Professor, Department of Economics
Associate Member, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Associate Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

Jeremiah Hurley is a professor in the Department of Economics, an Associate Member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Associate Director 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
• Health care funding, particularly needs-based capitation funding models. 
• Normative economic analysis in the health sector
• Resource allocation in the health sector  

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Crossley, T., J. Hurley and S. Jeon. 2008 Physician Labour Supply in Canada: a Cohort Analysis. Health Economics. Forthcoming.

Custers, T., J.Hurley, N.S. Klazinga and A.D. Brown. 2008. 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. Vol 8: 66.

Hurley, J., A. J. Culyer, W. Gnam, J.Lavis, and D. Pasic. 2008. Response to Commentaries. HealthCare Papers. Vol.8(3) 52-54.

Hurley, J., D. Pasic, J. Lavis, A. J. Culyer, C. Mustard, and W. Gnam. 2007. Parallel Payers and Preferred Access: How Canada’s Workers’ Compensation Boards Expedite Care for Injured and Ill Workers. HealthCare Papers. Vol. 8(3): 6-15.

Hurley, J., D. Pasic, J. Lavis, C. Mustard, A. J. Culyer, and W. Gnam. 2007. Parallel Lines do Intersect: Interactions between the Workers’ Compensation and Provincial Publicly Financed Health Care Systems in Canada. HealthCare Policy. Forthcoming.

Hanley, G., S. Morgan, J. Hurley, E. van Doorslaer. 2007.
Distributional consequences of the transition from age-based to income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada. Health Economics. Forthcoming. (Available electronically)

Hurley, J., G. E. Guindon, V. Rynard and S. Morgan. 2007. Publicly Funded Medical Savings Accounts: Expenditure and Distributional Impacts in Ontario, Canada. Health Economics. Forthcoming. (Available electronically)

Hurley, J., and G. E. Guindon . 2007. Medical Savings Accounts: Promises and Pitfalls. In, Paying for Health Care: New Ideas for a Changing Society, M. Lu and E. Jonsson, eds., Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co KGaA, pp 125-148.

Jeon, S. and J. Hurley. 2007. The Relationship between Physician Hours of Work, Service Volume and Service Intensity. Canadian Public Policy. Vol. 33 (Supplement): 17-30.

Hurley, J. and M. Grignon. 2006. Income and Equity of Access to Physician Services. CMAJ. Vol. 174(2): 187-88.

Contoyannis. P. C., J. Hurley, P. Grootendorst, S.H. Jeon, R. Tamblyn. 2005. Estimating the price elasticity of expenditure for prescription drugs in the presence of non-linear price schedules: An illustration from Quebec, Canada. Health Economics. Vol. 14(9): 909-23.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES  

• Graduate Health Economics
• Health Economics
• Introduction to Health Economics
• Advanced Topics in the Economics of Health and Health Care