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Economics, health and health economics
, 2010 33 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Economics, health and health economics, covering: What is economics?; What isn’t economics?; What is Health?; What is Health Economics?; Key Economic ...
Richard Smith
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Economics for occupational safety and health
, 2008 The aim of the article is to show how economics can help in decision making in occupational safety and health. Different methods and concepts used in economics have been described.
van Tulder, M.W. +4 more
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The Origins and the Evolution of Health Economics: a discipline by itself? Led by economists, practitioners or politics? [PDF]
Health has become a dominant economic and political issue over the past 40 years, with nations experiencing rapid rises in health care spending, and the health sector presenting high levels of expansion, rationalization and organization.
Luís Pina Rebelo
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HEALTH AND HEALTH ECONOMICS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Over the last three decades, treating health economics as an independent scientific discipline and providing specific treatment to the topics related to the economics of the health care sector have become more and more common.
Narayan C handra, Nayak +1 more
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, 1999 Postmodernism and health economics are both concerned with questions about choices and values, risk and uncertainty. Postmodernists seek to respond to such questions in the context of a world of uncoordinated and often contradictory chances, a world ...
Mannion, Russell, Small, Neil
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Theory verses empiricism in health economics: An analysis of the past 20 years
, 2003 We report the results of a study analyzing the proportion of theoretical and empirical articles in two core health economics journals. The Journal of Health Economics published 30% theory during the period 1982-1986, but by 1997-2001 the proportion had ...
Bridges, JFP, Haywood, P
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Health Economics for Low-Income Countries [PDF]
Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of well-being. This paper discusses and synthesizes economic models of individual and household behavior, showing how they may be used to illuminate health policy making in low-income ...
Germano Mwabu
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The future of health economics: the potential of behavioral and experimental econmics
, 2015 Health care systems around the globe are facing great challenges. The demand for health care is increasing due to the continuous development of new medical technologies, changing demographics, increasing income levels, and greater expectations from ...
Gerdtham, Ulf, +4 more
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Use of Discrete Choice Experiments in health economics: An update of the literature [PDF]
The vast majority of stated preference research in health economics has been conducted in the random utility model paradigm using discrete choice experiments (DCEs).
Denzil G. Fiebig +2 more
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The Need for a New Paradigm in Scandinavian Health Economics [Elektronisk resurs]
, 2012 This paper argues that the discipline of health economics has lost its way due to its persistent focus on individualistic and consequential values. The paper suggests how this might be remedied in both theory and practice.
Mooney, Gavin, +2 more
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