2005 Seminar List

Date	Name of Presenter/s	Seminar Title	Time	Slides
Wed 20th April	Andy Willan	Statistical methods for the analyses of cost-effectiveness data from randomised clinical trials	10-12noon
Wed 20th April	Andy Willan	The value of information and optimal clinical trial design	4-5pm
Mon 23rd May	Pete Smith	(i) Statutory packages of health care alongside voluntary insurance: what treatments should be covered? (ii) Performance measurement in health care: History, challenges & prospects (iii) User charges and priority setting in health care: balancing equity and efficiency (iv) Thirty-years of health system reform in Europe: Implications for health policy	4-5pm	(i) Slides (ii) Slides (iii) Slides (iv) Slides
Wed 15th June	Katharina Hauck	Performance assessment in the context of multiple objectives: a multivariate multilevel analysis	4-5pm	Slides
Wed 20th July	Tony Scott	Incentives in medical careers	1-2pm	Slides
Wed 17th August	Bruce Hollingsworth	A health warning about health production and modelling the socioeconomic determinants of health across countries	1-2pm	Slides
Thu 15th September	Michael Shields	The child health/parental income gradient: evidence from England	12-1pm	Slides Link
Wed 21st September	Jeff Richardson	The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instruments and its extension to include the severity of an initial health state	1-2pm	Slides
Thu 20th October	Leonie Segal	Addressing structural barriers to best practice primary care - developing a sustainable model for multi-disciplinary care	4.15-5.15pm
Tue 25th October	Cam Donaldson	Markets in health care: contradiction or conundrum? (Joint between the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne and the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University) *Location: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne, Level 6 seminar room (enter by Level 7), Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street (corner of Grattan and Barry Streets)	3.30pm	Slides
Wed 9th November	Tracey Sach	A 'league table' of willingness-to-pay values in health: More questions than answers?	1-2pm	Slides
Fri 25th November	Mark Harris	Modelling tobacco consumption with a zero-inflated ordered probit model	1-2pm	Slides
Wed 30th November	Garry Barton & Tracey Sach	Accounting for differences between EQ-5D and SF-6D scores in a (sub) population	1-2pm	Slides
Thu 1st December	Xueyan Zhao	Demand for marijuana, cocaine and heroin - a multivariate probit approach	1-2pm	Slides