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Folland, Sherman

The economics of health and health care/ Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman and Miron Stano - 6th ed. - Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010. - xxii, 601 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780138004873

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medical economics
Medicine--Practice
Medical policy

Dewey Class. No.: 338.473621 / FOL/T