UMHEG Publications

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2015 Publications

• Ademi Z, Pasupathi K & Liew D. 2015. Cost-effectiveness of apixaban compared to warfarin in the management of atrial fibrillation in Australia. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 22(3): 344-353.
• Barclay KL, Goh PJ & Jackson TJ. 2015. Socio‐economic disadvantage and demographics as factors in stage of colorectal cancer presentation and survival. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 85(3): 135-139.
• Cheng TC, Haisken-DeNew JP & Yong J. 2015. Cream skimming and hospital transfers in a mixed public-private system. Social Science & Medicine, 132: 156-164.
• Cobb‐Clark D, Kassenboehmer S, Le T, McVicar D & Zhang R. 2015. ‘High’‐School: The relationship between early Marijuana use and educational outcomes. Economic Record.
• Johnson D, Pascoe E, Badve S, Dalziel K, Cass A, Clarke P, Ferrari P, McDonald S, Morrish A, Pedagogos E, Perkovic V, Reidlinger D, Scaria A, Walker R, Vergara L & Hawley C. 2015. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of pentoxifylline on erythropoiesis-stimulating agent hyporesponsiveness in anemic patients with CKD: The handling erythropoietin resistance with oxpentifylline (HERO) trial. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 65(1), 49-57.
• Knott R, Petrie D, Heeley E, Chalmers J & Clarke P. 2015. The effects of reduced copayments on discontinuation and adherence failure to statin medication in Australia. Health Policy, 119(5): 620-627.
• Li J & Powdthavee N. 2015. Does more education lead to better health habits? Evidence from the school reforms in Australia. Social Science & Medicine, 127: 83-91.
• McNair PD, Fang J, Schwarzwaelder S & Jackson T. 2015. Development and implementation of ExPLORE Clinical Practice, a web-accessible comparative outcomes tool for California hospitals and physicians. EGEMS, 3(1).
• McVicar D, Moschion J & van Ours JC. 2015. From substance use to homelessness or vice versa?. Social Science & Medicine, 136: 89-98.
• Palmer MG. 2014. Inequalities in universal health coverage: Evidence from Vietnam. World Development, 64: 384-394.
• Scott A, Witt J, Duffield C & Kalb G. 2015. What do nurses and midwives value about their jobs? Results from a discrete choice experiment. Health Services Research & Policy, 20(1): 31-38.
• Song K, Scott A, Sivey P & Meng Q. 2015. Improving Chinese primary care providers’ recruitment and retention: A discrete choice experiment. Health Policy and Planning, 30(1): 68-77.
• Stephen AI, Macduff C, Petrie DJ, Tseng FM, Schut H, Skår S, Corden A, Birrell J, Wang S, Newsom C & Wilson S. 2015. The economic cost of bereavement in Scotland. Death Studies, 39(3): 151-157.
• Yong J & Scott A. 2015. Do new workforce roles reduce waiting times in ED? A difference-in-difference evaluation using hospital administrative data. Health Policy, 119: 488-493.

Other publications

• Kalb G, Kuehnle D, Scott A, Cheng TC & Jeon SH. 2015. What factors affect doctors’ hours decisions: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 10/15.
• Scott A. The GP Co-payment: A short postmortem and a new research agenda on Medicare. Melbourne Institute Policy Brief No. 1/15.
• Scott A, Leahy A & Lentini N. 2015. MABEL Matters No. 10. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
• Scott A & Wiit J. 2015. Loss aversion, reference dependence and diminishing sensitivity in choice experiments. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 16/15.
• Taylor T, Yan W, Li J, Scott A, Cheng T & Leahy A. 2015. MABEL User Manual: Wave 6 Release. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
• Yang O, Zhao X & Srivastava P. 2015. Binge drinking, antisocial and unlawful behaviours, and beverage types. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 3/15.

2014 Publications

• Ademi Z, Pasupathi K, Krum H & Liew D. 2014. Cost effectiveness of eplerenone in patients with chronic heart failure. American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, 14(3): 209-216.
• Allanson P & Petrie D. 2014. Understanding the vertical equity judgements underpinning health inequality measures. Health Economics, 23(11), 1390-1396.
• Alva M, Gray A, Mihaylova B, & Clarke P. 2014. The effect of diabetes complications on health-related quality of life: The importance of longitudinal data to address patient heterogeneity. Health Economics, 23(4): 487-500.
• Baldacchino A, Arbuckle K, Petrie D & McCowan C. 2014. Neurobehavioral consequences of chronic intrauterine opioid exposure in infants and preschool children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 14:104.
• Barnett K, Bennie M, Treweek S, Robertson C, Petrie J, Ritchie LD & Guthrie B. 2014. Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS) a pragmatic three-arm cluster randomised trial: designing the intervention (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01602705). Implementation Science, 9: 133.
• Bhattacharjee A, Maiti T & Petrie D. 2014. General equilibrium effects of spatial structure: Health outcomes and health behaviours in Scotland. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 49: 286-297.
• Byrnes J, Shakeshaft A, Petrie D & Doran CM. 2014. Is response to price equal for those with higher alcohol consumption? The European Journal of Health Economics, 1-7.
• Cheng TC. 2014. Measuring the effects of removing subsidies for private insurance on public expenditure for health care. Journal of Health Economics, 33: 159-179.
• Cheng TC, Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2014. Hospital utilization in mixed public‐private system: Evidence from Australian hospital data. Applied Economics, 46(8): 859-870.
• Cobb-Clark D, Kassenbohmer S & Schurer S. 2014. Healthy Habits: The connection between diet, exercise, and locus of control. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 98 (February): 1-28.
• Clarke PM & Avery AB. 2014. Evaluating the costs and benefits of using combination therapies. The Medical journal of Australia, 200(9): 518-520.
• Cromarty J, Parikh S, Lim WK, Acharya S & Jackson TJ. 2014. Effects of hospital‐acquired conditions on length of stay for patients with diabetes. Internal Medicine Journal, 44(11): 1109-1116.
• Crombie IK, Irvine L, Williams B, Sniehotta FF, Petrie D, Evans JM, Emslie C, Jones C, Ricketts IW, Humphris G, Norrie J, Rice P & Slane PW. 2014. A mobile phone intervention to reduce binge drinking among disadvantaged men: study protocol for a randomised controlled cost-effectiveness trial. Trials, 15: 494.
• Dunt D, Anjou M, Boudville A, Hsueh A & Taylor H. 2014. Establishing the value of Indigenous eye health programs: health needs, economic priority and performance assessment approaches. Australian Health Review, 38(1): 99-105.
• Farmer AJ, Stevens R, Hirst J, Lung T, Oke J, Clarke P, Glasziou P, Neil A, Dunger D, Colhoun HM, Pugh C, Wong G, Perera R & Shine B. 2014. Optimal strategies for identifying kidney disease in diabetes: properties of screening tests, progression of renal dysfunction and impact of treatment-systematic review and modelling of progression and cost-effectiveness. Health Technology Assessment (Winchester, England), 18(14): 1.
• Grundy J, Annear P, Ahmed S & Biggs B.A. 2014. Adapting to social and political transitions–The influence of history on health policy formation in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burma). Social Science & Medicine, 107: 179-188.
• Hanel B, Kalb GR & Scott A. 2014. Nurses's labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins. Journal of Health Economics, 33: 94-112.
• Herbert DL, Coveney J, Clarke P, Graves N & Barnett AG. 2014. The impact of funding deadlines on personal workloads, stress and family relationships: A qualitative study of Australian researchers. BMJ open, 4(3), e004462.
• Kaiser U, Mendez SJ, Rønde T & Ullrich H. 2014. Regulation of pharmaceutical prices: Evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark. Journal of Health Economics, 36: 174-187.
• Kjellsson G, Clarke P & Gerdtham U.G. 2014. Forgetting to remember or remembering to forget: A study of the recall period length in health care survey questions. Journal of Health Economics, 35: 34-46.
• Li J, Hurley J, DeCicca P & Buckley G. 2014. Physician response to pay-for-performance: Evidence from a natural experiment. Health Economics, 23(8): 962–978.
• Li J, Scott A, McGrail M, Humphreys J & Witt J. 2014. Retaining rural doctors: doctors' preferences for rural medical workforce incentives. Social Science & Medicine, 121:56-64.
• Lung T, Petrie D, Herman WH, Palmer AJ, Svensson A-M, Eliasson B & Clarke PM. 2014. Severe Hypoglycemia and Mortality After Cardiovascular Events for Type 1 Diabetic Patients in Sweden. Diabetes Care, 37(11): 2974-2981.
• McPake B, Russo G, & Tseng FM. 2014. How do dual practitioners divide their time? The cases of three African capital cities. Social Science & Medicine, 122: 113-121.
• Navarro HJ, Shakeshaft A, Doran CM & Petrie D. 2014. The potential cost-effectiveness of pharmacist delivered brief intervention for alcohol misuse. Journal of General Practice, 2:173.
• Petrie D & Tang KK. 2014. Relative health performance in BRICS over the past 20 years: the winners and losers. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 92: 396-404.
• Scott A. 2014. Getting the balance right between generalism and specialisation. Does remuneration matter? Australian Family Physician, 43(4) April: 229-232.
• Scott A & Joyce C. 2014. The future of medical careers. Medical Journal of Australia, Perspectives, 201(2): 82-83.
• Shakeshaft A, Doran C, Petrie D, Breen C, Havard A, Abudeen A, Harwood E, Clifford A, D'Este C, Gilmour S & Rob Sanson-Fisher R. 2014. The Effectiveness of Community Action in Reducing Risky Alcohol Consumption and Harm: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial. PLoS Medicine, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001617
• Tseng F-M & Petrie D. 2014. The Implications for health, depression, and life satisfaction from a permanent increase in income for the disadvantaged elderly: Evidence from Taiwan. Review of Social Economy, 72(3).
• Williams J & Bretteville-Jensen AL. 2014. Does liberalizing cannabis laws increase cannabis use? Journal of Health Economics, 36: 20-32.

Other publications

• Bubonya M, Cobb Clark DA & Wooden M. 2014. A family affair: Job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescents. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 23/14.

  Cheng TC & Trivedi PK. 2014. Attrition bias in panel data: A sheep in wolf's clothing? A case study based on the MABEL Survey. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 14/14.

• Cheng TC, Powdthavee N & Oswald A. 2014. Longitudinal evidence for a midlife nadir in the lives of human beings. IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 7942, March 2014.
• McPake B, Scott A & Edoka I. 2014. Analyzing Markets for Health Workers: Insights from Labor and Health Economics. The World Bank, June 2014.
• Scott A. 2014. Life as an Intern. In: Australian Medical Students Association - Internship and Residency Guide 2014.
• Scott A, Joyce C, Cheng TC & Wang W. 2014. A fork in the road? A review of factors influencing medical career choices. Centre for Research Excellence in Medical Workforce Dynamices Policy Brief, Issue 2.
• Scott A, Joyce CM, Cheng TC & Wang W. 2014. Medical career path decision making: a rapid review. Evidence Check Review. Sax Institute, Sydney.
• Scott A, Leahy A & Lentini N. 2014. MABEL Matters No. 9. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
• Scott A, Liu M, Yong J & Cheng T. 2014. Recent trends and determinants of medical staff earnings in Victorian health services. Report for the Victorian Department of Health.
• Taylor T, Yan W, Li J, Scott A, Cheng TC & Leahy A. 2014. MABEL User Manual: Wave 5 Release. January 2014. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
• Yong J, Li J & Yan W. 2014. Update on the econometric model of professional-entry student clinical placement capacity in public health settings. Report for the Victorian Department of Health.

2013 Publications

• Ahmed S, Annear PL, Phonvisay B, Phommavong B, Cruz VdO, Hammerich A & Jacobs B. 2013. Institutional design and organizational practice for universal coverage in lesser-developed counties: Challenges facing the Lao PDR. Social Science and Medicine, 96: 250-257.
• Allanson P & Petrie D. 2013. Longitudinal methods to investigate the role of health determinants in the dynamics of income-related health inequality. Journal of Health Economics, 32(5): 922-937.
• Allanson P & Petrie D. 2013. On the choice of health inequality measure for the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities. Health Economics, 22: 353-365.
• Annear PL, Ahmed S, Ros CE & Ir P. 2013. Strengthening institutional and organizational capacity for social health protection of the informal sector in lesser-developed countries: A study of policy barriers and opportunities in Cambodia. Social Science and Medicine, 96: 223-231.
• Antecol H & Cobb-Clark DA. 2013. Do psychosocial traits help explain gender segregation in young people's occupations? Labour Economics, 21: 59-73.
• Bosua R, Gloet MB, Kurnia S, Mendoza A & Yong J. 2013. Telework, productivity and wellbeing: an Australian perspective. Telecommunications Journal of Australia. 63(1): 1-12.
• Byrnes J, Shakeshaft A, Petrie D & Doran C. 2013. Can harms associated with high-intensity drinking be reduced by increasing the price of alcohol? Drug and Alcohol Review, 32: 27-30.
• Carvalho N, Salehi AS & Goldie S. 2013. National and sub-national analysis of the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce maternal mortality in Afghanistan. Health Policy and Planning, 28(1): 62-74.
• Cheng TC, Joyce CM & Scott A. 2013. An empirical analysis of public and private medical practice in Australia. Health Policy, 111(1): 43-51.
• Dalziel KM & Segal L. 2013. Home visiting programmes for the prevention of child maltreatment: cost-effectiveness of 33 programmes. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(9): 787-798.
• Galea MP, Dunlop A, Davis M, Nunn A, Geraghty T, Hsueh Y & Churilov L. 2013. Intensive exercise program after spinal cord injury ("Full-On"): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 14(1): 291.
• Grundy J, Annear P, Chomat AM, Ahmed S & Biggs BA. 2013. Improving average health and persisting health inequities—towards a justice and fairness platform for health policy making in Asia. Health policy and planning, czt068.
• Hayes AJ, Davis WA, Davis TM & Clarke PM. 2013. Adapting and validating diabetes simulation models across settings: Accounting for mortality differences using administrative data. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, 27(4): 351-356.
• Hayes AJ, Leal J, Gray AM, Holman RR & Clarke P. 2013. UKPDS Outcomes Model 2: a new version of a model to simulate lifetime health outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus using data from the 30 year United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study: UKPDS 82. Diabetologia, 56 :1925-1933.
• Hsueh YSA, Brando A, Dunt D, Anjou MD, Boudville A & Taylor H. 2013. Cost of close the gap for vision of Indigenous Australians: On estimating the extra resources required. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 21(6): 329-335.
• Hsueh YSA, Dunt D, Anjou MD, Boudville A & Taylor H. 2013. Close the gap for vision: The key is to invest on coordination. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 21(6): 299-305.
• Johnston DW, Nicholls MER, Shah M & Shields MA. 2013. Handedness, health and cognitive development: evidence from children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 176(4): 841-860.
• Khim K & Annear PL. 2013. Strengthening district health service management and delivery through internal contracting: Lessons from pilot projects in Cambodia. Social Science & Medicine, 1: 1-9.
• Leal J, Hayes AJ, Gray AM, Holman RR & Clarke PM. 2013. Temporal validation of the UKPDS outcomes model using 10-year posttrial monitoring data. Diabetes care, 36(6): 1541-1546.
• Lung TW, Clarke P, Hayes A, Stevens R & Farmer A. 2013. Simulating lifetime outcomes associated with complications for people with Type 1 Diabetes. Pharmacoeconomics, 31(6): 509-518.
• Mannava P, Abdullah A, James C, Dodd R & Annear PL. 2013. Health Systems and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Review on the Published Literature. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 25: 6.
• Mccowan C, Wang S, Thompson AM, Makubate B & Petrie DJ. 2013. The value of high adherence to tamoxifen in women with breast cancer: a community-based cohort study. British Journal of Cancer, 109(5): 1172-1180.
• Navarro HJ, Shakeshaft A, Doran CM & Petrie D. 2013. Does Increasing Community and Liquor Licensees' Awareness, Police Activity, and Feedback Reduce Alcohol-Related Violent Crime? A Benefit-Cost Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 10: 5490-5506.
• Newton DC, Keogh LA, Temple-Smith MJ, Fairley CK, Chen MY, Bayly C, Williams HM, Mcnamee K, Henning D, Hsueh Y, Fisher JR & Hocking JS. 2013. Key informant perceptions of youth-focussed sexual health promotion programs in Australia. Sexual Health, 10: 47-56.
• Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2013. Effects of competition on hospital quality: An examination using hospital administrative data. European Journal of Health Economics, 14(3): 415-429.
• Palmer M. 2013. Social protection and disability: A call for action. Oxford Development Studies, 41(2): 139-154.
• Saha S, Annear PL & Pathak S. 2013. The effect of self-help groups on access to maternal health services: Evidence from rural India. International Journal for Equity in Health, 12(36): 1-9.
• Scott A, Witt J, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Kalb GR, Jeon S & Mcgrail M. 2013. Getting doctors into the bush: General Practitioners's; preferences for rural location. Social Science & Medicine, 96: 33-44.
• Sicilani L, Sivey P & Street A. 2013. Differences in length of stay for hip replacement between public hospitals, specialised treatment centres and private providers: Selection or efficiency? Health Economics, 22(2): 234-242.
• Tinelli M, Ryan M, Bond C & Scott A. 2013. Valuing benefits to inform a clinical trial in pharmacy. PharmacoEconomics, 31(2): 163-171.
• Van Ours JC, Williams J, Fergusson D & Horwood J. 2013. Cannabis use and suicidal ideation. Journal of Health Economics, 32 (3): 524-537.
• Yang CH, Huang YTA & Hsueh YSA. 2013. Redistributive effects of the National Health Insurance on physicians in Taiwan: A natural experiment time series study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 12(1): 13.
• Zaman MJ, Patel A, Chalmers J, Woodward M, Clarke P, Li Q & Zoungas S. 2013. The effects of patient characteristics and geographical region on hospitalization in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Diabetic Medicine, 30(8), 918-925.

Other publications

• Cheng TC. Does reducing rebates for private health insurance generate cost savings? Melbourne Institute Policy Brief No 3/13.
• Cheng TC, Kalb G & Scott A. 2013. Public, private or both? Analysing factors influencing the labour supply of medical specialists. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 40/13.
• Contoyannis P & Li J. 2013. Family socio-economic status, childhood life-events and the dynamics of depression from adolescence to early adulthood. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No 11/13.
• Flodgren G, Eccles MP, Scott A & Shepperd S. 2013. Financial incentive interventions. Knowledge Translation in Health Care: Moving from Evidence to Practice. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 222-226.
• Gravelle H, Scott A, Sivey P & Yong J. 2013. Competition, prices and quality in the market for Physician Consultations. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 23/13.
• Hurley J, Li J. 2013. Health care funding, cost-containment, and quality. Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper 13-01, January 2013.
• Scott A, Leahy A & Lentini N. 2013. MABEL Matters No. 8. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
• Scott A, Yong J, Li J & Yan W. 2013. Analysis of factors influencing clinical placement capacity in health settings: Part II - Modelling professional-entry student clinical placement capacity in public health settings. Report for the Victorian Department of Health.
• Yan W, Li J, Scott A, Cheng T, Sivey P & Leahy A. 2013. MABEL User Manual: Wave 4 Release. January 2013. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.

2012 Publications

• Byrnes J, Petrie DJ, Doran CM & Shakeshaft A. 2012. The efficiency of a volumetric alcohol tax in Australia. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 10(1): 37-49.
• Carvalho N, Sue J & Salehi AS. 2012. The value of family planning for improving maternal health in rural Afghanistan: The example of Kandahar. Afghanistan Journal of Public Health 02/2012; 1(01):12-19.
• Cheng TC, Scott A, Jeon S, Kalb G, Humphreys J & Joyce CM. 2012. What factors influence the earnings of GPs and medical specialists in Australia? Evidence from the MABEL Survey. Health Economics, 21(11): 1300-1317.
• Cobb-Clark DA, Ryan C & Sartbayeva A. 2012. Taking chances: The effect of growing up on welfare on the risky behavior of young people. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 114(3): 729-755.
• Clarke PM. 2012. Challenges and opportunities for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Medical Journal of Australia, 196(3): 153-154.
• Clarke PM, Walter SJ, Hayen A, Mallon W, Heijmans J & Studdert DM. 2012. Survival of the fittest: retrospective cohort study of the longevity of Olympic medallists in the modern era. British Medical Journal. 345: e8308.
• Dalziel K & Segal L. 2012. Home visiting programmes for the prevention of child maltreatment: cost-effectiveness of 33 programmes. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition, 97(9): 787-789.
• Dreischulte T, Grant A, Donnan P, McCowan C, Davey P, Petrie D, Treweek S & Guthrie B. 2012. A cluster randomised stepped wedge trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted information technology-based intervention in reducing high-risk prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and antiplatelets in primary medical care: The DQIP study protocol. Implementation Science, 23(7):24.
• Erreygers G, Clarke P & Van Ourti T. 2012. Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all? Distributional sensitivity in the measurement of socioeconomic inequality of health. Journal of Health Economics, 31(1): 257–270.
• Frijters P, Johnston DW & Shields M. 2012. The optimality of tax transfers: What does life satisfaction data tell us? Journal of Happiness Studies, 13(5): 821-832.
• Glasziou PP, Buchan H, Del Mar C, Doust J, Harris M, Knight R, Scott A, Scott I, Stockwell A. 2012. When financial incentives do more good than harm: A checklist. British Medical Journal, 345: e5047.
• Grundy JJ, Bowen KJ, Annear PL & Biggs B. 2012. The responsibility to protect: Inequities in international aid flows to Myanmar and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and their impact on maternal and child health. Asian Studies Review, 36: June.
• Guthrie B, Treweek S, Petrie D, Barnett K, Ritchie LD, Robertson C & Bennie M. 2012. Protocol for the effective feedback to improve primary care prescribing safety (EFIPPS) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial using ePrescribing data. BMJ Open, 2(6).
• Humphreys J, McGrail M, Joyce C, Scott A & Kalb G. 2012. Who should receive recruitment and retention incentives? Improved targeting of rural doctors using Medical Workforce Data. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 20(1): 3-10.
• Jacobs B, Ir P, Bigdeli M, Annear PL & Van Damme W. 2012. Addressing access barriers to health services: an analytical framework for selecting appropriate interventions in low-income Asian countries. Health Policy and Planning, 27(4): 288-300.
• Kassenboehmer SC & Haisken-Denew JP. 2012. Heresy or enlightenment? The well-being age U-shape effect is flat. Economics Letters, 117(1): 235-238.
• Knott RJ, Cass A, Heeley EL, Chalmers JP, Peiris DP & Clarke PM. 2012. How fair is Medicare? The income-related distribution of Medicare benefits with special focus on chronic care items. Medical Journal of Australia, 197(11): 625-630.
• Ludbrook A, Petrie D, McKenzie L & Farrar S. 2012. Tackling alcohol misuse: purchasing patterns affected by minimum pricing for alcohol. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 10(1): 51-63.
• Lynagh M, Bonevski B, Sanson-Fisher R, Symonds I, Scott A, Hall A & Oldmeadow C. 2012. An RCT protocol of varying financial incentive amounts for smoking cessation among pregnant women. BMC Public Health, 12: 1032.
• McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Scott A & Kalb G. 2012. How do rural GPs' workload and work activities differ with community size compared with metropolitan practice? Australian Journal of Primary Health, 18(3): 228-233.
• McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Scott A, Kalb G. 2012. Who should receive recruitment and retention incentives? Improved targeting of rural doctors using medical workforce data. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 20: 3-10.
• McGrail M, Humphreys J, Scott A and Joyce C. 2012. International medical graduates mandated to practice in rural Australia are highly unsatisfied: Results from a national survey of doctors. Health Policy. 108(2): 133-139.
• Navarro HJ, Shakeshaft A, Doran CM & Petrie DJ. 2012. The cost-effectiveness of tailored, postal feedback on general practitioners’ prescribing of pharmacotherapies for alcohol dependence. Drug and alcohol dependence, 124(3): 207-215.
• Nicholls ME, Johnston DW & Shields MA. 2012. Adverse birth factors predict cognitive ability, but not hand preference. Neuropsychology, 26(5): 578.
• Osborne RH, Dalton A, Hertel J, Schrover R & Smith DK. 2012. Health-related quality of life advantage of long-acting injectable antipsychotic treatment for schizophrenia: A time trade-off study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 10(35): 1-15.
• Palmer M & Thuy. 2012. Mainstreaming health insurance for people with disabilities. Journal of Asian Economics, 858: 1-14.
• Salomon, J, Carvalho N, Gutiérrez-Delgado C, Orozco R, Mancuso A, Hogan DR, Lee D, Murakami Y, Sridharan L, Medina-Mora ME & González-Pier E.2012. Intervention strategies to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in Mexico: cost effectiveness analysis. BMJ, 344: e355.
• Scott A. 2012. Paying for the health workforce. MJA Open, 1(3): 29-31.
• Scott A & Harris MF. 2012. Designing payments for GPs to improve the quality of diabetes care. Medical Journal of Australia, 196(1): 24-26.
• Segal L, Sara Opie R & Dalziel K. 2012. Theory! The missing link in understanding the performance of neonate/infant home‐visiting programs to prevent child maltreatment: A systematic review. Milbank Quarterly, 90(1): 47-106.
• Shakeshaft A, Petrie D, Doran C, Breen C & Sanson-Fisher R. 2012. An empirical approach to selecting community-based alcohol interventions: combining research evidence, rural community views and professional opinion. BMC Public Health, 12(1): 25.
• Sivey P. 2012. The effect of waiting time and distance on hospital choice for English cataract patients. Health Economics, 21(4): 444-456.
• Sivey P, Scott A, Witt J, Joyce C & Humphreys J. 2012. Junior doctors' preferences for specialty choice. Journal of Health Economics, 31(6): 813-823.
• Song K, Meng Q, Scott A, Sivey P. 2012. Analyzing health care providers' job preferences by discrete choice experiments: A literature review. Chinese Health Economics, 31(10):91-93.
• Van Ours JC. 2012. The long and winding road to cannabis legalization. Addiction, 107 : 872-877.
• Van Ours JC & Williams J. 2012. The effects of cannabis use on physical and mental health. Journal of Health Economics, 31(4): 564-577.
• You EC, Dunt D, Doyle C & Hsueh A. 2012. Effects of case management in community aged care on client and carer outcomes: A systematic review of randomized trials and comparative observational studies. BMC Health Services Research, 12(1): 395.

Other publications

• Annear PL & Ahmed S. 2012. Institutional strengthening for universal coverage in the Lao PDR: barriers and policy options. Nossal Institute for Global Health Report No 19.
• Annear PL & Ahmed S. 2012. Institutional and operational barriers to strengthening universal coverage in Cambodia: options for policy development. Nossal Institute for Global Health Report No 18.
• Bosua R, Gloet MB, Kurnia S, Mendoza A & Yong J. 2012. Telework, productivity and wellbeing. Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society Report, November.
• Cobb-Clark D, Kassenboehmer S & Schurer S. 2012. Healthy habits: The connection between diet, exercise, and locus of control. Melbourne Institute Working Paper 15/2012.
• Hanel B, Kalb GR & Scott A. 2012. Nurses's labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins. Melbourne Institute Working Papert No 9/12.
• Hort KP & Annear PL. 2012. Case studies of policy influence for the Knowledge Hubs Health initiative: Design and analytic framwork. Nossal Institute for Global Health Report No 23.
• Hort KP & Annear PL. 2012. The growth of non-state hospitals in Indonesia and Vietnam: market reforms and mixed commercialised health systems. Nossal Institute for Global Health Report No 17.
• Jacobi L & Sovinsky M. 2012. Marijuana on Main Street: What if? Department of Economics Report No 87, University of Zurich.
• Kind M & Haisken-Denew JP. 2012. Sons’ unexpected long term scarring due to fathers’ unemployment. Melbourne Institute Working Paper 21/12.
• Kind M & Haisken-Denew JP. 2012. Unexpected victims: How parent's unemployment affects their children's life satisfaction. Melbourne Institute Working Paper 2/12.
• Schurer S, Kuehnle D, Scott A & Cheng TC. 2012. One man’s blessing, another woman’s curse? Family factors and the gender-earnings gap of doctors. Melbourne Institute Working Paper 24/2012.
• Scott A, Leahy A & Lentini N. 2012. MABEL Matters No. 7. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
• Scott A & Li J. 2012. The effects of medical graduate expansion in Australia. Health Workforce Australia, National Health Workforce Planning and Research Collaboration, Adelaide.
• Scott A, Sivey P & Cheng TC. 2012. Patterns and determinants of medical and nursing workforce exits. Health Workforce Australia, National Health Workforce Planning and Research Collaboration, Adelaide.
• Scott A, Witt J, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Kalb G, Jeon S & McGrail M. 2012. Getting doctors into the bush: General practitioners' preferences for Rrral location. Melbourne Institute Working Paper 13/2012.
• Van Ours JC, Williams J, Fergusson D & Horwood L. 2012. Cannabis use and suicidal ideation. Department of Economics Report No 1155.
• Yan W, Sivey P, Scott A, Kuehnle D, Cheng T, Leahy A & Jeon SH. 2012. MABEL User Manual: Wave 3 Release. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.

2011 Publications

• Ahmed S & Khan MM. 2011. Is demand-side financing equity enhancing? Lessons from a maternal health voucher scheme in Bangladesh. Social Science & Medicine, 72: 1704-1710.
• Andalon Lopez MA. 2011. Oportunidades to reduce overweight and obesity in Mexico? Health Economics, 20(1): 1-18.
• Annear P, Bigdeli M & Jacobs B. 2011. A functional model for monitoring equity and effectiveness in purchasing health insurance premiums for the poor: Evidence from Cambodia and the Lao PDR. Health Policy, 102: 295-303
• Boone J, Van Ours JC, Wuellrich J & Zweimueller J. 2011. Recessions are bad for workplace safety. Journal of Health Economics, 30(4): 764-773.
• Brando A, Hsueh Y, Dunt DR, Stanford EE & Taylor HR. 2011. Projected needs for eye-care services in indigenous Australians. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 39(8): 841-843.
• Bretteville-Jensen AL & Jacobi L. 2011. Climbing the drug staircase: A bayesian analysis of the initiation of hard drug use. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 26(7): 1157-1186.
• Cheng TC, Scott A, Jeon SH, Kalb G, Humphreys J & Joyce C. 2011. What factors influence the earnings of GPs and medical specialists? Evidence from the Evidence from the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life survey. Health Economics, 21(11): 1300-1317.
• Chua CL, Palangkaraya A & Yong J. 2011. Hospital competition, technical efficiency and quality. The Economic Record, 87(277): 252-268.
• Clarke PM & Leigh A. 2011. Death, dollars, and degrees: Socioeconomic status and longevity in Australia. Economic Papers, 30(3): 348–355.
• Contoyannis P & Li J. 2011. The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence. Journal of Health Economics, 30(1): 11-32.
• Dalton AC, Lambert T, Schrover R, Hertel J & Smith D. 2011. The cost associated with administering risperidone long-acting injections in the Australian community. BMC Health Services Research, 11: 236.
• Davis WA, Clarke PM, Siba PM, Karunajeewa HA, Davy C, Mueller I & Davis TME. 2011. Cost-effectiveness of artemisinin combination therapy for uncomplicated malaria in children: data from Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 89(3): 211-220.
• Frijters P, Haisken-Denew JP & Shields M. 2011. The increasingly mixed proportional hazard model: An application to socioeconomic status, health shocks, and mortality. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 29(11): 271-281.
• Frijters P, Johnston DW & Shields M. 2011. Life satisfaction dynamics with quarterly life event data. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 113(1): 190-211.
• Frijters P, Shields M, Wheatley S, Price S & Williams J. 2011. Quantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health: Evidence from children's cotinine samples. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A: Statistics in Society, 174(1): 195-212.
• FitzGerald EM, Cunich M, Clarke PM. 2011. Changes in inequalities of access to dental care in Australia 1977-2005. Australian Economic Review, 44(2): 153-166.
• Graves N, Barnett A, Clarke P. 2011. Funding grant proposals for scientific research: Retrospective analysis of grant review panel members scores. British Medical Journal, 343: d4797.
• Harvey L, Dunlop S, Churilov L, Hsueh Y & Galea MP. 2011. Early intensive hand rehabilitation after spinal cord injury (“Hands On”): a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 12: 14.
• Hayes AJ, Clarke PM & Lung TWC. 2011. Change in bias in self-reported body mass index in Australia between 1995 and 2008 and the evaluation of correction equations. Population Health Metrics, 25(9): 53.
• Hayes AJ, Clarke PM, Voysey M & Keech A. 2011. Simulation of quality-adjusted survival in chronic diseases: An application in type 2 diabetes. Medical Decision Making, 31(4): 559-570.
• Hayes AJ, Leal J, Kelman C & Clarke PM. 2011. Risk equations to predict life expectancy of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus following major complications: A study from Western Australia. Diabetic Medicine, 28(4): 428–435.
• Jeon S, Kalb G & Vu TH. 2011. The dynamics of welfare participation among women who experienced teenage motherhood in Australia. The Economic Record, 87(277): 235-251.
• Jones A & Schurer S. 2011. How does heterogeneity shape the socioeconomic gradient in health satisfaction? Journal of Applied Econometrics, 26(4): 549-579.
• Joyce C, Schurer S, Scott A, Humphreys J & Kalb G. 2011. Australian doctors satisfaction with their work: Results from the MABEL longitudinal survey of doctors. The Medical Journal of Australia. 194(1): 30-33.
• Lingarathnam S, Worth LJ, Slavin MA, Bennett CA, Kirsa SW, Seymour JF, Dalton AC, Koczwara B, Prince HM, O'Reilly M, Mileshkin LR, Szer J & Thursky KA. 2011. A cost analysis of febrile neutropenia management in Australia: Ambulatory v. in-hospital treatment. Australian Health Review. 35(4): 491-500.
• Lung T, Hayes A, Herman W, Si L, Palmer A & Clarke P. 2014. A meta-analysis of the relative risk of mortality for Type 1 Diabetes patients compared to the general population: Exploring temporal changes in relative mortality. PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113635
• Lung TWC, Hayes AJ, Hayen A, Farmer A & Clarke PM. 2011. A meta-analysis of health state valuations for people with diabetes: explaining the variation across methods and implications for economic evaluation. Quality of Life Research, 20(10): 1669-1678.
• McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Scott A & Kalb G. 2011. How do rural GP's workload and work activities differ with community size compared with metropolitan practice? Australian Journal of Primary Health. 18(3): 228-233.
• McGrail M, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Scott A & Kalb G. 2011. Rural amenity and medical workforce shortage: Is there a relationship? Geographical Research, 49(2): 192-202.
• Mahmood S, Hort K, Ahmed S, Salam M & Cravioto A. 2011. Strategies for capacity building for health research in Bangladesh: Role of core funding and a common monitoring and evaluation framework. Health Research Policy and Systems, 9(1): 31.
• Navarro HJ, Shakeshaft A, Doran CM & Petrie D. 2011. The potential cost-effectiveness of general practitioner delivered brief intervention for alcohol misuse: Evidence from rural Australia. Addictive Behaviors. 36(12): 1191-1198.
• Petrie D, Allanson P & Gerdtham U-G. 2011. Accounting for the dead in the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities. Journal of Health Economics, 30(5): 1113-1123.
• Petrie D, Doran C & Shakeshaft A. 2011. Willingness to pay to reduce alcohol-related harm in Australian rural communities. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 11(3): 351-363.
• Salomon JA, Patel A, Neal B, Glasziou P, Grobbee DE, Chalmers J, Clarke PM & Grp AC. 2011. Comparability of patient-reported health status multicountry analysis of EQ-5D responses in patients with type 2 diabetes. Medical Care, 49(10): 962-969.
• Scott A & Connelly L.2011. Financial incentives and the health workforce. Australian Health Review, 35: 273-277.
• Scott A, Jeon S, Joyce C, Humphreys J, Kalb G, Witt J & Leahy A. 2011. A randomised trial and economic evaluation of the effect of response mode on response rate, response bias, and item non-response in a survey of doctors. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 11(126).
• Scott A, Sivey P, Ait Ouakrim D, Willenberg L, Naccarella L, Furler J & Young D. 2011. The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. November(9): CD008451.
• Segal L & Dalziel K. 2011. Investing to protect our children: Using economics to derive an evidence‐based strategy. Child Abuse Review, 20(4): 274-289.
• Silva-Sanigorski AM, Waters E, Calache H, Smith M, Gold L, Gussy M, Scott A & Virgo-Milton M. 2011. Splash!: An innovative prospective cohort study of the impact of environmental, social and family-level influences on child oral health and obesity related risk factors and outcomes. BMC Public Health, 11:505.
• Sivey P. 2011. The effect of waiting time and distance on hospital choice for English cataract patients. Health Economics, 21(4): 444-456.
• Van Ours J & Williams J. 2011. Cannabis use and mental health problems. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 26(7): 1137-1156.
• Yan W, Cheng T, Scott A, Joyce M, Humphreys J, Kalb G & Leahy A. 2011. Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL). Australian Economic Review, 44(1): 102-112.

Other Publications

• Ahmed S, Bloom A & Sweeney R. 2011. Analysing relationship between the state and non-state health care providers, with special reference to Asia and the Pacific. Nossal Institute for Global Health, Health Policy and Health Finance Knowledge Hub Working Paper 10.
• Brando A, Hsueh Y, Dunt DR, Stanford EE & Taylor HR. 2011. Projected needs for eye-care services in indigenous Australians. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 39(8): 841-843.
• Bretteville-Jensen AL & Williams J. 2011. Decriminalization and initiation into cannabis use. Department of Economics Research Paper No 1130.
• Cheng TC. 2011. Measuring the effects of removing subsidies for private insurance on public expenditure for health care. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 26/11.
• Cheng TC, Scott A & Sivey P. 2011. Patterns and determinants of medical and nursing workforce exits. National Health Workforce Planning and Research Collaboration.
• Cheng TC & Vahid F. 2011. Demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public-private system: Empirical evidence using a simultaneous equation modeling approach. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 22/11.
• Dalziel K & Segal L. 2011. Cost-effectiveness analysis of the Mediterranean Diet for persons after a heart attack. In Nutrients, Dietary Supplements, and Nutriceuticals, 349-363, Humana Press.
• Hsueh Y, Brando A, Dunt DR, Anjou MD & Taylor HR. 2011. The cost of closing the gap for vision. Melbourne Indigenous Eye Health Unit & Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics. Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.
• Hurley J, DeCicca P, Li J & and Buckley G. 2011. The response of Ontario primary care physicians to pay-for-performance incentives. Final Report for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
• Li, J, Hurley J, DeCicca P & Buckley G. 2011. Physician response to pay-for-performance: Evidence from a natural experiment. National Bureau of Economic Research Report No 16909.
• Scott A, Sivey P, Cheng TC, Joyce C, Duffield C & Turner C. 2011. Patterns and determinants of medical and nursing labour force exits. Report to Health Workforce Australia.
• Siciliani L, Sivey P & Street A. 2011. Differences inlLength of Stay between Public Hospitals, Treatment Centres and Private Providers: Selection or Efficiency. Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 06/11.
• Taylor HR, Dunt DR, Hsueh Y & Brando A. 2011. Projected needs for eye care services for indigenous Australians. Melbourne Indigenous Eye Health Unit & Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics. Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.
• Yan W, Cheng TC, Scott A, Kuehnle D, Jeon S, Sivey P & Leahy A. 2011. MABEL User Manual: Wave 2 Release. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
• Yan W, Scott A, Leahy A & Lentini N. 2011. MABEL Matters. No. 6. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.