Health economics : an international perspective / Barbara McPake and Charles Normand.

Author
McPake, Barbara [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed.
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Description
xix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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.
          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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