Evaluating health risks : an economic approach
- Title
- Evaluating health risks : an economic approach / Per-Olov Johansson.
- Published by
- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 190 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book presents the techniques for evaluating changes in health and asks whether we are willing to pay the costs for our health care system.
- Subject
- Medical economics
- Medical care > Cost effectiveness
- Cost effectiveness
- Economics, Medical
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- cost benefit analysis
- Cost effectiveness
- Medical care > Cost effectiveness
- Medical economics
- Evaluation
- Gesundheitsgefährdung
- Gesundheitswesen
- Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
- Reduktion
- Gezondheidszorg
- Economische aspecten
- Medicina (aspectos econômicos)
- Assistência médica
- Assistência médica (aspectos econômicos)
- Custos dos cuidados de saúde
- Economia da saúde
- Modelos de riscos proporcionais
- Économie de la santé
- Soins médicaux > Coût-efficacité
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some basic tools and concepts -- 3. Evaluating health changes in a certain world -- 4. Money measures in a risky world -- 5. Evaluating health risks: practical methodologies -- 6. Contingent valuation studies of health care -- 7. Aggregation -- 8. Further evaluation issues in a risky world -- 9. Concluding remarks on related approaches.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.