Advances in Health Economics (eBook)

Professor Anthony Scott leads the Health Economics Research Program at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at The University of Melbourne. Alan Keith Maynard was a British health economist. Born in Bebington, Maynard studied at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and York. After a stint at the University of Exeter, he was appointed to the University of York in 1971. Robert Elliott is Director of the Center for the Study of Experiential Psychotherapy at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. All three authors have many years' experience of teaching clinical psychology at undergraduate and doctoral level.

Advances in Health Economics 3
Contents 9
List of Contributors 11
About the Authors 15
Preface 19
Workshop Participants 24
Acknowledgements 25
1 Willingness to Pay for Health Care 27
2 Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Moving Forward 51
3 Methods for Eliciting Time Preferences Over Future Health Events 67
4 Economic Evaluation for Decision-making 85
5 Incentives in Health Care 103
6 The Nursing Labour Market 125
7 The Economics of the Hospital: Issues of Asymmetry and Uncertainty as they Affect Hospital Reimbursement 147
8 Measuring Efficiency in Dental Care 169
9 Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care Expenditures 193
10 Economic Challenges in Primary Care 213
11 Equity in Health Care: The Need for a New Economics Paradigm? 231
12 Economics of Health and Health Improvement 249
Index 267

"...In this brief review it is not possible to do justice to the wealth of materials presented". (Health Economics, May 2003)