EALTH ECONOMICS IN HEALTH CARE

Situating Care in Health Economics

Prevalence of Latex Hypersensitiviity Among ealth Care

Immediate hypersensitivity reaction to latex was first reported in Germany in 1927'. The next report appeared 1ll 1979 when Nutter2 described a case of contact urticaria due to the use of household gloves. Since then, there has been considerable increase in the number of reported cases of immediate type hypersensitivity to latex products. The clinical manifestations of the allergic reaction con...

Health Care and Behavioral Economics

It has been said that “goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.”1 Peter Diamond is one of those extremely rare people who combine knowledge and goodness. Indeed—and I hope this doesn’t offend anyone in the room—Peter is probably the smartest person I know. In addition to that, he is simply a wonderful person and colleague. I am thrilled that th...

Teaching health care in introductory economics

ISSN: 0022-0485 (Print) 2152-4068 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vece20 Teaching health care in introductory economics David M. Cutler To cite this article: David M. Cutler (2017) Teaching health care in introductory economics, The Journal of Economic Education, 48:3, 218-223, DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2017.1320612 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/002204...

Economics and ethics in health care.

This editorial provides a review of the current ways in which health economics is impacting on policy and reviews some of the key ethical and value-judgmental issues that commonly arise in and as a result of the work of economists. It also briefly highlights the contributions of the authors of this special issue of the journal, all of which illustrate how economists have approached ethical issu...