Encyclopedia of Health Economics

Editor: Culyer, A.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

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ISBN: 978-0-12-375678-7
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Economics
Image Count: 270
Book Status: Available
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The most readable, comprehensive work covering all aspects of Health Economics, from illness causation to healthcare and econometrics.

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Table of Contents

    • Editorial Board
    • Guide to Using the Encyclopedia
    • Subject Classification
    • Preface
    • Permission Acknowledgments
    • A
    • Abortion
    • Access and Health Insurance
    • Addiction
    • Adoption of New Technologies, Using Economic Evaluation
    • Advertising as a Determinant of Health in the USA
    • Advertising Health Care: Causes and Consequences
    • Aging: Health at Advanced Ages
    • Alcohol
    • Ambulance and Patient Transport Services
    • Analysing Heterogeneity to Support Decision Making
    • B
    • Biopharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Industries, Economics of
    • Biosimilars
    • Budget-Impact Analysis
    • C
    • Collective Purchasing of Health Care
    • Comparative Performance Evaluation: Quality
    • Competition on the Hospital Sector
    • Cost Function Estimates
    • Cost Shifting
    • Cost-Effectiveness Modeling Using Health State Utility Values
    • Cost-Value Analysis
    • Cross-National Evidence on Use of Radiology
    • D
    • Decision Analysis: Eliciting Experts' Beliefs to Characterize Uncertainties
    • Demand Cross Elasticities and ‘Offset Effects’
    • Demand for and Welfare Implications of Health Insurance, Theory of
    • Demand for Insurance That Nudges Demand
    • Dentistry, Economics of
    • Development Assistance in Health, Economics of
    • Diagnostic Imaging, Economic Issues in
    • Disability-Adjusted Life Years
    • Dominance and the Measurement of Inequality
    • Dynamic Models: Econometric Considerations of Time
    • E
    • Economic Evaluation of Public Health Interventions: Methodological Challenges
    • Economic Evaluation, Uncertainty in
    • Education and Health
    • Education and Health in Developing Economies
    • Education and Health: Disentangling Causal Relationships from Associations
    • Efficiency and Equity in Health: Philosophical Considerations
    • Efficiency in Health Care, Concepts of
    • Emerging Infections, the International Health Regulations, and Macro-Economy
    • Empirical Market Models
    • Equality of Opportunity in Health
    • Ethics and Social Value Judgments in Public Health
    • Evaluating Efficiency of a Health Care System in the Developed World
    • F
    • Fertility and Population in Developing Countries
    • Fetal Origins of Lifetime Health
    • G
    • Global Health Initiatives and Financing for Health
    • Global Public Goods and Health
    • H
    • Health and Health Care, Macroeconomics of
    • Health and Health Care, Need for
    • Health and Its Value: Overview
    • Health Care Demand, Empirical Determinants of
    • Health Econometrics: Overview
    • Health Insurance and Health
    • Health Insurance in Developed Countries, History of
    • Health Insurance in Historical Perspective, I: Foundations of Historical Analysis
    • Health Insurance in Historical Perspective, II: The Rise of Market-Oriented Health Policy and Healthcare
    • Health Insurance in the United States, History of
    • Health Insurance Systems in Developed Countries, Comparisons of
    • Health Labor Markets in Developing Countries
    • Health Microinsurance Programs in Developing Countries
    • Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Financing, Payment, and Provision
    • Health Status in the Developing World, Determinants of
    • Healthcare Safety Net in the US
    • Health-Insurer Market Power: Theory and Evidence
    • Heterogeneity of Hospitals
    • HIV/AIDS, Macroeconomic Effect of
    • HIV/AIDS: Transmission, Treatment, and Prevention, Economics of
    • Home Health Services, Economics of
    • I
    • Illegal Drug Use, Health Effects of
    • Impact of Income Inequality on Health
    • Income Gap across Physician Specialties in the USA
    • Incorporating Health Inequality Impacts into Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
    • Incorporation of Concerns for Fairness in Economic Evaluation of Health Programs: Overview
    • Infectious Disease Externalities
    • Infectious Disease Modeling
    • Inference for Health Econometrics: Inference, Model Tests, Diagnostics, Multiple Tests, and Bootstrap
    • Information Analysis, Value of
    • Instrumental Variables: Informing Policy
    • Instrumental Variables: Methods
    • Interactions Between Public and Private Providers
    • Intergenerational Effects on Health - In Utero and Early Life
    • Internal Geographical Imbalances: The Role of Human Resources Quality and Quantity
    • International E-Health and National Health Care Systems
    • International Movement of Capital in Health Services
    • International Trade in Health Services and Health Impacts
    • International Trade in Health Workers
    • L
    • Latent Factor and Latent Class Models to Accommodate Heterogeneity, Using Structural Equation
    • Learning by Doing
    • Long-Term Care
    • Long-Term Care Insurance
    • M
    • Macroeconomic Causes and Effects of Noncommunicable Disease: The Case of Diet and Obesity
    • Macroeconomic Dynamics of Health: Lags and Variability in Mortality, Employment, and Spending
    • Macroeconomic Effect of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
    • Macroeconomy and Health
    • Managed Care
    • Mandatory Systems, Issues of
    • Market for Professional Nurses in the US
    • Markets in Health Care
    • Markets with Physician Dispensing
    • Measurement Properties of Valuation Techniques
    • Measuring Equality and Equity in Health and Health Care
    • Measuring Health Inequalities Using the Concentration Index Approach
    • Measuring Vertical Inequity in the Delivery of Healthcare
    • Medical Decision Making and Demand
    • Medical Malpractice, Defensive Medicine, and Physician Supply
    • Medical Tourism
    • Medicare
    • Mental Health, Determinants of
    • Mergers and Alliances in the Biopharmaceuticals Industry
    • Missing Data: Weighting and Imputation
    • Modeling Cost and Expenditure for Healthcare
    • Models for Count Data
    • Models for Discrete/Ordered Outcomes and Choice Models
    • Models for Durations: A Guide to Empirical Applications in Health Economics
    • Monopsony in Health Labor Markets
    • Moral Hazard
    • Multiattribute Utility Instruments and Their Use
    • Multiattribute Utility Instruments: Condition-Specific Versions
    • N
    • Noncommunicable Disease: The Case of Mental Health, Macroeconomic Effect of
    • Nonparametric Matching and Propensity Scores
    • Nurses' Unions
    • Nutrition, Economics of
    • Nutrition, Health, and Economic Performance
    • O
    • Observational Studies in Economic Evaluation
    • Occupational Licensing in Health Care
    • Organizational Economics and Physician Practices
    • P
    • Panel Data and Difference-in-Differences Estimation
    • Patents and Other Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
    • Patents and Regulatory Exclusivity in the USA
    • Pay for Prevention
    • Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low- and Middle-Income Country Health Programs
    • Peer Effects in Health Behaviors
    • Peer Effects, Social Networks, and Healthcare Demand
    • Performance of Private Health Insurers in the Commercial Market
    • Personalized Medicine: Pricing and Reimbursement Policies as a Potential Barrier to Development and Adoption, Economics of
    • P
    • Pharmaceutical Company Strategies and Distribution Systems in Emerging Markets
    • Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion
    • Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade: Legal, Policy, and Economic Issues
    • Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Regulation in Europe
    • Pharmaceuticals and National Health Systems
    • Pharmacies
    • Physician Labor Supply
    • Physician Management of Demand at the Point of Care
    • Physician Market
    • Physician-Induced Demand
    • Physicians’ Simultaneous Practice in the Public and Private Sectors
    • Policy Responses to Uncertainty in Healthcare Resource Allocation Decision Processes
    • Pollution and Health
    • Preferred Provider Market
    • Preschool Education Programs
    • Prescription Drug Cost Sharing, Effects of
    • Price Elasticity of Demand for Medical Care: The Evidence since the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
    • Pricing and Reimbursement of Biopharmaceuticals and Medical Devices in the USA
    • Pricing and User Fees
    • Primary Care, Gatekeeping, and Incentives
    • Primer on the Use of Bayesian Methods in Health Economics
    • Priority Setting in Public Health
    • Private Insurance System Concerns
    • Problem Structuring for Health Economic Model Development
    • Production Functions for Medical Services
    • Public Choice Analysis of Public Health Priority Setting
    • Public Health in Resource Poor Settings
    • Public Health Profession
    • Public Health: Overview
    • Q
    • Quality Assessment in Modeling in Decision Analytic Models for Economic Evaluation
    • Quality Reporting and Demand
    • Quality-Adjusted Life-Years
    • R
    • Rationing of Demand
    • Regulation of Safety, Efficacy, and Quality
    • Research and Development Costs and Productivity in Biopharmaceuticals
    • Resource Allocation Funding Formulae, Efficiency of
    • Risk Adjustment as Mechanism Design
    • Risk Classification and Health Insurance
    • Risk Equalization and Risk Adjustment, the European Perspective
    • Risk Selection and Risk Adjustment
    • S
    • Sample Selection Bias in Health Econometric Models
    • Searching and Reviewing Nonclinical Evidence for Economic Evaluation
    • Sex Work and Risky Sex in Developing Countries
    • Smoking, Economics of
    • Social Health Insurance - Theory and Evidence
    • Spatial Econometrics: Theory and Applications in Health Economics
    • Specialists
    • Specification and Implementation of Decision Analytic Model Structures for Economic Evaluation of Health Care Technologies
    • State Insurance Mandates in the USA
    • Statistical Issues in Economic Evaluations
    • Supplementary Private Health Insurance in National Health Insurance Systems
    • Supplementary Private Insurance in National Systems and the USA
    • Survey Sampling and Weighting
    • Switching Costs in Competitive Health Insurance Markets
    • Synthesizing Clinical Evidence for Economic Evaluation
    • T
    • Theory of System Level Efficiency in Health Care
    • Time Preference and Discounting
    • U
    • Understanding Medical Tourism
    • Unfair Health Inequality
    • Utilities for Health States: Whom to Ask
    • V
    • Vaccine Economics
    • Value of Drugs in Practice
    • Value of Information Methods to Prioritize Research
    • Value-Based Insurance Design
    • Valuing Health States, Techniques for
    • Valuing Informal Care for Economic Evaluation
    • W
    • Waiting Times
    • Water Supply and Sanitation
    • Welfarism and Extra-Welfarism
    • What Is the Impact of Health on Economic Growth - and of Growth on Health?
    • Willingness to Pay for Health