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----- Forwarded by Bruce Hollingsworth/BusEco/Staff/Monash on 02/09/2010 10:01 AM ----- Journal of Health Economics Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages 617-778 (September 2010) 1. Editorial Board Page CO2 2. Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846–1847 Original Research Article Pages 617-629 Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait, Gerard J. van den Berg Research highlights Exposure to a nutritional shock in early life negatively may affect survival at older ages. ?x25B6; This paper uses the exogenous variation caused by the severe Potato Dutch famine of 1846?x2013;47 to identify causal mechanisms. ?x25B6; We find strong evidence for long-run effects of exposure to the Potato famine. ?x25B6; Boys and girls lose on average 4, respectively 2.5 years of life after age 50 after exposure at birth. 3. Health, aging and childhood socio-economic conditions in Mexico Original Research Article Pages 630-640 Franque Grimard, Sonia Laszlo, Wilfredo Lim Research highlights We consider the long term determinants of health among the elderly in Mexico. ?x25B6; Conditions in early life can affect health in late life through various channels. ?x25B6; Poor socio-economic status during childhood has lasting effects on elderly health. ?x25B6; Effects are somewhat weakened after controlling for wealth and education. 4. The importance of relative standards in ADHD diagnoses: Evidence based on exact birth dates Original Research Article Pages 641-656 Todd E. Elder Research highlights ADHD diagnoses are driven by subjective comparisons across children in the same grade. ?x25B6; The youngest children in school are twice as likely to use Ritalin as older children. ?x25B6; Teachers?x2019; perceptions are the mechanisms that drive these relationships. 5. Measuring inappropriate medical diagnosis and treatment in survey data: The case of ADHD among school-age children Original Research Article Pages 657-673 William N. Evans, Melinda S. Morrill, Stephen T. Parente Research highlights Rising rates of ADHD have lead to the concern that ADHD is often misdiagnosed. ?x25B6; We find evidence of medically inappropriate ADHD diagnosis and treatment in school-age children. ?x25B6; Children younger than classroom peers have significantly higher rates of ADHD. ?x25B6; Age relative to peers directly affects a child's probability of being diagnosed with ADHD. ?x25B6; The relative age effect is present for both ADHD diagnosis and treatment with stimulants. 6. Mercury advisories and household health trade-offs Original Research Article Pages 674-685 Jay P. Shimshack, Michael B. Ward Research highlights Government policy towards seafood consumption involves risk-risk trade-offs between mercury and omega-3 intakes. ?x25B6; Consumers responded to the 2001 national mercury advisory by reducing consumption of all seafood, not just high mercury seafood. ?x25B6; Central estimates suggest the net benefits from the national mercury advisory were negative. 7. Overworked? On the relationship between workload and health worker performance Original Research Article Pages 686-698 Ottar Mæstad, Gaute Torsvik, Arild Aakvik Research highlights Health workers are few, but their workload is not overwhelming. ?x25B6; There is no association between workload and effort per patient. ?x25B6; Scaling up the number of health workers is unlikely to increase quality. 8. Bribery in health care in Uganda Original Research Article Pages 699-707 Jennifer Hunt 9. Individual discount rates and smoking: Evidence from a field experiment in Denmark Original Research Article Pages 708-717 Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutström 10. Effects of report cards on referral patterns to cardiac surgeons Original Research Article Pages 718-731 Andrew J. Epstein 11. Does information matter? The effect of the Meth Project on meth use among youths Original Research Article Pages 732-742 D. Mark Anderson Research highlights This paper evaluates the Montana Meth Project, an anti-methamphetamine campaign aimed at deterring meth use among teens. ?x25B6; The findings illustrate the Montana Meth Project has had no discernable impact on meth use. ?x25B6; Meth use among youths in Montana and across the nation was trending downward long before adoption of the campaign. 12. Is newer always better? Re-evaluating the benefits of newer pharmaceuticals Original Research Article Pages 743-750 Michael R. Law, Karen A. Grépin Research highlights One highly cited prior research article suggesting newer drugs ?x201C;pay for themselves?x201D; is fundamentally flawed. ?x25B6; Similar modelling strategies for antihypertensives run counter to established clinical trial evidence. ?x25B6; Studies that do not adequately control for unobserved characteristics that jointly determine drug choice and health expenditures are likely subject to significant bias. 13. Competition in general practice: Prescriptions to the elderly in a list patient system Original Research Article Pages 751-764 Inger Cathrine Kann, Erik Biørn, Hilde Lurås Research highlights The results indicate that the stronger competition a GP faces, the more drugs tend to be prescribed to the elderly patients. ?x25B6; There is evidence that GPs?x2019; prescription style may conflict with their role as gatekeepers, and worse, may be hazardous to patients?x2019; health. ?x25B6; By exploiting the panel design of the data and suitable econometric methods, we have been able to improve the treatment of an important endogeneity problem in empirical modelling of GP behaviour. ?x25B6; A novelty of the chosen econometric approach is that attention is paid to the fact that patients tend to be attracted to GPs who fit their preferences, by treating GPs?x2019; patient composition as endogenous. 14. Does competition from ambulatory surgical centers affect hospital surgical output? Original Research Article Pages 765-773 Charles Courtemanche, Michael Plotzke Research highlights The average reduction in hospital outpatient surgical volume associated with ambulatory surgical centers is 2?x2013;4%. ?x25B6; Ambulatory surgical center entry only appears to influence a hospital's outpatient surgical volume if the facilities are within a few miles of each other. ?x25B6; The reduction in hospital outpatient surgery is not nearly large enough to offset the new procedures performed by an entering ambulatory surgical center. 15. Body weight and smoking initiation: Evidence from Add Health Pages 774-777 Daniel I. Rees, Joseph J. Sabia Copyright © 2010 ScienceDirect. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized use, reproduction, or transfer of this message or its contents, in any medium, is strictly prohibited. ScienceDirect® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.