Handbook of Health Economics

By F. Rutten, Han Bleichrodt, W. Brouwer, M. Koopmanschap, E. Schut. 2001

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textabstractEditors 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 short time span, we decided to select certain chapters for more in depth study. This selection was based on our areas of expertise under the restriction that all major research areas distinguished in the handbook should be covered. Before turning to the review of the separate chapters, let us first make some general comments about the handbook. An important first question is whether all relevant research areas are covered and whether this has been done in a balanced way. Of course, exhaustive coverage in one book is unattainable for a large area like health economics. Rather the question is that regarding balance and possible lack of bias. In that respect, the book focuses on the US literature and health care system with 24 chapters written by US authors and only 11 by European and Canadian authors. The more traditional economic areas are generally covered by the US authors, emphasising a neo-classical rather than an institutional paradigm, and boundary topics like ‘equity’ and the ‘measurement of health’ are covered by the non-US authors. This structure both reflects the contributions in the health economics literature and the large variation in US health care institutions, and is only troublesome in some chapters as suggested below.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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