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Paul E McNamara

M.P.P., Harvard University, 1985
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1998

ACE 499 Agricultural and Consumer Economics in Service, ACE 592 Advanced Health Economics Topics, Nutrition 510 Section B International Nutrition Policies and Programs

Health economics and consumer economics: rural health, consumer decision-making in health and health care, health and the food system.

My University of Illinois Extension program uses tools from consumer economics and health economics to help consumers, communities, and public-policy makers enhance the welfare of health-care consumers. The Illinois Rural Health Workshop provides rural communities with impact information, and helps consumers, community leaders, and public policy leaders with research-based information to improve rural health decision-making( www.ace.uiuc.edu/ruralhealth). Financing Long-term Care: A Consumer Education Program assists consumers with research-based information about long-term care financing, including long-term care insurance.

P. E. McNamara. "States and Rural Health Policy.” Forthcoming in Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy.

McNamara, P. E., G. Y. Miller, X. Liu, and D. A. Barber. "A Farm-to-Fork Stochastic Simulation Model of Pork-borne Salmonellosis in Humans: Lessons for Risk Ranking." Agribusiness. Vol. 23, No. 2(2007): 157-172.

McNamara, P. E. "Using Agricultural Economics to Strengthen Non-Governmental Organizations’ Food Security Programs for People Living With HIV/AIDS: An Example from Honduras.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 87, No.5(2005): 1304-09.

McNamara, P. E. and N. Lee. 2004. "Long-term Care Insurance Policy Dropping in the U.S. from 1996 to 2000: Evidence and Implications for Long-term Care Financing" Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol. 29, No. 4 (October): 640-651.