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Normative Health Economics

A New Pragmatic Approach to Cost Benefit Analysis, Mathematical Models and Applications

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Sardar M. N. Islam

    1. Decision Sciences and Modelling Program, Victoria University, Australia

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  2. Christine Suet Yee Mak

    1. Decision Sciences and Modelling Program, Victoria University, Australia

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 1-17

  3. Economic Evaluation of Health Programs: The Case for Cost Benefit Analysis

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 19-46

  4. New3 Cost Benefit Analysis

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 47-78

  5. Economic Evaluation: The Case of the Australian PBS

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 79-99

  6. Cost and Benefit Estimates

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 101-132

  7. New3 Cost Benefit Analysis of PBS Medications

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 133-165

  8. PBS Planning: Modelling and Implications

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 167-196

  9. Summary and Conclusion

    • Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak
    Pages 197-206

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 207-345
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This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework. It also develops some operational mathematical models to show how this framework can be applied to health economics and policy evaluation.

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'All health organisations and jurisdictions through-out the world are faced with the challenge of how to fund an increasingly complex health system. Whether the issue is how to decide on which new treatment should be made available to whom in a well developed health system or to decide on what basic prophylactic or pharmacologic intervention can be afforded in a

transitional country. Choices are often difficult and complex. This new text develops a pragmatic approach to this problem using the case study of pharmaceuticals and applying the key principles of moral philosophy and welfare economics.' - Ian Rouse, Professor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Australia

With a Foreword from Professor Elizabeth Harman, Vice - Chancellor, Victoria University, Australia

Authors and Affiliations

  • Decision Sciences and Modelling Program, Victoria University, Australia

    Sardar M. N. Islam, Christine Suet Yee Mak

About the authors

SARDAR M.N. ISLAM is Professor of Welfare and Environmental Economics and Director of the Sustainable Growth Program at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Australia. His areas of teaching and research interests in economics are welfare economics, computerized economic modelling, development and growth economics, environmental and resource economics and health economics. He has published extensively.

CHRISTINE MAK is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, who has extensive publishing experience in the field of welfare economics.

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