Gavin Mooney is Professor of Health Economics at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is Director of the Social and Public Health Economics Research Group (SPHERe) and holds visiting positions at Aarhus University, Denmark and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Any health economist and health policy maker wishing to make a difference in health and health care will likely benefit from reading this book. It is also a must-read for those who are committed to forming a humane health system. It is an essential text for courses in health economics, priority setting and reform of health system, as well as health policy and management. Highly recommended.

• PART I - BACKGROUND AND CRITIQUE ; 1. Why a New Paradigm? ; 2. Some Problems in Existing Health Economics ; 3. The Lack of a Comprehensive Paradigm ; 4. The Need for a New Paradigm ; 5. Neo Liberalism and its Impacts on Health ; PART II - A NEW PARADIGM ; 6. Building the Base for the New Paradigm ; 7. Communitarianism ; 8. Communitarian Claims ; PART III - SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW PARADIGM ; 9. A Future Health Policy, Nationally and Internationally ; 10. Priority Setting Under the New Paradigm ; 11. Equity Under the New Paradigm ; 12. Some Further Implications for Health Economics and the Economics of Health Policy ; PART IV CONCLUSION ; 13. Conclusion

Gavin Mooney is Professor of Health Economics at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is Director of the Social and Public Health Economics Research Group (SPHERe) and holds visiting positions at Aarhus University, Denmark and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Any health economist and health policy maker wishing to make a difference in health and health care will likely benefit from reading this book. It is also a must-read for those who are committed to forming a humane health system. It is an essential text for courses in health economics, priority setting and reform of health system, as well as health policy and management. Highly recommended.

• PART I - BACKGROUND AND CRITIQUE ; 1. Why a New Paradigm? ; 2. Some Problems in Existing Health Economics ; 3. The Lack of a Comprehensive Paradigm ; 4. The Need for a New Paradigm ; 5. Neo Liberalism and its Impacts on Health ; PART II - A NEW PARADIGM ; 6. Building the Base for the New Paradigm ; 7. Communitarianism ; 8. Communitarian Claims ; PART III - SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW PARADIGM ; 9. A Future Health Policy, Nationally and Internationally ; 10. Priority Setting Under the New Paradigm ; 11. Equity Under the New Paradigm ; 12. Some Further Implications for Health Economics and the Economics of Health Policy ; PART IV CONCLUSION ; 13. Conclusion

Gavin Mooney is Professor of Health Economics at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is Director of the Social and Public Health Economics Research Group (SPHERe) and holds visiting positions at Aarhus University, Denmark and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Any health economist and health policy maker wishing to make a difference in health and health care will likely benefit from reading this book. It is also a must-read for those who are committed to forming a humane health system. It is an essential text for courses in health economics, priority setting and reform of health system, as well as health policy and management. Highly recommended.

• PART I - BACKGROUND AND CRITIQUE ; 1. Why a New Paradigm? ; 2. Some Problems in Existing Health Economics ; 3. The Lack of a Comprehensive Paradigm ; 4. The Need for a New Paradigm ; 5. Neo Liberalism and its Impacts on Health ; PART II - A NEW PARADIGM ; 6. Building the Base for the New Paradigm ; 7. Communitarianism ; 8. Communitarian Claims ; PART III - SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW PARADIGM ; 9. A Future Health Policy, Nationally and Internationally ; 10. Priority Setting Under the New Paradigm ; 11. Equity Under the New Paradigm ; 12. Some Further Implications for Health Economics and the Economics of Health Policy ; PART IV CONCLUSION ; 13. Conclusion