The Elgar companion to health economics - Jones, Andrew M. 1960-. (Cheltenham, [England] Edward Elgar, 2012)
Contents: Population Health and Health Care Systems: PART I: Population Health - Understanding the Relationship Between Macroeconomic Conditions and Health / Christopher J. Ruhm - - The Dynamics of Health / Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis - - Health and Work for Older Workers / Maarten Lindeboom - - Using Observational data to Identify the Casual Effects of Health-Related Behavior / M. Christopher Auld - - Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries / David Bishai, Divya Nair and Taghreed Adam - - Health Behaviours Among Young People / Don Kennel - - Economics of Obesity / Peter J. Huckfeldt, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Tomas J. Philipson - - Illicit Drugs and Drug-Related Crime / Jody L. Sindelar and Todd Olmstead - - PART II: Health Care Finance and Demand - The Value of Health Insurance / John A. Nyman - - Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance / Pierre-Yves Geoffard - - Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement / Paul Grootendorst - - The Economics of Social Health Insurance / Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer - - Competition and Health Plan Choice / Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman - - Empirical Models of Health Care Use / Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi - - Unofficial Payments in Low - and Middle-Income Countries / Tim Ensor and Robin Thompson - - Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization / Richard Smith - - PART III: Equity in Health and Health Care - Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care / Owen O' Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff - - Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care / Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton - - Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia / Ravindran Rannan-Eliyan and Aparnaa Somanathan - - PART IV: Organization of Health Care Markets - Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care / Richard Cookson and Diane Dawson - - Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care / Pedro Pita Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt - - Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care / Martin Chalkley - - Contracting-Out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-Poor Settings / Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills - - Waiting Times and Waiting Lists / Luigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen - - PART V: Provider Reimbursements, Incentives and Behavior - The Physician as the Patient's Agent / Thomas Rice - - Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care / Tor Iversen and Hilda Lurås - - Optimal Risk Adjustment / Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire - - The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care / Susan L. Ettner, Micheal Schoenbaum and Jessica A. Williams - - Nursing Home Quality of Care / David C. Grabowski and Edward C. Norton - - Informal Care / David C. Grabowski, Edward C. Norton and Courtney H. Van Houtven - - Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the Controversy / W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Klein - - PART VI: Assessing the Performance of Health Care Organizations - Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations / Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street - - The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems / Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson - - Productivity Analysis in Health Care / James F. Burgess Jr - - Evaluation of Health Care: PART VII: Measuring Benefits - Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement / Han Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto - - The Multi-Attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life / David Feeny - - Methods for Developing Preference-Based Measures of Health / John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Donna Rowen - - Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation / Aki Tsuchiya - - The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics? / Richard Smith, Paula Largely, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sridhar Venkatapuram and Joanna Coast - - Contingent Valuation in Health Care / Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley - - Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics / Leonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosali Viney and Jordan Louviere - - PART VIII: Measuring Costs and Statistical Issues - Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation / Maria Raikou and Alistair McGuire - - Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures / Willard Manning - - Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis / David Seltzer - - Selection Bias in Observational Data / Daniel Polsky and Anirban Bass - - PART IX: Economic Evaluation and Decision Making - Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Analysis / Milton C. Weinstein - - Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice / David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torre Edejer - - Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Revisited / Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni - - Statistical Methods for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials / Andrew Briggs - - Decision-Making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information / Karl Claxton, Elisabeth Fenwick and Mark J. Sculptor - - Moving Beyond Mean-Based Evaluation of Health Care / David J. Vanness and John Mullahy - - Priority Setting Methods in Health Services / Stuart J. Peacock and Craig Mitton - - Economic Evaluation and Decision-Makers / Micheal Drummond.
Keywords: Medical economics; Economics, Medical