The high cost of having hypertension while black in America / Leslie R. Hinkson -- "When treating patients like criminals makes sense" : medical hot spotting, race, and debt / Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar -- Obamacare and sovereign debt : race, reparations, and the haunting of premature death...

Definitions of health and illness -- Public health : defining determinants of health -- Health status indicators -- Role of culture in the organization of health care systems -- Political and philosophical values that influence the US health care system -- Do we have as system? -- People who...

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...