Choices : money, medicine, and health -- Demand and supply -- Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis -- Health insurance : financing medical care -- Insurance contracts and managed care -- Physicians -- Medical education, organization, and business practices -- Hospitals -- Management and regulation of hospital costs -- Long-term care -- Pharmaceuticals -- Capital financing and ownership of health care providers -- Macroeconomics of medical care -- The role of government -- Public goods and public health -- History, demography, and the growth of modern medicine -- International comparisons of health and health expenditures -- Value for money in the future of health care.