<P>Edited by<br>Andrew M. Jones<br>Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK<br>and<br>Owen O’Donnell<br>Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macdeonia<br>Thessaloniki, Greece</P>
<P>The purpose of this book is to give readers convenient<br>access to a collection of innovative applications of<br>econometric methods to data on health and health care.<br>The contributions are selected from papers presented at<br>the European Workshops on Econometrics and Health<br>Economics which have been published in Health Economics.<br>The Workshops were established in York, with<br>meetings in 1992 and 1993. Since then they have taken<br>place annually, with locations in eight different<br>European countries. Publication of the present volume<br>marks the tenth anniversary of the Workshop series, the<br>overall aim of which is to provide a forum for the development<br>and dissemination of econometric methods in<br>health economics. When the Workshops were first established,<br>there were relatively few European researchers<br>at the frontiers of quantitative research in the area.<br>Advances in quantitative techniques and the increased<br>availability of datasets and computing technology had<br>created the potential for large returns from attracting<br>more researchers into health econometrics. There are indications<br>that these returns are now being reaped. Over<br>the years, there has been a steady rise in the quantity<br>and general quality of submissions received for each<br>Workshop.<br>We would like to thank everyone who has participated<br>in the Workshop series, whether as an author<br>or a discussant, and all of those who have reviewed papers<br>for Health Economics. Our particular gratitude goes<br>to the local organisers of the Workshops: Eddy van<br>Doorslaer (Antwerp, 1994), Lise Rochaix (Paris, 1995),<br>Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas (Barcelona, 1996), Joa
o Pereira<br>(Lisbon, 1997), Unto Hakkinen and Miika Linna<br>(Helsinki, 1998), Giacomo Pignataro and Ilde Rizzo<br>(Catania, 1999) and Maarten Lindeboom and France<br>Portrait (Amsterdam, 2000).</P>
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