... Demand: Reflections after a Decade. Journal of Health Economics 4(2):187–193. 1992. Reflections on the Meaning of Efficiency: Can Efficiency Be Sepa- rated from Equity? Yale Law and Policy Review 10(2):302–315. Rhoads, Steven E...

... of their profession. Most are employed in noneconomics departments in universities, where they spend their time very differently from their cousins in economics departments. There is a clear dichotomy in policy views among health economists. The characterization of the field as composed of “narrow” neo-classicists...

... Lot? Some Empirical Evidence. In Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Moses Abramovitz, ed. P. David and M. W. Reder. New York: Academic Press. Feldman , R. , and B. Dowd. 1991 . A New Estimate of the Welfare Loss of Excess Health Insurance. American Economic Review...

... Responsibility and Economic Efficiency. Public Policy 21 : 303 -317. ———. 1974 . Government Decision Making and the Preciousness of Life. In Ethics of Health Care:Papers of the Conference on Health Care and Changing Values , ed. L. R. Tancredi. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine. ———. 1995...

...Sherry Glied; Richard G. Frank Abstract Mental illnesses provide a difficult set of challenges to American health and social institutions. Those challenges have been a continuous concern of David Mechanic's over the course of his career. In this article we trace the development of modern economic...

... Comparative Assessments in the Health Sector: Disease Burden, Expenditures, and Intervention Packages . Geneva: World Health Organization, 1994. 196 pages. $18.00 paper. George Tolley, Donald Kenkel, and Robert Fabian. Valuing Health for Policy: An Economic Approach . Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

...Theodore R. Marmor; William D. White Robert G. Evans, Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care (Toronto: Butterworths, 1984), $39.95. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Books Perspectives Robert G. Evans, Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian...

...Yaniv Hanoch Increasing health care costs is one of the most challenging problems to tackle. Behavioral economics and nudging are no panacea, though they can offer several means to curb costs. Chapters 10 (Christopher T. Robertson and David V. Yokum) and 12 (Jim Hawkins) focus on how changes...

...Adam Oliver Over the past twenty years, the emphasis of reform attempts to improve efficiency within the English National Health Service (NHS) has oscillated between markets and targets. Both strategies are informed by standard economic theory but thus far have achieved varying degrees of success...

...Richard C. McKibbin Rita Ricardo-Campbell, The Economics and Politics of Health (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), 379 pp., $19.95 Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Book Reviews...

... increasingly to a new positivist discipline, called health services research, for which neoclassical health economics is the dominant discourse. However this discipline may actually reinforce the strength of biomedical positivism and the concomitant technological imperative. Like biomedicine, health services...

...Evan M. Melhado JHPPL 25.1-14.books.JO 1/27/00 3:15 PM Page 233 Books Review Essay Economic Theory, Economists, and the Formulation of Health Policy...

... ciency in delivery. We do this by relating the economic logic of achieving these objectives to the political logic of a state-hierarchical system in which ministers are accountable for the effects of policies and doctors largely decide the supply and demand of health care. The initial policy path...

...Bruno Nikolić Abstract Ever-increasing health spending, which, according to future projections, continues to outpace economic growth, will further endanger the financial sustainability of health systems. In a quest to improve the efficacy and efficiency of the health system and thus strengthen its...

...Keith J. Mueller Steven Eastaugh, Financing Health Care: Economic Efficiency and Equity (Dover: Auburn House, 1987). Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 386 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law if the acute care hospital beds are utilized more intensively by high...

.... Foresightful decision making on these issues could both contribute immediately to the health of the people of Lesotho, and also increase the longer-term possibilities for a better life for all the people of southern Africa. Economic Dependency, Health Services, and Health: The Case...

...Paul Fronstin Mark Pauly. Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-Based Health Insurance . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 187 pp. $39.50 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 388 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

... Social, Economic, and Health Aspects of Mandatory Retirement Anne R. Somers, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Rutgers Medical School Abstract. The issue of mandatory retirement could grow into one of the major domestic conflicts of the next few decades...

...Mark Schlesinger The U.S. Congress enacted expansive (and expensive) health care reforms amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Public acquiescence provided crucial political cover; elites on both sides struggled mightily to sway popular opinion. Were reformers' efforts made...

... time and lives. Federalism will shape the long-term health and economic impacts of COVID-19, including plans for the future, for at least two reasons: First, federalism exacerbates inequities, as some states have a history of underinvesting in social programs, especially in certain communities. Second...