Beschreibung:
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.
List of contributorsSeries editor's introduction AcknowledgementsIntroductionIts just evaluation for decision-making: Recent developments in, and challenges for, cost-effectiveness research Valuing health outcomes: Ten questions for the insomniac health economistEliciting equity-efficiency trade-offs in healthUsing longitudinal data to investigate socioeconomic inequality in healthRegulating health care markets Efficiency measurement in health care: Recent developments, current practice and future researchIncentives and the UK medical labour market Formula funding of health purchasers: towards a fairer distribution? Decentralization in health care: Lessons from public economicsEuropean integration and the economics of health care Health economics and health policy: A postscriptIndex.