Global Health Economics
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2019) | Viewed by 15747
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health economics; insurance economics
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Interests: public health; health economics; health policy; applied econometrics; economic evaluation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) has commissioned a Special Issue on “Health Economics”.
This focus of this Special Issue is on health economics. Authors of manuscripts that address important economic aspects of environmental research and public health are particularly encouraged to submit their work for consideration.
The Special Issue is focused on economic studies of phenomena that affect health, including but not limited to:
- Public policy and regulatory provisions in health sector markets;
- Public policy and regulatory provisions in other markets that may affect health (e.g., in respect of insurance markets, food standards, environmental pollution, public safety initiatives, and so on);
- Consumer and producer behaviour in health sector markets;
- Consumer and producer behaviour in other markets that affect health;
- Genetic testing, genomics, and economics;
- Health risk assessment and management;
- Environmental health and diseases;
- The effect of incentives on the behaviour of producers and consumers;
- Problems of market structure and competition;
- Problems of information;
- Externalities;
- Public goods.
Prof. Luke Connelly
Prof. Ulf Gerdtham
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- economics
- regulation
- health
- consumer behaviour
- producer behaviour
- market outcomes
- public policy
- risk
- insurance
- market failure
- government failure
- information
- market structure
- externalities
- public goods
- competition
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