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Health Economics

An International Perspective

By Barbara McPake, Charles Normand

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About the Book

Beginning with a look into simple models of supply and demand within health care, this key text moves on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis, and then compares differing health care systems around the world. Featuring an array of case studies based on systems from around the world, the book successfully bridges the divide between the insurance-based system employed in the United States, the publicly-funded options more common in Europe and Canada, and the mixed arrangements characteristic of most developing countries.

This informative textbook, essential for students on the ever-growing number of health economics courses internationally, will also be useful in other areas, such as public health studies, medicine and health science.

Reviews

'A natural choice for the courses I teach to public health physicians. All those idea I would want them to have heard of are in this book. It is readable, well-arranged and logical and I would have few fears about letting students loose with it by themselves in the first instance. I especially apprecaite the illustrations of ideas drawn from countries throughout the world, which certainly reinforces the authors' belief that basic economic principles are universal.' - Health Economics

'An essential edition...excellent examples and case studies...ideal for introducing economists to the economics of health [and] a valuable asset for health economics courses.' - Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introductory Health Economics 1. Introduction 2. The Demand for Health and Health Services 3. Demand, Elasticity and Health 4. Production Health and Health Care: Efficient Use of Inputs 5. Cost of Delivering Health Services 6. The Basic Market Model 7. Supplier-Induced Demand and Agency 8. Market Failure and Government Part 2: Economic Evaluation 9. The Theoretical Basis of Economic Evaluation 10. Issues in the Measurement of Costs 11. Measuring Benefits in Economic Evaluation 12. Practical Steps in Economic Evaluation 13. Economic Evaluation as a Framework for Choice Part 3: Further Economics of Market Intervention 14. Contracting 15. Market Structures 16. Hospital and Health Provider Behaviour and Motivation 17. The Economics of Regulation 18. Incentives and Agency Part 4: The Economics of Health Systems 19. Health Systems: A Framework for Analysis 20. Health Systems Around the World: An Introduction to Variation and Performance 21. Reliance on the State: Public Health Service Systems 22. Voluntary Insurance Based Systems 23. Social Insurance Systems 24. Parallel Systems 25. Trends in Health Sector Reform