Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is the minimum a doctor should know about health economics?
  • Public and private roles in health.
  • The rationale for government intervention in the tobacco market.
  • Measurement of equity in health.
  • What should consumers in poor countries pay for publicly-provided health services?
  • Compensatory finance in health: geographic equity in a federal system.
  • An ounce of prevention is worth how much cure?
  • DALYs and cost-effectiveness analysis.
  • Criteria for public spending on health care.
  • Cost-effectiveness and the socialization of health care.
  • Is the eradication of polio in the western hemisphere economically justified?
  • Cost-benefit analysis of a regional vaccination system.
  • Cost-effective malaria control in Brazil.
  • Do the poor in Brazil pay more for food?
  • Do Brazilian nutrition programs make a difference?
  • Economic aspects of food fortification.
  • Malnutrition and dietary protein.
  • Family health care spending in Latin America.
  • Basic patterns in national health expenditure.
  • Economic crisis and health policy response.