Health economics
By: Charles E. Phelps
Edition: 5th ed.
Series: Pearson series in economics; Pearson series in economics
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780132948531
Subjects: Hospital Financial Management; Health Insurance; Health Policy; Economics; Marketing of Health Services; Medical Economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why health economics?; title: Utility and health; title: The transformation of medical care to health; title: The demand for medical care : conceptual framework; title: Empirical studies of medical care demand and applications; title: The physician and the physician-firm; title: Physicians in the marketplace; title: The hospital as a supplier of medical care; title: Hospitals in the marketplace; title: The demand for health insurance; title: Health insurance supply and managed care; title: Government provision of health insurance; title: Medical malpractice; title: Externalities in health and medical care; title: Managing the market : regulation and technical change in health care; title: Universal insurance issues and international comparisons of health care systems.