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Book Series: World Scientific Series in Global Health Economics and Public Policy

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Health care globally is among the most dominant features of today’s global economy. Despite this, it is still unavailable to a significant proportion of the global population, including in the United States and other developed countries. At the same time, health care's escalating costs and growing demands for more governmental and consumer control and access have created a serious crisis in many countries. This situation has extremely important economic, social, financial, educational and scientific implications. In response, a great deal of serious research is being conducted in healthcare economics, with significant scientific output. There is great interest in its results, from scientists, economists, commercial businesses, and policy makers, as well as from the general public. read more...

About the Series Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Peter Berman (M.Sc, Ph.D) is a health economist with forty years of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health.

Prof. Berman is Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He also contributes as Visiting Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi and as advisor to the China National Health Development Research Center for health care financing and health accounts.

Prior to joining UBC, Prof. Berman was the founding faculty director of HSPH’s new Doctor of Public Health degree and was engaged in graduate education reform in global public health at HSPH. Prof. Berman has led numerous innovative projects on developing primary care systems, strengthening service delivery, and improving health care financing mechanisms for better outcomes, with a focus on work in Ethiopia, India, and Malaysia.

With the World Bank from 2004 to 2011, Prof. Berman spent four years in the Bank's New Delhi office as Lead Economist for Health, Nutrition, and Population. There he oversaw a portfolio of almost $2 billion in projects and research. In Washington, D.C. from 2008, he was Lead Health Economist in the HNP anchor department and Practice Leader for the World Bank's Health Systems Global Expert Team. He led analytical work on health systems analysis and strategic approaches to improving service delivery.

Previously at Harvard, Prof. Berman was Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics and founding Director of the International Health Systems Program (IHSP, see www.hsph.harvard.edu/ihsg/ihsg.html) in the Population and International Health Department. He is the author or editor of five books on global health economics and policy and more than sixty academic publications in his field and numerous other working papers and reports. He has led and/or participated in major field programs in all regions of the developing world.

Prof. Berman's specific areas of work include analysis of health systems performance and the design of reform strategies; assessment of the supply side of health care delivery and the role of private health care provision in health systems and development of strategies to improve outcomes through public-private sector collaboration. He pioneered the development and use of national health accounts as a policy and planning tool in developing countries. Prof. Berman has worked extensively on health system reform and health care development issues in a number of countries, including Egypt, India, Colombia, Indonesia, and Poland, including extended periods of residency and field work in Indonesia and India. He is co-author of Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity (Roberts et al., Oxford University Press, 2003), co-editor of the Guide to the Production of National Health Accounts (World Bank, World Health Organization, and USAID, 2003), and co-editor of Berman and Khan, Paying for India's Health Care (Sage, 1993).

Forthcoming-People-Centered Integrated Primary Healthcare System Development in Asia and Beyond
- Edited by:
- Hong Wang (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA & University of Washington, USA),
- Helena Legido-Quigley (Imperial College London, UK), and
- Asaf Bitton (Harvard University, USA & Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA)
Volume 11-Effective Pandemic Response: Linking Evidence, Intervention, Politics, Organization, and Governance: A World Scientific Reference on Pandemics
(In 3 Volumes)
Volume 1: Understanding and Controlling Pandemics: Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Volume 2: Institutions, Politics, the Organization of Public Health Systems, and Governance in Pandemic Response: Perspectives from Theory and Practical Concepts
Volume 3: The Impact of Institutions, Politics, Organizations, and Governance on Pandemic Response: Jurisdictional Case Studies
- Editor-in-chief:
- Peter Berman (University of British Columbia, Canada & Harvard University, USA)
- Volume editor:
- David Patrick (University of British Columbia, Canada & BC Centre for Disease Control, Canada),
- Ashley Larnder (University of British Columbia, Canada), and
- Candice Ruck (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Volume 10-Public Policy Challenges in Rethinking Public Health: Comparative Perspectives
- Edited by:
- Katherine A Fierlbeck (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Volume 9-Public Health Intervention for the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Virus to Vaccine
- Edited by:
- David Patrick (The University of British Columbia, Canada & BC Centre for Disease Control, Canada) and
- Ariana Saatchi (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Volume 8-Tracking Resources for Primary Health Care: A Framework and Practices in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Edited by:
- Hong Wang (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA & University of Washington, USA) and
- Peter Berman (The University of British Columbia, Canada & Harvard University, USA)
Volume 7-Mental Health in Central and Eastern Europe: Improving Care and Reducing Stigma — Important Cases for Global Study
- Edited by:
- Richard M Scheffler (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
- Martha Shumway (University of California, San Francisco, USA), and
- Rǎzvan M Chereches (Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania)
Volume 6-Health Care Policy in East Asia: A World Scientific Reference: (In 4 Volumes)
Volume 1: Health Care System Reform and Policy Research in China
Volume 2: Health Care System Reform and Policy Research in Japan
Volume 3: Health Care System Reform and Policy Research in South Korea
Volume 4: Health Care System Reform and Policy Research in Taiwan
- Editor-in-chief:
- Teh-wei Hu (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Edited by:
- Winnie Chi-Man Yip (Harvard University, USA),
- Toshihiko Hasegawa (Future Health Research Institute, Japan),
- Tomonori Hasegawa (Toho University, Japan),
- Tomohiro Hirao (Kagawa University, Japan),
- Masahide Kondo (University of Tsukuba, Japan),
- Sunil Mehra (NICHIKO, Japan),
- Bong-Min Yang (Seoul National University, South Korea),
- Tung-liang Chiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), and
- Shou-Hsia Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Volume 5-Global Health Economics: Shaping Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Edited by:
- Paul Revill (University of York, UK),
- Marc Suhrcke (University of York, UK & Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg),
- Rodrigo Moreno-Serra (University of York, UK), and
- Mark Sculpher (University of York, UK)
- Foreword by:
- Maria Goddard (Centre for Health Economics, UK)
Volume 4-Economics of Tobacco Control in China: From Policy Research to Practice
- Edited by:
- Teh-wei Hu (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Volume 3-World Scientific Handbook of Global Health Economics and Public Policy: (A 3-Volume Set)
- Edited by:
- Richard M Scheffler (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Volume 2-The Economics of Social Capital and Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Roadmap
- Edited by:
- Sherman Folland (Oakland University, USA) and
- Lorenzo Rocco (University of Padova, Italy)
Volume 1-Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care: Issues in Addressing an Emerging Global Challenge
- Edited by:
- Bruce Rosen (Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Israel),
- Avi Israeli (Hebrew University — Hadassah Faculty of Medicine, Israel), and
- Stephen Shortell (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Forthcoming-Social Capital and Health
- Edited by:
- Dov Chernichovsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) and
- Chen Sharony (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Under Contract

Global Health Expenditures: Growth and Evolution
Thomas E Getzen (Temple University, USA)

Aging and Long Term Care: Global Policy and Organization
Audrey Laporte (University of Toronto, Canada)

International Oral Healthcare Systems: Policy, Organization, Financing, Delivery
Carlos Quinonez (University of Toronto, Canada)

Healthcare Financing
Winnie Chi-Man Yip (Harvard University, USA and University of Oxford, UK)

The World Scientific Casebook Reference on Healthcare Reforms
Peter Berman (The University of British Columbia, Canada & Harvard University, USA)

Cancer Health Services Research: Improving Health Outcomes and Innovation
Maarten J Ijzerman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Lectures in Financing and Delivery of Healthcare in Developing Countries
Peter Berman (The University of British Columbia, Canada & Harvard University, USA)

Multi-criterion Decision Analysis
Craig Mitton (The University of British Columbia, Canada)

Resilient Health Systems: A Case of the Abu Dhabi Experience
Rifat Atun (Harvard University, USA)

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Book Series: World Scientific Series in Global Health Economics and Public Policy