Dear HEALTHECON-ALLists,
While I have no personal experience, you might like to consider the following article (and comments) if you intend to submit to this journal:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/05/16/more-controversy-over-open-access-publisher-mdpi
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Chris Sampson, health economist
chrissampson.me
Room A107 | Law and Social Sciences Building | University Park | Nottingham | NG7 2RD | UK
From: Health Economics Distribution Superlist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bruce Hollingsworth
Sent: 23 January 2014 07:28
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Subject: Call for papers for the Special Issue of Risk on "Risk and the Economics of Health"
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From: "Mukamel, Dana" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Special Issue " Risk and the Economics of Health" will be published in the open access journal Risks (ISSN 2227-9091, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/risks). Manuscripts submitted for publication will be published free of charge after peer-review, and the submission deadline is May 15, 2014.
Risk permeates every aspect of health care markets and hence affects behavior of providers, consumers (patients and their agents), and payers (insurers, employers and governments). Arrow, in his seminal 1963 article, was the first to address these issues. Since then, medical care has advanced, health care services, markets, and insurance products have become more complex, but risk continues to be a major factor that shapes all.
Risks in health care markets are of several types. There is risk arising due to the inherent uncertainty in the onset of disease and its progression; there is risk due to imperfect diagnostic technologies; there is risk due to incomplete or lack of information about efficacy and effectiveness of the majority of treatments and procedures; there is the risk of new information becoming available (reclassification of insurance category risk), and then there is the more selective risks that only some market participants face because of asymmetric information (e.g., selection in insurance markets or consumers' inability to ascertain providers' quality). All risk types lead to departures from perfectly competitive and efficient markets.
Approaches to addressing these market failures vary. They include various cost and risk sharing arrangements that change the incentives that consumers, providers, and insurers face. They also include measurement and statistical methods to model and adjust for patient heterogeneity. Such risk adjustment methods are designed to lower risk and are built into payment designs, insurance rates, and quality measures.
Our intent with this special issue is to offer a forum for the examination of the impact of risk on the behavior of consumers, providers and insurers, and ultimately the implications for the efficiency of the health care system. We are calling for high quality papers discussing these issues, both from theoretical and empirical perspectives. We welcome contributions addressing topics such as, but not limited to:
. Econometric and statistical approaches to risk adjustment (e.g., in quality measures, payment rates, insurance premiums);
. The impact of different methods of risk adjustment or degree of adjustment in insurance prices on behavior of insurers and consumers;
. The impact of different methods of risk adjustment or degree of adjustment in quality measurement on behavior of providers, regulators, and consumers;
. Approaches to risk sharing and their impact on utilization, access, and quality;
. The cost-effectiveness of risk measurement and risk adjustment.
If you are interested in contributing an original article or review paper, please contact [log in to unmask] Risks is an open access journal covering insurance and financial management published by MDPI.
Author guidelines can be found at at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/risks/instructions. Articles in this special issue will be published online immediately after acceptance, are free of charge (a fee may be levied for extensive English editing after acceptance and with author approval, see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/risks/apc), and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
Dana Mukamel and Fred Schroyen
Dana B. Mukamel, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Senior Fellow, Health Policy Research Institute
100 Theory, Suite 110,
Irvine, CA 92697
phone: (949) 824 8873
fax:
(949) 824 8833
email:
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Fred Schroyen, PhD
Professor, Dept of Economics
NHH Norwegian school of Economics
Helleveien 30
N-5045 Bergen
Phone: (+47) 55 95 95 83
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