Core reading resources

Main References

1. The Economics of Health and Health Care, Fifth edition: Folland|Goodman|Stano
2. The Principles of Microeconomics, third edition, Gregory Mankiw
3. World Health Organization (2010). Chapter 1: Where are we now. In World Health Report Health Systems Financing: thepath to universal coverage (pp. 1-14). Geneva: WHO. http://www.who.int/whr/2010/10_chap01_en.pdf
4. McIntyre, Diane. (2007). Chapter 4 [Financing]: Key functions of health care financing. In Learning from experience:health care financing in low- and middle-income countries (pp. 7-25). Geneva: Global Forum for Health Research.http://announcementsfiles.cohred.org/gfhr_pub/assoc/s14821e/s14821e.pdf
5. Kutzin J. (2001). A descriptive framework for country-level analysis of health care financing arrangements. Health Policy; 56,171–204.
6. Gawande A. The Cost Conundrum.The New Yorker, June 2009 *Gawande, A. (2011).Personal best.The New Yorker, 3.
7. The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (2013). Global health 2035: A world converging within a generation. The Lancet 382(9908): 1898-1955. 
8. Karlan, Dean “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty.” Chapter 10: To Stay Healthy
9. Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin, and Anne Spencer, Economic (2009). Analysis in Health Care
10. Wagstaff, A. (1986). The demand for health: theory and applications. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 40(1), 1–