Overview
- Illustrates how economic tools can improve policy evaluation and public health policy
- Provides a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a discrete choice experiment
- Highlights the shortcomings of existing outcome measures used in health economics
- Provides examples of health promotion interventions that include an economic component
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Policy Evaluation
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Health Policy
- Discrete choice experiment
- Policy evaluation
- Choice model
- Causal relationship
- Conditional logit
- Mixed logit
- Randomised controlled trial
- Economics of Public Health
- Evaluating Public Health Interventions
- Public Health Interventions
- Economic Evaluation
- Household survey analysis
- Sample attrition
- Inverse Probability Weighting
- Interrupted Time Series
- Regression Discontinuity Approach
- Propensity Score Matching
About this book
Non-communicable diseases have surpassed infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Prevention and treatment of the causes and consequences of lifestyle-related diseases forms an important part of health policy in the twenty-first century. Public health economics – from quantifying the problem, to evaluating interventions and developing toolkits to assist decision makers – is an essential area for any postgraduate student and researcher with an interest in applied economics to understand.
There are a wide range of techniques from mainstream economics and health economics that can be applied to the evaluation of public health policy and public health issues. In this book, Brown presents examples from developed countries to illustrate how economic tools can be applied to public health. Further, cross-country comparisons illustrate how contextual factors related to healthcare systems, demographics and environmental factors may impact on outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of public health policies, in order to aid understanding and help students apply theory into practice.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Heather Brown is Lecturer in Health Economics at Newcastle University, UK. She completed an MRC early career fellowship in the economics of health at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research interests include applied econometrics with a focus on understanding the relationship between health behaviours and outcomes and inequalities. She has published many peer reviewed publications on economics and public health.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economics of Public Health
Book Subtitle: Evaluating Public Health Interventions
Authors: Heather Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74826-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74825-2Published: 23 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74826-9Published: 12 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 107
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomics, Health Care Management, Behavioral/Experimental Economics