in health economics. It authoritatively covers theoretical and empirical issues in health economics, with a balanced … range of material on equity and efficiency in health care systems, health technology assessment and issues of concern for … chapters have been extensively updated. The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition intends to take an audience of …

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 …

This paper presents a method for the measurement of changes in health inequality and income-related health inequality … over time in a population. For pure health inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) and income-related health … health mobility inspired by the literature on income mobility. We also show how these measures of mobility can be usefully …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …