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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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Bio
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
42 black and white line drawings, 234x156mm
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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