Books
In a series of 31 essays originally published in the Journal of Allied Health over a 20-year period, this book surveys the development of federal health policy as it relates to allied health.
Advances in Health Care Management contains state-of-the-art reviews (odd years) and research on special topics (even years) in the field of health care management.
By Andrew Jones, and introduces readers to the appropriate econometric techniques for use with different forms of survey data, known collectively as microeconometrics. The book provides a complete illustration of the steps involved in doing microeconometric research.
By A. Jones, N. Rice. Large-scale survey datasets, in particular complex survey designs such as panel data, provide a rich source of information for health economists. This book illustrates practical applications of these methods using data on health from, among others, the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) and the WHO Multi-Country Survey (WHO-MCS).
by Paul Feldstein. Just $8. Includes 85 health care applications, and one of the major texts for HEOR programs. No microeconomics pre-requisite required.
This book teaches students how execute a working cost-effectiveness analysis. All methods presented in the book adhere to the recommendations forwarded by the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. The book is available from all major online and textbook retailers.
Clearly written with an excellent glossary and index. The product of over two years of deiberation by a multi-disciplinary Public Health Service appointed panel that included economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians, it explores cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making for resource allocation purposes.
M. G. Myriam Hunink and Milt Weinstein. It is very readable, making a complex subject appear crystal clear and easy to understand. The exercises at the end of each chapter provide a useful check of understanding and examples of how to apply the skills.Overall, this book is a very useful addition to the literature on evidence-based health care, providing clear strategies for incorporating decision analysis into our daily decision making.
Book by Andrew Briggs, Karl Claxton, and Mark Sculpher. Provides a practical guide designed to encourage the reader to apply the modelling methods, includes step by step guide on how to set up a model, enter the data, analyze the results, and take this forward for future research. In addition, supporting material provided online, including exercise templates and solution files.
Provides readers with insights into the practical use of factor analysis through clear and readable text with illustrative examples. To complement the edifying book, they also provide a new web-based tool that responds to the important need to document the replicability of the factor solution.
By AJ Culyer. This expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the health economics, epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, demography, medical sociology, medical statistics and bio-statistics, health policy, health administration and health service management, public health medicine and qualitative and quantitative research. Entries and definitions are provided for all key concepts listed with, in many cases, more extended entries on core or controversial ideas.
By Woolbridge. This graduate text provides an intuitive but rigorous treatment of contemporary methods used in microeconometric research. The book makes clear that applied microeconometrics is about the estimation of marginal and treatment effects, and that parametric estimation is simply a means to this end. It also clarifies the distinction between causality and statistical association.
by Jones & O'Donnell. The purpose of this book is to give readers convenient access to a collection of recent contributions that contain innovative applications of microeconometric methods to data on health and health care.
By Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin and David Parkin (2007). Core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with knowledge of economic analysis and will appeal to an international audience. It adopts an international perspective, using examples and case studies from the UK, the rest of Europe, and other countries.
Book by Henry A Glick, Jalpa A Doshi, Seema S Sonnad, and Daniel Polsky. Hugely important for anyone involved in the development of new drugs, therapies, or devices, supporting material provided online, and includes a practical guide to teach the reader how to design and conduct appropriate, rigorous economic evaluations of clinical trials.
Edited by Drummond and McGuire. To accompany the hugely sccessful 'Methods for Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 2e', this book is a thorough and rigorous discussion of the methodological principles and recent advances in the rapidly advancing field of theory and practice of economic evaluation in health care. The book covers the main areas of economic evaluation, including the methods for measuring costs and outcomes, the collection of data alongside clinical studies, ways of handling uncertainty, discounting and issues relating to the transferability of economic data.
This book, part of The ISPOR Outcomes Research Good Practices Series, will be a compilation of reports developed by ISPOR Task Forces and Special Interest Groups to address outcomes research methodological issues. Includes Ethics for researchers; modeling studies; economic/PE studies; real world studies; communicating outcomes research information to HC decision makers; use of outcomes research in HC decisions
By Hollingsworth and Peacock. This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practice of efficiency measurement in health and health care. The book outlines which methods are most suitable in which setting, how to specify valid models, and how to undertake a study and effectively disseminate results.
Incorporates the latest information to build up and strengthen the fundamentals of Epidemiology so that its concept is made clear to the undergraduate students with the objective to make it a favorite subject of students
By Karen Rascati, PhD. Defines terminology used in research and covers the application of economic-based evaluation methods to pharmaceutical products and services.
This book reviews the relationship between health technology assessment and policy-making, and examines how to increase the contribution such research makes to policy- and decision-making processes. (by Garrido, Marcial Velasco, et.al)
Based on workshops. Great resource
Edited by Norman J. Temple and Andrew Thompson. This book exposes why health care costs have been rapidly increasing and includes a close examination of over-priced drugs. It contains a detailed explanation of how the drug industry takes billions of dollars from society each year and proposes radical new ideas to reign in excessive spending on medicine. Based on the latest research, its unique approach takes into account the pharmaceutical industry, health care policy and society to offer a wide ranging account. It is invaluable for all health care professionals, especially managers and doctors and nurses with budgetary responsibilities.
This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, it assesses the relative merits of the main methods of raising resources including taxation; social, voluntary and supplemental forms of insurance; and self-pay including co-payments. There is a cost to purchase this book. (Source: New Jersey Long Term Care Insurance, July 27, 2010)
Provides an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful.(Source:economics, Editors; Culyer, Anthony J. et.al.)
This new handbook contains the most comprehensive account of sample surveys theory and practice to date. It updates and extending the sampling volume published as volume 6 of the Handbook of Statistics in 1988. Includes references to available software. (Source:Research and Markets)
Gray and Briggs, editors. Includes 1. Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation, by Briggs et al. focuses on the role and methods of decision analysis in economic evaluation. 2. Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials by Glick et al. covers the design, conduct and analysis of economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and their distinctive methodological and practical issues. 3. Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care by Clark et al. sets out the key elements of analysing costs and outcomes, calculating cost-effectiveness and reporting results. 4. Applied Methods of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Health Care by Clark et al. provides a comprehensive guide to the theory and the practical conduct of cost-benefit analysis.
Heath Care Economics is primarily used as a resource for courses in health economics. It assumes little economics training and it provides an economic approach to understanding health care issues.
This textbook is now often used in universities on many different courses related to health economics. This book covers all the most important subjects and goes quite deep into each. If you are only going to buy one health economics book ever then this would probably be the most useful one to have.
The information in this book is mostly aimed at health care professionals, but it can be used by anybody to learn more about this important topic. The information is presented in an easy to understand style and three is no expectation of previous knowledge about economics.
A compilation of books, journals, articles, websites, databases, etc. that you would need if you are new to health economics. In fact, it's a great list if you are an experienced health economist. It only goes up to 2003 but it provides a wonderful, exhaustive overview of relevant resources. Great for students and for teachers preparing courses.
All too often, economics is seen as a synonym for savings and financial pressure. However, what it really aims to do is find the best possible way to spend the available financial means. In order to apply economic thinking to healthcare, Annemans argues, the health sector should be viewed as a productive sector whose aim is to produce health, by ensuring that people live longer and more healthily.By Lieven Annemans - Academia Press (2008) - Hardback
Author: Rexford E. Santerre, Stephen P. Neun
This popular textbook provides a comprehensive but accessible coverage of health economic principles and applications. Free Download.
Who should receive medical goods and services? All Health care systems face questions and choose to respond differently.Societies around the world take into account certain moral,cultural, legal, economic and other considerations.
This is another book that was probably written with the health care professional in mind; although it will be of use to practically anyone. There is no previous knowledge of economics required to get the most from this book as everything is explained simply and clearly. This latest edition includes such things as the effect of modern technology like the internet on health economics.
Includes over 100 monographs covering over 400 terms used in health care delivery, management, and regulation, as well as health care outcomes research including clinical, economic, and quality-of-life research terms.
By Feldstein. Heath Care Economics, now in its 6th Edition, is primarily used as a resource for courses in health economics. It assumes little economics training and it provides an economic approach to understanding health care issues. The book is unique compared to its competition in its comprehensive discussion of the various topics covered, and the number of topics it covers.
Richard M. Scheffler brings an economist's insight to the question, showing how shifts in market power underlie the changes we have seen in the health workforce and how they will affect the future availability of doctors. Predicting the "right" ratio of doctors to population in the future is only a small piece of the puzzle, and one that has been the subject of much forecasting, and little agreement, over the past several decades.
Online versions of the most widely used medical text. Covers human diseases, symptoms, common clinical procedures, and laboratory tests.
Drummond, O'Brien, Stoddart, and Torrance. Out of print.
Edited by Sherry Glied and Peter C. Smith: provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the discipline.
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, broad health reform legislation that established the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Since that time, a number of important steps have been taken to implement PCORI, starting with the September 2010 appointment of a Board of Governors and continuing with the January 2011 announcement of the members of the Methodology Committee.(Source:National Pharmaceutical Council, February 2011)
by Mickey Smith.
By Mickey Smith
Book chapter describing marginal costs, benefits, cost effectiveness analysis, and methodological issues
by RJG Arnold.
How do drug companies set prices and what does it mean for patients? Why do governments increasingly get involved, and what is its impact on the global competitive environment? How can an industry that produces life saving drugs have a poorer public reputation than gun and tobacco industries that produce products that kill? Ed Schoonveld, a leading expert and consultant in global pharmaceutical pricing and market access issues, explains how pharmaceutical prices are determined in a complex global player environment and what factors influence the process. His insights will help a wide range of audiences from healthcare industry professionals to policy makers and the broader public to gain a better understanding of this highly complex and emotionally charged field.
Principles in Health Economics and Policy is a clear and concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy. (Source: Jan Abel Olsen, Oxford University Press, August 2009)
By John Robert Coleman, et. al. Published 2005, text on strategies, case studies, etc.
Great reviews! For healthcare professionals and patients too. Great gift!
By Dr. Vijay Pabbathi, presents evidence for how prescription drugs are causing more deaths than natural disasters, challenges the validity of EBM, and suggests that drugs are turning healthy people into sick individuals.
Investigates the impact of electronic medical records.
The Fifth Edition provides the necessary tools to develop a systematic and disciplined approach for solving economic problems in a health care context while learning the importance of being able to identify, define, measure, explain, and predict certain economic phenomena and evaluate the relevance of end results.
Intended as a text for health economics classes, this edition is revised and more complete. Authors: Thomas Rice and Lynn Unruh
Editors: Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, and Alistair McGuire
by Brian Smith (pharma industry exec and editor of Jnl of Medical Marketing). Brian Smith's highly readable research findings are a wake up call and a first-step forward for anyone concerned with the future of the industry; whether executive, customer, policymaker or investor
The ISPOR Health & Disease Management Special Interest Group has completed the first draft of this handbook for health and disease management practitioners, payers, and researchers. It provides a comprehensive overview of the available U.S. and international data sources, including an assessment of their reliability and validity, methods used to examine these data, and approaches for experimental and retrospective research designs. It also includes an international section with health care systems in more than 30 countries, their data sources and data adaptation & transferability.
This book will take you through the complex world of pharmaceutical and biotech pricing in a clear and straightforward manner. With a focus on practical, value-based pricing, The Strategic Pricing of Pharmaceuticals explains the different types of value that a medicine can provide, how different customers interpret and understand value, and the ways in which the marketer can capture that value through pricing. Unlike other books in this area, which tend to be more theoretical than practical, this one explores and explains how medicines are priced as well as how they should be priced, how those prices are perceived in the marketplace, and how prices affect sales, as well as the many factors that must be considered in setting and managing the prices of medicines.
This compilation of product management strategies and marketing solutions is designed with your success in mind – a clear, concise reference you’ll return to again and again.
Provides information on conducting clinical, economic, and patient-reported outcomes research for medical devices and diagnostics.
Official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, and other healthcare products manufactured and sold in the United States.
The “essential” companion to the landmark Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature – completely revised and updated!
Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks and harms through regulatory interventions is among the most important responsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide array of activities in many different contexts: improving air and water quality; safeguarding the food supply; reducing the risk of injury on the job, in transportation, and from consumer products; and minimizing exposure to toxic chemicals (Source: Wilhelmine Miller, Lisa A. Robinson, and Robert S. Lawrence, Editors)
International economic policies in healthcare, social capital and healthcare economics in different global markets, drug-society interactions, global issues of pharmaco-economics, etc.
