Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 0444504702
Published on: 2008-01
Hardcover
Volume 1A
Comparisons of aggregate health expenditure across different countries have become popular over the last three decades as they permit a systematic investigation of the impact of different institutional regimes and other explanatory variables. Over the years ,several regression analyses based on cross-section and panel data have been used to explain the international differences in health expenditure. A common result of these studies is that aggregate income appears to be the most important factor explaining health expenditure variation between countries and that the size of the estimated of the estimated income elasticity is high and even higher than unity which in that case indicates that health care is a “luxury” good. Additional results indicates, for example, that the use of primary care “gatekeepers” lowers health expenditure and also that the way of remunerating physicians in the ambulatory care sector appears to influence health expenditure; capitation systems tend to lead to lower expenditure than fee-for-service systems. Finally, we also list some issues for the future. We demand more efforts on theory of the macroeconomic analysis of health expenditure, We also demand more replications based on updated data and methods that seeks to unify the many differing results of previous studies.
VOLUM 1A
The state and scope of health economics
Part One Overviews and Paradigms
Chapter 1 International Comparisons of Health Expenditure
Chapter 2 An Overview of the Normative Economics of the Health Sector
Chapter 3 Medical Care Prices and Output
Chapter 4 Advances in C-E Analysis
Chapter 5 Information Diffusion and Best Practice Adoption
Chapter 6 Health Econometrics
Part Two Demand and Reimbursement for Medical Services
Chapter 7 The Human Capital Model
Chapter 8 Moral Hazard and Consumer Incentives in Health Care
Chapter 9 Physician Agency
Chapter 10 Insurance Reimbursement
Part Three Insurance Markets, Managed Care, and Contracting
Chapter 11 The Anatomy of Health Iinsurance
Chapter 12 Health Insurance and the Labor Market
Chapter 13 Managed Care
Chapter 14 Risk Adjustment in Competitive Health Plan Markets
Chapter 15 Government Purchasing of Health Services.
