Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 1-3 , January 2008

Gender Bias in Economic Evaluation Methods: Time Costs and Productivity Loss

  • Alison Snow Jones, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pubic Health Sciences, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    • Alison Snow Jones, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She is an economist whose work focuses on women’s health, intimate partner violence, alcohol use, and economic evaluation.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Alison Snow Jones, Division of Pubic Health Sciences, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157; Phone: 336-716-2014; fax 336-716-7554.
    • ,
  • Kevin D. Frick, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Kevin D. Frick, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an economic evaluation expert whose work focuses on nursing, ophthalmology, and family health issues.

Received 9 November 2007 ,Accepted 27 November 2007.

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PII: S1049-3867(07)00183-1

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.11.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 1-3 , January 2008

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