Cost of Illness in the Netherlands: description, comparison and projection

Over the past decades health economics has emerged as a new scientific discipline. From the very beginning the field has continued to expand and take on increasing significance. An important focus is on the economic evaluation of health care facilities withln the area of Medical Technology Assessment (MTA) or Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Other topics studied by health economists regard among others the demand for care, the role of health insurance, the industrial organisation of the health care sector and the international comparison of health care systems. Cost-of-illness (COI) studies... Mehr ...