Table of Contents

1: Sherry Glied and Peter C. Smith: Introduction
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 Hughes 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
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
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
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
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
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
29: Jim Burgess and Andrew Street: Measuring Organizational 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
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
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 is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where, she was department chair from 2002-2009 and has been on faculty since 1989. She served as the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from July 2010 through August 2012. In 1992-1993, she was a senior economist for health care and labor market policy on the President's Council of
Economic Advisers under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force. She has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and to the
Board of Academy Health and has been a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Health Advisers. Peter C. Smith is Professor of Health Policy and co-director of the Centre for 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 overseas governments and 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.

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