The future of health policy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fuchs, Victor R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Conceptual issues
  • What is health?
  • What is health economics?
  • Price of health
  • Poverty and health
  • Empirical studies
  • U.S. health expenditures and the gross national product
  • How Canada does it: physicians' services
  • How Canada does it: acute hospital care
  • Expenditures for reproduction-related health care
  • America's children
  • Policy analysis
  • Cost containment: no pain, no gain
  • Competition revolution of the 1980s
  • Counterrevolution in health care financing
  • Technology assessment and health policy
  • National health insurance revisited.