1. Explaining Source of Payment Differences in U.S. Cesarean Rates: Why do Privately Insured Mothers Receive More Cesareans than Mothers Who are not Privately Insured?

   • Darren Grant

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 17

2. Improved Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources: Using Information About Prevention Program Production Functions

   • Margaret L. Brandeau
   • Gregory S. Zaric
   • Vanda De Angelis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 28

3. Engineering the Economic Value of Two Pediatric Combination Vaccines

   • Sheldon H. Jacobson
   • Edward C. Sewell
   • Tamana Karnani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 40

4. Ambulatory Care and Orthopaedic Capacity Planning

   • John Bowers
   • Gilliam Mould

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 47

5. Modeling Patient Flows Using a Queuing Network with Blocking

   • Naoru Koizumi
   • Eri Kuno
   • Tony E. Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 60

6. A Method for Detecting Runs of Good and Bad Clinical Outcomes on Variable Life-Adjusted Display (VLAD) Charts

   • Chris Sherlaw-Johnson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 65

7. Health and Economic Impacts of an HIV Intervention in Out of Treatment Substance Abusers: Evidence from a Dynamic Model

   • Anke Richter
   • Brett Loomis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 79