The Dictionary of Health Economics, Third Edition
Anthony J. Culyer
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- A
- Ability to Pay
- Abnormal Profit
- Abortion
- Abscissa
- Absolute Advantage
- Absolute Risk
- Absolute Risk Aversion
- Absolute Risk Difference
- Absolute Risk Increase
- Absolute Risk Reduction
- Absorbing State
- Absorption
- Abuse
- Academic Detailing
- Acceptability Curve
- Access
- Access Motive
- Access with Evidence Development
- Accidents
- Account
- Accountability
- Accountability for Reasonableness
- Accountable Care Organization
- Accreditation
- ACO
- Action Research
- Activities of Daily Living
- Activity-based Financing
- Actuarial Fairness
- Act Utilitarianism
- Acute
- Adaptive Conjoint Analysis
- Adaptive Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Adaptive Preferences
- Adaptive Trial
- Addiction
- Additionality
- Addition Rule
- Additive Model
- Additive Separability
- Additive Utility Independence
- Additivity
- Adherence
- Adjacent Complementarity
- Adjusted Indirect Comparison
- Adjusted Odds Ratio
- ADL
- Administered Prices
- Administrative Costs
- Administrative Prices
- ADR
- Advance Directive
- Advantageous Selection
- Adverse Event
- Adverse Risk Selection
- Adverse Selection
- Advertising
- AED
- AES
- Aetiological Fraction
- Aetiology
- AETMIS
- Affine Function
- Affordability
- AfHEA
- A Fortiori
- African Health Economics and Policy Association
- After the Event Moral Hazard
- Ageing
- Ageism
- Agence d’Evaluation des Technologies et des Modes d’Intervention en Santé
- Agency
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Agency Relationship
- Agent
- Agglomeration
- Aggregation
- Aggregation Problem
- AGREE
- AHES
- AHRQ
- Aid Architecture
- AIDS/HIV
- AIES
- Alcohol
- Algorithm
- Allais Paradox
- Alliance
- Allocation Bias
- Allocation Formulae
- Allocative Efficiency
- All Trials Campaign
- Alternative Hypothesis
- Alternative Medicine
- Alternative Quality Contract
- Alternatives
- Altman’s Nomogram
- Altruism
- Ambiguity
- Ambulatory Care
- American Society of Health Economists
- Amortization
- Anaesthesia
- Analogue Scale
- Analysis of Covariance
- Analysis of Variance
- Analytic Hierarchy Process
- Analytic Epidemiology
- ANCOVA
- Andrology
- Anecdote
- Annual Equivalent Charge
- Annuitized Value
- Annuity
- ANOVA
- Antenatal
- Antitrust
- Any Willing Provider
- APGAR
- APHEN
- A Posteriori
- Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration
- Appraisal
- Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation
- Appreciation
- Appropriateness
- A Priori
- AQC
- AQoL
- ARA
- Arbitrage
- Arc-elasticity
- Archimedes Model
- Area Probability Sample
- Area Under the Curve
- Area Wage Index
- Argentinean Health Economics Association
- Argument
- Arithmetic Mean
- Arm
- ARR
- Array
- Arrow Award
- Arrow–Debreu Equilibrium
- Arrow Impossibility Theorem
- Arrow–Pratt Measure
- Arrow Social Welfare Function
- Artifactual Mechanisms
- Ascertainment Bias
- ASHEcon
- Asia Pacific Health Economics Network
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud
- Aspiration Adaptation
- Assessment of Quality of Life
- Asset
- Asset Price Analysis
- Associazione Italiana di Economia Sanitaria
- Assortive Matching
- Asymmetry of Information
- Asymptote
- Asymptotic Property
- Atkinson Inequality Index
- Atomistic Competition
- Atomistic Fallacy
- Attainment Inequality
- Attention Bias
- Attenuation
- Attraction Effect
- Attributable Fraction
- Attributable Risk
- Attribute
- Attrition
- Attrition Bias
- AUC
- Audiology
- Audit Trail
- Australian Health Economics Society
- Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- Autarky
- Authorized Generic Drug
- Autocorrelation
- Autonomy
- Average
- Average Cost
- Average Fixed Cost
- Average Product
- Average Revenue
- Average Total Cost
- Average Treatment Effect
- Average Variable Cost
- Avoidable Cost
- Avoidable Mortality
- Axiom
- Axis
- Aziende Sanitarie Locali
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- Back Matter
Asset
Anthony J. Culyer
Reference Entry
- Published in print:
- 31 Jul 2014
- Category:
- Reference Entry
- Copyright:
- © Anthony J. Culyer 2014 2014
This third edition of Anthony Culyer’s authoritative The Dictionary of Health Economics brings the material right up to date as well as adding plentiful amounts of new information, with a number of revised definitions. There are now nearly 3,000 entries in this comprehensive work. This third edition includes 250 new references as sources for definitions and examples of practice and the bibliography comprises roughly 1,400 items. Anthony Culyer has refined and made the system of cross-references and internet links even more comprehensive than in previous editions. This Dictionary is as complete a statement as exists anywhere of what it is that every health economist ought to know.
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or login to access all content.- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- A
- Ability to Pay
- Abnormal Profit
- Abortion
- Abscissa
- Absolute Advantage
- Absolute Risk
- Absolute Risk Aversion
- Absolute Risk Difference
- Absolute Risk Increase
- Absolute Risk Reduction
- Absorbing State
- Absorption
- Abuse
- Academic Detailing
- Acceptability Curve
- Access
- Access Motive
- Access with Evidence Development
- Accidents
- Account
- Accountability
- Accountability for Reasonableness
- Accountable Care Organization
- Accreditation
- ACO
- Action Research
- Activities of Daily Living
- Activity-based Financing
- Actuarial Fairness
- Act Utilitarianism
- Acute
- Adaptive Conjoint Analysis
- Adaptive Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Adaptive Preferences
- Adaptive Trial
- Addiction
- Additionality
- Addition Rule
- Additive Model
- Additive Separability
- Additive Utility Independence
- Additivity
- Adherence
- Adjacent Complementarity
- Adjusted Indirect Comparison
- Adjusted Odds Ratio
- ADL
- Administered Prices
- Administrative Costs
- Administrative Prices
- ADR
- Advance Directive
- Advantageous Selection
- Adverse Event
- Adverse Risk Selection
- Adverse Selection
- Advertising
- AED
- AES
- Aetiological Fraction
- Aetiology
- AETMIS
- Affine Function
- Affordability
- AfHEA
- A Fortiori
- African Health Economics and Policy Association
- After the Event Moral Hazard
- Ageing
- Ageism
- Agence d’Evaluation des Technologies et des Modes d’Intervention en Santé
- Agency
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Agency Relationship
- Agent
- Agglomeration
- Aggregation
- Aggregation Problem
- AGREE
- AHES
- AHRQ
- Aid Architecture
- AIDS/HIV
- AIES
- Alcohol
- Algorithm
- Allais Paradox
- Alliance
- Allocation Bias
- Allocation Formulae
- Allocative Efficiency
- All Trials Campaign
- Alternative Hypothesis
- Alternative Medicine
- Alternative Quality Contract
- Alternatives
- Altman’s Nomogram
- Altruism
- Ambiguity
- Ambulatory Care
- American Society of Health Economists
- Amortization
- Anaesthesia
- Analogue Scale
- Analysis of Covariance
- Analysis of Variance
- Analytic Hierarchy Process
- Analytic Epidemiology
- ANCOVA
- Andrology
- Anecdote
- Annual Equivalent Charge
- Annuitized Value
- Annuity
- ANOVA
- Antenatal
- Antitrust
- Any Willing Provider
- APGAR
- APHEN
- A Posteriori
- Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration
- Appraisal
- Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation
- Appreciation
- Appropriateness
- A Priori
- AQC
- AQoL
- ARA
- Arbitrage
- Arc-elasticity
- Archimedes Model
- Area Probability Sample
- Area Under the Curve
- Area Wage Index
- Argentinean Health Economics Association
- Argument
- Arithmetic Mean
- Arm
- ARR
- Array
- Arrow Award
- Arrow–Debreu Equilibrium
- Arrow Impossibility Theorem
- Arrow–Pratt Measure
- Arrow Social Welfare Function
- Artifactual Mechanisms
- Ascertainment Bias
- ASHEcon
- Asia Pacific Health Economics Network
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud
- Aspiration Adaptation
- Assessment of Quality of Life
- Asset
- Asset Price Analysis
- Associazione Italiana di Economia Sanitaria
- Assortive Matching
- Asymmetry of Information
- Asymptote
- Asymptotic Property
- Atkinson Inequality Index
- Atomistic Competition
- Atomistic Fallacy
- Attainment Inequality
- Attention Bias
- Attenuation
- Attraction Effect
- Attributable Fraction
- Attributable Risk
- Attribute
- Attrition
- Attrition Bias
- AUC
- Audiology
- Audit Trail
- Australian Health Economics Society
- Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- Autarky
- Authorized Generic Drug
- Autocorrelation
- Autonomy
- Average
- Average Cost
- Average Fixed Cost
- Average Product
- Average Revenue
- Average Total Cost
- Average Treatment Effect
- Average Variable Cost
- Avoidable Cost
- Avoidable Mortality
- Axiom
- Axis
- Aziende Sanitarie Locali
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- Back Matter