Department of Health Services Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta, 2 School of Social Policy, College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 3 Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Department of Insurance, Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, University of Malta, Msida, Malta, Department of Economics, F...

In this paper, we take a bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics using bibliographic "metadata" from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google Scholar and our own topical classifications. We report the growth of health economics (we find 33,000 publications since 1969-12,000 more than in the economics of education) and list the 300 most-cited publications broken do...

Animal health economics is being formally integrated into such institutions as sub-Saharan African universities and Veterinary Services. Unfortunately, the nature of the relationship between economics and epidemiology is not clearly understood. Economics has an extensive theoretical apparatus and an array of methods and techniques. Animal health economics has two interrelated branches: economic...

The health care system in China has been undergoing reforms for the past three decades. New policies and regulations are being developed to better meet the health needs of over a billion people. As reform programs expand, the need for scientific evidence increases, to enable accurate evaluation of the impact of new policies. In this context, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) will be...

Important decisions about the financing, determining priorities in and provision of health services depend on beliefs about facts and relationships. It is argued in this paper that many popular beliefs are either logically wrong or are not supported by the evidence. Important errors exist in the beliefs about the effects of technology and ageing populations on health care costs, affordability o...

There is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. And while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. We outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics...