World Scientific Handbook Of Global Health Economics And Public Policy (A 3-volume Set)

(A 3-Volume Set)

Richard M Scheffler

• Publisher: WSPC
• Year: 2016
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  9789814612333
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This Handbook covers major topics in global health economics and public policy and provides a timely, systematic review of the field. Edited by Richard M Scheffler, Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley, the Handbook features academics and practitioners from more than a dozen countries. Contributors are from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, University of York, University of Oslo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of California - Berkeley, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Toronto, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, OECD, the World Health Organization and the World Bank, many of whom have also acted as economic and policy advisors to government and non-governmental organizations across the world.

Experts in these areas who provide critical analyses and relevant data for further exploration and research include: Thomas E Getzen, Executive Director of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA); Douglas E Hough, Associate Scientist and Associate Director of the Master in Healthcare Management programme at the Bloomberg School of Public Health of John Hopkins University; Guillem López-Casasnovas, former President of iHEA and member of the Advisory Council of the Spanish Health and Social Welfare Ministry and of the Advisory Council of the Catalan Health Ministry since 1984; Alistair McGuire, Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political and advisor to a number of governments and governmental bodies across Europe; Tor Iversen, Research Director at the Health Economics Research Programme at the University of Oslo and former member of the iHEA Arrow Award Committee 2007–2011; William H Dow, Professor and Associate Dean for Research at University of California,Berkeley and former Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisors (White House); Audrey Laporte, the Director of the Canadian Centre for Health Economics; Alexander S Preker, President and CEO of Health Investment & Financing Corporation; Ayda Yurekli, who initiated and developed the World Health Organization TaXSiM simulation model that has been used by many Ministries of Finance around the world for the development of tax policies; Marko Vujicic, Managing Vice President of the Health Policy Resources Center at the American Dental Association; Mark Sculpher, Director of the Programme on Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment at the University of York and former President of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) (2011–2012); and Peter Berman, who has had almost 40 years of experience in global health and was formerly a Lead Health Economist at the World Bank.

The Handbook spans across three volumes. The chapters deal with key global issues in health economics, are evidence-based, and offer innovative policy alternatives and solutions. The Handbook's approach toward global health economics and public policy will make it a useful resource for health economists, policymakers, private sector companies, NGOs, government decision-makers and those who manage healthcare systems.

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World Scientific
Handbook of Global
Health Economics
and Public Policy

The Economics of Health and Health Systems

World Scientific Series in Global Health Economics and Public Policy

ISSN: 2010-2089

Series Editor-in-Chief: Richard M Scheffler
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Published:

Vol. 1 Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care:
Issues in Addressing an Emerging Global Challenge
edited by Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli and Stephen Shortell

Vol. 2 The Economics of Social Capital and Health:
A Conceptual and Empirical Roadmap
edited by Sherman Folland and Lorenzo Rocco

Vol. 3 World Scientific Handbook of Global Health Economics and Public Policy
edited by Richard M Scheffler

World Scientific Series in Global Health Economics and Public Policy – Vol. 3

World Scientific
Handbook of Global
Health Economics
and Public Policy

The Economics of Health and Health Systems

Edited by

Richard M. Scheffler

University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Names: Scheffler, Richard M., editor.

Title: World Scientific handbook of global health economics and public policy / [edited by] Richard M. Scheffler.

Other titles: Handbook of global health economics and public policy | World Scientific series in global healthcare economics and public policy, v. 3. 2010–2089 ;

Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2016. | Series: World Scientific series in global healthcare economics and public policy ; volume 3 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040481| ISBN 9789814612319 (set : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789814612340 (v. 1 : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789814612357 (v. 2 : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789814612364 (v. 3 : alk. paper)

Subjects: | MESH: Economics, Medical. | Delivery of Health Care. | Global Health. | Health Policy. | Quality of Health Care. | Social Determinants of Health.

Classification: LCC RA410.5 | NLM W 74.1 | DDC 338.4/73621--dc23

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Acknowledgment

Jessica Foster was my editorial assistant and partner. She helped me in every way possible. I am very grateful to her. Kati Phillips made the handbook happen. She handled all the details and coordinated all the moving parts without missing a beat. Finally, I would like to thank Zvi Ruder. He worked hard over a long period of time to convince me that the handbook could be done. He was so right.

—Dr. Richard M. Scheffler

Contents

Acknowledgment

About the Editor

List of Contributors

Introduction to Volume 1

Richard M. Scheffler

Health Care Spending and Economic Growth

Edit V. Velenyi

Macroeconomics, Trade and Health

Richard Smith, Marcus Keogh-Brown, and Johanna Hanefeld

Measuring and Forecasting Global Health Expenditures

Thomas E. Getzen

Economics of Financing Health Care

Alexander S. Preker, Sherry Glied, Dov Chernichovsky, and Marisa Gil Lapetra

Alternative Financing Strategies for Universal Health Coverage

Joseph Kutzin, Winnie Yip, and Cheryl Cashin

Global Risk-Adjusted Payment Models

Camilo Cid, Randall P. Ellis, Verónica Vargas, Juergen Wasem, and Lorena Prieto

Resource Allocation and Priority Setting in Health Care Systems

Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas and Laura Pellise

Estimating Health Care Treatment Costs

Alistair McGuire and Maria Raikou

Incentivizing Health Care Utilization and Health Outcomes

William H. Dow, Justin S. White, and Stefano Bertozzi

Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes and Interventions: Applications to Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Paul Revill, Beth Woods, and Mark J. Sculpher

Inequalities and Inequities in Health and Health Care

Marisol Rodríguez and Rosa Urbanos-Garrido

Index

About the Editor

Richard M. Scheffler (Editor) Richard M. Scheffler is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and holds the endowed Chair in Healthcare Markets and Consumer Welfare. In 2003, Dr. Scheffler served as the elected president of the International Health Economics Association. He has been a visiting professor at a number of universities including the London School of Economics, Charles University in Prague, at the Department of Economics at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. Dr. Scheffler has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, and the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a consultant for the World Bank, the WHO, and the OECD. Professor Scheffler has been a Fulbright Scholar at Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile, and at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He was also awarded the Chair of Excellence Award at the Carlos III University of Madrid in 2013. In 2015, Dr. Scheffler was awarded the Gold Medal for Charles University in Prague for his longstanding and continued support of international scientific and educational collaboration. He earned his PhD in economics with honors at New York University.

List of Contributors

(Author bios are listed as per the Chapter order)

Edit V Velényi is a Health Economist with the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank, where she focuses on applied economic analysis and impact evaluation of health sector projects to improve operational and development effectiveness. Previously, she worked at the HNP Anchor, where she focused on the relationship between the macroeconomy and health financing. Between 2007 and 2011, she coordinated the health portfolio of the Development Impact Evaluation Initiative of the World Bank’s Development Research Group. During earlier assignments with the World Bank’s Africa Region and the HNP Anchor, she co-authored Learning from Economic Downturns — How to Better Assess, Track, and Mitigate the Impact on the Health Sector (2013); co-edited Public Ends, Private Means — Strategic Purchasing of Health Services (2007); and co-authored book chapters on health insurance. Edit received a PhD in Economics from the University of York, an MA from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, and an MA from the Budapest Business School.

Richard Smith is Professor of Health System Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Following undergraduate and postgraduate studies in economics at the University of York, Richard worked in Sydney, Cambridge, Bristol, Melbourne and Norwich, before joining the School in 2007. Richard has held various other appointments, including honorary posts at the Universities of Hong Kong and East Anglia, Associate Fellow at The Royal Institute of International Affairs, and editorial roles for journals including Health Economics, the Journal of Public Health and Globalization and Health. He has also acted as an expert advisor for a number of international bodies, as well as several national government departments. Richard’s research has covered a number of areas of health economics in recent years focusing upon developing the methods for macroeconomic analysis of health, the economics of globalization and health, and aspects of trade in health goods, services, people and ideas. Richard has received over £30 million in grant income, published five books, more than 100 journal papers, and dozens of other works.

Marcus Keogh-Brown is Lecturer in Economic Modeling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research interests are mainly focused on the application of macroeconomic modeling to health. Previous applications of these models include infectious disease outbreaks, particularly SARS and Pandemic influenza, antibiotic resistance, dietary change, greenhouse gas reduction strategies with health co-benefits, Alzheimer’s disease and malaria. In addition to various country simulations for policy analysis, Marcus has also been involved in pioneering methodological development of macroeconomic models to integrate health, demographic and epidemiological models in a single framework.

Johanna Hanefeld is Lecturer in Health Systems Economics in the department of Global Health and Development focusing on trade and health, health systems, governance, and quantitative and qualitative policy analysis mainly in low- and middle-income countries. Together with Professor Richard Smith and colleagues at the University of York, UK, she recently completed a large research project examining the impact of medical tourism on the UK NHS. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Edward Elgar Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility.

Thomas E. Getzen is emeritus Professor of Risk, Insurance and Health Management at Temple University and Executive Director of iHEA, the International Health Economics Association. His textbook Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds (Wiley; 5th ed., 2013) is used in graduate and undergraduate programs throughout the world and he has been visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. His research and consulting focus on the macroeconomics of health, forecasting medical expenditures, physician supply, price indexes, financing and public health economics. He is the editor-in-chief for the “HEN-Health Economics Network” in collaboration with SSRN and associate editor for Health Economics. Professor Getzen periodically updates the forecasting model of “Long Run Medical Cost Trends” for the Society of Actuaries, and served on the National Academy of Sciences IOM Committee on Public Health Strategies.

Alexander S. Preker is the President and CEO of the Health Investment & Financing Corporation in New York. He is an active investor and member of the board of several health care companies. Mr. Preker also serves as one of the Commissioners for the Global Commission on Pollution, Health and Development and as the Chair of the External Advisory Committee for the WHHSJ of the International Hospital Federation. From 2007 to 2012, Mr Preker was Head of the Health Industry Group and Investment Policy for the International Finance Corporation. Previously, he was Chief Economist for the health sector in the World Bank Group. Mr Preker has published extensively, having written many scientific articles and authored over 15 books. Mr Preker is an Executive Scholar and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, an Adjunct Associate Professor of public policy at New York University’s Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy and an Adjunct Associate Professor for Health Care Management at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. His training includes a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• 1 The Economics of Health and Health Systems
• 2 Health Determinants and Outcomes
• 3 Health System Characteristics and Performance