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9780821355701

Health Economics in Development

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  • ISBN13:

    9780821355701

  • ISBN10:

    0821355708

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-01-01
  • Publisher: World Bank

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This publication contains a collection of papers which span 21 years of the author's thought and experiences regarding the subject on health economics, working at the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. The papers consider a range of topics including: the connection between public health and economics; the issue of equity in health; effectiveness and efficiency, particularly in relation to communicable diseases and malnutrition; health financing; how the burden of ill health is measured; the roles of the state and the market in health. The empirical material refers to a variety of specific health problems or interventions, including: smoking, polio, malaria, immunisation and various forms of malnutrition.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1(186)
1 What Is the Minimum a Doctor Should Know about Health Economics?
23(12)
2 Public and Private Roles in Health
35(42)
3 The Rationale for Government Intervention in the Tobacco Market
77(28)
4 Measurement of Equity in Health
105(16)
5 What Should Consumers in Poor Countries Pay for Publicly-Provided Health Services?
121(12)
6 Compensatory Finance in Health: Geographic Equity in a Federal System
133(10)
7 An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth How Much Cure?
143(10)
8 DALYs and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
153(14)
9 Criteria for Public Spending on Health Care
167(20)
10 Cost-Effectiveness and the Socialization of Health Care 187(16)
11 Is the Eradication of Polio in the Western Hemisphere Economically Justified? 203(20)
12 Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Regional Vaccination System 223(24)
13 Cost-Effective Malaria Control in Brazil 247(30)
14 Do the Poor in Brazil Pay More for Food? 277(20)
15 Do Brazilian Nutrition Programs Make a Difference? 297(28)
16 Economic Aspects of Food Fortification 325(16)
17 Malnutrition and Dietary Protein 341(20)
18 Family Health Care Spending in Latin America 361(14)
19 Basic Patterns in National Health Expenditure 375(26)
20 Economic Crisis and Health Policy Response 401

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