Edited by Andrew M. Jones, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK

Acclaim for the first edition: This companion is a timely addition... It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics... there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues... I have found the Companion very useful.'--Sukhan Jackson, Economic Analysis and Policy'This encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.'--R.M. Mullner, Choice

• Contents:IntroductionAndrew M. JonesPOPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEMSPART I: POPULATION HEALTH1. Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and HealthChristopher J. Ruhm2. The Dynamics of HealthAndrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis3. Health and Work of Older WorkersMaarten Lindeboom 4. Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related BehaviourM. Christopher Auld5. Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing CountriesDavid Bishai, Divya Nair and Taghreed Adam6. Health Behaviours Among Young PeopleDon Kenkel7. Economics of ObesityPeter J. Huckfeldt, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Tomas J. Philipson8. Illicit Drugs and Drug-related CrimeJody L. Sindelar and Todd OlmsteadPART II: HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND DEMAND9. The Value of Health InsuranceJohn A. Nyman10. Incentive and Selection Effects in Health InsurancePierre-Yves Geoffard11. Prescription Drug Insurance and ReimbursementPaul Grootendorst12. The Economics of Social Health InsurancePeter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer13. Competition and Health Plan ChoiceBryan Dowd and Roger Feldman14. Empirical Models of Health Care UsePartha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi15. Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income CountriesTim Ensor and Robin Thompson16. Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of GlobalizationRichard SmithPART III: EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE17. Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health CareOwen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff18. Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health CareHugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton19. Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in AsiaRavindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa SomanathanPART IV: ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH CARE MARKETS20. Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health CareRichard Cookson and Diane Dawson 21. Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care Pedro Pita Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt22. Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health CareMartin Chalkley23. Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor SettingsNatasha Palmer and Anne Mills 24. Waiting Times and Waiting ListsLuigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen PART V: PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR25. The Physician as the Patient’s AgentThomas Rice26. Capitation and Incentives in Primary CareTor Iversen and Hilde Lurås27. Optimal Risk AdjustmentJacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire28. The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health CareSusan L. Ettner, Michael Schoenbaum and Jessica A. Williams29. Nursing Home Quality of CareDavid C. Grabowski and Edward C. Norton 30. Informal CareDavid C. Grabowski, Edward C. Norton and Courtney H. Van Houtven 31. Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the ControversyW. David Bradford and Andrew N. KleitPART VI: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS32. Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care OrganizationsPeter C. Smith and Andrew Street33. The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care SystemsCarol Propper and Deborah Wilson34. Productivity Analysis in Health CareJames F. Burgess JrEVALUATION OF HEALTH CAREPART VII: MEASURING BENEFITS35. Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility MeasurementHan Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto36. The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of LifeDavid Feeny37. Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of HealthJohn Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Donna Rowen38. Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic EvaluationAki Tsuchiya39. The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics?Richard Smith, Paula Lorgelly, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sridhar Venkatapuram and Joanna Coast40. Contingent Valuation in Health CareCam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley41. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health EconomicsMandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie42. Design of Choice Experiments in Health EconomicsLeonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere PART VIII: MEASURING COSTS AND STATISTICAL ISSUES43. Estimating Costs for Economic EvaluationMaria Raikou and Alistair McGuire44. Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and ExpendituresWillard Manning45. Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness AnalysisDavid Meltzer46. Selection Bias in Observational DataDaniel Polsky and Anirban BasuPART IX: ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND DECISION MAKING47. Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness AnalysisMilton C. Weinstein48. Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and PracticeDavid B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer 49. Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation RevisitedStephen Birch and Amiram Gafni50. Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical TrialsAndrew Briggs51. Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of InformationKarl Claxton, Elisabeth Fenwick and Mark J. Sculpher 52. Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health CareDavid J. Vanness and John Mullahy53. Priority Setting Methods in Health ServicesStuart J. Peacock and Craig Mitton54. Economic Evaluation and Decision-makersMichael DrummondIndex

Edited by Andrew M. Jones, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK

Acclaim for the first edition: This companion is a timely addition... It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics... there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues... I have found the Companion very useful.'--Sukhan Jackson, Economic Analysis and Policy'This encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.'--R.M. Mullner, Choice

• Contents:IntroductionAndrew M. JonesPOPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEMSPART I: POPULATION HEALTH1. Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and HealthChristopher J. Ruhm2. The Dynamics of HealthAndrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis3. Health and Work of Older WorkersMaarten Lindeboom 4. Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related BehaviourM. Christopher Auld5. Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing CountriesDavid Bishai, Divya Nair and Taghreed Adam6. Health Behaviours Among Young PeopleDon Kenkel7. Economics of ObesityPeter J. Huckfeldt, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Tomas J. Philipson8. Illicit Drugs and Drug-related CrimeJody L. Sindelar and Todd OlmsteadPART II: HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND DEMAND9. The Value of Health InsuranceJohn A. Nyman10. Incentive and Selection Effects in Health InsurancePierre-Yves Geoffard11. Prescription Drug Insurance and ReimbursementPaul Grootendorst12. The Economics of Social Health InsurancePeter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer13. Competition and Health Plan ChoiceBryan Dowd and Roger Feldman14. Empirical Models of Health Care UsePartha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi15. Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income CountriesTim Ensor and Robin Thompson16. Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of GlobalizationRichard SmithPART III: EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE17. Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health CareOwen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff18. Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health CareHugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton19. Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in AsiaRavindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa SomanathanPART IV: ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH CARE MARKETS20. Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health CareRichard Cookson and Diane Dawson 21. Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care Pedro Pita Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt22. Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health CareMartin Chalkley23. Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor SettingsNatasha Palmer and Anne Mills 24. Waiting Times and Waiting ListsLuigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen PART V: PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR25. The Physician as the Patient’s AgentThomas Rice26. Capitation and Incentives in Primary CareTor Iversen and Hilde Lurås27. Optimal Risk AdjustmentJacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire28. The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health CareSusan L. Ettner, Michael Schoenbaum and Jessica A. Williams29. Nursing Home Quality of CareDavid C. Grabowski and Edward C. Norton 30. Informal CareDavid C. Grabowski, Edward C. Norton and Courtney H. Van Houtven 31. Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the ControversyW. David Bradford and Andrew N. KleitPART VI: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS32. Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care OrganizationsPeter C. Smith and Andrew Street33. The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care SystemsCarol Propper and Deborah Wilson34. Productivity Analysis in Health CareJames F. Burgess JrEVALUATION OF HEALTH CAREPART VII: MEASURING BENEFITS35. Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility MeasurementHan Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto36. The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of LifeDavid Feeny37. Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of HealthJohn Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Donna Rowen38. Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic EvaluationAki Tsuchiya39. The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics?Richard Smith, Paula Lorgelly, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sridhar Venkatapuram and Joanna Coast40. Contingent Valuation in Health CareCam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley41. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health EconomicsMandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie42. Design of Choice Experiments in Health EconomicsLeonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere PART VIII: MEASURING COSTS AND STATISTICAL ISSUES43. Estimating Costs for Economic EvaluationMaria Raikou and Alistair McGuire44. Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and ExpendituresWillard Manning45. Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness AnalysisDavid Meltzer46. Selection Bias in Observational DataDaniel Polsky and Anirban BasuPART IX: ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND DECISION MAKING47. Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness AnalysisMilton C. Weinstein48. Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and PracticeDavid B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer 49. Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation RevisitedStephen Birch and Amiram Gafni50. Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical TrialsAndrew Briggs51. Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of InformationKarl Claxton, Elisabeth Fenwick and Mark J. Sculpher 52. Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health CareDavid J. Vanness and John Mullahy53. Priority Setting Methods in Health ServicesStuart J. Peacock and Craig Mitton54. Economic Evaluation and Decision-makersMichael DrummondIndex