Text Book

The Dictionary of Health Economics

Authors: Anthony J Culyer
ISBN: 1 84376 208 0 (Hardback)
Publication Date: July 2005
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Publication date: July 2005, c. 264pp, hardback, c. £59.95, Edward Elgar Publishing (sales@e-elgar.co.uk)

Orders to: Marston Book Services Ltd., PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4YN, UK (or direct.order@marston.co.uk)

10% discount on pre-paid orders (see www.e-elgar.com)

"At last a book that reveals in plain English the concepts and methods used by health economists. This book should make a major contribution to promoting multidisciplinary research on health and health services, and enable students to get through the undergrowth of jargon that commonly turns them back" --Nick Black, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

"The trouble with most dictionaries to my mind is that frequently the definitions are as difficult to understand as the words one is looking up. The Dictionary of Health Economics by Tony Culyer suffers far less from this problem than others and thus it is much more accessible to the non-specialist. I am particularly taken by Tony’s personal examples and vignettes attached to many of the definitions. These improve the comprehension of the definitions for the reader and add a personal touch which makes the book much more readable and less dry than other dictionaries." --David Barnett, Chairman Appraisals Committee, national Institute for Clinical Excellence and Leicester University

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Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds, Second Edition

Author: Thomas E. Getzen, Temple University
ISBN: 0-471-43203-2
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons

A primer for the field, written by Professor Thomas Getzen, Executive Director of the International Health Economics Association. This text is comprehensive and accessible, providing a readable and rigorous conceptual framework for studying incentives, organizations and profits in medical care. Updated with new material on the calculation of payment rates (RBRVS and DRGS), flow of funds and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, and international contributions on health financing policy in Germany, Japan, Mexico, Poland and the Sudan.

For more information or to order visit:
Getzen Text
ISBN: 0-471-43203-2

Chapter List

  • Terms of Trade: The Flow of Funds Through the Health Care System
  • Demand
  • Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  • Insurance
  • Contracting
  • Physicians, Licensure, Medical Education and Business Practices
  • Hospitals and Cost Functions
  • Managed Care, Risk, Capital and Competition
  • Long-term Care
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Macroeconomics, Government, Public Goods and Public Health
  • Economic History: Income, Population Growth and Medical Care
  • International Comparisons of Health Systems and Expenditures
  • Dynamics of National Health Spending and Employment
  • Value for Money in the Future of Medical Care
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Health Economics

Authors: Barbara McPake, Lilani Kumaranayake, Charles Normand
ISBN: 0415277361
PublisherRoutledge

HEALTH ECONOMICS begins by looking at simple models of supply and demand within health care, before moving on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis, and then compares differing health care systems around the world. With an array of case studies based on systems from all over the world, the book successfully bridges the divide between the insurance-based system employed in the United States, the publicly funded operations more common in Europe and Canada and the mixed arrangements characteristic of most developing countries.

This textbook will become required reading on the ever-growing number of health economics courses across the world. It should also be genuinely useful in other areas, such as public health studies, medicine and health science.

To order visit Routledge

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Health Care Economics: 6th Edition

Author: Paul J. Feldstein
ISBN: 1401859798
publisher: Delmar Learning

The 6th edition of Paul Feldstein's Health Care Economics will be published July 2004. The entire text, including the numerous figures and tables, has been updated in this edition. In addition, two new sections have been added. The first is an Appendix to Chapter One providing a review of the basics of supply and demand analysis, equilibrium price, price elasticity, and competitive and monopoly markets. The second is a new, comprehensive, Chapter on the Pharmaceutical Industry. Topics included in the new Chapter are a discussion of the structure of the industry, the patent process, drug firm pricing, re-importation of drugs, and industry performance.

New subject material has also been included in existing Chapters, e.g., an extended discussion of the treatment approach for measuring the rise in medical prices, new material on quality of care, the insurance underwriting cycle, a new Appendix on a method for developing a risk-adjusted premium, and a new Appendix on cost-shifting. As in previous editions, chapters such as An Overview of the Medical Care Sector, The Demand for Health Insurance, and The Legislative Marketplace, provide a comprehensive discussion of their topics not found in other texts.

A similar distinguishing feature of the new edition is its in-depth discussion of topics. Various sections in the book also contain historical overviews of the evolution of certain issues to the present time.

Throughout the book basic economic concepts and diagrams are used to a much greater extent than other texts. Students are more readily able to see the applicability of economics to understanding the issues being discussed.

All the figures and tables in the book will be available in power point or as overheads for those instructors adopting the text.

For instructors to request a review copy go to http://www.delmarhealthcare.com/health/
Alternatively, instructors can call 1-800-477-3692 to order a review copy.

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