The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the discipline. Contributions come from internationally-recognized leaders in health economics and reflect the worldwide reach of the discipline. Authoritative, but non-technical, the chapters place great emphasis on the connections between theory and policy-making, and develop the contributions of health economics to problems arising in a variety of institutional contexts, from primary care to the operations of health insurers. The volume addresses policy concerns relevant to health systems in both developed and developing countries. It takes a broad perspective, with relevance to systems with single or multi-payer health insurance arrangements, and to those relying predominantly on user charges; contributions are also included that focus both on medical care and on non-medical factors that affect health. Each chapter provides a succinct summary of the current state of economic thinking in a given area, as well as the author's unique perspective on issues that remain open to debate. The volume presents a view of health economics as a vibrant and continually advancing field, highlighting ongoing challenges and pointing to new directions for further progress. Contributors to this volume - Gerard F. Anderson, John Hopkins University, US Laurence Baker, Stanford University Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER Till Barnighausen, Harvard School of Public Health, US Ake Blomqvist, CUFE, Beijing, China David E. Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health, US Karen Bloor, University of York, UK Kristian Bolin, Lund University, Sweden John Brazier, University of Sheffield, UK Jim Burgess, Boston University School of Public Health, US Michael E. Chernew, Harvard Medical School, US Jon B. Christianson, University of Minnesota, US Karl Claxton, University of York, UK Douglas Conrad, University of Washington, US David M. Cutler, Kennedy School of Government, US Patricia M. Danzon, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US Eddy van Doorslaer , Erasmus University, The Netherlands Mike Drummond, University of York, UK Jose-Luis Fernandez, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Julien Forder, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Richard G. Frank, Harvard Medical School, US Bianca K. Frogner, George Washington University, US Sherry Glied, Columbia University, US Susan Griffin, University of York, UK Jane Hall, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter S. Hussey, RAND, Washington, US Tor Iversen, University of Oslo, Norway William Jack, Georgetown University, US Stephen Jan, University of Sydney, Australia Andrew M. Jones , University of York, UK Donald S. Kenkel, Cornell University and NBER, US Martin Knapp, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Ramanan Laxminarayan, Resources for the Future, US George Leckie, University of Bristol, UK Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA and NBER, US Anup Malani, University of Chicago, US Dustin May, Nova Southeastern University, US Alan K. Maynard, University of York, UK Thomas G. McGuire, Harvard Medical School, US Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Pau Olivella, Universitate Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Jan Abel Olsen, University of Tromsoe, Norway Mark V. Pauly, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US Pedro Pita Barros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Carol Propper, University of Bristol, UK Nigel Rice, University of York, UK Donna Rowen, University of Sheffield, UK Erik Schokkaert, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Frederik T. Schut, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Anthony Scott, University of Melbourne, Australia Mark Sculpher, University of York, UK Louise Sheiner , Federal Reserve Bank Luigi Siciliani, University of York, UK Jody Sindelar, Yale School of Public Health and NBER, US Peter Smith, Imperial College, London, UK Mark Stabile, University of Toronto, Canada Andrew Street, University of York, UK Jack E. Triplett, Brookings Institution, US Carolyn Tuohy, University of Toronto, Canada Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Carine Van de Voorde, Universite catholique de Louvain Tom Vogl, Harvard University, US Simon Walker, University of York, UK Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich, Switzerland