Advances in Health Economics

Professor Anthony Scott leads the Health Economics Research Program at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at The University of Melbourne.Alan Keith Maynard was a British health economist. Born in Bebington, Maynard studied at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and York. After a stint at the University of Exeter, he was appointed to the University of York in 1971.Robert Elliott is Director of the Center for the Study of Experiential Psychotherapy at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. All three authors have many years' experience of teaching clinical psychology at undergraduate and doctoral level.

• List of Contributors. About the Authors.Preface.Workshop Participants.Acknowledgements.Willingness to Pay for Health Care (C. Donaldson and P. Shackley).Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Moving Forward (M. Ryan and K. Gerard).Methods for Eliciting Time Preferences Over Future Health Events (M. van der Pol and J. Cairns).Economic Evaluation for Decision-making (A. Gray and L. Vale).Incentives in Health Care (A. Scott and S. Farrar).The Nursing Labour Market (R. Elliott, et al.).The Economics of the Hospital: Issues of Asymmetry and Uncertainty as they Affect Hospital Reimbursement (A. McGuire and D. Hughes).Measuring Efficiency in Dental Care (D. Parkin and N. Devlin).Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care Expenditures (P. McNamee and S. Stearns).Economic Challenges in Primary Care (A. Maynard and A. Scott).Equity in Health Care: The Need for a New Economics Paradigm? (G. Mooney and E. Russell).Economics of Health and Health Improvement (A. Ludbrook and D. Cohen).

"...In this brief review it is not possible to do justice to the wealth of materials presented". (Health Economics, May 2003)