Economics of Health Care Financing

CAM DONALDSON is Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics and ESRC Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) Public Service Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, School of Population & Health Sciences and Business School (Economics), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. KAREN GERARD is Senior Lecturer, Health Care Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, University of Southampton and Senior Visiting Fellow, Health Economics Research Centre, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK. CRAIG MITTON is a Research Scientist in the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement in the British Columbia Research Institute for Children's and Women's Health and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. STEPHEN JAN is Lecturer, Health Economics and Financing Programme, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. r>VIRGINIA WISEMAN is Lecturer in Health Economics, Gates Malaria Programme, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

PART ONE: MARKETS AND MARKET FAILURE IN HEALTH CARE.- Health Care Financing Reforms: Moving into the New Millenium.- Markets and Health Care: The Basic Theory.- Market Failure in Health Care.- PART TWO: HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS AND THEIR OBJECTIVES.- Methods of Funding Health Care.- Economic Objectives of Health Care.- PART THREE: A REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL FINDINGS.- Countering Consumer Moral Hazard.- Countering Doctor Moral Hazard.- Countering Moral Hazard in the Hospital Sector.- Achieving Equity.- PART FOUR: FUTURE CHALLENGES.- Future Considerations: Setting The Health Care Budget.- Health Care Financing Reforms: Where Are We Now?.