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Health economics / Charles E. Phelps.
LIBRA RA410 .P48 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phelps, Charles E.
- Series:
- Addison-Wesley series in economics
- The Addison-Wesley series in economics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical economics.
- Medical economics--United States.
- United States.
- Economics, Medical.
- Delivery of Health Care--economics.
- Insurance, Health--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Economics, Medical.
- United States.
- Delivery of Health Care--economics.
- Insurance, Health--economics.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 640 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Addison-Wesley, [2010]
- Summary:
- Health Economics combines current economic theory, recent research, and health policy issues into an accessible overview of the field. Recent research illustrates core economic concepts, which are then used to focus on key policy areas, such as the structure and effects of Medicare reform, insurance plan design, and emerging medical technologies.
- A new focus on lifestyle choices-such as alcohol consumption, obesity, and tobacco use-explores how individual decisions affect everyday health and the health care system at large.
- Global health care is integrated throughout, using international comparative studies to provide insight into how other countries deal with health care issues.
- New Learning Goals begin each chapter with a bulleted list of topics that will be covered.
- The Companion Website includes new quizzes to test your understanding of each chapter, classroom discussion questions, links to relevant health economics websites, answers to selected end-of-chapter problems from the text, and more. Visit www.aw-bc.com/phelps for more information.
- Contents:
- Why health economics?
- Utility and health
- The transformation of medical care to health
- The demand for medical care : conceptual framework
- Empirical studies of medical care demand and applications
- The physician and the physician firm
- Physicians in the marketplace
- The hospital as a supplier of medical care
- Hospitals in the marketplace
- The demand for health insurance
- Health insurance supply and managed care
- Government provision of health insurance
- Medical malpractice
- Externalities in health and medical care
- Managing the market : regulation and technical change in health care
- Universal insurance issues and international comparisons of health care systems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-621) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780321594570
- 0321594576
- OCLC:
- 276223833
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