"Health Economics and Financing is a primer for the economic analysis of medical markets. Its intended audiences are … students of medicine, public health, policy, and administration who wish to engage the central economic issues of their field … techniques but lack knowledge of the many institutional features that make the study of health and health care so unique and …

measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application … influence disease prioritisation. It increases the value of health improvements relative to GDP. …We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …

This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures, reviewing the various summary … and health system indicators. Large differences emerge across countries in per capita out-of-pocket expenditures in 2011 … health. The two measures of dispersion or risk -- the coefficient of variation and Q90/Q50 -- are only weakly correlated …