Health economics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Addison-Wesley,
[2010]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
| Series: | Addison-Wesley series in economics.
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Table of Contents:
- Why health economics?
- Utility and health
- The transformation of medical care to health
- The demand for medical care : conceptual framework
- Empirical studies of medical care demand and applications
- The physician and the physician firm
- Physicians in the marketplace
- The hospital as a supplier of medical care
- Hospitals in the marketplace
- The demand for health insurance
- Health insurance supply and managed care
- Government provision of health insurance
- Medical malpractice
- Externalities in health and medical care
- Managing the market : regulation and technical change in health care
- Universal insurance issues and international comparisons of health care systems.