Health economics : theories, insights, and industry studies
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Health economics : theories, insights, and industry studies
（The Irwin series in economics）
Irwin, c1996
Available at 10 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This applied text shows how microeconomic theory can be used to understand the operation of health care markets, as well as to analyze problems and issues related to health care economics. Application cases illustrate issues concerning the consumption, production and distribution of health care services. The text is organized around the structure, conduct, performance and policy of institutions; and a non-technical regression analysis appendix assists students' understanding of of regression findings on empirical issues related to health care.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Basic health care economic tools and institutions: introduction
- health, medical care and and medical care spending
- demand for medical services
- medical care production and costs
- benefit and costs analysis
- health care systems and institutions. Part 2 Alternative objectives and environments facing health care providers: profit maximization in perfectly competitive markets
- profit maximization in imperfect markets
- nonprofit goals. Part 3 Government and health: government, health and medical care
- government as health insurer. Part 4 Industry studies: private health insurance industry
- physician services industry
- hospital services industry
- pharmaceutical industry. Part 5 Health care reform: proposals for health care reform. Appendix: regression analysis.
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