HEALTH AND HEALTH ECONOMICS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Himanshu Sekhar, Rout and Narayan C handra, Nayak (2007): HEALTH AND HEALTH ECONOMICS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK. Published in: Health Economics in India (2007): pp. 13-29.

Abstract

Over the last three decades, treating health economics as an independent scientific discipline and providing specific treatment to the topics related to the economics of the health care sector have become more and more common. Currently, the field is so well established that it has appeared in the ordinary curriculum of most universities, and even if health economists are mainly to be found in the medical departments, the connections to economics proper are being strengthened, and the methodologies applied are getting refined. In this connection the paper highlights about the concept of health, why does health matter, relationship between health and Health Economics, and the justification of health economics.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Health and Health Economics
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics > A23 - Graduate; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health

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