An undisciplined economist : Robert G. Evans on health economics, health care policy, and population health /

An undisciplined economist : Robert G. Evans on health economics, health care policy, and population health /

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"For the past four decades Robert Evans has been Canada's foremost health policy analyst and commentator, in the process playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. In this book the editors have assembled sixteen...

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Main Author: Evans, Robert G., 1942- (Author, honouree)
Other Authors: Barer, M. L (Editor), Barer, M. L. (Editor), Barer, Morris Lionel, 1951- (Editor), McGrail, Kimberlyn M. (Editor), McGrail, Kimberlyn, 1966- (Editor), McGrail, Kimberlyn (Editor), McLeod, Chris B (Editor), McLeod, Chris B. (Editor), McLeod, Christopher B (Editor), McLeod, Christopher B. (Editor), Stoddart, G. L (Editor), Stoddart, G. L. (Editor), Stoddart, Gregory Lloyd, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : 2016
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : [2016]
Series:Carleton library series ; 237
Carleton library series 237
Subjects:
Medical economics > Canada
Medical policy > Canada
Public health > Canada
Economics, Medical
Politique sanitaire > Canada
Santé publique > Canada
Économie de la santé > Canada
Medical economics
Medical policy
Public health
Health Policy > economics
National Health Programs > economics
Public Health > economics
Canada
Collected Work
Collected Works
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Table of Contents:
  • SECTION A ON ECONOMICS AND ECONOMISTS
  • Foreword by Anthony J. Culyer
  • 1 Slouching Toward Chicago: Regulatory Reform as Revealed Religion (1982)
  • 2 Toward a Healthier Economics: Reflections on Ken Bassett’s Problem (1998)
  • 3 The TSX Gives a Short Course in Health Economics: It’s the Prices, Stupid! (2010)
  • 4 A New Paradigm for Health Economics? We Already Have Three! (2012)
  • Further Reading
  • SECTION B HEALTH CARE FINANCING
  • Foreword by Jeremiah Hurley
  • 5 Hang Together, or Hang Separately: The Viability of a Universal Health Care System in an Aging Society (1987)
  • 6 User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back (Or, What’s Health Got to Do With It?) (1995)
  • 7 Going for the Gold: The Redistributive Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform (1997)
  • 8 Modelling the Benefits of Insurance: Here Comes the Insurance Salesman (2004)
  • Further Reading
  • SECTION C HEALTH CARE POLICY
  • Foreword by Theodore R. Marmor
  • 9 Supplier-Induced Demand: Some Empirical Evidence and Implications (1974)
  • 10 Incomplete Vertical Integration in the Health Care Industry: Pseudomarkets and Pseudopolicies (1983)
  • 11 Aging and Health Care Utilization: New Evidence on Old Fallacies (1987)
  • 12 Political Wolves and Economic Sheep: The Sustainability of Public Health Insurance in Canada (2005)
  • Further Reading
  • SECTION D POPULATION HEALTH
  • Foreword by John Frank and Alan Bernstein
  • 13 Producing Health, Consuming Health Care
  • 14 Introduction (Chapter 1) to the Book Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? (1994)
  • 15 Health, Hierarchy, and Hominids: Biological Correlates of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health (1996)
  • 16 What, Me Worry? The Second Annual Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture (2013)

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