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Competition and Monopoly in Medical Care
Author: H.E. Frech III
ISBN: 0-8447-3884-0
Publisher: AEI Press
Competition has become more important in health care in recent years, both in fact and in theory. The study of competition is itself a growth industry. The literature is large, but diffuse and poorly connected.
This book is designed to survey synthesize the literature, to explain what is known from the research literature about how competition and monopoly operate in the health sector. The main topics include competition among hospitals, physicians and health care plans. Adverse selection and supply-induced-demand also get chapter length treatments.
Available from AEI Press
Phone: 800-343-4499
Reforming Health Care Systems
Editors: Anthony J. Culyer, Adam Wagstaff
ISBN: 1-85898-329-0
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Proceedings of Section F of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Reforming Health Care Systems brings together the work of leading economic scholars on the reform and development of the United Kingdom's National Health Service and the implications of this process for health care systems worldwide.
It addresses important issues such as the financing of medical care, assessments of health care effectiveness, the need for rationing resources and the wider determinants of health in society. The contributors to this stimulating, thought-provoking volume discuss a breadth of topics and approaches. Placing the UK's health service in an international context, the authors also examine economic understandings of the health care market, the place of contracts and competition, capital and labour markets for health, health care funding and equity in the rationing of health care.
pp 192.
For more information contact Edward Elgar