Health Economics: An International Perspective 4th Edition

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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
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Preface to the fourth edition
1 Introduction: health economics in international perspective
Part I Introductory health economics
	2 The demand for health and health services
	3 Production, health and health care: efficient use of inputs
	4 Cost of delivering health services
	5 Basic market models
	6 Supplier-induced demand and agency
	7 Market failure and government
Part II Further economics of markets and market intervention
	8 Contracting
	9 Market structures
	10 Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation
	11 The economics of regulation
	12 Incentives and agency
Part III The economics of health systems
	13 Health systems: a framework for analysis
	14 Tax and social health insurance mechanisms
	15 Private financing mechanisms
	16 Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance
	17 The economics of health in an era of global transition
Part IV Tools and techniques for measurement and analysis
Part IVa Economic evaluation
	18 The theoretical bases of economic evaluation
	19 Issues in the measurement of costs
	20 Measuring benefits in economic evaluation
	21 Practical steps in economic evaluation
	22 Economic evaluation as a framework for choice
Part IVb Applied econometrics and other tools
	23 Introductory applied health econometrics
	24 Methods and applications for causal analysis
	25 Equity in access to health care: key measurement issues
References
Index