Prof Jeffrey Richardson - Researcher Profile

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Centre for Health Economics
Building 75, Clayton

Biography

A question of quality

Professor Jeff Richardson develops ways to quantify the kind of layered, nuanced issues that can give rise to hours of philosophical discussion. Is freedom of choice always beneficial? If we can’t give services such as medical treatments to all, who should get them? What improves quality of life, makes us happy? And what in fact constitutes a good quality of life? 

 

Economics is ideally the “social science that looks at how we use limited resources to maximise human wellbeing” says Jeff, the Foundation Director of the Centre for Health Economics and a Senior Principal Research Fellow for the National Health and Medical Research Council. 

To this end, the way economists evaluate health programs is an enduring interest. 

“There’s a very important ethics component here,” Jeff says. “How do we decide who gets the benefits? How do we distribute them? We’re talking about social values.”

For the past 15 years, he has been developing a series of finely tuned questionnaires designed to measure quality of life and what is known as a QALY - a quality-adjusted life year. A QALY indicates the number and the quality of years of life that a person might gain as a result of medical treatment, and is used in making decisions about such things as which drugs should be included in pharmaceutical benefits schemes. 

Jeff is critical of the methods sometimes used to make such assessments.

“There is a need to evaluate the products that go into Medicare,” he says. “We’ve got to look at the costs, that’s just common sense, and we’ve got to look at the benefits. How we bring those together has caused a lot of problems.” 

Such concerns are behind a major new project, the “multi-instrument comparison”.  About six instruments or questionnaires, including the one Jeff has developed, are used throughout the world for measuring quality of life. 

 “They are supposed to be measuring the same thing, but they don’t,” he says. “Economists don’t seem to worry about that. We do.”

His project will use the six instruments, a happiness scale and clinical scales developed by doctors, to evaluate major disease areas in six different countries.   

“We expect the results won’t compare very well. We hope ours is the best but it may not be for every disease – so what we are doing in part is a test of that.”

The project will involve developing statistical methods for comparing the instruments, and advising governments which work best for different diseases.  

Other current projects include one that will test views about how age affects the need for priority in health treatments. Do people think the very old and the very young have the same right to care as those in their middle years?

Attitudes on a range of other things will be tested in a “conflict scale” project, which will challenge assumptions in economics such as the idea that everyone maximises their own happiness and that freedom of choice is always desirable. 

“Economists just take it as an axiom that choice has got to be better but it’s not at all clear that people like choice,” Jeff says. “It’s very stressful; you can make wrong decisions.”

Such projects go to the heart of his chief interest: improving the scientific methods used in his field and investigating social welfare in the process.

“I wanted a branch of economics that was directly to do with human wellbeing,” he says. “And a lot of economics is rather removed from that.”

 

Qualifications

ECONOMICS
Institution: Macquarie University
Year awarded: 1978

Publications

Books

Watts, J., Richardson, J., Segal, L., 2000, Comparing National Public Hospital Cost Data Collections for use in Performance Reporting - Working Paper 118, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 2000, Empirical Ethics Versus Analytical Orthodoxy: Two Contrasting Bases for the Reallocation of Resources Working Paper 111, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Hawthorne, G., Richardson, J., Day, N., McNeil, H., 2000, Life and Death: Theoretical and practical Issues in Utility Instruments - Working Paper 102, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 2000, Linking Health Outcomes to Funding: Working Paper 106, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Hawthorne, G., 2000, Negative Utilities and the Evaluation of Complex Health States: Issues Arising From the Scaling of a Multiattribute Utility Instrument - Working Paper 113, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 2000, The Economic Framework for Health Service Evaluation and the Role for Discretion - Working Paper 105, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Mckie, J., 2000, The Rule of Rescue - Working Paper 112, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Robertson, I.K., Richardson, J., Hobbs, M., 1999, Technical Report 10 The Impact of New Technology on the Treatment and Cost of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Australia, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Segal, L., Watts, J., Carter, R.A., Mortimer, D., Peacock, S., Robertson, I.K., 1999, Working Paper 100 The Reform of Public Hospital Funding in Australia Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Public Hospital Funding, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 1999, Working Paper 80 The Role of Willingness-to-Pay in Resourse Allocation in a National Health Scheme, Centre fo Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Peacock, S., 1999, Working Paper 81 Supplier Induced Demand Reconsidered, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Robertson, I.K., 1999, Working Paper 90 Ageing and the Cost of health Services, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 1999, Working Paper 93 Rationalism, Theoretical Orthodoxy and Their Legacy in Cost Utility Analysis, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Olsen, J.A., Hawthorne, G., Mortimer, D., Smith, R.S., 1999, Working Paper 96 The Measurement and Valuation of Utility Based Quality of Life Recommendations from a Review of the Literature, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Olsen, J.A., Hawthorne, G., Mortimer, D., Smith, R.S., 1999, Working Paper 97 The Measurement and Valuation of Quality of Life in Economic Evaluation An Introduction and Overview of Issues and Options, Centre for Health Program Evalaution, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Olsen, J.A., Richardson, J., 1999, Working Paper 99 Production Gains from Health Care: What Should be Included in Cost-effectiveness Analyses?, Centre for Health Progran Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Olsen, J.A., Richardson, J., Mortimer, D., 1998, Priority setting in the Public Health Service: results of an Australian survey, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Mckie, J., Richardson, J., Singer, P., Kuhse, H., 1998, The Allocation of Health Care Resources. An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach, Galliard (Printers) Ltd, Great Yarmouth UK.

Mckie, J., Richardson, J., Singer, P.D., Kuhse, H., 1998, The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach, Ashgate Publishing Limited/Dartmouth Publishing, Aldershot.

Robertson, I.K., Richardson, J., Hobbs, M., 1998, The Impact of New Technology on the Treatment and Cost of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Australia, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Segal, L., Richardson, J., 1997, Disease based allocative efficiency framework: implementation Volume 1: Summary Volume 2: Full Report, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Catford, J., White, L.A., Richardson, J., Annear, P., Remenyi, J., 1997, Health Insurance for developing countries, Deakin University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 1997, How much should we spend on health services, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 1997, Long term care insurance, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Peacock, S., Richardson, J., Carter, R.A., 1997, Setting priorities in South Australia Community Health 2 : marginal analysis of mental health services, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Hawthorne, G., Richardson, J., Osborne, R., McNeil, H., 1997, The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) Instrument - Construction, Initial Validation & Utility Scaling, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Hawthorne, G., Richardson, J., Osborne, R., McNeil, H., 1997, The Australian Quality of Life (AQoL) Instrument: initial validation, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Segal, L., Dalton, A., Richardson, J., 1997, The cost-effectiveness of primary prevention for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Brown, L., Harris, A.H., Picton, M.R., Thurecht, L., Yap, M., Harding, A., Dixon, P.B., Richardson, J.R.J., 2009, Linking microsimulation and macro-economic models to estimate the economic impact of chronic disease prevention, in New Frontiers in Microsimulation Modelling, eds Asghar Zaidi, Ann Harding and Paul Williamson, Ashgate, United Kingdom, pp. 527-554.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2009, The use and misuse of economic theory in the reform of medicare, in Flinders Essays in Economics and Economic History: A Tribute to Keith Jackson Hancock, Metodey Polasek and Robert Henry Wallace, eds Ralph Shlomowitz, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA Australia, pp. 205-231.

Richardson, J.R.J., Mckie, J.R., 2007, Economics, political philosophy and ethics: The role of public preferences in health care decision-making, in Principles of health care ethics, eds Richard E. Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John R. McMillan, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester UK, pp. 569-576.

Richardson, J.R.J., Walsh, J., Pegram, R.W., 2005, Financing general practice, health services and expenditures, in General practice in Australia: 2004, eds J. Daniel, M. Harris, J. Humphreys, L. Kalucy, P. MacIsaac, K. Mott, R. Pegram and R. Saunders, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 33-93.

Richardson, J.R.J., O'Loughlin, M.A., Scotton, R., 2003, Health policy, in Hard Heads, Soft Hearts, eds Peter Dawkins, Paul Kelly, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia, pp. 135-145.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2002, Age weighting and time discounting: Technical imperative versus social choice, in Summary measures of population health: Concepts, ethics, measurement and applications, eds Christopher J.L. Murray, Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers and Alan D. Lopez, World Health Orgaznization, Switzerland, pp. 663-676.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2002, Evaluating summary measures of population health, in Summary measures of population health: Concepts, ethics, measurement and applications, eds Christopher J.L. Murray, Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers and Alan D. Lopez, World Health Organization, Switzerland, pp. 147-159.

Richardson, J.R.J., Robertson, I.K., Hobbs, M., Edwards, D., 2002, The impact of new technology on the treatment and outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in Australia: Incentives for technological change and their consequences for treatment decision-making, in Technological Change in Healthcare: A Global Analysis of Heart Attack, eds Mark B. McClellan and Daniel P. Kessler, The University of Michigan Press, Michigan USA, pp. 121-155.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2002, The poverty of ethical analyses in economics and the unwarranted disregard of evidence, in Summary measures of population health: Concepts, ethics, measurement and applications, eds Christopher J.L. Murray, Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers and Alan D. Lopez, World Health Organization, Switzerland, pp. 627-640.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2001, A GODS analysis of Medicare: Goals, Obstacles, Deficiencies, Solutions: or, in what form should we adopt managed care?, in Daring to Dream: The Future of Australian Health Care, eds Gavin Mooney and Aileen Plant, Black Swan Press, WA Australia, pp. 159-168.

Richardson, J., 1999, The health care financing debate, in Economics and Australian Health Policy, Allen & Unwin, NSW Australia, pp. 192-213.

Richardson, J., 1998, How much should we spend on Health Services?, in The Tasks of Medicine, Maclennan & Petty, Australia, pp. 250-276.

Richardson, J., Crowley, S., 1997, Taxation to minimise the social and economic costs of alcohol consumption, in Taxation Toward 2000, Australian Tax Research Foundation, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 167-198.

Journal Articles

Richardson, J.R.J., Peacock, S.J., Hawthorne, G., Iezzi, A.A., Elsworth, G., Day, N., 2012, Construction of the descriptive system for the assessment of quality of life AQoL-6D utility instrument, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes [P], vol 10, issue 1, BioMed Central Ltd, London UK, pp. 1-9.

Richardson, J.R.J., Sinha, K., Iezzi, A.A., Maxwell, A., 2012, Maximising health versus sharing: Measuring preferences for the allocation of the health budget, Social Science and Medicine [P], vol 75, issue 8, Pergamon, Kidlington UK, pp. 1351-1361.

Khan, M.A., Richardson, J.R.J., O'Brien, P.E., 2012, The effect of obesity upon Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL): A comparison of the AQoL-8D and SF-36 instruments, Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways [P], vol 13, issue 2, Seed Medical Publishers, Torino Italy, pp. 69-82.

Richardson, J.R.J., Iezzi, A.A., Peacock, S.J., Sinha, K., Khan, M.A., Misajon, R., Keeffe, J., 2012, Utility weights for the vision-related assessment of quality of life (AQoL)-7D instrument, Ophthalmic Epidemiology [P], vol 19, issue 3, Informa Healthcare, London UK, pp. 172-182.

Spinks, J., Richardson, J., 2011, Paying the right price for pharmaceuticals: A case study of why the comparator matters, Australian Health Review [P], vol 35, issue 3, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood Vic Australia, pp. 267-272.

Richardson, J.R.J., Mckie, J.R., Peacock, S.J., Iezzi, A.A., 2011, Severity as an independent determinant of the social value of a health service, European Journal of Health Economics [P], vol 12, issue 2, Springer, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 163-174.

Mckie, J., Richardson, J., 2011, Social preferences for the inclusion of indirect benefits in the evaluation of publicly funded health services: Results from an Australian survey, Health Economics, Policy and Law [P], vol 6, issue 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 449-468.

Mckie, J., Shrimpton, B., Richardson, J., Hurworth, R., 2011, The monetary value of a life year: Evidence from a qualitative study of treatment costs, Health Economics [P], vol 20, issue 8, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 945-957.

Anderson, M., Richardson, J., Mckie, J., Iezzi, A., Khan, M., 2011, The relevance of personal characteristics in health care rationing: What the Australian public thinks and why, American Journal Of Economics And Sociology [P], vol 70, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, United States, pp. 131-151.

Keating, C., Moodie, M., Richardson, J., Swinburn, B., 2011, Utility-based quality of life of overweight and obese adolescents, Value In Health [P], vol 14, issue 5, Elsevier Inc, New York, pp. 752-758.

Richardson, J., 2010, Is there a better alternative for Australia's health system?, Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy [P], vol 29, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 267-278.

Moodie, M., Richardson, J., Rankin, B., Iezzi, A., Sinha, K., 2010, Predicting time trade-off health state valuations of adolescents in four Pacific countries using the Assessment of Quality-of-Life (AQoL-6D) instrument, Value In Health [P], vol 13, issue 8, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, USA, pp. 1014-1027.

Richardson, J.R.J., Mckie, J.R., Sinha, K., 2010, The need for a new framework for the economic evaluation of health services in a national health scheme, Health [P], vol 2, issue 9, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 1120-1133.

Hollingsworth, B.P., Richardson, J.R.J., 2009, A conceptual model of the economic impact of international movements in the health labour force, Applied Economics Letters [P], vol 16, issue 6, Routledge, UK, pp. 609-613.

Richardson, J.R.J., Peacock, S.J., Iezzi, A.A., 2009, Do quality-adjusted life years take account of lost income? Evidence from an Australian survey, European Journal of Health Economics [P], vol 10, issue 1, Springer, Germany, pp. 103-109.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2009, Is the incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation really so simple? A comment on Cookson, Drummond and Weatherly, Health Economics, Policy and Law [P], vol 4, issue 2, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 247-254.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2009, Steering without navigation equipment: The lamentable state of Australian health policy reform, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy [P], vol 6, issue 27, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-17.

Mckie, J.R., Shrimpton, B., Richardson, J.R.J., Hurworth, R.E., 2009, Treatment costs and priority setting in health care: A qualitative study, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy [P], vol 6, issue 1, BioMed Central Ltd, London UK, pp. 1-11.

Shrimpton, B., Mckie, J.R., Hurworth, R.E., Bell, C., Richardson, J.R.J., 2008, Health care decision-making: A focus group study involving health professionals and the general public, Qualitative Research Journal, vol 8, issue 2, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 43-58.

Richardson, J.R.J., Mckie, J.R., 2008, Increasing the options for reducing adverse events: Results from a modified Delphi technique, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, vol 5, issue 25, BioMed Central Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-15.

Peacock, S.J., Misajon, R., Iezzi, A.A., Richardson, J.R.J., Hawthorne, G., Keeffe, J., 2008, Vision and quality of life: Development of methods for the VisQoL vision-related utility instrument, Ophthalmic Epidemiology, vol 15, issue 4, Informa Healthcare, UK, pp. 218-223.

Mckie, J.R., Shrimpton, B., Hurworth, R.E., Bell, C., Richardson, J.R.J., 2008, Who should be involved in health care decision making? A qualitative study, Health Care Analysis: An International Journal of Health Care, vol 16, issue 2, Springer New York LLC, United States, pp. 114-126.

Richardson, J.R.J., Mckie, J.R., 2007, Economic evaluation of services for a National Health Scheme: The case for a fairness-based framework, Journal of Health Economics, vol 26, issue 4, Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 785-799.

Peacock, S.J., Richardson, J.R.J., Carter, R., Edwards, D., 2007, Priority setting in health care using multi-attribute utility theory and programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA), Social Science and Medicine, vol 64, issue 4, Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 897-910.

Watson, W.L., Ozanne-Smith, J., Richardson, J.R.J., 2007, Retrospective baseline measurement of self-reported health status and health-related quality of life versus population norms in the evaluation of post-injury losses, Injury Prevention, vol 13, issue 1, BMJ Publishing Group, UK, pp. 45-50.

Peacock, S.J., Richardson, J.R.J., 2007, Supplier-induced demand: Re-examining identification and misspecification in cross-sectional analysis, European Journal of Health Economics, vol 8, issue 3, Springer, Germany, pp. 267-277.

Moodie, R., Swinburn, B.A., Richardson, J.R.J., Somaini, B., 2006, Childhood obesity - a sign of commercial success, but a market failure, International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, vol 1, issue 3, Taylor & Francis Ltd, UK, pp. 133-138.

Donato, R., Richardson, J.R.J., 2006, Diagnosis-based risk adjustment and Australian health system policy., Australian Health Review, vol 30, issue 1, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty Ltd, Strawberry Hills NSW Australia, pp. 83-99.

Richardson, J.R.J., Peacock, S.J., Mortimer, D.S., 2006, Does an increase in the doctor supply reduce medical fees? An econometric analysis of medical fees across Australia, Applied Economics, vol 38, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 253-266.

Richardson, J.R.J., Olsen, J.A., 2006, In defence of societal sovereignty: a comment on Nyman 'the inclusion of survivor consumption in CUA', Health Economics, vol 15, issue 3, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, pp. 311-313.

Nord, E.J., Menzel, P., Richardson, J.R.J., 2006, Multi-method approach to valuing health states: problems with meaning, Health Economics, vol 15, issue 2, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, pp. 215-218.

Richardson, J.R.J., Peacock, S.J., 2006, Supplier-induced demand: reconsidering the theories and new Australian evidence, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, vol 5, issue 2, Adis International Ltd, New Zealand, pp. 87-98.

Watson, W.L., Ozanne-Smith, J., Richardson, J.R.J., 2005, An evaluation of the assessment of quality of life utility instrument as a measure of the impact of injury on health-related quality of life., International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, vol 12, issue 4, Taylor & Francis, The Netherlands, pp. 227-239.

Smith, R.D., Richardson, J.R.J., 2005, Can we estimate the 'social' value of a QALY? four core issues to resolve, Health Policy, vol 74, issue 1, Elsevier Ireland Ltd, Ireland, pp. 77-84.

Richardson, J.R.J., 2005, Priorities of health policy: cost shifting or population health, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, vol 2, issue 1, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-19.

Misajon, R., Hawthorne, G., Richardson, J.R.J., Barton, J., Peacock, S.J., Iezzi, A.A., Keeffe, J., 2005, Vision and quality of life: the development of a utility measure, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), vol 46, issue 11, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, USA, pp. 4007-4015.

Richardson, J.R.J., Smith, R.D., 2004, Calculating society's willingness to pay for a QALY: Key questions for discussion, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, vol 3, issue 3, Adis International Ltd., New Zealand, pp. 125-126.

Richardson, J.R.J., Mckie, J., 2004, Empiricism, ethics and orthodox economic theory: what is the appropriate basis for decision-making in the health sector?, Social Science & Medicine, vol 60, issue 2, Pergamon, UK, pp. 265-275.

Richardson, J.R.J., Day, N.A., Peacock, S.J., Iezzi, A.A., 2004, Measurement of the quality of life for economic evaluation and the assessment of quality of life (AQoL) Mark 2 instrument, The Australian Economic Review, vol 37, issue 1, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 62-88.

Richardson, J.R.J., Segal, L., 2004, Private health insurance and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: how effective has recent government policy been?, Australian Health Review, vol 28, issue 1, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 34-47.

Richardson, J.R.J., Wildman, J., Robertson, I.K., 2003, A critique of the World Health Organisation's evaluation of health system performance, Health Economics, vol 12, issue 5, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester UK, pp. 355-366.

Dolan, P., Olsen, J.A., Menzel, P., Richardson, J.R.J., 2003, An inquiry into the different perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health, Health Economics, vol 12, issue 7, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, pp. 545-551.

Olsen, J.A., Richardson, J.R.J., Dolan, P., Menzel, P., 2003, The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities, Social Science & Medicine, vol 57, issue 7, Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 1163-1172.

Mckie, J., Richardson, J.R.J., 2003, The rule of rescue, Social Science & Medicine, vol 56, issue 12, Pergamon, UK, pp. 2407-2419.

Mckie, J.R., Richardson, J.R.J., 2003, The rule of rescue, Social Science & Medicine, vol 56, issue 12, Pergamon, UK, pp. 2407-2419.

Ubel, P., Richardson, J.R.J., Baron, J., 2002, Exploring the role of order effects in person trade-off elicitations, Health Policy, vol 61, issue 2, Elsevier, Ireland, pp. 189-199.

Segal, L., Donato, R., Richardson, J.R.J., Peacock, S.J., 2002, Strengths and limitations of competitive versus non-competitive models of integrated capitated fundholding, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, vol 7, issue 1, Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, UK, pp. 56-64.

Menzel, P., Dolan, P., Richardson, J.R.J., Olsen, J.A., 2002, The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation: a preliminary normative analsis, Social Science and Medicine, vol 55, Pergamon, Oxford UK, pp. 2149-2158.

Hawthorne, G., Richardson, J., Day, N., 2001, A comparison of the assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) with four other generic utility instruments, Annals of Medicine, vol 33, Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, UK, pp. 358-370.

Hawthorne, G., Richardson, J., 2001, Measuring the value of program outcomes:a review of multi-attribute utility measures, Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomic and Outcomes Research, vol 1, issue 2, Future Drugs, London UK, pp. 215-228.

Richardson, J., 2001, Supply and demand for Medical Care: Or Is the Health Care Market Perverse? Policy Forum: The Economics of Health and Health Policy, The Australian Economic Review, vol 34, issue 3, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom/ Australia, pp. 336-352.

Robertson, I.K., Richardson, J., 2000, Coronary angiography and coronary artery revascularisation rates in public and private hospital patients after acute myocardial infarction, Medical Journal of Australia, vol 173 number 6, Australasian Medical Publishing Co Pty Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 291-295.

Ubel, P., Nord, E., Gold, M.R., Menzel, P., Pinto-Prades, J., Richardson, J., 2000, Improving Value Measurement in Cost - Effectiveness Analysis, Medical Care, vol 38 number 9, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia USA, pp. 892-901.

Ubel, P., Richardson, J., Menzel, P., 2000, Societal value, the person trade-off, and the dilemma of whose values to measure for cost-effectiveness analysis, Health Economics, vol issue 9, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester England, pp. 127-136.

Nord, E., Pinto-Prades, J., Richardson, J., Menzel, P., Ubel, P., 1999, Incorporating societal concerns for fairness in numerical valuations of health programmes, Health Economics, vol 8, John Wiley & Sons Lts, Chichester England, pp. 25-39.

Olsen, J.A., Richardson, J., 1999, Production gains from health care: what should be included in cost-effectiveness analyses?, Social Science & Medicine, vol 49, Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Ocford England, pp. 17-26.

Hawthorne, G., Richardson, J., Osborne, R., 1999, The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument: a psychometric measure of Health Related Quality of Life, Quality of Life Research, vol 8, Kluwer Academic Publishers, netherlands, pp. 209-224.

Richardson, J., Segal, L., 1999, The cost of good health, Journal of Law and Medicine, vol 7, no 2, Law Book Company, Balmain NSW Australia, pp. 117-129.

Menzel, P., Gold, M.R., Nord, E., Pinto-Prades, J., Richardson, J., Ubel, P., 1999, Toward a broader view of values in cost-effectiveness analysis of health, HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, vol 29, no 3, Hastings Center, USA, pp. 7-15.

Segal, L., Dalton, A., Richardson, J., 1998, Cost-effectiveness of the primary prevention of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, Health Promotion International, vol 13, no 3, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 197-209.

Richardson, J., 1998, Economic evaluation of health promotion: friend or foe?, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol 13, no 2, Public Health Association of Australia, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 141-150.

Richardson, J., 1998, Funding and future options for the reform of Medicare, Healthcover, vol 8, no 5, Healthdata Services, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 24-28.

Richardson, J., Nord, E.J., 1997, The importance of perspective in the measurement of quality-adjusted life years, Medical Decision Making, vol 17, Hanley and Belfus inc, Philadelphia, pp. 33-41.

Conference Proceedings

Richardson, J., Robertson, I.K., 1999, Ageing and the cost of health services, Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population Conference Proceedings, March, 99 Melbourne, Productivity Commission, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 329-355.

Richardson, J., Hawthorne, G., 1999, Difficulty with life and death: methodological issues and results from the utility scaling of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) Instrument, Economics and Health: 1998, Sydney July 1998, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 121-138.

Richardson, J., 1999, Supplier induced demand reconsidered, Economics and Health: 1998, Sydney July 1998, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 143-166.

Richardson, J., 1998, Funding and future options for the reform of medicare, Proceedings: Health Financing Workshop, June 2,3 1998, Canberra, Dept of Health and Family Services, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 73-80.

Richardson, J., 1998, Health outcomes:Does the willingness to pay indicate how much we should pay?, Proceedings of the International Health Outcomes Conference: Implementing the Health Outcomes Approach, Canberra, 7-8August 98, University of Wollongong, NSW Australia.

Richardson, J., Hawthorne, G., 1998, The Australian Quality of Life (AQOL) instrument: psychometric properties of the descriptive system and initial validation, Economics and Health: 1997, Melbourne, July 1997, University of NSW, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 343-346.

Richardson, J., 1997, The Unique Problems of the Health Sector, Options for Health Sector Reform, April 16, 1997, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 9-13.

Other

Richardson, J.R.J., Boyages, S., Carmichael, A., Lowe, D., Lyneham, J., 2004, The Tasmanian Hospital system: Reforms for the 21st century - report of the expert advisory group review into key issues for public and private hospital services in Tasmania, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/agency/publications/documents/2004-06-Richardson-Report-v2.pdf, pp. 1-107.

Peacock, S.J., Mortimer, D.S., Harris, A.H., Carter, R., Richardson, J.R.J., 2001, An economic analysis of proposed changes to the conformity assessment of medical devices, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, West Heidelberg Vic Australia, pp. 1-195.

Peacock, S., Mortimer, D., Harris, A., Carter, R.A., Richardson, J., 2000, An Economics Analysis of Proposed Changes to the Conformity Assessment of Medical Devices - Working Paper 107, CHPE Working Paper Series, First Edition, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., 1997, South Australian Area Health Priorities: critique of the methods used, Report for the South Australian Health Commission.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Modelling allocative efficiency in health services planning in China.
Supervisors:
Zhao, X (Main), Richardson, J (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Bakker, M.
Program of Study:
A case study of whole school professional development in learning technology. 2001.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).
Student:
Carter, R.
Program of Study:
THE MACRO ECONOMIC EVALUATION MODEL (MEEM): AN APPROACH TO PRIORITY SETTING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).
Student:
Dalton, A.
Program of Study:
AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE PRIMARY PREVENTION OF NON-INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS. (Masters) 1999.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).
Student:
Daws, J.
Program of Study:
ROLES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR SCHOOL COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY. 2000.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).
Student:
Donato, R.
Program of Study:
Beyond the economics of health care: health system reform, health care markets, and the Australian health system - an inter-disciplinary conceptual and empirical analysis. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).
Student:
Dunlop, W.
Program of Study:
DISCOUNTING HEALTH. (Masters) 2004.
Supervisors:
Ng, Y (Main), Ng, Y (Main), Richardson, J (Associate).
Student:
Gow, J.
Program of Study:
An economic analysis of existing and alternative kidney transplantation policies in Australia. (PHD) 2006.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).
Student:
Otim, M.
Program of Study:
Economics of tobacco control and an assessment of the regulated market model. (Masters) 2003.
Supervisors:
Carter, R (Joint), Richardson, J (Joint-Co).
Student:
Segal, L.
Program of Study:
Allocative efficiency: development of a framework for priority setting in haelth and case study application. (PHD) 2000.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).
Student:
Watson, W.
Program of Study:
Of life and limb: measuring the burden of non-fatal injury. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:
Ozanne-Smith, J (Main), Richardson, J (Joint).
Student:
Zhang, W.
Program of Study:
Robotics programming for children: explorations with a six year old. 2005.
Supervisors:
Richardson, J (Main).