The sub-discipline of health economics has evolved out of its parent discipline in an uneven
manner. This has led to its partial separation from mainstream economics. We explore the …

Editors and authors should be complimented for their impressive attempt to provide a fair
account of the state-of-the-art in health economics. To review such an extensive work in a …

The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide
to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in …

''Another masterpiece in health economics from a doyen in the field, this expanded and
updated dictionary will undoubtedly become a standard reference work for scholars …

Economics is usually a rather doom-laden subject, and in this respect is linked indirectly with
medicine through the observation that the only two things in life that are certain are death …

This paper discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health
policy and health services research. I illustrate the dual role with data on publications and …

Health has become a dominant economic and political issue over the past 40 years, with
nations experiencing rapid rises in health care spending, and the health sector presenting …

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the
availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric …

What new theories, evidence, and policies have shaped health economics in the 21st
century? Editors Mark Pauly, Thomas McGuire, and Pedro Pita Barros assemble the …

The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning
literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health …