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The Elgar Companion to Health Economics
Edited by Andrew M. Jones
The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50 chapters written by more than 90 leading international contributors. The contributions to the Companion are concise and focus on specific concepts, methods and key evidence.
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- Published in print:
- 24 Feb 2006
- ISBN:
- 9781845420031
- eISBN:
- 9781845428914
- Pages:
- 584
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- The Elgar Companion to Health Economics
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Macroeconomic Conditions, Health and Mortality
- 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: The Unofficial Health Care Economy 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: The Physician as the Patient’s Agent
- Chapter 25: Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care
- Chapter 26: Optimal Risk Adjustment
- Chapter 27: The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care
- Chapter 28: Nursing Home Quality of Care
- Chapter 29: Direct to Consumer Advertising
- Chapter 30: Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations
- Chapter 31: The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems
- Chapter 32: Productivity Analysis in Health Care
- Chapter 33: Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement
- Chapter 34: The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life
- Chapter 35: Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health
- Chapter 36: The Elicitation of Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 37: Contingent Valuation in Health Care
- Chapter 38: Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 39: Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 40: Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 41: Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures
- Chapter 42: Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 43: Selection Bias in Observational Data
- Chapter 44: Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 45: Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice
- Chapter 46: Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 47: Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials
- Chapter 48: Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information
- Chapter 49: Perspectives on Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care
- Chapter 50: Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers
- Index
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Chapter 37: Contingent Valuation in Health Care
Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley
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- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Macroeconomic Conditions, Health and Mortality
- 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: The Unofficial Health Care Economy 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: The Physician as the Patient’s Agent
- Chapter 25: Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care
- Chapter 26: Optimal Risk Adjustment
- Chapter 27: The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care
- Chapter 28: Nursing Home Quality of Care
- Chapter 29: Direct to Consumer Advertising
- Chapter 30: Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations
- Chapter 31: The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems
- Chapter 32: Productivity Analysis in Health Care
- Chapter 33: Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement
- Chapter 34: The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life
- Chapter 35: Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health
- Chapter 36: The Elicitation of Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 37: Contingent Valuation in Health Care
- Chapter 38: Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 39: Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Chapter 40: Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 41: Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures
- Chapter 42: Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 43: Selection Bias in Observational Data
- Chapter 44: Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Chapter 45: Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice
- Chapter 46: Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 47: Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials
- Chapter 48: Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information
- Chapter 49: Perspectives on Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care
- Chapter 50: Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers
- Index