{"product_id":"the-elgar-companion-to-health-economics-9780857937667","title":"The Elgar Companion to Health Economics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt authoritatively covers theoretical and empirical issues in health economics, with a balanced range of material on equity and efficiency in health care systems, health technology assessment and issues of concern for developing countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcclaim for the first edition: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis companion is a timely addition... It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics... there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues... I have found the \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e very useful.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --Sukhan Jackson, \u003ci\u003eEconomic Analysis and Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --R.M. Mullner, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction Andrew M. Jones  POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS  PART I: POPULATION HEALTH 1. Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and Health Christopher J. Ruhm  2. The Dynamics of Health Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis  3. Health and Work of Older Workers Maarten Lindeboom   4. Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour M. Christopher Auld  5. Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries David Bishai, Divya Nair and Taghreed Adam  6. Health Behaviours Among Young People Don Kenkel  7. Economics of Obesity Peter J. Huckfeldt, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Tomas J. Philipson  8. Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime Jody L. Sindelar and Todd Olmstead  PART II: HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND DEMAND 9. The Value of Health Insurance John A. Nyman  10. Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance Pierre-Yves Geoffard  11. Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement Paul Grootendorst  12. The Economics of Social Health Insurance Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer  13. Competition and Health Plan Choice Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman  14. Empirical Models of Health Care Use Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi  15. Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income Countries Tim Ensor and Robin Thompson  16. Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization Richard Smith  PART III: EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 17. Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff  18. Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton  19. Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia Ravindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa Somanathan  PART IV: ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH CARE MARKETS 20. Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care Richard Cookson and Diane Dawson   21. Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care  Pedro Pita Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt  22. Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care Martin Chalkley  23. Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills   24. Waiting Times and Waiting Lists Luigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen   PART V: PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR 25. The Physician as the Patient’s Agent Thomas Rice  26. Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care Tor Iversen and Hilde Lurås  27. Optimal Risk Adjustment Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire  28. The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care Susan L. Ettner, Michael Schoenbaum and Jessica A. Williams  29. Nursing Home Quality of Care David C. Grabowski and Edward C. Norton   30. Informal Care David C. Grabowski, Edward C. Norton and Courtney H. Van Houtven   31. Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the Controversy W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Kleit  PART VI: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS 32. Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street  33. The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson  34. Productivity Analysis in Health Care James F. Burgess Jr  EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE  PART VII: MEASURING BENEFITS 35. Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement Han Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto  36. The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life David Feeny  37. Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Donna Rowen  38. Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation Aki Tsuchiya  39. The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics? Richard Smith, Paula Lorgelly, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sridhar Venkatapuram and Joanna Coast  40. Contingent Valuation in Health Care Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley  41. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie  42. Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics Leonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere   PART VIII: MEASURING COSTS AND STATISTICAL ISSUES 43. Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation Maria Raikou and Alistair McGuire  44. Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures Willard Manning  45. Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis David Meltzer  46. Selection Bias in Observational Data Daniel Polsky and Anirban Basu  PART IX: ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND DECISION MAKING 47. Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis Milton C. Weinstein  48. Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer   49. Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Revisited Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni  50. Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials Andrew Briggs  51. Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information Karl Claxton, Elisabeth Fenwick and Mark J. Sculpher   52. Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care David J. Vanness and John Mullahy  53. Priority Setting Methods in Health Services Stuart J. Peacock and Craig Mitton  54. Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers Michael Drummond  Index","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406337745239,"sku":"9780857937667","price":49.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857937667.jpg?v=1730495447","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-elgar-companion-to-health-economics-9780857937667","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}