Dear colleagues,

LSE Health and Social Care based at the London School of Economics and Political Science would like to announce the launch of its new Discussion Paper Series.

The series will provide a vehicle for the dissemination of recent and ongoing research efforts of staff based at, or linked to, LSE Health and Social Care.  It aims to reflect the range and diversity of theoretical and empirical work undertaken at the Centre.

We plan to produce up to 15 papers each year.  
The first paper is DP1 The Provision of Health Care:  Is The Public Sector Ethically Superior To The Private Sector? By Julian Le Grand.  

Forthcoming titles:-

Determinants of private medical insurance coverage in England.
Derek King and Elias Mossialos

At the end of the beginning:  eliciting cardinal values for health states.  
Adam Oliver 

The importance of social care in achieving an efficient health care system:  the case for reducing delay discharge rates. 
José-Luis Fernandez and Julien Forder 

 The state of residential care supply in England: lessons from PSSRU's Mixed Economy of Care (Commissioning and Performance) Research Programme
Jeremy Kendall, Martin Knapp, Julien Forder, Brian Hardy, Tihana Matosevic, and Patricia Ware

First Aid: Lessons from health economics for economic evaluation in social welfare
Sarah Byford and Tom Sefton
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Availability
 
Hard copies of papers will be available at Waterstone's Economist Bookstore on Portugal Street WC2A 2AB at £7.50 each.  Waterstone's may be contacted in the following ways:-

Telephone:      +44 020 7405 5531       Fax:    ++44 020 7430 1584
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Alternatively electronic copies of DP's are available from our web site at http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/lsehsc/menu_pages/publications.htm

For further details contact:
Miss Claire Bird
Managing Editor, LSE Health and Social Care Discussion Paper Series
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0207 955 6840


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