Handbook of Health Economics

by Culyer; Newhouse

• ISBN13: 9780444822901
• ISBN10: 0444822909
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-19
• Publisher: North-Holland

Summary

The 35 chapters of The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-d ate survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a rela tively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been re markably 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 informa tion; econometrics; the theory of incomplete markets; and the foundati ons of welfare economics, among others.

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

PART 4 -- SPECIFIC POPULATIONS

Economics and Mental Health

Richard G. Frank

Thomas G. McGuire

Long-Term Care

Edward C. Norton

The Economics of Disability and Disability Policy

Robert Haveman

Barbara Wolfe

Child Health in Developed Countries

Janet Currie

PART 5 -- THE MEDICAL CARE MARKET

The Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets

David Dranove

Mark A. Satterthwaite

Not-For-Profit Ownership and Hospital Behavior

Frank A. Sloan

Economics of General Practice

Anthony Scott

Waiting Lists and Medical Treatment

John G. Cullis

Philip R. Jones

Carol Propper

Economics of Dental Services

Harri Sintonen

Ismo Linnosmaa

The Pharmaceutical Industry

F.M. Scherer

PART 6 -- LAW AND REGULATION

Liability for Medical Malpractice

Patricia M. Danzon

Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets

Martin Gaynor

William B. Vogt

Regulation of Prices and Investment in Hospitals in the U.S.

David S. Salkever

PART 7 -- HEALTH HABITS

The Economics of Smoking

Frank J. Chaloupka

Kenneth E. Warner

Alcohol

Philip J. Cook

Michael J. Moore

Prevention

Donald S. Kenkel

PART 8 -- HEALTH

The Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life

Paul Dolan

Economic Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

Tomas Philipson

PART 9 -- EQUITY

Equity in Health Care Finance and Delivery

Adam Wagstaff

Eddy Van Doorslaer

Equity in Health

Alan Williams

Richard Cookson