Handbook of Health Economics

Mark Pauly is Bendheim Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, Professor of Business and Public Policy, Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Thomas McGuire is a Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the design and impact of health care payment systems, the economics of health care disparities, and the economics of mental health policy and drug regulation and payment. McGuire has contributed to the theory of physician, hospital, and health plan payment. McGuire was a co-editor of the Handbook of Health Economics Volume 2 (2012) and recently completed ten years as an editor of the Journal of Health Economics. Pedro Pita Barros is the 2005 winner of the "Grande-Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique," awarded by the President of Portugal. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Economia da Saude - Conceitos e Comportamentos."

1. Medical Spending Growth 2. Geographic Variation in Spending and Outcomes 3. Health Behaviors and Prevention 4. Health Economics of Economic Development 5. Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care 6. Demand for Health Care 7. Issues in Cost Effectiveness Cost Benefit and Cost Utility Analysis 8. Cost Effectiveness and Payment Policy 9. Competition in Health Care Supply 10. Reporting on and Paying Health Care Providers 11. Health Insurance, Health Plans and Risk Variation 12. Markets for Pharmaceutical Products 13. Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Biomedical Research and Marketing of Patented Products 14. Medical Workforce 15. Public and Private Sector Interface 16. Equity in Health and Health Care 17. Health Care Disparities