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This handbook provides an engaging, comprehensive review of health economics, with a focus on policy implications in the developed and developing world. Authoritative, but non-technical, it stresses the wide reach of the discipline - across nations, health systems and areas within health and medical care.

Medical economics. --- Medical policy.

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Economic policy --- Medical economics

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Die kontroversen Diskussionen um die Reform des Gesundheitswesens in Deutschland sind durch einen grundsätzlichen Antagonismus zwischen ökonomischem Effizienzdenken und moralischen Ansprüche geprägt. Der vorliegende Band versucht, die antagonistische Frontstellung zu überwinden, indem die begrenzte Berechtigung und Komplementarität ökonomischer und ethischer Kategorien aus ökonomischer, juristischer, medizinischer und ethischer Sicht aufgewiesen werden. Ferner wurden Schlussfolgerungen für die normativen Grundlagen eines demokratischen Gesundheitswesens gezogen.

Medical economics --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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Discussions on the role of markets in healthcare easily lead to political and unfruitful polarized positions. Actors arguing in favour of markets as a solution for the quality/cost conundrum entrench themselves against others pointing out the risk of markets for the delivery and governance of healthcare. These binary options of more or less marketization preclude a more empirical analysis of how markets, as multiple arrangements, are constructed and what their consequences are for public values like affordability and quality. This paper explores the empirically relationship between markets and public values in healthcare by analyzing the construction of a market for hospital care in the Netherlands, based on a system of diagnosiss-treatment combinations (DBCs), and the development of a market for long term care based on care-load packages (ZZPs). In both cases we address the intended result of care markets according to various policy actors, the visible and invisible work done by various actors to make markets work, and the values enacted in market practices. Whereas the policy aims within these markets focus on providing choice and increasing diversity of care institutions, we show that DBCs and ZZPs produce isomorphism and homogenization instead. Furthermore, the strong influence of financial instruments in shaping healthcare markets assume that cost and quality can be improved, whereas in fact these financial instruments have a profound influence on how public values like quality get defined in practice.

Health care --- Medical care --- Medical economics. --- Medical policy. --- Marketing. --- Marketing.

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Die Bedeutung der Ökonomie im Gesundheitswesen steigt Jahr für Jahr. Hinzu kommt, dass die Allokation und Distribution von Gesundheitsleistungen immer häufiger in der Diskussion steht. Die Autoren beleuchten deswegen dieses Spannungsfeld: Sie stellen das Angebot und die Nachfrage von Gesundheitsleistungen dar, analysieren Krankenversicherungen unter Berücksichtigung bestehender Informationsasymmetrien und beleuchten zudem unterschiedliche Gesundheitssysteme in Europa und den USA. In diesem Kontext wird auch das Managed Care-Konzept im Detail vorgestellt.

Medical economics. --- Economics, Medical --- Health --- Health economics --- Hygiene --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Economic aspects