Jeremiah Edward Hurley - McMaster Experts

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Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
Associate Member, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), Faculty of Health Sciences
Member, Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor, Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences
Associate Member, Health, Aging & Society, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Experimental economics (RA)
Health policy (RA)
Healthcare systems and health economics research (RA)

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books
- Health Economics 2010
- Instructor’s Guide to Health Economics
chapters
- Forward. 123-127. 2016
- Pay-for-Performance, Cost Containment and Quality. 35-64. 2014
- Welfarism and Extra-Welfarism. 483-489. 2014
- Issues in Evaluating Equity. 285-298. 2008
- Medical Savings Accounts: Promises and Pitfalls. 125-147. 2007
- Chapter 2 An Overview of the Normative Economics of the Health Sector * * Helpful comments were received from R. Cookson, A.J. Culyer, J.P. Newhouse, T. Rice, T. Scott and G. Stoddart. I would like to acknowledge financial support of the Ontario Ministry of Health to the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis.. Handbook of Health Economics. 55-118. 2000
- Chapter 2 An overview of the normative economics of the health sector. Handbook of Health Economics. 55-118. 2000
community engaged research
- A measurement and evaluation framework to support social impact investment in Canada
conferences
- Societal Values and Child Health Priorities: Empirical Evidence for Paediatric Cancer Drug Policy. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. S69-S69. 2018
- Insurance coverage and the treatment of mental illness in Canada: Effect on service utilization, type of provider and medication use. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. S30-S31. 2007
- Estimating the price elasticity of expenditure for prescription drugs in the presence of non‐linear price schedules: an illustration from Quebec, Canada. Health Economics. 909-923. 2005
- Changing Patterns of Physician Services Utilization in Ontario, Canada, and their Relation to Physician, Practice, and Market-Area Characteristics. Medical Care Research and Review. 179-206. 1996
- Implications of Basing Health Care Resource Allocations on Cost-utility Analysis in the Presence of Externalities. RESTRUCTURING CANADAS HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEM. 245-262. 1992
- WHAT CAN ECONOMICS CONTRIBUTE TO THE ANALYSIS OF RISKS AND BENEFITS. Canadian Journal of Public Health. S45-S53. 1991
- What does economics have to offer risk-benefit analysis?. Canadian Journal of Public Health. S21-S53. 1991
journal articles
- Trajectories of the socioeconomic gradient of mental health: Results from the CLSA COVID-19 Questionnaire Study. Health Policy. 131:104758-104758. 2023
- When the technical is also normative: a critical assessment of measuring health inequalities using the concentration index-based indices. Population Health Metrics. 20:21. 2022
- Economic Evaluation of Early Psychosis Interventions From A Canadian Perspective. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 67:768-777. 2022
- Borderline personality disorder: resource utilisation costs in Ireland. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 38:169-176. 2021
- Unrecognized assets created by public-sector investments in health and social services. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management. 33:409-426. 2021
- Cautionary tails of grip strength in health inequality studies: An analysis from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging. Social Science and Medicine. 265:113382-113382. 2020
- Does moral reasoning influence public values for health care priority setting?: A population-based randomized stated preference survey. Health Policy. 124:647-658. 2020
- Inequality aversion in income, health, and income-related health. Journal of Health Economics. 70:102276-102276. 2020
- Here comes the SUN: Self‐assessed unmet need, worsening health outcomes, and health care inequity. Health Economics. 28:727-735. 2019
- Moral Hazard in Health Insurance. OEconomia. 8:367-405. 2018
- Health inequalities and inequities by age: Stability for the Health Utilities Index and divergence for the Frailty Index. SSM - Population Health. 5:17-32. 2018
- Investing in Health: A Macroeconomic Exploration of Short-Run and Long-Run Trade-Offs. Atlantic Economic Journal. 46:121-133. 2018
- Investing in Health: A Macroeconomic Exploration of Short-Run and Long-Run Trade-Oﬀs. Atlantic Economic Journal. 46:121-133. 2018
- A Behavioral Economic Study of Tax Rate Selection by the Median Voter: Can the Tax Rate be Influenced by the Name of the Publicly Provided Private Good?. Theoretical Economics Letters. 8:485-501. 2018
- Effect of incentive payments on chronic disease management and health services use in British Columbia, Canada: Interrupted time series analysis. Health Policy. 122:157-164. 2018
- UNDERSTANDING INEQUALITIES AND INEQUITIES IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS AMONG OLDER CANADIANS. Innovation in Aging. 1:732-732. 2017
- Non-market resource allocation and the public’s interpretation of need: an empirical investigation in the context of health care. Social Choice and Welfare. 49:117-143. 2017
- The Interpretation of Health Care Need Among the General Public: An Empirical Investigation using a Discrete-Choice Approach. Social Choice and Welfare. 49:117-143. 2017
- The authors respond to: letters by Catherine Clelland and Shelley Ross. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 189:E251-E251. 2017
- Should I stay or should I go? Exit options within mixed systems of public and private health care finance. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 131:62-77. 2016
- A population-based analysis of incentive payments to primary care physicians for the care of patients with complex disease. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 188:E375-E383. 2016
- Mandatory universal drug plan, access to health care and health: Evidence from Canada. Journal of Health Economics. 44:80-96. 2015
- Unexplained health inequality – is it unfair?. International Journal for Equity in Health. 14:11. 2015
- Reflecting on ‘Equity in health care: the Irish perspective’. Health Economics, Policy and Law. 10:443-447. 2015
- Support for public provision of a private good with top-up and opt-out: A controlled laboratory experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 111:177-196. 2015
- A three-stage approach to measuring health inequalities and inequities. International Journal for Equity in Health. 13:98. 2014
- PHYSICIAN RESPONSE TO PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT. Health Economics. 23:962-978. 2014
- Fair reckoning: a qualitative investigation of responses to an economic health resource allocation survey. Health Expectations. 17:174-185. 2014
- User charges for health care services: some further thoughts. Health Economics, Policy and Law. 8:537-541. 2013
- Health-related externalities: Evidence from a choice experiment. Journal of Health Economics. 32:671-681. 2013
- An experimental investigation of mixed systems of public and private health care finance. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 84:713-729. 2012
- The cost-effectiveness of cash versus lottery incentives for a web-based, stated-preference community survey. European Journal of Health Economics. 13:789-799. 2012
- The role of proximity to death in need-based approaches to health care. Health Policy. 106:291-302. 2012
- MATHEMATICAL MODELING: THE CASE OF EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT WAITING TIMES. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 28:93-109. 2012
- Public and private health‐care financing with alternate public rationing rules. Health Economics. 21:83-100. 2012
- Willingness‐to‐pay for parallel private health insurance: evidence from a laboratory experiment. Canadian Journal of Economics, The. 45:137-166. 2012
- A discrete choice experiment investigating preferences for funding drugs used to treat orphan diseases: an exploratory study. Health Economics, Policy and Law. 6:405-433. 2011
- Judgments regarding the fair division of goods: the impact of verbal versus quantitative descriptions of alternative divisions. Social Choice and Welfare. 37:341-372. 2011
- Inequity in a market-based health system: Evidence from Canada's dental sector. Health Policy. 98:81-90. 2010
- Physician Resource Planning in Canada: The Need for a Stronger Behavioural Foundation. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 36:359-375. 2010
- Inequity in publicly funded physician care: what is the role of private prescription drug insurance?. Health Economics. 18:1218-1232. 2009
- Physician labour supply in Canada: a cohort analysis. Health Economics. 18:437-456. 2009
- Distributional consequences of the transition from age‐based to income‐based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada. Health Economics. 17:1379-1392. 2008
- Insurance coverage and the treatment of mental illness: effect on medication and provider use. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. 11:177-199. 2008
- Selecting effective incentive structures in health care: A decision framework to support health care purchasers in finding the right incentives to drive performance. BMC Health Services Research. 8:66. 2008
- Publicly funded medical savings accounts: expenditure and distributional impacts in Ontario, Canada. Health Economics. 17:1129-1151. 2008
- Parallel Payers and Preferred Access: How Canada's Workers' Compensation Boards Expedite Care for Injured and Ill Workers. Healthcare Papers. 8:6-14. 2008
- The Authors Respond. Healthcare Papers. 8:52-54. 2008
- Parallel Lines Do Intersect: Interactions between the Workers' Compensation and Provincial Publicly Financed Healthcare Systems in Canada. Healthcare Policy. 3:100-112. 2008
- On the radial distribution of white dwarfs in the globular cluster NGC 6397. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 383:L20-L24. 2008
- The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence of NGC 6397. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 671:380-401. 2007
- The Relationship Between Physician Hours of Work, Service Volume and Service Intensity. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 33:S17-S29. 2007
- Income and equity of access to physician services. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 174:187-188. 2006
- Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 30:764-770. 2005
- Regionalization and the Allocation of Healthcare Resources to Meet Population Health Needs. Healthcare Papers. 5:34-39. 2004
- Health care at a premium. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 170:1906-1907. 2004
- Internet pharmacy: prices on the up-and-up. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 170:945-946. 2004
- US Medicare reform: why drug companies and private insurers are smiling.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 170:461-462. 2004
- The policy analysis of ‘values talk’: lessons from Canadian health reform. Health Policy. 67:15-24. 2004
- Physician and Practice Characteristics Associated with the Early Utilization of New Prescription Drugs. Medical Care. 41:895-908. 2003
- Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae endocarditis: A preventable zoonosis?. Irish Journal of Medical Science. 172:81-82. 2003
- Predictive genetic tests and health system costs.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 168:989-991. 2003
- A Review of the Comprehensiveness of Provincial Drug Coverage for Canadian Seniors. Canadian Journal on Aging. 22:33-44. 2003
- Geographic disparity in premature mortality in Ontario, 1992-1996.. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2:7-7. 2003
- Medical Savings Accounts will not advance Canadian health care objectives.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 167:152-153. 2002
- Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada 2002
- Health economic consequences of an aging population. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. 2:81-83. 2002
- Examining the Role of Health Services Research in Public Policymaking. Milbank Quarterly. 80:125-154. 2002
- Ethics, economics, and public financing of health care. Journal of Medical Ethics. 27:234-239. 2001
- Cost-Sharing for Prescription Drugs. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 285:2328-2328. 2001
- Devolution to democratic health authorities in Saskatchewan: an interim report.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 164:343-347. 2001
- Adverse Events Associated With Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing Among Poor and Elderly Persons. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 285:421-421. 2001
- Commentary on "Health-related quality-of-life research and the capability approach of Amartya Sen". Quality of Life Research. 10:57-58. 2001
- Medical Savings Accounts: Approach with Caution. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 5:130-132. 2000
- The many meanings of deinsuring a health service: the case of in vitro fertilization in Ontario. Social Science and Medicine. 50:1485-1500. 2000
- Needs-based primary medical care capitation: development and evaluation of alternative approaches.. Health Care Management Science. 3:89-99. 2000
- Risk of a New Benzodiazepine Prescription in Relation to Recent Hospitalization. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society. 47:184-188. 1999
- Medical Necessity, Benefit and Resource Allocation in Health Care. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 2:223-230. 1997
- Physician Responses to Global Physician Expenditure Budgets in Canada: A Common Property Perspective. Milbank Quarterly. 75:343-364. 1997
- Defining the practice population in fee-for-service practice.. Health Services Research (HSR). 32:55-70. 1997
- Understanding Economic Evaluation: A Policy Perspective for Clinicians. Canadian Respiratory Journal. 4:190-199. 1997
- Global physician budgets as common-property resources: some implications for physicians and medical associations.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 154:1161-1168. 1996
- Do physician-payment mechanisms affect hospital utilization? A study of Health Service Organizations in Ontario.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 154:653-661. 1996
- Sex differences in physicians activity level - Respond. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 154:446-&. 1996
- Relative fees and the utilization of physicians' services in Canada. Health Economics. 4:419-438. 1995
- Comparison of activity level and service intensity of male and female physicians in five fields of medicine in Ontario.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 153:1097-1106. 1995
- National health care: Lessons for the United States and Canada - Lemco,J. Canadian Public Administration. 38:496-497. 1995
- Geographically-decentralized planning and management in health care: Some informational issues and their implications for efficiency. Social Science and Medicine. 41:3-11. 1995
- Is small really beautiful? Some thoughts on the 1995 federal budget.. Leadership in Health Services. 4:12-18. 1995
- Anorectal functional deficit in the brown bowel syndrome. Irish Journal of Medical Science. 163:404-405. 1994
- When tinkering is not enough: provincial reform to manage health care resources. Canadian Public Administration. 37:490-514. 1994
- Controlling Drug Expenditure in Canada: The Ontario Experience. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 19:223-223. 1993
- A Needs-Based Approach to Resource Allocation in Health Care. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 19:68-68. 1993
- Implications of basing health-care resource allocations on cost-utility analysis in the presence of externalities. Journal of Health Economics. 11:259-277. 1992
- The Effects of Co-Payments within Drug Reimbursement Programs. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 17:473-473. 1991
- A needs-based methodology for allocating health care resources in Ontario, Canada: Development and an application. Social Science and Medicine. 33:489-500. 1991
- Physicians' Choices of Specialty, Location, and Mode: A Reexamination within an Interdependent Decision Framework. The Journal of human resources. 26:47-47. 1991
- Assessing the effects of the Medicare Prospective Payment System on the demand for VA inpatient services: an examination of transfers and discharges of problem patients.. Health Services Research (HSR). 25:239-255. 1990
- Simulated Effects of Incomes-Based Policies on the Distribution of Physicians. Medical Care. 28:221-238. 1990
- Clinical rounds for non-clinicians: Some impressions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 43:613-618. 1990
- The relationship between physician fees and the utilization of medical services in Ontario.. Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research. 11:49-78. 1990
other
preprints
- Horizontal Equity in Health Care Utilization in Canada 2006
- Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada 2002
reports
scholarly editions
- Public and Private Health Care Financing with Alternate Public Rationing Rules 2007