Office: Hagey Hall 240
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 33162
Email: ljcurtis@uwaterloo.ca
Presentations from tonight’s class
Curtis, Lori
J and William J MacMinn (2008) “Health Care
Utilization in Canada: Twenty-five Years of Evidence”
Canadian
Public Policy, 34(1):65-87
Mustard,
Cameron et al., (1998) “Sex Differences in the Use of Health Care
Services” The New England Journal of Medicine, (Special Article),
June 4:1678-1683. & Haas, Jennifer (1998) “The Cost of Being
A Women” The New England Journal of Medicine, ,
June 4:1694-1695.
Jan. 27, 2011 Presentations from Jan. 25, 2011 class
Evans,
Robert and Gregory L. Stoddart (1990) “Producing
Health, Consuming Health Care”
Social
Science and Medicine, 31(12):1347-1362
Arrow,
Kenneth J. (1963) ‘Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical
Care”
The American Economic Review,
53(5):941-73.
Review Questions Test 1 – February
10, 2011 class
Please
note I do not have office hours the day of a test so there will be no office
hours on Feb. 10, 2011.
I
am away on February 9, 2011.
I
will have extra office hours on Thursday Feb. 3 and Tuesday Feb.8, 2011 from
1545h to 1745h.
Topic
V presentations will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011
Presentations
completed to date will be marked and returned on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011
Project
Proposals are due Tuesday March 1st at beginning of class (1800h).
The
course outline says Feb. 22, 2011 but that is during reading week so the
deadline has been extended.
Feb. 3, 2011 I
am being inundated with email questions regarding information that is clearly
stated in the outline or
has been answered in class several
times. I will no longer respond to these type of
emails.
Pauly, Mark V.
(1974) “Overinsurance and Public Provision of
Insurance: The Roles of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection” The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 88(1): 44-62
Feb. 8, 2011 Reminder
– test on Thursday.
Feb
15, 2011 Paper
presentations for Topic VI - Demand for Health & Health Care:
Grossman, Michael “On the concept
of health capital and the demand for health” Journal of Political
Economy, 80(2):223-255 on Feb 18, 2011
Manning, Willard G., Joseph P. Newhouse,
Naihua Duan, Emmett B.
Keeler, Arleen Leibowitz, and M. Susan Marquis (1987)
“Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a
Randomized Experiment” The American Economic Review, 77(3):251-277
on March 1, 2011
Rosenzweig, Mark R.,
and T. Paul Schultz (1983) "Estimating a Household Production Function:
Heterogeneity and the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth
weight," Journal of Political Economy, 91(5):723-746 on March
3, 2011.
Rice, T. (1983) “The Impact of
Changing Medicare Reimbursement Rates on Physician-Induced Demand” Medical
Care 21(8):803-815 on March 3, 2011.
March 1, 2011 Grossman,
Michael “On the concept of health capital and the demand for
health” Journal of Political Economy,
80(2):223-255
Manning, Willard G., Joseph P. Newhouse,
Naihua Duan, Emmett B.
Keeler, Arleen Leibowitz, and M. Susan Marquis (1987)
“Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a
Randomized Experiment” The American Economic Review, 77(3):251-277
March 3, 2011 Schedule
for remainder of term
Paper
Presentations for Topic VII – Supply of Health Care Services
Brown,
D. and Lapan, H. (1979) “The supply of
physician services”, Economic Inquiry, 17, 269-79. March 10, 2011
Woodward, Robert and Warren-Boulton, Frederick (1984) “Considering the financial
incentives and professional ethics on ‘appropriate’ medical
care.” Journal of Health Economics 3(3):223-237. March 15, 2011
Harris, Jeffrey E. (1977) “The Internal Organization
of Hospitals: Some Economic Implications” The Bell Journal of
Economics, 8(2):467-82. March
22, 2011
Make up test as discussed in
March 1, 2011 class – test is on March 17, 2011 in usual class time
Paper Presentations
for Topic VIII - Economic Evaluation
Hoch, Jeffrey S and Carolyn S Dewa (2005) “An Introduction to Economic Evaluation:
What's in a Name?” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 50(3):159-166. March
29, 2011
Drummond, Michael (2004) “Economic
Evaluation in Health Care: Is It Really Useful or Are We Just Kidding
Ourselves?” The Australian Economic Review 37(1):3-11. March
29, 2011
Term Test #2 - March
31, 2011
March
3, 2011 Rosenzweig, Mark R., and T. Paul Schultz (1983) "Estimating
a Household Production Function: Heterogeneity and the Demand for Health
Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth weight," Journal of Political
Economy, 91(5):723-746
Rice, T. (1983) “The Impact of
Changing Medicare Reimbursement Rates on Physician-Induced Demand”
Medical
Care 21(8):803-815
March 15, 2011
CCHS Dictionary from
http://odesi2.scholarsportal.info/documentation/CCHS2007-2008/2007-2008_dict_freq-eng.pdf
Brown,
D. and Lapan, H. (1979) “The supply of
physician services”, Economic Inquiry, 17, 269-79.
Woodward, Robert and Warren-Boulton, Frederick (1984) “Considering the financial
incentives and professional ethics on ‘appropriate’ medical
care.” Journal of Health Economics 3(3):223-237.
March 24, 2011 Review Questions Test 2
Jeffrey
E. Harris (1977) “The Internal Organization of Hospitals: Some Economic
Implications”
The Bell Journal
of Economics, 8(2):467-82.
March 29, 2011 Extra
Office Hours – 1530h to 1730h
March 30, 2011 Extra
Office Hours – 1600h to 1800h (review session - Hagey
Hall Rm 230)
April 1, 2011 Extra
Office Hours – 1000h to 1200h
March 29, 2011 example of text file for stata code
(must be saved as xxxx.do to run in stata)
Hoch, Jeffrey S and Carolyn S Dewa (2005) “An Introduction to Economic Evaluation:
What's in a Name?” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 50(3):159-166.
Drummond, Michael (2004) “Economic
Evaluation in Health Care: Is It Really Useful or Are We Just Kidding Ourselves?”
The Australian Economic Review 37(1):3-11.