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Автор: Johnston
Название: Economics and HIV
ISBN: 9781138904880
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Классификация:

ВИЧ / СПИД: социальные аспекты

Экономика здравоохранения

ISBN-10: 1138904880
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.31 кг.
Дата издания: 04.03.2015
Серия: Routledge international studies in health economics
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 2 tables, black and white; 5 line drawings, black and white; 5 illustrations, black and white
Размер: 234 x 156 x 12
Читательская аудитория: Undergraduate
Ключевые слова: Development economics & emerging economies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General,BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development,BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
Подзаголовок: The sickness of economics
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Economics has largely failed to provide useful insights on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The inability of a dominant branch of social science to assist in understanding an illness with significant social, economic and emotional effects is a serious failing in its own right. Moreover, the inadequacy in its explanatory power also highlights important weakness in mainstream economic theory, the economic approach used by most governments and institutions. This book sets out the role that economic analysis has had, and why it can be judged to have failed.

This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa. Part I shows that microeconomic approaches have found fertile ground in a public health approach that blames individual choices for HIV transmission. Despite their attractiveness, however, these approaches fail to explain contemporary patterns of HIV prevalence, illustrating the importance of factors that are excluded from the standard microeconomic approach. Part II of the book looks at our problems in understanding the economic impact of AIDS, and explains why economists cannot agree if epidemic disease is a good or bad thing for economic development. In both sections of the book, the potential for alternative approaches is shown, and the book ends by arguing that a political economy approach can bring meaningful insights to our understanding of the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS.

This book is aimed at those working on African development or HIV/AIDS specifically. It will be of interest to researchers, policy-makers and postgraduate students.

Economics and HIV, Johnston