Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 3

Challenging Issues in Health Economics

1Prof. and Head, Department of Economics, VISTAS, Chennai

2Assistant Professor, Department of Economics-Pachaiyappa's college, Chennai

Online published on 20 March, 2019.

Abstract

The present study on health economics throw light on two major issues of scarcity of allocation, namely the Health and the Healthcare. Right from micro level to macro level the health issues are to be considered seriously in the economy. The current study expresses the role of State, role of doctor and role of individual etc., to improve the public health are discussed elaborately. There are seven chapters in this article. Chapter one initiate the basics of health economics. Chapter two continued with scope of health economics. Chapter three enlists the literature review. Chapter four highlights the issues in public health. Chapter five envisages the strategies to improve the public health. Chapter six analyses the determinants of public health. The final chapter concludes the challenging issues in Health Economics.

Keywords

Health, Healthcare, Public health, Productivity, Health economics