Jeremiah Hurley
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Jeremiah Hurley is chair of the Department of Economics, an associate member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and a member of CHEPA. He served as the associate co-ordinator of CHEPA from 1994-1996, as co-ordinator from 1996 – 2000, and as acting director in 2001-2002 and 2005-06. Since coming to McMaster in 1988, he has carried out research on physician behaviour and physician payment systems; resource allocation and funding models for health care; financial incentives in health care systems; prescription drug programs; normative frameworks for evaluative economic analysis in the health sector; and public and private roles in health care financing. His current work focuses on public and private roles in health care financing, resource allocation in health care, equity in health care, and the application of experimental economic methods in health research. He has published in leading health economic and health services research journals and has acted as a consultant to regional, provincial, national and international agencies. He is currently a member of the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s National Health Expenditures Database Expert Group.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing.
- equity in health care
- resource allocation and funding in the health sector
- normative economic analysis in the health sector
- experimental methods in health economics
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Hurley J. Health Economics. 2010. Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson.
Hurley J, Buckley N, Cuff K, Giacomini M, Cameron D. Judgments Regarding the Fair Division of Goods: The Impact of Verbal versus Quantitative Descriptions of Alternative Principles. Social Choice and Welfare, 2010; Forthcoming.
Grignon M, Hurley J, Wang L, Allin S. Inequity in a market-based health system: evidence from Canada’s dental sector. Health Policy, 2010. Forthcoming.
Allin S, Hurley J. Inequity in publicly funded physician care: what is the role of private prescription drug insurance? Health Economics, 2009; Vol. 18(10): 1218-1232.
Crossley T, Hurley J, Jeon S. Physician Labour Supply in Canada: A Cohort Analysis. Health Economics, 2008; Vol. 18(4): 437-456.
Custers T, Hurley J, Klazinga NS, Brown AD. Selecting effective incentive structures in health care: a decision framework to support health care purchasers in finding the right incentives to drive performance. BMC Health Services Research, 2008; Vol 8: 66.
Hurley J, Culyer AJ, Gnam W, Lavis J, Pasic D. Response to Commentaries. HealthCare Papers, 2008; Vol. 8(3): 52-54.
Hurley J, Pasic D, Lavis J, Culyer AJ, Mustard C, Gnam W. Parallel Payers and Preferred Access: How Canada’s Workers’ Compensation Boards Expedite Care for Injured and Ill Workers. HealthCare Papers, 2007; Vol. 8(3): 6-15.
Hurley J, Pasic D, Lavis J, Mustard C, Culyer AJ, Gnam W. Parallel Lines do Intersect: Interactions between the Workers’ Compensation and Provincial Publicly Financed Health Care Systems in Canada. HealthCare Policy, 2008; Vol. 3(4): 100-112.
Hanley G, Morgan S, Hurley J, van Doorslaer E. Distributional consequences of the transition from age-based to income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada. Health Economics, 2008; Vol. 17(12): 1379-1392.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- graduate health economics
- undergraduate health economics
- economic policy analysis