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Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

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Efficiency Measurement in Health and Health Care

By Bruce Hollingsworth, Stuart J. Peacock

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27137-0 (Routledge)

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Health, Economic Development and Household Poverty

From Understanding to Action

Edited by Sara Bennett, Lucy Gilson, Anne Mills

Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34428-9 (Routledge)

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Evidence-Based Medicine

In its Place

Edited by Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney

Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39462-8 (Routledge)

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Copayments and the Demand for Prescription Drugs

By Domenico Esposito

Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70145-7 (Routledge)

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State Health Insurance Market Reform

Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets

By Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit

In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70035-1 (Routledge)

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Individual Decisions for Health

Edited by Bjorn Lindgren

Although economics is a relative newcomer to research into the determinants of good health, its significance should not be under-estimated. This book poses the important…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27393-0 (Routledge)

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