The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Health Economics Contributed Papers #3: Quality of Care and Policy - The Economic Perspective
5121.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Health Economics Contributed Papers #3: Quality of Care and Policy - The Economic Perspective
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Presider(s):Luisa Franzini, PhD
Jonathan Sunshine, PhD
12:30 PMCauses and dynamics of the rapid increase in high-tech diagnostic imagining
Jonathan Sunshine, PhD, Mythreyi Bhargavan, PhD, Christopher Hogan, PhD
12:50 PMService productivities and the potential gains from reducing inefficiency in matching resources to user circumstances in British home and community-based care of elderly people
Bleddyn P. Davies Davies, MA DPhil, José-Luis Fernandez Fernandez, MA
1:10 PMGlobalization and health: Trading democracy
Ellen R Shaffer, PhD, Meredith P. Fort
1:30 PMEffect of the New York State Cardiac Surgery Reports on patient referral to cardiac surgeons: Does public information about quality matter?
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer, Jack Zwanziger, PhD, Alvin I Mushlin, Shih-Fang Huang Gorthy
1:50 PMDiscussion
Organized by:Medical Care
CE Credits:CME, Chiropractic, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA