Books in the Routledge International Studies in Health Economics series

This book offers a novel, concise, but at the same time, broad picture of the challenges that the technological revolution has created for the healthcare system. It offers a comprehensive view of health sector actors' interaction with the emerging new technology, which is disrupting the status quo in health service delivery.

This book offers a novel, concise, but at the same time, broad picture of the challenges that the technological revolution has created for the healthcare system. It offers a comprehensive view of health sector actors' interaction with the emerging new technology, which is disrupting the status quo in health service delivery.

In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policy-makers and researchers.

Provides synthesis of research in the theory and practice of efficiency measurement in health and healthcare.

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice.

This book poses the important question of whether economic theory can be developed to explain why people engage in activities that are obviously a danger to their long-term health.

Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This collection takes a view of this concept, and examines the economic implications of its imposition.

Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition.