Handbook of Health Economics

Mark Pauly is Bendheim Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, Professor of Business and Public Policy, Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Thomas McGuire is a Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the design and impact of health care payment systems, the economics of health care disparities, and the economics of mental health policy and drug regulation and payment. McGuire has contributed to the theory of physician, hospital, and health plan payment. McGuire was a co-editor of the Handbook of Health Economics Volume 2 (2012) and recently completed ten years as an editor of the Journal of Health Economics. Pedro Pita Barros is the 2005 winner of the "Grande-Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique," awarded by the President of Portugal. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Economia da Saude - Conceitos e Comportamentos."

• 1. Medical Spending Growth2. Geographic Variation in Spending and Outcomes 3. Health Behaviors and Prevention4. Health Economics of Economic Development5. Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care 6. Demand for Health Care7. Issues in Cost Effectiveness Cost Benefit and Cost Utility Analysis8. Cost Effectiveness and Payment Policy9. Competition in Health Care Supply10. Reporting on and Paying Health Care Providers11. Health Insurance, Health Plans and Risk Variation12. Markets for Pharmaceutical Products13. Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Biomedical Research and Marketing of Patented Products14. Medical Workforce15. Public and Private Sector Interface16. Equity in Health and Health Care 17. Health Care Disparities

"The Handbook of Health Economics has been at the core of the reading list for our graduate programme since its original publication. This new volume will enhance its position as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the literature and broadens the scope of the original Handbook."--Andrew M. Jones, University of York"This wholly-new Handbook is wonderfully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, and destined to be widely read by researchers, students, and policymakers. Kudos for having commissioned such outstanding authors and chosen these topics for coverage."--Randall P. Ellis, Boston University, and President, American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon)"An absolutely vital must-have reference volume.  The sixteen chapters provide detailed, thorough and readable surveys of current conceptual and empirical issues, each written by distinguished active researchers."--Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology"Volume 1 of the Handbook rapidly gained a place amongst the most used – and borrowed - books on the shelf. Now Volume 2 looks certain to match that success, comprehensively covering more recent developments and the burgeoning international health economics literature with authority, concision and verve. Essential."--Alastair Gray, University of Oxford