This is a follow-up paper arising from a World Health Organisation meeting which was held in Disley (near Manchester) in England in September 1984. The original paper for that conference (Maynard (1984)) was revised as a result of comments perceived at the Disley meeting and circulated to...

This paper presents new evidence on the determinants of starting and quitting smoking using duration data from the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Self-reported data in individual smoking histories coupled with availability of a long time series for the tax rate on cigarettes are...

The appropriate technique for econometric analysis of WTP (willingness to pay) data is an issue which has not been addressed in many studies of WTP for health and health care. This paper argues that, whether an open-ended question or a payment scale approach is adopted, the way in which WTP is...

A framework is outlined for testing empirically whether utilization of and access to public-sector GPs in Spain in 1993 was consistent with the twin criteria of horizontal and vertical equity, where these are defined with respect to need. Vertical (horizontal) inequities in access are assessed...

The Russian pharmaceutical sector is currently undergoing reform of the procurement, distribution and financing of medical drugs. The political imperatives underpinning these changes are wide ranging, and include the desire to protect local industry while benefiting from higher quality or less...

The objectives of this study are: (a) to estimate the impact of women's socioeconomic and access characteristics on the choice of specific contraceptive methods; and (b) to identify the wider determinants of family planning behaviour that warrant attention in the policy-making process. A...

The purpose of this note is to use the 1990 FES to update Jones and Posnett's analysis of the determinants of household giving to charity in the 1984 survey. Our analysis extends the earlier work by analysing the interaction between the level of giving and the method of payment.