Economics of the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities (The) : a Resource Book.

1.4.1 Intersectoral public policy and action perspective1.4.2 Intervention evidence review orientation; Figure 1.2 Types of interventions; Figure 1.3 Analytical framework; References; Chapter 2. The economic argument for social determinants of health and socially determined health inequalities; Box 2.1 The use of cost of health inequality evidence; 2.1 Efficiency-based rationales for public policy intervention; Box 2.2 Economic evaluation studies answer questions relative to specific actions; 2.2 Standard efficiency-based rationales; 2.2.1 Imperfect or asymmetric information.

2.2.2 ExternalitiesBox 2.3 Examples of information imperfections; Box 2.4 Examples of externalities; 2.2.3 Public goods; 2.2.4 Departures from rationality; 2.3 Non-standard economic rationales: behavioural economics; 2.4 Equity-based rationale for public policy intervention; Figure 2.1 Relationships between different dimensions of inequality; Tables; Table 2.1 Preferences on income equality; Table 2.2 Importance of eliminating big income inequalities; 2.5 The relationship between efficiency and equity; 2.5.1 The standard viewpoint; 2.5.2 The standard viewpoint: when is it less valid?

2.5.3 The macroeconomics viewpoint: traditional and new evidenceReferences; Chapter 3. Assessing value for money of interventions; 3.1 Valuing the consequences of social determinants of health interventions; 3.1.1 Valuing costs; 3.1.2 Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis; 3.1.3 Cost-benefit analysis; 3.1.4 Conclusions; 3.2 Valuing reductions in health inequities; 3.2.1 Valuing reductions in health inequities in cost-effectiveness analysis; 3.2.2 Valuing reductions in health inequities in cost-benefit analysis; 3.2.3 Conclusions.

Table 3.1 Potential approaches to incorporate equity considerations into economic evaluations of social determinants of health interventions3.3 Challenges in assessing the value for money of social determinants of health interventions; References; Chapter 4. Can education policy act as health policy?; 4.1 Efficiency-based rationales; 4.1.1 Economic benefits of education and the presence of market failures; 4.1.2 Does education have an impact on health?; 4.1.3 Average impact of education interventions; 4.2 Equity-based rationales; 4.2.1 Equity aspects in education.

Box 4.1 From resource- to incentive-based interventions in higher education in the United States.