The Single-Payer Option: A Reconsideration (2009)
This article discusses some of the merits and demerits of the single-payer model of health care financing, with particular reference to the English National Health Service (NHS). Specifically, it is...
Contents 1 Healthy Lives: reflecting on the reflections (2008)
Edited Adam Oliver, Wc Lp, Adam Oliver
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Reflections on the development of health inequalities policy in the United Kingdom (2008)
Abstracts are written to summarise documents and to whet the reader’s interest. Alas, many readers just use them as a substitute for reading the whole paper, which given the brevity of abstracts...
A comparative analysis of health system reform across England and Scotland (2008)
This is part of a larger collaborative article called "Health systems and health reform in Europe".
Governments across the world seem to be almost perennially motivated to ‘reform’ their health care systems, with the intention of improving efficiency, equity, access, responsiveness, quality,...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health-care system in the USA, and provides public-sector care for honourably discharged veterans of the US armed forces. The panel...
Health policy developments: reforms and effects of reforms in Europe (2007)
Since the early 1990s, European health policy makers have put great stock in managed markets as a means of improving efficiency in healthcare. To date, these markets have had only limited success,...
A qualitative analysis of the lottery equivalents method (2007)
Numerous instruments have been developed to elicit numerical values that represent the strength of preference for different health states. However, relatively few studies have attempted to analyse...
The Veterans Health Administration: an American success story? (2007)
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides health care for U.S. military veterans. By the early 1990s, the VHA had a reputation for delivering limited, poor-quality care, which led to health...
Over the last two decades, there has been an increased focus among the health policy and research communities upon improving efficiency, in terms of activity levels and health outcomes, in the health...
Moving between choice and direct valuation procedures can cause substantial, systematic preference reversals, which is problematic because it leaves us unsure as to which procedure (if any) is...
Mossialos, Elias, Oliver, Adam
This issue was guest edited by the authors listed.
Special issue: "Analysing the impact of health system changes in the EU member states" (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Maynard, Alan
This issue was edited by the authors listed.
Special Issue: Analysing the Impact of Health System Changes in the EU Member States (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Maynard, Alan
Editors of this special issue of the journal Health Economics.
The core NHS Principles: where art thou? (2005)
This item is a section within the article 'How do people see the progress of NHS reform?', Andy Cowper, British Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 11, Iss. 3, 01 Mar 2005, pp 77 - 80.
Special issue: "Legacies and latitude in European health policy" (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Wilsford, David
This issue was guest edited by the authors listed.
Special Issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy' (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Wilsford, David
Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos and David Wilsford are the editors of this special issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy'.
Mossialos, Elias, Oliver, Adam
The regulation of pharmaceutical markets is an important policy concern in many countries, and is generally undertaken with cost containment, efficiency, quality and equity objectives in mind. This...
Special Issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy' (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Wilsford, David
Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos and David Wilsford are the editors of this special issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy'.
European Health Systems Reforms: Looking Backward to See Forward? (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias
In this article we outline the different schools of new institutionalism and a few other selected political science theories. Moreover, we relate the insights offered by a series of analyses of...
Connecting technology assessment to priorities in health care [special issue of journal] (2004)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Robinson, Ray
Editors of this special issue of journal.
Equity of access to health care: outlining the foundations for action (2004)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias
The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based...
Prioritizing health care: is “health” always an appropriate maximand? (2004)
In recent years, a few health economists have begun to question the ethical underpinnings of the standard practice of QALY maximisation as a ubiquitous decision rule in the allocation of health care...
Testing the internal consistency of the standard gamble in ‘success’ and ‘failure’ frames (2004)
Decision making behaviour has often been shown to vary following changes in the way in which choice problems are described (or ‘framed’). Moreover, a number of researchers have demonstrated that...
Health technology assessment and its influence on health-care priority setting (2004)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Robinson, Ray
In this article, we review the development of health technology assessment (HTA) in England and Wales, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden, and we summarize the reaction to these developments from a...
This issue was guest edited by the author listed.
Abstracts for the 5th European Conference on Health Economics (2004)
Edited by the author listed.
Applied health economics and health policy [special edition of journal] (2004)
A selection of papers presented at the Fifth European Conference on Health Economics
Testing rank-dependent utility theory for health outcomes (2003)
Systematic violations of expected utility theory (EU) have been reported in the context of both money and health outcomes. Rank-dependent utility theory (RDU) is currently the most popular and...
A quantitative and qualitative test of the Allais paradox using health outcomes (2003)
There have been many tests of the descriptive validity of the axioms of expected utility theory (EU) using money outcomes. Such tests are relatively uncommon with respect to health outcomes. This is...
The internal consistency of the standard gamble: tests after adjusting for prospect theory (2003)
This article reports a study that tests whether the internal consistency of the standard gamble can be improved upon by incorporating loss weighting and probability transformation parameters in the...
There is a burgeoning literature in health economic evaluation, with this form of analysis becoming increasingly influential at the health policy making level in a number of countries. However, a...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003.
Putting the quality into quality-adjusted life years (2003)
Over recent decades, a great deal of effort has been devoted towards developing instruments that can be used to elicit health state values. All of these instruments are conceptually very different...
A special section on health inequalities (2000)
Oliver, Adam, Cookson, Richard
This section edited by guest editors Adam Oliver and Richard Cookson.
Testing rank-dependent utility theory for health outcomes
Systematic violations of expected utility theory (EU) have been reported in the context of both money and health outcomes. Rank-dependent utility theory (RDU) is currently the most popular and...
Testing the internal consistency of the lottery equivalents method using health outcomes
The standard gamble has a firm basis in the theory of risk and, for this reason, is the preferred method of health state value elicitation for many researchers. However, it is widely recognised that...
The English National Health Service: 1979-2005
This article aims to assess the development of the English National Health Service (NHS) over the period 1979-2005, against the original, and often repeated, core objectives of the system: that it be...
Inconsistent objectives reflections on some selective health care policy developments in Europe
Over the last two decades, there has been an increased focus among the health policy and research communities upon improving efficiency, in terms of activity levels and health outcomes, in the health...
The contestable nature of health policy analysis
Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos, Alan Maynard
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Should We Maximise QALYs?: A Debate with Respect to Peak-End Evaluation
Cost-utility, Quality-adjusted-life-years