Economic evidence is increasingly being used for informing health policies. However, the
underlining principles of health economic analyses are not always fully understood by non …

This article classifies 30 OECD healthcare systems according to a deductively generated
typology by Rothgang and Wendt [1]. This typology distinguishes three core dimensions of …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

This paper explores four definitions of equity in health care: equality of utilization, distribution
according to need, equality of access, and equality of health. We argue that the definitions of …

This chapter reviews the theory and empirical literature on physician market power,
behavior, and motives, referred to collectively as the issue of “physician agency.” The …

The literature which considers the statistical properties of cost-effectiveness analysis has
focused on estimating the sampling distribution of either an incremental cost-effectiveness …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery.
The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and …

To address controversies in the application of cost-effectiveness analysis, we investigate the
principles underlying the technique and discuss the implications for the evaluation of …

Health Economics presents a systematic treatment of the economics of health behavior and
health care delivery. Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of …

This paper reports the first application of the capabilities approach to the development and
valuation of an instrument for use in the economic evaluation of health and social care …