TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 31, Issue 4 (October 2006)

Special Issue on Health
Editors: Christophe Courbage and Joan Costa-Font

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Editorial

On Health, Ageing and Insurance

Christophe Courbage and Joan Costa-Font

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 551-556; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510106

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Original Articles

Population Ageing and the Sustainability of the Spanish National Health System: Some Financial Policy Alternatives

Gemma Abio Roig

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 557-580; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510104

"Steeping" of Health Expenditure Profiles

Florian Buchner and Jürgen Wasem

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 581-599; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510100

Behavioral Analysis of the Choice of Community-Based Formal Home Care, Informal Home Care and Nursing Home Care in Japan

Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen, Tadashi Yamada, Marianne Fahs and Tetsuo Fukawa

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 600-632; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510101

The Interaction of Public and Private Health Insurance: Ireland as a Case Study

Brian Nolan

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 633-649; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510105

Are Private Health Insurance Subscribers Unsatisfied with the Spanish National Health System?

Joan Costa-Font and Mireia Jofre-Bonet

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 650-668; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510102

Insurance Coverage and the Heterogeneity of Health and Drug Spending in the United States

Marin Gemmill, Joan Costa-Font and Panos Kanavos

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 669-691; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510098

Risk-Adjustment in Long-Term Health Insurance Contracts in Germany

Johann Eekhoff, Markus Jankowski and Anne Zimmermann

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 692-704; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510097

Lifetime Subsidies in Australian Private Health Insurance Markets with Community Rating

Luke B Connelly and H Shelton Brown III

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 705-719; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510099

Evaluating Health Insurance: A Review of the Theoretical Foundations

John A Nyman

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 720-738; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510103

Do Micro Health Insurance Units Need Capital or Reinsurance? A Simulated Exercise to Examine Different Alternatives

David M Dror and John Armstrong

Geneva Pap R I-Iss P 31: 739-761; doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510107