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 : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Goodman, Allen C.
• Stano, Miron.

Description

xxvii, 607 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Medical economics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 566-593) and indexes.

Contents

Pt. I. Basic economics tools -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Microeconomic tools for health economics -- Ch. 3. Statistical tools for health economics -- Ch. 4. Economic efficiency and cost benefit analysis -- Pt. II. Supply and demand -- Ch. 5. The production of health -- Ch. 6. The production, cost, and technology of health care -- Ch. 7. Demand for health capital -- Ch. 8. Demand and supply of health insurance -- Ch. 9. Consumer choice and demand -- Pt. III. Information and insurance markets -- Ch. 10. Asymmetric information and agency -- Ch. 11. The organization of health insurance markets -- Ch. 12. Managed care -- Ch. 13. Nonprofit firms -- Pt. IV. Key players in the health care sector -- Ch. 14. Hospitals and long-term care -- Ch. 15. The physician's practice -- Ch. 16. Health care labor markets and professional training -- Ch. 17. The pharmaceutical industry -- Pt. V. Social insurance -- Ch. 18. Equity, efficiency, and need -- Ch. 19. Government intervention in health care markets -- Ch. 20. Government regulation : principal regulatory mechanisms -- Ch. 21. Social insurance -- Ch. 22. Comparative health care systems and health system reform -- Pt. VI. Special topics -- Ch. 23. The health economics of bads -- Ch. 24. Epidemiology and economics : HIV/AIDS in Africa.

ISBN

0132279428

LCCN

2006044808

OCLC

• ocm68800440
• SCSB-5930413

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries