Key issues in health economics
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Key issues in health economics
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For those unfamiliar with health economics this book will provide useful insights into health care policy. Those already acquainted will enjoy the analysis of medical practice variations, incentives and equity. Written as a companion volume to Economics, Medicine and Healthcare, 2/e, this book is aimed at both students and those health care professionals who do not have easy access to the relevant literature. Topics covered include: alternative methods of financing health care; setting health care priorities; incentives for doctors; competition in the health sector.
Table of Contents
- Financing healthcare
- paying doctors - do they behave differently?
- demand for healthcare
- should patients pay?
- measuring healthcare outputs
- setting healthcare priorities
- medical practice variations
- competition in healthcare
- running hospitals
- are preventive services qualitatively different from the curative services?
- evaluating health services
- best medical practice equals (or should equal) efficient medical practice.
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