Being Reasonable about the Economics of Health
İÇİNDEKİLERContents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE 1. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Bastard Science and/or Insidious Poison in the Body Politick? 2. The Cost-Benefit Approach ; 3. One Economist's View of Social Medicine 4. Health Economics: The Cheerful Face of the Dismal Science? 5. Priority Setting in Public and Private Health Care: A Guide Through the Ideological Jungle 6. Natural Selection, Health Economics and Human Welfare 7. Measuring the Effectiveness of Health Care Systems PART TWO: THE MEASUREMENT AND VALUATION OF HEALTH 8. Welfare Economics and Health Care Status Measurement 9. Valuation of Quality of Life Some Psychometric Evidence 10. The Measurement and Valuation of Health: A Chronicle PART THREE: PRIORITY-SETTING AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT 11. Need as a Demand Concept (with special reference to health) 12. The Budget as a (Mis-) Information System 13. The Role of Economics in the Evaluation of Health Care Technologies 20: 14. Economics of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 15. Prioritising Waiting Lists 16. How Should Information on Cost-Effectiveness Influence Clinical Practice? PART FOUR: ECONOMICS, ETHICS AND CLINICAL FREEDOM 17. Health Economics: The End of Clinical Freedom? 18. Ethics and Equity in the Provision of Health Care 19. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Is it Ethical? 20. QALYs and Ethics: A Health Economist's Perspective 21. Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off in the Provision of Health Care or, If we are going to get a fair innings, someone will need to keep the score! References Index  |
