Health economics: foundations, areas of application and methodology

GU 2025/406

Any standard introduction to microeconomics. For example,

• Steven Greenlaw and Timothy Taylor (2017) Principles of Microeconomics. Download for free at https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-microeconomics
• Pindyck, Robert S., and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. Microeconomics, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009 (7th or any later edition). ISBN: 0137133359

Guinness, Lorna, and Virginia Wiseman. 2011 Introduction to health economics. McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2011. ISBN: 0335243568

Bhattacharya, J., Hyde, T., & Tu, P. (2014). Health economics. First edition, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN : 9781137029966

Elias Mossialos, Anna Dixon, Josep Figueras and Joe Kutzin. 2002. Funding health care: options for Europe, European Observatory on Health Care Systems. ISBN: 0 335 209246

Julia Fox-Rushby & John Crains 2005 Economic Evaluation – Understanding Public Health. 2005. ISBN: 0335218474

Drummond, M, O’Brien, B, Stoddart, G et al. (2015) Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care, 4th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0199665877

Selected chapters from:

Gertler, Paul J.; Martinez, Sebastian; Premand, Patrick; Rawlings, Laura B.; Vermeersch, Christel M. J.. 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition. © Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25030

Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin, Anne Spencer: Economic Analysis in Healthcare, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 978-1-1199-5149-0, Wiley.

Friedson, Andrew: 2023 Economics of Healthcare: A brief introduction (Cambridge). ISBN: 1009258451

Plus selected articles posted on canvas.