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Medical economics and health finance

Title: Medical economics and health finance / Steven R. Eastaugh.
Author: Eastaugh, Steven R., 1952-
Publication: Boston, Mass. : Auburn House Pub. Co., ©1981.

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Description

xi, 340 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Covering a wide range of topics in medical economics, the author provides a comprehensive study of cost containment and financial management. The issues of health care competition, regulation, marketing, and the impact of health finances on the quality of care are addressed.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

Medical cost inflation -- economic models of physician and hospital behavior -- cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis -- the role of technology assessment -- consumerism, rate regulation, and alternative manpower programs -- competition health plans -- health marketing -- health regulation to constrain capital expansion -- limits to debt financing -- evaluation of financing alternatives -- financial concerns in medical school management -- cost and utilization studies in hospitals -- potential for effective cost containment in the 1980s.

ISBN

0865690650
9780865690653
0865690669
9780865690660

LCCN

81003450

OCLC

ocm07460454
7460454
SCSB-49548

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Princeton University Library