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Information Knowledge Systems Management, 2009
Health care spending and more importantly, health care spending growth rates, are unsustainable. Past strategies of price controls, reliance on administered pricing for Medicare and the dominance of a la carte fee for service reimbursement have been part of the problem and do not represent promising strategies for the future.
Zweifel, Peter +2 more
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Health care spending and more importantly, health care spending growth rates, are unsustainable. Past strategies of price controls, reliance on administered pricing for Medicare and the dominance of a la carte fee for service reimbursement have been part of the problem and do not represent promising strategies for the future.
Zweifel, Peter +2 more
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Health Economics and the Economics of Health
2009Abstract Global spending on health is immense but inequitable. The WHO estimates that in 2004, US$4.1 trillion was spent on the health sector—both public and private (WHO 2007b)—totaling over 10% of world income (see Table 11–1). Some consider health care to be the world’s largest industry. As such, one of the key concerns of both inter-
Anne-Emanuelle Birn +2 more
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Health Economics and Health Economics Research
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1979Economists were working on health care long before there was a subdiscipline called health economics. In the 1930s the American Medical Association (AMA) maintained a permanent Bureau of Medical Economics or Medical Economics Research. The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care (CCMC) conducted numerous surveys, studies, and analyses, off which the ...
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Economics, health and health economics: HYEs versus QALYs
Journal of Health Economics, 1993This paper responds to Culyer and Wagstaff's (CW) and Buckingham's (B) arguments. We refute their claim about the equivalence of HYEs and QALYs; they fail to distinguish between choice under uncertainty and under certainty CW assume that all individuals have a specific form of utility function, which yields their conclusion of equivalence.
Gafni, A, Birch, S, Mehrez, A
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2011
Economics is about making choices when resources are limited. Health economics applies economic theory to the specialized area of health care and provides, amongst other things, a set of tools to weigh the cost and consequences of alternative courses of action.
Bensink, Mark E. +2 more
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Economics is about making choices when resources are limited. Health economics applies economic theory to the specialized area of health care and provides, amongst other things, a set of tools to weigh the cost and consequences of alternative courses of action.
Bensink, Mark E. +2 more
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2011
“It was the best of times it was the worst of times.” How prophetic was Charles Dickens when applied to health care in America today.1 We are currently experiencing unprecedented technologic and therapeutic advancements; however, these come at a tremendous price.
Margolin, David A., Rosen, Lester
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“It was the best of times it was the worst of times.” How prophetic was Charles Dickens when applied to health care in America today.1 We are currently experiencing unprecedented technologic and therapeutic advancements; however, these come at a tremendous price.
Margolin, David A., Rosen, Lester
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Health Economics or the Economics of Health?
Journal of Health Management, 2001In this article the author discusses how, despite an overall improvement of infra structure, there has been no corresponding improvement in the quality of 'illness care'. Non-medical professionals like sociologists and economists have stayed away from participating in the health sector, and there is a similar absence of concern for the non-medical ...
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