This book provides key economic facts, explains the economic concepts needed to examine the implications of these facts, and summarizes the results of empirical studies regarding our healthcare system's access, cost, and quality problems as well as identifying six key trends that are reforming...

The challenge of serving a burgeoning elderly population that has an increasing burden of chronic illness cannot be met within the existing paradigm of "one hip fracture at a time" - a limited approach using discontinuous, reactive responses to crises that can be prevented or delayed. As the gap...

OECD countries face the multiple challenges of rapidly ageing societies with the associated rise in chronic diseases and the ever-present threat from new or evolving communicable diseases. This is within the context of seeking better value for money from the health sector. While a growing body...

Introduction to economics of infectious disease / Jenny Roberts -- Choosing the first line drug for malaria treatment: how can cost-effectiveness analysis inform policy? / Catherine Goodman ... [et al.] -- Economic issues related to antimicrobial resistance / Ramanan Laxinarayan -- Economic...