Health economics Books

Book SynopsisA transformative approach to public health and social care in the wake of Covid-19Trade Review‘A brilliant exposé of how the political left in Britain is unaware of, and can start to begin to address, the effects of ever-increasing opting-out from public health and care services by those who can’ -- Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford'The boldest blueprint for public health since Bevan' -- Sonia Adesara, NHS Doctor and Campaigner'The ideas in this book are as significant and radical as the birth of the NHS, it shows a new, fairer vision for improving the health of the nation and a comprehensive plan for how to do it' -- Shirley Cramer, former CEO of the Royal Society for Public Health'A vital book that shows just how broken the health status quo truly is. Thomas' work will arm campaigners to demand a better, more just public health system - and to defend human life against corporate exploitation' -- Dr Aseem Malhotra, author of 'A Statin-Free Life' and Founder of Public Health Collaboration'A well-argued plan to bring together health, social and economic justice' -- Andy McDonald MP'A fantastically well written book that shows just how much public health has been neglected in the UK and the actions we need now' -- Dr Jyotsna Vohra, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the Royal Society for Public HealthTable of ContentsAbbreviations List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The NHS Frontier 2. The Social Justice Frontier 3. The Economic Frontier 4. The Social Care Frontier 5. The Sustainability Frontier 6. The Public Health New Deal Epilogue: Labour’s Medicine Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston''s economy. While traditional Texas industries like oil and natural gas still played a critical role, the presence of the massive Texas Medical Center, billed as the largest medical complex in the world, had helped to rebrand the city as a site for biomedical innovation and ensured its stability during the financial crisis of the mid-2000s.Taking Pittsburgh and Houston as case studies, The Medical Metropolis offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine transformed American cities in the postindustrial era. Andrew T. Simpson explores hTrade Review"Simpson demonstrates the impressive depth and breadth of his research. He not only chronicles the major developments in the health care industry in each city, he also peels back the curtain on the internal deliberations of the major players as they made strategic decisions. These details provide useful insights for those interested in nonprofit governance and public-private partnerships, particularly in the context of urban economic development. Likewise, these case studies chronicle how national trends in American health care throughout the 20th century affected local health care industries." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Access to health care remains near the center of American political discourse. Based on two local studies, Andrew T. Simpson deftly explains the economic imperatives of postwar urban sprawl in molding the shifting relationship between medical centers and the communities they serve." * Guenter B. Risse, author of Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals *"Well framed and full of insights for audiences in urban history, business history, health policy, and the history of medicine, this book interleaves the soaring visions and sobering realities of two American cities that sought to promote hopeful social and economic futures by investing in not-for profit health institutions. By situating the uncontrolled growth of U.S. healthcare expenditures alongside deliberate local and regional plans to realize civic improvement through healthcare revenues, Andrew T. Simpson firmly establishes the role of place, contingency, and governance in shaping the seemingly ungovernable system that threatens to bankrupt municipal economies at the same time that it promises to save them." * Jeremy Greene, author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Making the Medical Metropolis Chapter 1. Building Cities of Health: Medical Centers in Pittsburgh and Houston Before 1965 Chapter 2. The Hospital-Civic Relationship in the Shadow of the Great Society Chapter 3. City of Hearts, City of Livers: Specialty Medicine and the Creation of New Civic Identities Chapter 4. "When the Fire Dies": Biotechnology and the Quest for a New Economy Chapter 5. The Coming of the System: Changing Health Care Delivery in the Medical Metropolis Chapter 6. A Charitable Mission or a Profitable Charity? Redefining the Hospital-Civic Relationship Epilogue. The Future of the Medical Metropolis Notes Archival Collections and Abbreviations Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIncluding an array of distinguished contributors, this novel book fills a gap in the literature by addressing an important yet under researched issue in the field of sports economics.Trade Review‘The reading of the book is stimulating and equally informative; engaging in sport activities appear to really matter for overall labour productivity market outcomes and the readers are told, individual life satisfaction is reportedly three times higher when participating in physical activity than happiness associated with employment. . . highly innovative and insightful, having the merit of filling a gap in the literature of the, yet under-researched, field of sports economics.’ -- Constantin Oprean, Management of Sustainable DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Késenne and Brad R. Humphreys 1. Participation in Physical Activity and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey Jane E. Ruseski and Brad R. Humphreys 2. An Economic Analysis of the Subjective Health and Well-being of Physical Activity Paul Downward and Simona Rasciute 3. Physical Activity and Obesity in Spain: Evidence from the Spanish National Health Survey Jaume García Villar, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque 4. Does Physical Exercise Affect Demand for Hospital Services? Evidence from Canadian Panel Data Nazmi Sari 5. Leisure Sports Participation in Switzerland Michael Lechner 6. Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality? Charlotte Cabane 7. Team Success, Productivity and Economic Impact Michael C. Davis and Christian M. End 8. Sports Participation and Happiness: Evidence from US Micro Data Haifang Huang and Brad R. Humphreys 9. Subjective Well-being and Engagement in Sport: Evidence from England David Forrest and Ian G. McHale 10. High School Sports and Teenage Births Joseph Price and Daniel H. Simon 11. Physical Activity and Subjective Well-being: An Empirical Analysis Georgios Kavetsos 12. Sport Opportunities and Local Well-being: Is Sport a Local Amenity? Tim Pawlowski, Christoph Breuer and Jorge Leyva Index

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Book SynopsisA key risk factor for a range of chronic diseases, obesity has become a major public health concern. It argues that efforts to prevent obesity and related chronic diseases can provide the means to increase social welfare and enhance health equity, relative to a situation in which chronic diseases are simply treated once they emerge.Trade Review‘This volume, initiated by the OECD, provides an overview of trends and future projections of obesity; discusses the economic costs associated with this major health issue; and examines various government and market strategies designed to prevent this growing problem. . . A timely, valuable volume on a critical issue. . . Highly recommended.’ -- E.P. Hoffman, Choice‘This book presents a valuable set of results and suggestions about the best preventive interventions to reduce the burden of obesity. It will aid any country concerned about this burden in defining public policies aimed at altering current trends.’ -- Julio Frenk, Harvard School of Public Health, US‘The positive message of this book is that the obesity epidemic can be successfully addressed by comprehensive strategies involving multiple interventions directed at individuals and populations.’ -- Ala Alwan, World Health Organization‘This innovative and well-researched book combines insights from a wide range of disciplines. It provides a clear exposition of the evidence that policy makers need to take action.’ -- Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Obesity and the Economics of Prevention Special Focus I: Promoting Health and Fighting Chronic Diseases: What Impact on the Economy? by Marc Suhrcke 2. Obesity: Past and Projected Future Trends 3. The Social Dimensions of Obesity Special Focus II: The Size and Risks of the International Epidemic of Child Obesity by Tim Lobstein 4. How Does Obesity Spread? Special Focus II: Are Health Behaviors Driven by Information? by Donald Kenkel 5. Tackling Special Focus IV: Community Interventions for the Prevention of Obesity by Francesco Branca 6. The Impact of Inventions Special Focus V: Regulation of Food Advertising to Children: The UK Experience by Jonathan Porter Special Focus VI: The Case of Self-Regulation in Food Advertising by Stephan Loerke 7. Information, Incentives and Choice: A Viable Approach to Preventing Obesity Annexes

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Book SynopsisInnovation and Health investigates both the origin and the diffusion of novelty in the field of health.Trade ReviewIn this thought provoking and insightful book, Thomas Grebel provides the contours of a novel theoretical framework allowing us to cope with the complex nature of the creation, diffusion and normative direction of innovations in the health sector. Multi-disciplinary in scope and rigorous in technical and appreciative analysis, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the evolution of knowledge in general and the dynamic and complex nature of medical innovations in particular. Anyone seriously interested in theoretical and normative groundwork for an evolutionary knowledge-based approach to health economics will have to stop and listen. --Kurt Dopfer, University of St Gallen, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Change in Economics 3. Health Economics 4. Towards a Theory of Innovation in Health Economics 5. Knowledge Creation in Medicine 6. Network Evolution in Medicine 7. Technology Diffusion in Medicine 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the costâbenefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated.Trade Review‘Professor Brent’s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost–benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach.’ -- William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WHY COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES 1. Introduction to the Book 2. Why Not Just Simply do What is Right and Try to Save Lives? 3. Myths and Misinformation 4. Counterintuitive Results 5. What is Wrong with Setting any Targets? 6. What is Wrong with Setting the Particular MDG Targets? 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis 101 8. Cost–Benefit Analysis 201 PART II: HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE 9. Introduction to Part II 10. HIV and Hunger 11. Nutrition and HIV at the Individual Level 12. Nutrition and HIV at the Country Level 13. Income as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 14. Education as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 15. Islam as a Factor Lowering HIV Rates 16. Impact of HIV on Agricultural Households 17. Agricultural Policy and HIV Interventions 18. Sex and HIV I: The Role of Transmission 19. Sex and HIV II: The Role of Concurrency 20. Sex and HIV III: The Role of Networks PART III: COST–BENEFIT METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Threshold Analysis Theory 23. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Effectiveness of HIV Education 24. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Benefits of Avoiding HIV 25. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Costs of a Possible HIV/AIDS Vaccine 26. Willingness to Pay Theory 27. Willingness to Pay Practice: The Benefits of Condoms 28. Cost Minimization Theory 29. Cost Minimization Practice: The Costs of Treating TB 30. Cost-Effectiveness Theory 31. Cost-Effectiveness Practice: The Benefits of ARVs 32. Human Capital Theory 33. Human Capital Practice: The Benefits of Female Primary Education 34. Value of a Statistical Life Theory 35. Value of a Statistical Life Practice: The Benefits of VCT PART IV: SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CBA 36. Introduction to IV 37. Commodification: Everything is Seen as a Commodity to be Bought and Sold 38. What is So “Social” About CBA? Fundamentals of CBA 39. Social and Private Perspectives in CBA 40. CBA and Equity I: Allowing for Ability to Pay 41. CBA and Equity II: Allocating by Time and Other Non-Price Methods 42. Conclusions I: How Not to Set Priorities for HIV 43. Conclusions II: Using CBA to Set Priorities for HIV References Index

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Book SynopsisEach of these issues are broken down further and split into six comprehensive sections:• Context• Pensions• Health• Welfare• Case Studies• Policy Innovation and Civil SocietyAcademics interested in policy challenges for mature societies will find this Handbook a highly relevant reference tool.Trade Review‘International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy gathers under one cover the collective knowledge of experts in the field who explore challenges arising from ageing populations around the world, and considers national state approaches to welfare for older people and how public and private initiatives work. College-level collections strong in public policies and aging with find this a powerful collection of in-depth articles suitable for framing inquiries and considering social structures.’ -- The Midwest Book Review‘This Handbook on ageing and public policy makes a substantial contribution in bringing together chapters spanning a -- breadth of issues in the areas of policy challenges and practitioner perspectives.’– EE Journal 1848 Social Policy & AdministrationTable of ContentsContents 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Social Policy for the Twenty-first-century Demography Sarah Harper 2. Introduction to Parts I-IV: Perspectives on the Challenges of Population Ageing PART I: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – CONTEXT 3. Drivers of Demographic Change in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries George W. Leeson 4. A Biodemographic Perspective on Longevity and Ageing Bruce A. Carnes 5. Migration and Ageing Societies Sarah Harper 6. On the Mechanical Contributions of Ageing to Global Income Inequality Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue and Michael Tenikue 7. Population Ageing and the Size of the Welfare State Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta PART II: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – PENSIONS 8. Global Pension Systems Robert Holzmann 9. The Design and Implementation of Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Issues and Options David E. Bloom and Roddy McKinnon 10. Understanding Pension Wealth Zhenyu Li and Anthony Webb 11. Rational Pension Reform Axel Börsch-Supan 12. National Transfer Accounts and Intergenerational Transfers Ron Lee and Andy Mason PART III: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – HEALTH 13. Assessing the Cost Effectiveness of Therapies for Older People Richard Edlin 14. Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure Growth Ed Westerhout 15. Developing Appropriate and Effective Care for People with Chronic Disease Bert Vrieheof and Arianne Elissen PART IV: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – WELFARE 16. Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice in Age-related Transfers Kenneth Howse 17. Health and Social Protection Policies for Older People in Latin America Peter Lloyd-Sherlock 18. Ageing Electorates and Gerontocracy: The Politics of Ageing in a Global World Fernando M. Torres-Gil and Kimberly Spencer-Suarez 19. Working Beyond Retirement Age: Lessons for Policy David Lain and Sarah Vickerstaff 20. Families, Older Persons and Care in Contexts of Poverty: the Case of South Africa Jaco Hoffman PART V and VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES 21. Policy and Practitioner Responses to the Challenges of Population Ageing: Introduction Jaco Hoffman 22. Sustaining the Nordic Welfare Model in the Face of Population Ageing Virpi Timonen and Mikko Kautto 23. Kinship Solidarity in Southern Europe Chiara Saraceno 24. Ageing and Social Policy in Australia Jeni Warburton 25. The Pension System in China: An Overview Taichang Chen 26. How Technology is Re-shaping the Processes of Providing Health Care for Ageing Populations Robin Gauld 27. Ageing and Care Giving in America: the Immigrant Workforce B. Lindsay Lowell 28. Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Programme Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Jelena Atanackovic PART VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES – POLICY INNOVATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY 29. Intergenerational Programmes and Policies in Aging Societies Matthew Kaplan and Mariano Sánchez 30. Population Ageing and Private Sector Provision: the Case of Dependent Older Women in Latin America Nélida Redondo 31. Demographic Change and the Role of Older People in the Voluntary Sector Karsten Hank and Marcel Erlinghagen 32. The Third Sector as a Provider of Services for Older People Ewa Leś 33. State-third Sector Partnership Frameworks: from Administration to Participation? Ingo Bode 34. Microfinance, Cooperatives and Timebanks- Community Provided Welfare Ed Collom 35. Faith-Based Organizations and the Provision of Care for Older People Lori Carter-Edwards, James H. Johnson Jr., Allan M. Parnell and Harold G. Koenig 36. Lifelong Learning and Employers: Re-skilling Older Workers John Field and Roy Canning 37. Retirement Planning and Financial Literacy Annamaria Lusardi Index

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Book SynopsisIn this well-documented book, Alain Enthoven develops the ideas of consumer choice and managed competition of alternative health care financing and delivery systems, as well as describing ways to improve quality and reduce the cost of health care.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. ‘Competition of Alternative Delivery Systems’, in Warren Greenberg (ed.), Competition in the Health Care Sector: Past, Present and Future, 1978, 255–77 2. ‘Consumer-Choice Health Plan: Inflation and Inequality in Health Care Today: Alternatives for Cost Control and an Analysis of Proposals for National Health Insurance’ and ‘Consumer-Choice Health Plan: A National-Health-Insurance Proposal Based on Regulated Competition in the Private Sector’, New England Journal of Medicine, 298 (12 and 13), 1978, 650–58 and 709–20 3. ‘Shattuck Lecture – Cutting Cost Without Cutting the Quality of Care’, New England Journal of Medicine, 298, June 1, 1978, 1229–38 4. ‘Consumer-centered vs. Job-centered Health Insurance’, Harvard Business Review, 57 (1), 1979, 38–49 5. ‘A New Proposal to Reform the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance’, Health Affairs, 3 (1), 1984, 21–39 6. ‘Managed Competition in Health Care and the Unfinished Agenda’, Health Care Financing Review, Annual Supplement, 1986, 105–19 7. ‘Effective Management of Competition in the FEHBP’, Health Affairs, 8 (3), 1989, 33–50 8. ‘What Can Europeans Learn from Americans?’, Health Care Financing Review, Annual Supplement, 1989, 49–63 9. ‘Internal Market Reform of the British National Health Service’, Health Affairs, 10 (3), 1991, 60–70 10. ‘Quality Management in the NHS: The Doctor’s Role – I and II’, BMJ: British Medical Journal, 304 (6821 and 6822), 1992, 235–39 and 304–8 (with D.M. Berwick and J.P. Bunker) 11. ‘The History and Principles of Managed Competition’, Health Affairs, 12 (Supplement 1), 1993, 24–48 12. ‘In Pursuit of an Improving National Health Service’, Health Affairs, 19 (3), 2000, 102–19 13. ‘Modernising the NHS: A Promising Start, but Fundamental Reform is Needed’, BMJ: British Medical Journal, 320, 13 May 2000, 1329–31 14. ‘Employment-Based Health Insurance is Failing: Now What?’, Health Affairs Web Exclusive, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2003/05/28/hlthaff.w3.237.citation, 28 May 2003, w3-237–49 15. ‘Clinically Integrated Health Care in the English NHS’, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 14 (2), 2009, 65–7 16. ‘Going Dutch – Managed-Competition Health Insurance in the Netherlands’, New England Journal of Medicine, 357 (24), 2007, 2421–3 (with Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven) 17. ‘A Living Model of Managed Competition: A Conversation with Dutch Health Minister Ab Klink’, Health Affairs, 27 (3), 2008, w196–203 18. ‘Consumer Choice of Health Plan: Connecting Insurers and Providers in Systems’, Keynote Address for the Dutch/Flemish Association of Health Economists (VGE), Annual Conference at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, November 30, 2006, 1–16 19. ‘Competition in Health Care: It Takes Systems to Pursue Quality and Efficiency’, Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2005/09/07/hlthaff.w5.420.citation, 7 September 2005 w5-420–33 (with Laura A. Tollen) 20. ‘“Redefining Health Care”: Medical Homes or Archipelagos to Navigate?’, Health Affairs, 26 (5), 2007, 1366–72 (with Francis J. Crosson and Stephen M. Shortell) 21. ‘The U.S. Experience with Managed Care and Managed Competition’, in Jane Sneddon Little (ed.), Wanting It All: The Challenge of Reforming the U.S. Health Care System, 2005, 97–117 22. ‘Curing Fragmentation with Integrated Delivery Systems: What They Do, What Has Blocked Them, Why We Need Them, and How to Get There from Here?’, in Einer Elhauge (ed.), The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions, 2010, 61–85

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘If you are looking for an engaging treatment by an economist of what optimal pandemic policy response should look like, and what common pitfalls to avoid, that brings to bear insights from epidemiology, economics, and behavioural economics, then I would highly recommend Nudged into Lockdown. Consider this your nudge.’ -- Jeremy Clark, Journal of Economic Psychology‘Nudged into Lockdown? forcefully addresses an important point that has too often gone missing in applied work on nudging and choice architecture: namely, that policy makers and experts, too, make systematic errors when interpreting data and may succumb to biased assessments of risk and uncertainty themselves. The book provides durable insights into how both orthodox benefit-cost analysis and key findings from the behavioural sciences – regarding trust, autonomy and pro-social adaptative responses in decentralised social systems – were sometimes overlooked or underutilised by those who designed covid-response policies.’ -- Nathan Berg, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics‘In responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic, most governments abandoned the existing scientific and policy consensus and mimicked one another to embrace lockdowns of varying stringency. Remarkably, hardly any seemed to produce cost–benefit analysis. Unremarkably, the cost–benefit balance varied between rich and poor countries. In this rigorous, multi-disciplinary examination, written in clearly accessible language, Ananish Chaudhuri explores the reasons for the herd-like behaviour by governments and for the public compliance with their edicts. A must-read for understanding what really happened with Covid-19 and why, and for being better prepared for the inevitable next pandemic.’ -- Ramesh Thakur, Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND), Crawford School, The Australian National University, Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations 1998–2007‘This book is at once scholarly and readily accessible to all. The case Chaudhuri makes is not for any specific policy response, but rather for rational and fully informed decisions – for epidemiology over ideology. If the careful logic and vivid illustrations here pry open enough minds, we will be far better prepared for the next great public health crisis than we were for Covid-19.’ -- David L. Katz, MD, MPH President, True Health Initiative and Founding Director, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Yale University, US, 1998–2019‘Ananish Chaudhuri lays out the many irrationalities involved in the support for lockdowns in New Zealand and elsewhere: an inability to judge small probabilities, the problems with gut feelings, and many ex-post justification biases. Chaudhuri makes the argument carefully and yet manages to retain great humanism and compassion. A delight to read.’ -- Paul Frijters, Professor in Wellbeing Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and co-author of An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks‘In response to the Covid pandemic, many countries adopted containment policies that did not condition on people’s health status or demographic characteristics. This timely and insightful book addresses the questions of what considerations led to those policies and whether those policies were well-informed. The book begins from the premise that the design of effective policy cannot be based solely on the insights of classic epidemiology models. The reason is both simple and sensible: those models don’t take into account behavioral responses of people to policies like containment. The author’s analysis is multidisciplinary in nature, blending economics, psychology, political science and epidemiology. The result is a rich and informative analysis. I highly recommend this well-written and timely book.’ -- Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Center for International Macroeconomics, Northwestern University, US‘This book is a very timely one for those, like me, who believe the democratic world’s lockdown response to the Covid virus will go down as the worst public policy response of the last few centuries. It is sceptical. It is interesting. It is Great Barrington over Chief Medical Officer. There is more to living and the good life than fear of dying of Covid. All the politicians who focused on that matrix, and ignored other causes of death as well as all the benefits of living in a free society, and more, should have to read this book.’ -- James Allan, Garrick Professor in Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia‘In this book Ananish Chaudhuri achieves the impossible – he offers an easy-to-read book that delivers profound insights about our behavior which applies not just to pandemics, but to many other recurrent situations in our daily lives! A must-read for anyone that wants to make better decisions.’ -- Sudipta Sarangi, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, US, Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and author of The Economics of Small Things‘Careful comparison of costs and benefits is usually considered a hallmark of wise decision-making. Yet in 2020 many governments abandoned this standard as they tried to minimize deaths from Covid-19 regardless of cost. Traditional cost–benefit arguments were rebuked, by politicians who by nature rarely admit error, but also by ordinary folk affronted that someone would want to “kill granny”. This book draws insights from experimental economics, political science and psychology to show how various biases in decision-making processes contributed to this situation. Fifty years ago, Essence of Decision led a generation of scholars to examine models of government decision-making. Hopefully Ananish Chaudhuri’s lively book has a similar impact, for scholars, students and members of the public concerned about the retreat from rationality that is revealed by policy choices and public attitudes in the Covid-19 era.’ -- John Gibson, Professor of Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists‘This is an excellent book that nicely discusses cutting-edge applications in behavioural economics pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is thought-provoking and contains pioneering approaches that broaden the scope of behavioural research. Excellent writing style, making the content of the book accessible to a broad audience. Highly recommended!’ -- Michalis Drouvelis, Professor of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK and Co-ordinating Editor, Theory and Decision‘In New Zealand now it is hard to remember the shock of lockdown as a pandemic response. So much has happened. The virus has been kept at bay, so far. The predicted economic disaster has not happened – yet. Massive financial relief for businesses forcibly suspended and jobs at risk was followed by a rapid recovery when shops reopened. But Ananish Chaudhuri is by no means alone in thinking the country could pay a high and lingering price for its unprecedented lockdown, and that these costs, especially the human costs, should have been weighed against the risks the virus posed. His book uses fascinating behavioral studies of economic decision making and the psychology of popular risk assessment to question the merits of measures that New Zealand’s Government took and New Zealanders overwhelmingly accepted. They should read this book and wonder if these were questions they should have asked.’ -- John Roughan, Political Columnist, New Zealand HeraldTable of ContentsContents: 1. Prologue 2. Gut feelings: biases, heuristics and Covid-19 3. Pathogens and probabilities 4. Should we trust people to do the right thing? 5. Politics, pathogens and party lines 6. Irrational exuberance in the midst of Covid-19 7. Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘The book offers a fascinating paradigm to reflect upon dementia interventions, promising to widen the lens of interested governments, public health and policy makers, as well as clinicians alike. By interlinking concepts of protecting human rights, preventing elder abuse, caring for persons living with dementia, all contributing to improving global health and economy, this book offers a solid rationale for an international United Nations convention on the human rights for older persons.’ -- Kiran Rabheru, University of Ottawa, Canada‘Robert Brent’s Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia provides a comprehensive and accessible examination of how economic tools can assist in making interventions for dementia more effective. Using state-of-the-art economic methods, Brent examines a broad range of efforts ranging from the role of Medicare eligibility to the importance of vision correction and hearing aids. Despite the rigorous attention to the costs and benefits of alternative policies, the book does not lose sight of concerns such as advocacy of broader protections for the human rights of those with dementia.’ -- W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to dementia, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the new interventions 2. Measuring dementia symptoms PART II THE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES 3. Years of education 4. Medicare eligibility 5. Hearing aids 6. Vision correction 7. Avoiding nursing homes PART III PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF DEMENTIA INTERVENTIONS 8. Elder abuse 9. Human rights Index

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Book SynopsisHow can analytics scholars and healthcare professionals access the most exciting and important healthcare topics and tools for the 21st century? Editors Tinglong Dai and Sridhar Tayur, aided by a team of internationally acclaimed experts, have curated this timely volume to help newcomers and seasoned researchers alike to rapidly comprehend a diverse set of thrusts and tools in this rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field. The Handbook covers a wide range of macro-, meso- and micro-level thrustssuch as market design, competing interests, global health,personalizedmedicine, residential care and concierge medicine, among othersand structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The handbook also provides an easy-to-comprehend introduction to five essential research toolsMarkov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data scienceby illustratTable of ContentsList of Contributors xvii Preface xix Glossary of Terms xxvii Acknowledgments xxxv Part I Thrusts Macro-level Thrusts (MaTs) 1 Organizational Structure 1Jay Levine 1.1 Introduction to the Healthcare Industry 2 1.2 Academic Medical Centers 6 1.3 Community Hospitals and Physicians 16 1.4 Conclusion 19 2 Access to Healthcare 21Donald R. Fischer 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 Goals 27 2.3 Opportunity for Action 29 3 Market Design 31Itai Ashlagi 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Matching Doctors to Residency Programs 31 3.2.1 Early Days 31 3.2.2 A Centralized Market and New Challenges 32 3.2.3 Puzzles and Theory 33 3.3 Kidney Exchange 35 3.3.1 Background 35 3.3.2 Creating a Thick Marketplace for Kidney Exchange 36 3.3.3 Dynamic Matching 38 3.3.4 The Marketplace for Kidney Exchange in the United States 41 3.3.5 Final Comments on Kidney Exchange 43 References 44 Meso-level Thrusts (MeTs) 4 Competing Interests 51Joel Goh 4.1 Introduction 51 4.2 The Literature on Competing Interests 53 4.2.1 Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Products 53 4.2.1.1 Individual Drug Classes 54 4.2.1.2 Multiple Interventions 55 4.2.1.3 Review Articles 56 4.2.2 Physician Ownership 56 4.2.2.1 Physician Ownership of Ancillary Services 57 4.2.2.2 Physician Ownership of Ambulatory Surgery Centers 59 4.2.2.3 Physician Ownership of Speciality Hospitals 60 4.2.2.4 Physician-Owned Distributors 61 4.2.3 Medical Reporting 62 4.2.3.1 DRG Upcoding 63 4.2.3.2 Non-DRG Upcoding 64 4.3 Examples 65 4.3.1 Example 1: Physician Decisions with Competing Interests 66 4.3.2 Example 2: Evidence of HAI Upcoding 70 4.4 Summary and FutureWork 72 References 73 5 Quality of Care 79Hummy Song and Senthil Veeraraghavan 5.1 Frameworks for Measuring Healthcare Quality 79 5.1.1 The Donabedian Model 79 5.1.2 The AHRQ Framework 81 5.2 Understanding Healthcare Quality: Classification of the Existing OR/MS Literature 82 5.2.1 Structure 82 5.2.2 Process 85 5.2.3 Outcome 91 5.2.4 Patient Experience 92 5.2.5 Access 94 5.3 Open Areas for Future Research 95 5.3.1 Understanding Structures and Their Interactions with Processes and Outcomes 95 5.3.2 Understanding Patient Experiences and Their Interactions with Structure 96 5.3.3 Understanding Processes andTheir Interactions with Outcomes 97 5.3.4 Understanding Access to Care 98 5.4 Conclusions 98 Acknowledgments 99 References 99 6 Personalized Medicine 109Turgay Ayer and Qiushi Chen 6.1 Introduction 109 6.2 Sequential Decision Disease Models with Health Information Updates 111 6.2.1 Case Study: POMDP Model for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening 113 6.2.2 Case Study: Kalman Filter for Glaucoma Monitoring 116 6.2.3 Other Relevant Studies 118 6.3 One-Time Decision Disease Models with Risk Stratification 120 6.3.1 Case Study: Subtype-Based Treatment for DLBCL 121 6.3.2 Other Applications 124 6.4 Artificial Intelligence-Based Approaches 125 6.4.1 Learning from Existing Health Data 126 6.4.2 Learning from Trial and Error 127 6.5 Conclusions and Emerging Future Research Directions 128 References 130 7 Global Health 137Karthik V. Natarajan and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan 7.1 Introduction 137 7.2 Funding Allocation in Global Health Settings 139 7.2.1 Funding Allocation for Disease Prevention 139 7.2.2 Funding Allocation for Treatment of Disease Conditions 143 7.2.2.1 Service Settings 143 7.2.2.2 Product Settings 146 7.3 Inventory Allocation in Global Health Settings 147 7.3.1 Inventory Allocation for Disease Prevention 147 7.3.2 Inventory Allocation for Treatment of Disease Conditions 149 7.4 Capacity Allocation in Global Health Settings 153 7.5 Conclusions and Future Directions 155 References 156 8 Healthcare Supply Chain 159Soo-Haeng Cho and Hui Zhao 8.1 Introduction 159 8.2 Literature Review 162 8.3 Model and Analysis 164 8.3.1 Generic Injectable Drug Supply Chain 164 8.3.1.1 Model 166 8.3.1.2 Analysis 168 8.3.2 Influenza Vaccine Supply Chain 171 8.3.2.1 Model 172 8.3.2.2 Analysis 173 8.4 Discussion and Future Research 177 Appendix 180 Acknowledgment 182 References 182 9 Organ Transplantation 187Bar𝚤¸s Ata, John J. Friedewald and A. CemRanda 9.1 Introduction 187 9.2 The Deceased-Donor Organ Allocation system: Stakeholders and Their Objectives 189 9.3 Research Opportunities in the Area 199 9.3.1 Past Research on the Transplant Candidate’s Problem 199 9.3.2 Challenges in Modeling Patient Choice 201 9.3.3 Past Research on the Deceased-donor Organ Allocation Policy 202 9.3.4 Challenges in Modeling the Deceased-donor Organ Allocation Policy 206 9.3.5 Research Problems from the Perspective of Other Stakeholders 206 9.4 Concluding Remarks 208 References 209 Micro-level Thrusts (MiTs) 10 Ambulatory Care 217Nan Liu 10.1 Introduction 217 10.2 How Operations are Managed in Primary Care Practice 218 10.3 What Makes Operations Management Difficult in Ambulatory Care 220 10.3.1 Competing Objectives 220 10.3.2 Environmental Factors 221 10.4 Operations Management Models 222 10.4.1 System-Wide Planning 222 10.4.2 Appointment Template Design 226 10.4.3 Managing Patient Flow 231 10.5 New Trends in Ambulatory Care 234 10.5.1 Online Market 234 10.5.2 Telehealth 235 10.5.3 Retail Approach of Outpatient Care 236 10.6 Conclusion 237 References 237 11 Inpatient Care 243Van-Anh Truong 11.1 Modeling the Inpatient Ward 244 11.2 Inpatient Ward Policies 246 11.3 Interface with ED 247 11.4 Interface with Elective Surgeries 248 11.5 Discharge Planning 250 11.6 Incentive, Behavioral, and Organizational Issues 251 11.7 Future Directions 252 11.7.1 Essential Quantitative Tools 253 11.7.2 Resources for Learners 253 References 253 12 Residential Care 257Nadia Lahrichi, Louis-Martin Rousseau and Willem-Jan van Hoeve 12.1 Overview of Home Care Delivery 257 12.1.1 Home Care 258 12.1.2 Home Healthcare 258 12.1.2.1 Temporary Care 259 12.1.2.2 Specialized Programs 259 12.1.3 Operational Challenges 260 12.1.3.1 Discussion of the Planning Horizon 262 12.1.3.2 Home Care Planning Problem 263 12.2 An Overview of Optimization Technology 263 12.2.1 Linear Programming 263 12.2.2 Mixed Integer Programming 264 12.2.3 Constraint Programming 265 12.2.4 Heuristics and Dedicated Methods 265 12.2.5 Technology Comparison 266 12.2.5.1 Solution Expectations and Solver Capabilities 266 12.2.5.2 Development Time and Maintenance 267 12.3 Territory Districting 267 12.4 Provider-to-Patient Assignment 270 12.4.1 Workload Measures 270 12.4.2 Workload Balance 271 12.4.3 Assignment Models 272 12.4.4 Assignment of New Patients 273 12.5 Task Scheduling and Routing 273 12.6 Perspectives 276 12.6.1 Integrated Decision-Making Under a New Business Model 277 12.6.2 Home Telemetering Forecasting Adverse Events 277 12.6.3 Forecasting the Wound Healing Process 278 12.6.4 Adjustment of Capacity and Demand 279 References 280 13 ConciergeMedicine 287Srinagesh Gavirneni and Vidyadhar G. 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Book SynopsisTransparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry to account through greater transparency.Table of Contents1. Introduction Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder 2. Transparency, Pharmaceuticals, and the Problem of Policy Change Katherine Fierlbeck 3. Data Transparency and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Europe: Road to Damascus, or Room without a View? Courtney Davis, Shai Mulinari, and Tom Jefferson 4. FDA and Health Canada: Similar Origins, yet Divergent Paths and Approaches to Transparency Margaret McCarthy and Joe Ross 5. Clinical Trial Data Transparency in Canada: Mapping the Progress from Laggard to Leader Marc-André Gagnon, Matthew Herder, Janice Graham, Katherine Fierlbeck, and Anna Danyliuk 6. How Clinical Study Information Transparency Can Fail to Serve Its Purpose, and How the Essential Medicines Concept Can Help Nav Persaud 7. Speak No Secrets: (Non)transparency in Health Canada’s Communications about Pharmaceutical Regulation Joel Lexchin 8. Economic Ghost-Management in the Pharmaceutical Sector Marc-Andre Gagnon 9. Balancing the Privacy Rights of Research Participants with the Public Interest in Clinical Drug Trials Data in the Context of Rare Diseases Kanksha Mahadevia Ghimire and Trudo Lemmens 10. The European Registration of the Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Pandemrix: A Case Study of the Consequences of Poor Clinical Data Transparency Tom Jefferson 11. Sharing Data and Ideas for Good Health: How Researchers Can Sustain an Ethical and Transparent Health System Rita Banzi 12. Conclusion Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder

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Book SynopsisTransparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry to account through greater transparency.Table of Contents1. Introduction Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder 2. Transparency, Pharmaceuticals, and the Problem of Policy Change Katherine Fierlbeck 3. Data Transparency and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Europe: Road to Damascus, or Room without a View? Courtney Davis, Shai Mulinari, and Tom Jefferson 4. FDA and Health Canada: Similar Origins, yet Divergent Paths and Approaches to Transparency Margaret McCarthy and Joe Ross 5. Clinical Trial Data Transparency in Canada: Mapping the Progress from Laggard to Leader Marc-André Gagnon, Matthew Herder, Janice Graham, Katherine Fierlbeck, and Anna Danyliuk 6. How Clinical Study Information Transparency Can Fail to Serve Its Purpose, and How the Essential Medicines Concept Can Help Nav Persaud 7. Speak No Secrets: (Non)transparency in Health Canada’s Communications about Pharmaceutical Regulation Joel Lexchin 8. Economic Ghost-Management in the Pharmaceutical Sector Marc-Andre Gagnon 9. Balancing the Privacy Rights of Research Participants with the Public Interest in Clinical Drug Trials Data in the Context of Rare Diseases Kanksha Mahadevia Ghimire and Trudo Lemmens 10. The European Registration of the Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Pandemrix: A Case Study of the Consequences of Poor Clinical Data Transparency Tom Jefferson 11. Sharing Data and Ideas for Good Health: How Researchers Can Sustain an Ethical and Transparent Health System Rita Banzi 12. Conclusion Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder

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Book SynopsisIn his Foreword Tony Culyer says, quoting the Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank Engine, that he wants his book to be 'a really useful engine'. Well, he's succeeded; it's really useful, and, for me at least, it'' a true engine of discovery.'- Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK'For anyone who thinks health economics is just economic evaluation and in particular cost-effectiveness analysis, this Dictionary will open their eyes to the breadth of health economics. The Dictionary takes a laudably inclusive approach, covering not just core economics terms but also terms within medicine, epidemiology, and the health sector that economists working in health need to understand. It also includes terms, and useful references, for those working as health economists in low and middle income countries. Any student or teacher should have this at their elbow.'- Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UKThis 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.Trade ReviewAcclaim for the second edition:In the second edition of this Dictionary, Culyer, a well-known and highly respected health economist, attempts to define many of the complex health care terms used not only in the field of medicine, but also in the fields of allied health sciences, nursing, public health, and economics. The Dictionary's main strength is its comprehensiveness. It features 2,310 terms used by various national health care systems including those of the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK. The Dictionary clearly identifies and concisely defines each term, and cites current literature that uses the term. . . this Dictionary is an extraordinary work, and Culyer should be commended for his effort. --- R.M. Mullner, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the third edition Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Acknowledgements Conventions The Dictionary of Health Economics Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRonen Avraham, David Hyman and Charles Silver, leading authorities in their fields, discuss the effects of economic and legal constraints and regulation on healthcare. They examine the impact of access to healthcare on mortality and clinical outcomes and investigate healthcare financing, including payment to providers, expanding costs, health insurance and the provision of long-term care. The distribution of spending and the expansion of provision are also investigated. The regulatory aspect includes discussions on the regulation of healthcare practice, medical malpractice and liability, and public health and ethical issues.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Introduction Ronen Avraham, David A. Hyman and Charles M. Silver PART I ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE: HEALTHCARE, MORTALITY AND OTHER CLINICAL OUTCOMES 1. Andrew P. Wilper, Steffie Woolhandler, Karen E. Lasser, Danny McCormick, David H. Bor and David U. Himmelstein (2009), ‘Health Insurance and Mortality in US Adults’, American Journal of Public Health, 99 (12), December, 2289–95 2. Richard Kronick (2009), ‘Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Revisited’, HSR: Health Services Research, 44 (4), August, 1211–31 3. Katherine Baicker, Sarah L. Taubman, Heidi L. Allen, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan H. Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Eric C. Schneider, Bill J. Wright, Alan M. Zaslavsky and Amy N. Finkelstein (2013), ‘The Oregon Experiment – Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes’, New England Journal of Medicine, 368 (18), May 2, 1713–22 PART II FINANCING HEALTH CARE A Payment Structure and Incentives 4. Ching-to Albert Ma and Thomas G. McGuire (1997), ‘Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment’, American Economic Review, 87 (4), September, 685–704 5. Sherry Glied and Joshua Graff Zivin (2002), ‘How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?’, Journal of Health Economics, 21 (2), March, 337–53 6. Thomas L. Greaney (2009), ‘Economic Regulation of Physicians: A Behavioral Economics Perspective’, Saint Louis University Law Journal, 53, 1189–209 7. Austin B. Frakt (2011), ‘How Much Do Hospitals Cost Shift? A Review of the Evidence’, Milbank Quarterly, 89 (1), March, 90–130 B Cost Drivers 8. Joseph P. Newhouse (1992), ‘Medical Care Costs: How Much Welfare Loss?’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6 (3), Summer, 3–21 9. Burton A. Weisbrod (1991), ‘The Health Care Quadrilemma: An Essay on Technological Change, Insurance, Quality of Care, and Cost Containment’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXIX (2), June, 523–52 10. Einer Elhauge (1997), ‘The Limited Regulatory Potential of Medical Technology Assessment’, Virginia Law Review, 82, 1525–617 C Health Insurance 11. Kenneth J. Arrow (1963), ‘Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care’, American Economic Review, LIII (5), December, 941–73 12. Mark V. Pauly (1968), ‘The Economics of Moral Hazard’, American Economic Review, 58 (3), Part I, June, 531–7 13. Kenneth J. Arrow (1968), ‘The Economics of Moral Hazard: Further Comment’, American Economic Review, 58 (3), Part 1, June, 537–9 14. Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra (2008), ‘Myths and Misconceptions about U.S. Health Insurance’, Health Affairs, 27 (6), October, w533–w543, content.healthaffairs.org, accessed 13 August 2013 15. Sherry A. Glied (2005), ‘The Employer-Based Health Insurance System: Mistake or Cornerstone?’, in David Mechanic, Lynn B. Rogut, David C. Colby and James R. Knickman (eds), Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care, Chapter 3, Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 37–52 D Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection 16. John A. Nyman (2004), ‘Is “Moral Hazard” Inefficient? The Policy Implications of a New Theory’, Health Affairs, 23 (5), September–October, 194–9 17. David M. Cutler and Sarah J. Reber (1998), ‘Paying for Health Insurance: The Trade-off between Competition and Adverse Selection’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113 (2), May, 433–66 E Long-Term Care 18. Mark V. Pauly (1990), ‘The Rational Nonpurchase of Long-Term-Care Insurance’, Journal of Political Economy, 98 (1), February, 153–68 19. Jeffrey R. Brown and Amy Finkelstein (2011), ‘Insuring Long-Term Care in the United States’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25 (4), Fall, 119–41 and ‘Appendix: Calculating Loads and Comprehensiveness’, http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.25.4.119. Accessed 25.02.2014, 1-13 PART III DISTRIBTUTION OF SPENDING AND CROWD-OUT 20. Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan S. Skinner (2005), ‘Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities’, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48 (1), Supplement, Winter, S42–S53 21. Tomas J. Philipson, Seth A. Seabury, Lee M. Lockwood, Dana P. Goldman and Darius N. Lakdawalla (2010), ‘Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets’ and ‘Comment and Discussion’, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring, 325–55, 56–61 22. David M. Cutler and Jonathan Gruber (1996), ‘Does Public Insurance Crowd out Private Insurance?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (2), May, 391–430 PART IV COMPETITION AND FRAGMENTATION IN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY 23. David Hyman (2010), ‘Health Care Fragmentation: We Get What We Pay For’, in Einer Elhauge (ed.), Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions, Chapter 2, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 23–36 24. Thomas (Tim) Greaney (2009), ‘Competition Policy and Organizational Fragmentation in Health Care’, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 71 (2), 217–39 Index Volume II Contents: An introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I PART I REGULATION OF HEALTH CARE PRACTICE A Drugs and Devices 1. Anup Malani and Tomas Philipson (2012), ‘The Regulation of Medical Products’, in Patricia Danzon and Sean Nicholson (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, Chapter 5, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 100–42 2. Michelle M. Mello, Sara Abiola and James Colgrove (2012), ‘Pharmaceutical Companies’ Role in State Vaccination Policymaking: The Case of Huyman Papillomavirus Vaccination’, American Journal of Public Health, 102 (5), May, 893–8 B Licensure and Guidelines 3. Ronen Avraham (2011), ‘Clinical Practice Guidelines – The Warped Incentives in the U.S. Healthcare System?’, American Journal of Law and Medicine, 37 (1), Spring, 7–40 4. Shirley Svorny (1993), ‘Advances in Economic Theories of Medical Licensure’, Federation Bulletin: The Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline, 80 (1), Spring, 27–32 C Provider Rankings 5. Peter K. Lindenauer, Denise Remus, Sheila Roman, Michael B. Rothberg, Evan M. Benjamin, Allen Ma and Dale W. Bratzler (2007), ‘Public Reporting and Pay for Performance in Hospital Quality Improvement’, New England Journal of Medicine, 356 (5), February, 486–96 6. David Dranove, Daniel Kessler, Mark McClellan and Mark Satterthwaite (2003), ‘Is More Information Better? The Effects of “Report Cards” on Health Care Providers’, Journal of Political Economy, 111 (3), June, 555–88 PART II MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND LIABILITY 7. Richard A. Epstein (1976), ‘Medical Malpractice: The Case for Contract’, American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1 (1), 87–149 8. Jennifer Arlen (2013), ‘Economic Analysis of Medical Malpractice Liability and Its Reform’, in Jennifer Arlen (ed.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Tort, Chapter 2, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 33–69 9. Kenneth S. Abraham and Paul C. Weiler (1994), ‘Enterprise Medical Liability and the Evolution of the American Health Care System’, Harvard Law Review, 108 (2), December, 381–436 10. Kathryn Zeiler, Bernard S. Black, Charles Silver, David A. Hyman and William M. Sage (2008), ‘Physicians’ Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003’, Journal of Legal Studies, 36 (S2), June, S9–S45 11. David M. Studdert, Michelle M. Mello, Atul A. Gawande, Tejal K. Gandhi, Allen Kachalia, Catherine Yoon, Ann Louise Puopolo and Trojen A. Brennan (2006), ‘Claims, Errors, and Compensation Payments in Medical Malpractice Litigation’, New England Journal of Medicine, 354 (19), May, 2024–33 12. Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan (1996), ‘Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (2), May, 353–90 13. Daniel P. Kessler (2011), ‘Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25 (2), Spring, 93–110 14. Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny and Max M. Schanzenbach (2012), ‘The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums’, Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 28 (4), October, 657–86 15. Janet Currie and W. Bentley MacLeod (2008), ‘First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123 (2), May, 795–830 PART III PUBLIC HEALTH A Infections and Antibiotic Resistance 16. Ramanan Laxminarayan and Anup Malani (2011), ‘Economics of Infectious Diseases’, in Sherry Glied and Peter C. Smith (eds), Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, Chapter 9, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 189–205 17. William M. Sage and David A. Hyman (2010), ‘Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance: Regulatory Strategies and Institutional Capacity’, Tulane Law Review, 84 (4), March, 781–840 B Obesity 18. Ronen Avraham and K.A.D. Camara (2007), ‘The Tragedy of Human Commons’, Cardozo Law Review, 29 (2), November, 479–511 [33] 19. Tomas Philipson (2001), ‘The World-Wide Growth in Obesity: An Economic Research Agenda’, Health Economics, 10, 1–7 20. Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner (2008), 'Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Review of Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles's Obesity, Business and Public Policy', Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (4), December, 974–82 PART IV ETHICAL ISSUES 21. Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Margaret P. Battin (1998), ‘What are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?’, New England Journal of Medicine, 339 (3), July, 167–72 22. Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth (2012), ‘Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate’, American Economic Review, 102 (5), August, 2018–47 23. Jason Snyder (2010), ‘Gaming the Liver Transplant Market’, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 26 (3), December, 546–68 Index

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Book SynopsisThe LSE Companion to Health Policy covers a wide range of conceptual and practical issues from a number of different perspectives introducing the reader to, and summarising, the vast literature that analyzes the complexities of health policy. The Companion also assesses the current state of the art. Health policy is a wide-ranging subject covering many academic disciplines, but what most studies in health policy have in common is an interest in applying theory to improve practice. This Companion brings academic rigor to bear evidence on a range of central areas within health policy. It covers key issues on the quality, access and inequalities in health and health care; supply and health markets; insurance and expenditures; pharmaceuticals and new technologies; ageing and long-term care; and behavior and health production. This unique Companion on health policy contains the most important features for health system reform at a time of funding constraints and will therefore hold great appeal for policy analysts and makers, students, academics and management professionals. Contributors: S. Allin, R.G. Bevan, R. Butterfield, C. Campbell, A. Comas-Herrera, Z. Cooper, J. Costa-Font, M. Di Cesare, H.A. Elgazzar, J.-L. Fernandez, A. Gibbs, C. Henderson, C. Hernandez-Quevedo, L. Kossarova, C. Masseria, A. McGuire, P. Mladovsky, A. Morton, M. Murphy, I. Papanicolas, M. Raikou, C. Rudisill, V. Serra-Sastre, C. Stavropoulou, N. Varol, J.M. Wiener, R. Wittenberg, V. ZiganteTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Alistair McGuire and Joan Costa-Font PART I: QUALITY, ACCESS AND INEQUALITIES 1. Inequalities in Health: Why Do We Care? How Do We Care? What Can We Do About Them? Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Joan Costa-Font 2. Strengthening Community Participation in Primary Health Care: Experiences from South Africa Andrew Gibbs and Catherine Campbell 3. Socioeconomic Status and Access to Health Care: The Quandary of Transition Economies Heba A. Elgazzar 4. Quality of Ambulatory Care: Hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Lucia Kossarova PART II: SUPPLY AND HEALTH CARE MARKETS 5. Choice in Health Care: Drivers and Consequences Valentina Zigante, Joan Costa-Font and Zack Cooper 6. A Million Years of Waiting: Competing Accounts and Comparative Experiences of Hospital Waiting-time Policy Alec Morton and R. Gwyn Bevan 7. Measuring Access to Health Care in Europe Sara Allin and Cristina Masseria PART III: INSURANCE AND EXPENDITURES 8. How are Rising Health Care Expenditures Explained? Alistair McGuire, Victoria Serra-Sastre and Maria Raikou 9. Providing Financial Incentives for Improved Quality and Efficiency: A Literature Review of the Effects of Payment for Performance (P4P) Policies Irene Papanicolas 10. Social Health Protection: Policy Options for Low- and Middle-income Countries Philipa Mladovsky PART IV: PHARMACEUTICALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 11. Technology Diffusion in Health Care: Conceptual Aspects and Evidence Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire 12. Do International Launch Strategies of Pharmaceutical Corporations Respond to Changes in the Regulatory Environment? Nebibe Varol, Joan Costa-Font and Alistair McGuire PART V: AGEING AND LONG-TERM CARE 13. Proximity to Death and Health Care Costs Michael Murphy 14. The Health and Social Care Divide in the United Kingdom Catherine Henderson 15. Barriers to and Opportunities for Private Long-term Care Insurance in England: What Can We Learn from Other Countries? Adelina Comas-Herrera, Rebecca Butterfield, José-Luis Fernández, Raphael Wittenberg and Joshua M. Wiener PART VI: BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH PRODUCTION 16. Historical Trends of Mortality and its Implications for Health Policies in England and Wales: The Cause-of-Death Approach Mariachiara Di Cesare and Michael Murphy 17. Risk Research and Health-related Behaviours Caroline Rudisill 18. The Doctor–Patient Relationship: A Review of the Theory and Policy Implications Charitini Stavropoulou Index

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Book SynopsisCost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications throughout all regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link between cost-benefit analysis and the mainstream health care evaluation field, which is dominated by non-economists. The need to build a bridge between the two is more important than ever before, as the general understanding of cost-benefit analysis appears to have regressed.Case studies are used throughout to explain and illustrate the various methodologies being examined. In addition, the author now covers more of the statistical requirements that are necessary to understand and carry out health care evaluations, and follows an applied economics approach. Ultimately, he resolves a number of disputes and makes some new, but subtle, contributions by reinterpreting, correcting and extending existing work. The book covers the topic in an accessible manner, from the foundations to the frontiers of the field, and clearly explains all the necessary economic principles along the way.Cost-Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition will be invaluable to students and researchers of health economics, public policy and health care policy, as well as policymakers and health care practitioners. It can also be used as a comprehensive introductory text by anyone with an interest in cost-benefit analysis. From this perspective, the new additional final chapter is particularly useful as it supplies a summary of CBA that highlights the main conclusions of the text in a single chapter.Contents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of 'Cost' 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost utility Analysis 10. Cost-utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost-benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost-benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost-benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions IndexTrade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘Professor Brent’s book is a superb and much-needed text in the field of health care evaluation. The economic approaches for appraisal of health care programs are presented with greater clarity than any other available text. A comprehensive review of cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost–utility analysis, and cost–benefit analysis is given in a simple and yet very insightful manner that pointedly demonstrates their fundamental principles, methodological requirements, and common linkages for evaluation research. The book skilfully merges theory and application of the economic analyses of health care, combining the latest literature with adroit illustrations of required methodologies and easily understandable examples that inform the reader of how empirical evaluation research should be conducted. Major evaluation concerns about the appropriateness of discounting health benefits, the appropriate discount (interest) rate, and intangible benefits and costs are critically appraised. Not only is the criterion of economic efficiency of health care programs explored directly and with lucidity, but the important social question of the equity of health interventions is also assessed straightforwardly. Students of health care as well as health policy analysts and administrators are provided with a considerable solid foundation for undertaking evaluation of complex health care issues. In short, Professor Brent has even made the economics of health care evaluation accessible to non-economists in the health care field.’ -- Paul L. Solano, University of Delaware, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of ‘Cost’ 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost–utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost–utility Analysis 10. Cost–utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost–benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost–benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost–benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions Index

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Book SynopsisThe LSE Companion to Health Policy covers a wide range of conceptual and practical issues from a number of different perspectives introducing the reader to, and summarising, the vast literature that analyzes the complexities of health policy. The Companion also assesses the current state of the art. Health policy is a wide-ranging subject covering many academic disciplines, but what most studies in health policy have in common is an interest in applying theory to improve practice. This Companion brings academic rigor to bear evidence on a range of central areas within health policy. It covers key issues on the quality, access and inequalities in health and health care; supply and health markets; insurance and expenditures; pharmaceuticals and new technologies; ageing and long-term care; and behavior and health production. This unique Companion on health policy contains the most important features for health system reform at a time of funding constraints and will therefore hold great appeal for policy analysts and makers, students, academics and management professionals. Contributors: S. Allin, R.G. Bevan, R. Butterfield, C. Campbell, A. Comas-Herrera, Z. Cooper, J. Costa-Font, M. Di Cesare, H.A. Elgazzar, J.-L. Fernandez, A. Gibbs, C. Henderson, C. Hernandez-Quevedo, L. Kossarova, C. Masseria, A. McGuire, P. Mladovsky, A. Morton, M. Murphy, I. Papanicolas, M. Raikou, C. Rudisill, V. Serra-Sastre, C. Stavropoulou, N. Varol, J.M. Wiener, R. Wittenberg, V. ZiganteTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Alistair McGuire and Joan Costa-Font PART I: QUALITY, ACCESS AND INEQUALITIES 1. Inequalities in Health: Why Do We Care? How Do We Care? What Can We Do About Them? Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Joan Costa-Font 2. Strengthening Community Participation in Primary Health Care: Experiences from South Africa Andrew Gibbs and Catherine Campbell 3. Socioeconomic Status and Access to Health Care: The Quandary of Transition Economies Heba A. Elgazzar 4. Quality of Ambulatory Care: Hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Lucia Kossarova PART II: SUPPLY AND HEALTH CARE MARKETS 5. Choice in Health Care: Drivers and Consequences Valentina Zigante, Joan Costa-Font and Zack Cooper 6. A Million Years of Waiting: Competing Accounts and Comparative Experiences of Hospital Waiting-time Policy Alec Morton and R. Gwyn Bevan 7. Measuring Access to Health Care in Europe Sara Allin and Cristina Masseria PART III: INSURANCE AND EXPENDITURES 8. How are Rising Health Care Expenditures Explained? Alistair McGuire, Victoria Serra-Sastre and Maria Raikou 9. Providing Financial Incentives for Improved Quality and Efficiency: A Literature Review of the Effects of Payment for Performance (P4P) Policies Irene Papanicolas 10. Social Health Protection: Policy Options for Low- and Middle-income Countries Philipa Mladovsky PART IV: PHARMACEUTICALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 11. Technology Diffusion in Health Care: Conceptual Aspects and Evidence Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire 12. Do International Launch Strategies of Pharmaceutical Corporations Respond to Changes in the Regulatory Environment? Nebibe Varol, Joan Costa-Font and Alistair McGuire PART V: AGEING AND LONG-TERM CARE 13. Proximity to Death and Health Care Costs Michael Murphy 14. The Health and Social Care Divide in the United Kingdom Catherine Henderson 15. Barriers to and Opportunities for Private Long-term Care Insurance in England: What Can We Learn from Other Countries? Adelina Comas-Herrera, Rebecca Butterfield, José-Luis Fernández, Raphael Wittenberg and Joshua M. Wiener PART VI: BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH PRODUCTION 16. Historical Trends of Mortality and its Implications for Health Policies in England and Wales: The Cause-of-Death Approach Mariachiara Di Cesare and Michael Murphy 17. Risk Research and Health-related Behaviours Caroline Rudisill 18. The Doctor–Patient Relationship: A Review of the Theory and Policy Implications Charitini Stavropoulou Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a thought-provoking, original and incredibly informative study of how health services research can improve both service practice and policy rather than yet another catalogue of disjointed case studies and initiatives. An absolutely essential read for experts and novices alike.'- Elias Mossialos, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Reflecting on more than 50 years of personal experience at the interface of epidemiology and health services research, Professor Walter Holland has written a book full of candid and - often - critical observations. He always succeeds in seeing the wood through the trees, and this book convincingly demonstrates the value of research in improving health service practice and policy.'- Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands'In his latest opus, Improving Health Services, Professor Walter Holland, a distinguished health services researcher with a long career in recommending health policy on the basis of evidence, takes on the task of defining the key elements of effective health policy research, Its essential multidisciplinary requirements and its optimal but realistic relationship to health policy formulation, implementation and analysis. Few scholars are more qualified to present the history of health services research in the United Kingdom and the United States, the essential elements of sound health services research and to discuss its role in the future of health services in the United Kingdom. It is, therefore, essential reading for scholars in the field and those wishing to pursue a career in the field.'- Roger Detels, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine, USThis insightful book describes how Health Services Research (HSR) can be developed and used to evaluate, advance and improve all aspects of health services. It demonstrates the need for good HSR to avoid the continuation or development of ineffective or cost-inefficient services.Drawing on his extensive personal experience in the development of HSR, Walter Holland provides examples from the US and the UK to illustrate important lessons for the future improvement of health services. Taking a distinctive approach to describing the purposes and activities of HSR, the book focuses on the significance of close collaboration with those responsible for the delivery and decisions of health policy. The major message is the importance of heeding the findings of HSR so as to develop evidence-based health policy, and to understand and influence the actions of health professionals, managers and politicians. Holland strongly advocates greater use of HSR and emphasizes its ability to provide vital evidence on how to improve health services.This highly informative and detailed book will strongly appeal to health service researchers, public health practitioners, clinicians, health-service managers, administrators and health policymakers.Contents: Preface 1. Health Services Research: A General Perspective 2. Health Services Research in the United States 3. Health and Health Services Research in the United Kingdom: A Historical Review 4. Personal Reflections 5. Organisational and Funding Issues 6. Health Services Research in Practice 7. Priorities in Medical Research: The House of Lords Select Committee 8. Key Questions 9. Conclusions Postscript Appendix: Department of Health Reports on Health Services Research IndexTrade Review‘For five decades Professor Holland has observed the evolution of Health Services Research in the United Kingdom and internationally from a unique vantage point. The unit he created in St Thomas’s Hospital led its development and gave him a platform to influence policy at the highest level. In this enthralling and insightful book he takes us on a grand historical tour, charting the progress that has been made in Health Services Research but, as important, pointing out the lessons from the many missed opportunities along the way.’ -- Martin McKee CBE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK‘This is a thought-provoking, original and incredibly informative study of how health services research can improve both service practice and policy rather than yet another catalogue of disjointed case studies and initiatives. An absolutely essential read for experts and novices alike.’ -- Elias Mossialos, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK‘No-one is better placed to tell the story of health services research over the past 50 years than Walter Holland, a major contributor and advocate. He reveals the cast of characters involved in the scientific struggles for acceptance and the political intrigue required. Unusually for someone who knows where the bodies are buried, he is prepared to share his insights and to exhort today’s researchers never to forget that “HSR and its results are a highly emotive political subject”.’ -- Nick Black, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK‘Reflecting on more than 50 years of personal experience at the interface of epidemiology and health services research, Professor Walter Holland has written a book full of candid and – often – critical observations. He always succeeds in seeing the wood through the trees, and this book convincingly demonstrates the value of research in improving health service practice and policy.’ -- Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands‘In his latest opus, Improving Health Services, Professor Walter Holland, a distinguished health services researcher with a long career in recommending health policy on the basis of evidence, takes on the task of defining the key elements of effective health policy research, Its essential multidisciplinary requirements and its optimal but realistic relationship to health policy formulation, implementation and analysis. Few scholars are more qualified to present the history of health services research in the United Kingdom and the United States, the essential elements of sound health services research and to discuss its role in the future of health services in the United Kingdom. It is, therefore, essential reading for scholars in the field and those wishing to pursue a career in the field.’ -- Roger Detels, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine, U‘This book should be regarded as required reading for all those involved in or contemplating careers in this area.’ -- Jim McEwen, International Journal of Epidemiology‘Prof Holland's unrivalled experience as a health service researcher and government adviser. It deserves a place in any library serious about supporting the study of health services from a population perspective.’ -- Alan Maryon-Davis, Public Health TodayTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Health Services Research: A General Perspective 2. Health Services Research in the United States 3. Health and Health Services Research in the United Kingdom: A Historical Review 4. Personal Reflections 5. Organisational and Funding Issues 6. Health Services Research in Practice 7. Priorities in Medical Research: The House of Lords Select Committee 8. Key Questions 9. Conclusions Postscript Appendix: Department of Health Reports on Health Services Research Index

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Book SynopsisThe authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.'- Nick Drager, Honorary Professor LSHTM, Professor of Practice McGill University, Canada'Lunt, Horsfall and Hanefield have brought together the world's leading scholars in the field for this Handbook. Collectively, they chart the course for medical tourism research in covering an exhaustive range of topics. This book is rich in both the breadth and depth of information offered in a time where medical tourism is of increasing importance to the global and domestic health policy and service provision landscape. The editors have done a superb job of steering the contributors and piecing together the various sections of the book to produce a coherent and, what is likely to become, definitive work. It will be essential reading for anyone with interests in the subject.'- Robin Gauld, University of Otago, New ZealandThe growth of international travel for purposes of medical treatment has been accompanied by increased academic research and analysis. This Handbook explores the emergence of medical travel and patient mobility and the implications for patients and health systems.Bringing together leading scholars and analysts from across the globe, this unprecedented Handbook examines the regional and national experiences of medical tourism, including coverage of the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The chapters explore topics on issues of risk, law and ethics; and include treatment-focused discussions which highlight patient decision-making, patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dental, fertility and bariatric treatment.Students, practitioners and researchers of global health policy, health and globalization, international business, travel medicine and health ethics will find the subjects discussed to be of considerable interest.Contributors: P.P. Barros, D. Bell, A. Bochaton, A.V. Bustamante, M. Calnan, V. Calovski, V. Casey, R. Chanda, A. Chandu, O.N.Y. Cheung, A. Chikanda, I.G. Cohen, J. Connell, V.A. Crooks, J. Crush, L. Culley, H. Endo, M. Exworthy, J.R. Frederick, W. Friesen, L.L. Gan, A.N. Garman, M.W. Hadler, C.M. Hall, C. Hamlyn-Williams, L.N. Handlos, J. Hanefeld, A.J. He, R. Holliday, D. Horsfall, N. Hudson, S.S. Jervelund, K.N. Jin, T.J. Johnson, R. Johnston, S. Karsavuran, S. Kaya, R.A. Kearns, N.M. Kronfol, M. Lakhanpaul, J. Yeonjae Lee, H. Legido-Quigley, N. Lunt, T. Mainil, L. Manikam, B. Maswikwa, M. Mckee, D. Morgan, T. Noree, S. Okamura, M. Ormond, S. Peckham, G. Pennings, L. Puczkó, D. Reisman, D. Sanders, C.D. Shaw, M. Smith, R. Smith, J. Snyder, E.J. Sobo, I. Sziva, M. Toya, M. Walton-Roberts, R. Whitmore, A. Whittaker, A. Y ld zTrade Review‘The authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.’ -- Nick Drager, Honorary Professor LSHTM, Professor of Practice, McGill University, Canada‘Lunt, Horsfall and Hanefield have brought together the world’s leading scholars in the field for this Handbook. Collectively, they chart the course for medical tourism research in covering an exhaustive range of topics. This book is rich in both the breadth and depth of information offered in a time where medical tourism is of increasing importance to the global and domestic health policy and service provision landscape. The editors have done a superb job of steering the contributors and piecing together the various sections of the book to produce a coherent and, what is likely to become, definitive work. It will be essential reading for anyone with interests in the subject.’ -- Robin Gauld, University of Otago, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT 1. The Shaping of Contemporary Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld 2. Medical Tourism – Concepts and Definitions John Connell 3. Medical Tourism by Numbers Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt 4. Globalization and Trade in Health Services Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith 5. Patients’ Willingness to Travel Mark Exworthy and Stephen Peckham 6. Travelling for Value: Global Drivers of Change in the Tertiary and Quarternary Markets Tricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. Garman PART II MACRO-LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS 7. Health Systems and Medical Tourism Pedro P. Barros 8. The Economics of Health and Medical Tourism David Reisman 9. OECD Accounting for Trade in Healthcare David Morgan 10. Financing Mechanisms Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith 11. The Implications of Medical Travel upon Equity in Lower and Middle Income Countries Andrea Whittaker 12. What’s Where? Why There? And Why Care? A Geography of Responsibility in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond PART III UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 13. A Review of Small-Scale Niche Treatment Providers Olive N.Y. Cheung 14. Regional Differences: Scope and Trust Among Medical Tourism Facilitators Lydia L. Gan and James R. Frederick 15. Government and Governance Strategies in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond and Tomas Mainil 16. Marketing Medical Tourism in Korea Ki Nam Jin 17. Medical Tourism and the Internet Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt 18. Networks and Supply Chains: The Nature of Medical Tourism Markets Neil Lunt 19. The Coming Perfect Storm: Medical Tourism as a Biosecurity Issue C. Michael Hall PART IV REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF MEDICAL TOURISM 20. Diasporic Medical Return: Korean Immigrants’ Use of Homeland Medical Services Jane Yeonjae Lee, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen 21. Culture and Medical Travel Elisa J. Sobo 22. Use of Cross-Border Healthcare among Immigrants Signe Smith Jervelund and Line Neerup Handlos 23. Migration: The Mobility of Patients and Health Professionals Margaret Walton-Roberts 24. United States (US)-Mexico Bi-National Insurance Efforts and the Prospective Impacts of Health Care Reforms in the US and Mexico Arturo Vargas Bustamante 25. European Retirement Migration: Access to Health Care and Policy Implications Helena Legido-Quigley and Martin Mckee 26. Medical Tourism: A Case Study of Thailand Thinnakorn Noree 27. International Medical Travel Developments within Thailand and South-East Asia Audrey Bochaton 28. The National Context of Medical Travel within Japan Hiroyoshi Endo, Serina Okamura and Masafumi Toya 29. Medical Tourism and Outward FDI in Health Services: India in South Asia Rupa Chanda 30. Medical Tourism Developments within the Middle-East Nabil M. Kronfol 31. Migration and Patient Mobility in Latin America Max William Hadler 32. The Rise of Medical Tourism to South Africa Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, David Sanders and Belinda Maswikwa 33. Medical Tourism Developments within Turkey Sıdıka Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet Yıldız PART V ETHICAL, LEGAL AND REGULATORY 34. Ethics of Medical Tourism Guido Pennings 35. Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients’ Home Country I. Glenn Cohen 36. Child Medical Tourism: A New Phenomenon Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams, Monica Lakhanpaul and Logan Manikam 37. Hospital Accreditation and Medical Tourism Charles D. Shaw 38. Medical Tourism and Trust: Towards an Agenda for Research Michael Calnan and Vid Calovski PART VI MOTIVATION, CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND OUTCOMES 39. Putting the Thermal Back into Medical Tourism Melanie Smith, László Puczkó and Ivett Sziva 40. Dental Tourism Arun Chandu 41. Transplantation Tourism in Asia: Snapshot, Consequences and the Imperative for Policy Changes Alex Jingwei He 42. Cosmetic Surgery Tourism Ruth Holliday and David Bell 43. Journey Without End: Travelling Overseas for Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Study of UK Patients Travelling for Bariatric Surgery Johanna Hanefeld and Daniel Horsfall 44. Cross-Border Reproductive Travel Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley 45. ‘They Go the Extra Mile, the Extra Ten Miles…’: Examining Canadian Medical Tourists’ Interactions with Health Care Workers Abroad Valorie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder 46. Outcomes and Medical Tourism Neil Lunt and Daniel Horsfall Index

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Book SynopsisWith the collective knowledge of expert contributors in the field, The International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy explores the challenges arising from the ageing of populations across the globe.With an expansive look at the topic, this comprehensive Handbook examines various national state approaches to welfare provisions for older people and highlights alternatives based around the voluntary and third-party sector, families and private initiatives. Each of these issues are broken down further and split into six comprehensive sections:- Context- Pensions- Health- Welfare- Case Studies- Policy Innovation and Civil SocietyAcademics interested in policy challenges for mature societies will find this Handbook a highly relevant reference tool. It also offers an important message for policy makers and practitioners in the field of public policy.Contributors include: J. Atanackovic, D.E. Bloom, I. Bode, A. Börsch-Supan, I.L. Bourgeault, R. Canning, B.A. Carnes, L. Carter-Edwards, T. Chen, E. Collom, R. Edlin, A. Elissen, M. Eloundou-Enyegue, M. Erlinghagen, J. Field, V. Galasso, R. Gauld, K. Hank, S. Harper, J. Hoffman, R. Holzmann, K. Howse, J.H. Johnson Jr., M. Kaplan, M. Kautto, H.G. Koenig, D. Lain, R. Lee, G.W. Leeson, E. Le , Z. Li, P. Lloyd-Sherlock, B.L. Lowell, A. Lusardi, A. Mason, R. McKinnon, A.M. Parnell, P. Profeta, N. Redondo, M. Sánchez, C. Saraceno, K. Spencer-Suarez, M.Tenikue, V. Timonen, F.M. Torres-Gil, S. Vickerstaff, B. Vriehoef, J. Warburton, A. Webb, E. WesterhoutTrade Review‘International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy gathers under one cover the collective knowledge of experts in the field who explore challenges arising from ageing populations around the world, and considers national state approaches to welfare for older people and how public and private initiatives work. College-level collections strong in public policies and aging with find this a powerful collection of in-depth articles suitable for framing inquiries and considering social structures.’ -- The Midwest Book Review‘This Handbook on ageing and public policy makes a substantial contribution in bringing together chapters spanning a -- breadth of issues in the areas of policy challenges and practitioner perspectives.’– EE Journal 1848 Social Policy & AdministrationTable of ContentsContents 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Social Policy for the Twenty-first-century Demography Sarah Harper 2. Introduction to Parts I-IV: Perspectives on the Challenges of Population Ageing PART I: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – CONTEXT 3. Drivers of Demographic Change in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries George W. Leeson 4. A Biodemographic Perspective on Longevity and Ageing Bruce A. Carnes 5. Migration and Ageing Societies Sarah Harper 6. On the Mechanical Contributions of Ageing to Global Income Inequality Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue and Michael Tenikue 7. Population Ageing and the Size of the Welfare State Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta PART II: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – PENSIONS 8. Global Pension Systems Robert Holzmann 9. The Design and Implementation of Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Issues and Options David E. Bloom and Roddy McKinnon 10. Understanding Pension Wealth Zhenyu Li and Anthony Webb 11. Rational Pension Reform Axel Börsch-Supan 12. National Transfer Accounts and Intergenerational Transfers Ron Lee and Andy Mason PART III: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – HEALTH 13. Assessing the Cost Effectiveness of Therapies for Older People Richard Edlin 14. Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure Growth Ed Westerhout 15. Developing Appropriate and Effective Care for People with Chronic Disease Bert Vrieheof and Arianne Elissen PART IV: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – WELFARE 16. Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice in Age-related Transfers Kenneth Howse 17. Health and Social Protection Policies for Older People in Latin America Peter Lloyd-Sherlock 18. Ageing Electorates and Gerontocracy: The Politics of Ageing in a Global World Fernando M. Torres-Gil and Kimberly Spencer-Suarez 19. Working Beyond Retirement Age: Lessons for Policy David Lain and Sarah Vickerstaff 20. Families, Older Persons and Care in Contexts of Poverty: the Case of South Africa Jaco Hoffman PART V and VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES 21. Policy and Practitioner Responses to the Challenges of Population Ageing: Introduction Jaco Hoffman 22. Sustaining the Nordic Welfare Model in the Face of Population Ageing Virpi Timonen and Mikko Kautto 23. Kinship Solidarity in Southern Europe Chiara Saraceno 24. Ageing and Social Policy in Australia Jeni Warburton 25. The Pension System in China: An Overview Taichang Chen 26. How Technology is Re-shaping the Processes of Providing Health Care for Ageing Populations Robin Gauld 27. Ageing and Care Giving in America: the Immigrant Workforce B. Lindsay Lowell 28. Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Programme Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Jelena Atanackovic PART VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES – POLICY INNOVATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY 29. Intergenerational Programmes and Policies in Aging Societies Matthew Kaplan and Mariano Sánchez 30. Population Ageing and Private Sector Provision: the Case of Dependent Older Women in Latin America Nélida Redondo 31. Demographic Change and the Role of Older People in the Voluntary Sector Karsten Hank and Marcel Erlinghagen 32. The Third Sector as a Provider of Services for Older People Ewa Leś 33. State-third Sector Partnership Frameworks: from Administration to Participation? Ingo Bode 34. Microfinance, Cooperatives and Timebanks- Community Provided Welfare Ed Collom 35. Faith-Based Organizations and the Provision of Care for Older People Lori Carter-Edwards, James H. Johnson Jr., Allan M. Parnell and Harold G. Koenig 36. Lifelong Learning and Employers: Re-skilling Older Workers John Field and Roy Canning 37. Retirement Planning and Financial Literacy Annamaria Lusardi Index

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Book SynopsisRegulating Health Foods is likely to be of much interest to food researchers and regulators, as well as to many members of the public. The focus on regulation and policy for health foods (functional food, supplements and nutraceuticals) is highly topical. The different regulatory policies for health foods that apply in a number of high income and emerging nations are outlined and compared. Using concepts from social sciences (economics in particular), implications of these different approaches for both consumers and businesses are identified and discussed. The book should be a very useful addition to the literature on health foods.'- Michele Veeman, University of Alberta, Canada'The supply of foods marketed as healthy and functional is guided by both consumer demand and regulatory regimes. While many texts have attempted to document such drivers over the past decade or so, this volume provides a refreshing, concise yet comprehensive catalogue that includes trends in developed and emerging markets for health foods. Well resourced, including an annotated bibliography of many of the supporting studies summarized in the text, this book provides a good starting point for any researcher interested in understanding potential policy challenges and consumer conundrums.'- Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University, US'Regulating Health Foods systematically organizes the widely disparate definitions, regulations and policies used internationally to govern functional foods, supplements and nutraceuticals, doing so from the standpoint of the industry and its regulators. Food scientists, regulators and industry professionals will especially appreciate its detailed international perspective.'- Marion Nestle, New York University, USWith ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has responded with new food innovations, formulations and enhancements that comprise the growing health food market, manifesting the need to design regulatory frameworks to govern valid health claims.Regulating Health Foods provides an assessment of the regulatory environment governing the health food sector in key developed markets, including the US, the EU, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as significant emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea. It examines the different definitions of 'health food', product approval processes and health claims regulation in these markets. Against this backdrop, the book also offers insight into the nature of the health food sector in selected countries and examines the drivers of consumer demand for foods offering health benefits.This book is informative and accessible for students interested in food and nutrition policy, food economics, as well as socio-economic issues surrounding food and health. Academics and policymakers interested in food policy and regulation will benefit from the detailed analysis of the regulatory systems in a number of countries, and a comprehensive overview of key literature summarizing consumer attitudes toward health foods and health claims.Contents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are 'Health Foods'? 3. Evolving Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks 4. Health Claim Regulations in Developed Markets 5. Health Claim Regulations in Emerging Markets 6. Industry and Market Trends 7. Consumer Responses to Health Foods 8. Through the Looking glass References IndexTrade Review‘Regulating Health Foods is likely to be of much interest to food researchers and regulators, as well as to many members of the public. The focus on regulation and policy for health foods (functional food, supplements and nutraceuticals) is highly topical. The different regulatory policies for health foods that apply in a number of high income and emerging nations are outlined and compared. Using concepts from social sciences (economics in particular), implications of these different approaches for both consumers and businesses are identified and discussed. The book should be a very useful addition to the literature on health foods.’ -- Michele Veeman, University of Alberta, Canada‘The supply of foods marketed as healthy and functional is guided by both consumer demand and regulatory regimes. While many texts have attempted to document such drivers over the past decade or so, this volume provides a refreshing, concise yet comprehensive catalogue that includes trends in developed and emerging markets for health foods. Well resourced, including an annotated bibliography of many of the supporting studies summarized in the text, this book provides a good starting point for any researcher interested in understanding potential policy challenges and consumer conundrums.’ -- Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University, US‘Regulating Health Foods systematically organizes the widely disparate definitions, regulations and policies used internationally to govern functional foods, supplements and nutraceuticals, doing so from the standpoint of the industry and its regulators. Food scientists, regulators and industry professionals will especially appreciate its detailed international perspective.’ -- Marion Nestle, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are “Health Foods”? 3. Evolving Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks 4. Health Claim Regulations in Developed Markets 5. Health Claim Regulations in Emerging Markets 6. Industry and Market Trends 7. Consumer Responses to Health Foods 8. Through the Looking glass References Index

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Book SynopsisCost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications throughout all regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link between cost-benefit analysis and the mainstream health care evaluation field, which is dominated by non-economists. The need to build a bridge between the two is more important than ever before, as the general understanding of cost-benefit analysis appears to have regressed.Case studies are used throughout to explain and illustrate the various methodologies being examined. In addition, the author now covers more of the statistical requirements that are necessary to understand and carry out health care evaluations, and follows an applied economics approach. Ultimately, he resolves a number of disputes and makes some new, but subtle, contributions by reinterpreting, correcting and extending existing work. The book covers the topic in an accessible manner, from the foundations to the frontiers of the field, and clearly explains all the necessary economic principles along the way.Cost-Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition will be invaluable to students and researchers of health economics, public policy and health care policy, as well as policymakers and health care practitioners. It can also be used as a comprehensive introductory text by anyone with an interest in cost-benefit analysis. From this perspective, the new additional final chapter is particularly useful as it supplies a summary of CBA that highlights the main conclusions of the text in a single chapter.Contents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of 'Cost' 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost utility Analysis 10. Cost-utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost-benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost-benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost-benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions IndexTrade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘Professor Brent’s book is a superb and much-needed text in the field of health care evaluation. The economic approaches for appraisal of health care programs are presented with greater clarity than any other available text. A comprehensive review of cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost–utility analysis, and cost–benefit analysis is given in a simple and yet very insightful manner that pointedly demonstrates their fundamental principles, methodological requirements, and common linkages for evaluation research. The book skilfully merges theory and application of the economic analyses of health care, combining the latest literature with adroit illustrations of required methodologies and easily understandable examples that inform the reader of how empirical evaluation research should be conducted. Major evaluation concerns about the appropriateness of discounting health benefits, the appropriate discount (interest) rate, and intangible benefits and costs are critically appraised. Not only is the criterion of economic efficiency of health care programs explored directly and with lucidity, but the important social question of the equity of health interventions is also assessed straightforwardly. Students of health care as well as health policy analysts and administrators are provided with a considerable solid foundation for undertaking evaluation of complex health care issues. In short, Professor Brent has even made the economics of health care evaluation accessible to non-economists in the health care field.’ -- Paul L. Solano, University of Delaware, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of ‘Cost’ 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost–utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost–utility Analysis 10. Cost–utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost–benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost–benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost–benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject. The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.Trade Review'With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenstrom bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between income inequalities and health.' --Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden'A terrific analysis of one of the big questions in social science. This engaging book distils the wisdom of hundreds of academic studies, while doing justice to the complexity of the issues.' --Andrew Leigh, Economist and Australian ParliamentarianTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Health 3. Measuring Inequality 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From Group Averages? 7. Income Inequality And Health: What Does The Literature Tell Us? 8. Searching For The Inequality Effect: What Tools Are Appropriate? 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject. The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.Trade Review'With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenstrom bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between income inequalities and health.' --Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden'A terrific analysis of one of the big questions in social science. This engaging book distils the wisdom of hundreds of academic studies, while doing justice to the complexity of the issues.' --Andrew Leigh, Economist and Australian ParliamentarianTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Health 3. Measuring Inequality 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From Group Averages? 7. Income Inequality And Health: What Does The Literature Tell Us? 8. Searching For The Inequality Effect: What Tools Are Appropriate? 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and political management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be made.This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad multidisciplinary context.Trade Review'Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman's new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care must be to address them. This makes the economics of health care inseparable from the ethics of health care. This book is highly recommended for clear and sensible thinking about the economics of health policy.' --John Davis, Marquette University, US and University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Good Health 3. The Invisible Mind 4. Inputs and Outcomes 5. The Individual 6. The Practitioner 7. The Public 8. The Logic of Insurance 9. Insurance: Public and Private 10. Equity and Equality 11. The Right to Health 12. Inequality and Health 13. Narrowing the Gap 14. Equalising Medical Care 15. The Cost of Care 16. Cost Containment 17. State, Market and Cost 18. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and political management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be made.This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad multidisciplinary context.Trade Review'Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman's new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care must be to address them. This makes the economics of health care inseparable from the ethics of health care. This book is highly recommended for clear and sensible thinking about the economics of health policy.' --John Davis, Marquette University, US and University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Good Health 3. The Invisible Mind 4. Inputs and Outcomes 5. The Individual 6. The Practitioner 7. The Public 8. The Logic of Insurance 9. Insurance: Public and Private 10. Equity and Equality 11. The Right to Health 12. Inequality and Health 13. Narrowing the Gap 14. Equalising Medical Care 15. The Cost of Care 16. Cost Containment 17. State, Market and Cost 18. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the ways and extent to which systemic factors affect health outcomes with regard to quality, affordability and access to curative healthcare, this explorative book compares the relative merits of tax-funded Beveridge systems and insurance-based Bismarck systems. The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing charts and compares healthcare system outcomes throughout 11 countries, from the UK to Colombia. Thematic chapters investigate the economic and legal explanations for the relevant similarities, variations and trends across the globe. Concluding that systemic factors may be less significant than previously believed, this comprehensive book notes that no one system consistently outperforms the others, yet incentives and funding improvements may lift performances across all curative healthcare systems. Analytical and comparative, this book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of health law and health economics. Public authorities including health ministries, policymakers and international health organisations will also find this to be an invaluable resource. Contributors include: F. Bachner, J. Bobek, J. Boertjens, P. Bogetoft, J.M. Burke, F. Dewallens, I. Durand-Zaleski, A. Geissler, C. Góngora Torres, M. Guy, T. Haanperä, J. Janus, S. Jerabkova, L. Lepuschütz, J. Lombard, M. Mikkers, G. O'Nolan, M.J. Perez-Villadoniga, H. Platou, K. Polin, W. Quentin, W. Sauter, V. Shestalova, K.H. Søvig, V. Stephani, A. van den Heever, J. van Manen, J. VermeulenTrade Review'How we pay for our healthcare systems is nothing short of a test of our success as communities and nations: healthcare preserves and promotes human dignity. The balance between rising demands and costs, access for all, and efficiency and quality is pursued in different ways. Studies like this - even though comparable data is scarce - help us see possible better ways forward. The editors have assembled an impressive team, and their comparative research design yields rich insights.' --Tamara Hervey, University of Sheffield, UK'Due to aging populations and technological advancements, countries are facing the challenge of improving healthcare quality, while maintaining access and containing cost. Focusing on the hospital sector, this book discusses how a variety of 11 countries try to meet this challenge. Specific attention is paid to the role of the regulatory framework, market structure, rationing and reimbursement methods. Although no best practice emerges, this book may be very useful for policymakers and anyone else interested in cross-country comparison.' --Frederik T. Schut, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: healthcare financing – an international comparison of models and outcomes Jos Boertjens, Johan van Manen, Misja Mikkers and Wolf Sauter PART I THEMATIC CHAPTERS 1. Explaining America’s spendthrift healthcare system: the enduring effects of public regulation on private competition William M. Sage 2. Effective access to healthcare services abroad under the EU Directive on Cross-Border Patients’ Rights Jarleth M. Burke 3. A legal perspective on tax-based versus insurance-based healthcare systems: comparing England and the Netherlands Jos Boertjens and Mary Guy 4. A theoretical model of the determinants of waiting lists: an application to the Spanish national health system Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez and Maria J. Perez-Villadoniga 5. Financial incentives to change the healthcare landscape: a case study Josine Janus 6. Population-based financing: the future of healthcare? Peter Bogetoft, Misja Mikkers and Victoria Shestalova PART II COUNTRY REPORTS 7. Country report: Austria Julia Bobek, Lena Lepuschütz and Florian Bachner 8. Country report: Belgium Filip Dewallens and Julie Vermeulen 9. Country report: Czech Republic – hospital financing in the Czech Republic Silvie Jerabkova 10. Country report: Colombia – approach to healthcare financing in Colombia and its impact on quality, affordability and competition Catalina Góngora Torres 11. Country report: England Tuomas Haanperä 12. Country report: France Isabelle Durand-Zaleski and Johan van Manen 13. Country report: Germany Katherine Polin, Wilm Quentin, Victor Stephani and Alexander Geissler 14. Country report: Ireland John Lombard and Gerald O’Nolan 15. Country report: the Netherlands Johan van Manen 16. Country report: Norway Karl Harald Søvig and Harald Platou 17. Country report: South Africa Alex van den Heever Index

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Book SynopsisThis research review discusses some of the most influential literature in the area of empirical health economics. Health economics provides empirical evidence to aid decision-making across a broad spectrum of issues in health and health care. This evidence is often derived from econometric methods. This literature analysis covers landmark contributions to the development and application of these methods which span the field, ranging from structural models, models for health care costs and other microeconometric approaches, including bayesian methods, longitudinal data, applications to health technology assessment, along with field experiments and policy evaluation. This review will be of interest to economic researchers and students as well as health scholar's wishing to explore the development of modern econometrics applied to health policy. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Andrew M. Jones PART I STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 1. Richard Auster, Irving Leveson and Deborah Sarachek (1969), ‘The Production of Health, an Exploratory Study’, Journal of Human Resources, 4 (4), Autumn, 411–36 2. Mark R. Rosenzweig and T. Paul Schultz (1983), ‘Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogenity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth Weight’, Journal of Political Economy, 91 (5), October, 723–46 3. Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman and Kevin M. Murphy (1994), ‘An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction’, American Economic Review, 84 (3), June, 396–418 4. Donna B. Gilleskie (1998), ‘A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Medical Care Use and Work Absence’, Econometrica, 66 (1), January, 1–45 5. Marcos Vera-Hernández (2003),’Structural Estimation of a Principal Agent Model: Moral Hazard in Medical Insurance’, RAND Journal of Economics, 34 (4), Winter, 670–93 6. Peter Arcidiacono, Holger Sieg and Frank Sloan (2007), ‘Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking’, International Economic Review, 48 (1), February, 37–65 PART II METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE COSTS 7. Naihua N. Duan, Willard G. Manning, Jr., Carl N. Morris and Joseph P. Newhouse (1983), ‘A Comparison of Alternative Models for the Demand for Medical Care’, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1 (2), April, 115–26 8. Williard G. Manning (1998),’The Logged Dependent Variable, Heteroscedasticity, and the Retransformation Problem’, Journal of Health Economics, 17 (3), June, 283–95 9. David K. Blough, Carolyn W. Madden, and Mark C. Hornbrook (1999), ‘Modeling Risk Using Generalized Linear Models’, Journal of Health Economics, 18 (2), April, 153–71 10. Donna B. Gilleskie and Thomas A. Mroz (2004), ‘A Flexible Approach for Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures’, Journal of Health Economics, 23 (3), March, 391–418 11. Anirban Basu and Paul J. Rathouz (2005),’Estimating Marginal and Incremental Effects on Health Outcomes Using Flexible Link and Variance Function Models’, Biostatistics, 6 (1), January, 93–109 12. Willard G. Manning, Anirban Basu and John Mullahy (2005), ’Generalized Modelling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data’ Journal of Health Economics, 24 (3), May, 465–88 13. Andrew M. Jones, James Lomas and Nigel Rice (2015),’ Healthcare Cost Regressions: Going Beyond the Mean to Estimate the Full Distribution’, Health Economics, 24 (9), April, 1192–212 PART III MICROECONOMETRIC METHODS APPLIED TO HEALTH 14. John Mullahy (1986),’Specification and Testing of Some Modified Count Data Models’, Journal of Econometrics, 33 (3), December, 341–65 15. Bryan Dowd, Roger Feldman, Steven Cassou and Michael Finch (1991), ‘Health Plan Choice and the Utilization of Health Care Services’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 73 (1), February, 85–93 16. Marcel Kerkhofs and Maarten Lindeboom (1995), ‘Subjective Health Measures and State Dependent Reporting Errors’, Health Economics, 4 (3), May–June, 221–35 17. Winfried Pohlmeier and Volker Ulrich (1995), ’An Econometric Model of the Two-Part Decisonmaking Process in the Demand for Health Care’, Journal of Human Resources, 30 (2), Spring, 339–61 18. Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi (1997),’Demand for Medical Care by the Elderly: A Finite Mixture Approach’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12 (3), May/ June, 313–36 19. David M. Zimmer and Pravin K. Trivedi (2006), ‘Using Trivariate Copulas to Model Sample Selection and Treatment Effects: Application to Family Health Care Demand’, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 24 (1), January, 63–76 PART IV BAYESIAN APPROACHES 20. Gary Koop, Jacek Osiewalski and Mark F.J. Steel (1997),’Bayesian Efficiency Analysis through Individual Effects: Hospital Cost Frontiers’, Journal of Econometrics, 76 (1-2), February, 77–105 21. Barton H. Hamilton (1999),’HMO Selection and Medicare Costs: Bayesian MCMC Estimation of a Robust Panel Data Tobit Model with Survival’, Health Economics, 8 (5), July, 403–14 22. John Geweke, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Robert J. Town (2003),’Bayesian Inference for Hospital Quality in A Selection Model’,Econometrica, 71 (4), July, 1215–38 23. Partha Deb, Murat K. Munkin and Pravin K. Trivedi (2006),’Bayesian Analysis of the Two-Part Model with Endogeneity: Application to Health Care Expenditure’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21 (7), November, 1081–99 PART V LONGITUDINAL AND SPATIAL APPROACHES 24. José M. Labeaga (1999),’A Double-Hurdle Rational Addiction Model with Heterogeneity: Estimating the Demand for Tobacco’, Journal of Econometrics, 93 (1), November, 49–72 25. Paul Contoyannis, Andrew M. Jones and Nigel Rice (2004), ’The Dynamics of Health in the British Household Panel Survey’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19 (4), July–August, 473–503 26. Teresa Bago d’Uva (2006),’Latent Class Models for Utilisation of Health Care’, Health Economics, 15 (4), March, 329–43 27. Francesco Moscone, Martin Knapp and Elisa Tosetti (2007),’Mental Health Expenditure in England: A Spatial Panel Approach’, Journal of Health Economics, 26 (4), July, 842–64 PART VI ECONOMETRICS AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT 28. Mark McClellan, Barbara J. McNeil and Joseph P. Newhouse, (1994), ‘Does More Intensive Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly Reduce Mortality?, Journal of the American Medical Association, 272 (11), September, 859–66 29. Jeffrey S. Hoch, Andrew H. Briggs and Andrew R. Willan (2002), ’Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue: A Framework for the Marriage of Health Econometrics and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis’, Health Economics, 11 (5), January, 415–30 30. Anirban Basu, James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro-Lozano and Sergio Urzua (2007),’Use of Instrumental Variables in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Self-Selection: An Application to Treatments of Breast Cancer Patients’, Health Economics, 16 (11), October, 1133–57 PART VII FIELD EXPERIMENTS 31. Willard G. Manning, Joseph P. Newhouse, Naihua N. Duan, Emmett B. Keeler and Arleen Leibowitz (1987),’Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment’, American Economic Review, 77 (3), June, 251–77 [27] 32. Paul Gertler (2004), ‘Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Childs Health? Evidence from PROGRESA’s Control Randomized Experiment’, American Economic Review, 94 (2), May, 336–41 33. Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, and the Oregon Health Study Group (2012), ‘The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence From The First Year’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (3), August, 1057–106 PART VIII QUASI-EXPERIMENTS AND POLICY EVALUATION 34. David Card and Lara D. Shore-Sheppard (2004),’Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low-Income Children’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86 (3), August, 752–66 35. Arild Aakvik, James J. Heckman and Edward J. Vytlacil (2005), ‘Estimating Treatment Effects for Discrete Outcomes when Responses to Treatment Vary: An Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs’, Journal of Econometrics, 125 (1–2), April, 15–51 36. Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait (2006),’Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality’, American Economic Review, 96 (1), March, 290–302 37. Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G. Salvanes (2007),’From The Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (1), February, 409–39 38. Douglas Almond and Joseph J. Doyle Jr (2011),’After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 3 (3), August, 1–34 39. Martin Gaynor, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Carol Propper (2013), ‘Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition, and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5 (4), November, 134–66 Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook features the best teaching practices in the Health Economics (HE) field over the past decade. HE is still considered a relatively new field in the world of economics. While most academic programs leading to HE specializations are housed in economics departments, many courses often reside elsewhere: in schools of public health, health professions, health sciences, nursing, pharmacy, business, or public/health administration. Teaching in these diverse, specialized curricula requires a customized subset of methods and materials developed for both the instructors and the students.The editors have sought to expand applicability beyond North America and Western Europe, and to address issues in both less developed health economies and more advanced ones. The chapters herein present new and innovative teaching methods.Instructors with or without professional training in HE will welcome the featured practical applications that encompass HE courses taught in various economics and non-economics undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.Trade Review‘This text provides unprecedented teaching tips to create an active learning environment for students in public health and medicine as well as traditional economics programs. Instructors will appreciate the tips on active learning techniques for online teaching and the focus on international and country-specific applications.’ -- J. Mick Tilford, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, US'This Handbook is a treasure trove of approaches, ideas, and tools to improve everybody's teaching of health economics. Whether you're teaching an online class for the first time, preparing to teach in another country, or seeking fresh new simulations and classroom activities, you’ll find great information to make your teaching more effective and inclusive.' -- Joanne Spetz, University of California, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xix PART I ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS 1 Introduction to learning and teaching health economics 2 Allen C. Goodman and Maia Platt 2 The health insurance game 17 Jennifer Kohn 3 Assessing competency in health economics using portfolios 32 Neha Batura, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Jane Hughes and Jolene Skordis 4 Labs and cases in health insurance and cost-effectiveness analyses to enhance active learning experiences in an introductory health economics course for students in health professions 44 Carolyn S. Dewa and Jeffrey S. Hoch 5 Active learning techniques to enhance understanding of complex stochastic modeling methods 61 Michal Horný 6 Using net benefit regression to teach cost-effectiveness analysis with a dataset 77 Jeffrey S. Hoch and Carolyn S. Dewa 7 Noricum – healthy cooperation or nasty snake pit: a strategic role play teaching how to handle healthcare system conflicts 88 Florian Buchner 8 Teaching health economics to non-economists 108 Elizabeth Pitney Seidler PART II TEACHING TIPS AND TOOLS FOR ONLINE ENVIRONMENT 9 Strategic pedagogy: pursuing best practices for teaching asynchronous online health economics courses 124 Neil Meredith 10 Integration of an online homework platform and interactive e-textbook into a virtual learning environment of a health economics course 135 M. Femi Ayadi 11 Engaging distance learners with no economic background in an online health economics course 146 Heather Brown 12 Opportunities and challenges in delivering postgraduate health economics programs online 157 Lisa Gold and Jennifer Watts 13 Using distance education to teach health economics: national and global experiences 170 Diane M. Dewar 14 Teaching in a pandemic: quickly adapting to the unexpected 178 Jill Boylston Herndon PART III INTERNATIONAL AND COUNTRY-SPECIFIC PERSPECTIVES AND APPLICATIONS 15 Video-conferencing in a health economics course with alumni in healthcare and partners abroad 189 Ashley Hodgson 16 Teaching international health systems through experiential learning 204 Simon Condliffe 17 Strengthening capacity for teaching of health economics in sub-Saharan Africa 222 Thomas Wilkinson, Susan Cleary and Justice Nonvignon 18 Lessons from incorporating study-abroad experience in master courses in health economics 237 Arturo Schweiger, Maria Clara Zerbino, Ruth Litmanovich, Noemi Savoia and Mercedes Alfaro Latorre PART IV DISSEMINATION AND SOCIETAL IMPACT OF HEALTH ECONOMICS SKILLS 19 Bringing health economics knowledge to non-economists in Quebec, Canada: A case study of a multi-modal knowledge transfer approach for patient-oriented research (POR) 246 Maude Laberge, Annie Poirier, Simon Berthelot, Thomas Poder, Erin Strumpf and Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun 20 On the importance of partnerships between public health research institutions and health economics faculty in universities, for the engagement of non-economics students in health economics training: perspectives from Brazil 266 Tânia Maria Costa da Silva Beume Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.Interdisciplinary chapters written by social policy, geography, planning, policy, sociology and public health experts explore the broader impacts of COVID-19, positioning the pandemic in the context of wider trends and risks including climate change. Chapters highlight the importance of place and local contexts in understanding its impacts in different settings including Europe, Canada, North America, South Korea, South Africa and Lebanon. In doing so, the book develops a pandemic preparedness, responsiveness and recovery research framework and intends to inform post-pandemic policy development and research. This is an important book for geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, planning and business and management researchers and students, particularly those focusing on crisis management and risk and resilience. With key case studies from across the globe, it will help elucidate key issues for policy makers and practitioners across a range of sectors including strategic management, social policy, public health and the built environment.Trade Review‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors add what is too often left out: how do we prepare for future pandemics? We already know they will come.’ -- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface: what’s next? COVID-19 as a planetary inflection point for places, people, policy and research xxi PART I INTRODUCTION 1 A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations and impacts for people, place and policy 2 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon PART II PANDEMICS, PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY 2 Human-centered solutions to the digital divide: lessons from a global pandemic 36 Kira Allmann 3 Living with pandemics in higher education: people, place and policy 47 Matthew Thomas, Tendayi Gonondo, Peter Rautenbach, Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Angus Thomas and Holly Westlake 4 Building post-COVID community resilience by moving beyond emergency food support 59 Megan K. Blake 5 The job–food–health nexus in South African townships and the impact of COVID-19 69 Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Katrina du Toit 6 Repercussions and impact of COVID-19 pandemic encampment mechanisms on Lebanese informal tented settlements along the Lebanese–Syrian borderline 79 Paul Moawad and Lauren Andres 7 COVID-19 and the emergence of a level 2.5 society in South Korea 91 Jin-Tae Hwang 8 COVID-19, digital transformations and essential services 103 Maria Savona PART III PANDEMICS, PLACE AND ENVIRONMENT 9 COVID-19 and the climate emergency: lessons in the time of crisis? 116 Suzanne Bartington 10 The emergence of coworking models in the face of pandemic 129 Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino and Mina Akhavan 11 A refuge from the storm? The English Church during COVID-19 140 Andrew Davies 12 Coronavirus and the digitalisation of planning: perspectives from practice and academia 149 Charles Goode and Ben Rayner 13 Housing during and after the pandemic: an exploration of immediate and structural effects of COVID-19 on housing markets 159 Vincent Gruis and Aksel Ersoy 14 City-building in a context of crisis: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential investment in London 166 Frances Brill and Mike Raco 15 ‘Escape to the country’: the implications of coronavirus upon the English housing crisis 174 Charles Goode 16 Mobility during and after the pandemic 184 Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth 17 Global pandemic disruptions, reconfiguration and glocalization of production networks 195 Vida Vanchan 18 COVID-19 and the immediate and longer-term impacts on the retail and hospitality industries: dark stores and turnover-based rental models 202 John R. Bryson PART IV PANDEMICS AND POLICY 19 Impact, response and reflection: COVID-19 and health policy 218 Steve Gulati 20 Governance and policy in pandemics: approaches to crisis, chaos and catastrophe 227 Jessica Pykett and Anna Lavis 21 Reimagining work? COVID-19 and the impacts on employment in Canada and the United States 237 Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai 22 Evidence-informed COVID-19 policy: what problem was the UK government trying to solve? 250 Paul Cairney 23 In the eye of the storm: English local government and the COVID-19 crisis 261 Arianna Giovannini 24 COVID-19 and the impacts on commercial aviation: a dead stop? 272 Pere Suau-Sanchez, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Natàlia Cugueró-Escofet and Keith J. Mason PART V CONCLUSION 25 The preparedness, responsiveness and recovery triality: a pandemic research and policy framework 286 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon Index

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Book SynopsisDiscussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockdown caused unprecedented economic policies and ruin. The book prepares for the next pandemic, that unquestionably will arrive, the impact of which is predicted to potentially exceed that of the current Covid-19 wreckage. Highlighting how economic theory can anticipate a pandemic's impact despite the uncertainty and unreliability of traditional statistics, Peter van Bergeijk assesses the lack of preparation by international economic institutions and the ability for humanity to deeply hurt the economy by its response to infectious disease. Chapters offer an overview and critical analysis of global non-pharmaceutical interventions and economic policies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking forward, the book investigates the economic impact, policy (in)effectiveness and resilience in different social contexts, illustrating a pandemic trilemma of health, freedom and the economy. It suggests how to prepare for the next pandemic at the individual level, in city planning, nationally, internationally and globally, with a focus on analysing the impact of pandemics from a global perspective. Pandemic Economics will be a stimulating read for (health) economics and development studies scholars as it provides a historic overview of the uneven impact of pandemics, with up to date studies of the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. The forward-looking suggestions for economic policies and preparations for future pandemics will also make this an important read for economic and health policy makers.Trade Review‘Although Pandemic Economics originates from and is projected for the economic profession, it fits into a broader specter of emerging literature on the Covid-19 pandemic and public policy. It also strongly evokes the lessons from the scholarship on “behavioral economics.” Therefore, if, as van Beregijk insists, the next pandemic “is a certainty – only its timing is uncertain,” then a broad range of social scientists will benefit from reading this monograph.’ -- Ian Ezerin Ian, International Social Science Review‘Highly recommended. All readers.’ -- E P Hoffman, CHOICE'If you want to understand how the current Covid-19 pandemic will reshape economies this is the book for you. The book takes us on a rollercoaster journey through past pandemics, the current pandemic and looks to the future. Hold on to your hat. A fascinating insight into where the world has been and is heading.' -- Andy Sumner, King's College London, UK'Brilliantly narrated, Pandemic Economics provides the evidence that policymakers should have been better prepared for Covid-19 and the insights on how to strike a better balance between the protection of lives and livelihoods. As it may well happen again, this is a must read now and time again.' -- Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute, US and the International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands'An entertaining and timely story of past, present, and future problems of Pandemic Economics. The art of economics with lacking data is to select the right model and tools given the circumstances, not develop new ones. Remember Monty Python: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! We are aware, but not prepared.' -- Charles van Marrewijk, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

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Book SynopsisThis ground breaking Handbook brings together a number of chapters into one comprehensive book on the timely subject matter of the political economy of health and health care. The book contains up-to-date discussion on the state of the art of the key questions of the subject matter, and it provides a unique understanding of health policy making by drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to political economy. This Handbook highlights the key theoretical and empirical debates in academia and policy across a variety of scholarly groups, illustrating the various methods and principles used while sharing the common goal of understanding the institutional mechanisms, constraints, and determinants that influence decision-making. The expert contributors discuss the design of health care systems, political markets, financing and policy reforms, and healthcare during pandemics in six thematic sections, as well as providing insightful lessons to be learned for the future. Scholars and professionals interested in an in-depth state-of-the-art companion to the main issues under discussion of the effects of the design in our health systems, along with the constraints that they face, will find this Handbook an excellent resource.Trade Review‘Health systems and reforms in the health sector play a fundamental role in policy-making and in the political process, as emphasized during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This book collects important contributions to develop an innovative view of the political economy of health systems, where political and economic factors interact in determining policy decisions in the health care domain. The book provides an excellent unified, broad, and thorough vision of one of the most promising and interdisciplinary areas of the current and future political economy debate.’ -- Paola Profeta, Bocconi University, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH SYSTEMS 1 An introduction to the Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems 2 Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati PART II CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS 2 Health and healthcare as a human right 12 Hiroaki Matsuura 3 Do democratic regimes exhibit ‘better’ health outcomes? 27 Alberto Batinti and Joan Costa-Font 4 Soviet communism and later-life health and health care 42 Joan Costa-Font and Anna Nicińska 5 Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 57 Roger D. Congleton 6 The coordination in European Union healthcare after Covid-19 70 Marco Buso, Massimo Bordignon, Rosella Levaggi and Gilberto Turati 7 Efficiency and equity effects of healthcare decentralization: evidence from Italy 85 Caterina Ferrario, Rosella Levaggi and Massimiliano Piacenza 8 Political economy of health care insurance expansion in Mexico 112 David G. Lugo-Palacios and Alejandro Sanders Villa 9 Weird health care for WEIRD societies? 130 Hartmut Kliemt PART III POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL MARKETS AND HEALTH CARE DECISIONS 10 Medical composition of cabinets and the health care system 147 Joan Costa-Font, Nicolas Marchi and Debra Winberg 11 Women politicians and public health 157 Sonia Bhalotra and Mariana Lopes da Fonseca 12 Community and civic participation effects on health and well-being 177 Luke Munford and Daniel Gray 13 Ideology and health spending 200 Bernd Theilen 14 Lobbying, health, and healthcare 213 Nathaniel Z. Counts and Vinu Ilakkuvan 15 Healthcare corruption 236 Martin McKee, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova 16 Provider power and healthcare systems 247 Mason Barnard, Irini Papanicolas and Peter Smith 17 Health effects of trade policy and corporate interest groups 270 Pepita Barlow 18 Institutional quality and health outcomes 292 Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Martorana and Luigi Siciliani PART IV THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND POLICY REFORMS 19 Towards a general political economy of private supplementary health insurance 319 Claudio Lucarelli and Mark Pauly 20 Political economy of public financing of health in low- and middle-income countries 339 Sumit Mazumdar and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra 21 Political economy of health system reform: evidence from Spain 370 Guillem López-Casasnovas 22 The pharmaceutical patent system and access to medicines 380 Valbona Muzaka PART V POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH CARE DURING COVID-19 23 Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government 397 Peter T. Leeson and Henry A. Thompson 24 Political preferences and nudging for healthcare: evidence from Covid certificates 412 Mario Cesare Nurchis, Luca Salmasi and Gilberto Turati 25 Multilevel governance in the first wave of Covid-19 430 Marta Angelici, Paolo Berta, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati PART VI LESSONS FROM THE HANDBOOK 26 The political economy of health systems: research space, goals and lessons 447 Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati Index 454

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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an integrated and pragmatic approach to understanding recovery from all types of shocks. Whilst particular focus is given to identifying and exploring various aspects of recovering societies in the context of COVID-19, Pandemic Recovery? is framed with a wider appreciation of other societal challenges, most notably anthropogenic climate change.This forward-thinking and topical book provides expert examination of pandemic recovery in the context of reframing and rescaling broader societal challenges. Chapters offer thematic and in-depth focus, independently engaging with different aspects of recovery, simultaneously unpacking recovery in practice and in various settings.This critical analysis is split into five thematic sections exploring people, organisations, climate change and sustainability, and the policy and practice of recovery. The expert contributors highlight a clear consensus throughout that no shock is ever isolated from others and discuss how thiscan adversely impact recovery processes. The book further argues that this recognition paves the way for the development of a social science of recovery, but also preparedness for future shocks and the fostering of resilience.This progressive and enterprising book provides a valuable teaching resource which will be important for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD students, scholars and policymakers in a wide variety of disciplines including geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, city and regional planning, and business and management.Trade Review‘A comprehensive survey of “recovery society” highlighting how Covid-19 amplified existing inequalities, as well as generating myriad improvisations and forms of resilience. Perhaps most importantly, it underlines how political efforts too often remain premised on the pre-pandemic status quo even as shock events – including those associated with catastrophic climate change – continue to challenge communities across the world.’ -- Wendy Larner, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface: Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Broader Societal Challenges xxi Acknowledgements xxv 1 Introduction: shock chains and parallel shocks: towards a social science of the recovery society 1 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon PART I PEOPLE 2 Shocks, recovery processes and cultivating urban plasticity: a neuroplasticity-informed perspective on urban resilience 27 Joshua Kearney, John R. Bryson, Matthew Broome, Joanne Leach, Carlo Luiu, Francis Pope and Jonathan Radcliffe 3 Covid, telecommuting, and ethnic inequalities in the United States 42 Barney Warf 4 Addressing disparities and housing precarity: a pandemic recovery agenda 61 Brenda Parker and Catherine Leviten-Reid 5 Women in the urban informal economy and pathways towards inclusive cities 78 Rets’epile C. Kalaoane and Abraham R. Matamanda 6 The precariat and the age of permanent crisis: a research agenda for urban planning in India 95 Surajit Chakravarty PART II ORGANISATIONS 7 The central and local state after Covid: contesting the governance paradigm 113 Patrick Diamond and Martin Laffin 8 Food resilient urbanism: reconstructing hunger with NGOs 125 Lucy Natarajan, Hyunji Cho, Bernice Yanful and Abigail Woodward 9 Work after COVID-19 – is it bringing us closer to a post-carbon future? 140 Andrew Herod 10 Production space in the post-pandemic era: the intra-urban evolution of office districts 152 William Graves, Chuck McShane and Jonathan Kozar 11 Strategic decoupling, selective decoupling or recoupling of global supply chains in manufacturing GPNs during the post-COVID-19 era 164 Godfrey Yeung PART III PLACE 12 Artificial intelligence and post-pandemic recovery 178 Aksel Ersoy, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Tong Wang and Paul Chan 13 Recovery from the pandemic: planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities 187 Tianzhu Liu, Willem K. Korthals Altes, Frédéric Wallet and Romain Melot 14 The intersecting political and health crises in Hong Kong and the socio-economic and political consequences 199 May Chu 15 Remote work, coworking spaces, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: exploring peripheral and rural areas 210 Francesca Chiara Ciccarelli and Ilaria Mariotti PART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY 16 What are the prospects of a just transition towards sustainable climate change policies? The search for practical lessons from policy studies 224 Paul Cairney, Irina Timonina and Hannes Stephan 17 The impact of the pandemic on circular innovation, transitions and research 238 Joanna Williams and Rendy Bayu Aditya 18 Inflection points and discontinuities? Pandemic recovery, experiential consumption, and the emergence of circular economy retail business models 251 John R. Bryson and Yinghao Zhang 19 Flexible working and the future of urban mobility: a novel conceptual framework 267 Li Wan and Jerry Chen 20 Sustainable aviation after COVID-19: will technology save all, or a more radical change is required? 289 Pol Fontanet-Pérez, Pere Suau-Sanchez and Xosé H. Vázquez PART V THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF RECOVERY 21 Pandemic recovery? Reframing and rescaling societal challenges 304 Martin Hurst 22 Response, recovery and resilience: the role of healthcare leaders 314 Steve Gulati and Sheena Gohal 23 The magic of ordinary rather than extraordinary resilience? Higher education and longer-term pandemic impacts 325 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon 24 The value of public domain and placemaking rediscovered 336 Wouter J. Verheul 25 Comeback tourism: a critical research approach 350 Lars Fuglsang PART VI CONCLUSION 26 Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability: new paradigm shifts, and theoretical directions to unpacking recovery processes and behavioural change 362 Lauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon Index 385

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Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook provides comprehensive explanations and examples of theoretical frameworks and practical methods to support the design and conduct of high-quality health information systems research.

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Book SynopsisUtilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on the role of cognitive biases in decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic. The extensive use of, and support for, stringent social distancing measures in particular is explored in depth. Nudged into Lockdown? provides clear explanations of complex scientific information regarding Covid-19, vaccines, and policy responses, to highlight issues at the center of policy-making during the pandemic. With a comprehensive overview of the policy debates around Covid-19, the book offers an alternative thought-provoking perspective on the topic, as well as suggestions for policy-making during future pandemics and other crises. It further highlights applications of a range of concepts from heuristics and biases literature, including priming, framing, anchoring, Prospect Theory, and loss aversion. Providing directions for future research in the area, this book will be an invigorating read for established academics, as well as postgraduate students looking to undertake research in Covid-19 related decision-making. It will also be a critical read for economics, political science, and public policy scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the topic.Trade Review‘If you are looking for an engaging treatment by an economist of what optimal pandemic policy response should look like, and what common pitfalls to avoid, that brings to bear insights from epidemiology, economics, and behavioural economics, then I would highly recommend Nudged into Lockdown. Consider this your nudge.’ -- Jeremy Clark, Journal of Economic Psychology‘Nudged into Lockdown? forcefully addresses an important point that has too often gone missing in applied work on nudging and choice architecture: namely, that policy makers and experts, too, make systematic errors when interpreting data and may succumb to biased assessments of risk and uncertainty themselves. The book provides durable insights into how both orthodox benefit-cost analysis and key findings from the behavioural sciences – regarding trust, autonomy and pro-social adaptative responses in decentralised social systems – were sometimes overlooked or underutilised by those who designed covid-response policies.’ -- Nathan Berg, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics‘In responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic, most governments abandoned the existing scientific and policy consensus and mimicked one another to embrace lockdowns of varying stringency. Remarkably, hardly any seemed to produce cost–benefit analysis. Unremarkably, the cost–benefit balance varied between rich and poor countries. In this rigorous, multi-disciplinary examination, written in clearly accessible language, Ananish Chaudhuri explores the reasons for the herd-like behaviour by governments and for the public compliance with their edicts. A must-read for understanding what really happened with Covid-19 and why, and for being better prepared for the inevitable next pandemic.’ -- Ramesh Thakur, Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND), Crawford School, The Australian National University, Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations 1998–2007‘This book is at once scholarly and readily accessible to all. The case Chaudhuri makes is not for any specific policy response, but rather for rational and fully informed decisions – for epidemiology over ideology. If the careful logic and vivid illustrations here pry open enough minds, we will be far better prepared for the next great public health crisis than we were for Covid-19.’ -- David L. Katz, MD, MPH President, True Health Initiative and Founding Director, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Yale University, US, 1998–2019‘Ananish Chaudhuri lays out the many irrationalities involved in the support for lockdowns in New Zealand and elsewhere: an inability to judge small probabilities, the problems with gut feelings, and many ex-post justification biases. Chaudhuri makes the argument carefully and yet manages to retain great humanism and compassion. A delight to read.’ -- Paul Frijters, Professor in Wellbeing Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and co-author of An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks‘In response to the Covid pandemic, many countries adopted containment policies that did not condition on people’s health status or demographic characteristics. This timely and insightful book addresses the questions of what considerations led to those policies and whether those policies were well-informed. The book begins from the premise that the design of effective policy cannot be based solely on the insights of classic epidemiology models. The reason is both simple and sensible: those models don’t take into account behavioral responses of people to policies like containment. The author’s analysis is multidisciplinary in nature, blending economics, psychology, political science and epidemiology. The result is a rich and informative analysis. I highly recommend this well-written and timely book.’ -- Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Center for International Macroeconomics, Northwestern University, US‘This book is a very timely one for those, like me, who believe the democratic world’s lockdown response to the Covid virus will go down as the worst public policy response of the last few centuries. It is sceptical. It is interesting. It is Great Barrington over Chief Medical Officer. There is more to living and the good life than fear of dying of Covid. All the politicians who focused on that matrix, and ignored other causes of death as well as all the benefits of living in a free society, and more, should have to read this book.’ -- James Allan, Garrick Professor in Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia‘In this book Ananish Chaudhuri achieves the impossible – he offers an easy-to-read book that delivers profound insights about our behavior which applies not just to pandemics, but to many other recurrent situations in our daily lives! A must-read for anyone that wants to make better decisions.’ -- Sudipta Sarangi, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, US, Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and author of The Economics of Small Things‘Careful comparison of costs and benefits is usually considered a hallmark of wise decision-making. Yet in 2020 many governments abandoned this standard as they tried to minimize deaths from Covid-19 regardless of cost. Traditional cost–benefit arguments were rebuked, by politicians who by nature rarely admit error, but also by ordinary folk affronted that someone would want to “kill granny”. This book draws insights from experimental economics, political science and psychology to show how various biases in decision-making processes contributed to this situation. Fifty years ago, Essence of Decision led a generation of scholars to examine models of government decision-making. Hopefully Ananish Chaudhuri’s lively book has a similar impact, for scholars, students and members of the public concerned about the retreat from rationality that is revealed by policy choices and public attitudes in the Covid-19 era.’ -- John Gibson, Professor of Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists‘This is an excellent book that nicely discusses cutting-edge applications in behavioural economics pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is thought-provoking and contains pioneering approaches that broaden the scope of behavioural research. Excellent writing style, making the content of the book accessible to a broad audience. Highly recommended!’ -- Michalis Drouvelis, Professor of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK and Co-ordinating Editor, Theory and Decision‘In New Zealand now it is hard to remember the shock of lockdown as a pandemic response. So much has happened. The virus has been kept at bay, so far. The predicted economic disaster has not happened – yet. Massive financial relief for businesses forcibly suspended and jobs at risk was followed by a rapid recovery when shops reopened. But Ananish Chaudhuri is by no means alone in thinking the country could pay a high and lingering price for its unprecedented lockdown, and that these costs, especially the human costs, should have been weighed against the risks the virus posed. His book uses fascinating behavioral studies of economic decision making and the psychology of popular risk assessment to question the merits of measures that New Zealand’s Government took and New Zealanders overwhelmingly accepted. They should read this book and wonder if these were questions they should have asked.’ -- John Roughan, Political Columnist, New Zealand HeraldTable of ContentsContents: 1. Prologue 2. Gut feelings: biases, heuristics and Covid-19 3. Pathogens and probabilities 4. Should we trust people to do the right thing? 5. Politics, pathogens and party lines 6. Irrational exuberance in the midst of Covid-19 7. Epilogue Bibliography Index

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