Operations Research and Health Care Policy

Part I. Applications of Health Policy Modeling

1. Public Health Modeling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Arielle Lasry, Michael L. Washington, Hannah K. Smalley, Faramroze Engineer, Pinar Keskinocak, Larry Pickering

2. OR in Public Health: A Little Help Can Go a Long Way
Margaret L. Brandeau

Part II. Health Policy and Operations

3. Analytical Long-Term Care Capacity Planning
Yue Zhang, Martin L. Puterman

4. Managing Community-based Care for Chronic Diseases: The Quantitative Approach
Beste Kucukyazici, Vedat Verter

5. Project Management Approach to Implement Clinical Pathways: An Example for Thyroidectomy
Yasar A. Ozcan, Elena Tànfani, Angela Testi

6. EMS Planning and Management
Armann Ingolfsson

7. Impact of Inpatient Reimbursement Systems on Hospital Performance: The Austrian Case-Based Payment Strategy
Marion S. Rauner, Michaela M. Schaffhauser-Linzatti

Part III. HIV Policy Models

8. Assessing Prevention for Positives: Cost-Utility Assessment of Behavioral Interventions for Reducing HIV Transmission
Sada Soorapanth, Stephen E. Chick

9. Modeling the Impact of New HIV Prevention Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
John Stover, Carel Pretorius, Kyeen Andersson

10. REACH: A Practical HIV Resource Allocation Tool for Decision Makers
Sabina S. Alistar, Margaret L. Brandeau, Eduard J. Beck

11. Review of Operations Research Tools and Techniques Used for Influenza Pandemic Planning
David W. Hutton

Part IV. Pharmaceutical Policy

12. Active Vaccine and Drug Surveillance
Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, David Czerwinski

13. Application of Operations Research to Funding Decisions for Treatments with Rare Disease
Doug Coyle, Chaim M. Bell, Joe T. R. Clarke, Gerald Evans, Anita Gadhok, Janet Martin, Mona Sabharwal, Eric Winquist

14. Modeling Risk Sharing Agreements and Patient Access Schemes
Gregory S. Zaric, Hui Zhang, Reza Mahjoub

Part V. Building Health Policy Models

15. Considerations for Developing Applied Health Policy Models: The Example of HIV Treatment Expansion in Resource-Limited Settings
April D. Kimmel, Bruce R. Schackman

16. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using Registry and Administrative Data
Malek B. Hannouf, Gregory S. Zaric

Part VI. Working with Policy Makers

17. Evaluating Health Care Policy Decisions: Canadian Blood Services in Atlantic Canada
John Blake, Michelle Rogerson, Dorothy Harris

18. Improving the Efficiency of Cost-effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy Decisions in the Real World: Lessons from the Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit at Cancer Care Ontario
Jeffrey S. Hoch

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Public Finance & Economics, Health Administration