Health Economics for Non-Economists: An Introduction to the Concepts, Methods and Pitfalls of Health Economic Evaluations - Hardcover

Annemans, Lieven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9038212747 ISBN 13: 9789038212746

Publisher: Academia Pr Scientific Pub, 2008

Synopsis

All too often, economics is seen as a synonym for savings and financial pressure. However, what it really aims to do is find the best possible way to spend the available financial means. In order to apply economic
thinking to healthcare, Annemans argues, the health sector should be viewed as a productive sector whose aim is to produce health, by ensuring that people live longer and more healthily. As 'productive' goes hand in hand with 'productivity', society must try to gain as much health as possible with the available means. Therefore, priority must be given to interventions (both preventive and curative) which result in the greatest amount of health for the money that is invested. These choices can be made by means of health economic
evaluation. Hence, the second goal of this book is to explore the methods of health economic evaluation and explain them. Non-economists are frequently confronted with the results of such evaluations, for example in articles in medical journals, but often ignore them because they are not familiar with the terminology and techniques. This book aims to equip non-economists with enough knowledge to participate in the choices
that are made in health care.

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About the Author

Lieven Annemans is Professor of Health Economics at the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University and also lectures on pharmaco-epidemiology at the faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the same university. He is also professor of Pharmaco-economics and the economic aspects of fitness and physical activity at Brussels University (VUB) He is Chairman of the Flemish Health Council (VGR) and ex-chairman of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). His main specialisation is in health economic evaluations of medical technologies, medicines and care programmes in a variety of fields. These include cardiology, dermatology, diabetes, gastro-enterology, infectiology, clinical biology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, psychiatiy and ear, nose and throat disease.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academia Pr Scientific Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9038212747
• ISBN 13: 9789038212746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 106