Health economics
Subtitle: fundamentals and flow of funds
By: Thomas E. Getzen.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Medical economics; Medical care, Cost of; Flow of funds
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Terms of trade: the flow of funds through the health care system -- -- 2.; title: Demand -- -- 3.; title: Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis -- -- 4.; title: Insurance -- -- 5.; title: Insurance contracts and managed care -- -- 6.; title: Physicians -- -- 7.; title: Medical education, organziation, and business practices -- -- 8.; title: Hospitals -- -- 9.; title: Management and regulation of hospital costs -- -- 10.; title: Managed care -- -- 11.; title: Long-term care -- -- 12.; title: Pharmaceuticals -- -- 13.; title: Introduction to the macroeconomics of health -- -- 14.; title: The role of government -- -- 15.; title: Public goods and public health -- -- 16.; title: Economic history, population growth, and medical care -- -- 17.; title: International comparisons of health and health expenditures -- -- 18; title: Dynamics of national health spending -- -- 19.; title: Value for money in the future of health care.