I look at prevention through an economic lens and make three main points. First, those advocating preventive measures are often asked how much money a given measure saves. This question is misguided. Rather preventive measures can be thought of as insurance, with a certain cost in the present...

I describe several changes to Medicare in the 1990s, their rationale, and their likely effects. I focus principally on issues in the administered price systems Medicare uses to pay medical providers, especially those used for post-acute care providers, Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs),...

This paper offers an approach to assessing quality-of-life, based on Sen's (1985) theory, which it uses to understand loss in quality-of-life due to mobility-impairment. Specifically, it provides a theoretical analysis which is able to account for the possibility that some functionings may...

Tony Culyer - az egészség-gazdaságtan tudományág egyik létrehozója - az Institute for Work & Health vezetõ kutatója Torontóban, az egészség-gazdaságtan professzora a York-i egyetemen Angliában és a torontói egyetem vendég professzora, a Journal of Health Economics...