Handbook of health economics. Volume 1A / edited by Anthony J. Culyer and Joseph P. Newhouse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culver, A. J. (Anthony J.)

Newhouse, Joseph P.

Series:

Handbook of Health Economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical economics.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1000 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful. It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main discipline: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric information; econometrics; the theory of incomplete markets; and the foundations of welfare economics, among others. Perhaps it has had an even greater effect outside the field of economics, introducing ter

Contents:

Front Cover; Handbook of Health Economics; Copyright Page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Acknowledgments; CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1A; Introduction: The State and Scope of Health Economics; The health of health economics; The scope of health economics; The scope of the Handbook; References; PART 1: OVERVIEWS AND PARADIGMS; Chapter 1. International Comparisons of Health Expenditure: Theory, Data and Econometric Analysis*; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Background and overview; 2. First-generation studies; 3. Second-generation studies; 4. Summary and concluding remarks; References

Chapter 2. An Overview of the Normative Economics of the Health Sector*Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Efficiency and normative frameworks; 3. Health care as an economic commodity; 4. Equity in the health sector; 5. Evaluation of programs and interventions; 6. Concluding observations: health economists as policy advisors; References; Chapter 3. Medical Care Prices and Output*; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. The market environment underlying medical care CPIs and PPIs; 3. Construction of medical care CPIs and PPIs at the BLS; 4. Related research on medical care price indexes

5. A new medical care expenditure price index based on episode treatment costs6. Medical care price indexes in the national income and product accounts; References; Chapter 4. Advances in CE Analysis*; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Cost-effectiveness analysis for decision making; 3. When does CE analysis lead to optimal decisions?; 4. Perspective and cost measurement; 5. Measuring outcomes; 6. Recommendations; References; Chapter 5. Information Diffusion and Best Practice Adoption*; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Market equilibrium and price variability

3. Disagreement about the production function4. Production and dissemination of information; References; Chapter 6. Health Econometrics*; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Identification and estimation; 3. Qualitative dependent variables; 4. Limited dependent variables; 5. Unobservable heterogeneity and simultaneous equations; 6. Longitudinal and hierarchical data; 7. Count data regressions; 8. Duration analysis; 9. Stochastic frontiers; 10. Conclusion; References; PART 2: DEMAND AND REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICAL SERVICES; Chapter 7. The Human Capital Model*; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic model

3. Pure investment model4. Pure consumption model; 5. Empirical testing; 6. Extensions; 7. Health and schooling; 8. Conclusions; References; Chapter 8. Moral Hazard and Consumer Incentives in Health Care*; Abstract; 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Dimensions of consumer incentives in health care; 3. The amount of delegation of authority to the physician; 4. Incentives and ex ante moral hazard; 5. Incentives and static ex post moral hazard; 6. Dynamic ex post moral hazard; 7. Concluding remarks; References; Chapter 9. Physician Agency*; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction

2. Demand and supply for physician services

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611025359

9781281025357

1281025356

9780080544175

0080544177

OCLC:

299750806