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Part 1 Introductory Health Economics, Chapter 1 Introduction: Health economics in international perspective, Chapter 2 The demand for health and health services, Chapter 3 Demand, elasticity and health, Chapter 4 Production, health and health care: efficient use of inputs, Chapter 5 Cost of delivering health services, Chapter 6 Basic market models, Chapter 7 Supplier-induced demand and agency. Chapter 8 Market failure and government, Part 2 Economic Evaluation, Chapter 9 The theoretical bases of economic evaluation, Chapter 10 Issues in the Measurement of Costs, Chapter 11 Measuring Benefits in Economic Evaluation, Chapter 12 Practical Steps in Economic Evaluation, Chapter 13 Economic Evaluation as a Framework for Choice, Part 3 Further economics of Markets and Market Intervention, Chapter 14 Contracting, Chapter 15 Market Structures, Chapter 16 Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation, Chapter 17 The Economics of Regulation, Chapter 18 Incentives and Agency, Part 4: The Economics of Health Systems, Chapter 19 Health systems: a framework for analysis, Chapter 20 Health systems around the world: An introduction to variation and performance, Chapter 21 Public Health Service Systems, Chapter 22 Voluntary insurance based systems, Chapter 23 Social Insurance Systems, Chapter 24 Parallel systems, Chapter 25 Economics of Health Sector