ECONOMICS MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE MOONEY G. Księgarnia

The book is suitable for Health Economics options within undergraduate and postgraduate economics degrees, and for use on Health Management, Nursing and Medical degrees. It is also appropriate for post-experience courses for health professionals.

Professor Mooney, one of the leading scholars in health economics, introduces simple economic concepts and shows how an understanding of them contributes to health service policy making. The book's approach and coverage is strongly international, and care is taken throughout to make the text easily accessible to readers with no prior knowledge of economics.

Contents

List of contents

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the third edition

1 Introduction

2 Economics and health economics

2.1 Resource allocation problems

2.2 Supply and demand: the market

2.3 Economic evaluation

2.4 Conclusions

3 The nature of the commodity health care

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Defining health

3.3 Health and health care

3.4 Health care

3.5 Conclusion

4 Health status and other outcome measurement

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Some issues in measuring health

4.3 Quality adjusted life years ('QALYs')

4.4 Other outcomes

4.5 Conclusions

5 Values in health care

5.1 Whose values?

5.2 Valuing outputs

5.3 Que faire?

6 Need, demand and the agency relationship

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Demand and need for health care

6.3 Describing the agency relationship

6.4 Analysing the agency relatcionship

7 The inefficiency of medical ethics

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Ethics and medical ethics

7.3 The relevance of utilitarianism

7.4 Conclusion

8 Just health care: only medicine?

8.1 Introduction

8.2 What is equity?

8.3 Practical difficulties

8.4 An alternative approach based on 'capacity to benefit'

8.5 How should equity be defined?

8.6 Equity and ethics

8.7 What's best?

9 Priority setting in health care

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Priority setting using an explicit economics approach

9.3 QALY league tables

9.4 Priority setting: some other approaches

9.5 Conclusion

10 Health care financing and organisation

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Key features of public systems

10.3 Fair shares for all?

10.4 Fair-sharing and health care

10.5 Other insights from Margolis

10.6 Which system?

11 Some future roads to travel?

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Education

11.3 Information

11.4 Evaluation and monitoring

11.5 Does economic evaluation work?

11.6 Financing, budgeting and remuneration

11.7 Listening to the community

11.8 A final thought

Index

146 pages

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