Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I: Background and Critique; 1 Why a New Paradigm?; 2 Some Problems in Existing Health Economics; 3 The Lack of a Comprehensive Paradigm; 4 The Need for a New Paradigm; 5 Neo-liberalism and its Impact on Health; PART II: A New Paradigm; 6 Building the Base for the New Paradigm; 7 Communitarianism; 8 Communitarian Claims; PART III: Some implications of the new paradigm; 9 A Future Health Policy: Nationally and Internationally; 10 Priority Setting Under the New Paradigm; 11 Equity under the New Paradigm.
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This text mounts a critique of health economics, arguing it has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, and lack of education on health. The author proposes a form of collective decision making through communitarianism as a basis for a new paradigm.