Health economics

""Health economics" introduces students of economics, public health, and medicine to the modern field of health economics. The book emphasizes the link between economic theory and health policy, and covers both the established models of health insurance and the dilemmas that policy ma...

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Autor principal: Bhattacharya, Jay
Otros Autores: Hyde, Timothy, Tu, Peter
Formato: Libro electrónico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Solo para usuarios autorizados, un solo acceso simultáneo
Aporte de:Registro referencial: Solicitar el recurso aquí
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504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 549-573) e índice. 
505 0 |a Preface -- Suggested pathways through the book -- 1. Why health economics? -- I. Demand for health and health care: 2. Demand for health care -- 3. Demand for health: the Grossman model -- 4. Socioeconomic disparities in health -- II. Supply of health care: 5. The labor market for physicians -- 6. The hospital industry -- III. Information economics: 7. Demand for insurance -- 8. Adverse selection: Akerlof's market for lemons -- 9. Adverse selection: the Rothschild-Stiglitz model -- 10. Adverse selection in real markets -- 11. Moral hazard -- IV. Economics of health innovation: 12. Pharmaceuticals and the economics of innovation -- 13. Technology and the price of health care -- 14. Health technology assessment -- V. Health policy: 15. The health policy conundrum -- 16. The Beveridge model: nationalized health care -- 17. The Bismarck model: social health insurance -- 18. The American model -- 19. Population aging and the future of health policy -- VI. Public health economics: 20. The economics of health externalities -- 21. Economic epidemiology -- 22. Obesity -- VII. Behavioral health economics: 23. Prospect theory -- 24. Time inconsistency and health. 
520 |a ""Health economics" introduces students of economics, public health, and medicine to the modern field of health economics. The book emphasizes the link between economic theory and health policy, and covers both the established models of health insurance and the dilemmas that policy makers currently face. Features include: * Broad scope, featuring comparative health policy and empirical examples from around the world * Topical issues such as the obesity epidemic, economic epidemiology, socioeconomic health disparities, and behavioral economics * The latest research including the Oregon Medicaid Experiment and the potential impacts of US health reform Student-friendly, Health Economics is written in an engaging, lively style, enhanced by cartoons and images that relate the principles of health economics to everyday life. It also offers hundreds of exercises to help solidify and extend understanding." --Descripción del editor. 
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