Health Policy and Economics

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-335-22793-8
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

Health economics has made major contributions to the development of health policy in many countries. This book describes those successes and looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy issues in health and health care.

With contributions from internationally recognized researchers, this book addresses generic policy issues confronting health systems across the developed world. The coverage progresses from micro, patient level issues to macro, whole system issues including:

· Determining cost-effective treatments

· Fair distribution of health care

· Regulatory issues such as performance measurement and incentives


· Revenue distribution

· Decentralization and internationalization of health systems

Health Policy and Economics identifies the major contributions that health economics makes to important policy issues in health and health care. It is key reading for policy makers and health managers as well as students and academics with an interest in health policy and health services research.

Contributors: Ron L. Akehurst, Karen E. Bloor, Martin Buxton, Karl P. Claxton, Richard Cookson, Diane A. Dawson, Paul Dolan, Mike Drummond, Brian Ferguson, Hugh Gravelle, Maria Goddard, Katharina Hauck, John Hutton, Andrew M. Jones, Rowena Jacobs, Paul Kind, Rosella Levaggi, Guillem López Casanovas, Alan K. Maynard, Nigel Rice, Anthony Scott, Rebecca Shaw, Trevor Sheldon, Andrew D. Street, Mark Sculpher, Matthew Sutton, Peter C. Smith, Adrian Towse, Aki Tsuchiya, Alan H. Williams.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Peter

Sculpher, Mark

Ginnelly, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Gesundheitsökonomie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Series editor's introduction

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Its just evaluation for decision-making: Recent developments in, and challenges for, cost-effectiveness research

Valuing health outcomes: Ten questions for the insomniac health economist

Eliciting equity-efficiency trade-offs in health

Using longitudinal data to investigate socioeconomic inequality in health

Regulating health care markets

Efficiency measurement in health care: Recent developments, current practice and future research

Incentives and the UK medical labour market

Formula funding of health purchasers: towards a fairer distribution?

Decentralization in health care: Lessons from public economics

European integration and the economics of health care

Health economics and health policy: A postscript

Index.