Health Economics : An International Perspective.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface to the fourth edition -- 1 Introduction: health economics in international perspective -- Part I Introductory health economics -- 2 The demand for health and health services -- 3 Production, health and health care: efficient use of inputs -- 4 Cost of delivering health services -- 5 Basic market models -- 6 Supplier-induced demand and agency -- 7 Market failure and government -- Part II Further economics of markets and market intervention -- 8 Contracting -- 9 Market structures -- 10 Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation -- 11 The economics of regulation -- 12 Incentives and agency -- Part III The economics of health systems -- 13 Health systems: a framework for analysis -- 14 Tax and social health insurance mechanisms -- 15 Private financing mechanisms -- 16 Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance -- 17 The economics of health in an era of global transition -- Part IV Tools and techniques for measurement and analysis -- Part IVa Economic evaluation -- 18 The theoretical bases of economic evaluation -- 19 Issues in the measurement of costs -- 20 Measuring benefits in economic evaluation -- 21 Practical steps in economic evaluation -- 22 Economic evaluation as a framework for choice -- Part IVb Applied econometrics and other tools -- 23 Introductory applied health econometrics -- 24 Methods and applications for causal analysis -- 25 Equity in access to health care: key measurement issues -- References -- Index.

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health systems across borders, the fourth edition of this key text has been fully updated and revised to take account of changes in a host of countries.

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