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FUNDING METHODS<br> Social Health Insurance: Government Funding of Health Care<br> Private Financing Outside the Publicly Funded Systemmedical Savings Accounts: Promises and Pitfalls<br> The Economics of Consumer Directed Health Care<br> DIFFERENT PURCHASING/PAYING MECHANISMS OF HEALTH CARE<br> Physician Payment Mechanisms<br> Risk Adjustment in Health Care Markets: Concepts and Applications<br> Inducing Quality from Health Care Providers in the Presence of Adverse Selection<br> Prescription Drug Financing<br> EQUITY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE<br> Equity of health and health care in Canada in International Perspective<br>

“This book is an invaluable resource for all medical and allied health professionals, and those working in health care industries, insurance, and economics. This is a fine edited book that provides a number of useful contributions to the field of health economics.” (<i>Doody's</i>, February 2009)

At present Mingshan Lu is Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Science at University of Calgary/Canada. Her research focuses on health economics, health care financing and economics of substance abuse. Besides a number of excellence awards she received numerous outstanding research grants, for example from the Institute of Health Economics or the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research in Canada.<br> Dr. Jonsson is director and CEO of the Institute of Health Economics, and professor at the University of Alberta, Public Health Sciences. For 20 years he was a professor of Health Economics at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Jonsson was also director of the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU), worked for WHO Euro, was a Health Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Health in Hanoi, Vietnam. His main field of research has been in health economics: cost-effectiveness analysis, and health technology assessment. Jonsson has co-edited 2 well-selling Wiley-VCH titles during his SBU times, "Treating and Preventing Obesity" and "Treating Alcohol and Drug Abuse".

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