Choices For Health Care: A Practical Introduction To The Economics Of Health Provision (studies In Social Policy)

... Should become a standard text for medical students because in the years ahead health economics will become increasingly important and I know no better introduction to the subject.' British Medical Journal Front Matter....Pages i-xi Choices for Health Care....Pages 1-9 The Framework for Choice....Pages 10-17 A Framework for Evaluation....Pages 18-39 Techniques for Evaluation....Pages 40-63 A Case Study in Programme Budgeting....Pages 64-77 Marginal Analysis: a Case Study in Care of the Elderly....Pages 78-94 Some Case Studies in the Application of Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis....Pages 95-112 An Introduction to the National Health Service....Pages 113-124 The Operation of the Service....Pages 125-138 Planning and Health Care....Pages 139-156 Some of the Choices....Pages 157-171 Back Matter....Pages 172-179