Encyclopedia of Health Economics
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
Table of Contents
The most readable, comprehensive work covering all aspects of Health Economics, from illness causation to healthcare and econometrics.
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