Health Economics Index
Author: David Parkin- Principles of health economics (including the notions of scarcity, supply and demand, marginal analysis, distinctions between need and demand, opportunity cost, margins, efficiency and equity)
- Assessing performance
- Financial resource allocation
- Systems of health and social care and the role of incentives to achieve desired end-points
- Techniques of economic appraisal (including cost-effectiveness analysis and modelling, cost-utility analysis, option appraisal and cost-benefit analysis, the measurement of health benefits in terms of QALYs and related measures e.g. DALYs)
- Marginal analysis
- Decision analysis
- The role of economic evaluation and priority setting in health care decision making including the cost effectiveness of public health, and public health interventions and involvement.
- References
