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Economics of Health and Health Care, 5/E
Editors: Sherman Folland, Allen Goodman, Miron Stano
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
ISBN-10: 0132279428
ISBN-13: 9780132279420
Price: $140 Cloth; 648 pp
For courses in Health Economics, Public Health, and Health Care Policy. 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. It 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.
- PART I: BASIC ECONOMICS TOOLS
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics
- Chapter 3 Statistical Tools for Health Economics
- Chapter 4 Economic Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness in Health Care
- PART II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
- Chapter 5 The Production of Health
- Chapter 6 The Production, Cost, and Technology of Health Care
- Chapter 7 Demand for Health Capital
- Chapter 8 Demand and Supply of Health Insurance
- Chapter 9 Consumer Choice and Demand
PART III: INFORMATION AND INSURANCE MARKETS
- Chapter 10 Asymmetric Information and Agency
- Chapter 11 The Organization of Health Insurance Markets
- Chapter 12 Managed Care
PART IV: KEY PLAYERS IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR
- Chapter 13 Nonprofit Firms
- Chapter 14 Hospitals and Long-Term Care
- Chapter 15 The Physician’s Practice
- Chapter 16 Health Care Labor Markets and Professional Training
- Chapter 17 The Pharmaceutical Industry
- PART V: SOCIAL INSURANCE
- Chapter 18 Equity, Efficiency, and Need
- Chapter 19 Government Intervention in Health Care Markets
- Chapter 20 Government Regulation-Principal Regulatory Mechanisms
- Chapter 21 Social Insurance
- Chapter 22 Comparative Health Care Systems and Health System Reform
- PART VI: SPECIAL TOPICS
- Chapter 23 The Health Economics of Bads
- Chapter 24 Epidemiology and Economics: AIDS in Africa
