Anthony Scott & Alan Maynard 
Advances in Health Economics [PDF ebook] 

‘It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors.
Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health
economists in the world.’

–Steve Morgan, University of British Columbia

This is a series of essays to mark the 25 anniversary of HERU.
Existing and former HERU staff write about their special interests
and work records. This book addresses many current policy issues
which exist in the Scottish (and English) National Health
System.

* HERU is one of the leading health economic institutes in the
UK

* Contributors are all distinguished members of the health
economics community

* Covers a wide range of issues that are relevant to the
application of health economics now and into the future.

Tabella dei contenuti

List of Contributors.

About the Authors.

Preface.

Workshop Participants.

Acknowledgements.

Willingness to Pay for Health Care (C. Donaldson and P.
Shackley).

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Moving
Forward (M. Ryan and K. Gerard).

Methods for Eliciting Time Preferences Over Future Health Events
(M. van der Pol and J. Cairns).

Economic Evaluation for Decision-making (A. Gray and L.
Vale).

Incentives in Health Care (A. Scott and S. Farrar).

The Nursing Labour Market (R. Elliott, et al.).

The Economics of the Hospital: Issues of Asymmetry and
Uncertainty as they Affect Hospital Reimbursement (A. Mc Guire and
D. Hughes).

Measuring Efficiency in Dental Care (D. Parkin and N.
Devlin).

Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care Expenditures (P. Mc Namee
and S. Stearns).

Economic Challenges in Primary Care (A. Maynard and A.
Scott).

Equity in Health Care: The Need for a New Economics Paradigm?
(G. Mooney and E. Russell).

Economics of Health and Health Improvement (A. Ludbrook and D.
Cohen).

Circa l’autore

Professor Anthony Scott leads the Health Economics Research Program at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at The University of Melbourne.

Alan Keith Maynard was a British health economist. Born in Bebington, Maynard studied at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and York. After a stint at the University of Exeter, he was appointed to the University of York in 1971.

Robert Elliott is Director of the Center for the Study of Experiential Psychotherapy at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. All three authors have many years’ experience of teaching clinical psychology at undergraduate and doctoral level.