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-------- Original Message -------- MEETING ON HEALTH ECONOMICS General Applications Section of the Royal Statistical Society Tuesday May 11th Tea at 4:30 pm Meeting starts at 5:00pm Location: 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX. Speakers: NIGEL RICE (University of York) "The dynamics of health in British Households" JOHN WILDMAN ( University of Newcastle) "Investigations into the relationship between health, income and income inequality." KEITH ABRAMS (University of Leicester) "Bayesian Approaches to Economic Evaluation in Health-care" DETAILS TITLE: The dynamics of health in British Households AUTHORS: Paul Contoyannis, Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice (Economics, University of York) ABSTRACT: This paper considers the dynamics of self-assessed health using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). It has three focal points: the contributions of state dependence and heterogeneity in explaining the dynamics of health, the existence and consequences of sample attrition, and the role of educational attainment and income on health. TITLE: Investigations into the relationship between health, income and income inequality. AUTHORS: Jones, A.M. (Economics, University of York) Wildman, J. (Economics, University of Newcastle) ABSTRACT: We consider the impact of income and deprivation on individual health. Models are estimated using longitudinal semiparametric methods, in order to control for individual heterogeneity and misspecification. We demonstrate that model specification is vital and that the results differ for men and women and for the choice of health variable. TITLE: Bayesian Approaches to Economic Evaluation in Health-care AUTHORS: Keith R Abrams, Nicola J Cooper, Alex J Sutton & Paul C Lambert (Centre for Biostatistics & Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester, U.K.) ABSTRACT: Economic evaluation methods are being used increasingly to decide, on the basis of cost-effectiveness, whether interventions should be used. Bayesian approaches enable all sources of uncertainty and correlation to be accounted for, whilst also allowing use of external evidence, and are illustrated with examples of both trial-based evaluations and decision models. Dr John M Marriott School of Computing and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, U.K. tel: +44 (0)115 8482127 fax: +44 (0)115 8482998