Health Economics: An International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138049192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str.

Barbara McPake; Charles Normand; Samantha Smith

Opis

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health systems across borders, the fourth edition of this key text has been fully updated and revised to take account of changes in a host of countries.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: health economics in international perspective  PART 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  PART 2 Further economics of markets and market intervention  8. Contracting  9. Market structures  10. Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation  11. The economics of regulation  12. Incentives and agency  PART 3 The economics of health systems 13. Health systems: a framework for analysis  14. Tax and social health insurance mechanisms  15. Private financing mechanisms  16. Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance  17. The economics of health in an era of global transition  PART 4 Tools and techniques for measurement and analysis  PART 4a Economic evaluation 18. The theoretical bases of economic evaluation  19. Issues in the measurement of costs  20. Measuring benefits in economic evaluation  21. Practical steps in economic evaluation  22. Economic evaluation as a framework for choice  PART 4b Applied econometrics and other tools 23. Introductory applied health econometrics  24. Methods and applications for causal analysis  25. Equity in access to health care: key measurement issues.