Health economics :
an international perspective /
Barbara McPake, Charles Normand, and Samantha Smith.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index. Physical description: x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm more |
| ISBN: | 9780415680868 (hb) 0415680867 (hb) 9780415680882 (pb) 0415680883 (pb) 0203394070 (ebk) 9780203394076 (ebk) |
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
pt. 1 Introductory health economics
2. The Demand for health and health services
3. Production, health and health care: efficient use of inputs
4. Cost of delivering health services
5. Basic market models
6. Supplier-induced demand and agency
7. Market failure and government
pt. 2 Economic evaluation
8. The theoretical bases of economic evaluation
9. Issues in the measurement of costs
10. Measuring benefits in economic evaluation
11. Practical steps in economic evaluation
12. Economic evaluation as a framework for choice
pt. 3 Further economics of markets and market intervention
13. Contracting
14. Market structures
15. Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation
16. The economics of regulation
17. Incentives and agency
pt. 4 The economics of health systems
18. Health systems: a framework for analysis
19. Tax and social health insurance mechanisms
20. Private financing mechanisms
21. Health systems around the world
22. Parallel systems
23. The economics of health sector reform.
1. Introduction
pt. 1 Introductory health economics
2. The Demand for health and health services
3. Production, health and health care: efficient use of inputs
4. Cost of delivering health services
5. Basic market models
6. Supplier-induced demand and agency
7. Market failure and government
pt. 2 Economic evaluation
8. The theoretical bases of economic evaluation
9. Issues in the measurement of costs
10. Measuring benefits in economic evaluation
11. Practical steps in economic evaluation
12. Economic evaluation as a framework for choice
pt. 3 Further economics of markets and market intervention
13. Contracting
14. Market structures
15. Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation
16. The economics of regulation
17. Incentives and agency
pt. 4 The economics of health systems
18. Health systems: a framework for analysis
19. Tax and social health insurance mechanisms
20. Private financing mechanisms
21. Health systems around the world
22. Parallel systems
23. The economics of health sector reform.