Across the globe every nation wrestles with how it will pay for, provide, regulate and administer its healthcare system. Health economics is the field of economics that deals with every one of those issues and the difficult issue of allocating resources where the allocation can literally mean...

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge in applied econometric work in health economics, enhanced by the availability of large micro and macro data sets as well as the rapid development of new techniques and tools in econometrics. Health economics is an important and challenging area of...

Wissenschaftler verschiedener Disziplinen beantworten grundlegende Fragen nach der Abgrenzung staatlicher Fürsorgeverpflichtung und individueller Eigenverantwortung. Wie definieren wir Gesundheit? Wie hängen Staatsverständnis und Gesundheitswesen zusammen? Welche Vorgaben des Völkerrechts...

The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...