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HEALTH ECONOMICS CONTENTS Volume 3, Issue Nos 1-6 Issue No. 1 Jan—Feb 1994 Announcement . EDITORIAL Economic Evaluation of Healthcare: A Half-way Technology: J. Hutton ECONOMIC EVALUATION Cost-Benefit Analysis of a National Screening Programme for Cystic Fibrosis in an Israeli Population: G. Ginsberg, H. Blau, E. Kerem, C. Springer, B.-S. Kerem, E. Akstein, A.Greenberg, A. Kolumbos, D. Abeliovich, E. Gazit and J. Yahav . Lae? ee ces & a eee is Vaccination Against Hepatitis B Efficient? A Review of World Litera- ture: T. Jefferson and V. Demicheli . Persons vs Years: Two Ways of Eliciting implicit Weights: J. A. Olsen ECONOMICS OF PRIMARY CARE Variations in General Practice Prescribing Costs and ee for Budget Setting: A. T. Healey, B. F. Yule and J. P. Reid . LETTER TO THE EDITORS QALY League Tables: C.H. Lyttkens . Book Reviews . Acknowledgement to Reviewers Issue No. 2 Mar—Apr 1994 EDITORIAL Something Rotten in the State of Clinical and Economic Evaluations?: N. Freemantle and A. Maynard. GUEST EDITORIAL Jumping on the Spot—Health Reform New Zealand Style: M. H. Cooper HEALTH PROMOTION Optimum Alcohol Taxation: Balancing weneniansaulh and External Costs: J. Richardson and S. Crowley . ECONOMIC EVALUATION The QALY—A Measure of Social Value Rather Than Individual — E.Nord . Uncertainty in the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Technologies: The Role of Sensitivity Analysis: A. Briggs, M. Sculpher and M. Buxton HEALTH CARE FINANCING The Determinants of Hospital Utilisation: ee oe ae Allocation in England: M. Benzeval andK .J udge. . . PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE The Uptake of Childhood immunization and Financial incentives to General Practitioners: M. L. Lynch Book Reviews . Announcement . Issue No. 3 May—Jun 1994 GUEST EDITORIAL Pricing in the NHS Internal Market: B. Ferguson and J. Posnett ECONOMIC EVALUATION informal Care and Economic — A Discussion of Possible Methodological Approaches:K . Smith and K. Wright Private Versus Social Opportunity Cost of Time: Valuing Time in the Demand for Health Care: D. J. Torgerson, C. Donaldson and D. M. Reid A Cost Utility Analysis of Treatment Options for Galistone Disease: Methodological issues and Results: J. Cook, J. Richardson and A. Street HEALTH MANPOWER US Health Services aap A Time Seriesm ena M. Kendix and T. E. Getzen ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS inpatient and Outpatient Health Care Demand inr ane —- R. P. Ellis, D. K. Mcinnes and E. H. Stephenson NOTE The UK Cochrane Centre and the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dis- semination: Respective Roles Within the information Systems Strat- egy of the NHS R&D gg oe Coordination and eens Underlying Collaboration: T. Sheldon and |. Chalmers . LETTER TO THE EDITORS QALY League Tables: T. Jefferson, M. Mugford and V. Demicheli . Book Reviews . Announcement . Issue No. 4 Jul-Aug 1994 Guest Editors’ Introduction: A. Jones and O. O’Donnell ECONOMETRICS AND HEALTH ECONOMICS Life Quality Assessment of Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Adjuvant Therapy Using Incomplete Data: P. Busch, P. Schwendener, R. E. Leu, M. Castiglione and B. von Dach ah ae Valuing Future Benefits: J. A. Cairns . Is it Possible to Reduce Tobacco wapenepeninV ia Alcohol Taxation?: S. Jimenez and J. M. Labeaga . Reimbursing Insurance Carriers: The Case of ‘MUFACE’ in the Spanish Health Care System: L. Pellisé Willingness to Pay for Diagnostic Services. A New naemeninst o Model- ling Patient Benefits in Health Care: W. Ried . . Shared ‘Features’ in Prices: Income and Price Elasticities for Health Care Expenditures: M. Saez and C. Murillo . Measuring Inequalities in Health in the Presence of aaa Morbidity Indicators: A. Wagstaff and E. van Doorslaer . Book Reviews . Issue No. 5 Sep—Oct 1994 GUEST EDITORIALS Some Moral Problems in Medicine: Baroness Warnock The German Health Care aameie at the Crossroads: J.-Matthias Graf v.d. Schulenburg ae eae DEBATE Economic Evaluation and Clinical mania emen to Freemantle and Maynard: B. J6nsson , ECONOMIC EVALUATION Costs, Effects and C/E Ratios Alongside a Clinical Trial: B. A. van Hout, M. J. Al, G. S. Gordon and F. F. H. Rutten. Peritoneal Cytology for Suspected Acute Appendicitis: An Economic Evaluation: R. J. Stewart, K. Perry, R. D. Bowie and D. J. O’Dea Statistical Analysis of Cost Outcomes in a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial: M. P. M. H. Rutten-van Mélken, E. K. A. van Doorslaer and R. C. J. A. van Vliet. Book Reviews . Issue No. 6 Nov—Dec 1994 GUEST EDITORIAL ‘Marketization’—The Illusory Magic Pill: W. C. Hsiao . COMMENT Health Care Reform: R. Evans, A. Maynard, A. Preker and U. Reinhardt HEALTH CARE FINANCING The Cost of Rationing Medical Care as insurance denarii and - Waiting: R. R. Feldman . ; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER An Internal Rate of Return Approach to Investigate Pharmacist sea in the United States: D. A. Mott and D. H. Kreling. os ECONOMIC EVALUATION The impact of indirect Costs on Outcomes of Health Care va M. A. Koopmanschap and F. F. H. Rutten . Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Day Care for Patients with Dementia Disorders: A. Wimo, B. Mattsson, |. Krakau, T. Eriksson and A. Nelvig Book Reviews . Author Index. Keyword Index .