Description
Book Synopsis Series Editor: Michael Rigby
This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods. It introduces the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and covers a range of areas from primary care and national data to global indicators of health. The information presented is applicable to all economic issues - at individual practice or nationwide policy level. Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis is a vital handbook for all clinicians, managers, and policy makers and shapers who make decisions about planning, commissioning and delivering healthcare. It will also be of great value to health economists, and postgraduate students in health economics and related disciplines.
Trade Review"'This book is not a theoretical textbook, but an applied book designed to equip its readers with the practical tools to both understand and apply health economic methods. This book seeks to provide anyone faced with making choices, personal or interpersonal regarding the supply or receipt of health care, with the information to make informed decisions about that health care. It seeks to introduce the reader to the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and how to use and interpret such data. Its aim is not to turn the decision maker into a health economist but provide the ability to ask the appropriate questions, understand the relevant data and literature and to access the resources available to them.' Marilyn James and Elizabeth Stokes, in the Introduction"
Table of ContentsTechniques of economic appraisal. UK National data. Secondary care data. Primary care data. Organisations providing health economics information. Measuring benefit and preferences. Resources and costs. Reflections and futures.
