Readership: MSc students on health economics, health policy and public health courses; health economists; and health service researchers.
Jan Abel Olsen, Professor at the Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, and the Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
Part 1 - Concepts and context 1: Health and health care 2: Economics and efficiency 3: What makes the market for health care different? 4: Equality and fairness Part 2 - Intervening in the determinants of health 5: The health environment 6: Health related life style Part 3 - Financing health care 7: Uncertainty and health insurance 8: Compulsory insurance 9: Patient payment Part 4 - Paying health care providers 10: Primary care 11: Secondary care - reimbursing hospitals 12: Integrating the health care provider system Part 5 - Economic evaluation and priority setting 13: Non-monetary effects (E) and monetary benefits (B) 14: Costs (C) and discounting (r) 15: Beyond costs and outcomes: Equity and fairness Epilogue
