The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job
of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the
rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help
health economists and health professionals make sense of
information better than ever before.
This second edition has been revised and updated throughout and
includes a new chapter on the description and modelling of
individual health care costs, thus broadening the book s readership
to those working on risk adjustment and health technology
appraisal. The text also fully reflects the very latest advances in
the health economics field and the key journal literature.
Large-scale survey datasets, in particular complex survey
designs such as panel data, provide a rich source of information
for health economists. They offer the scope to control for
individual heterogeneity and to model the dynamics of individual
behaviour. However, the measures of outcome used in health
economics are often qualitative or categorical. These create
special problems for estimating econometric models. The dramatic
growth in computing power over recent years has been accompanied by
the development of methods that help to solve these problems. The
purpose of this book is to provide a practical guide to the skills
required to put these techniques into practice.
Practical applications of the methods are illustrated using data
on health from the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS), the
British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the European Community
Household Panel (ECHP), the US Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
(MEPS) and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
(SHARE). There is a strong emphasis on applied work, illustrating
the use of relevant computer software with code provided for Stata.
Familiarity with the basic syntax and structure of Stata is
assumed. The Stata code and extracts from the statistical output
are embedded directly in the main text and explained at regular
intervals.
The book is built around empirical case studies, rather than
general theory, and the emphasis is on learning by example. It
presents a detailed dissection of methods and results of some
recent research papers written by the authors and their colleagues.
Relevant methods are presented alongside the Stata code that can be
used to implement them and the empirical results are discussed at
each stage.
This text brings together the theory and application of health
economics and econometrics, and will be a valuable reference for
applied economists and students of health economics and applied
econometrics.
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