Sherry Glied - The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

HEALTH ECONOMICS

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

Edited by

SHERRY GLIED

and

PETER C. SMITH

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T HE editors would like to thank all those who contributed their expertise to this volume. At Oxford University Press, the handbook was commissioned by Sarah Caro, who guided the early development of the volume, and brought to a successful conclusion by Georgia Pinteau. We also greatly appreciated the help of the publishers editorial team, which included Chris Champion, Emma Lambert, Rachel Platt, and Aimee Wright. Great thanks are due to Vanessa Windass, who provided unfailing secretarial support throughout the project, and to Dahlia Rivera. Finally, we should like to thank the authors, whose scholarship is evident throughout these pages, and who responded to editorial suggestions with great wisdom and patience.

Gerard F. Anderson, Ph.D., is a professor of health policy and management, professor of international health, and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Anderson is currently conducting research on chronic conditions, comparative health care systems, health care payment reform, and technology diffusion. He has authored two books, published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, testified in Congress over forty times as an individual witness, and serves on multiple editorial committees. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Anderson held various positions in the Office of the Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services.

Laurence Baker is Professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research includes extensive analysis of managed care and its effects on health care delivery, costs, and outcomes. He received his Ph. D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1994.

Michael Baker is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Toronto and a research associate of the NBER. His recent research focuses on how public policies affect mothers decisions to return to work after giving birth, and thereby their childrens health and development.

Till Brnighausen is Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Senior Epidemiologist at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published widely on health systems in developing countries, HIV epidemiology, and HIV services, systems and economics. Till is a medical specialist in Family Medicine. He holds doctoral degrees in International Health Economics (Harvard) and History of Medicine (Heidelberg), and master degrees in Financial Economics (SOAS) and Health Systems Management (LSH&TM).

Pedro Pita Barros is Professor of Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research focuses on health economics and on regulation and competition policy. His work covers topics such as health expenditure determinants, waiting lists, and bargaining in health care, among others. He has served as Member of the Board of the Portuguese Energy Regulator.

ke Blomqvist a native of Sweden, received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1971. He was with UWO, Canada, until 2002 when he moved to the National University of Singapore. He is currently Professor in the China Center for Human Capital and Labor Economics Research, CUFE, Beijing, a post which he has held since 2009. His research interests include international comparisons of health care systems and reform, most recently in China.

David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health. Bloom has worked in development, health, labor economics, and demography. His current research focuses on theoretical and empirical links among health, demography, and economic growth.

Karen Bloor is a senior research fellow in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Her main research interests are in the economics of health policy, particularly relating to the medical workforce.

Kristian Bolin is Professor of Economics at Lund University. His research is mainly within health economics. He has performed both theoretical and empirical work, focusing on the areas of individual health and health-related behavior. He has also performed research applying health economics to other areas, for instance, economic micro-simulation.

John Brazier is a Professor of Health Economics at the School of Health and Related Research and the University of Sheffield. He has more than twenty years experience of conducting economic evaluations for policy makers and has served as a member of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence Appraisal Committee.

James F. Burgess, Jr., Ph.D., is an associate editor at Health Economics and is on the editorial board of Health Services Research. He has appointments at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management Research, and as a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health.

Michael E. Chernew, Ph.D., is a professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He is a member the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which is an independent agency established to advise the US Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Offices Panel of Health Advisors and Commonwealth Foundations Commission on a High Performance Health Care System.