The Economics of Health Equity

Di McIntyre is Associate Professor of Health Economics in the Health Economics Unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Gavin Mooney is Director of the Social and Public Health Economics Research Group (SPHERe), and Professor of Health Economics at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Why this book? Gavin Mooney and Di McIntyre; Part II. Equity in General: 2. Health and health inequalities in a neo-liberal global world Elaine Coburn and David Coburn; 3. Governing the health care market: the social and political requirements Amiya Kumar Bagchi; 4. Equity in the context of diversity of culture and diversity of economic systems Gavin Mooney; 5. Beware of the libertarian wolf in the clothing of the egalitarian sheep: an essay on the need to clarify ends and means Alan Maynard; Part III. Health Service Access: 6. Exploring the dimensions of access Michael Thiede, Patricia Akweongo and Di McIntyre; 7. Acceptability, trust and equity Lucy Gilson; Part IV. Equity and Health Systems: 8. International migration and extreme health inequality: robust arguments and institutions for international redistribution in health care Maureen Mackintosh; 9. Pay the piper and call the tune: changing health care financing mechanisms to address public-private health sector mix inequities Di McIntyre; Part V. Lessons from Individual Countries: 10. Equity in health financing, resource allocation and health service utilization in Brazil: past, present and future Silvia Porto, Claudia Travassos, Maria Alicia Ugá and Isabela Soares Santos; 11. Improving health-related information systems to monitor equity in health: lessons from Thailand Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Supon Limwattananon and Phusit Prakongsai; Part VI. Future Action: 12. Where now with equity? Di McIntyre and Gavin Mooney.