February 10, 2010

Health and Social Justice

Authors: Jennifer Prah Ruger, Foreword by Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN13: 9780199559978
ISBN10: 019955997X

List Price: $74.00 (06); 5 Figures, 2 Tables

Publication Date: Jan 2010
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 224 pages

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Jennifer Prah Ruger is Associate Professor at Yale University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Law, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Previous appointments include Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Speechwriter to the World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn, Health Economist in the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Sector and Satellite Secretariat for the World Health Organization Transition Team, Health and Development Satellite. Professor Ruger has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform, and social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations nationally and globally.

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February 10, 2010: Policy

October 28, 2009

The Economics of Health Reconsidered

Authors: Thomas Rice and Lynn Unruh
Edition: Third
Publisher: Health Administration Press (Chicago)

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October 28, 2009: Text Book

October 8, 2009

Economic Evaluation in Child Health

Editor: Wendy Ungar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-954749-4

List Price: £32.95

Publication Date: 08 October 2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336

31 black-and-white line drawings | 234x156mm

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Edited by Wendy Ungar, Senior Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, The University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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October 8, 2009: Economic Evaluation , Text Book

August 13, 2009

Principles in Health Economics and Policy

Author: Jan Abel Olsen
Edition: Second
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-923781-4

List Price: £29.95

Publication Date: 13 August 2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240

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Jan Abel Olsen, Professor at the Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, and the Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway

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August 13, 2009: Methodology , Policy

May 14, 2009

The Economics of New Health Technologies Incentives, organization, and financing

Editors: Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, and Alistair McGuire
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-955068-5

List Price: #29.95

Publication Date: 14 May 2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176

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• Joan Costa-Font, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Health and Social Care Department, London School of Economics, UK
• Christophe Courbage, Director of Research, The Geneva Association (International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics); Lecturer in Health Economics, Institute of Health Economics and Management, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Alistair McGuire, Professor of Health Economics and Health, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK

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May 14, 2009: Economic Evaluation