Journal article
Applying Game Theory to One Health: Part 2: Modelling Human Healthcare Delivery
International Animal Health Journal, Vol.4(2), pp.14-22
2017
Abstract
A classical economic view is that health system provision is influenced by macro-economic factors (market-led) and microeconomic factors (bottom-up/patient-led factors). Contemporary 'complexity economics' theories, however, are more applicable, whereby despite the macroeconomic factors imposed by governments or regulators or cumulative individual micro-economic decision processes, in practice a multitude of simultaneous decisions are occurring at many levels, which are influenced by multiple factors (which may not relate directly to the current health need) in a dynamic fashion. One classical economic assumption that would appear reasonably consistent is that most health-related decisions are made from a perspective of self-interest. However, there are vast numbers of participants with different perceptions of utility interacting daily in the highly complex system of healthcare delivery, thus the system continues to evolve to ever greater complexity of interactions. For the purposes of this paper, and to demonstrate the way typical decisions are made in healthcare delivery, a reductionist approach has been used to identify a small number of broad categories of participant and to ascribe general perspectives that each may have when interacting or making healthcare-related decisions.
Details
- Title
- Applying Game Theory to One Health: Part 2: Modelling Human Healthcare Delivery
- Authors
- Lloyd Reeve-Johnson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- International Animal Health Journal, Vol.4(2), pp.14-22
- Publisher
- PHARMA Publications
- Date published
- 2017
- ISSN
- 1758-5678
- Organisation Unit
- Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450767802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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