Economics and Health Care

Health Economics and Aging

Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...

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...

Situating Care in Health Economics

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...

Health care economics, financing, organization, and delivery.

BACKGROUND The US health care system is in a state of rapid evolution, with changing payment, organizational, and management structures. To learn how to function optimally in a system in which care is increasingly managed and competitive, today's medical students must understand the structural and economic underpinnings of the system within which they will practice. At the outset of the Undergr...