- The Oxford Handbook of: Health Economics
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Health Systems in Industrialized Countries
- Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- The Political Economy of Health Care
- The Promise of Health: Evidence of the Impact of Health on Income and Well-Being
- Health Production
- Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
- Determinants of Health in Childhood
- Economics of Infectious Diseases
- Economics of Health Behaviors and Addictions: Contemporary Issues and Policy Implications
- Economics and Mental Health: an International Perspective
- Public-Sector Health Care Financing
- Voluntary Private Health Insurance
- Health Care Cost Growth
- User Charges
- Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care
- Guaranteed Access to Affordable Coverage in Individual Health Insurance Markets
- Managed Care
- Hospitals: Teaming Up
- Primary Care
- The Global Health Workforce
- The Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry
- Disease Prevention, Health Care, and Economics
- Long-Term Care
- Physician Agency and Payment for Primary Medical Care
- Provider Payment and Incentives
- Non-Price Rationing and Waiting Times
- Increasing Competition Between Providers in Health Care Markets: The Economic Evidence
- Measuring Organizational Performance
- Health System Productivity
- The Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Decisions about the Use of Health Care Interventions and Programs
- Analyzing Uncertainty in Cost-effectiveness For Decision-making
- Health Utility Measurement
- Concepts of Equity and Fairness in Health and Health Care
- Measuring inequality and Inequity in Health and Health Care
- Inter-Generational Aspects of Health Care
- Econometric Evaluation of Health Policies
- Health Economics and Policy: the Challenges of Proselytizing
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article focuses on the limited attention paid to the economic dimensions of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) health systems relative to those of high-income countries, and the restricted evidence base. The aim is to provide an economic analysis of LMIC health systems and policy implications, and to interpret the relevance to LMIC settings. It analyzes the economic dimensions of health systems in LMIC, including how they differ from those of high-income countries. It helps to identify distinctive characteristics of low- and middle-income countries that affect the policy recommendations that can be derived from the application of economic thinking to their health systems. Finally, it discusses the key areas of debate that remain unresolved.
Keywords: economic dimensions, low-income countries, middle-income countries, health systems, high-income countries, economic thinking
Anne Mills is Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Head of the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, and Director of the Health Economics and Financing Programme at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has over 35 years' experience of health economics research in Africa and Asia.
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- The Oxford Handbook of: Health Economics
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Health Systems in Industrialized Countries
- Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- The Political Economy of Health Care
- The Promise of Health: Evidence of the Impact of Health on Income and Well-Being
- Health Production
- Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
- Determinants of Health in Childhood
- Economics of Infectious Diseases
- Economics of Health Behaviors and Addictions: Contemporary Issues and Policy Implications
- Economics and Mental Health: an International Perspective
- Public-Sector Health Care Financing
- Voluntary Private Health Insurance
- Health Care Cost Growth
- User Charges
- Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care
- Guaranteed Access to Affordable Coverage in Individual Health Insurance Markets
- Managed Care
- Hospitals: Teaming Up
- Primary Care
- The Global Health Workforce
- The Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry
- Disease Prevention, Health Care, and Economics
- Long-Term Care
- Physician Agency and Payment for Primary Medical Care
- Provider Payment and Incentives
- Non-Price Rationing and Waiting Times
- Increasing Competition Between Providers in Health Care Markets: The Economic Evidence
- Measuring Organizational Performance
- Health System Productivity
- The Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Decisions about the Use of Health Care Interventions and Programs
- Analyzing Uncertainty in Cost-effectiveness For Decision-making
- Health Utility Measurement
- Concepts of Equity and Fairness in Health and Health Care
- Measuring inequality and Inequity in Health and Health Care
- Inter-Generational Aspects of Health Care
- Econometric Evaluation of Health Policies
- Health Economics and Policy: the Challenges of Proselytizing
- Index
