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The Elgar Companion to Health Economics Zusammenfassung

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics Andrew M. Jones

The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50 chapters written by more than 90 leading international contributors. The contributions to the Companion are concise and focus on specific concepts, methods and key evidence.

The Companion is a comprehensive and authoritative original reference volume covering theoretical and empirical issues in health economics with a balanced range of material on equity and efficiency in health care systems, health technology assessment and issues of concern for low and middle income countries. It is organised into two broad sections. The first deals with the economics of population health and of health care systems, analysed with both equity and efficiency goals in mind. The second covers the conceptual and practical issues that arise in the evaluation of health care technologies: most often applied to pharmaceuticals but also relevant for other interventions.

Many of the contributions address topical and policy-relevant issues including: the economic causes of the growth of obesity in the West, the link between illicit drug use and crime, the consequences of leaving people uninsured against the costs of health care, the impact of globalisation on the international trade in health care services, the role of informal payments in many health care systems, what 'equal treatment for equal needs' means in practice, whether direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals is desirable, and how economic evidence is influencing the way that new technologies are made available to patients. Other chapters stress the research done by health economists to develop theoretical models and empirical methods that illuminate the workings of health care systems.

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics Bewertungen

'This Companion is a timely addition. . . It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics. . . there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues. . . I have found the Companion very useful.' -- Sukhan Jackson, Economic Analysis and Policy
'This encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.' -- R.M. Mullner, Choice

Über Andrew M. Jones

Edited by Andrew M. Jones, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction Andrew M. Jones POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS PART I POPULATION HEALTH 1. Macroeconomic Conditions, Health and Mortality Christopher J. Ruhm 2. The Dynamics of Health Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis, 3. Health and Work of Older Workers Maarten Lindeboom 4. Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour M. Christopher Auld 5. Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries David Bishai and Taghreed Adam 6. Health Behaviours Among Young People Don Kenkel 7. Economics of Obesity Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas J. Philipson 8. Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime Jody L. Sindelar and Todd A. Olmstead PART II HEALTH CARE FINANCE, EXPENDITURE AND USE 9. The Value of Health Insurance John A. Nyman 10. Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance Pierre-Yves Geoffard 11. Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement Paul Grootendorst 12. The Economics of Social Health Insurance Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer 13. Competition and Health Plan Choice Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman 14. Empirical Models of Health Care Use Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi 15. The Unofficial Health Care Economy in Low- and Middle-income Countries Tim Ensor and Robin Thompson 16. Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization Richard Smith PART III EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 17. Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff 18. Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton 19. Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia Ravindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa Somanathan PART IV ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH CARE MARKETS 20. Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care Richard Cookson and Diane Dawson 21. Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care Pedro Pita Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt 22. Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care Martin Chalkley 23. Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills PART V PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR 24. The Physician as the Patients Agent Thomas Rice 25. Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care Tor Iversen and Hilde Luras 26. Optimal Risk Adjustment Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire 27. The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care Susan L. Ettner and Michael Schoenbaum 28. Nursing Home Quality of Care David C. Grabowski and Edward C. Norton 29. Direct to Consumer Advertising W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Kleit PART VI ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS 30. Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street 31. The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson 32. Productivity Analysis in Health Care James F. Burgess, Jr EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE PART VII MEASURING BENEFITS 33. Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement Han Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto 34. The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life David Feeny 35. Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health John Brazier and Jennifer Roberts 36. The Elicitation of Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation Paul Dolan and Aki Tsuchiya 37. Contingent Valuation in Health Care Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley 38. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie 39. Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics Leonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere PART VIII MEASURING COSTS AND STATISTICAL ISSUES 40. Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation Maria Raikou and Alistair McGuire 41. Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures Willard Manning 42. Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis David Meltzer 43. Selection Bias in Observational Data Daniel Polsky and Anirban Basu PART IX ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND DECISION MAKING 44. Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis Milton C. Weinstein 45. Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer 46. Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni 47. Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials Andrew Briggs 48. Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information Karl Claxton, Elizabeth Fenwick and Mark J. Sculpher 49. Perspectives on Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care David J. Vanness and John Mullahy 50. Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers Michael Drummond Index

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GOR004562150

ISBN 13

9781847203373

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184720337X

Titel

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics Andrew M. Jones

Autor

Andrew M. Jones

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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Datum

2007-05-25

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584

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