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This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework. It also develops some operational mathematical models to show how this framework can be applied to health economics and policy evaluation.
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'All health organisations and jurisdictions through-out the world are faced with the challenge of how to fund an increasingly complex health system. Whether the issue is how to decide on which new treatment should be made available to whom in a well developed health system or to decide on what basic prophylactic or pharmacologic intervention can be afforded in a
transitional country. Choices are often difficult and complex. This new text develops a pragmatic approach to this problem using the case study of pharmaceuticals and applying the key principles of moral philosophy and welfare economics.' - Ian Rouse, Professor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Australia
With a Foreword from Professor Elizabeth Harman, Vice - Chancellor, Victoria University, Australia
Authors and Affiliations
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SARDAR M.N. ISLAM is Professor of Welfare and Environmental Economics and Director of the Sustainable Growth Program at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Australia. His areas of teaching and research interests in economics are welfare economics, computerized economic modelling, development and growth economics, environmental and resource economics and health economics. He has published extensively.
CHRISTINE MAK is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, who has extensive publishing experience in the field of welfare economics.
CHRISTINE MAK is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, who has extensive publishing experience in the field of welfare economics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Normative Health Economics
Book Subtitle: A New Pragmatic Approach to Cost Benefit Analysis, Mathematical Models and Applications
Authors: Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289055
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8749-5Published: 06 December 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28905-5Published: 06 December 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 345
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Microeconomics, Medicine/Public Health, general, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Health Economics