Theoretical Health Economics

Hans Keiding
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Hans Keiding: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Abstract: As a relatively young discipline, health economics as it appears today contains many features which can be traced back to its beginnings. Since it arose in the interface between the medical sciences and economics, the way of dealing with problems were often influenced by traditions which were well-established in the medical profession, while the classical way of thinking of economists came was filtering through at a slower pace. This means that much of both teaching and research in health economics puts the emphasis on collecting and analysing data on health and healthcare as well as on public and private outlays on healthcare. This is an extreme useful and worthwhile activity, and much new and valuable information is produced in this way, but occasionally there is a need for in-depth understanding of what is going on, rather than an estimated equation which comes from nowhere. This is where economic theory can offer some support.

Keywords: Health Economics; Healthcare; Grossman Model; Newhouse-Phelps Model; Dorfman-Steiner; Lindahl Equilibria; Healthcare Pricing; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Healthcare Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9789813227811
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Health and healthcare: What is it? , pp 1-40

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Ch 2 Demand for health and healthcare , pp 41-79

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Ch 3 Supply of healthcare , pp 81-134

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Ch 4 Paying for healthcare , pp 135-185

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Ch 5 Health insurance , pp 187-231

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Ch 6 Cost-effectiveness analysis , pp 233-288

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Ch 7 Regulating the healthcare sector , pp 289-315

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