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29 lis 2023 · Health economics is the examination of how to make health care more equitable, accessible, and affordable for all. Here’s what exactly that means and why it matters.
By applying economic theories of consumer, producer and social choice, health economics aims to understand the behavior of individuals, health care providers, public and private organizations, and governments in decision-making.
28 lut 2022 · Health economics as a discipline is described using six questions to be answered: Is health different from all other goods? Is the ‘cost explosion’ the core issue? What is the relative importance of moral hazard and adverse selection in competitive health insurance?
26 paź 2021 · Some of these questions relate to the microeconomic level of households, firms or government – such as the impact of ill-health on a household’s income or a firm’s profits – while others relate to the macroeconomic level, including the aggregate impact of a disease on a country’s current and future gross domestic product (GDP).
1 kwi 2023 · Phelps defined health economics as the application of economic theory, models, and empirical techniques to analyze health and healthcare decision-making by individuals, healthcare providers, and governments in order to ensure the effective and efficient distribution of health economics resources.
24 sie 2021 · There are five main types of full economic evaluations used to inform and evaluate health interventions (outlined in Table 1) (6, 10). In this review, we focus on the most widely used types, i.e. cost-effectiveness/cost-utility analyses, and cost-benefit analyses (11, 12).
Box 1.1 definition of health economics Health economics is the application of the theories, tools and concepts of the discipline of economics to the topics of health and health care.
