Preface Introduction What were we Looking for? What's New? Health and Well-being 6 Conclusion References Index. His research focuses on the design and impact of health care payment systems, the economics of health care disparities, and the economics of mental health policy and drug regulation and payment. McGuire has contributed to the theory of physician, hospital, and health plan payment. McGuire was a co-editor of the Handbook of Health Economics Volume 2 and recently completed ten years as an editor of the Journal of Health Economics.
Henrique," awarded by the President of Portugal. The volume presents a view of health economics as a vibrant and continually advancing field, highlighting ongoing challenges and pointing to new directions for further progress. Keywords: policy impact , practice , theory , policy-making , primary care , health insurance , developed countries , developing countries , user charges.
Sherry Glied, editor Sherry Glied, Ph. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Peter C. Smith, editor Peter C. He has published widely on the financing and performance of health systems, and has a special interest in the links between research evidence and policy.
Access to the complete content on Oxford Handbooks Online requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription. Please subscribe or login to access full text content. If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful.
It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main discipline: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric information; econometrics; the theory of incomplete markets; and the foundations of welfare economics, among others.
Perhaps it has had an even greater effect outside the field of economics, introducing terms such as opportunity cost, elasticity, the margin, and the production function into medical parlance.
Indeed, health economists are likely to be as heavily cited in the clinical as in the economics literature. Partly because of the large share of public resources that health care commands in almost every developed country, health policy is often a contentious and visible issue; elections have sometimes turned on issues of health policy. Showing the versatility of economic theory, health economics and health economists have usually been part of policy debates, despite the vast differences in medical care institutions across countries.
The publication of the first Handbook of Health Economics marks another step in the evolution of health economics. Introduction A.
Culyer and J. Part 1: Overviews and Paradigms. Health care systems internationally compared B. Jonsson and U. An overview of the normative economics of the health sector J. Medical care prices and output E.
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