| About the Editors | p. xiii |
| Notes on Contributors | p. xv |
| Foreword | p. xxvii |
| Preface | p. xxix |
| Introduction and Overview | p. 1 |
| Population Ageing and Health - Empirical Needs for Effective Foresight | p. 41 |
| Health Status | |
| Demographic Change, Health and Health-Risk Behaviour across Cohorts in Britain: Implications for Policy Modelling | p. 59 |
| Measures of Dependency among Older People in Community and Residential Settings in Scotland - Their Development and Application in Resource Forecasting | p. 81 |
| Health Status, Health Inequalities and the Ability of Older Australians to Stay in the Labour Force | p. 105 |
| Pharmacare and Health Expenditure Issues | |
| Evaluating Catastrophic Drug Expenditure Plans | p. 133 |
| Projections of Commonwealth Health Expenditure in Australia's First Intergenerational Report | p. 149 |
| The Australian Pharmaceuticals Benefit Scheme and Older Australians: Changes in Government Outlays and Consumer Costs from the 2002-03 Federal Budget Measures | p. 169 |
| Modelling Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Utilisation and Costs | p. 197 |
| A Microsimulation Model for Pharmacare: Development, Analysis and Policy Applications | p. 213 |
| Financing, Caring and Health Delivery | |
| Microsimulation Model of Medical Insurance Reform for Government Employees and Workers in China | p. 237 |
| The View from the Middle: Taking Care of the Young and the Old | p. 261 |
| A Simulation Model Concerning Future Needs for Long-term Care of Elderly Persons in Sweden | p. 281 |
| Providing Income Support Services to a Changing Aged Population in Australia: Centrelink's Regional Microsimulation Model | p. 297 |
| Health Human Resources Modelling | |
| Building Policy-Relevant Health Human Resource Models | p. 321 |
| What is Behind HRSA'S Projected U.S. Supply, Demand, and Shortages of Registered Nurses | p. 343 |
| Data Challenges | |
| Data Quality and Non-Response Effects when Using Logistical Regression in the Welsh Health Survey | p. 377 |
| Confidentiality and Anonymised Survey Records: The UK Experience | p. 387 |
| Overview of Existing Microsimulation and Health Human Resources Models | |
| The Search for Ideas among Existing Microsimulation Models | p. 417 |
| Dynamic Microsimulation Models | |
| MOSART (Dynamic Cross-Sectional Microsimulation Model) | p. 433 |
| DYNAMOD | p. 439 |
| The SAGE Model: A Dynamic Microsimulation Population Model for Britain | p. 443 |
| LifePaths Model | p. 449 |
| SESIM (Longitudinal Dynamic Microsimulation Model) | p. 453 |
| DYNACAN (Longitudinal Dynamic Microsimulation Model) | p. 461 |
| DESTINIE ("Modele Demographique Economique et Social de Trajectoires Individuelles Simulees, i.e. Demographic, Economic and Social Model of Simulated Individual Trajectories") | p. 467 |
| Static Microsimulation and Macro/Micro Approaches | |
| GLADHISPANIA (A Spanish Tax-Benefits Microsimulation Model) | p. 473 |
| STINMOD (Static Incomes Model) | p. 477 |
| EUROMOD - The Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for the European Union | p. 483 |
| PSSRU Long-Term Care Finance Model and CARESIM: Two Linked UK Models of Long-Term Care for Older People | p. 489 |
| Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M) | p. 497 |
| The OECD Tax-Benefit Model and Policy Database | p. 503 |
| Pharmasim Model | p. 507 |
| LOTTE - The Norwegian Tax-Benefit Model System | p. 513 |
| Health Human Resource Models | |
| IPDSM (Integrated Physician Demand and Supply Model) | p. 521 |
| Registered Nurses Supply and Demand Models (NSM & NDM) | p. 527 |
| MediSim (Static Microsimulation Model of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) | p. 533 |
| Spatial Microsimulation | |
| SVERIGE | p. 543 |
| NSW Hospitals Model | p. 551 |
| Customer Service Projection Model (CuSP): A Regional Microsimulation Model of Centrelink Customers | p. 557 |
| SpatialMSM - NATSEM's Small Area Household Model for Australia | p. 563 |
| Index | p. 567 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |