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 …pt. 1. Population health -- pt. 2. Health care finance, expenditure and use -- pt. 3. Equity in health and health care …

Cost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation which can effectively indicate whether a health care … economists, and the health care evaluation literature which relies on other evaluation approaches such as cost-minimization, cost …

This three-volume set brings together the most important and interesting papers on the economics of health behaviours … empirical papers on the household production of health and the link between schooling and health. Volume II covers research into … the prediction and explanations of health behaviours and into the labour market consequences of unhealthy behaviour …

The dictionary of health economics -- Appendix: 100 economic studies of health interventions. …This second edition of Culyer's authoritative Dictionary of Health Economics brings the material up to date and adds …

From Abscissa, through to the World Health Organization, this expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the field of … health economics and closely related fields including epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, demography, medical sociology, medical … statistics and bio-statistics, health policy, health administration and health service management, public health medicine and …

dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment …

of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced … technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to … measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high …

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic … problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first … part examines the theoretical consequences of services specificities on the concept of productivity and reviews the …