Calvary University

 Faculty of Health Care

Economics, Medicine
    and Health Care

Edition 3

Gavin Mooney
0273-65157-9
Paperback
168 pages
2003

Brief Description

The book is suitable for Health Economics options within undergraduate and postgraduate economics degrees, and for use on Health Management, Nursing and Medical degrees. It is also appropriate for post-experience courses for health professionals. Professor Mooney, one of the leading scholars in health economics, introduces simple economic concepts and shows how an understanding of them contributes to health service policy-making. The book's approach and coverage is strongly international, and care is taken throughout to make the text easily accessible to readers with no prior knowledge of economics.

Features

• Mooney is one of the leading names in health economics, and this title in its various updated editions has been firmly established with lecturers since the 1980s.
• Students can be sure they are buying an authoritative and well-established textbook
  Provides a really comprehensive treatment of the subject, for example discussing the concept of the market for health care; the problems of determining and measuring the output of the health care sector; the relationship between consumer demand and the professional's assessment of need; medical ethics, equity and efficiency, and alternative financing systems.
• Readers get everything they need for a course in health economics by buying just one volume.
  The book takes a strongly international approach: although it mentions the NHS, it is not specific to one country's organisational arrangements.
• The text is suitable for courses in Europe, Asia, Australia and worldwide, as well as in the UK.
• Competition: Mooney is the best book of its kind on the market.

Contents

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition

1 Introduction

2 Economics and health economics
2.1 Resource allocation problems
2.2 Supply and demand: the market 2.3 Economic evaluation
2.4 Conclusions

3 The nature of the commodity health care
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Defining health
3.3 Health and health care
3.4 Health care
3.5 Conclusion

4 Health status and other outcome measurement
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Some issues in measuring health
4.3 Quality adjusted life years ('QALYs') 4.4 Other outcomes
4.5 Conclusions

5 Values in health care
5.1 Whose values?
5.2 Valuing outputs
5.3 Que faire?

6 Need, demand and the agency relationship
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Demand and need for health care
6.3 Describing the agency relationship 6.4 Analysing the agency relatcionship

7 The inefficiency of medical ethics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Ethics and medical ethics
7.3 The relevance of utilitarianism
7.4 Conclusion

8 Just health care: only medicine?
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What is equity?
8.3 Practical difficulties
8.4 An alternative approach based on 'capacity to benefit'
8.5 How should equity be defined? 8.6 Equity and ethics 8.7 What's best?

9 Priority setting in health care
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Priority setting using an explicit economics approach
9.3 QALY league tables
9.4 Priority setting: some other approaches
9.5 Conclusion

10 Health care financing and organisation
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Key features of public systems
10.3 Fair shares for all?
10.4 Fair-sharing and health care
10.5 Other insights from Margolis
10.6 Which system?

11 Some future roads to travel?
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Education
11.3 Information
11.4 Evaluation and monitoring
11.5 Does economic evaluation work?
11.6 Financing, budgeting and remuneration
11.7 Listening to the community
11.8 A final thought

Index

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