Contents:
Introduction
Alistair McGuire and Joan Costa-Font
PART I: QUALITY, ACCESS AND INEQUALITIES
1. Inequalities in Health: Why Do We Care? How Do We Care? What Can
We Do About Them?
Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Joan Costa-Font
2. Strengthening Community Participation in Primary Health Care:
Experiences from South Africa
Andrew Gibbs and Catherine Campbell
3. Socioeconomic Status and Access to Health Care: The Quandary of
Transition Economies
Heba A. Elgazzar
4. Quality of Ambulatory Care: Hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care
Sensitive Conditions
Lucia Kossarova
PART II: SUPPLY AND HEALTH CARE MARKETS
5. Choice in Health Care: Drivers and Consequences
Valentina Zigante, Joan Costa-Font and Zack Cooper
6. A Million Years of Waiting: Competing Accounts and Comparative
Experiences of Hospital Waiting-time Policy
Alec Morton and R. Gwyn Bevan
7. Measuring Access to Health Care in Europe
Sara Allin and Cristina Masseria
PART III: INSURANCE AND EXPENDITURES
8. How are Rising Health Care Expenditures Explained?
Alistair McGuire, Victoria Serra-Sastre and Maria Raikou
9. Providing Financial Incentives for Improved Quality and
Efficiency: A Literature Review of the Effects of Payment for
Performance (P4P) Policies
Irene Papanicolas
10. Social Health Protection: Policy Options for Low- and
Middle-income Countries
Philipa Mladovsky
PART IV: PHARMACEUTICALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
11. Technology Diffusion in Health Care: Conceptual Aspects and
Evidence
Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire
12. Do International Launch Strategies of Pharmaceutical
Corporations Respond to Changes in the Regulatory Environment?
Nebibe Varol, Joan Costa-Font and Alistair McGuire
PART V: AGEING AND LONG-TERM CARE
13. Proximity to Death and Health Care Costs
Michael Murphy
14. The Health and Social Care Divide in the United Kingdom
Catherine Henderson
15. Barriers to and Opportunities for Private Long-term Care
Insurance in England: What Can We Learn from Other Countries?
Adelina Comas-Herrera, Rebecca Butterfield, José-Luis Fernández,
Raphael Wittenberg and Joshua M. Wiener
PART VI: BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH PRODUCTION
16. Historical Trends of Mortality and its Implications for Health
Policies in England and Wales: The Cause-of-Death Approach
Mariachiara Di Cesare and Michael Murphy
17. Risk Research and Health-related Behaviours
Caroline Rudisill
18. The Doctor–Patient Relationship: A Review of the Theory and
Policy Implications
Charitini Stavropoulou
Index
Edited by Alistair McGuire, Professor of Health Economics and Joan Costa-Font, Professor of Health Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
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