Sardar M. Islam, C. Mak

Gebundenes Buch

Normative Health Economics

A New Pragmatic Approach to Cost Benefit Analysis, Mathematical Models and Applications

Beschreibung

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework. It also develops some operational mathematical models to show how this framework can be applied to health economics and policy evaluation.

Autor

SARDAR M.N. ISLAM is Professor of Welfare and Environmental Economics and Director of the Sustainable Growth Program at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Australia. His areas of teaching and research interests in economics are welfare economics, computerized economic modelling, development and growth economics, environmental and resource economics and health economics. He has published extensively. CHRISTINE MAK is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, who has extensive publishing experience in the field of welfare economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-8749-5
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781403987495
• ISBN-10: 1403987491
• Artikelnr.: 24460145

Rezensionen

'All health organisations and jurisdictions through-out the world are faced with the challenge of how to fund an increasingly complex health system. Whether the issue is how to decide on which new treatment should be made available to whom in a well developed health system or to decide on what basic prophylactic or pharmacologic intervention can be afforded in a

transitional country. Choices are often difficult and complex. This new text develops a pragmatic approach to this problem using the case study of pharmaceuticals and applying the key principles of moral philosophy and welfare economics.' - Ian Rouse, Professor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Australia

With a Foreword from Professor Elizabeth Harman, Vice - Chancellor, Victoria University, Australia