Health economics : an international perspective

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Title:

Health economics : an international perspective

Author:

McPake, Barbara.

ISBN:

9780415391320

9780415391290

Personal Author:

McPake, Barbara.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2008.

Physical Description:

xix, 292 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: health economics in international perspective -- The demand for health and health services -- Demand, elasticity, and health -- Production, health, and health care: efficient use of inputs -- Cost of delivering health services -- Basic market models -- Supplier-induced demand and agency -- Market failure and government -- The theoretical bases of economic evaluation -- Issues in the measurement of costs -- Measuring benefits in economic evaluation -- Practical steps in economic evaluation -- Economic evaluation as a framework for choice -- Contracting -- Market structures -- Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation -- The economics of regulation -- Incentives and agency -- Health systems: a framework for analysis -- Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance -- Public health service systems -- Voluntary insurance based systems -- Social insurance systems -- Parallel systems -- Economics of health sector reform.

Subject Term:

Medical economics.

Medical economics -- Cross-cultural studies.

Economics, Medical.

Global Health.

Added Author:

Normand, Charles E. M.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019057.html

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Summary

This popular textbook provides a comprehensive but accessible coverage of health economic principles and applications. It provides an introduction for those with no previous knowledge of economics, but also more advanced material suitable for those with a background in economics. Now into its second edition, Barbara McPake and Charles Normand have incorporated developments in economic evaluation and economics of health systems from recent research and experience while retaining an accessible approach and style.

The book starts with a section on basic economic principles as applied to health and health care, and goes on to discuss economic evaluation in health care, the economics of health systems and health care finance. Examples and illustrations are taken from a wide range of settings and world regions, reflecting the authors' belief that the same principles apply, and that it is useful to have some understanding of how different countries organise the health system. It provides an understanding of the performance of different health systems from the insurance based approaches in the United States to government funding that is common in Canada and most countries in Europe, and the mixed systems that operate in most low-income countries.

This book is ideal for students in public health and related courses, for health care professionals and those studying health economics at a more advanced level.