Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Jones, Andrew M., 1960-

Description

1. xvii, 565 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

1. The aim of 'The Elgar Companion to Health Economics' is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics.

Series statement

1. Elgar original reference

Uniform title

1. Elgar original reference

Alternative title

1. Companion to health economics

Subject

1. Medical economics
2. Economics, Medical
3. Medical economics
4. Économie médicale
5. Gesundheitsökonomie
6. Evaluation
7. Gesundheitswesen
8. Gezondheidszorg
9. Economische aspecten
10. Économie de la santé > Manuels d'enseignement

Genre/Form

1. Aufsatzsammlung.

Contents

1. Macroeconomic conditions, health and mortality / Christopher J. Ruhm -- The dynamics of health / Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice, Paul Contoyannis -- Health and work of older workers / Maarten Lindeboom -- Using observational data to identify the causal effects of health-related behaviour / M. Christopher Auld -- Economics of public health interventions for children in developing countries / David Bishai, Taghreed Adam -- Health behaviours among young people / Don Kenkel -- Economics of obesity / Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas J. Philipson -- Illicit drugs and drug-related crime / Jody L. Sindelar, Todd A. Olmstead -- 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, Friedrich Breyer -- Competition and health plan choice / Bryan Dowd, Roger Feldman -- Empirical models of health care use / Partha Deb, Pravin K. Trivedi -- The unofficial health care economy in low- and middle-income countries / Tim Ensor, Robin Thompson -- Trade in health services : current challenges and future prospects of globalization / Richard Smith -- Decomposition of inequalities in health and health care / Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff -- Economic studies of equity in the consumption of health care / Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris, Matt Sutton -- Equity in health and health care systems in Asia / Ravindra Rannan-Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan -- Hospital competition and patient choice in publicly funded health care / Richard Cookson, Diane Dawson -- Models of negotiation and bargaining in health care / Pedro Pita Barros, 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, Anne Mills -- The physician as the patient's agent / Thomas Rice -- Capitation and incentives in primary care / Tor Iversen, Hilde Lurås -- Optimal risk adjustment / Jacob Glazer, Thomas G. McGuire -- The role of economic incentives in improving the quality of mental health care / Susan L. Ettner, Michael Schoenbaum -- Nursing home quality of care / David C. Grabowski, Edward C. Norton -- Direct to consumer advertising / W. David Bradford, Andrew N. Kleit -- Concepts and challenges in measuring the performance of health care organizations / Peter C. Smith, Andrew Street -- The use of performance measures in health care systems / Carol Propper, Deborah Wilson -- Productivity analysis in health care / James F. Burgess, Jr. -- Conceptual foundations for health utility measurement / Han Bleichrodt, 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 -- The elicitation of distributional judgements in the context of economic evaluation / Paul Dolan, Aki Tsuchiya -- Contingent valuation in health care / Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason, Phil Shackley -- Using discrete choice experiments in health economics / Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard, Gillian Currie -- Design of choice experiments in health economics / Leonie Burgess [and others] -- Estimating costs for economic evaluation / Maria Raikou, Alistair McGuire -- Dealing with skewed data on costs and expenditures / Willard Manning -- Future costs in medical cost-effectiveness analysis / David Meltzer -- Selection bias in observational data / Daniel Polsky, Anirban Basu -- Decision rules for incremental cost-effectiveness analysis / Milton C. Weinstein -- Generalized cost-effectiveness analysis : principles and practice / David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer -- Decision rules in economic evaluation / Stephen Birch, 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, Mark J. Sculpher -- Perspectives on mean-based evaluation of health care / David J. Vanness, John Mullahy -- Economic evaluation and decision-makers / Michael Drummond.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.