The economics of health and health care / / by: Prentice Hall
Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, Miron Stano.
- 6th edition
- Boston Prentice Hall c2010.
- xxii, 601 p. ill. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Medical economics. Public Health Economics, Medical. Government Regulation. Health Care Reform--economics. Health Policy--economics. Insurance, Health--economics.