'Tony Culyer's Dictionary is a masterpiece; concise, erudite and authoritative. It will have special appeal to those (like me) who are interested, but not expert, in health economics.' - Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman, NHS National Institute for Clinical Excellence, UK 'The trouble with most dictionaries to my mind is that frequently the definitions are as difficult to understand as the words one is looking up. The Dictionary of Health Economics by Tony Culyer suffers far less from this problem than others and thus it is much more accessible to the non-specialist. I am particularly taken with Tony's personal examples and vignettes attached to many of the definitions. These improve the comprehension of the definitions for the reader and add a personal touch which makes the book much more readable and less dry than other dictionaries.' - David Barnett, Chairman Appraisals Committee NICE, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Group, Robert Kilpatrick CSB, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK 'At last, a book that reveals in plain English the concepts and methods used by health economists. This book should make a major contribution to promoting multi-disciplinary research on health and health services, and enable students to get through the undergrowth of jargon that commonly turns them back.' - Nick Black, Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 'Health economists, to a greater extent than most economists, have engaged in close collaborations with specialists in other fields (not only other social sciences) and with policymakers, especially in the area of health technology assessment. I hope, therefore, that the book may be useful to these 'others'. Multidisciplinarity and multiprofessionality also have a consequence for the inclusion criteria used: I have included many more definitions, particularly in statistics, epidemiology and medicine, than would otherwise have been the case, which I hope will be useful to health economists without causing outrage to the relevant 'others.' - From the preface by the author From Abscissa, through to The World Health Organization, this expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the field of health economics and significant closely related fields like epidemiology, bio-statistics, demography, medical sociology and medicine. Entries and definitions are provided for all key concepts listed with, in many cases, more extended entries on core or controversial ideas.
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'Tony Culyer's Dictionary is a masterpiece; concise, erudite and authoritative. It will have special appeal to those (like me) who are interested, but not expert, in health economics.' - Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman, NHS National Institute for Clinical Excellence, UK 'The trouble with most dictionaries to my mind is that frequently the definitions are as difficult to understand as the words one is looking up. The Dictionary of Health Economics by Tony Culyer suffers far less from this problem than others and thus it is much more accessible to the non-specialist. I am particularly taken with Tony's personal examples and vignettes attached to many of the definitions. These improve the comprehension of the definitions for the reader and add a personal touch which makes the book much more readable and less dry than other dictionaries.' - David Barnett, Chairman Appraisals Committee NICE, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Group, Robert Kilpatrick CSB, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK 'At last, a book that reveals in plain English the concepts and methods used by health economists. This book should make a major contribution to promoting multi-disciplinary research on health and health services, and enable students to get through the undergrowth of jargon that commonly turns them back.' - Nick Black, Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 'Health economists, to a greater extent than most economists, have engaged in close collaborations with specialists in other fields (not only other social sciences) and with policymakers, especially in the area of health technology assessment. I hope, therefore, that the book may be useful to these 'others'. Multidisciplinarity and multiprofessionality also have a consequence for the inclusion criteria used: I have included many more definitions, particularly in statistics, epidemiology and medicine, than would otherwise have been the case, which I hope will be useful to health economists without causing outrage to the relevant 'others.' - From the preface by the author From Abscissa, through to The World Health Organization, this expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the field of health economics and significant closely related fields like epidemiology, bio-statistics, demography, medical sociology and medicine. Entries and definitions are provided for all key concepts listed with, in many cases, more extended entries on core or controversial ideas.