Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research

This book presents current thinking on health economics methodology and application to the evaluation of public health interventions. It covers the history of economics of public health and the economic rationale for government investment in prevention, principles of health economics, evidence synthesis, and more.

About the author

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards is Professor of Health Economics at Bangor University and founding co-director of the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) at Bangor. She has a long-standing commitment to developing and applying methods for the economic evaluation of public health interventions to improve population health. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in health economics.

Emma McIntosh is Professor of Health Economics and Deputy Director of the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment team at the University of Glasgow. She is also Director of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on estimating the prevalence, quality of life, economic and societal impact of arthritis in Tanzania. Prof McIntosh joined the University of Glasgow in May 2011 as programme leader on the Economics of Population Health

Summary

This book presents current thinking on health economics methodology and application to the evaluation of public health interventions. It covers the history of economics of public health and the economic rationale for government investment in prevention, principles of health economics, evidence synthesis, and more.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rhiannon Tudor Edwards (Editor), McIntosh Emma (Editor), Emma McIntosh (Editor)
• Authors: Rhiannon (Professor of Health Econo Tudor Edwards
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.03.2019
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics
• EAN: 9780198737483
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873748-3
• Pages: 400
• Series: Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation; Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation; Handbooks in Health Economic E
• Subjects: MEDICAL / Public Health; Health economics; Public health & preventive medicine; Public health and preventive medicine