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US and UK health economics: Two disciplines separated by a common language?
Author(s) -
Newhouse Joseph P.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.4730070907
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , health economics , positive economics , health policy , economics , public economics , sociology , psychology , health care , history , economic growth , archaeology
Victor Fuchs recently conducted two survey questionnaires of American health economists, showing substantial consensus among them on positive questions and much less consensus on policy questions. I attempted to replicate Fuch's surveys for members of the HESG. I dropped some items that were specific to an American context and added some new questions. Overall there was less agreement on positive questions and more on policy questions than among the US economists. Alan Williams' 1985 article ‘Economics of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting’ was deemed the most influential by a British author on health economics as a discipline and British health policy.