The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before.The book...

1. Data and survey design -- 2. Describing the dynamics of health -- 3. Describing health care costs -- 4. Reporting heterogeneity in health -- 5. Health and lifestyles -- 6. Smoking and mortality -- 7. Health and retirement -- 8. Health and wages -- 9. Modelling the dynamics of health -- 10....