Christie, Deborah, Strange, Vicki, Allen, Elizabeth, Oliver, Sandy, Wong, Ian, Smith, Felicity, ...
Abstract Background This trial aims to evaluate effective delivery and cost effectiveness of an innovative structured psycho-educational programme (CASCADE) for young people and their families living...
Guerriero, Carla, Cairns, John
Abstract Background Evaluating the economic benefit of reducing negative health outcomes resulting from waste management is of pivotal importance for designing an effective waste policy that takes...
Apfelbacher, Christian J, Loerbroks, Adrian, Cairns, John, Behrendt, Heidrun, Ring, Johannes, Krämer, Ursula
Abstract Background Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem and epidemiological studies are important to identify predictive factors. It is the aim of this study to analyse factors...
Dong, Hengjin, Kouyate, Bocar, Cairns, John, Sauerborn, Rainer
Objective: This study compares household heads’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for community-based health insurance (CBI) for themselves with their WTP for other household members, in order to provide...
Editorial Farewell, Gary R. Johnson, Brian Martin, John Cairns, Derek Reiners, John Strate, ...
Book reviews on arguments against evolutionary psychology, the history of motherhood, marine law and ocean policy, the science of human emotions, a theory of everything, and the mismatch between our...
Paulson, P. C., Pratt, J. R., Cairns, John
Peer Reviewed
Henebry, M. S., Cairns, John, Schwintzer, Christa R., Yongue, W. H.
Vascular vegetation and protozoan communities were sampled in seven wetland sites — two bogs, two fens, two marshes, and one ‘swamp’ — in summer 1977. Two similarity indices were used to...
Ecological considerations in reclaiming surface mined lands (1979)
The opportunities for, and ecological problems of, reclaiming surfaced-mined land are reviewed. It is suggested that existing methods permit the achievement of ecologically viable goals, although...
Potentiation of zinc stress caused by parasitic infection of snails (1977)
Guth, Daniel J., Blankespoor, Harvey D., Cairns, John
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of parasitism ( Schistosomatium douthitti Price and Trichobilharzia sp.) on the tolerance of snails Lymnaea stagnalis (L.) to acutely...
Romanism and rationalism as opposed to pure Christianity / by John Cairns, D.D., Berwick. (1866)
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It has been suggested that individuals employ simple decision heuristics when answering stated preference questions. Evidence from discrete choice experiments of individuals failing to trade may...
Willingness-to-pay for community-based insurance in Burkina Faso
Hengjin Dong, Bocar Kouyate, John Cairns, Frederick Mugisha, Rainer Sauerborn
Purpose: To study the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a proposed community-based health insurance (CBI) scheme in order to provide information about the relationship between the premium that is required...
Multilevel models for estimating incremental net benefits in multinational studies
Richard Grieve, Richard Nixon, Simon G. Thompson, John Cairns
Multilevel models (MLMs) have been recommended for estimating incremental net benefits (INBs) in multicentre cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). However, these models have assumed that the INBs are...
Bjarne Robberstad, John Cairns
Aim: The discounted utility (DU) model has dominated economic evaluation for almost 7 decades, despite the fact that important assumptions of the model are commonly found to be violated. This paper...
Exchange rates and global volatility: implications for Asia-Pacific currencies
John Cairns, Corrinne Ho, Robert McCauley
At times of heightened global equity and bond market volatility, high-yielding currencies tend to depreciate while low-yielding ones tend to serve as a "safe haven". The whole spectrum of sensitivity...
Inequality in willingness-to-pay for community-based health insurance
Dong, Hengjin, Kouyate, Bocar, Cairns, John, Sauerborn, Rainer
Apfelbacher, Christian J, Loerbroks, Adrian, Cairns, John, Behrendt, Heidrun, Ring, Johannes, Krämer, Ursula
SF-6D versus EQ-5D: reasons for differences in utility scores and impact on reported cost-utility
Richard Grieve, Marina Grishchenko, John Cairns
Cost-utility, EQ-5D, SF-6D, Health utilities,