Frontiers in health policy research

.Volume 5

The economics of essential medicines

Technological change in health care

a global analysis of heart attack

The economic evolution of American health care

from Marcus Welby to managed care

The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles ...

Reducing inequalities in health

a european perspective

Eds. Johan Mackenbach, Martijntje Bakkler. Socio-economic inequalities in health are present to a greater or lesser extent in all European countries and it is important to monitor whether the health gap is increasing. Many studies have been conducted to explain inequalities in health and from ...

Reference pricing and pharmaceutical policy

perspectives on economics and innovation

The economics of health care

an introductory text

Handbook of health economics

Edited by Anthony J.Culyer y Joseph P.Newhouse The 35 chapters of 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 ...

Introduction to public health

Frontiers in health policy research.

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Unhealthy societies

the afflictions of inequality

Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates. But why? How can smaller income differences ...

Systematic reviews in health care

meta-analysis in context

Anàlisi econòmica de la sanitat

El llibre recull l'aportació de destacats especialistes en l'anàlisi econòmica, l'economia aplicada i la gestiò i l'organització d'empreses, que, des dels seus propis camps d'estudi ofereixen reflexions sobre els reptes pendents del sector de la sanitat amb l'objectiu ...

Diferencias y desigualdades de salud en España

El futuro de la salud