Health economics

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Contents

Used for

environmental health economics

See for

fund raising

Broader Terms

health care

Narrower Terms

health care cost /financing, health insurance, medical indigency

Related Terms

cost effectiveness, health disparity, medically underserved population, socioeconomics

Scope Note

economic aspects of health care, its planning, and delivery.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

  • Health economics is now well established as a discipline in the UK, Europe and North America.
  • NEP in Health Economics is a part of an announcement service which filters information on new releases of working papers into edited reports.
  • Cost-effectiveness Health economics is dominated by a simple theoretical concept, that of cost-effectiveness (this is explored in greater detail in What is cost-effectiveness? 1 ).
  • Who does it? Although health economics is often equated simply with the economic evaluation of treatments or programs, there are many branches of health economics, which serve to highlight the nature of choices in the health system.
  • (daily) Workshop fee: Rs 8,500 Introduction Health economics is a rapidly developing field which has acquired much importance with the public health institutions and the government.

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