Table of Contents

1: Peter Smith and Sherry Glied: Overview
The Organization of Health Care Systems
2: Bianca K. Frogner, Peter S. Hussey, and Gerard F. Anderson: Health Systems in Industrialized Countries
3: Anne Mills: Health Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries
4: Carolyn Tuohy and Sherry Glied: The Political Economy of Health Care
5: William Jack: The Promise of Health: Evidence of the Impact of Health on Income and Well-Being
Determinants of Health
6: Kristian Bolin: Health Production
7: David M. Cutler, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Tom Vogl: Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
8: Michael Baker and Mark Stabile: Determinants of Health in Childhood
9: Ramanan Laxminarayan and Anup Malani: Economics of Infectious Diseases
10: Donald S. Kenkel and Jody Sindelar: Economics of Health Behaviours and Addictions: Contemporary Issues and Policy Implications
11: Richard G. Frank: Economic and Mental Health: An International Perspective
Institutions of Health Care Finance
12: Åke Blomqvist: Public Sector Health Care Financing
13: Peter Zweifel: Voluntary Private Health Insurance
14: Michael E. Chernew and Dustin May: Health Care Cost Growth
15: Erik Schokkaert and Carine Van de Voorde: User Charges
Economic Problems of Health Care Finance
16: Mark V. Pauly: Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care
17: Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut: Guaranteed Access to Affordable Coverage in Individual Health Insurance Markets
18: Laurence Baker: Managed Care
The Institutions of Health Care Supply
19: Pedro Pita Barros and Pau Olivella: Hospitals: Teaming Up
20: Anthony Scott and Stephen Jan: Primary Care
21: Till Bärnighausen and David E. Bloom: The Global Health Workforce
22: Patricia M. Danzon: The Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry
23: Jane Hall: Disease Prevention, Health Care and Economics
24: Jose-Luis Fernandez, Julien Forder and Martin Knapp: Long-Term Care
Economic Problems of Health Care Supply
25: Thomas G. McGuire: Physician Agency and Payment for Primary Medical Care
26: Jon B. Christianson and Douglas Conrad: Provider Payment and Incentives
27: Tor Iversen and Luigi Siciliani: Non-Price Rationing and Waiting Times
28: Carol Propper and George Leckie: Increasing Competition between Providers in Health Care Markets: The Economic Evidence
Assessing Performance
29: Jim Burgess and Andrew Street: Measuring Organisational Performance
30: Jack E. Triplett: Health System Productivity
31: Simon Walker, Mark Sculpher and Mike Drummond: The Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Decisions about the Use of Health Care Interventions and Programmes
32: Susan Griffin and Karl Claxton: Analysing Uncertainty in Cost-effectiveness for Decision Making
33: Donna Rowen and John Brazier: Health Utility Measurement
Economic Perspectives on Fairness
34: Jan Abel Olsen: Concepts of Equity and Fairness in Health and Health Care
35: Eddy van Doorslaer and Tom Van Ourti: Measuring Inequality and Inequity in Health and Health Care
36: Louise Sheiner: Intergenerational Aspects of Health Care
Economic Methodology and Health Policy
37: Andrew M. Jones and Nigel Rice: Econometric Evaluation of Health Policies
38: Alan K. Maynard and Karen Bloor: Health Economics and Policy: The Challenges of Proselytising

About the Author

Sherry Glied served as chair of the Health Policy and Management Department at Columbia University's Mailman School from 1998-2009, and as Senior Economist to the President's Council of Economic Advisers, under Presidents Bush and Clinton from 1992-93. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a member of the board of Academy Health, a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She
has been nominated by President Obama to serve as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to the US Department of Health and Human Services and is currently awaiting Senate confirmation.

Peter C. Smith is Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College London. He is a mathematics graduate from the University of Oxford, and started his academic career in the public health department at the University of Cambridge. In recent years his main research has been in the economics of health, and he was formerly Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. He has acted in numerous governmental advisory capacities, and advised many international agencies,
including the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Reviews

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*Victor R. Fuchs, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus, Stanford University (Departments of Economics and Health Research and Policy)*

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*Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics*

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