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The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition

Edited by Andrew Jones

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This comprehensive collection brings together more than 50 contributions from some of the most influential researchers in health economics. It authoritatively covers 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 developing countries. This thoroughly revised second edition is expanded to include four new chapters, while all existing chapters have been extensively updated.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781849802673
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and Health Downloads
Christopher Ruhm
Ch 2 The Dynamics of Health Downloads
Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis
Ch 3 Health and Work of Older Workers Downloads
Maarten Lindeboom
Ch 4 Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour Downloads
M. Christopher Auld
Ch 5 Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries Downloads
David Bishai, Divya Nair and Taghreed Adam
Ch 6 Health Behaviours Among Young People Downloads
Donald Kenkel
Ch 7 Economics of Obesity Downloads
Peter J. Huckfeldt, Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson
Ch 8 Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime Downloads
Jody L. Sindelar and Todd Olmstead
Ch 9 The Value of Health Insurance Downloads
John A. Nyman
Ch 10 Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance Downloads
Pierre Geoffard
Ch 11 Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement Downloads
Paul Grootendorst
Ch 12 The Economics of Social Health Insurance Downloads
Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer
Ch 13 Competition and Health Plan Choice Downloads
Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman
Ch 14 Empirical Models of Health Care Use Downloads
Partha Deb and Pravin Trivedi
Ch 15 Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income Countries Downloads
Tim Ensor and Robin Thompson
Ch 16 Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization Downloads
Richard Smith
Ch 17 Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care Downloads
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff
Ch 18 Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care Downloads
Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton
Ch 19 Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia Downloads
Ravindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa Somanathan
Ch 20 Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care Downloads
Richard Cookson and Diane Dawson
Ch 21 Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care Downloads
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Ch 22 Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care Downloads
Martin Chalkley
Ch 23 Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings Downloads
Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills
Ch 24 Waiting Times and Waiting Lists Downloads
Luigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen
Ch 25 The Physician as the Patient’s Agent Downloads
Thomas Rice
Ch 26 Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care Downloads
Tor Iversen and Hilde Lurås
Ch 27 Optimal Risk Adjustment Downloads
Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire
Ch 28 The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care Downloads
Susan L. Ettner, Michael Schoenbaum and Jessica A. Williams
Ch 29 Nursing Home Quality of Care Downloads
David C. Grabowski and Edward Norton
Ch 30 Informal Care Downloads
David C. Grabowski, Edward Norton and Courtney Van Houtven
Ch 31 Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the Controversy Downloads
W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Kleit
Ch 32 Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations Downloads
Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street
Ch 33 The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems Downloads
Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson
Ch 34 Productivity Analysis in Health Care Downloads
James F. Burgess
Ch 35 Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement Downloads
Han Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto
Ch 36 The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life Downloads
David Feeny
Ch 37 Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health Downloads
John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Donna Rowen
Ch 38 Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation Downloads
Aki Tsuchiya
Ch 39 The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics? Downloads
Richard Smith, Paula Lorgelly, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sridhar Venkatapuram and Joanna Coast
Ch 40 Contingent Valuation in Health Care Downloads
Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley
Ch 41 Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics Downloads
Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie
Ch 42 Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics Downloads
Leonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere
Ch 43 Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation Downloads
Maria Raikou and Alistair McGuire
Ch 44 Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures Downloads
Willard Manning
Ch 45 Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis Downloads
David Meltzer
Ch 46 Selection Bias in Observational Data Downloads
Daniel Polsky and Anirban Basu
Ch 47 Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis Downloads
Milton C. Weinstein
Ch 48 Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice Downloads
David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer
Ch 49 Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Revisited Downloads
Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni
Ch 50 Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials Downloads
Andrew Briggs
Ch 51 Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information Downloads
Karl Claxton, Elisabeth Fenwick and Mark Sculpher
Ch 52 Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care Downloads
David Vanness and John Mullahy
Ch 53 Priority Setting Methods in Health Services Downloads
Stuart J. Peacock and Craig Mitton
Ch 54 Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers Downloads
Michael Drummond

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