The economics of health and health care

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Title:

Author:

Folland, Sherman.

ISBN:

9780131000674

Personal Author:

Folland, Sherman.

Edition:

4th ed.

Publication Information:

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 618 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Pt. I. Basic Economics Tools -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics -- Ch. 3. Statistical Tools for Health Economics -- Pt. II. Supply and Demand -- Ch. 4. The Production of Health -- Ch. 5. The Production, Cost, and Technology of Health Care -- Ch. 6. Demand for Health Capital -- Ch. 7. Demand and Supply of Health Insurance -- Ch. 8. Consumer Choice and Demand -- Pt. III. Information and Insurance Markets -- Ch. 9. Asymmetric Information and Agency -- Ch. 10. Imperfect Information: Supplier-Induced Demand and Small Area Variations -- Ch. 11. The Organization of Health Insurance Markets -- Ch. 12. Managed Care -- Pt. IV. Key Players in the Health Care Sector -- Ch. 13. Nonprofit Firms -- Ch. 14. Hospitals and Long-Term Care -- Ch. 15. Health Care Labor Markets and Professional Training -- Ch. 16. The Pharmaceutical Industry -- Pt. V. Social Insurance -- Ch. 17. Equity, Efficiency, and Need.

Ch. 18. Government Intervention in Health Care Markets -- Ch. 19. Government Regulation - Principal Regulatory Mechanisms -- Ch. 20. Social Insurance -- Ch. 21. Comparative Health Care Systems and Health System Reform -- Pt. VI. Special Topics -- Ch. 22. The Health Economics of Bads -- Ch. 23. Epidemiology and Economics: AIDS in Africa -- Ch. 24. The Tools of Economic Evaluations.

Subject Term:

Medical economics.

Economics, Medical.

Health Policy -- economics.

Insurance, Health -- economics.

Technology, Medical.

Added Author:

Goodman, Allen C.

Stano, Miron.

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Summary

This clear, step-by-step best-selling introduction to the economics of health and health care thoroughly develops and explains economic ideas and models to reflect the full spectrum of the most current health economics literature. KEY TOPICS: This book uses core economic themes as basic as supply and demand, as venerable as technology or labor issues, and as modern as the economics of information. Chapter topics include health care, health capital, information, health insurance markets, managed care, nonprofit firms, hospitals, physicians and labor, the pharmaceutical industry, government intervention and regulation, and epidemiology and economics. MARKET: Useful as a reference work for health service researchers, government specialists, and physicians and others in the health care field.