The economics of health and health care/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston:
Prentice Hall,
c2010
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| Edition: | 6th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Microeconomic tools for health economics
- Statistical tools for health economics
- Economic efficiency and cost-benefit analysis
- Production of health
- The production, cost, and technology of health care
- Demand for health capital
- Demand and supply of health insurance
- Consumer choice and demand
- Asymmetric information and agency
- The organization of health insurance markets
- Managed care
- Nonprofit firms
- Hospitals and long-term care
- The physician's practice
- Health care labor markets and professional training
- The pharmaceutical industry
- Equity, efficiency, and need
- Government intervention in health care markets
- Government regulation : principal regulatory mechanisms
- Social insurance
- Comparative health care systems
- Health system reform
- The health economics of bads
- Epidemiology and economics : HIV/AIDS in Africa.