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Wendy Max, Ph.D.
Professor in Residence,
Co-Director of the Institute for Health & Aging
Adjunct Professor of Medical Economics
Telephone: 415 476-8023 Fax: 415-476-3915
Email: wendy.max@ucsf.edu
Web: http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/iha/max.htm
Dr. Max's research focuses on the cost of illness methodology, and the economic impact of illness, injury and disability, the formal and informal care cost of Alzheimer's disease, and healthcare for the chronically ill and elderly.
She has extensive experience analyzing the economic burden on injuries and the effectiveness of interventions, including an economic evaluation of California's motorcycle helmet law, a study of the lifetime cost of all injuries in the U.S., an analysis of the cost of firearm injuries, and work on the economic impact of domestic violence.
Studies in progress on which I am Principal Investigator.
"Disproportionate Cost of Smoking for Communities of Color", Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), 7/1/04 - 6/30/06. Wendy Max, Principal Investigator, $280,000. This study will develop models of smoking-attributable costs for African Americans, Hispanics, and all other people in California for 2002. Costs to be estimated will include health care costs, the value of time lost from employment and household production, and the value of lives lost prematurely. Models will take into account the impact of occasional smoking. Total and per person costs estimates will be developed. The study will have an advisory panel comprised of members of African American and Hispanic community organizations. These panelists will advise us on the application of the models and will help us to disseminate the findings to other community members.
Other Current Research on which I am a Co-Investigator.
"Smoking Cessation and Medical Care Use/Costs in a Large HMO", California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, 07/01/03-6/30/06. Hai-Yen Sung, Principal Investigator, $137,356. The goals of this study are to examine the association between the use of smoking cessation programs and smoking behavior and to assess the excess medical care use and costs of smoking among members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California.
"UCSF/John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence", John A. Hartford Foundation, 1/1/01 - 12/31/05. Jeanie Kayser-Jones, Principal Investigator, $1,330,754. This Center is devoted to training geriatric nurses for the 21st century. My role is to assist with the development of the postdoctoral program and with mentorship of pre- and post-doctoral training opportunities for these nurses.
New! Search PubMed for publications by this author.
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2000 Max W. Dementia: the challenges for economic analysis. In Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry: Dementia. Pages 364-366. Mario Maj and Norman Sartorius, editors. NY: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
2000 Max, W., Webber, P. and P. Fox. Alzheimer's disease: the unpaid burden of caring. Dementia Review Series, Vol. 4: 14-15.
2000 Max W, Stark B, Root S. Putting a lid on injury costs: the economic impact of the California motorcycle helmet law. NHS Economic Evaluation Database, University of York, York, England.
2001 Max W. Economic analysis in health care. In Charlene Harrington and Carroll Estes, Editors, Health Policy. Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, pp. 263-73.
2001 Fox P, Kohatsu N, Max W, Arnsberger P. Estimating the costs of caring for people with Alzheimer's disease in California: 2000-2040. Journal of Public Health Policy 22(I): 88-97.
2001 Max W. The financial impact of smoking on health-related costs: A review of the literature. Am J Health Promot 15 (5): 321-331.
2001 Rice D, Fillitt H, Max W, Knopman D, Lloyd J, Duttagupta S. Prevalance, costs, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia: A managed care perspective. American Journal of Managed Care 7(8): 809-818.
2001 Max W. The economics of mental health care in the USA and the potential for managed care to expand into Europe. Commentary. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 14: 287-98.
2002 Max W, Sinnott P, Kao C, Sung H-Y, Rice DP. The burden of osteoporosis in California, 1998. Osteoporosis International 13: 493-500.
2002 Max W, Rice DP, Sung H-Y, Michel M, Breuer W, Zhang X. The economic burden of prostate cancer in California, 1998. Cancer 94(11): 2906-13.
2003 Max W, Rice DP, Sung H-Y, Michel M, Breuer, W, Zhang X. The economic burden of gynecologic cancers in California, 1998. Gynecologic Oncology 88: 96-103.
2004 Froelicher ES, Sohn M, Max W, Bacchetti P. Women's initiative for nonsmoking VII: Evaluation of health service utilization and costs among women smokers with cardiovascular disease. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation 2004; 24: 218-228.
2004 Max W, Rice DP, Finkelstein E, Bardwell RA, Leadbetter MS. The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the United States, 1995. Violence and Victims 19(3): 259-72.
2004 Max W, Rice DP, Sung H-Y, Zhang X, Miller L. The economic burden of smoking in California. Tobacco Control 2004; 13: 264-67.
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