Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
2. Health Systems in Industrialized Countries
3. Health Systems in Low- and Middle-income Countries
4. The Political Economy of Health Care
5. The Promise of Health: Evidence of the Impact of Health on Income and Well-Being
6. Health Production
7. Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
8. Determinants of Health in Childhood
9. Economics of Infectious Diseases
10. Economics of Health Behaviors and Addictions: Contemporary Issues and Policy Implications
11. Economics and Mental Health: An International Perspective
12. Public-Sector Health Care Financing
13. Voluntary Private Health Insurance
14. Health Care Cost Growth
15. User Charges
16. Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care
17. Guaranteed Access to Affordable Coverage in Individual Health Insurance Markets
18. Managed Care
19. Hospitals: Teaming Up
20. Primary Care
21. The Global Health Workforce
22. The Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry
23. Disease Prevention, Health Care, and Economics
24. Long-term Care
25. Physician Agency and Payment for Primary Medical Care
26. Provider Payment and Incentives
27. Non-price Rationing and Waiting Times
28. Increasing Competition Between Providers in Health Care Markets: The Economic Evidence
29. Measuring Organizational Performance
30. Health System Productivity
31. The Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis to Inform Decisions about the Use of Health Care Interventions and Programs
32. Analyzing Uncertainty in Cost-effectiveness for Decision-making
33. Health Utility Measurement
34. Concepts of Equity and Fairness in Health and Health Care
35. Measuring Inequality and Inequity in Health and Health Care
36. Inter-generational Aspects of Health Care
37. Econometric Evaluation of Health Policies
38. Health Economics and Policy: The Challenges of Proselytizing
Index
Footnotes