Applied Health Economics

ISBN-13: 9780415676816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Andrew M. Jones; Nigel Rice; Teresa Bago D'Uva

Opis

The first edition of this book did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout.

Spis treści

Part I: Describing and Summarising Data  1. Data and Survey Design  2. Describing the Dynamics of Health  3. Describing Health Care Costs  Part II: Categorical Data  4. Reporting Heterogeneity in Health  5. Health and Lifestyles  Part III: Duration Data  6. Smoking and Mortality  7. Health and Retirement  Part IV: Panel Data  8. Health and Wages  9. Modelling the Dynamics of Health  10. Non-response and Attrition Bias  Part V: Health Care Data  11. Models for Count Data  12. Modelling Health Care Costs