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Zusatztext A "must have" for anyone who cares about this subject. The authors cross the full spectrum in terms of specialties, geography, and political orientation. Informationen zum Autor Sherry Glied served as chair of the Health Policy and Management Department at Columbia University's Mailman School from 1998-2009, and as Senior Economist to the President's Council of Economic Advisers, under Presidents Bush and Clinton from 1992-93. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a member of the board of Academy Health, a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has been nominated by President Obama to serve as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to the US Department of Health and Human Services and is currently awaiting Senate confirmation. Peter C. Smith is Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College London. He is a mathematics graduate from the University of Oxford, and started his academic career in the public health department at the University of Cambridge. In recent years his main research has been in the economics of health, and he was formerly Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. He has acted in numerous governmental advisory capacities, and advised many international agencies, including the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This book provides an engaging, comprehensive review of health economics, with a focus on policy implications in the developed and developing world. Authoritative, but non-technical, it stresses the wide reach of the discipline - across nations, health systems, and areas within health and medical care. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Peter Smith and Sherry Glied: Overview The Organization of Health Care Systems 2: Bianca K. Frogner, Peter S. Hussey, and Gerard F. Anderson: Health Systems in Industrialized Countries 3: Anne Mills: Health Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries 4: Carolyn Tuohy and Sherry Glied: The Political Economy of Health Care 5: William Jack: The Promise of Health: Evidence of the Impact of Health on Income and Well-Being Determinants of Health 6: Kristian Bolin: Health Production 7: David M. Cutler, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Tom Vogl: Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms 8: Michael Baker and Mark Stabile: Determinants of Health in Childhood 9: Ramanan Laxminarayan and Anup Malani: Economics of Infectious Diseases 10: Donald S. Kenkel and Jody Sindelar: Economics of Health Behaviours and Addictions: Contemporary Issues and Policy Implications 11: Richard G. Frank: Economic and Mental Health: An International Perspective Institutions of Health Care Finance 12: �ke Blomqvist: Public Sector Health Care Financing 13: Peter Zweifel: Voluntary Private Health Insurance 14: Michael E. Chernew and Dustin May: Health Care Cost Growth 15: Erik Schokkaert and Carine Van de Voorde: User Charges Economic Problems of Health Care Finance 16: Mark V. Pauly: Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care 17: Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut: Guaranteed Access to Affordable Coverage in Individual Health Insurance Markets 18: Laurence Baker: Managed Care The Institutions of Health Care Supply 19: Pedro Pita Barros and Pau Olivella: Hospitals: Teaming Up 20: Anthony Scott and Stephen Jan: Primary Care 21: Till Bÿrnighausen and David E. Bloom: The Global Health Workforce 22: Patricia M. Danzon: The Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry 23: Jane Hall: Disease Prevention, Health Care and Economics 24: Jose-Luis Fernandez, Julien Forder and Martin Knapp: Long-Term Care Economic...
