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From Abscissa, through to the World Health Organization, this
expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the field of health
economics and closely related fields including epidemiology,
pharmacoeconomics, demography, medical sociology, medical
statistics and bio-statistics, health policy, health administration
and health service management, public health medicine and
qualitative and quantitative research. Entries and definitions are
provided for all key concepts listed with, in many cases, more
extended entries on core or controversial ideas. Anthony Culyer has
amassed a wealth of information and facts within these pages, and
yet has not been reluctant to include comment on issues and ideas.
This makes the Dictionary eminently readable and all the more
interesting. This is a unique reference work and as such, The
Dictionary of Health Economics will be a valuable reference tool
for a wide audience encompassing not just health economists, but
many specialists and researchers in other fields (social sciences
and beyond) as well as policymakers.
In his Foreword Tony Culyer says, quoting the Fat Controller from
Thomas the Tank Engine, that he wants his book to be 'a really
useful engine'. Well, he's succeeded; it's really useful, and, for
me at least, it'' a true engine of discovery.' - Julian Le Grand,
Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of
Economics, UK'For anyone who thinks health economics is just
economic evaluation and in particular cost-effectiveness analysis,
this Dictionary will open their eyes to the breadth of health
economics. The Dictionary takes a laudably inclusive approach,
covering not just core economics terms but also terms within
medicine, epidemiology, and the health sector that economists
working in health need to understand. It also includes terms, and
useful references, for those working as health economists in low
and middle income countries. Any student or teacher should have
this at their elbow.' - Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine, UK This third edition of Anthony Culyer's
authoritative The Dictionary of Health Economics brings the
material right up to date as well as adding plentiful amounts of
new information, with a number of revised definitions. There are
now nearly 3,000 entries in this comprehensive work. This third
edition includes 250 new references as sources for definitions and
examples of practice and the bibliography comprises roughly 1,400
items. Anthony Culyer has refined and made the system of
cross-references and internet links even more comprehensive than in
previous editions. This Dictionary is as complete a statement as
exists anywhere of what it is that every health economist ought to
know.
Reforming Health Care Systems brings together the work of leading
economic scholars on the reform and development of the United
Kingdom's National Health Service and the implications of this
process for health care systems worldwide.It addresses important
issues such as the financing of medical care, assessments of health
care effectiveness, the need for rationing resources and the wider
determinants of health in society. The contributors to this
stimulating, thought-provoking volume discuss a breadth of topics
and approaches. Placing the UK's health service in an international
context, the authors also examine economic understandings of the
health care market, the place of contracts and competition, capital
and labour markets for health, health care funding and equity in
the rationing of health care. Students, researchers and policy
makers will welcome Reforming Health Care Systems for challenging
established views and beliefs in order to examine fundamental
issues concerned with health care, how it should be delivered and
how it should be financed.
Health economics has, in recent years, become a major area of
research in economics. This important collection presents a careful
selection of the best articles and is classified according to eight
fields within health economics. It thus provides a comprehensive
cross section of the large and disparate literature on the subject.
It forms, in a real sense, a mini-library which may be useful to
teachers and researchers who wish to have these frequently cited
articles easily to hand. It shouls also prove useful to the many
economists who will have difficulty in gaining access to the very
diverse sources from which the material has been drawn.
Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help health care
and public health organisations make fairer decisions with better
outcomes. Whereas standard cost-effectiveness analysis provides
information about total costs and effects, distributional
cost-effectiveness analysis provides additional information about
fairness in the distribution of costs and effects - who gains, who
loses, and by how much. It can also provide information about the
trade-offs that sometimes occur between efficiency objectives, such
as improving total health, and equity objectives, such as reducing
unfair inequality in health. This is a practical guide to a
flexible suite of economic methods for quantifying the equity
consequences of health programmes in high-, middle- and low-income
countries. The methods can be tailored and combined in various ways
to provide useful information to different decision-makers in
different countries with different distributional equity concerns.
The handbook is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and
analysts specialising in cost-effectiveness analysis but is also
accessible to a broader audience of health sector academics,
practitioners, managers, policymakers and stakeholders. As well as
offering an overview for research commissioners, users, and
producers, the book includes systematic technical guidance on how
to simulate and evaluate distributions, with accompanying hands-on
spreadsheet training exercises, and discussions about how to handle
uncertainty about facts and disagreement about values, and the
future challenges facing this young and rapidly evolving field of
study.
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