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Economics in health care affects an individual’s ability to pay for and receive health care, the ability of an institution to provide health care services, and nurses’ ability to provide safe, quality care to the communities they serve.
Health care is considered a limited resource because there isn’t enough money or time in the world to purchase and provide care for every individual in every conceivable manner. The ethical question of who pays for that care is referred to as the ethics of rationing health care. Economics is split into two broad categories called ...
Economics of Health and Health Care, the market-leading textbook covering all aspects of health economics. The six chapters included here focus on different elements of the field of health and health care economics, and range from the theoretical to the more practical. Our
Health economics is concerned with the efficient allocation of scarce (health care) resources •Maximising benefit (health) for resources available •Requires technical, economic and allocative efficiency!‘The market’ is important because: •Firms only able to remain if technicallyand economically efficient (otherwise others undercut price)
This second edition of ‘Health Economics’ has been updated to take account of methodological developments in the field of economic evaluation in health care and includes a number of detailed case studies which did not appear in the first edition.
As healthcare professionals are becoming more involved in national policy implementation, and with cur-rent economic climate, where clinicians are charged with the responsibility of achieving more with limited resources, the knowledge of health economics will become even more important.
7 Απρ 2011 · The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides a guide to health economics. The articles stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the discipline.
