Introduction / Irina Farquhar, Kent Summers and Alan Sorkin -- After-market drug regulation : promoting public trust in innovation / Robert Field -- Transcending tradition : quality of life as the inextricable link between activities of daily living and specific organ and disease states / Etta...

While gender has so often been found to be an important determinant of prevalence and outcomes of mental illness, economists have rarely focused on gender differences as a central element of their analyses. In this volume, we direct the focus of research in the economics of mental health...

Public health has, for many years, been concerned with efforts to increase the efficiency of health care delivery, to measure changes in health care resource utilization and associated costs, and to link these changes to different types of interventions. These efforts, as well as collaboration...

Three important issues have recently attracted researchers to study the economics of disability. First with the availability of sophisticated data sets, it has become possible to conduct highly quantative investigations of the relative economic impacts of various types of disabling health...