The Elgar Companion to Health Economics (Elgar Original Reference)

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. Read more... 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. Luras, 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