Health economics
Subtitle: an international perspective
By: Barbara McPake and Charles Normand.
Contributors: Normand, Charles E. M.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415391290; 9780415391320
Subjects: Medical economics; Medical economics -- Cross-cultural studies; Economics, Medical; World Health
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: health economics in international perspective; title: The demand for health and health services; title: Demand, elasticity, and health; title: Production, health, and health care: efficient use of inputs; title: Cost of delivering health services; title: Basic market models; title: Supplier-induced demand and agency; title: Market failure and government; title: The theoretical bases of economic evaluation; title: Issues in the measurement of costs; title: Measuring benefits in economic evaluation; title: Practical steps in economic evaluation; title: Economic evaluation as a framework for choice; title: Contracting; title: Market structures; title: Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation; title: The economics of regulation; title: Incentives and agency; title: Health systems: a framework for analysis; title: Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance; title: Public health service systems; title: Voluntary insurance based systems; title: Social insurance systems; title: Parallel systems; title: Economics of health sector reform.