manuela De Allegri, Subhash Pokhrel, Valerie Louis, Valéry Ridde, Olaf Mueller and Albrecht Jahn
University of Heidelberg
IVF treatment and advancing female age: A need for a new treatment strategy
Lobke Moolenaar, Frank Broekmans, Fulco van der Veen, Bart Fauser, Peter Hompes and Ben
Willem Mol, Acedemic Medical Centre
Ethnic differences in the income/child health gradient: The role of antenatal care and maternal
health behaviours
Mara Violato, Stavros Petrou and Ron Gray, Health Economics Research Centre Department of
Public Health University of Oxford
Midwife-led care or consultant-led care? Costs, effects and benefits of maternity care in Germany
Nina Knape, Rainhild Schaefers and Manfred Haubrock, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck
Ageing and health care expenditures:
New results from the Netherlands
Chair: Johan Polder
Predictors of Long-Term Care Utilization by Dutch Hospital Patients aged 65+
Albert Wong, Rianne Elderkamp-de Groot, Johan Polder and Job van Exel
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
The Longitudinal Relationship between Health Status and Hospital Expenditures
Bram Wouterse, Bert Meijboom and Johan Polder
Tilburg University and National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Time to drop time-to-death? Unraveling the Determinants of LTC Spending in the Netherlands
Claudine de Meijer, Marc Koopmanschap, Xander Koolman and Eddy van Doorslaer, Erasmus MC
The Role of Disability in Explaining Long-Term Care Utilization
Claudine de Meijer, Marc Koopmanschap, Xander Koolman and Eddy van Doorslaer, Erasmus MC
Guidelines
Chair: Neill Booth
What determines prostheses choice in the NHS: An analysis of data from the National Joint Registry
Charlotte Davies and Paula Lorgelly, Health Economics Group, University of East Anglia
Cost-effectiveness of treatment guidelines for essential hypertension
Diana Mendes, Joanne Lord and Subhash Pokhrel, Brunel University
Population-Based Evaluation of the Impact of Type 2 Diabetes Disease Management Programs on
Health Care Utilisation
Renee Stark, Michaela Schunk, Christine Meisinger, Reiner Leidl and Rolf Holle
Helmholz Zentrum München
The introduction of economic criteria in vaccine expert review: A cross national review
Philip Jacobs and Arto Ohinmaa, University of Alberta
Coffee break / posters

T4-04
Hall A
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
T4-05
Hall B
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
T4-06
Room 21
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
Equity, social values and willingness to pay for QALYs in Europe
Chair: Werner Brouwer
Views of members of the public across Europe on the appropriate principles underlying
the prioritisation of health care
Helen Mason
Newcastle University
How are views about the prioritisation of health care distributed across Europe?
Rachel Baker
Newcastle University
How do views on the appropriate principles underlying the prioritisation of health care
relate to individual characteristics and willingness to pay for health benefits?
Job van Exel
Erasmus University
Register based health economics
Chair: Antti Malmivaara
Micro economic approach based on individual patient records of whole population as a tool to
evaluate performance
Unto Häkkinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Treatments, treatment costs and survival following AMI:
A comparison of Finland and Norway
Terje Hagen, University of Oslo
Performance and implementation of new technology - unfavourable example of total knee
arthroplasty
Mikko Peltola, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Cost and outcomes of low birth weight infants
Emmi Korvenranta, University of Turku
Comparative health systems
Chair: Omer Saka
A comparative analysis of private health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India
Philipa Mladovsky, Wael Fayek Saleh, Emma Pitchforth, Stéphane Jacobzone and Sarah Thomson
London School of Economics and Political Science
The north-south difference in use of long term care use explained?
Isolde Woittiez, Klarita Sadiraj and Debbie Oudijk, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research SCP
The estimation of efficiency of health care in CEE and CIS countries using the semi-parametric approach
Blazej Lyszczarz
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
The Public-Private Mix in Health Care Expenditure in OECD Countries: An Empirical Investigation
Haizhen Mou
University of Saskatchewan
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Thursday, 8 July 2010
18
Scientific programme
T4-07
Rooms 22-23
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
T4-08
Rooms 25-26
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:45 – 16:00
Issues in incentives
Chair: Sophie Witter
Are there Incentives for Risk Selection left? An Analysis from the Risk Compensation
Scheme in the German Statutory Health Insurance
Anna Drabik, Markus Lüngen, Guido Büscher, Anna Passon, Martin Siegel and Stephanie Stock
University hospital of Cologne (AöR)
Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted
infections (STIs) in Tanzania
Damien de Walque, William Dow and Rose Nathan, The World Bank
Not all incentives wash out the “warm glow”: The case of Blood Donation revisited
Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Joan Costa-Font and Steven Yen, City University
A new prevention paradox: Risk equalization versus incentives for prevention
Tim Kanters, Werner Brouwer, Johan Polder, Pieter van Baal and Rene van Vliet
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment
Complementary insurance
Chair: James Butler
The relationship between basic and supplementary insurance in Swiss health care markets
Karine Lamiraud, ESSEC Business School
Good practice of local health insurance schemes in Indonesia: Its contribution
toward universal coverage
Ascobat Gani, Pujianto MKes, Ferry Yanuar, Thomas Weichers and Dunlop David, SPH
Affordability of complementary health insurance in France: a social experiment
Sophie Guthmuller, Florence Jusot and Jérôme Wittwer
Paris Dauphine University
Determinants of Complementary Health Insurance in France:
The predominant role of the level of income
Clémence Perraudin, Florence Jusot and Jérôme Wittwer, CERMES
Coffee break / posters

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
T4-09
Chydenius
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
T4-10
Ball Room
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
Physician income
Chair: Samantha Smith
Changes in the job satisfaction of General Practitioners in England between 2001 and 2008:
A longitudinal analysis
Rosalind Goudie, Matt Sutton and Mark Hann, University of Manchester
Do physicians' financial interest undermine generic substitution? A study of imperfect agency
Maurus Rischatsch, Maria Trottmann and Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich
Low-income GPs: A preference for leisure?
Anne-Laure Samson, Université Paris Dauphine
Physicians' reluctance to losses in earnings:
Microeconometric evidence of induced demand on French GPs
Eric Delattre and Brigitte Dormont, ENSAI
Employing utility measures
Chair: Reiner Leidl
Self-assessed health, gender differences and reporting heterogeneity:
Empirical evidence using multiple imputed data
Udo Schneider, Brit Schneider and Volker Ulrich, University of Bayreuth
Health status of the advanced elderly in six <strong>European</strong> countries:
Results a representative survey using the EQ-5D and SF-12
Hans-Helmut König, Dirk Heider, Sebastian Bernert, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Herbert Matschinger,
Montserrat Martínez, Gemma Vilagut, Josep Maria Haro, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf,
Viviane Kovess and Jordi Alonso, University of Leipzig
Country-specific recalibration of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL-6D) instrument
for use with adolescents
Marj Moodie, Jeff Richardson, Angelo Iezzi, Boyd Swinburn and Kompal Sinha
Deakin University
What to do when you have not collected utility-based outcome data in a population of older
people: a mapping exercise to predict EQ-5D from the Barthel index
Billingsley Kaambwa, Stirling Bryan and Lucinda Billingham, University of Birmingham
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Thursday, 8 July 2010
20
Scientific programme
T5-01
Main Hall
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
T5-02
Helsinki Hall
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
T5-03
Elissa Hall
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
18:00 – 19:30
Pharmaceutical pricing
Chair: Franz Hessel
Savings of drug costs with Reference Price System: Finnish experience
Leena Saastamoinen, Hanna Koskinen, Ulla Tuominen, Timo Maljanen, Annikka Kalliokoski and
Jaana Martikainen, Social Insurance Institution
Regulation of pharmaceutical prices: Evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark
Ulrich Kaiser, Susan Mendez and Thomas Rønde, University of Zurich
Convergence or divergence in <strong>European</strong> drug reimbursement systems? Can the Dutch, Swedish,
Belgian, French and German system learn from each other in deciding on value for money?
Margreet Franken, Arnoud Senn, Maité le Polain, Marc Koopmanschap and Irina Cleemput
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Accounting for the drug life cycle and future drug prices in cost-effectiveness analysis
Martin Hoyle, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
Cost-effectiveness of treatment
Chair: Gerard de Pouvourville
Cost-utility analysis of topical intranasal steroids for otitis media with effusion
Stavros Petrou, University of Oxford
Cost-economic evaluation of radioiodine ablation following rhTSH rather than
the hypothyroid state in Finland
Lisse-Lotte Hermansson, Paul Mernagh and Mark Allyn, Genzyme Corporation
Cost-effectiveness of open versus laparoscopic appendectomy in the US
Laura Haas, Tom Stargardt and Jonas Schreyoegg
Helmholtz Zentrum Munich
Cost-Effectiveness of Memantine in the Treatment of Moderate and Severe Alzheimer's Disease in the UK
Benoit Rive, Marina Grishchenko, Cornelius Katona , Gill Livingston, Michel Lamure, Chantal
Guilhaume-Goulant and Mondher Toumi, University of Lyon I, H. Lundbeck A/S
Hospital quality
Chair: Katharina Hauck
The Effect of Report Cards on Within-Hospital Medical/Surgical Sorting
Ilaria Mosca and Andrew Sfekas, Tilburg University
Concentration of services for thoracic surgery: A register based study of changes in quality and
efficiency
Emma Medin, Torbjörn Ivert and Clas Rehnberg, LIME/Karolinska Institute
Comparing quality of care in public and private hospitals using Western Australia’s mortality and
hospital morbidity data (1995-2004)
Mai Pham, Jim Butler and Renata Hasanova, Australian National University
Hospital accreditation: Socially effective?
Sverre Grepperud, University of Oslo
Helsinki City Reception at Helsinki City Hall (Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13)

T5-04
Hall A
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
T5-05
Hall B
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
T5-06
Room 21
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
Estimating the costs and benefits of public health interventions
Chair: Pieter van Baal
Modelling and forecasting Dutch life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy at old age
Istvan Majer, Pieter van Baal, Wilma Nusselder and Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus MC
Quality of Life Lost Due to Non-Fatal Road Crashes
Carmen Herrero, Universidad de Alicante
Unrelated health care costs: excluded, included, or a bit of both?
Lennert Veerman, University of Queensland
How to (best) measure outcomes in evaluations of public health interventions
Paula Lorgelly, Monash University
Waiting times and prioritisation
Chair: Jan Erik Askildsen
The impact of maximum waiting time targets in Norwegian hospitals
Jurgita Januleviciute, University of Bergen
Waiting times and socioeconomic status: evidence from England
Mauro Laudicella, Luigi Siciliani and Richard Cookson, University of York
How do waiting times initiatives change prioritisation concerning patient characteristics?
A comparative analysis of Norway and Scotland
Jurgita Januleviciute, Jan Erik Askildsen, Oddvar Kaarbøe, Tor Helge Holmås and Matt Sutton
University of Manchester
The effects of targets on waiting time prioritisation: evidence from Portugal
Pedro Pita Barros and Luigi Siciliani, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Economic evaluation of prevention programmes
Chair: Marie Kruse
Economic evaluation of the Melbourne diabetes prevention study:
An intervention for individuals 50 or older at high risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes
Bridie Murphy, Stephen Colgan, Rob Carter, Edward Janus, Prasuna Reddy, Erkki Vartiainen and
James Dunbar, Deakin University
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Incredible Years Parent Program as a Preventive Intervention
Jocelyne Posthumus, Marie-Josée Mangen, Maartje Raaijmakers, Ardine de Wit, Herman van
Engeland and Walter Matthys, University Medical Center Utrecht
Preliminary Analysis of Short Term Financial Implications of a Prevention Bonus Program:
First Results from the German Statutory Health Insurance
Guido Büscher, Stephanie Stock, Anna Drabik, Markus Lüngen and Björn Stollenwerk
The University Hospital of Cologne (AöR)
Team Dentistry and Cumulative Costs of Caries Prevention and Treatment in Children
Tiina Joensuu, Pentti Alanen and Kaisu Pienihäkkinen, University of Turku
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Thursday, 8 July 2010
22
Scientific programme
T5-07
Rooms 22-23
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
T5-08
Rooms 25-26
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
18:00 – 19:30
Experience with primary care
Chair: Robert Rosenman
A study on outsourcing and competition in physician services
Hennamari Mikkola and Ulla Tuominen, National Institute for Welfare and Health (THL)
Cost efficiency in Finnish primary care: The Impact of organisational factors and quality
Kalevi Luoma, Juho Aaltonen and Maija-Liisa Järviö, Government Institute for Economic Research
Health care organization, physician specialization, primary care provision and resources allocation:
The case of Taiwan
Mei-ling Sheu, Yue-chune Lee and Shin-chung Huang, Taipei Medical University
Quality indicators of automatic decision support: Baseline results of a randomised trial in primary
health care centre
Tiina Kortteisto, Minna Kaila, Peter Nyberg, Jorma Komulainen, Ilkka Kunnamo and Pekka
Rissanen, University of Tampere
Cost of illness
Chair: Milena Gajic-Stevanovic
Predicting the healthcare costs of intracranial aneurysm management in Italy
Stefano Calciolari, Aleksandra Torbica and Rosanna Tarricone
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Health-economic burden of Parkinson’s disease in six <strong>European</strong> countries: Multi-center study of the
EuroPa study group
Yaroslav Winter, Sonja von Campenhausen, Jens-Peter Reese, Monika Balzer-Geldsetzer, Kai
Boetzel, Paolo Barone, Alla Guekht, Werner Poewe, Evzen Ruzicka, Christina Sampaio, Uwe Siebert,
Wolfgang Oertel and Richard Dodel
Philipps University
Beneficiaries with back pain: How to identify pain related cost of care?
Antje Freytag, Michael Thiede, Guido Schiffhorst and Bertram Haeussler, IGES Institut GmbH
Cost of stroke/TIA in Ireland
Samantha Smith, Economic & Social Research Institute
Helsinki City Reception at Helsinki City Hall (Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13)

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
T5-09
Chydenius
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
T5-10
Ball Room
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
Alternate care
Chair: Hannu Valtonen
Exploring the relationships between CAM and regular care
Peter Kooreman and Patrick Hullegie, Tilburg University
An estimate of costs and benefits of alternative methods of delivery: an empirical analysis in an
Italian hospital
Elena Pizzo, Imperial College London
Health insurance and use of alternative medicine in Mexico
Edwin van Gameren, El Colegio de México
Economic consequences of home hospitalization of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients
Iben Fasterholdt and Mickael Bech, Odense University Hospital
Dealing with obesity
Chair: Esther Mot
Cost of Implementing and Maintaining Comprehensive School Health Program
Arto Ohinmaa, Jessie-Lee Langille, Stuart Jamieson, Caroline Whitby and Paul Veugelers
University of Alberta
Cost-utility of Bariatric Surgery in the Treatment for Morbid Obesity in Finland
Suvi Mäklin, Antti Malmivaara, Mikael Victorzon, Vesa Koivukangas, Miika Linna and Harri
Sintonen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Budget impact analysis of the reimbursement of lifestyle interventions targeting obesity
in the Netherlands
Marieke Krol, Saskia Schawo and Leona Hakkaart, iBMG
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Friday, 9 July 2010
24
Scientific programme
F1-01
Main Hall
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
F1-02
Helsinki Hall
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
F1-03
Elissa Hall
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
09:45 – 10:15
Modelling
Chair: Matteo Ruggeri
Long Term Economic Growth and Epidemic Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Model
Laurent Augier and Amy Yaly
Université de Poitiers-Université de La Rochelle
A generic quantitative model to correct cost-effectiveness outcomes for short run inefficiencies
Eddy Adang, Willem Woertman and Gijs van de Wetering
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Anticipating the Consequences of HIV Infection: Savings and Human Capital Investments in Namibia
Judith Lammers, Wendy Janssens and Gijs Van der Vlugt
Amsterdam Institute for International Development
Minimum pricing for alcohol: Modelling system wide responses
Anne Ludbrook, Lynda McKenzie and Dennis Petrie
University of Aberdeen
The valid societal perspective: What should be included?
Chair: Guillem López-Casasnovas
I Don’t Smoke But Why Should I Be a Subject in the Evaluation of Smoking Cessation Programmes?
Marta Trapero-Bertran, Martin Buxton and Julia Fox-Rushby
Brunel University
Individual responsibility and health-risk behaviour:
A contingent valuation study from the ex ante societal perspective
Sanne van der Star and Bernard van den Berg
University of York
The societal perspective in the evaluation of public health programmes
Mike Drummond
University of York
Drug regulation
Chair: Franz Hessel
The impact of price regulation on the timing of generic drug adoption:
Evidence from the OECD during 1999-2008
Nebibe Varol, London School of Economics and Political Science
Therapeutic Substitution Post Patent Expiry
Sotiris Vandoros and Panos Kanavos
London School of Economics
Dealing with Excessive Off-label Drug Use: Liability vs. Patent Prolongation
Stefan Felder, University of Duisburg-Essen
Willingness to pay for adverse drug event regulatory requirements
Jacoline Bouvy, Just Weemers and Marc Koopmanschap
Utrecht University
Coffee break / posters

F1-04
Hall A
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
The effects of reference pricing in pharmaceutical markets
Chair: Marisa Miraldo
09:15 Effects of Reference Pricing in Pharmaceutical Markets: a Review
Matteo Maria Galizzi, Simone Ghislandi and Marisa Miraldo
Bocconi University
F1-05 Economics of social care
Hall B
08:30 – 09:45 Chair: Marja Vaarama
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
F1-06
Room 21
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
Reference pricing as a price coordination device: An experimental test
Matteo Maria Galizzi and Marisa Miraldo
Queen Mary University of London
The impact of reference pricing for drugs in Italy
Claudio Jommi, Patrizio Armeni and Simone Ghislandi
Bocconi University
Demand elasticities and effectiveness of pharmaceutical policies
Joni Hokkanen, Aki Kangasharju, Ismo Linnosmaa and Hannu Valtonen
Research Center for Social Economics
Economics of Social Care
Martin Knapp, London School of Economics
Economics of Social Care: Comment
Philip Jacobs, IHE, Canada
Economics of Social Care: Comment
Kalevi Luoma, Government Institute for Economic Research, Finland
Economics of Social Care: Comment
Ismo Linnosmaa, University of Eastern Finland
Ownership and hospitals
Chair: Jacqueline O'Reilly
Is there a future for small hospitals in Germany?
Boris Augurzky and Hendrik Schmitz, RWI
Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency?
Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals
Annika Herr, Hendrik Schmitz and Boris Augurzky, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DICE
Ownership and hospital productivity: Assessing the impact of inefficiency and the roles of patient
characteristics and production composition
Brigitte Dormont and Carine Milcent, University Paris Dauphine
Which public hospitals are prepared for the future – and which are not?
Boris Augurzky and Hendrik Schmitz, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics
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26
Scientific programme
F1-07
Rooms 22-23
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
F1-08
Rooms 25-26
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
09:45 – 10:15
Out of pocket payments
Chair: John Hsu
Reforming Out of Pocket Payments in France: Microsimulation of Several Reforms and Measure of
Equity, Redistribution and Social Acceptability
Christine Sorasith and Thierry Debrand, IRDES
Fluctuations in the Progressivity of Out-of-Pocket Health Payments During 1994-2006 Period
Despite the Diminishing Catastrophe and Impoverishment in Turkey
Mahmut S. Yardim and Nesrin Cilingiroglu, Hacettepe University School of Medicine
Shifted deductibles for the elderly and chronically ill: Practical aspects and policy implications
Richard van Kleef, Wynand van de Ven and René van Vliet, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Practical measurement of affordability: An application to medicines
Laurens Niëns, Alexandra Cameron, Ellen Van de Poel, Marg Ewen, Richard Laing and Werner
Brouwer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Vaccination
Chair: Juha Laine
Health demand in developing countries: The unexpected role of a vaccination campaign
Lucile Romanello and Pauline Givord, Sciences Po Paris
Cost-effectiveness of vaccination against pandemic influenza in <strong>European</strong> countries: The role of
immunity in elderly
Anna Lugnér, Michiel van Boven, Robin de Vries, Jacco Wallinga and Maarten Postma, RIVM
Recommended vaccination policy applied to pertussis and measles: Is that a right choice?
Dorota Z. Girard, University of Nantes
Cost-effectiveness of Paediatric Pneumococcal Vaccination in the Netherlands: An Update for
the 7-valent and Forecast for the 10-and 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugated Vaccines (PCVs)
Mark Rozenbaum, Elisabeth Sanders, Albert Jan van Hoek, Angelique Jansen,
Arie van der Ended and Germie van den Dobbelsteene
University of Groningen
Coffee break / posters

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
F1-09
Chydenius
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
F1-10
Ball Room
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
Obesity in the young
Chair: Heli Roy
Children’s Weight and Participation in Organised Sports
Annette Quinto Romani, Aalborg University
A multilevel analysis of the influence of households on sedentary behaviour among children in Scotland
Dami Olajide and Anne Ludbrook, University of Aberdeen
Utility-based quality of life of overweight and obese adolescents:
A study measuring body mass index and utility in a community sample
Catherine Keating, Marjory Moodie and Boyd Swinburn
Deakin University
Born to be wide? Examining Correlations in Mother and Youth Body Mass Index
Heather Brown and Jennifer Roberts
University of Aberdeen
Accessing health care
Chair: Gabriela Blejer
Gatekeeping and Accessibility in Health Care
Ching-to Albert Ma, Geir Godager and Tor Iversen
University of Oslo
Patient-physician interaction and equity in health: The role of primary care
Paul Dourgnon and Afrite Anissa
Institut de recherche et documentation en Economie de la Santé (IRDES)
Why Do We Avoid Doctors? The View from Behavioral Economics Standpoint
Ksenia Panidi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Availability and structure of primary medical care and health outcomes in Scotland:
Evidence from routine data linked with the Scottish Health Survey
Paulos Teckle, Mattew Sutton and Philip Hannaford
National Centre for Health Economics, Services, Policy and Ethics
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Scientific programme
F2-01
Main Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
F2-02
Helsinki Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
F2-03
Elissa Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:30 – 11:45
Drug development
Chair: Zoltan Kalo
How does linkage with university and public research institutes contribute to pharmaceutical firms’
performance? An examination for efficient industrial organization on R&D
Hiromi Saito and Koichi Sumikura, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
International Cooperation in Pharmaceutical Research
Anna Rita Bennato and Laura Magazzini, Tor Vergata University of Rome
A dynamic perspective on pharmaceutical competition, drug development and cost effectiveness
constraints: Is the innovation thread too thick for the needle?
Rodrigo Refoios Camejo, Clare McGrath, Ron Herings and Frans Rutten
Pfizer Inc / Erasmus University
Market authorization and reimbursment of orphan drugs: An international comparison
Kathrin Roll, Tom Stargardt and Jonas Schreyoegg, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich
Disinvestment policy and practice
Chair: Toni Ashton
Bargaining for pharmaceuticals in Australia: Would disinvestment increase prices of drugs?
Anthony Harris and Duncan Mortimer, Monash University
Reorienting PBMA towards disinvestment
Duncan Mortimer, Monash University
Disinvestment: what’s happening in practice?
Gisselle Gallego, Marion Haas, Jane Hall and Rosalie Viney
University of Technology, Sydney
Insurance effects
Chair: Jennifer Watts
Did the US infertility insurance mandates affect the time of first birth?
Asako Ohinata, University of Warwick
Estimation of impacts due to the change of age in individual health insurance
Bruno Ipiranga, João Matos and Maurício Miranda, ANS
Gatekeeping: Open Door to Effective Medical Care Utilisation?
Eva Hromadkova, CERGE-EI
Transitions of SCHIP Children in Response to Higher Premiums
Silviya Nikolova, University of Manchester
Break / posters

F2-04
Hall A
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
F2-05
Hall B
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
F2-06
Room 21
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
DRG systems in Europe: How similar, how divergent?
The first empirical results
Chair: Reinhard Busse
From HealthBASKET to EuroDRG: Background and objectives of the EuroDRG project
Reinhard Busse, Technische Universität Berlin
Patient Classification: A comparison between 10 <strong>European</strong> countries
Conrad Kobel, Josselin Thuilliez, Ain Aaviksoo, Karl Peter Pfeiffer and Martine Bellanger
Innsbruck Medical University
DRGs and hospital efficiency: Panacea or pitfall?
Andrew Street, Anne Mason, Jacqueline O’Reilly and Padraic Ward
University of York
DRGs and quality: to the better or worse?
Zeynep Or and Unto Häkkinen, IRDES
Informal care and economic evaluations
Chair: Job van Exel
The construct of the caring experience
Hareth Al-Janabi, Terry Flynn and Joanna Coast
University of Birmingham
The CarerQol instrument in relation to measures of health utilities and quality of life outcomes
in caregivers of children with craniofacial birth defects
J. Mick Tilford and Nalin Payakachat
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Measuring “care-related quality of life” of informal caregivers for use in economic evaluations:
Psychometric properties of the CarerQol instrument
Renske Hoefman, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Assessing incentives
Chair: Krister Järbrink
How to set incentives for German social health insurance to actively counter long-term care risks
Rebecca Jahn, Anke Walendzik, Gerald Lux and Juergen Wasem
University of Duisburg-Essen
Alternative payment schemes for irreversible investments in health care: static and dynamic
efficiency implications
Rosella Levaggi, Michele Moretto and Paolo Pertile
University of Verona
Primary care and containment of hospitalisation rates for the elderly: Are financial incentives effective?
Elisa Iezzi, Matteo Lippi Bruni and Cristina Ugolini, University of Bologna
Measuring the impact of activity based hospital financing across patient group
Shelley Farrar, Deokhee Yi, Ada Ma, Martin Chalkley and Matt Sutton
Univeristy of Aberdeen
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Scientific programme
F2-07
Rooms 22-23
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
F2-08
Rooms 25-26
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:30 – 11:45
Physical activity
Chair: Lien Nguyen
Does physical capacity explain the height premium?
Petri Böckerman, Labour Institute for Economic Research and University of Tampere
Social Interactions and Participation in Leisure Time Physical Activity
Nazmi Sari, University of Saskatchewan
Physical Activity and the Production of Health
Jane Ruseski, University of Alberta
Determinants of diet and physical activity: Empirical evidence from the Scottish Health Survey
Frauke Becker, Anne Ludbrook and Barbara Eberth
University of Aberdeen
Risk preferences
Chair: Victoria Barham
Do public administrators have the same preferences for risk reductions as citizens?
Fredrik Carlsson, Dinky Daruvala and Henrik Jaldell
Karlstad University
Target setting for risk factor reduction in Australia
Dominique Cadilhac, Anne Magnus, Toby Cumming, Lauren Sheppard, Dora Pearce and Rob Carter
National Stroke Reseach Institute
Is risk attitude really specific within the health domain? Further evidence from a two-stage face-toface
interview using CE and PE techniques in Italy
Matteo Ruggeri and Marjon van der Pol, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Subjective life expectancy, health and health behavior across Europe
David Rappange, Job van Exel and Werner Brouwer
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Break / posters

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
F2-09
Chydenius
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
F2-10
Ball Room
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
Hospital utilisation
Chair: Adriana Castelli
The inpatient-outpatient shift in Germany: Vital question or non-issue?
Michael Thiede, Guido Schiffhorst, Mariam Ujeyl and Bertram Häussler, IGES Institute
Discrimination in Waiting Times by Insurance Type and Financial Soundness of German Acute Care Hospitals
Christoph Schwierz, Achim Wübker, Ansgar Wübker and Björn Kuchinke
Witten/Herdecke University
A structural equation model of adverse events and length of stay in hospital
Katharina Hauck and Xueyan Zhao, Monash University
The impact of crisis resolution and home treatment teams on admission rates in England:
A difference in difference approach
Eliana Barrenho and Rowena Jacobs, University of York
Use of pharmaceuticals
Chair: Frank Lichtenberg
Medication adherence as a key performance indicator in arterial hypertension management:
Preliminary findings from the MAKE study
Luca Degli Esposti, Stefania Saragoni, Carlo Cerra, Chiara Veronesi, Stefano Buda and
Ezio Degli Esposti, CliCon S.r.l. Health, Economics and Outcomes Research
Inequalities in prescription medicines use: Understanding its sources
Claudia Furtado and João Pereira
National School of Public Health, UNL
The impact of chemotherapy innovation on French cancer mortality rates, 2002-2006
Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University
Falling into the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Reductions in Drug Therapy Adherence
John Hsu, Mary Price, Vicki Fung, Richard Brand, John Bertko and Joseph Newhouse
Institute of Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Scientific programme
F3-01
Main Hall
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
F3-02
Helsinki Hall
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
F3-03
Elissa Hall
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
13:00 – 14:30
Competition in insurance
Chair: Brigitte Dormont
Do I know more than my body can tell?
Amelie Wuppermann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich
Explaining the differences of efficiency of statutory health insurance in Germany
Alexander Karmann, Thomas Topf and Andreas Werblow
Technische Universität Dresden
Managed competition in health care: Evaluation of the Dutch Health Insurance Act-2006
Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Health insurance competition: The effect of group contracts
Ilaria Mosca, Jan Boone, Rudy Douven and Carline Dröge
Tilburg University
The red herring and beyond
Chair: Stefan Felder
Population ageing in Scotland: An analysis of the implications for healthcare expenditure
using a MIDSPAN study
Claudia Geue, University of Glasgow
Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditures: A New Test for Germany
Friedrich Breyer,University of Constance
Morbidity Compression, Morbidity Expansion, Red Herring – What Could It Mean for Health Policy?
Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich
Financial incentives
Chair: Dana Forgione
Financial Incentives and Physician Behavior: Evidence from birth data in Taiwan
Yi-Chen Hong and Chin-Hung Linn, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital
A pay-for-performance program for tuberculosis control in Taiwan
Cheng-Yi Lee, Shou-Hsia Cheng, Mei-Ju Chi, Shiang-Lin Yang and Hsiu-Yun Lo
National Taiwan University
Paying for quality in hospital care: Who should be paid?
Søren Rud Kristensen and Mickael Bech
University of Southern Denmark
Quicker but Sicker? The Effect of Payment by Results on the Quality of Care in English
NHS Acute Hospital Trusts
Irene Papanicolas, Alistair McGuire and Elias Mossialos, London School of Economics
Lunch break / posters

F3-04
Hall A
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
F3-05
Hall B
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
F3-06
Room 21
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
Disparities
Chair: Nazmi Sari
Working conditions as a determinant of socioeconomic inequalities in disability:
Are there differences between immigrants and native-born Spaniards?
Meritxell Solé and Marisol Rodríguez, Universitat de Barcelona
Determinants of health disparities in Italian regions
Luisa Franzini and Margherita Giannoni, Universita' degli Studi di Perugia
Decomposing disparity. How economic inequalities are transmitted into adverse health outcomes
Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Lund University
Inequality in Health System Responsiveness: A Comparison across <strong>European</strong> Countries
Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice, Silvana Robone, Pedro Rosa Dias and Peter C. Smith
Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Health policies in the making
Chair: Zeynep Or
Health policies in the making: Introduction
Zeynep Or, IRDES
Credit crunch health policy and the English NHS
John Appleby, The King's Fund
Health policy making in France: flying in the dark?
Lise Rochaix, Haute Autorité de Santé
Naming & shaming' and patient choice: the relevance of US evidence for the English NHS
Gwyn Bewan, London School of Economics
Issues in obesity
Chair: Suvi Mäklin
Determining the effect of obesity on physician consultations in a representative sample of Greek population
Evelina Pappa, Nick Kontodimopoulos, Angelos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Niakas and Yannis Tountas
Hellenic Open University
Going the Same Weigh? Spousal Correlations in Obesity
Heather Brown, Jennifer Roberts and Arne Risa Hole
University of Aberdeen
Effects of health information on socioeconomic differences in food choices
Arnstein Øvrum, Frode Alfnes and Kyrre Rickertsen
Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute and Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Empirical analysis of the health and distributional effects of differentiated food taxation
Kaisa Kotakorpi, Heli Reinivuo, Ilpo Suoniemi, Tommi Härkänen, Pirjo Pietinen and Jukka Pirttilä
University of Tampere
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Scientific programme
F3-07
Rooms 22-23
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
F3-08
Rooms 25-26
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
13:00 – 14:30
Hospital costs
Chair: Adriano Pimpao
Service Use and Long-Term Costs of Nursing Home Residents with Incident Hip Fractures in Germany
Sven Heinrich, Kilian Rapp, Ulrich Rissmann, Clemens Becker and Hans-Helmut König
University of Leipzig
The Trade-Off Between Costs and Outcomes: The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Jonas Schreyögg and Tom Stargardt, TU Berlin
Why do hospital costs vary? An evaluation of hospital efficiency and quality of care in England using
Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs)
Anne Mason, Andrew Street and Padraic Ward, University of York
The relationship between costs and outcomes in German hospitals
Tom Stargardt and Jonas Schreyoegg, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich
Evaluating prevention programmes
Chair: Anna Lugnér
Examining individual trade-offs for preventive programmes: A stated preference approach
Trine Kjær, Betina Højgaard and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Institute of Public Health
Estimating Program Effectiveness with Selectivity: A Bivariate Probit Approach
Robert Rosenman, Laura Hill and Bidisha Mandal
Washington State University
When does a comprehensive prevention strategy work? On the relation between primary and
medical offered prevention
Udo Schneider and Jürgen Zerth, University of Bayreuth
Depression prevention in primary care patients: A value of information analysis
Leyla Mohseninejad, Pieter van Baal, Matthijs van den Berg, Filip Smit, Erik Buskens and Talitha Feenstra
University Medical Center Groningen
Lunch break / posters

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
F3-09
Chydenius
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
F3-10
Ball Room
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
Methodology 1
Chair: Manuel Gomes
Does the method used to analyse missing data really matter? The case of intermediate care
Billingsley Kaambwa, Stirling Bryan and Lucinda Billingham, University of Birmingham
Strategies on handling missing values and their effect on estimated cost of informal care in dementia
Petra Menn, Simone Kunz, Elmar Graessel and Rolf Holle
Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen - German Research Center for Environmental Health
Using administrative data for measuring health care inequalities:
The importance of appropriate statistical techniques
Julian Perelman and Ceu Mateus, CIESP, National School of Public Health, Nova University of Lisbon
Discounting future health benefits: Concerns for mathematical consistency seem to override values
and logic
Erik Nord, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Dispensing / prescribing issues
Chair: Jon Sussex
Drug reimbursement, prescribing pattern and patient outcomes: Evidence from Taiwan
Yiying Lin and Shou-Hsia Cheng
National Taiwan University
Motives for rebate contracts on patent-protected pharmaceuticals in Germany
Christian Neurohr, Stephan Hübner, Frederic Ernst and Robert Welte
GlaxoSmithKline GmbH & Co. KG
Dispensing practices and antibiotic use
Massimo Filippini, Giuliano Masiero and Karine Moschetti
University of Lugano
Physician's prescribing behaviour: The effect of choices on the total costs of medicines
Pipsa Honkaranta and Marja Blom
Helsinki University
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Scientific programme
F4-01
Main Hall
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
F4-02
Helsinki Hall
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:45 – 16:00
Cost-effectiveness methodology
Chair: Elisa Sicuri
Cost-effectiveness of programmes
Chair: Sue Jowett
15:15 Isn’t there a better way? Unmet methodological challenges in a cost-effectiveness
analysis of a health promotion programme
Pia Johansson, Karolinska Institutet
F4-03 Long-term care for the elderly: A <strong>European</strong> perspective
Elissa Hall
14:30 – 15:45 Chair: Peter Makai
14:30
14:45
15:00
NICE’s cost-effectiveness threshold revisited: New evidence on the influence of cost-effectiveness
and other factors on NICE decisions
Nancy Devlin, David Parkin, Helen Dakin and Nigel Rice, Office of Health Economics
Statistical methods for cost-effectiveness analysis that use data from cluster randomised trials
Manuel Gomes, Richard Grieve and John Edmunds, LSHTM - University of London
SMAA-CEA: A new method for representing decision uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis
when three or more alternatives are being compared
Douwe Postmus, Tommi Tervonen, Hans Hillege and Erik Buskens, University Medical Center Groningen
Health technology assessment: longitudinal impact of fixed cost-effectiveness thresholds
and comparator prices changes on the market
Mendel Grobler, Pfizer Australia
Assessing the cost-effectiveness of conventional group based exercise and Tai Chi as interventions
to reduce the risk of fall-related injuries in older people
A-La Park and David McDaid, London School of Economics and Political Science
Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a heart failure management programme
Anja Neumann, Sarah Mostardt, Götz Gelbrich, Alexander Göhler, Ben Geisler, Uwe Siebert, Stefan
Stoerk, Christinane Angermann, Georg Ertl and Juergen Wasem, University of Duisburg-Essen
From cost effectiveness to policy evaluation and service utilisation decisions: Using stroke units
and early supported discharge (ESD) as an example
Omer Saka, Charles Wolfe and Alistair McGuire, King's College, London
Services and Health for Elderly in Long TERm care (SHELTER)
Giovanni Gambassi, Graziano Onder, Roberto Bernabei, Eva Topinkova, Thorsten Nikolaus, Harriet
Finne-Soveri, Jean Claude Henrard, Jacob Gindin, Iain Capenter and Dinnus Frijters
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Classification of long term care systems
Thomas Czypionka, Markus Kraus, Monika Riedel, Gerald Röhrling, Esther Mot and Peter Willeme, CPB
INTERLINKS - Health systems and long-term care for older people in Europe – Modelling
the INTERfaces and LINKS between prevention, rehabilitation, quality of services and informal care
Kai Leichsenring, Ricardo Rodrigues and Jon Glasby
<strong>European</strong> Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
Coffee break / posters

F4-04
Hall A
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
F4-05
Hall B
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
F4-06
Room 21
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
Valuing health
Chair: Arto Ohinmaa
The 15D instrument and its properties
Harri Sintonen, University of Helsinki and FinOHTA
Expectations of and experiences from introducing the electronic version of the 15D for routine use
in the Hospital District of South Karelia
Markku Härmä, Central Hospital of South Karelia
Bayesian methods for predicting treatment results
Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, University of Kuopio
The use of the 15D in the follow-up of cost-effectiveness of routine secondary care in the Helsinki
University Hospital
Risto Roine, Helsinki University Hospital
Orphan drugs: Should society be willing to pay more
for rare health improvements?
Chair: Joanna Coast
On the Economic Value of Orphan Drugs
Michael Drummond, University of York
On the Economic Value of Orphan Drugs
Christopher McCabe, University of Leeds
Orphan Drugs: Does Society Value Rarity?
Arna S. Desser, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Jan Abel Olsen, Sverre Grepperud and Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen
University of Oslo
Hospital performance
Chair: Jonas Schreyögg
Hospital Financial Distress, Recovery and Closure: Managerial Incentives and Political Costs
Li-Lin (Sunny) Liu, Kathryn J. Jervis, Mustafa (Mike) Z. Younis and Dana A. Forgione
University of Texas at San Antonio
A comparative study of hospital departmental and hospital efficiency in Ukraine
Ivan Stetsyuk, Daqun Zhang, William Aaronson, Anatoly Pilyavsky and Nikolay Paenok
Temple University
Have mergers affected hospital activity in the English hospital sector?
Giorgia Marini, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Post-Acquisition Effects of Privatization on Hospital Performance in Germany
Oliver Tiemann and Jonas Schreyögg
Munich University and Helmholtz Zentrum München
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Scientific programme
F4-07
Rooms 22-23
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
F4-08
Rooms 25-26
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:45 – 16:00
Setting priorities
Chair: Aleksandra Torbica
Assessing the Quality of Evidence for Decision-making (QED): A new instrument
Jing-Jing Li, Anthony Harris and Geoff Chin, Monash University
Analysing Adoption Patterns for MRI Technology Equipments in Public and Private Hospitals
in a <strong>European</strong> Region (Galicia-Spain)
Francisco Reyes, David Vivas, Andrés Faíña, Isabel Barrachina and Maria Caballer, University of Santiago
Using analytic approaches to inform the allocation of cancer research resources
Lazaros Andronis, Lucinda Billingham, Stirling Bryan and Pelham Barton, University of Birmingham
Donor Funding Priorities and the Burden of Disease
Maja Micevska Scharf, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Smoking prevention
Chair: Ulla Tuominen
Demand for Cigarettes by Teenagers and Young Adults
Ce Shang, CUNY, the Graduate Center
Consumption of cigarettes and pipe tobacco – Price elasticities, substitution
and the impact of anti-smoking measures
Lien Nguyen, Markku Pekurinen and Gunnar Rosenqvist
Centre for Health and Social Economics – CHESS, National Institute for Health and Welfare
Do tobacco prevention pays off?
Joachim Marti, Claude Jeanrenaud and Sylvie Fueglister
Université de Neuchâtel
The impact of the public smoking ban on obesity in Australia
John Wildman and Bruce Hollingsworth
Newcastle University
Coffee break / posters

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
F4-09
Chydenius
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
F4-10
Ball Room
14:30 – 15:45
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
Provider incentives
Chair: Katharina Janus
Performance management in health care: Is money really the (only) motivator in medicine?
Katharina Janus and Lawrence D. Brown, Columbia University
GP’s preferences and incentive schemes for prevention: A discrete choice experiment in France
Mehdi Ammi and Christine Peyron, University of Burgundy
Paying providers for performance in health care in low and middle income countries: A systematic review
Sophie Witter, Flora Kessy, Atle Fretheim and Anne Karin Lindahl, University of Aberdeen
A longitudinal examination of a Pay-For-Performance Program for Diabetes Care in Taiwan
Shou-Hsia Cheng, Tai-Ti Lee and Chi-Chen Chen, National Taiwan University
Working with utility measures
Chair: Nick Kontodimopoulos
Scaling Methods for Categorical Self-Assessed Health Measures
Patricia Cubi-Molla, City University
Using mapping functions to estimate low utilities
Matthijs Versteegh, Donna Rowen, John Brazier and Elly Stolk
Erasmus Unversity of Rotterdam
Is the anchoring vignettes method sensitive to the domain and choice of the vignette
Hana Vonkova and Patrick Hullegie
Tilburg University
What is the impact of reducing the floor effect in the SF-6D?
Pedro Ferreira, Lara Ferreira, Luis Pereira, Donna Rowen and John Brazier
Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra
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Friday, 9 July 2010
40
Scientific programme
F5-01
Main Hall
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
F5-02
Helsinki Hall
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
F5-03
Elissa Hall
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
18:15 – 18:30
Child health
Chair: Mick Tilford
Growing-up in rural Ethiopia: A dynamic systems GMM approach to child growth
Bereket Kebede, University of East Anglia
Making the economic case for investing in child and adolescent mental health services
David McDaid, A-La Park, Reinhold Kilian and Carolin Losert
London School of Economics and Political Science
The Quality of Pediatric Cost-Utility Analysis Studies: 1997 to 2006
Seija K. Kromm, Jennifer Bethell, Ferne Kraglund, Sarah Edwards, Wendy J. Ungar, Audrey Laporte
and Peter C. Coyte, University of Toronto
Impact of mills on child health in Sub-Sahara Africa
Catherine Araujo-Bonjean, Martine Audibert, Victor Béguerie and Driss Belamine, CERDI
Capability measurement in practice: The ICECAP measure
Chair: Joanna Coast
Using the ICECAP capability measure in different contexts: an application to clients
within opiate maintenance treatments
Angela Robinson, Caitlin Notley, Vivienne Maskrey and Richard Holland, University of East Anglia
Developing a new ICECAP measure: identifying capabilities for the ICECAP-A measure
Hareth Al-Janabi, Terry Flynn, Sam Clemens, Tim Peters, Stirling Bryan, John Brazier and Joanna Coast
University of Birmingham
Capabilities in Dutch psycho-geriatric nursing homes: an exploratory study using a proxy version of the ICECAP-O
Peter Makai and Anne Nieboer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Using the ICECAP measure in different contexts: measuring and valuing capabilities among
Australians using ICECAP-O
Terry Flynn and Jordan Louviere, University of Technology, Sydney
Income-related health inequality
Chair: David Haardt
Are nutrition education programs targeted to low income families cost effective?
Heli Roy, LSU AgCenter
Income-related inequality in the utilisation of health care in Estonia
Janek Saluse and Andres Võrk
University of Tartu
Income related inequalities in hypertension: Evidence from England
Chai Ping Yu and Steve Morris
Brunel University
How the measurement of income and wealth affects the degree of income-related health inequalities
Nicolas Ziebarth and Joachim Frick
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Bus transfers from conference hotels to Market Square for <strong>Conference</strong> dinner

F5-04
Hall A
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
F5-05
Hall B
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
F5-06
Room 21
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
Experiments in health economics
Chair: Matteo Maria Galizzi
Experimental evidence on health habits and time and risk preferences
Marisa Miraldo and Matteo Maria Galizzi
Imperial College London
Altruism and treatment decisions
Ismo Linnosmaa, Sami Pakarinen and Timo Tammi
University of Eastern Finland
Using lab experiments to investigate incentive compatibility and hypothetical bias
in discrete choice experiments
Verity Watson, University of Aberdeen
Issues with high cost drugs
Chair: Pau Olivella
The place of productivity cost in economic evaluations on expensive drugs
Marieke Krol, Joce de Jong and Leona Hakkaart, iBMG
Big Pharma's Reaction to a Generic Substitution Policy
Pau Olivella and Aida Isabel Tavares, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Neglected diseases: is it only a matter of market failure?
Marcos Vinício Chein Feres, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Availability of and Access to Orphan Drugs: An International Comparison of Pharmaceutical
Treatments for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Fabry Disease, Hereditary Angioedema
and Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia
Carl Rudolf Blankart, Tom Stargardt and Jonas Schreyögg
Helmholtz Zentrum Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health
Public vs. private insurance
Chair: Daniel Duerr
Willingness-to-Pay for Parallel Private Health Insurance: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Neil Buckley, Cuff Katherine, Jeremiah Hurley, Logan McLeod, Robert Nuscheler and David Cameron
University of Augsburg
Overinsurance
Jim Butler and Luke Connelly, Australian National University
Can risk-based premiums be more equitable than social insurance?
Mathias Kifmann and Kerstin Roeder, University of Augsburg
On the economics of voluntary social health insurance
Walter Ried, University of Greifswald
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Scientific programme
F5-07
Rooms 22-23
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
F5-08
Rooms 25-26
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
18:15 – 18:30
Chronic conditions
Chair: Apostolos Tsiachristas
Predictors of remaining in a chronic management program from routinely collected insurance data
Jennifer Watts, Damien Jolley, Jo Wainer and Kei Owada, Monash University
Multiple sclerosis patients' preferences in the decision to start Disease Modifying Drugs (DMDs)
therapy: Considerations about their utility and awareness of the disease
Lara Gitto and Simone Ghislandi
CEIS Sanità, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" and IRCCS Centro Studi Neurolesi, Messina
Targeting Chronically Ill Patients for Disease Management: Modeling Regression to the Mean
Nancy McCall and Jerry Cromwell, RTI International
Racial/ethnic disparities in health care expenditures of chronically ill Medicaid beneficiaries
Gerald Kominski, Nady Pourat, Kannika Damrongplasit and Dylan Roby
UCLA School of Public Health
Cost methodology
Chair: Stefano Calciolari
Actuarial Projections of Health Care Costs: Accuracy, Bias and Asymptotes.
Thomas Getzen, iHEA and Temple University
Applying demographic methods to account for declining mortality rates when forecasting agespecific
health expenditures
Pieter van Baal, Albert Wong, Lany Slobbe and Johan Polder, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Explaining cost of illness
Hannu Valtonen, Anders Wimo, Katalin Ersek, Laszlo Gulacsi, Anders Gustavson, Linus Jönsson,
Krisztian Karpati, Paul Kenigsberg, David Mcdaid and EUROCODE Working Group
University of Eastern Finland
Comparing methodologies for the cost estimation of hospital services
Siok Swan Tan, BM van Ineveld, WK Redekop and L Hakkaart-van Roijen
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Bus transfers from conference hotels to Market Square for <strong>Conference</strong> dinner

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
F5-09
Chydenius
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
F5-10
Ball Room
16:00 – 17:15
16:00
16:15
16:30
16:45
Long-term care
Chair: Giovanni Gambassi
Financing long-term residential care for older people in England: The costs and distributional effects
of options for reforming the funding system accounting for endogeneity of care home fees
Ruth Hancock, Raphael Wittenberg, Juliette Malley, Derek King, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Linda
Pickard and Marcello Morciano, University of East Anglia
Ageing in Portugal: Prospective analysis of long term care needs based on disability ratios
Ana Fernandes, Dália Nogueira and Elizabeth Reis, Lisbon University Institute
Intergenerational implications of long-term care insurance arrangements
Jose-Luis Fernandez and Julien Forder, University of Kent
Measuring Process-level efficiency in Nursing Homes: A Bayesian Approach
Robert Lee and Byron Gajewski, University of Kansas
Tobacco use
Chair: Mabel Andalón
Smoking, Taxes, and Pregnancy on the Iberian Peninsula
Ana Gil Lacruz, Dean Lillard and Sara Ribeirinho Machado
Cornell University
Using best-worst scaling to investigate youth concern about negative effects
associated with tobacco use
Joachim Marti, University of Neuchatel
The economic costs of smoking in Austria
Markus Pock, IHS, Institute for Advanced Studies
Socioeconomic Inequality in Smoking: A Decomposition Analysis Based on Longitudinal Data
Gustav Kjellsson and Ulf Gerdtham
Lund University
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Scientific programme
S1-01
Main Hall
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
S1-02
Helsinki Hall
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
09:30
S1-03
Elissa Hall
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
09:45 – 10:15
Demand
Chair: Juergen Wasem
The impact of price changes in the demand for health care: Elasticity results
Brenda Pires, Céu Mateus and João Pereira
National School of Public Health, Nova University of Lisbon
Estimating the demand for dental visits and dental insurance: A bivariate probit approach
Ben Levett and Preety Srivastava, Monash University
Hyperbolic Discounting and the Demand for Long-Term Care Insurance
Kerstin Roeder, Mathias Kifmann and Clarissa Schnekenburger, University of Augsburg
Understanding demand for community-based health insurance in Senegal: The role of social capital
and related determinants
Philipa Mladovsky, Pascal Ndiaye, Alfred Inis Ndiaye, Benjamin Lelubre, Werner Soors , Elias
Mossialos and Bart Criel, London School of Economics
Improving health expenditure data
as an objective and a policy tool
Chair: Claudia Geue
Tracking external resources for health care in the countries from the former Soviet Union: Methods
and definitions
Adyljan Temirov, Baktygul Akkazieva, Samvel Kharazyan, Jens Wilkens, Nora Markova and Renata
Hasanova, Health Policy Analysis Center, Kyrgyzstan
Comparative analysis of health expenditure patterns in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Ketevan Goginashvili, Baktygul Akkazieva, Adyljan Temirov, Jens Wilkens and Nora Markova
Health Policy Analysis Center, Kyrgyzstan
Assessing the impact of the Tajik Guaranteed Basic Package Scheme on patients’ expenditure in PHC
and hospital settings
Z. Bobokhojaeva, Benoit Mathivet and F. Egamov, WHO/Ministry of Health, Tajikistan
Impact of NHA Findings on Health Policies in Georgia
Sofia Lebanidze, Ketevan Goginashvili, Aleksandre Turdziladze and Irma Mjavanadze, Ministry of
Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia
Reporting out-of-pocket payments for health care in countries from the former Soviet Union:
Methods and definitions
Nora Markova, Baktygul Akkazieva, Aleksandre Turdziladze, Ketevan Goginashvili and Richard
Stanley, WHO Europe
Issues in technology assessment
Chair: Saurabh Jha
What determines the use of innovative technologies?
The case of drug-eluting-stents in German AMI patients
Michael Bäumler, Berlin University of Technology
Technology Preference and Diffusion of Medical Innovations
Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire, City University
Medical technological progress: Blessing or curse? The role of the institutional framework
in the German health care system
Christine Wolfgramm, Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Cologne
From a different angle: The use of directional statistics in ICER calculations
Mark Oppe and Benjamin Craig, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Coffee break

S1-04
Hall A
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
S1-05
Hall B
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
S1-06
Room 21
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
Public hospital waiting times in Australia: An exploration of the
determinants of waiting time, preferential treatment and
the impact on demand for private health insurance
Chair: Nazmi Sari
Access block and overcrowding in Emergency Departments: A correlated hazard approach
Anurag Sharma, Anthony Harris and Brett Inder, Monash University
Expected waiting times and the decision to buy private health insurance
Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones, Michael Keane, Elizabeth Savage and Olena Stavrunova
University of Technology, Sydney
Non-clinical determinants of waiting times for elective admissions in NSW public hospitals
Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones and Elizabeth Savage, Macquarie University
The demand for private health insurance: Do waiting lists or waiting times matter?
Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones, Michael Keane, Elizabeth Savage and Olena Stavrunova
University of Technology, Sydney
Non-health outcomes
Chair: Jose Luis Pinto Prades
Health Investments and Economic Growth: Macroeconomic Evidence and Microeconomic Foundations
Maureen Lewis and William Jack, World Bank
Measuring the outcomes of social care
Ann Netten, Juliette Malley and Julien Forder
University of Kent at Canterbury
The (dis) benefits of health promotion: experience and perspective of programme users
Adrienne Goebbels, Jeroen Lakerveld, Bernard van den Berg, Andre Ament, Giel Nijpels
and Johan (Hans) Severens
Maastricht University
Methodology 2
Chair: Helen Mason
Measuring vertical equity in health care utilisation using a concentration index approach:
A comparison of estimates using socioeconomic ranks and need ranks
Laura Vallejo-Torres and Steve Morris, University College London
Introducing new methods to estimate choice models and welfare measures for single individuals
Emily Lancsar, Newcastle University
Use of Richardson's Extrapolation to Reduce Timing Errors in Markov Models
Pelham Barton, University of Birmingham
Scope insensitivity in contingent valuation studies of health care services: Do not ask twice!
Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Trine Kjær and Jytte Seested Nielsen
Institute of Public Health – Health Economics Unit,
University of Southern Denmark & Danish Institute for Health Services Research
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Scientific programme
S1-07
Rooms 22-23
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
S1-08
Rooms 25-26
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
09:45 – 10:15
Education and health
Chair: Joao Montalvao
Young-Adulthood-Onset of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus – Effects On Formal Education Later In Life
Ida Johansson and Sofie Lindgren, Department of Economics
Quality of Schooling and Inequality of Opportunity in Health
Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice and Pedro Rosa Dias, University of York
Education and Body Mass Index: Evidence from ECHP
Ryota Nakamura and Luigi Siciliani, The University of York
Some students are bigger than others, some students’ peers are bigger than others student’s peers
Joan Gil and Toni Mora, University of Barcelona
Impact of aging
Chair: Troy Quast
Demographic Change: Impact on Hospital Admissions and Expenditures in Germany
Janine Biermann, Anja Neumann, Jürgen Wasem, Raimund Erbel and Till Neumann
University Hospital Essen
Making gerontocracy work: Exploring the effect of aging on the generosity of public elderly care
Lina Maria Ellegård, Dept. of Economics
The burden of Parkinson’s disease in an aging society
Talitha Feenstra, Martijn van der Eijk, Erik Buskens, Marten Munneke and Bastiaan Bloem
University Medical Center Groningen
Medicare, Hospital Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from the Program’s Origins
Kenneth Chay, Daeho Kim and Shailender Swaminathan
Brown University
Coffee break

Please note! Chydenius and Ball Room are located at Ostrobotnia Building (Museokatu 10).
S1-09
Chydenius
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
S1-10
Ball Room
08:30 – 09:45
08:30
08:45
09:00
09:15
Labour market outcomes
Chair: Lise Rochaix
The influence of alcohol on labour market outcomes
Thomas Eriksson, Lund University
Effects of breast and cervix cancers on labor market outcomes:
Results from a longitudinal study in Taiwan
Ke-Zong (Michelle) Ma, Graduate Institute of Healthcare Administration, Kaohsiung Medical University
Labour Market Outcomes Among Older People and Interactions Between Cognitive Functioning,
Mental Health and Physical Health
David Haardt, Dalhousie University
Incidence of Employer’s Contribution of Public Health Insurance Fees on Labor Income Using a
Japanese Micro Data
Naomi Miyazato and Seiritsu Ogura, Hosei University
Health system performance
Chair: Ernesto Báscolo
Top Executives Turnover, Politics and the Performance of Healthcare Providers:
Evidence from the Italian NHS
Enrico Ballardini and Daniele Fabbri
University of Bologna
Valuing Services to Manage Clinical Performance Concerns
Jon Sussex, Verity Watson, Ebenezer Tetteh and Mandy Ryan
Office of Health Economics
Explaining variations in waiting time for elective surgery in Portugal
Julian Perelman and Céu Mateus
Nova University of Lisbon
Efficiency gains thanks to Managed Care? Evidence from Switzerland
Konstantin Beck, CSS Institute for Empirical Health Economics
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Scientific programme
S2-01
Main Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
S2-02
Helsinki Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
S2-03
Elissa Hall
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:30 – 11:45
EuroVaQ (<strong>European</strong> Value of a QALY)
Chair: Toni Ashton
A chained approach to estimating the value of a QALY across Europe
Angela Robinson
University of East Anglia
The EuroVaQ design: an overview
Cam Donaldson
Glasgow Caledonian University
Estimating a value of a QALY: how direct can we be?
Mark Pennington
Newcastle University
Early childhood
Chair: Stavros Petrou
Pollution Exposure and Health in Early Childhood: Evidence from Germany
Katja Coneus and C. Katharina Spiess, Centre for <strong>European</strong> Economic Research
The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Gerard van den Berg, Dorly Deeg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait, IGW
Economic Evaluation of Enhanced Staff Contact for the Promotion of Breastfeeding
for Low Birth Weight Infants
Stephen Rice, Dawn Craig, Anthony Williams, Felicia McCormick and Mary Renfrew
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Linking early life macroeconomic conditions to cardiovascular mortality, cancer mortality and other
causes of death at old ages
Gary Yeung, France Portrait and Maarten Lindeboom, VU University Amsterdam
Caring for the elderly
Chair: Borja Garcia
Public Expenditures on Dutch Elderly Care in Times of Ageing
Evelien Eggink, Isolde Woittiez and Michiel Ras, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP
Use of formal and informal care services among older people in Ireland and France
Brenda Gannon and Berengere Davin
National University of Ireland Galway
Economic incentives and the care for elderly in acute hospitals
Jun Yin, Hilde Luras and Terje P. Hagen, Akershus University Hospital
Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease: Current status and future directions in approaches to model
disease progression and the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions
Colin Green, James Shearer, David Wright and Paul Thompson, University of Exeter
Break

S2-04
Hall A
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
S2-05
Hall B
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
S2-06
Room 21
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
Measuring health and social care output and productivity:
A <strong>European</strong> perspective
Chair: Adriana Castelli
Getting out what we put in: how productive is the NHS in England?
Chris Bojke, Adriana Castelli, Mauro Laudicella, Andrew Street and Padraic Ward, University of York
Measuring and monitoring outcomes and outputs of social care: care homes for older adults and
people with learning disability
Ann Netten, Birgit Trukeschitz and Julien Forder, University of Kent at Canterbury
On measuring health care volume and productivity: A methodological framework with applications
to Dutch health care
Antonio Chessa, Statistics Netherlands
Technological progress as a means to improve hospital productivity – easy to observe but difficult
to measure
Kirsi Vitikainen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Using the capability approach in health care decision making
Chair: Hareth Al-Janabi
Capability approaches in public health: will there be an effect of culture?
Paula Lorgelly, Monash University
Using focus groups to select and rank capabilities.
A case study on women’s quality of life in rural Malawi
Giulia Greco, Jolene Skordis and Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Values, death and anchoring in the capability approach: A theoretical exploration
Joanna Coast and Hareth Al-Janabi, University of Birmingham
Valuing capability: Findings from a pilot study applying a Multi-Attribute Value Method
Phillip Kinghorn, Angela Robinson and Richard Smith, University of East Anglia
Impact of unstable employment
Chair: Heikki Hiilamo
The Retention, Tenure and Wages of Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Direct Support Workers (DSW)
in Developmental Disability Programs
Paul Solano, Mary Joan Mcduffie and Alexis Solano, University of Delaware
Worker Adaptation and Workplace Accommodations after the Onset of an Illness
Jan Høgelund and Anders Holm
Danish National Centre for Social Research
Social Assistance and Health
Lori Curtis, University of Waterloo
Health and job satisfaction: A longitudinal analysis
Dolores García-Crespo and M. Luz González-Álvarez
University of Malaga
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Scientific programme
S2-07
Rooms 22-23
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
S2-08
Rooms 25-26
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
S3-01
Main Hall
11:45 – 13:00
11:45
11:50
12:20
12:50
12:55
13:00 – 13:30
Inequality
Chair: Céu Mateus
The Determinants of Health and Health Inequality
Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir, University of Iceland
Socioeconomic inequalities in the duration of good health in several <strong>European</strong> countries
Rosa Vidal and Marisol Rodriguez
University of Barcelona
What contribution of circumstances and effort to health inequality in France?
Sandy Tubeuf, Florence Jusot and Alain Trannoy, IRDES
Horizontal inequalities in Mental Health: Evidence from the German Socioeconomic Panel
David Scheller-Kreinsen and Leonie Sundmacher
TU Berlin
Issues in provider payment
Chair: Tor Iversen
Health care providers and competition
Eila Kankaanpää, Hannu Valtonen and Ismo Linnosmaa
University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio Campus)
Payment mechanisms for primary care physicians: À la carte vs. table d'hôte
Victoria Barham and Olga Milliken, Health Canada
Not so Shadow Prices and Optimal Risk Adjustment
Pau Olivella and Fred Schroyen, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Doctors, identity and motivational capital in health care organizations
Mikel Berdud and Juan M Cabases, Public University of Navarra
Closing plenary – Business cycles, health and health care
Chair: Harri Sintonen
Opening
Harri Sintonen, Professor, University of Helsinki
Plenary lecture
Guillem López-Casasnovas, Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Plenary lecture
Jaakko Kiander, Director, Labour Institute of Economics
Welcome to ECHE 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Zweifel, Professor, Honorary Chair of the ECHE2012, University of Zurich
Closing comments
Harri Sintonen, Professor
Closing reception with sparkling wine and strawberries at Piazza

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S2-09
Chydenius
10:15 – 11:30
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
S2-10
Ball Room
10:15 – 11:30
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10:45
11:00
Health economics in the Baltics
Chair: Milena Gajic-Stevanovic
Comparative Assessment of Cost-Effectiveness of Invasive Treatment Methods of Coronary Artery Disease
Eva Palm, University of Tartu
Employment, cultural differences and occupational health in Estonia
Marina Järvis and Piia Tint
Tallinn University of Technology
The economic costs of main behavioural health risks in Estonia in 2006
Marge Reinap, Tallinn University of Technology
Making investments into better access to health care in the field of circulatory system diseases:
A case of Lithuania
Liubove Murauskiene and Marija Veniute
Public Enterprise “MTVC” (Training, Research and Development Centre)
Health and income
Chair: Therese Nilsson
Multilevel Analysis of the Influence of Individual Income and Regional Wealth in the Health of the
People Living in Spain in 2007
Kristina Karlsdotter, José Martín, María del Puerto López del Amo González and Carmen Navarro
Palenzuela, University of Granada
Re-examining the Absolute Income Hypothesis in Taiwan with Quasi-experimental Methods
Fu-Min Tseng and Roberto Leon Gonzalez, University of Nottingham
Does the Relationship Between Mortality and the Business Cycle Vary by the Level of Economic
Development? Evidence from Mexico
Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast, Sam Houston State University
Are Recessions Good for Everyone's Health? The Association Between Mortality and the Business Cycle by Race
Troy Quast, Fidel Gonzalez and Matias Fontenla, Sam Houston State University
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Poster presentations
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Poster presentations on Thursday–Friday, 8–9 July 2010
Number
Title Authors
P 001 Total costs and costs to families in infants’ food allergies: Follow-up from birth to two
years
Soili Alanne, Anni Maskuniitty, Merja Nermes, Kirsi Laitinen and Markku Pekurinen
P 002 Design and costs in relation to outcomes of heart failure management programmes
in the Netherlands
P 003 Using decision modelling to inform the design of a clinical trial: A polypill strategy for
prevention of cardiovascular disease
P 004 The MOVE registry: Resource use and costs of patients with atrial fibrillation in
Germany
P 005 Concepts and measures of health-related quality of life: Relevance, awareness and
potential use in German health care decision making processes
P 006 The cost effectiveness of radon mitigation in existing German dwellings Florian Haucke
P 007 Burden of illness for non enzyme replacement therapy receiving adult Pompe
patients in 2007
P 008 Political or dental power in private and public service provision: A study of municipal
expenditures for dental child care
P 009 Post-trial costs, clinical outcomes and dental service utilization after a randomized
clinical trial for caries control among Finnish adolescents
P 010 Cost-effectiveness of Drotrecogin alfa (Xigris) in the Management of Patients with
Sepsis: A Systematic Review
P 011 Micafungin vs Caspofungin for the treatment of Systemic Candida Infections: A Cost-
Effectiveness Analysis for Germany
Duko Hopman, Talitha Feenstra, Erik Buskens and Tiny Jaarsma
Sue Jowett, Pelham Barton, Richard McManus and Jonathan Mant
Franz Hessel, Thomas Reinhold, Annette Kohlhausen, Hendrik Bonnemeier, Ralph
Bosch, Stefan Willich and Wilhelm Kirch
Joern Moock, Sandra Meyer-Moock, Franz Hessel, Thomas Kohlmann, and
Tim Kanters, Leona Hakkaart, Ans van der Ploeg, Marloes Hagemans, Maiwenn Al
and Nadine van der Beek
Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Mickael Bech and Jørgen Lauridsen
Pauliina Hietasalo, Liisa Seppä, Ahti Niinimaa, Jouko Kallio, Satu Lahti and Hannu
Hausen
Janine Biermann, Kirsten Börchers, Daniela Freyer, Petra Schnell-Inderst, Jürgen
Wasem and Anja Neumann
Stefan Felder, Kristin Grabe and Thomas Mayrhofer
P 012 The determinant of physician prescription for off-patent pharmaceuticals in Taiwan Yi-Chen Hong and Chin-Hung Lin
P 013 Practice guideline adherence and health care outcomes: Use of prophylactic
antibiotics during surgery in Taiwan
P 014 Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation of Tiotropium Bromide in the Long Term Treatment of
COPD in Italy
P 015 An Economic Model of Behaviour: Attitudes towards Altruistic Blood and Organ
Donations
P 016 To what extent is DEA-VRS inefficiency attributed to the reference technology’s
convexity assumption? An investigation in a sample of Greek hospitals
Chentong Hsu and Shou-Hsia Cheng
Sergio Iannazzo, Orietta Zaniolo and Michela Carsi
Juan M Cabases and Maria Errea
Angeliki Flokou, Nick Kontodimopoulos and Dimitris Niakas
P 017 Ageing-related health policy comparison of Finland and Hungary Katalin Ersek, Harri Raisio, Juha Lindell , Petra Baji and Valentin Brodszky
P 018 Effects of health literacy on medical utilizations of elderly with chronic diseases Mei-ju Chi and Cheng-yi Lee
P 019 Changes in use of health and social services during last two years of life in 1996-
2003 in Finland among old people with vs. without dementia
Leena Forma, Marja Jylhä, Mari Aaltonen, Jani Raitanen and Pekka Rissanen
P 020 The Welfare Implications of Disability for Older People in Ireland John Cullinan, Brenda Gannon and Eamon O'Shea
P 021 A cost-effectiveness study of Zoledronic Acid 5mg infusion for the treatment of
osteoporosis
Brenda Gannon and John Carey
P 022 Risk-adjustment for effectiveness of care in the home care of the elderly Timo Hujanen, Harri Sintonen, Unto Häkkinen, Anja Noro and Harriet Finne-Soveri
P 023 Social Support and Health Among the Elderly: Findings From the getABI 5-year
Follow–up Survey
Mine Hancioglu
P 024 Cost of Falls in Old Age: A Systematic Review Sven Heinrich, Kilian Rapp, Ulrich Rissmann, Clemens Becker and Hans-Helmut
König
P 025 Validity and reliability of an instrument to assess the effects of informal care giving of
institutionalized elderly for use in economic evaluations
Renske Hoefman, Job van Exel and Werner Brouwer
P 026 Designing new financial management system in health sector of Islamic Republic of
Iran
Maryam Ramezanian and Masoud Abolhallaje
P 027 Patient Payments in Bulgaria: Source of Additional Financing or Barrier to Access Elka Atanasova, Emanuela Moutafova, Milena Pavlova and Todorka Kostadinova
P 028 The demand for physician services with formal and informal patient payments: A
discrete-choice experiment in Ukraine
P 029 Is health system providing financial protection to households? Evidence from Rural
Tamil Nadu, India
Andrii Danyliv, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga and Wim Groot
Vaishnavi Deenadayalan, Umakant Dash and Muraleedharan Vangal
P 030 Analysis of financial protection in Hungary Peter Gaal, Tamas Evetovits and Eva Menesi
P 031 National Health Accounts experience in Serbia Dr Milena Gajic-Stevanovic and Dr Tanja Knezevic
P 032 Geographic Distribution of Rural Health Houses in the Provinces of Iran Aliasghar Ahmad Kia Daliri, Hassan Haghparast, Hamidreza Safari and Behzad
Najafi
P 033 Measuring Horizontal Inequities In Iran's Health Care System Using A Wealth Index Mohammad Hajizadeh, Luke Connelly, James Butler and Ardeshir Khosravi
P 034 Geographic Distribution of Rural Health Houses in the Provinces of Iran Aliasghar Ahmad Kia Daliri, Hassan Haghparast, Hamidreza Safari and Behzad
Najafi
P 035 School Feeding Programs and the Nutrition of Siblings: Evidence from a
Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso
Harounan Kazianga, Damien de Walque and Harold Alderman
P 036 HIV services delivery and overall quality of care and satisfaction in Burkina Faso: Are
there privileged patients?
Harounan Kazianga, Seni Kouanda, Laetitia Ouedraogo, Elisa Rothenbuhler, Mead
Over and Damien de Walque
P 037 Determinants of health care costs associated with violence Marie Kruse, Jan Sørensen, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen and Karin Helweg-Larsen
P 038 The Integrated System of Inspection (ISI) as a Tool for Performance Management in
the Supplementary Health Sector, Brazil
Gislaine Afonso-Souza, Antonio Ponce-de-Leon, Flávio José Fonseca de Oliveira
and Luis Sá

Number Title Authors
P 039 Middle term strategy and development conception of home special nursing and
home hospice care in Hungary, with special regard to rationalization of financial
background
Csaba Dózsa, Barbara Borcsek and Éva Krenyácz
P 040 Making decision’s with the Saari triangle: A novel tool for health care professionals Jaakko Hakula
P 041 Default rules and kidneys: The impact of legal regulations in the availability of organs
for donations
P 042 How not to reform the health care system: Negative policy - Learning from
Germany’s health “reforms”
P 043 Measuring the Performance of Regional Health Care Systems: A DEA Bootstrap
Application
P 044 Federalism, Party Competition and Budget Outcome: Empirical Findings on Regional
Health Expenditure in Italy
Katharina Laber, Philipp Michel and Percivil Carrera
Percivil Carrera
Marina Cavalieri and Calogero Guccio
Emilio Giardina, Calogero Guccio, Marina Cavalieri and Isidoro Mazza
P 045 Administration of the Innocent Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir and Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson
P 046 Sleep, Slumber and Sustenance Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir and Gylfi Zoega
P 047 Implementation of an organised screening programme for cervical cancer in France:
Economic impact evaluation
P 048 Comparing the use of depression-related medication in a randomized study of
screening for prostate cancer
P 049 Cost comparison of Radical Prostatectomy, Prostate Brachytherapy or External
Beam Radiotherapy 6 months after treatment in patients with Clinically Localized
Prostate Cancer
P 050 Cost-effectiveness of photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) for the
treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): Assessment for the reimbursement
of this treatment in France
Odile Kusnik-Joinville, Bruno Detournay and Stephanie Barre
Neill Booth, Adela Ratiu, Teuvo Tammela, Anssi Auvinen, Liisa Määttänen and Pekka
Rissanen
A. Virginia Becerra, Francesc Cots, Ferran Guedea, Joan Pera, Ana Boladeras,
Ferran Aguiló, José Francisco Suarez, Pedro Gallo, Lluís Murgui, Àngels Pont, Oriol
Cunillera, Yolanda Pardo, Montse Ferrer and Multicentric Spanish Group of Clinically
Localized
Anne-Line Couillerot-Peyrondet
P 051 Cost analysis of lung cancer treatment Julieta Corral, Francesc Cots, Xavier Castells, Josep Alfons Espinàs, Josep Ramon
Germà and Josep Maria Borràs
P 052 Resource use and cost of the implementation of a population-based colorectal
cancer screening programme based on immunological faecal occult blood testing in
Catalonia (Spain)
Julieta Corral, Josep Alfons Espinàs, Mercè Peris and Josep Maria Borràs
P 053 Behavioural Economics of Knee Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Requesting:
Cost and Logistical Implications
P 054 A web-based research tool for the structured comparison of reimbursement
decisions for newborn screening programs in the <strong>European</strong> Union
P 055 Relevance of Effective Communication: An Aspect of Economics of Information
Technology in Health Care
P 056 New Technologies Evaluation in Hospitals in Portugal: Model of Need Simulation for
PET, MRI and CT
P 057 Investigating the job preferences of South African nurses: Results from a labelled
choice experiment
P 058 Criterion validity of the contingent valuation method: Results from a WTP study for a
community-based health insurance scheme in Burkina Faso
P 059 The effect of community level lifestyle intervention on health-related quality of life of
subjects with a high risk of type 2 diabetes
Antony Palmer, D Tadevosyan, A Beale, I Khan, V Satish and S Deo
Katharina Fischer, Reiner Leidl and Wolf Rogowski
Olurotimi Kemiki
Conceição Amado and Maria do Rosário Giraldes
Mylene Lagarde, Duane Blaauw and Ermin Erasmus
Hengjin Dong
Pasi Aronen, Harri Sintonen, Markku Peltonen and Jaakko Tuomilehto
P 060 Do Portuguese and UK health state values differ across valuation methods? Lara Ferreira, Pedro Ferreira, Donna Rowen and John Brazier
P 061 Health Related Quality of Life: Which kind of instrument match the needs of post
partum women
P 062 Policy application leading to the motivation of cancer screening from the economic
viewpoint
P 063 Validity and responsiveness of the EQ-5D in assessing and valuing health status in
patients with anxiety disorders
Nina Knape, Rainhild Schaefers and Manfred Haubrock
Nobuo Koinuma and Michiya Ito
Hans-Helmut König, Anja Born, Oliver Günther, Herbert Matschinger, Sven Heinrich,
Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Matthias C. Angermeyer and Christiane Roick
P 064 Global burden of disease and economic growth Martine Audibert, Pascale Combes Motel and Alassane Drabo
P 065 The determinants of physicians' choices for location Eric Delattre, Anne-Laure Samson and Anne-Laure Samson
P 066 Does education shield against common mental disorders? Edvard Johansson
P 067 Evaluation of psychotherapeutic treatments of child and adolescent emotional and
behavioural problems: Methods and an example
P 068 Effects of psychiatric comorbidity on costs in back pain patients undergoing disc
surgery: A cross sectional study
P 069 The economic burden of somatization syndromes: A systematic review of cost-ofillness
studies and cost-effectiveness analyses
P 070 Checklist of economic evaluations submitted in pharmaceutical reimbursement
dossiers in Hungary
P 071 Pharmacy and hospital market indicators suggest generic substitution scheme
increased competition in Finland
Elena Gospodarevskaya and Leonie Segal
Alexander Konnopka, Sven Heinrich, Margrit Zieger, Melanie Luppa, Steffi Riedel-
Heller, Hans Jörg Meisel, Lutz Günther, Jürgen Meixensberger and Hans-Helmut
König
Alexander Konnopka, Rainer Schaefert, Claudia Kaufmann, Wolfgang Herzog and
Hans-Helmut König
Zoltan Kalo, Marta Pekli, Andras Inotai and Edit Remak
Henna Kannisto and Vesa Jormanainen
P 072 Explaining Trends in the Caesarean Section Rate in Ireland 1999-2007 Aoife Brick and Richard Layte
P 073 The Costs of Conducting Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials in Germany Uwe Kehrel
P 074 Do productivity costs matter? The impact of including productivity costs on the costeffectiveness
of interventions targeted at depressive disorders
Marieke Krol, Joce de Jong, Job vna Exel and Werner Brouwer
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Number Title Authors
P 075 Observational Studies: Practical Applications and Associated Validity Considerations Melissa Bauer and Susan Anton
P 076 Risk Adjustment and Provider Payment Systems: Complementarities and Matching Manuel García-Goñi and Pere Ibern
P 077 Implementation of a health status based risk adjustment: How to define "chronic"
and "severe" disease?
P 078 More schooling in Mexico: What about smoking? Mabel Andalón
P 079 Constantly Proving the Opposite? A test of CPTO using a broad time horizon and
correcting for discounting
Tanja Ulle, Rebecca Jahn, Pamela Aidelsburger and Juergen Wasem
Arthur Attema and Werner Brouwer
P 080 New methodology for managing information in the EQ-5D index Rocio de Andres, Carmen Garcia-Prieto and Patricia Gomez-Costilla
P 081 Comparing Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy Between Countries: An EQ-5D based
approach
P 082 A comparison of four multi attribute utility instruments with two instruments for
measuring subjective wellbeing
P 083 Using GIS to assess the relationship between accessibility to health care services
and willingness to pay for community care for older people
P 084 Comparing marginal and standard approaches to eliciting willingness to pay: A case
study of measuring the benefits of emergency and out-of-hours services
P 085 The Determinants of Problem and Recreational Gambling and the Effect of
Gambling on Health
P 086 Comparison of the long-term cost-effectiveness of sirolimus-eluting versus baremetal
stents in relation to patients’ risk factors for restenosis and other major
coronary events: sub-group analyses of the GERSHWIN study
P 087 Long-term cost-effectiveness of sirolimus-eluting versus bare-metal stents: 36-month
results of the GERSHWIN study
P 088 Medical and Economic Perspectives of Heart Failure: An Analysis of Hospital
Admissions in Germany
Richard Heijink, Mark Oppe, Xander Koolman and Gert Westert
Munir Khan, Jeff Richardson, Angelo Iezzi and Kompal Sinha
Aoife Callan, Karyn Morrissey and Eamon O’Shea
Karine Lamiraud and Cam Donaldson
Jane Ruseski, Brad Humphreys and John Nyman
Doreen McBride, Bernd Brüggenjürgen, Stephanie Roll and Stefan N. Willich
Bernd Brüggenjürgen, Doreen McBride, Stephanie Roll and Stefan N. Willich
Till Neumann, Janine Biermann, Anja Neumann, Jürgen Wasem, Georg Ertl, Rainer
Dietz and Raimund Erbel
P 089 Economics and Commissioning in the English NHS Sara McCafferty, Iestyn Williams, Angela Bate, Steve Birch, Cam Donaldson, David
Hunter, Ruth McDonald, Madeleine Murtagh and Judith Smith
P 090 Clinical pathways as a cost containment measure for hospital expenditures in
Bulgaria
Rositsa Koleva-Kolarova, Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova and Gena Grancharova
P 091 Evaluation of the costs and benefits of motorcycle helmet intervention: An economic
review
P 092 Development of a Cost-Utility Model in the Medical Treatment of Endometriosis: A
UK National Health Service (NHS) Perspective
P 093 The unit costs of inpatient hospital days, outpatient visits and daycare treatments in
the field of oncology and haematology
P 094 Towards Cost Transparency and Patients’ Choice in Germany: An Information
Economics Viewpoint
P 095 Patient cost-sharing for physicians’ and in-patient hospital services in the 27
<strong>European</strong> Union member states
P 096 How to estimate export and import health expenditure in sub-national NHA: A case of
China
Ferruccio Pelone, Marta Marino, Giuseppe Avallone, Antonio Giulio de Belvis and
Walter Ricciardi
Christopher Knight, Antje Colligs and James Ryan
Siok Swan Tan, Chantal van Gils, Margreet Franken, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen
and Carin Uyl-de Groot
Constanze Sörensen
Marzena Tambor, Milena Pavlova, Piotr Woch and Wim Groot
Sihai Tao, Yuxin Zhao and Tiemin Zhai
P 097 China Health Accounts Improves Health Development and Reform Sihai Tao, Tiemin Zhai, Yuying Li and Lirui Zhu
P 098 Informal payment in health care and intra-household allocation of resources in
Albania
P 099 Towards integrated care for chronic conditions: Can the new Dutch payment scheme
overcome the barriers?
P 100 The Impact of Medical Savings Accounts Balances on Outpatient Services
Probability of Usage and Expenditures in China
Sonila Tomini, WIm Groot and Milena Pavlova
Apostolos Tsiachristas and Maureen Rutten- van Mölken
Vivienne Hui Zhang, Peter P. Yuen, Hanqin Zhang Qiu and Ben Haobin Ye
P 101 Economic evaluation of the Australasian Peers for Progress Diabetes Program Stephen Colgan, Bridie Murphy, Rob Carter, Pilvikki Absetz, Prasuna Reddy, James
Dunbar and Brian Oldenburg
P 102 The cumulative costs of medication in patient with type 1 diabetes Raija Lithovius, Valma Harjutsalo, Carol Forsblom and Per-Henrik Groop
P 103 Socio-economic determinants of outpatient antibiotic consumption in Europe Giuliano Masiero, Massimo Filippini, Matus Ferech and Herman Goossens
P 104 Public expenditures on illicit drugs in Germany Sarah Mostardt, Stephanie Flöter , Tim Pfeiffer-Gerschel, Jürgen Wasem and Anja
Neumann
P 105 Cost-effectiveness of high-dose, high-frequency subcutaneous interferon beta-1a
compared with low-dose, low-frequency intramuscular interferon beta-1a for the
treatment of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis in Sweden: outcomes of a healtheconomic
mod
Matthieu Cuche, Marie Nilsson and Mattias Ekman
P 106 Cost-effectiveness or C-reactive protein testing to inform antibiotic use for lower
respiratory tract infections
Raymond Oppong, Mark Jit and Joanna Coast
P 107 Patients' perspective on generic drugs: Who decides? Carla Filipa Meireles and Lígia Costa Pinto
P 108 Health economic study using survey data and modelling: Agomelatine, generic
venlafaxine and placebo in the treatment of major depressive disorder
P 109 Economic evaluation of lacosamide in the treatment of partial-onset epilepsy in
Finland: Cost-effectiveness and budget impact modelling
P 110 The relationship between complementary and alternative medicine use and
conventional medicine use for people with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular
disease
Erkki Soini and Taru Hallinen
Erkki Soini, Janne Martikainen and Alessandra Vanoli
Jean Spinks and Preety Srivastava

Number Title Authors
P 111 Specification tests in Data Envelopment Analysis Luis Silva Miguel
P 112 Does prospective payment increase hospital efficiency? Evidence from a natural
experiment
Philippe Widmer and Peter Zweifel
P 113 Flat-of-the-Curve Medicine: A New Perspective on the Production of Health Johannes Schoder and Peter Zweifel
P 114 Health Care Utilization and Costs of Elderly Persons with Multiple Chronic
Conditions: A Systematic Review
Thomas Lehnert, Dirk Heider, Hanna Leicht, Melanie Luppa, Steffi Riedel-Heller and
Hans-Helmut König
P 115 Medical care utilization of the elderly: Splitting the population into latent classes Carlota Quintal , Óscar Lourenço, Cristina Lobo and Pedro Ferreira
P 116 Equality of what? What matters most to the public Carlota Quintal
P 117 Out of Pocket Health Care Burdens among Pure Elderly Households in Turkey:
Comparison of 1994 and 2006
Nesrin Cilingiroglu and Mahmut Saadi Yardim
P 118 Economic evaluation of the health impact of lead among children in France Celine Pichery, Martine Bellanger, Philippe Grandjean and Denis Zmirou-Navier
P 119 Differential Eligibility and the Utilisation of GP Services in Ireland Anne Nolan
P 120 The socio‐economic gradient in the uptake of the Human Papilloma Virus‐vaccine in
Flanders (Belgium), 2007‐2009
P 121 Public Hospital Governance Reform in China: Evidence and Lessons from Pilot
Reform in Shanghai
P 122 Transparency of Health Care Rationing Debate and the inherent problematic of
public involvement
P 123 Community Mobilization, Individual Agency and Maternal Health: Evidence from a
Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural India
Eva Lefevere, Frank De Smet, Hervé Avalosse and Pierre Van Damme
Mingshan LU, Ming Zhao, Lihong Chen and Jin MA
Micaela Moreira Pinho
Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Joao Montalvao, Nirmala Nair, Suchitra Rath, Rajendra
Mahapatra, Audrey Prost, Anthony Costello and Prasanta Tripathy
P 124 Group Practice Under Capitation Versus Individual Practice Under Fee-For-Service Julian Perelman, Isabelle Roch, Catherine Moureaux, Isabelle Heymans, Lieven
Annemans and Marie-Christine Closon
P 125 Heterogeneity in Reporting Behaviour for Health and Health System
Responsiveness
P 126 Doctors in the moonlight - Personal, professional and Institutional factors
determining multiple job-holding among Norwegian doctors
Teresa Bago d’Uva, Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice, Silvana Robone and Peter C.
Smith
Ragnhild Røhme Fjærtoft
P 127 Analysis of the "reformpool" activity in Austria: Is the Challenge met? Gerald Röhrling and Thomas Czypionka
P 128 Spatial Competition between Health Care Providers: Effects of Standardization Björn Kuchinke, Jürgen Zerth and Nadine Wiese
P 129 Public-private mix of funding and health insurance regulation: Is it an indifference
curve in Brazil?
João Matos, Rodrigo Leal and George Kornis
P 130 The third wave of health insurance regulation in Brazil João Matos, Rodrigo Leal, George Kornis and Maria Andreazzi
P 131 State Constitutional Recognition of Health and Infant Mortality Rate in the United
States, 1929-2005
P 132 Clients’ satisfaction with the health insurance scheme in Nigeria: The formal sector
experience from a local setting in northern region
P 133 Cost function estimation for the Hospitals of the Regional Health Service of Galicia
(NW Spain)
Hiroaki Matsuura
P 134 Implementing a benchmarking model for expenditures on outpatient care in Austria Nina Pfeffer and Birgit Heiderer
P 135 DIffusion of public health technologies Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström
P 136 Ten years of health insurance regulation in Brazil Lucila Rocha and João Matos
P 137 The development of health expenditures in the social health insurance (SHI) in
Germany until 2050 and options for a sustainable financing
Shafiu Mohammed, Nasir Sambo, Rainer Sauerborn and Hengjin Dong
Mercedes Pereira, Concepción Sieiro, José Luis Jiménez, Enrique Rouco and
Enrique Arbones
Dirk Sauerland and Ansgar Wübker
P 138 Evidence of Class Size Effects on Bullying and Health Problems in Swedish Schools Mattias Persson and Mikael Svensson
P 139 A systematic review on impact of health insurance arrangements in low income
countries
P 140 Comparison of economic assessment guidelines of three national Health Technology
Assessment Agencies (NICE, IQWIG and KCE): which social justice principles on
allocation of health gains?
P 141 Determinants for Voluntary Public Health Insurance Demand: Evidence from Urban
Resident Basic Medical Insurance in China
Judith Mathijssen, Ernst Spaan, Noor Tromp and Florence McBain
Clémence Thébaut
Gang Chen and Xiao Yan
P 142 Cost-of-illness of chronic hepatitis B infection in Vietnam Hong-Anh Thi Tu, Herman J Woerdenbag, Arthorn Riewpaiborn, Sumit Kane,
Maarten J Postma and Shuchuen Li
P 143 Piecing the Jigsaw Puzzle of Adolescent Happiness: Where does health fit in? Liesbet van de Wetering, Job van Exel and Werner Brouwer
P 144 Translating Research into Practice: Pediatric HIV Costs across Mono Therapy,
Combination Therapy and HAART Therapy Eras from 1986-2007
P 145 Comparing an index for the EQ-5D derived from experience-based values with index
approaches based on given health states
Leslie Wilson, Rituparna Base, Lori Hensic, Maria Christenson, Paoli Carly and
Diane Wara
Leidl Reiner and Reitmeir Peter
P 146 Quality of life of criminal youths Saskia Schawo and Leona Hakkaart
P 147 Cost-Effectiveness of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in pregnancy in
southern Mozambique
P 148 The Impact of Depression on Diabetes Patients, Prevalence and Costs: A Case
Study of Cluj County, Romania
Elisa Sicuri, Azucena Bardají, Tacilta Nhampossa, Maria Maixenchs, Ariel Nhacolo,
Delino Nhalungo, Sergi Sanz, Pedro L Alonso and Clara Menéndez
Razvan Chereches, Cristian Litan and Catalin Baba
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Number Title Authors
P 149 Paying for mental health care: What are the problems, what are the solutions? Anne Mason, Rossella Verzulli and Maria Goddard
P 150 Funding mental health care services: Is casemix a suitable tool? A tale of three
countries
P 151 Quantifying age specific multi-morbidity patterns in the general population using
health survey data: Co-occurrence of diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke and
cancer
Ana Santos and Céu Mateus
P 152 The Relationship Between Household Size and the Medical expenditure Timothy Halliday and Mijung Park
P 153 A systematic review of positron emission tomography (PET) in oncology: A way to
personalize cancer treatment in a cost-effective manner?
P 154 A health economics analysis to help determine the place for computed tomographic
colonography in the detection of colorectal cancer
Pieter van Baal, Peter Engelfriet, Hendriek Boshuizen, Jan van de Kassteele and
Rudolf Hoogenveen
Astrid Langer
Veronique Raimond, Pascal Potier and Dominique Tessier-Vetzel
P 155 Assessment of the needs in the better governance of patient payments in Lithuania Murauskiene Liubove and Marija Veniute
P 156 Informal patient payments in Ukrainian maternity hospitals Tetiana Stepurko, Olena Levenets and Irena Gryga
P 157 Economic and Cost-Effectiveness Considerations for Pharmacogenetics Tests: A
review of the evidence
Daniele Paci and Dolores Ibarreta
P 158 Cost-effectiveness analysis of a FOBT based Colorectal Screening Programme Enrico Bracci, Elena Pizzo, Emidia Vagnoni, Janneke Wilschut and Marjolein van
Ballegooijen
P 159 Economic of Community mobilization in prevention of maternal death: using Desa
Siaga model: An experience from NTB Province of Indonesia
Rahmi Sofiarini and Lieve Goeman
P 160 Is There Any Evidence of Achieving a Single Pharmaceutical Market in the <strong>European</strong>
Union?
P 161 Can brief intervention for alcohol misuse delivered by general practitioners influence
community-level risky drinking? A cost-effectiveness analysis
P 162 Using discrete choice experiments (DCE) to explore trade-offs between different
policies for cannabis
Aysegul Timur, Gabriel Picone and Jeffrey DeSimone
Hector Jose Navarro, Anthony Shakeshaft, Chris Doran and Rob Sanson-Fisher
Marian Shanahan, Karen Gerard, Alison Ritter and Glenn Salkeld
P 163 Cross-Border Health and Productivity Effects of Alcohol Policies Per Johansson, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Jouko Verho
P 164 The Time Trade - Off (TTO) approach to measuring patients' preferences for health
states associated with HPV-related pathologies: a multicenter pilot study performed
in Italy
Francesco Saverio Mennini, Donatella Pnatto, Alessandro Capone, Andrea
Marcellusi, Giovanni Scambia and Roberto Gasparini
P 165 Economic and Public Health Impact of 2009 Tobacco Tax Increase in Ukraine Hana Ross and Konstantin Krasovsky
P 166 Cost-Effectiveness of Memantine in the Treatment of Moderate and Severe
Alzheimer's Disease in the UK
Benoit Rive, Marina Grishchenko, Cornelius Katona , Gill Livingston, Michel Lamure,
Chantal Guilhaume-Goulant and Mondher Toumi

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General information
Airport transportation
Finnair provides regular bus transportation between the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport and the
City Terminal near the Railway Station at a cost of approximately 6 €. Taxis between the
Airport and the Helsinki city centre cost approximately 40 € (30 minutes). Group taxis are
also available at the airport (Yellow Line and Airport Taxi, cost approximately 25 € per
person).
Registration and information desk
Participants can pick up their personal conference material at the registration desk, which
will be open at Finlandia Hall (street address: Mannerheimintie 13e) as follows:
● Wednesday, 7 July 2010 at 13:00–21:00
● Thursday–Friday, 8–9 July 2010 at 08:00–17:00
● Saturday, 10 July 2010 at 08:00–13:00
The conference secretariat will be available to assist you during the conference at Finlandia
Hall.
Language
The conference language is English. There will be no simultaneous interpretation.
Name badges
Participants and accompanying persons are obliged to wear the official conference name
badges at all conference events. An additional fee will be charged for reproduction of lost
name badges.
Poster exhibition
Poster exhibition will take place in the lobby areas of Finlandia Hall. Access to the poster
exhibition is free for registered participants. The poster exhibition will be open throughout
the conference hours on Thursday–Friday, 8–9 July 2010.
Lunch and refreshments
Lunch is included in the participants’ registration fee. Coffee and tea will be available in
the lobby areas during the morning and afternoon coffee breaks.
Non-smoking policy
Smoking will be prohibited in the conference and exhibition areas. Smoking is allowed
only outside Finlandia Hall in designated smoking areas.
Certificate of attendance
All participants will receive a certificate of attendance during the conference together
with the conference material.
First aid
The first aid room at Finlandia Hall is located next to the registration desk. The general
emergency phone number is 112. You can call this number free of charge from any phone,
including foreign mobile phone connections, without any area code. In genuine
emergencies, when someones life, health or property is in danger, just call 112.
Liability
By registering into the conference and/or by participating in the exhibition joined to the
conference, participants agree that neither the organising committee nor the conference
secretariat assume any responsibility for damage or injuries to persons or property during
the conference. Participants and exhibitors are adviced to organise their own health, travel
and personal insurances.

Social programme
Get-together reception at Finlandia Hall
Date: Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Time: 18:00-21:00
Place: Finlandia Hall
Address: Mannerheimintie 13e
Price: Included in the registration fee
Helsinki city reception at Helsinki City Hall
Date: Thursday, 8 July 2010
Time: 18:00-19:30
Place: Helsinki City Hall
Address: Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13
Price: Included in the registration fee
<strong>Conference</strong> dinner at Restaurant Kulosaaren Casino
Date: Friday, 9 July 2010
Time: 19:00-00:30
Place: Restaurant Kulosaaren Casino
Address: Hopeasalmenpolku 1
Price: 85 € (pre-reserved entry tickets required)
Schedule of the transfers and the dinner:
� Charter bus transfers from conference hotels as follows:
18:15 Hotel Helka
18:15 Sokos Hotel Presidentti
18:30 Scandic Continental Hotel
18:30 Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel
� Departures by ships at 19:00 from pier near Market Square (near "Kauppahalli")
� Dinner and program at Kulosaaren Casino at 20:00-00:30
� Bus transfers from Kulosaaren Casino between 22:30-00:30
Transfers by charter buses to Market Square. Departures by three ships from the
Market Square to the Restaurant Kulosaaren Casino through the beautiful
archipelago right outside Helsinki. Shuttle buses return from the restaurant to the
conference hotels.
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Organisers, supporters and sponsors
Organisers
� The Finnish Society for Health Economics
� National Institute for Health and Welfare
The organisers would like to express their gratitude to the following companies
and organisations for their generous support to ECHE 2010 conference.
Supporters
� Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
� Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
� Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
� The City of Helsinki
� The Social Insurance Institution of Finland
Corporate sponsors
� Pfizer
� Federation of Finnish Financial Services
� Eli Lilly Finland
� MSD
� Sanofi Aventis
� Novartis Finland
� Attendo MedOne
� AstraZeneca

Professor of
Health Economics
(Two positions)
Centre for Health Economics,
Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
The University
Monash University has a bold vision – to deliver significant improvements to
the human condition. Distinguished by its international perspective, Monash
takes pride in its commitment to innovative research and high quality teaching
and learning.
The Opportunity
The University is seeking two outstanding appointees to provide strategic and
research leadership in the Centre for Health Economics. The centre’s large
group of applied economists undertake internationally recognised research in
health economics and econometrics, funded almost exclusively from nationally
competitive grants and contract research income.
The successful candidates will have an international reputation for excellent
research, a strong record of obtaining external research grants, highly
developed leadership, management and networking skills and a vision for
the future of health economics in Australia and internationally.
The Benefits
A competitive remuneration package will be negotiable for outstanding
candidates. Relocation travel, removal allowance and salary packaging
are available.
Monash offers a range of professional development programs, support for
research, study and overseas work, generous maternity leave and flexible
work arrangements.
Duration
The appointments will be for a fixed term of five years. Subject to performance
and other criteria, a further term may be negotiable.
Location
Clayton campus
Enquiries only to
Professor Bruce Hollingsworth, Director, Centre for Health Economics,
Faculty of Business and Economics, telephone +61 3 9905 0760,
email bruce.hollingsworth@buseco.monash.edu.au or
Professor Kim Langfield-Smith, Deputy Dean (Research),
Faculty of Business and Economics, telephone +61 3 9902 0764,
email kim.langfield-smith@buseco.monash.edu.au
Applications
Applications close no later than Monday, 23 August 2010.
The position description (including the selection criteria) and information on how
to apply can be found at www.monash.edu/jobs under Senior/Executive.
The University reserves the right to appoint by invitation.
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5/2010
Ready, Steady, Go! The healthiest nation in the world.
If there’s one thing we shouldn’t do in Finland, it’s belittle ourselves. Stick a Finn between a rock and a hard
place, and we’ll whip out a pickaxe.
We’re already able to tell others that Finns have all been literate since the dawn of time. Or that our health care system is a source of admiration throughout
the world. And a few of our boys aren’t too bad at driving race cars, are they?
Soon we’ll have another good line to tell the person sitting next to us on the aeroplane: “We are the healthiest nation in the world.”
Are we there yet? Well, no, not really. But our health has improved considerably thanks to decades of work.
Pfi zer is one of the hard workers improving people’s health. Even though Pfi zer is the world leader in developing new medicines, we know that health is
more than just medicine. It is also making healthy choices. The time has come to challenge everyone to make these choices. A good place to start is www.
terveinkansa.fi .
Why, you ask? Well, we came up this great idea: What if the Finns were to be the healthiest nation in the world by the year 2015?
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C Helsinki City Hall
M Market Square
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