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.
9780138004873
Medical economics Medicine--Practice Medical policy