Table of Contents

Overview of the book Section 1: Key economic concepts
Introduction to welfare economics Section 2: Demand, production and costs
Aspects of economic evaluation
Derivation of demand
Models of demand, public goods and aggregated demand
The production process: concepts and assumptions
Costs and the cost functionSection 3: Markets, market failure and regulation
Market analysis
Behaviour of health care providers
What is the evidence of competition on consumer and provider sides?
Alternative models of provider competition
The economic rationale for government involvement in the health sector
Economic theories of regulationSection 4: Contracts and agency
Institutional economics and appropriate contracts
Legal and economic analysis of contracts
Agency and organizational decision making
Agency in the health sectorSection 5: Equity in health care
Equity in health care - general concepts
Equity and health careGlossary
Index

About the Author

Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Lecturer in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Professor of Economics of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Research Fellow in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.