Suggestions and Reviews on Standard Health Economics Literature Reviews written by members of healthecon-discuss mailing list, Feb 2000. Original compilation by Stefan Gawrich (gawrich@mailer.uni-marburg.de) Medical School Marburg, Germany. If you have any comments or additions please mail them to Bruce Hollingsworth (bruce.hollingsworth@buseco.monash.edu.au) Last amended: 8th May, 2000 ******************************** Barer M, Getzen T, Stoddart G. Health, Health Care and Health Economics: Perspectives on Distribution. Wiley & Sons, 1998 http://healtheconomics.org/publications.htm - A collection of key papers from the first iHEA conference. Clewar A, Perkins D. Economics for Health Care Management. London, Prentice Hall, 1998. - " You might also want to look at this book." Culyer AJ, Newhouse JP: Handbook of Health Economics. Elsevier, North- Holland New York, 2000. http://www.elsevier.nl:80/hes/ Donaldson C, Gerard K. Economics of Health care Financing: The Visible Hand. Macmillan, London, 1993. - "a good text to introduce the features of health care systems and how they are influenced and affected by economic principles." Drummond MF. et al. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oxford Medical Publications, 1997. - "Drummond is a standard text in microeconomics" - "focusses on "Economic Evaluation" (e.g., cost effectiveness, cost utility analysis, etc.)." - "is currently the standard reference on economic evaluation - this field though is expanding very rapidly so any textbook will be a little out of date." - "Drummond is good but narrow in focus since it deals only with the Econ Evaluation of Health care. - " The Drummond et al book is quite good." - " the Drummond book for CEA is also excellent." - " I personally think the one by Drummond is the best one, as he is the pope of Health Economics since a couple of years. This book was co-written with 3 others major authors and it will give you a lot of others references about health economics in general and any particular point in which you could be interested in. Just be aware that the last edition of his book was edited in 1997." - " Drummond is a must. " - " very useful for basics in evaluation" - " It pretty much depends on which audience you are aiming for. If for medical people who has no background in ecomomics theory Drummond's book is probably the best. It covers economic evaluations quite neatly." - " Drummond is the standard for cost-benefit analysis, but does not move much beyond that issue." - "Anything by Michael Drummond is excellent, though his subject emphasis lately is on economic evaluation methods (rather than health economics in general). Evans RG. Strained Mercy. UBC. "It's out of print but available online at:" http://www.chspr.ubc.ca//misc/Strained_Mercy/ - " The best book worldwide. I haven't seen any other book that covers the subject so well. the basic insights of health economics are all there, yet accessible without prior training in economics. It's a standard book that most people in the field would know about." Feldstein PJ. Health Care Economics. Albany, 1993. - " The one I have used recently is Health Care Economics by Feldstein. This is better for students with little understanding of intermediate economics." Folland S, Goodman A, Stano M. Economics of Health and Health Care. Prentice Hall, 1996 - " That's my favourite. I use it for undergraduate teaching in health economics in the economics degree." - "is an American book and consequently is focussed on their system - it is however a very goodreference work to dip in and out of - it has good referencing but does not treat issues in that much depth." - "Folland covers a much wider range of topics and places more emphasis on Economic Analysis than other Health Econ texts that I've come across. If you get only one book, get that one. Folland is perhaps a little weak in Economic Evaluation " - " Folland et al. for general health economics is average, with some very American prejudices regarding the impossibility of supplier-induced demand." - " The Folland book is great, but a little more technical than others." - " Folland is also very basic but does not touch economic evaluation. It gives basic information about the bacground of health economics and very basic theory behind it." - " I teach health economics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. My favorite book is the Folland et al book -- it is a broad sweep of health economics, and has a very good bibliography -- for each subject you will get a set of very good references. I like the book a lot and I think it's the best one out there." - " The Folland et all is most common, mostly covers the literature and is at a higher level (less narrative, more about theoretical concerns)." Getzen, TE. Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds. John Wiley & Sons, 1996. - "Depending on the audience, you may find interesting the book by Tom Getzen. This book is a must on economic evaluation, but economic evaluation is not **all** that is in health economics (for example, it is just a chapter in Folland et al)" - " I wrote a paper on managed care competition for aneconomics course. This book proved invaluable. Without any previous knowledge of health economics, I was able to read, learn, and understand a fairly complex subject in a short amount of time using this book. The text covers everything but remains at an undergrad level. The arguments and examples are simple, clear, interesting, and easy to remember. I definitely found this to be the best introduction and overview to health economics, after having read six or seven books on the subject. (Review from Amazon)" - You might want to look at [...] Getzen: Health Economics which [...] uses a descriptive approach. Gold MR, Siegel JE, Russell LB, Weinstein MC. Cost-effectiveness in health and medicine. New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. - "a standard text in microeconomics" - " for cost-effectiveness, the american bible" - " At the Maastricht University we use [...] Gold as an standard for MTA and economic evaluation research. - " This is more or less the American standard." - " Gold is another book that is a must" Henderson J W. Health Economics and Policy. South Western Pub, 1999. Jacobs Philip: The Economics of Health and Medical Care. Aspen Pub,1996. - " Another good survey text." Jefferson TO, Demicheli V, Mugford M. Elementary Economic Evaluation in Health Care. London: BMJ Books 2000. http://www.bmjbookshop.com/Live/Twist/twist.plx?form=\Inetpub\Web\WebShop\BMJ\Live\Scripts\ProductDetails.htx&BMJBooks=&Code1=0727914782 - "Try this" McGuire A, Fenn P, Mayhew K. Providing Health Care, Oxford University Press, 1991. - " A book of more advanced reading." McGuire A, Henderson J, Mooney G. The Economics of Health Care, Routledge, 1988. - " Another good textbook on more general health economics." - " An Introductory Text. It covers a lot of general economic issues, rather than just being a guide to evaluation, like the Drummond books." Morris S. Health Economics for Nurses, Prentice Hall, 1998 - " A basic text book, good for lecture notes." Phelps C. Health Economics. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. - " If you want a second book, I would look at Charles Phelps' Health Economics textbook. It is actually an easier read and is better organized, but is not quite as good as the Folland book." Rice T. The Economics of Health Reconsidered. Chicago, Health Administration Press, 1998. - " For a third book, and to challenge your thinking some, I would look at Thomas Rice's new book" Smith P. Reforming markets in health care: An economic perspective Open University Press, 2000. http://195.89.185.89/bd.cgi/openup/isb?0335204619 Zweifel P, Breyer F. Health economics. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997. (Translated from the GermUse of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at E:\listplex\SYSTEM\SCRIPTS\filearea.cgi line 455, line 226. an "Gesundheitsoekonomie") - " For more advanced courses, there is a book by Zweiffel and Breyer" ****************************