Health Economics Guide

A practical handbook of best practices for health economics.

This guide is for the people who run health and care organizations — chief executives and senior leaders, directors of digital and transformation, product and programme leads, clinical and care professionals, and operational managers. Its premise: in health, economics provides the frameworks for strategy, resourcing, equity, and public trust — not merely efficiency.

The scope is worldwide. Tax-funded, social-insurance, private-insurance, and mixed systems — in low-, middle-, and high-income settings — are all first-class citizens here. Named systems appear as exemplars of patterns, not as defaults.

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How the book is organized

Five parts, 33 chapters. Any chapter can be read on its own — the night before the decision.

Part 1 — Foundations

why health is economically different, and the models that explain it

Part 2 — Evaluation and Evidence

the analyst's toolkit: valuing outcomes, building models, testing claims

Part 3 — Systems, Policy and Priorities

how societies organize, fund, and share out healthcare

Part 4 — Global and Societal Issues

health beyond one system: behaviour, global trade and financing, the planet, and the public conversation

Part 5 — Digital, Software, and Technology

the economics of health technology: innovation, digital care, artificial intelligence, software, robotics, and data

Reference

Glossary A–Z — plain-English definitions of every key term, each pointing at its home chapter.
Index by chapter — concepts and frameworks mapped to the chapters that cover them.
Source repository — the markdown behind this site, its specification, and the contribution guide.