Room | Conference Schedule | ECHE 2010

Session	Impact of Obesity	Ball Room Thursday 10:15-11:30
Presentations	Does physical appearance matter? Overweight and labor market discrimination Hospital consumption and costs in a cohort of obese patients from Northern Italy Obese and Absent? Exploring the Relationship between Obesity and Sickness Absence in Sweden Future health care costs of obesity: Results from the KORA case cohort study, 1995-2005	Ball Room Thursday 10:15-11:30
Session	Impact of Employment on Health	Ball Room Thursday 11:45-13:00
Presentations	Valuing the Productivity Loss Associated with Presenteeism in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Measuring causality between health and employment in professional life cycle in France Care-related and work-related factors in determining informal caregivers’ intention to change jobs or exit the labour market The effects of changes in health status on labor market behavior	Ball Room Thursday 11:45-13:00
Session	Employing Utility Measures	Ball Room Thursday 14:30-15:45
Presentations	Self-assessed health, gender differences and reporting heterogeneity: Empirical evidence using multiple imputed data Health status of the advanced elderly in six European countries: Results a representative survey using the EQ-5D and SF-12 Country-specific recalibration of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL-6D) instrument for use with adolescents What to do when you have not collected utility-based outcome data in a population of older people: a mapping exercise to predict EQ-5D from the Barthel index	Ball Room Thursday 14:30-15:45
Session	Dealing with Obesity	Ball Room Thursday 16:00-17:15
Presentations	Cost of Implementing and Maintaining Comprehensive School Health Program Cost-utility of Bariatric Surgery in the Treatment for Morbid Obesity in Finland Budget impact analysis of the reimbursement of lifestyle interventions targeting obesity in the Netherlands	Ball Room Thursday 16:00-17:15
Session	Accessing Health Care	Ball Room Friday 08:30-09:45
Presentations	Gatekeeping and Accessibility in Health Care Patient-physician interaction and equity in health: The role of primary care Availability and structure of primary medical care and health outcomes in Scotland: Evidence from routine data linked with the Scottish Health Survey	Ball Room Friday 08:30-09:45
Session	Use of Pharmaceuticals	Ball Room Friday 10:15-11:30
Presentations	Medication adherence as a key performance indicator in arterial hypertension management: Preliminary findings from the MAKE study Inequalities in prescription medicines use: Understanding its sources The impact of chemotherapy innovation on French cancer mortality rates, 2002-2006 Falling into the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Reductions in Drug Therapy Adherence	Ball Room Friday 10:15-11:30
Session	Dispensing/Prescribing Issues	Ball Room Friday 11:45-13:00
Presentations	Drug reimbursement, prescribing pattern and patient outcomes: Evidence from Taiwan Motives for rebate contracts on patent-protected pharmaceuticals in Germany Dispensing practices and antibiotic use Physician's prescribing behaviour: The effect of choices on the total costs of medicines	Ball Room Friday 11:45-13:00
Session	Working with Utility Measures	Ball Room Friday 14:30-15:45
Presentations	Scaling Methods for Categorical Self-Assessed Health Measures Using mapping functions to estimate low utilities Is the anchoring vignettes method sensitive to the domain and choice of the vignette What is the impact of reducing the floor effect in the SF-6D?	Ball Room Friday 14:30-15:45
Session	Tobacco Use	Ball Room Friday 16:00-17:15
Presentations	Smoking, Taxes, and Pregnancy on the Iberian Peninsula Using best-worst scaling to investigate youth concern about negative effects associated with tobacco use The economic costs of smoking in Austria Socioeconomic Inequality in Smoking: A Decomposition Analysis Based on Longitudinal Data	Ball Room Friday 16:00-17:15
Session	Health System Performance	Ball Room Saturday 08:30-09:45
Presentations	Top Executives Turnover, Politics and the Performance of Healthcare Providers: Evidence from the Italian NHS Valuing Services to Manage Clinical Performance Concerns Efficiency gains thanks to Managed Care? Evidence from Switzerland	Ball Room Saturday 08:30-09:45
Session	Health & Income	Ball Room Saturday 10:15-11:30
Presentations	Multilevel Analysis of the Influence of Individual Income and Regional Wealth in the Health of the People Living in Spain in 2007 Re-examining the Absolute Income Hypothesis in Taiwan with Quasi-experimental Methods Does the Relationship Between Mortality and the Business Cycle Vary by the Level of Economic Development? Evidence from Mexico Are Recessions Good for Everyone's Health? The Association Between Mortality and the Business Cycle by Race	Ball Room Saturday 10:15-11:30

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