The Economics of New Health Technologies: Incentives, Organization, and Financing

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Joan Costa-Font Christophe Courbage

The Economics of New Health Technologies

Incentives, Organization, and Financing

Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, Alistair McGuire

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Oxford University Press
13 May 2009

Health economics; Public health & preventive medicine; Health systems & services; Medical insurance; Impact of science & technology on society

Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations. It is also pinpointed as the main driver of healthcare expenditure. Although offering remarkable benefits, changes in technology are not free and often entail significant financial, as well as physical or social risks. These need to be balanced out in the setting of government regulations, insurance contracts, and individuals' decisions to use and consume certain technologies. With this in mind, this book addresses the following important objectives: to provide a detailed analysis of what technological change is; to identify drivers of innovation in several healthcare areas; to present existing mechanisms and processes for ensuring and valuing efficiency and development in the use of medical technologies; and to analyse the impact of advances in medical technology on health, healthcare expenditure, and health insurance. Each of the seventeen chapters summarizes an important issue concerning the innovation debate and contributes to a better understanding of the role innovation has both at the macro level and at the delivery (meso) and micro level in the healthcare sector. The effectiveness of innovation in improving people's welfare depends on its diffusion and inception by the relevant agents in the health production process, and this book recognizes the multi-faceted contribution of policy makers, regulators, managers, technicians, consumers and patients to this technology change. This book offers the first truly global economic analysis of healthcare technologies, taking the subject beyond simply economic evaluation, and exploring the behavioural aspects, organization and incentives for new technology developments, and the adoption and diffusion of these technologies.

Edited by: Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, Alistair McGuire
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 471g
ISBN: 9780199550685
ISBN 10: 0199550689
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 13 May 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART I. INTRODUCTION; PART II. INNOVATION, DIFFUSION AND TECHNOLOGY CHANGE; PART III. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND HEALTH INSURANCE; PART IV. INNOVATION, SOCIAL DEMAND AND VALUATION; PART V. INCENTIVES, MECHANISMS AND PROCESSES

Joan Costa-Font is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at LSE. He teaches political economy, health economics and economic aspects of social policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has previously taught Economics at the University of Barcelona. Dr Costa-Font is a fellow of CESifo (Munich), the health econometrics and data group (York), FEDEA (Madrid), IESE Business School and non-executive director of the Economics of Social Policy Unit (CAEPS) at the University of Barcelona. He has acted as an economic and research consultant for the Word Bank, the European Commission, the Spanish and Catalan governments as well as for private organisations. Christophe Courbage, is Director of the Health and Ageing and Insurance Economics research programmes at the Geneva Association. He lectures in Health Economics at the University of Lausanne, and International Faculty at the Singapore College of Insurance. Dr Courbage is also Deputy Editor of The Geneva Papers and Executive Secretary of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE). Dr Courbage was awarded the 1999 Ernst Meyer Prize by the Geneva Association for the best PhD thesis in Insurance Economics, is Deputy Editor of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, and is Executive Secretary of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE). Professor Alistair McGuire is a Professor in Health Economics at LSE Health and Social Care. He has been professor of Economic at City University and tought at Oxford University and Aberdeen. Professor McGuire has written numerous books, articles and reports in this area. He has also acted as an advisor to numerous UK government offices and research councils (including the ESRC and the MRC), as well as an economic consultant to a number of foreign governments, and domestic and foreign corporations and pharmaceutical companies. His current interests are in economic evaluation (especially when conducted alongside clinical trials), the economics of the hospital, technological diffusion, and health care insurance.