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| Richard SchefflerSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Health workforce skill mix and task shifting in low income countries: a review of recent evidenceBrent D Fulton
Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Hum Resour Health 9:1. 2011..abstract:..- Forecasting the global shortage of physicians: an economic- and needs-based approachRichard M Scheffler
School of Public Health, University of California, USA
Bull World Health Organ 86:516-523B. 2008..To help guide workforce policy, we estimate the future demand for, need for and supply of physicians, by WHO region, to determine where likely shortages will occur by 2015, the target date of the Millennium Development Goals... 
Millionaires and mental health: Proposition 63 in CaliforniaRichard M Scheffler
Nicholas C Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..Proposition 63 faces challenges in implementation and provides unprecedented opportunities for transformation and change...
Social capital, economics, and health: new evidenceRichard M Scheffler
Petris Center on Health Care Market and Consumer Welfare, School of Public Health, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Health Econ Policy Law 3:321-31. 2008..The next steps in the research programme are to continue testing the mechanisms; to look for natural experiments; and to find better public policies to foster social capital...- Community-level social capital and recurrence of acute coronary syndromeRichard M Scheffler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:1603-13. 2008..These results suggest that community-level social capital may be negatively associated with recurrence of acute coronary syndrome among lower-income individuals... - Positive association between attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder medication use and academic achievement during elementary schoolRichard M Scheffler
School of Public Health, Nicholas C Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, University of California, 50 University Hall, MC7360, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Pediatrics 123:1273-9. 2009..Our objective was to determine if reported medication use for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is positively associated with academic achievement during elementary school... - The role of social capital in reducing non-specific psychological distress: the importance of controlling for omitted variable biasRichard M Scheffler
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Soc Sci Med 65:842-54. 2007..These associations are much larger when we control for non-time-varying area-level omitted variables... - The global market for ADHD medicationsRichard M Scheffler
Nicholas C Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:450-7. 2007..Promoting optimal prescription and monitoring should be a priority... - Estimates of health care professional shortages in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015Richard M Scheffler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w849-62. 2009..6 billion (2007 $US)-more than 2.5 times current wage-bill projections for 2015. We illustrate how changes in workforce mix can reduce this cost, and we discuss policy implications of our results... - Policy interventionRichard Scheffler
University of California, Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 525, Berkeley, California 94720 7380, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 4:215-22. 2002..A research agenda is developed for formulating and implementing public policy... - The impact of government decentralization on county health spending for the uninsured in CaliforniaRichard Scheffler
Health Economics and Public Policy, School of Public Health and Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Int J Health Care Finance Econ 6:237-58. 2006..Our results suggest, however, that county-level governments maintain a level of commitment to social-service spending that recent studies indicate may be lacking at the state level... - The impact of California's full-service partnership program on mental health-related emergency department visitsTimothy Tyler Brown
Petris Center, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, 50 University Hall, MC 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Psychiatr Serv 63:802-7. 2012.... - Transformation of the California mental health system: stakeholder-driven planning as a transformational activityCheryl Cashin
Nicholas C Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:1107-14. 2008..MHSA implementation itself can be considered "transformational" by balancing greater standardization of mental health service delivery in the state with a locally driven planning process... - Does the under- or overrepresentation of minority physicians across geographical areas affect the location decisions of minority physicians?Timothy Brown
Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Health Serv Res 44:1290-308. 2009..To determine whether variation in the representation of minority physicians across geographical areas in California affects the location decisions of minority physicians... - National variation of ADHD diagnostic prevalence and medication use: health care providers and education policiesBrent D Fulton
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 50 University Hall, MC7360, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:1075-83. 2009..The purpose of this study was to estimate this variation across states and examine whether a state's health care provider characteristics and education policies are associated with this variation... - How do we measure shortages of dental hygienists and dental assistants? Evidence from California: 1997-2005Timothy T Brown
Nicholas C Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Earl Warren Hall, MC7360, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 138:94-100. 2007..The authors examined the labor market for registered dental hygienists (RDHs) and dental assistants (DAs) in California from 1997 to 2005 to determine whether there was a shortage in either market... - The empirical relationship between community social capital and the demand for cigarettesTimothy T Brown
Nicholas C Petris Center, University of California at Berkeley, 94720 7360, USA
Health Econ 15:1159-72. 2006.... - The occupational transformation of the mental health systemRichard M Scheffler
Nicholas C. Petris Center on Healthcare Markets and Consumer Welfare, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:177-88. 2003..Changes in clinical practice, combined with the continued expansion of managed care into mental health, will largely determine the future composition and supply of the mental health workforce... - The impact of realignment on the client population in California's public mental health systemLonnie Snowden
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley 94720 7400, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 29:229-41. 2002.... - Overcoming barriers to reducing the burden of affective disordersKenneth B Wells
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:655-75. 2002..We review the literature, identify key gaps, and recommend new research to guide national efforts to reduce the burden of affective disorders... - Mental health costs and access under alternative capitation systems in ColoradoJoan R Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, 94720-7360, USA
Health Serv Res 37:315-40. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Medicaid mental health capitation in Colorado resulted in cost reducing service changes for persons with severe mental illness. Assessment of outcome change is necessary to identify cost effectiveness... - Patterns of recovery from severe mental illness: a pilot study of outcomesLeonard Miller
Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 525, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Community Ment Health J 46:177-87. 2010..quot; After 2 years, almost half of the initial "extreme Risk" clients are "coping/rehabilitating", "early recovery" or "Self reliant." Most gains occur within 2 years... - Variation in routine psychiatric workload: the role of financing source, managed care participation, and mental health workforce competitionDavid P Pingitore
Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 4:141-50. 2002..The supply of other mental health providers was not significantly associated with variation in psychiatrists' workload, which suggests that substitution effects may not be evident with this aspect of psychiatric practice... - Does the market value racial and ethnic concordance in physician-patient relationships?Timothy T Brown
Nicholas C Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, School of Public Health, University of California, 140 Earl Warren Hall, MC7360, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Health Serv Res 42:706-26. 2007..To determine if the market-determined earnings per hour of physicians is sensitive to the degree of area-level racial/ethnic concordance (ALREC) in the local physician labor market... - Do physicians always flee from HMOs? New results using dynamic panel estimation methodsTimothy T Brown
Nicholas C Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, CA 945720 7360, USA
Health Serv Res 41:357-73. 2006..S. average are taken into account... - Comparison of psychiatrists and psychologists in clinical practiceDavid P Pingitore
Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:977-83. 2002..The authors compared data from psychiatrists and psychologists in California to determine whether long-standing differences in clinical practice remain after the introduction of managed care and other changes in mental service delivery... - An analysis of the significant variation in psychostimulant use across the U.SFarasat Bokhari
Department of Economics, Florida State University, FL, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 14:267-75. 2005..To provide a more complex, multivariate analysis of the area variation in psychostimulant use across the U.S.-which is the logical next step-requires obtaining price data to match the DEA's quantity data... - Changes in service availability in california hospitals, 1995 to 2002Paul B Kirby
Center for Health Policy and Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA
J Healthc Manag 51:26-38; discussion 38-9. 2006..Among this group of hospitals, service closures were associated with continued financial deterioration, whereas new service openings were associated with improvements in key financial ratios... - Private health insurance in developing countriesMark V Pauly
Health Care Systems Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:369-79. 2006..The potential efficiency gains from greater use of voluntary private insurance seem large, but there are a number of possible impediments to the emergence of such insurance... - An analysis of the definitions of mental illness used in state parity lawsMarcia C Peck
Department of Medicine, Stanford University Hospital, California 94305, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:1089-95. 2002.... - The effect of physician and health plan market concentration on prices in commercial health insurance marketsJohn E Schneider
Health Economics Consulting Group, LLC, 167 Mills Street, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA
Int J Health Care Finance Econ 8:13-26. 2008..05), whereas HP concentration does not appear to be significantly associated with higher outpatient commercial payer prices...
Research Grants
- An Economic & Policy Analysis of ADHD & Stimulant DrugsRichard Scheffler; Fiscal Year: 2006..S. By furthering the understanding of this variation, the results will inform policymakers, health professionals, educators, and families with school-age children. ..
- Mental health Sessions at IHEA 4th World CongressRichard Scheffler; Fiscal Year: 2003..The Congress is being organized by two committees of leading health economists, who will design the sessions and select the Congress presenters. ..
- ECONOMICS OF MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARERichard Scheffler; Fiscal Year: 2004..The first project proposed here, in particular, lays out that challenge. ..
- Mental Health Economics Training ProgramRichard Scheffler; Fiscal Year: 2007....