Dr. Henry Shelton Brown

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
School of Public Health
Dell Center for the Advancement of Healthy Living and the Institute for Health Policy
Health EconomicsAppointed: 2002
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Mailing Address

UTH
School of Public Health
Austin RAHC
313 E. 12th Street, Suite 220
Austin, Texas 78701
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (512) 482-6174
Fax: (512) 482-6185
h.shelton.brown@uth.tmc.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1998.

Expertise and Research Interests

My research interests in the economics of health. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Dr. Brown joined the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health (UTSPH) in 2002. Since joining UTSPH, he has applied his training in health economics to public health issues. These include the economic problems associated with chronic illnesses. For instance, he has shown that for Mexican Americans with diabetes, labor productivity declines greatly. He has also shown that several public health interventions, such as those aimed at curbing childhood obesity, are cost-effective. Finally, he has examined many issues in the area of health insurance. For example, he has examined reasons for low insurance rates among Mexican Americans in border and non-border areas of the U.S. He has also examined tax incentive strategies to encourage the introduction of long-term health insurance contracts. Dr. Brown came to UTSPH after four years at the School of Economics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Economics, Health and Medicine, Health Care Economics, Health Insurance, Managed Care, Public Health, Stochastic Processes.

Additional Terms:

Border Health Issues, Health Economics, Managed Care, Spatial Competition.

Previous Positions

1998-2002, Assistant Professor, University of Queensland, Faculty of Business, Economics & Law, Economics

Funding Received

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Diabetes and Tuberculosis: The Strength of Their Association and the Economic Impact in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) Pilot Project, $51,000, Feb 1, 2003 to Feb 1, 2004.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Statistical and Economic Analysis Core (SEAC) of the Hispanic Health Research Center Program Grant, $7,000,000, Feb 1, 2002 to Feb 1, 2008.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Diabetes and the Labor Market: The Community-Wide Cost, $7,234, Apr 1, 2004 to Apr 1, 2005.
  • University of Texas School of Public Health: School-based Health Promotion, Food Delivered Prices and, $50,000, 2006 to 2008.
  • PI Subcontract: R21 Perceived Effectiveness, Access and Utilization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations, 2006 to 2008.
  • PI Training Core; co-I Statistical and Economic Analysis Core: P20 Creation of a Hispanic Health Research Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, $6,000,000, 2003 to 2008.

Publications

  • Adriana Perez, H. Shelton Brown III, Steve Kelder, Deanna Hoelsher (2007) Differences in food consumption and meal patterns in Texas school children by grade, Preventing Chronic Disease Journal, 4 (2)
  • Elena Bastida, H. Shelton Brown,III, Jose Pagan (2007) Health insurance coverage and health care utilization along the U.S.-Mexico border: Evidence from the border epidemiologic study of aging, The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-origin Population, Springer (bookchapter)
  • H. Shelton Brown III, Jose Pagan (2006) Managed care and the scale efficiency of US hospitals, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 6 (4), 278-289
  • Luke Connelly and H. Shelton Brown III. (2006) Lifetime subsidies in Australian private insurance markets with community rating, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice, 31 (4), 705-719
  • H. Shelton Brown III, Joselita Estrada, Gautam Hazarika, and Elena Bastida (2005) Diabetes and the labor market: The community-wide economic cost, Diabetes Care, 28 (12), 2945-2947
  • Victoria L. Brown et al. (2005) An Analysis of Peer Influence and Peer Selection on HIV Risk Behaviors, Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 9 (3), 137-155
  • HS Brown, The Cross-Border Demand for Mexican Health Servicess in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV): An Exploratory Note, Revista Seguridad Social Journal, 246, 31-45, February 2004
  • HS Brown, Public Sector, Nonprofit, and For-profit Competition In an Urban Setting With Congestion, International Regional Science Review, Forthcoming, 2004
  • Henry Shelton Brown, III and Jose A. Pagan and Elena Bastida, The Impact of Diabetes on Employment: Genetic IVs in a Bivariate Probit, Health Economics, Forthcoming, 2004
  • HS Brown and LB Connelly, Market Failure in Long-Term Private Health Insurance Markets: A Proposed Solution, Applied Economics Letters, Forthcoming, 12(15), 281-284, 2005
  • Luke B. Connelly, James R.G. Butler, H. Shelton Brown, III, Alexandra A. Sidorenko (2004) Health care financing and private health insurance in Australia, Geneva Association Information Newsletter: Health and Ageing, 11, 4-8
  • HS Brown, Managed Care and Technical Efficiency, Health Economics, 12, 149-158, February 2003
  • HS Brown, Optimal Facility Placement and Congestion Pricing in Heterogenous Neighborhoods, The Annals of Regional Science, 36, 181-196, 2002
  • HS Brown et al, Health Care Delivery In the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas Journal of Rural Health, XX(4), 18-24, 2002
  • HS Brown, Income, Location, and the Demand for Health Care From Public, Nonprofit, and For-profit Hospitals, Journal of Health Care Finance, 27(4), Summer 2001
  • HS Brown, Physician Demand For Leisure: Implications For Cesarean Section Rates, Journal of Health Economics, 15(3), 233-242, April 1996
  • H. Shelton Brown III and Luke B. Connelly, Lifetime cover in private insurance markets, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 5(1), 75-88
  • Adriana Perez, H. Shelton Brown III, and Blanca Restrepo, Association between tuberculosis and diabetes in the Mexican border and non-border regions of Texas, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hyiene, In Press

Profile Details

Last Updated: 11/27/2007

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