Introduction to health economics
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Introduction to health economics
（Understanding public health）
Open University, 2005
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Description
Resources are inevitably scarce and hard choices have to be made. Health economics, as you will see in this book, is about helping to make those choices in a way that improves people's health and the way services are delivered. The book provides insight into the economic methods that are used to promote public health policies, analyse health care delivery and shape health sector reforms.Unlike other books in this area, Introduction to Health Economics takes an international perspective, considering public and private health systems across countries with different income levels.The book examines:
Supply and demandMarkets Health system financingEconomic evaluation
Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
Table of Contents
Overview of the bookSection 1: Economics and health economics
What are economics and health economics?
The methods of economics
Section 2: Supply and demand
A simple model of demand
Supply and price determination
Elasticity of demand
Applying elasticity of demand to health policy
Risk, uncertainty and modelling demand
Production and costs in the short and long run
Costs: the broader service perspective
Section 3: Markets
Markets and efficiency
Market failure
Equity
Section 4: Health financing
The changing world of health care finance
Private health insurance
Social health insurance
Section 5: Economic evaluation
What is economic evaluation?
Counting the costs
Cost-benefit analysis
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Evaluation in perspective
Glossary
Index.
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