Research Catalog

Title

The economics of health and health care / Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, Miron Stano.

Author

Folland, Sherman.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Goodman, Allen C.
• Stano, Miron.

Description

xix, 667 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Medical economics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 619-650) and indexes.

Contents

• Pt. I. Basic Economic Tools. Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 2. Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics. Ch. 3. Statistical Tools for Health Economics. Ch. 4. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Other Tools of Economic Evaluation -- Pt. II. Supply and Demand. Ch. 5. The Production of Health. Ch. 6. Demand for Health Capital. Ch. 7. Demand and Supply of Health Insurance. Ch. 8. Consumer Choice and Demand -- Pt. III. Information. Ch. 9. Asymmetric Information and Agency. Ch. 10. Imperfect Information: Supplier-Induced Demand and Small Area Variations -- Pt. IV. Insurance and Organization of Health Providers. Ch. 11. The Organization of Health Insurance Markets. Ch. 12. Managed Care -- Pt. V. Technology. Ch. 13. The Production and Cost of Health Care. Ch. 14. Technology -- Pt. VI. Labor. Ch. 15. Labor Markets and Professional Training. Ch. 16. The Training and Practice of Physicians -- Pt. VII. Hospitals and Nursing Homes. Ch. 17. The Role of Nonprofit Firms.
• Ch. 18. Hospitals and Long-Term Care -- Pt. VIII. Social Insurance. Ch. 19. Equity, Efficiency, and Need. Ch. 20. Government Intervention in Health Care Markets. Ch. 21. Government Regulation - Principal Regulatory Mechanisms. Ch. 22. Social Insurance. Ch. 23. Comparative Health Care Systems -- Pt. IX. Policy Issues and Analysis. Ch. 24. Health Systems Reform. Ch. 25. The Health Economics of Bads. Ch. 26. The Pharmaceutical Industry.

ISBN

0130122157

LCCN

00037472

OCLC

• 43810805
• ocm43810805
• SCSB-4240420

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries