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1. State Health Insurance Market Reform

   Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets

   By Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   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 both policy-makers and researchers....

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Copayments and the Demand for Prescription Drugs

   By Domenico Esposito

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the health sector over recent years. The exact nature and use of copayments by health care insurers continues to be hot topic of debate....

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reconfiguring Global Health Innovation

   By Padmashree Gehl Sampath

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   Reconfiguring Global Health Innovation presents the findings of multi-year research, contrasting experiences of different latecomer countries in building health innovation systems to cater to local needs. It analyses the emerging industrial structures in health innovation as more and more latecomer...

   Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
4. Efficiency Measurement in Health and Health Care

   By Bruce Hollingsworth, Stuart J. Peacock

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   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 of the literature in this area is confusing and impregnable, Hollingsworth and Peacock show the logical links between the economic theory...

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
5. Health, Economic Development and Household Poverty

   From Understanding to Action

   Edited by Sara Bennett, Lucy Gilson, Anne Mills

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   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 field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of...

   Published October 1st 2009 by Routledge
6. Evidence-Based Medicine

   In its Place

   Edited by Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   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. This superb collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition....

   Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge
7. Health Economics in Health Technology

   Edited by Panos Kanavos, Keith Tolley

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   Published October 24th 2004 by Routledge
8. Individual Decisions for Health

   Edited by Bjorn Lindgren

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   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 question of whether economic theory can be developed to explain why people engage in activities that are obviously a danger to...

   Published August 28th 2002 by Routledge