Principles in health economics and policy:
"Principles in Health Economics and Policy is a clear and concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy. It introduces the subject of economics, explains the fundamental failures in the market for health care, and discusses the concepts of equity and fairness whe...
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| Summary: | "Principles in Health Economics and Policy is a clear and concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy. It introduces the subject of economics, explains the fundamental failures in the market for health care, and discusses the concepts of equity and fairness when applied to health and health care." "Written for students and health professionals with no background in economics, the book takes a policy-oriented approach, emphasizing the application of economic analysis to universal health policy issues. It explores the key questions facing health policy-makers across the globe right now. With relevant exercises and suggested further reading lists at the end of each chapter, Principles in Health Economics and Policy is the ideal resource for both students and health professionals."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 269 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780198794837 |
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1 Health and healthcare 1
1.1 What is health? I
1.2 What is healthcare? 6
1.3 The effect of healthcare on health 8
1.4 What makes health so important? Intrinsic versus
instrumental values 9
1.5 From micro to macro 11
1.6 Policy lessons 14
2 Economics and efficiency 17
2.1 The heart of economics 17
2.2 The supply side: resources, production, and costs 19
2.3 The demand side: preferences and income 30
2.4 Application to health and healthcare 35
2.5 Supply and demand: aggregation to a market 38
2.6 Policy lessons 43
3 What makes the market for healthcare different? 47
3.1 Efficiency and equity reasons 47
3.2 The perfect market model and the imperfect market for
healthcare 47
3.3 Asymmetric information and the agency relationship 52
3.4 Externalities 55
3.5 Policy lessons 59
4 Equality and fairness 61
4.1 From caring to sharing 61
4.2 Externalities—unselfishly motivated 61
4.3 Transfers in cash or in kind 63
4.4 Distributive preferences 66
4.5 Concepts of equity in health 67
4.6 Three theories of distributive justice 70
4.7 The health frontier and trade-offs 75
4.8 Policy lessons 79
X CONTENTS
5 Determinants of (inequalities in) health: an overview 83
5.1 A framework of health determinants 83
5.2 Equality of health opportunities 86
5.3 Conclusion and what’s next 89
6 Exogenous determinants of health 91
6.1 Introduction 91
6.2 Gender differences in life expectancies 91
6.3 Childhood differences in health 92
6.4 The physical environment 93
6.5 Policy lessons 95
7 The social environment and health 97
7.1 Correlation, causation, and intervention 97
7.2 Indicators of socioeconomic position 97
7.3 Causal pathways—or chain reactions’ 101
7.4 Interventions to reduce social inequalities in health 104
7.5 Policy lessons 105
8 Health-related behaviour 107
8.1 Which types of behaviour are Tiealth related’? 107
8.2 Diet 109
8.3 Physical activity 111
8.4 Substance use 112
8.5 Policy lessons 116
9 Funding sources: an overview 119
9.1 Money flows in healthcare 119
9.2 Preferences for funding sources 121
9.3 In practice: the relative importance of different funding sources 123
9.4 Global redistribution of health funding 124
9.5 Policy lessons 124
10 Uncertainty and health insurance 127
10.1 Demand for financial protection 127
10.2 Theory: the welfare gain from insurance 128
10.3 Moral hazard 132
10.4 Risks differ: actuarially fair insurance 135
10.5 Adverse selection 136
10.6 Policy lessons 137
11 Prepayment schemes 139
11.1 Voluntary or compulsory 139
CONTENTS XI
11.2 Social health insurance 140
11.3 Tax-financed healthcare 141
11.4 Comparing three insurance systems 143
11.5 The three dimensions of coverage 145
11.6 Complementary and supplementary insurance 147
11.7 Policy lessons 148
12 Patient payments 151
12.1 The policy arguments 151
12.2 Why patients pay 152
12.3 Co-payment, co-insurance, and co-funding 153
12.4 Deductible: a ceiling for aggregate patient payments 155
12.5 Distributive implications 156
12.6 Autonomous consumer or compliant patient 158
12.7 Policy lessons 159
13 The healthcare delivery system: an overview 161
13.1 The ‘body* of the healthcare provider system 161
13.2 Patients’ use of services: frequency and loyalty 163
13.3 Providers’ motivation: not only ‘not-for-profit’ 164
13.4 Internal markets 165
13.5 Policy lessons 166
14 Primary care: paying general practitioners 169
14.1 The first-line provider level 169
14.2 Fee-for-service 170
14.3 Capitation 173
14.4 Salary 175
14.5 Comparing three payment systems 178
14.6 A typology of GPs’ motivations 180
14.7 Policy lessons 181
15 Secondary care: hospital financing 185
15.1 A typology of hospital payment systems 185
15.2 Comparing the three payments systems 188
15.3 Pay for performance 190
15.4 Policy lessons 193
16 Unwarranted variations in healthcare utilization 195
16.1 The inconvenient truth 195
16.2 Ubiquitous and persistent: small area variations in different
countries 196
CONTENTS
16.3 Three categories of care 199
16.4 Why such variations? 201
16.5 Policy lessons 202
17 Economic evaluation and priority setting: an overview 205
17.1 What is this all about? 205
17.2 An umbrella term for different types of analysis 206
17.3 Benefit or effect items 209
17 A Cost items 210
17.5 Discounting costs and effects 211
17.6 Policy lessons 215
18 Benefits from improved health 217
18.1 Health gains 217
18.2 Production gains 227
18.3 Subjective well-being 231
18.4 Willingness to pay 232
18.5 Policy lessons 234
19 Costs and the cost-effectiveness threshold 237
19.1 Identifying cost items: the perspective of the analysis 237
19.2 Healthcare sector perspective 238
19.3 A societal perspective 240
19.4 A call for transparency, and guidelines 242
19.5 Cost per QALY thresholds 245
19.6 Policy lessons 247
20 Beyond cost-effectiveness: priority setting 249
20.1 The default in a cost-effectiveness analysis: a QALY is a
QALY is a QALY* 249
20.2 Equality of what? 251
20.3 Equity weights 256
20.4 Cost-effectiveness does not imply public funding 257
20.5 Policy lessons 258
Index 261
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