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Most societies seek to distribute health care according to concepts of efficiency and equity.
Efficiency deals with getting the most out of constrained resources and is a concept strongly associated with the discipline of economics. Equity deals with a fair distribution of whatever is being produced and is a concept with which many disciplines are concerned. We feel that most current textbooks in health economics are too narrowly focused on neo-classical economic models which deal principally with efficiency issues. As a result, these books tend to emphasise economic theory at the expense of applied economic analysis. With its more multidisciplinary focus, this book will fill an important gap in the market.