Health Care Economics
by John B. Davis, Robert McMaster
1st Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781138183049 |
| eText ISBN | 9781317294009 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2017 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
Health Care Economics, 1st Edition, presents an alternative theoretical framework that places the concept of care at the center of health economics. The book addresses how conventional analytical methods have neglected the nature of care, creating significant consequences for evaluating and delivering medical services.
By treating care as a core normative element rather than setting aside value questions, the text develops a moral basis for health systems. It incorporates insights from care theory across philosophy, feminist scholarship, nursing, medicine, and political economy to advance a person-based perspective on health policy that enhances individual dignity.
This volume serves as an analytical resource for postgraduate students, researchers in health economics, heterodox economists, and professionals interested in medical care provision.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Health _care_ economics
- • 1.1 Introduction: mainstream ‘health’ care economics?
- • 1.2 The microeconomics of health care markets: principal_–_agent theory, moral hazard, and care
- • 1.3 Care as a market externality: caring externalities
- • 1.4 The problematic nature of caring externalities
- • 1.5 Care and the socially embedded individual
- • 1.6 An alternative health economics
- • 1.7 Outline of the argument of the book
Chapter 2: Health care, medical care, and the biomedical bpproach
- • 2.1 Introduction: health care and medical care
- • 2.2 Medical care: the biomedical approach
- • 2.3 Health economics and the biomedical approach
- • 2.4 The biomedical approach to medical care: issues and concerns
- • 2.5 Delineating medical care and health care
Chapter 3: On identifying and categorizing health and medical care
- • 3.1 Introduction
- • 3.2 The array and types of health care
- • 3.3 Delivery levels of medical care
- • 3.4 Medical (and health) care as distinctive measures
- • 3.5 Some concluding thoughts
Chapter 4: Economics and care
- • 4.1 Introduction
- • 4.2 Care in "early" economic thought
- • 4.3 Kenneth Boulding: health economist?
- • 4.4 Gavin Mooney on health care: from community ties to participation to reciprocity
- • 4.5 Caring labor as a characteristic human activity: feminist economics
Chapter 5: Capturing care
- • 5.1 Introduction
- • 5.2 An overarching definition of care?
- • 5.3 Care of the self
- • 5.4 The aims of care
- • 5.5 Phases and types of care
- • 5.6 Some final thoughts
Chapter 6: Institutions, groups, and the morality of care
- • 6.1 Introduction
- • 6.2 Institutions and institutional economics
- • 6.3 Health and medical care institutions: medical pluralism and the three sectors of health care
- • 6.4 Moral groups of care
- • 6.5 Medical groups of care
Chapter 7: Developing capabilities and the dignity of the individual
- • 7.1 Introduction
- • 7.2 Health capabilities and their social embeddeness in care relationships
- • 7.3 The values of socially embedded health capabilities
- • 7.4 The nature of the person as a focus of care in socially embedded care relationships
Chapter 8: Social values in health care systems
- • 8.1 Introduction
- • 8.2 Public health and the social causes of inequalities in health
- • 8.3 Public health and health capability improvement
- • 8.4 The normative objectives of health care systems
- • 8.5 The institutional and normative foundations of health care
Chapter 9: Towards dignity in comprehensive health caring
- • 9.1 The polarity in conceptions of care
- • 9.2 The importance of dignity
- • 9.3 Health policy for today and the future
- • 9.4 Whither economics?
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