Barbara McPake, Charles Normand, Samantha Smith

Health Economics

An International Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781138049208
• ISBN-10: 1138049204
• Artikelnr.: 60114154

Autorenporträt

Barbara McPake, Professor of Global Health and Director, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia. Charles Normand, Professor of the Economics of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, UK, and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. Samantha Smith, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. Anne Nolan, Associate Research Professor, Social Division, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

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.