1 Willingness to Pay for Health Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Cam Donaldson and Phil Shackley

2 Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics:

Moving Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Mandy Ryan and Karen Gerard

3 Methods for Eliciting Time Preferences Over Future Health Events . …. 41

Marjon van der Pol and John Cairns

4 Economic Evaluation for Decision-making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Alastair Gray and Luke Vale

5 Incentives in Health Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Anthony Scott and Shelley Farrar

6 The Nursing Labour Market. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Robert Elliott, Diane Ska˚tun and Emanuela Antonazzo

7 The Economics of the Hospital: Issues of Asymmetry and

Uncertainty as they Affect Hospital Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . ..…. . . . . 121

Alastair McGuire and David Hughes

8 Measuring Efficiency in Dental Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . 143

David Parkin and Nancy Devlin

9 Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care Expenditures . . . . . …. . . . . . . . 167

Paul McNamee and Sally C. Stearns

10 Economic Challenges in Primary Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Alan Maynard and Anthony Scott

11 Equity in Health Care: The Need for a

New Economics Paradigm?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . 205

Gavin Mooney and Elizabeth Russell

12 Economics of Health and Health Improvement . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . 223

Anne Ludbrook and David Cohen