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Health Economics in Development

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  • Philip Musgrove

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The papers in this collection span 21 years of thinking and writing about health economics, first at the Pan American Health Organization (1982-1990) and then at the World Bank (1990-2002, including two years, 1999-2001, on secondment to the World Health Organization). They are divided into six general topics, which together touch on several of the major issues in this field. Chapters 1 through 3 concern the connection between health, particularly public health, and economics-a connection that has occupied much of my professional effort, in part because I started to work on the subject in an organization dominated by public health professionals, and only later moved to an organization dominated by other economists. Chapters 4 through 6 treat several different aspects of equity, while chapters 7 through 17 deal with effectiveness and efficiency, first in general terms and then with specific attention to communicable diseases and to malnutrition. Equity and efficiency are among the main issues in any branch of economics, and-as several chapters illustrate-they often cannot be sharply separated. Chapters 18 through 20 concern how health is, and how it should be, paid for-questions that involve both equity and efficiency.

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  • Philip Musgrove, 2004. "Health Economics in Development," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 15056.
  • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:15056
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    1. Atta Abbas Naqvi & Syed Baqir Shyum Naqvi & Fatima Zehra & Ashutosh Kumar Verma & Saman Usmani & Sehrish Badar & Rizwan Ahmad & Niyaz Ahmad, 2018. "Estimation of the Direct Cost of Poliomyelitis Rehabilitation Treatment to Pakistani Patients: A 53-Year Retrospective Study," Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Springer, vol. 16(6), pages 871-888, December.
    2. Wogart, Jan Peter, 2006. "Multiple Interfaces of Big Pharma and the Change of Global Health Governance in the Face of HIV/AIDS," GIGA Working Papers 24, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
    3. Michael Jones & Tata Chanturidze & Sam Franzen & Alex Manu & Mike Naylor, 2017. "Specifying a State Guaranteed Health Benefits package for Kazakhstan: lessons for emerging economies and middle-income countries," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(4), pages 540-553, October.
    4. Ana Barufi & Eduardo Haddad & Antonio Paez, 2011. "Regional dimensions of infant mortality in Brazil," ERSA conference papers ersa10p198, European Regional Science Association.

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