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4d - Health Economics

Health Economics Index

Author: David Parkin (2009), revised (2017)

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 "Up" link at the bottom of the page.

  • Principles of health economics including: the notions of scarcity, supply and demand, distinctions between need and demand, opportunity cost, discounting, time horizons, 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

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  • Principles of health economics including: the notions of scarcity, supply and demand, distinctions between need and demand, opportunity cost, discounting, time horizons, margins, efficiency and equity

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