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December 01, 2004
Health Policy and Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
Authors: Peter Smith, Laura Ginnelly, Mark Sculpher
ISBN: 0335215742
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education Europe
In its brief lifetime, health economics has made major contributions to the development of health policy in many countries. This book describes those successes, but it also looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy issues in health and health care in the future.
The book originates from a conference to celebrate twenty years of research at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. It contains contributions from many of the internationally recognized researchers at the Centre and their colleagues, and seeks to address generic policy issues confronting health systems across the developed world.
The coverage progresses from micro, patient level issues to macro, whole system issues. Topics covered include: determining the most cost-effective treatment to offer patients; policy issues of fairness and the distribution of health within the population; regulatory issues, in the form of performance measurement and incentives for organizations and individual workers; distributing revenue and capital finances; and the implications of simultaneously increased decentralization and increased internationalization of health systems.
Contributors: Paul Kind; John E Brazier; Mark J Sculpher; Karl P Claxton; Ron L. Akehurst; Alan H Williams; Paul Dolan; Aki Tsuchiya; Andrew M Jones; Nigel Rice; Maria Goddard; Hugh Gravelle; Richard Cookson; Rowena Jacobs; Andrew D Street; Alan K Maynard; Karen E Bloor; Matthew Sutton; Diane A Dawson; Sean Boyle; Peter C Smith; Rosella Levaggi; Mike Drummond and Adrian Towse.
£22.99, 288 pages
For ordering information go to McGraw Hill
CONTENTS
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Valuing health outcomes: changing requirements and differing perspectives
CHAPTER 2: Its Just Evaluation for Decision Making: Recent Developments in, and Challenges for, Cost-Effectiveness Research
CHAPTER 3: Incorporating citizens' preferences about fairness into health policy
CHAPTER 4: Socioeconomic inequality and mobility in health
CHAPTER 5: Regulating health care markets
CHAPTER 6: Measuring the performance of health systems and organizations
CHAPTER 7: Regulating labour markets
CHAPTER 8: Formula funding of health purchasers
CHAPTER 9: Capital financing
CHAPTER 10: Decentralization in health care: lessons from public economics
CHAPTER 11: European integration and the economics of health care
Conclusions, Opportunities and Challenges
