Costa-Font / Turati / Batinti The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare

The Rise of the Patient Citizen
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-69955-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

The healthcare sector is one of the fastest growing areas of social and public spending worldwide, and it is expected to receive an increase in government shares of GDP in the near future. Truly global in its scope, this book present a unified, structured understanding of how the design of a country's health institutions influence its healthcare activities and outcomes. Building on the 'public choice' tradition in political economy, the authors explore how patient-citizens interact with their country's political institutions to determine policies, alongside the influence of other forces, such as federalism, collective action, electoral competition, constitutional designs, political ideologies, corruption, lobbying and the dynamics of change. Whilst drawing on the theoretical concepts of political economy, this book describes the institution-grounded health systems in an accessible way. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students studying health economics, health policy and public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Costa-Font, Joan

Turati, Gilberto

Batinti, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Gesundheitsökonomie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Mathematik & Informatik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Political incentives in healthcare systems: 1. The political design of health systems; Part II. The political contexts of health care policies: 2. The multilevel nature of health care governance; 3. 'Collective Action' and global health care; Part III. Political institutions and health: 4. Constitutional health system design; 5. Democracy and the health of the patient citizen; 6. Political markets in health care; 7. Ideology and healthcare; Part IV. Political allocation in health care: 8. Health care waste and corruption; 9. Interest groups and health policy; 10. Political sustainability of health innovation; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Costa-Font, Joan
Dr Joan Costa-Font is an associate professor of the Department of Health Policy, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and Visiting Fellow at Paris Dauphine University, UCL, Boston College, Oxford University, amongst other universities.

Batinti, Alberto
Alberto Batinti is an associate professor of Economics at the International Business School Suzhou – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and External Fellow at the Center for Health Economics at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He has published research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals as Public Choice, The European Journal of Political Economy, Kyklos, and Health Economics.

Turati, Gilberto
Gilberto Turati is a professor of Public Finance at the Department of Economics and Finance at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He was Board Member of the European Public Choice Society (2012-2015) and is currently a Board Member of the Italian Society of Public Economics.