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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 economics” as a course is meant to give medical, health officer and other paramedical students basic principles regarding economics and its application to the health sector.
Economics is the study of how individuals and societies make decisions about how to use their limited resources. 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 ...
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.
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 the application of economic principles, models and tech-niques to decision-making in healthcare (Culyer 2005, Morris et al. 2007). Healthcare costs are on the increase globally, rising faster than the rate of inflation in developed countries and consuming a large proportion of the total economy (Meltzer 2001).
