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The economics of health and health care / Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, Miron Stano.
LIBRA RA410 .F65 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Folland, Sherman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical economics.
- Economics, Medical.
- Government Regulation.
- Health Care Reform--economics.
- Health Policy--economics.
- Insurance, Health--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Economics, Medical.
- Government Regulation.
- Health Care Reform--economics.
- Health Policy--economics.
- Insurance, Health--economics.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 601 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Prentice Hall, [2010]
- Contents:
- Microeconomic tools for health economics
- Statistical tools for health economics
- Economic efficiency and cost-benefit analysis
- Production of health
- The production, cost, and technology of health care
- Demand for health capital
- Demand and supply of health insurance
- Consumer choice and demand
- Asymmetric information and agency
- The organization of health insurance markets
- Managed care
- Nonprofit firms
- Hospitals and long-term care
- The physician's practice
- Health care labor markets and professional training
- The pharmaceutical industry
- Equity, efficiency, and need
- Government intervention in health care markets
- Government regulation : principal regulatory mechanisms
- Social insurance
- Comparative health care systems
- Health system reform
- The health economics of bads
- Epidemiology and economics : HIV/AIDS in Africa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Simon Nelson Patten Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780136080305
- 0136080308
- OCLC:
- 390524513
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