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| Description |
Health economics has made major contributions to the development of health policy in many countries. This book describes those successes and looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy issues in health and health care. With contributions from internationally recognized researchers, this book addresses generic policy issues confronting health systems across the developed world. The coverage progresses from micro, patient level issues to macro, whole system issues including: ? Determining cost-effective treatments ? Fair distribution of health care ? Regulatory issues such as performance measurement and incentives ? Revenue distribution ? Decentralization and internationalization of health systems Health Policy and Economics identifies the major contributions that health economics makes to important policy issues in health and health care. It is key reading for policy makers and health managers as well as students and academics with an interest in health policy and health services research. Contributors: Ron L. Akehurst, Karen E. Bloor, Martin Buxton, Karl P. Claxton, Richard Cookson, Diane A. Dawson, Paul Dolan, Mike Drummond, Brian Ferguson, Hugh Gravelle, Maria Goddard, Katharina Hauck, John Hutton, Andrew M. Jones, Rowena Jacobs, Paul Kind, Rosella Levaggi, Guillem Lopez Casanovas, Alan K. Maynard, Nigel Rice, Anthony Scott, Rebecca Shaw, Trevor Sheldon, Andrew D. Street, Mark Sculpher, Matthew Sutton, Peter C. Smith, Adrian Towse, Aki Tsuchiya, Alan H. Williams. |
| Author Biography |
Peter C. Smith is Professor of Economics and has research interests in public finance and public service regulation. Mark Sculpher is Professor of Health Economics. He leads the Centre?s economic evaluation team and has a particular interest in evaluation methodology. Laura Ginnelly is a Research Fellow in the economic evaluation team. Her research interests include economic evaluations within clinical trials and decision analytic modelling methodology. |
| Table of Contents |
List of contributors Series editor's introduction Acknowledgements Introduction Its just evaluation for decision-making: Recent developments in, and challenges for, cost-effectiveness research Valuing health outcomes: Ten questions for the insomniac health economist Eliciting equity-efficiency trade-offs in health Using longitudinal data to investigate socioeconomic inequality in health Regulating health care markets Efficiency measurement in health care: Recent developments, current practice and future research Incentives and the UK medical labour market Formula funding of health purchasers: towards a fairer distribution? Decentralization in health care: Lessons from public economics European integration and the economics of health care Health economics and health policy: A postscript Index. |
