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The Elgar Companion To Health Economics

Edited by Andrew M. Jones, Director of the Graduate Programme in Health Economics, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK
2006 584 pp Hardback 978 1 84542 003 1 $235.00 on-line discount $211.50
2007 584 pp Paperback 978 1 84720 337 3 $65.00 on-line discount $52.00
    This book is also available as an ebook 978 1 84542 891 4

‘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

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. The volume brings together 50 chapters written by more than 90 leading international contributors. The contributions to the Companion are concise and focus on specific concepts, methods and key evidence.

Contents: Introduction Population Health and Health Care Systems Part I: Population Health Part II: Health Care Finance, Expenditure and Use Part III: Equity in Health and Health Care Part IV: Organization of Health Care Markets Part V: Provider Reimbursement, Incentives and Behaviour Part VI: Assessing the Performance of Health Care Organizations Evaluation of Health Care Part VII: Measuring Benefits Part VIII: Measuring Costs and Statistical Issues Part IX:Economic Evaluation and Decision Making Index Contributors: T. Adam, 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, P. Contoyannis, R. Cookson, G. Currie, D. Dawson, P. Deb, P. Dolan, C. Donaldson, B. Dowd, M. Drummond, T.T.-T. Edejer, 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, T. Iversen, A.M. Jones, D. Kenkel, A.N. Kleit, D. Lakdawalla, M. Lindeboom, J. Louviere, H. Lurås, A. McGuire, T.G. McGuire, W. Manning, X. Martinez-Giralt, H. Mason, D. Meltzer, A. Mills, S. Morris, J. Mullahy, E.C. Norton, J.A. Nyman, O. O’Donnell, T.A. Olmstead, N. Palmer, T.J. Philipson, J.L. Pinto, D. Polsky, C. Propper, M. Raikou, R. Rannan-Eliya, N. Rice, T. Rice, J. Roberts, C.J. Ruhm, M. Ryan, M. Schoenbaum, M.J. Sculpher, P. Shackley, 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, D.J. Vanness, R. Viney, A. Wagstaff, M.C. Weinstein, D. Wilson, P. Zweifel


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