Handbook of Health Economics

by Culyer; Newhouse

• ISBN13: 9780444504708
• ISBN10: 0444504702
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-19
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

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 terms such as opportunity cost, elasticity, the margin, and the production function into medical parlance. Indeed, health economists are likely to be as heavily cited in the clinical as in the economics literature. Partly because of the large share of public resources that health care commands in almost every developed country, health policy is often a contentious and visible issue; elections have sometimes turned on issues of health policy. Showing the versatility of economic theory, health economics and health economists have usually been part of policy debates, despite the vast differences in medical care institutions across countries. The publication of the first Handbook of Health Economics marks another step in the evolution of health economics.

Table of Contents

Introduction The State and Scope of Health Economics

Anthony J. Culyer

Joseph P. Newhouse

PART 1 -- OVERVIEWS AND PARADIGMS

International Comparisons of Health Expenditure

Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Bengt Jonsson

An Overview of the Normative Economics of the Health Sector

Jeremiah Hurley

Medical Care Prices and Output

Ernst R. Berndt

David M. Cutler

Richard G. Frank

Zvi Griliches

Joseph P. Newhouse

Jack E. Triplett

Advances in CE Analysis

Alan M. Garber

Information Diffusion and Best Practice Adoption

Charles E. Phelps

Health Econometrics

Andrew M. Jones

PART 2 -- DEMAND AND REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICAL SERVICES

The Human Capital Model

Michael Grossman

Moral Hazard and Consumer Incentives in Health Care

Peter Zweifel

Willard G. Manning

Physician Agency

Thoms G. McGuire

Insurance Reimbursement

Mark V. Pauly

PART 3 -- INSURANCE MARKETS, MANAGED CARE, AND CONTRACTING

The Anatomy of Health Insurance

David M. Cutler

Richard J. Zeckhauser

Health Insurance and the Labor Market

Jonathan Gruber

Managed Care

Sherry Glied

Risk Adjustment in Competitive Health Plan Markets

Wynand P.M.M. Van

Randall P. Ellis

Government Purchasing of Health Services

Martin Chalkley

James M. Malcomson