Main menu

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Public Health Textbook
    • Research Methods
    • Disease Causation and Diagnostic
    • Health Information
    • Medical Sociology, Policy and Economics
      • 4a - Concepts of Health and Illness and Aetiology of Illness
      • 4b - Health Care
      • 4c - Equality, Equity and Policy
      • 4d - Health Economics
    • Organisation and Management
    • Further Resources
  • E-Learning
  • Interactive Learning
  • Teaching

Search this site

Home
4d - Health Economics

Health Economics Index

Author: David Parkin

Use the table of contents below to find a particular chapter, or click on the first chapter to begin. You can move backwards and forwards through the chapters/sub-chapters using the links at the bottom of each page. You can also jump back to the table of contents at any time clicking the "4d - Health Economics" link at the top of the window.

  • 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
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) ›

RSS feed

Syndicate content
Subscribe to HealthKnowledge

Popular content

Today's:

  • Section 1. The Sociological Perspective
  • Identifying and managing internal and external stakeholder interests

All time:

  • Welcome to HealthKnowledge
  • Public Health Textbook
  • Dietary Reference Values (DRVs), current dietary goals, recommendations, guidelines and the evidence for them
  • Identifying and managing internal and external stakeholder interests
  • E-Learning
PHAST logo
Disclaimer | Copyright © Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) 2011 | Contact Us

Company Information - Public Health Action Support Team CIC [registered in England and Wales under Company No. 06480440]
Contact | Telephone: 020 3479 5250
Registered Office - Sterling House, 20 Station Road, Gerrards Cross, Bucks, SL9 8EL
DH logo