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PhD Economics University of British Columbia
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According to Wikipedia, Robert G. Evans, OC, FRSC is a Canadian economist. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He was the recipient of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2001 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004.

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Producing health, consuming health care. (1990) (950)
Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations (1995) (899)
Supplier-Induced Demand: Some Empirical Evidence and Implications (1974) (599)
Strained mercy : the economics of Canadian health care (1985) (296)
How does direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) affect prescribing? A survey in primary care environments with and without legal DTCA. (2003) (286)
Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia. (2000) (250)
Influence of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey (2002) (244)
Controlling health expenditures--the Canadian reality. (1989) (228)
APOCALYPSE NO: Population Aging and The Future of Health Care Systems (2001) (163)
Going for the gold: the redistributive agenda behind market-based health care reform. (1997) (145)
Consuming research, producing policy? (2003) (139)
Aging and health care utilization: new evidence on old fallacies. (1987) (135)
Avalanche or Glacier?: Health Care and the Demographic Rhetoric (1995) (134)
“Breakthrough” drugs and growth in expenditure on prescription drugs in Canada (2005) (113)
Fee controls as cost control: tales from the frozen North. (1988) (112)
Producing Health, Consuming Health Care (1990) (106)
"Behavioural" Cost Functions for Hospitals (1971) (105)
Conspicuous consumption: characterizing high users of physician services in one Canadian province (2003) (103)
Information Theory and the Analysis of Hospital Cost Structure (1972) (76)
Finding the levers, finding the courage: lessons from cost containment in North America. (1986) (68)
Tension, compression, and shear: directions, stresses, and outcomes of health care cost control. (1990) (65)
Illusions of necessity: evading responsibility for choice in health care. (1985) (57)
Hospital downsizing and trends in health care use among elderly people in British Columbia. (2000) (55)
The Dog in the Night-time: Medical Practice Variations and Health Policy (1990) (53)
The Economics of Health and Medical Care (1975) (45)
Do Canadian civil servants care about the health of populations? (2003) (45)
Health care in Canada: patterns of funding and regulation. (1983) (44)
User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back (Or, What's Health Got to Do With It?) (1995) (43)
Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police (2012) (42)
Controlling health care costs by direct charges to patients, snare or delusion? (1979) (41)
Mortality rates after cataract extraction. (1999) (40)
What is right about the Canadian health care system? (1999) (40)
Financing Health Care: Taxation and the Alternatives (2000) (39)
Medical Productivity, Scale Effects, and Demand Generation (1973) (39)
Phantoms in the snow: Canadians' use of health care services in the United States. (2002) (38)
The 20-year experiment: accounting for, explaining, and evaluating health care cost containment in Canada and the United States. (1991) (37)
Variables related to continuance in a behavioral weight loss program. (1984) (37)
Public health insurance: the collective purchase of individual care. (1987) (34)
Thomas McKeown, Meet Fidel Castro: Physicians, Population Health and the Cuban Paradox. (2008) (34)
The long good-bye: the great transformation of the British Columbia hospital system. (1989) (33)
Flat on your back or back to your flat? Sources of increased hospital services utilization among the elderly in British Columbia. (1990) (32)
Health care reform: who's selling the market, and why? (1997) (28)
Private Highway, One-Way Street: the Deklein and Fall of Canadian Medicare (1999) (27)
User Charges, Snares and Delusions: Another Look at the Literature (1993) (27)
Socioeconomic status, mortality, and the development of cataract at a young age. (1998) (26)
Health Care as a Threat to Health: Defence, Opulence, and the Social Environment (1994) (26)
Fellow travelers on a contested path: power, purpose, and the evolution of European health care systems. (2005) (25)
Perspective: Interpreting Canada: Models, Mind-Sets, And Myths (1992) (25)
Hang Together, or Hang Separately: The Viability of a Universal Health Care System in an Aging Society (1987) (24)
Who are the zombie masters, and what do they want? (1993) (24)
Richard III, Barer-Stoddart and the Daughter of Time. (2008) (24)
Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health (2017) (22)
Trends in use of medical services by the elderly in British Columbia. (1989) (22)
Revitalizing Medicare: Shared Problems, Public Solutions (2001) (22)
Tobacco taxes and health care costs. Do Canadian smokers pay their way? (1986) (21)
Does Canada have too many doctors? - Why nobody loves an immigrant physician (1976) (21)
Beneath the calm surface: the changing face of physician-service use in British Columbia, 1985/86 versus 1996/97 (2004) (20)
New bottles, same old wine: right and wrong on physician supply. (1998) (20)
Efficacy of a minimal contact version of a multimodal smoking cessation program. (1989) (20)
Canada: the real issues. (1992) (19)
Diagnosing senescence: contributions to physician expenditure increases in british columbia, 1996/97 to 2005/06. (2011) (18)
Dismal science. (2009) (17)
Interpreting Canada: models, mind-sets, and myths. (1992) (17)
Strangulation or Rationalization? Costs and Access in Canadian Hospitals (2003) (17)
Acute care hospital utilization under Canadian national health insurance: the British Columbia experience from 1969 to 1988. (1990) (16)
Raising the Money: Options, Consequences, and Objectives for Financing Health Care in Canada (2002) (16)
"We'll take care of it for you". Health care in the Canadian community. (1988) (15)
Extending Canadian Health Insurance: Options for Pharmacare and Denticare (1978) (15)
Physician-Manpower Planning: Lessons from the Macdonald Report (1987) (15)
Incomplete Vertical Integration in the Health Care Industry: Pseudomarkets and Pseudopolicies (1983) (15)
Waste, economists and American healthcare. (2013) (14)
The remarkable tenacity of user charges : a concise history of the participation, positions, and rationales of Canadian interest groups in the debate over "direct patient participation" in health care financing (1993) (14)
The Eyes have it: Cataract Surgery and Changing Patterns of Outpatient Surgery (1997) (14)
Economic Myths and Political Realities The Inequality Agenda and the Sustainability of Medicare (2007) (13)
It's Not the Money, It's the Principle: Why User Charges for Some Services and Not Others? (1993) (13)
Medicare at maturity : achievements, lessons & Challenges (1988) (12)
Improving Health Outcomes in Canada (2008) (12)
False hope for Canadians who study medicine abroad (2014) (11)
The impact of deficit reduction on the nursing labour market in Canada (2005) (11)
Reconciling Fee-for-Service with Global Expenditure Control (1988) (11)
Charging Peter tp Pay Paul: Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges (1993) (11)
Two wings and a prayer: should Canada make it easier for Canadian doctors trained abroad to enter practice here? (2014) (10)
The quick and the dead: "managing" inpatient care in British Columbia hospitals, 1969-1995/96. (2001) (10)
There's No Reason for It, It's Just Our Policy. (2009) (9)
The Canadian Health-Care Finaning and Delivery System: Its Experience and Lessons for Other Nations (1992) (9)
5. Financing Health Care: Options, Consequences, and Objectives (2004) (9)
Will paying the piper change the tune? (2011) (9)
The Sorcerer's Apprentices. (2011) (9)
Preserving Privilege, Promoting Profit: The Payoffs from Private Health Insurance (2005) (9)
Why Not Uder Charges? The Real Issues (1993) (9)
From world war to class war: the rebound of the rich. (2006) (9)
Old bones, new data: emmett Hall, private insurance and the defeat of pharmacare. (2009) (8)
HUMAN RESOURCES PRODUCTIVITY : WHAT IT IS , HOW IT ’ S MEASURED , WHY ( HOW YOU MEASURE ) IT MATTERS , AND WHO ’ S THINKING ABOUT IT (2010) (8)
The meeting of the Twain : managing health care capital, capacity and costs in Canada (1991) (8)
High reliability versus high autonomy: Dryden, Murphy and patient safety. (2006) (8)
Financing and Delivering Health Care in Canada (1998) (7)
Getting to the roots : health care financing and the inegalitarian agenda in Canada (2002) (7)
Economic barriers to preventive services: clinical obstacle or fiscal defense? (1988) (7)
The frozen North: controlling physician costs through controlling fees: the Canadian experience (1985) (7)
"It doesn't have to be this way". (2013) (7)
It ain't necessarily so: the cost implications of health care reform. (1994) (7)
Life and Death, Money and Power: The Politics of Health Care Finance (1989) (7)
The Canadian health care system : where are we, how did we get here? (1991) (6)
Fat zombies, pleistocene tastes, autophilia and the "obesity epidemic". (2006) (6)
Lawyers and the consumer interest : regulating the market for legal services (1984) (6)
Health for all of Wealth for Some? Conflicting Goals in Health Reform (1998) (6)
Mr. Harrington, self-rated health and the canadian chicken. (2007) (6)
Accessible, acceptable and affordable financing health care in Canada (1990) (6)
Pharaoh and the Prospects for Productivity in HHR. (2010) (5)
Separate and unequal: self-segregation in health insurance. (2008) (5)
Health Reform: What "Business" Is It of Business (1998) (5)
Coarse Correction—and Way Off Target (1997) (5)
A smoking and health fair: implementation and evaluation. (1987) (5)
Why some people are healthy and others are not (1989) (5)
The blind men, the elephant and the CT scanner. (2006) (5)
The impact on medical services utilization of British Columbia's 1982/83 physician fee 'giveback': preliminary results. (1987) (4)
Healthy Aging: Insights for Research and Policy (1997) (4)
Income-Based Drug Coverage in British Columbia: Lessons for BC and the Rest of Canada. (2006) (4)
Sharing The Burden: Containing the Cost: Fundamental Conflicts in Health Care Finance (1996) (4)
A Casualty in the Class War: Canada's Medicare. (2012) (4)
U.S. Influences on Canada: Can We Prevent the Spread of Kuru? (1992) (4)
Government sector equations for macroeconomic models (1972) (4)
Two Systems in Restaint: Contraccting Experiences with Cost Control in the 1990s (2000) (3)
If Not Genetics, Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health (2017) (3)
Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results (1999) (3)
Does Canada Have Too Many Doctors? A Reply (1977) (3)
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn". (2014) (3)
Tough on Crime? Pfizer and the CIHR. (2010) (3)
Health Services in Nova Scotia (1975) (3)
The Transformation of Australian Hospitals between the 1940s and the (2005) (3)
Perspectives: Canada. Split vision: interpreting cross-border differences in health spending. (1988) (2)
What Seems to be the problem? The International Movement to Restructure Health Care Systems (1992) (2)
A Professor 'Honorarius': An Australian Experiment in Medical Administration 1939-64 (2003) (2)
Allergy to laboratory animals in health care personnel. (1987) (2)
Reflections on the Financing of Hospital Capital : A Canadian Perspective (1990) (2)
The 16th Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences (2004) (2)
Baneful legacy: medicare and Mr. Trudeau: the Constitution created by the Trudeau government is now threatening Canada's medicare system. What can be done to defend it? (2005) (2)
Stumbling over iron rice bowls: the quest for integrated continuing care for the elderly. (2011) (2)
The TSX Gives a Short Course in Health Economics: It's the Prices, Stupid! (2010) (2)
Unhealthy markets: Financial crisis, fiscal crisis … health care crisis? (2009) (2)
“Rationing” Health Care: The Loaded Alternative (1987) (1)
A quest for identity, authority, and status: the development of paediatrics in Australia. (2008) (1)
Universal health insurance in Canada (2005) (1)
The iron chancellor and the fabian. (2009) (1)
Less is More"Contrasting Styles in Health Care (1994) (1)
The spurious dilemma: reconciling medical progress and cost control. (1986) (1)
Private sector initiatives in management of health care costs. (1986) (1)
A New Paradigm for Health Economics? We Already Have Three! (2012) (1)
Does health care support independence or threaten it : a population based, person specific analysis of patterns of use by seniors (1998) (1)
Principles of Economic Analysis of Health Care Technology (1996) (1)
Bending the Cost Curve in the Country of the Red Queen: B.C.'s Experience with Health Care Cost Control (2012) (1)
Migrants, Manpower and Math in the Coming Europe. (2015) (1)
Healthy, wealthy and cunning? Profit and loss from health care reform (1996) (1)
Anatomy of a Doctor Shortage (2007) (1)
Political arithmetick : physician productivity in concept and measurement : draft discussion paper (2008) (1)
Marking the Market, Regulating Regulators: Who Gains? Who Loses? What Hopes? What Scope? (1995) (1)
Private Health Insurance and the Rising Costs of American 'Exceptionalism' (2007) (1)
The doctor is out: physician participation in the Rationed Access Day work stoppage in British Columbia, 1998/99. (2002) (1)
Controlling health expenditures--the Canadian reality. (1989) (1)
Why Are Some Books Important (and Others Not)? (2010) (1)
Quarterly business capital expenditures (1970) (1)
The supply and demand of health care. (1978) (1)
Plastic brains. (2007) (1)
User fees would stop waste and ensure better use of the health care system. (2003) (1)
Financing and Delivering Health Care in Canada: Lots of Sound and Fury, but Little "Reform" (1998) (0)
WHO health chief urges fast action on cheap drugs (2000) (0)
Government Sector Equations for Macroeconomic Models.@@@The Dynamics of RDXI. (1971) (0)
Hancocked: manulife and the limits of private health insurance. (2011) (0)
The Health Economy (1987) (0)
The Canadian health care system : a King's Fund interrogatory (1989) (0)
Canadian Inventory Investment. Bank of Canada Staff Research Studies No. 2 (1970) (0)
A Concise History of the Participation, Positions, and Rationales of Canadian Interest Groups in the Debate Over "Direct Patient Participation" In Health Care Financing (1993) (0)
Adapting to adversity, protecting the principles, resisting reactionary "reforms" : Canada's health care system in the 1990s (1997) (0)
10 Supplier-Induced Demand : Some Empirical Evidence and Implications 1 (0)
The Effects of Medical Care Policy in B.C.: Utilization Trends in the 1980s (1992) (0)
Canadian inventory investment (1969) (0)
The Redistributive Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform (1997) (0)
Textology: The Art of Letters (2004) (0)
The Andrew Pattullo lecture. Healthy populations or healthy institutions: the dilemma of health care management. (1995) (0)
Information and Incentives: Peculiarities of the Health Care Market (1972) (0)
Report on the Effectiveness of Extended Care Treatment Facility of Alcohol and Drug Addiction (1997-2013), Submitted to Willingway Hospital, Statesboro, GA (2014) (0)
Lifestyles, linkage and liabilities : theory and evidence justifying economic incentives for healthier lifestyles (1984) (0)
A written submission to the British Columbia Conversation on Health August 2007 (0)
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Fertilizer and Education Program Conference (2017) (0)
The Effects of British Columbia's Physician Payment Initiatives: Making Sence of the Dollars (1995) (0)
A Quest for Identity, Authority, and Status: The Development of Paediatrics in Australia (2008) (0)
Putting some mustard into economic growth. (2012) (0)
Implications of dental disease: an economist's perspective. (1980) (0)
Rationing: The Bitter Pill‐Panel Discussion (1999) (0)
Sustainability of health care in Canada (2004) (0)
The Determinants of a Population’s Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation’s Health Status? (2017) (0)
A New Paradigm for Health Economics? We Have Three Already! (2012) (0)
Green leviathan? Thomas hobbes, joel bakan and Arnold schwarzenegger. (2007) (0)
Health, Wealth and the Price of Oil (2016) (0)
Paediatrics in New South Wales, 1945 TO 1965 (2000) (0)
Systems of accountability: the Canadian approach. (1995) (0)
Tackling Poverty and Socioeconomic Inequities (2017) (0)
Fat zombies, Pleistocene tastes, autophilia and the "obesity epidemic". (2007) (0)
The Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences (2002) (0)
Of Mussels and Men (2016) (0)
Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results (review) (1999) (0)
Kafka, New Orleans, the OARs and the KT boundary: reverse the flow of Kafka's fable of the Imperial Message and you have the problem of Knowledge Transfer--the message is not getting through. (2006) (0)
Lessons from Europe on the funding of healthcare. (1995) (0)
UN family planning chief urges Bush resume funding. (2004) (0)
Health Care : Taxation and the Alternatives (2015) (0)

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