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Part 1: Introductory Health Economics  1. Introduction  2. The Demand for Health and Health Services  3. Demand, Elasticity and Health  4. Production Health and Health Care: Efficient Use of Inputs  5. Cost of Delivering Health Services  6. The Basic Market Model  7. Supplier-Induced Demand and Agency  8. Market Failure and Government  Part 2: Economic Evaluation  9. The Theoretical Basis of Economic Evaluation  10. Issues in the Measurement of Costs  11. Measuring Benefits in Economic Evaluation  12. Practical Steps in Economic Evaluation  13. Economic Evaluation as a Framework for Choice  Part 3: Further Economics of Market Intervention  14. Contracting  15. Market Structures  16. Hospital and Health Provider Behaviour and Motivation  17. The Economics of Regulation  18. Incentives and Agency  Part 4: The Economics of Health Systems  19. Health Systems: A Framework for Analysis  20. Health Systems Around the World: An Introduction to Variation and Performance  21. Reliance on the State: Public Health Service Systems  22. Voluntary Insurance Based Systems  23. Social Insurance Systems  24. Parallel Systems  25. Trends in Health Sector Reform