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The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition
Edited by Andrew M. Jones
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.
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- Published in print:
- 31 Jan 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781849802673
- eISBN:
- 9780857938138
- Pages:
- 640
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- The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and Health
- Chapter 2: The Dynamics of Health
- Chapter 3: Health and Work of Older Workers
- Chapter 4: Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour
- Chapter 5: Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries
- Chapter 6: Health Behaviours Among Young People
- Chapter 7: Economics of Obesity
- Chapter 8: Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime
- Chapter 9: The Value of Health Insurance
- Chapter 10: Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance
- Chapter 11: Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement
- Chapter 12: The Economics of Social Health Insurance
- Chapter 13: Competition and Health Plan Choice
- Chapter 14: Empirical Models of Health Care Use
- Chapter 15: Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income Countries
- Chapter 16: Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization
- Chapter 17: Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care
- Chapter 18: Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care
- Chapter 19: Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia
- Chapter 20: Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care
- Chapter 21: Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care
- Chapter 22: Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care
- Chapter 23: Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings
- Chapter 24: Waiting Times and Waiting Lists
- Chapter 25: The Physician as the Patient’s Agent
- Chapter 26: Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care
- Chapter 27: Optimal Risk Adjustment
- Chapter 28: The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care
- Chapter 29: Nursing Home Quality of Care
- Chapter 30: Informal Care
- Chapter 31: Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the Controversy
- Chapter 32: Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations
- Chapter 33: The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems
- Chapter 34: Productivity Analysis in Health Care
- EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE
- Chapter 35: Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement
- Chapter 36: The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life
- Chapter 37: Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health
- Chapter 38: Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 39: The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics?
- Chapter 40: Contingent Valuation in Health Care
- Chapter 41: Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 42: Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 43: Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 44: Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures
- Chapter 45: Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 46: Selection Bias in Observational Data
- Chapter 47: Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 48: Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice
- Chapter 49: Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Revisited
- Chapter 50: Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials
- Chapter 51: Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information
- Chapter 52: Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care
- Chapter 53: Priority Setting Methods in Health Services
- Chapter 54: Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers
- Index
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Chapter 12: The Economics of Social Health Insurance
Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer
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- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and Health
- Chapter 2: The Dynamics of Health
- Chapter 3: Health and Work of Older Workers
- Chapter 4: Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour
- Chapter 5: Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries
- Chapter 6: Health Behaviours Among Young People
- Chapter 7: Economics of Obesity
- Chapter 8: Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime
- Chapter 9: The Value of Health Insurance
- Chapter 10: Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance
- Chapter 11: Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement
- Chapter 12: The Economics of Social Health Insurance
- Chapter 13: Competition and Health Plan Choice
- Chapter 14: Empirical Models of Health Care Use
- Chapter 15: Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income Countries
- Chapter 16: Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization
- Chapter 17: Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care
- Chapter 18: Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care
- Chapter 19: Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia
- Chapter 20: Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care
- Chapter 21: Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care
- Chapter 22: Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care
- Chapter 23: Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings
- Chapter 24: Waiting Times and Waiting Lists
- Chapter 25: The Physician as the Patient’s Agent
- Chapter 26: Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care
- Chapter 27: Optimal Risk Adjustment
- Chapter 28: The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care
- Chapter 29: Nursing Home Quality of Care
- Chapter 30: Informal Care
- Chapter 31: Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the Controversy
- Chapter 32: Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations
- Chapter 33: The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems
- Chapter 34: Productivity Analysis in Health Care
- EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE
- Chapter 35: Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement
- Chapter 36: The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life
- Chapter 37: Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health
- Chapter 38: Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 39: The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics?
- Chapter 40: Contingent Valuation in Health Care
- Chapter 41: Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 42: Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 43: Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 44: Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures
- Chapter 45: Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 46: Selection Bias in Observational Data
- Chapter 47: Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 48: Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice
- Chapter 49: Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Revisited
- Chapter 50: Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials
- Chapter 51: Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information
- Chapter 52: Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care
- Chapter 53: Priority Setting Methods in Health Services
- Chapter 54: Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers
- Index