Health and economic policy

The economic implications of a health policy.

This title raises a number of important issues which this paper does not attempt to explore. Any adequate response would require some analysis of what is meant by a 'health policy'. Some attempt would need to be made to evaluate the benefits of health, the costs to society of disease and the resource requirements of policies intended to promote health. Such a 'health policy' would need to relat...

Health and Wellness Policy Ethics

This perspective is an ethical brief overview and examination of “wellness” policies in the modern workplace using practical examples and a general application of utilitarianism. Many employers are implementing policies that provide incentives to employees who lead a “healthy” lifestyle. The authors address how these policies could adversely affect “non-healthy” employees. There are a wide vari...

Aging, Health, and Public Policy: Demographic and Economic Perspectives

Exploring the Political and Economic Dynamics of Health Policy

This paper extends recent systems approaches to US health reform to the international sphere and explicitly represents the political and economic dimensions of health policy. It overlays the worldviews of health care as an industry with user as consumer, a profession with user as patient, and a societal right with user as citizen. Within this framework it discusses the extent and interaction of...

Population and Reproductive Health: An Economic Framework for Policy Evaluation

THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS and illustrates the use of a standard simple economic framework for the evaluation of policies on population and reproductive health services and contrasts this framework with current discussions of several issues in these fields. There is a long tradition of economic analysis in the population and reproductive health fields. Nevertheless, a number of current policy discus...