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Health economics : an international perspective / Barbara McPake and Charles Normand.
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McPake, Barbara
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Language
English
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2nd ed.
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Description
xix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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RA410 .M398 2008
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Medical economics
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Medical economics
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Cross-cultural studies
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World health
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Normand, Charles E. M.
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Summary note
'Health Economics' begins by looking at simple models of supply and demand within health care, before moving on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis and then compares differing health care systems around the world.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.
Contents
Introduction: health economics in international perspective
The demand for health and health services
Demand, elasticity, and health
Production, health, and health care: efficient use of inputs
Cost of delivering health services
Basic market models
Supplier-induced demand and agency
Market failure and government
The theoretical bases of economic evaluation
Issues in the measurement of costs
Measuring benefits in economic evaluation
Practical steps in economic evaluation
Economic evaluation as a framework for choice --
Contracting
Market structures
Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation
The economics of regulation
Incentives and agency
Health systems: a framework for analysis
Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance
Reliance on the state: public health service systems
Voluntary insurance based-systems
Social insurance systems
Parallel systems
The economics of health sector reform.
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ISBN
9780415391290 ((hbk.))
0415391296 ((hbk.))
9780415391320 ((pbk.))
0415391326 ((pbk.))
9780203995242 ((ebk))
0203995244 ((ebk))
9780203935040 ((electronic bk.))
0203935047
LCCN
2007019057
OCLC
124505671
International Article Number
9780415391320
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