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Appealing to altruism: an alternative strategy to address the health workforce crisis in developing countries?Richard Smith
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 35:164-70. 2013..This paper adds to the literature through characterizing the nature and determinants of nurses' altruism, based on a cross-country quantitative study...
Why a macroeconomic perspective is critical to the prevention of noncommunicable diseaseRichard Smith
Health System Economics, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
Science 337:1501-3. 2012..Without this information we cannot know which policies will produce effects that are beneficial both for economies and for health...- Medical tourism: a review of the literature and analysis of a role for bi-lateral tradeRichard Smith
Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
Health Policy 103:276-82. 2011..This is usually done from the viewpoint of a multi-lateral trade relationship. This paper considers the issues that arise from this debate from a bi-lateral perspective... 
The social value of a QALY: raising the bar or barring the raise?Cam Donaldson
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Research Institutes, 3rd Floor Buchanan House, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 11:8. 2011....- Trade in health-related servicesRichard D Smith
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 373:593-601. 2009..For every delivery mode we discuss the present magnitude and pattern of trade, main contributors to this trade, and key issues arising... - Contingent valuation: what needs to be done?Richard D Smith
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
Health Econ Policy Law 5:91-111. 2010..It is hoped that this will initiate some wider and rigorous debate on the future of the CV technique in order to make it seaworthy, give it direction and provide the right momentum... - The economy-wide impact of pandemic influenza on the UK: a computable general equilibrium modelling experimentRichard D Smith
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
BMJ 339:b4571. 2009..To estimate the potential economic impact of pandemic influenza, associated behavioural responses, school closures, and vaccination on the United Kingdom... - Contingent valuation in health care: does it matter how the 'good' is described?Richard D Smith
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Health Econ 17:607-17. 2008..WTP also differed significantly according to condition 'labels'. Possible implications for CV research are outlined... - Public health evaluation in the twenty-first century: time to see the wood as well as the treesRichard D Smith
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 32:2-7. 2010..That is, those involved in public health evaluation need to step back and first consider the wood before focusing in on specific trees... - Estimating the economic impact of pandemic influenza: An application of the computable general equilibrium model to the U.KRichard D Smith
Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH, UK
Soc Sci Med 73:235-44. 2011..The most severe sensitivity scenario results in a 2.9% (£ 37.4 bn), 3.2% (£ 41.4 bn) and 3.7% (£ 47.5 bn) loss to GDP respectively for the three scenarios... - The macroeconomic impact of pandemic influenza: estimates from models of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and The NetherlandsMarcus Richard Keogh-Brown
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT, London, UK
Eur J Health Econ 11:543-54. 2010..Careful planning is therefore important to ensure expensive policies to mitigate the pandemic are effective in minimising illness and deaths... - Health, agricultural, and economic effects of adoption of healthy diet recommendationsKaren Lock
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health, London, UK
Lancet 376:1699-709. 2010.... - The possible macroeconomic impact on the UK of an influenza pandemicMarcus R Keogh-Brown
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Health Econ 19:1345-60. 2010..5/2.5%, compared with our severe scenario reductions of 29.5/6%. These results clearly indicate the significance of behavioural change over disease parameters... - Trade, TRIPS, and pharmaceuticalsRichard D Smith
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 373:684-91. 2009..Therefore this paper focuses on options that are available to the health community for negotiation to their advantage under TRIPS, and within the presence of TRIPS-plus... - Trade and health: an agenda for actionRichard D Smith
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, and Centre on Global Change and Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 373:768-73. 2009..We hope that this Series has prompted the reader to become involved in these efforts... - The potential for bi-lateral agreements in medical tourism: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives from the UK and IndiaMelisa Martínez Álvarez
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
Global Health 7:11. 2011..abstract:.. - How is Telemedicine perceived? A qualitative study of perspectives from the UK and IndiaMelisa Martínez Álvarez
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Global Health 7:17. 2011.... - The role of 'reference goods' in contingent valuation: should we help respondents to 'construct' their willingness to pay?Richard D Smith
Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Health Econ 16:1319-32. 2007..The implications for CV research in health care are outlined in the discussion... - Use, option and externality values: are contingent valuation studies in health care mis-specified?Richard D Smith
Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Health Econ 16:861-9. 2007..The implications for CV in health (care) are considered... - Self-reported mental health-related quality of life and mortality in men and women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC-Norfolk): a prospective population studyPhyo K Myint
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Psychosom Med 69:410-4. 2007..To explore the relationship between self-reported mental functional health and mortality... - Assessing quality of life in the elderly: a direct comparison of the EQ-5D and AQoLRichard Holland
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Health Econ 13:793-805. 2004..We conclude that the AQoL is probably less well suited to measuring health status in a very elderly population than the EQ-5D... - Sensitivity to scale in contingent valuation: the importance of the budget constraintRichard D Smith
Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
J Health Econ 24:515-29. 2005..The methodological implication for CV studies in health care is outlined... - Can we estimate the 'social' value of a QALY? Four core issues to resolveRichard D Smith
University of East Anglia, UK
Health Policy 74:77-84. 2005.... - It's not just what you do, it's the way that you do it: the effect of different payment card formats and survey administration on willingness to pay for health gainRichard D Smith
Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Health Econ 15:281-93. 2006..The high-to-low version resulted in significantly higher values than the other versions. Further analyses indicate that the randomly shuffled PC version may produce the most 'valid' values... - Obesity indices and self-reported functional health in men and women in the EPIC-NorfolkPhyo K Myint
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:884-93. 2006..To investigate the association between two indices of obesity, BMI and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and self-reported physical and mental functional health... - The relationship between reliability and size of willingness-to-pay values: a qualitative insightRichard D Smith
Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Health Econ 16:211-6. 2007..At low levels of WTP, values appear to be taken from a 'discretionary account', where expenditure is more volatile. Caveats to this result, and suggestions for future research, are considered in the discussion... - Modifiable lifestyle behaviors and functional health in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk population studyPhyo K Myint
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Prev Med 44:109-16. 2007..To examine the association between modifiable lifestyle behaviors and functional health... - Fruit and vegetable consumption and self-reported functional health in men and women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer-Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk): a population-based cross-sectional studyPhyo K Myint
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK
Public Health Nutr 10:34-41. 2007..To investigate the association between fruit and vegetable consumption and self-reported physical and mental functional health measured by an anglicised short-form 36-item questionnaire (UK SF-36)... - Home-based medication review in older people: is it cost effective?Margaret Pacini
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Pharmacoeconomics 25:171-80. 2007..This study aims to determine the cost effectiveness of home-based medication review in older people... - Willingness to pay and size of health benefit: an integrated model to test for 'sensitivity to scale'Raymond Y T Yeung
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Health Econ 12:791-6. 2003..Results indicate that once data is properly transformed, WTP becomes 'scale sensitive' and consistent with diminishing marginal utility theory...