The Elgar Companion to Health Economics
Edited by Andrew Jones
in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Abstract:
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.
Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781845420031
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Chapters in this book:
- Ch 1 Macroeconomic Conditions, Health and Mortality
- Christopher Ruhm
- Ch 2 The Dynamics of Health
- Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis
- Ch 3 Health and Work of Older Workers
- Maarten Lindeboom
- Ch 4 Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour
- M. Christopher Auld
- Ch 5 Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries
- David Bishai and Taghreed Adam
- Ch 6 Health Behaviours Among Young People
- Donald Kenkel
- Ch 7 Economics of Obesity
- Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson
- Ch 8 Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime
- Jody L. Sindelar and Todd A. Olmstead
- Ch 9 The Value of Health Insurance
- John A. Nyman
- Ch 10 Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance
- Pierre Geoffard
- Ch 11 Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement
- Paul Grootendorst
- Ch 12 The Economics of Social Health Insurance
- Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer
- Ch 13 Competition and Health Plan Choice
- Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman
- Ch 14 Empirical Models of Health Care Use
- Partha Deb and Pravin Trivedi
- Ch 15 The Unofficial Health Care Economy in Low- and Middle-income Countries
- Tim Ensor and Robin Thompson
- Ch 16 Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization
- Richard Smith
- Ch 17 Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care
- Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff
- Ch 18 Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care
- Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton
- Ch 19 Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia
- Ravindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa Somanathan
- Ch 20 Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care
- Richard Cookson and Diane Dawson
- Ch 21 Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care
- Pedro Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt
- Ch 22 Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care
- Martin Chalkley
- Ch 23 Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings
- Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills
- Ch 24 The Physician as the Patient’s Agent
- Thomas Rice
- Ch 25 Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care
- Tor Iversen and Hilde Lurås
- Ch 26 Optimal Risk Adjustment
- Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire
- Ch 27 The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care
- Susan L. Ettner and Michael Schoenbaum
- Ch 28 Nursing Home Quality of Care
- David C. Grabowski and Edward Norton
- Ch 29 Direct to Consumer Advertising
- W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Kleit
- Ch 30 Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations
- Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street
- Ch 31 The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems
- Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson
- Ch 32 Productivity Analysis in Health Care
- James F. Burgess
- Ch 33 Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement
- Han Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto
- Ch 34 The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life
- David Feeny
- Ch 35 Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health
- John Brazier and Jennifer Roberts
- Ch 36 The Elicitation of Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation
- Paul Dolan and Aki Tsuchiya
- Ch 37 Contingent Valuation in Health Care
- Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley
- Ch 38 Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie
- Ch 39 Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics
- Leonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere
- Ch 40 Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation
- Maria Raikou and Alistair McGuire
- Ch 41 Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures
- Willard Manning
- Ch 42 Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- David Meltzer
- Ch 43 Selection Bias in Observational Data
- Daniel Polsky and Anirban Basu
- Ch 44 Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Milton C. Weinstein
- Ch 45 Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice
- David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer
- Ch 46 Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation
- Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni
- Ch 47 Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials
- Andrew Briggs
- Ch 48 Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information
- Karl Claxton, Elizabeth Fenwick and Mark Sculpher
- Ch 49 Perspectives on Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care
- David Vanness and John Mullahy
- Ch 50 Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers
- Michael Drummond
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