The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is a comprehensive and accessible look at the field, as seen by its leading figures.'
- Joseph Newhouse, Harvard Medical School, US
This comprehensive collection brings together more than 50 contributions from some of the most influential researchers in health economics. It authoritatively covers theoretical and empirical issues in health economics, with a balanced range of material on equity and efficiency in health care systems, health technology assessment and issues of concern for developing countries. This thoroughly revised second edition is expanded to include four new chapters, while all existing chapters have been extensively updated.
The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition intends to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the current frontier of research by providing concise and readable introductions to key topics.
Contributors: T. Adam, H. Al-Janabi, M.C. Auld, P.P. Barros, A. Basu, S. Birch, D. Bishai, H. Bleichrodt, W.D. Bradford, J. Brazier, F. Breyer, A. Briggs, J.F. Burgess Jr, L. Burgess, M. Chalkley, D. Chisholm, K. Claxton, J. Coast, P. Contoyannis, R. Cookson, G. Currie, D. Dawson, P. Deb, C. Donaldson, B. Dowd, M. Drummond, T.T.-T. Ensor, S.L. Ettner, D.B. Evans, D. Feeny, R. Feldman, E. Fenwick, A. Gafni, P.-Y. Geoffard, K. Gerard, J. Glazer, D.C. Grabowski, H. Gravelle, P. Grootendorst, P.J. Huckfeldt, T. Iversen, A.M. Jones, D. Kenkel, A.N. Kleit, D.N. Lakdawalla, M. Lindeboom, P. Lorgelly, J. Louviere, H. Luras, W. Manning, X. Martinez-Giralt, H. Mason, A. McGuire, T.G. McGuire, D. Meltzer, A. Mills, C. Mitton, S. Morris, J. Mullahy, D. Nair, E.C. Norton, J.A. Nyman, O. O'Donnell, T. Olmstead, N. Palmer, S.J. Peacock, T.J. Philipson, J.L. Pinto, D. Polsky, C. Propper, M. Raikou, R. Rannan-Eliya, N. Rice, T. Rice, J. Roberts, D. Rowen, C.J. Ruhm, M. Ryan, M. Schoenbaum, M.J. Sculpher, P. Shackley, L. Siciliani, J.L. Sindelar, P.C. Smith, R. Smith, A. Somanathan, A. Street, D.J. Street, M. Sutton, R. Thompson, P.K. Trivedi, A. Tsuchiya, E. van Doorslaer, C.H. Van Houtven, D.J. Vanness, S. Venkatapuram, R. Viney, A. Wagstaff, M.C. Weinstein, J.A. Williams, D. Wilson, P. Zweifel
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Acclaim for the first edition: This companion is a timely addition... It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics... there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues... I have found the Companion very useful.'
--Sukhan Jackson, Economic Analysis and Policy
'This encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.'
--R.M. Mullner, Choice
Edited by Andrew M. Jones, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK
Contents:
Introduction
Andrew M. Jones
POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
PART I: POPULATION HEALTH
1. Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and Health
Christopher J. Ruhm
2. The Dynamics of Health
Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis
3. Health and Work of Older Workers
Maarten Lindeboom
4. Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour
M. Christopher Auld
5. Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries
David Bishai, Divya Nair and Taghreed Adam
6. Health Behaviours Among Young People
Don Kenkel
7. Economics of Obesity
Peter J. Huckfeldt, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Tomas J. Philipson
8. Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime
Jody L. Sindelar and Todd Olmstead
PART II: HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND DEMAND
9. The Value of Health Insurance
John A. Nyman
10. Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance
Pierre-Yves Geoffard
11. Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement
Paul Grootendorst
12. The Economics of Social Health Insurance
Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer
13. Competition and Health Plan Choice
Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman
14. Empirical Models of Health Care Use
Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi
15. Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Tim Ensor and Robin Thompson
16. Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization
Richard Smith
PART III: EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
17. Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care
Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff
18. Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care
Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton
19. Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia
Ravindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa Somanathan
PART IV: ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH CARE MARKETS
20. Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care
Richard Cookson and Diane Dawson
21. Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care
Pedro Pita Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt
22. Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care
Martin Chalkley
23. Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings
Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills
24. Waiting Times and Waiting Lists
Luigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen
PART V: PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR
25. The Physician as the Patient's Agent
Thomas Rice
26. Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care
Tor Iversen and Hilde Luras
27. Optimal Risk Adjustment
Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire
28. The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care
Susan L. Ettner, Michael Schoenbaum and Jessica A. Williams
29. Nursing Home Quality of Care
David C. Grabowski and Edward C. Norton
30. Informal Care
David C. Grabowski, Edward C. Norton and Courtney H. Van Houtven
31. Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the Controversy
W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Kleit
PART VI: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS
32. Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations
Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street
33. The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems
Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson
34. Productivity Analysis in Health Care
James F. Burgess Jr
EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE
PART VII: MEASURING BENEFITS
35. Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement
Han Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto
36. The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life
David Feeny
37. Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health
John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Donna Rowen
38. Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation
Aki Tsuchiya
39. The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics?
Richard Smith, Paula Lorgelly, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sridhar Venkatapuram and Joanna Coast
40. Contingent Valuation in Health Care
Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley
41. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics
Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie
42. Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics
Leonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere
PART VIII: MEASURING COSTS AND STATISTICAL ISSUES
43. Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation
Maria Raikou and Alistair McGuire
44. Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures
Willard Manning
45. Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis
David Meltzer
46. Selection Bias in Observational Data
Daniel Polsky and Anirban Basu
PART IX: ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND DECISION MAKING
47. Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Milton C. Weinstein
48. Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice
David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer
49. Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Revisited
Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni
50. Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials
Andrew Briggs
51. Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information
Karl Claxton, Elisabeth Fenwick and Mark J. Sculpher
52. Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care
David J. Vanness and John Mullahy
53. Priority Setting Methods in Health Services
Stuart J. Peacock and Craig Mitton
54. Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers
Michael Drummond
Index
