Economic Analysis in Healthcare (2^nd Ed.)

Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the field of economics in health care and the evaluation of health care technologies.

This new edition has been fully updated with up–to–date case studies from the UK, Europe and the Rest of the World. It includes a new chapter on health care labour markets and contains new material integrated throughout the text on the economics of public health.

• Adopts an international perspective towards topics in health economics
• Creates a useful balance of theoretical treatment and practical application throughout the book
• Focuses on both market–related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Economic Analysis in Health Care

Chapter 2. The Demand for Health Care

Chapter 3. The Production and Costs of Health Care

Chapter 4. The Supply of Health Care

Chapter 5. Markets, Market Failure and the Role of Government in Health Care

Chapter 6. Health Insurance and Health Care Financing

Chapter 7. Equity in Health Care

Chapter 8. Health Care Labour Markets

Chapter 9. Welfarist and Non–Welfarist Foundations of Economic Evaluation

Chapter 10. Principles of Economic Evaluation in Health Care

Chapter 11. Measuring and Valuing Health Care Output

Chapter 12. Economic Evaluation Methods

Chapter 13. The Use of Economic Evaluation in Decision Making

Index

Stephen Morris is Professor of Health Economics at University College London (UCL). He is a member of the Health Care Evaluation Group and is affiliated with the UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre and the Division of Research Strategy. Prior to coming to UCL Steve worked at the Health Economics Research Group at Brunel University, the Imperial College Business School, and the Department of Economics at City University. He has an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York, and a PhD in Economics from City University.

Nancy Devlin is Director of Research at the Office of Health Economics (OHE) in London.? Nancy joined the OHE in 2009, bringing over 20 years of experience in health economics research. Nancy has published original research on a wide range of health economics topics in economics, health services research and health policy journals. She has experience as a consultant and advisor to Government and non-Government health care organisations in the UK and internationally. Nancy's principal areas of research expertise are the measurement and valuation of patient reported health outcomes; the cost effectiveness thresholds used in making judgments about value for money in health care; priority setting in health care; production, performance and efficiency of hospitals; and the determinants of patient choice.

David Parkin is Professor of Health Economics and Director of the City Health Economics Centre at City University London. His main research interests are the production of health and health care, the development of health status output measures for health care, health care decision making and studies of health expenditure. He is the organiser of the UK Health Econmists' Study Group.

Dr Anne Spencer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. Dr Spencer mentors health economists to use modeling techniques t