Author: Steven R. Eastaugh Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 486
Book Description
This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of the present status and future direction of health care economics and its far-reaching ramifications. Eastaugh provides exhaustive analyses of such major issues as: cost behavior and cost functions; economic models and physician behavior; cost sharing, managed care, and competition health plans; equity, access and the urban medical center; consumer education, service quality and health manpower; efficiency and cost-benefit; and future policy trends. It is designed to provide the tools necessary to balance issues of efficiency and quality.
Author: Steven R. Eastaugh Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 486
Book Description
This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of the present status and future direction of health care economics and its far-reaching ramifications. Eastaugh provides exhaustive analyses of such major issues as: cost behavior and cost functions; economic models and physician behavior; cost sharing, managed care, and competition health plans; equity, access and the urban medical center; consumer education, service quality and health manpower; efficiency and cost-benefit; and future policy trends. It is designed to provide the tools necessary to balance issues of efficiency and quality.
Author: Jordan Braverman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to acquaint students with the economic issues within healthcare today in the USA in terms of costs, affordability, the historical development, the magnitude of the economic crisis and contributing factors such as technology, drugs, and hospital care. The book also looks at the mechanisms available today to help consumers combat, afford and pay for the high costs of health; and discusses the successes and failures and reasoning behind these.
Author: Tony Lockett Publisher: Radcliffe Pub ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
This text reveals the science of health economics as the catalyst for change in every aspect of health-care delivery. How should doctors, nurses, pharmacists and health-service managers interpret the barrage of information produced by the pharmaceutical industry? This work aims to find out.
Author: Anthony J. Culyer Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1781001995 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 744
Book Description
This third edition of Anthony Culyer�s authoritative The Dictionary of Health Economics brings the material right up to date as well as adding plentiful amounts of new information, with a number of revised definitions. There are now nearly 3,000 entrie
Author: Jay Bhattacharya Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137029978 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 621
Book Description
Comprehensive in coverage this textbook, written by academics from leading institutions, discusses current developments and debates in modern health economics from an international perspective. Economic models are presented in detail, complemented by real-life explanations and analysis, and discussions of the influence of such theories on policymaking. Offering sound pedagogy and economic rigor, Health Economics focuses on building intuition alongside appropriate mathematical formality, translating technical language into accessible economic narrative. Rather than shying away from intellectual building blocks, students are introduced to technical and theoretical foundations and encouraged to apply these to inform empirical studies and wider policymaking. Health Economics provides: - A broad scope, featuring comparative health policy and empirical examples from around the world to help students relate the principles of health economics to everyday life - Coverage of topical issues such as the obesity epidemic, economic epidemiology, socioeconomic health disparities, and behavioural economics - A rich learning resource, complete with hundreds of exercises to help solidify and extend understanding. This book is designed for advanced undergraduate courses in health economics and policy but may also interest postgraduate students in economics, medicine and health policy. Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/health-economics. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
Author: Frank A. Sloan Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262035111 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 839
Book Description
The new edition of a textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence, updated with material on the Affordable Care Act and other developments. This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers' economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. The theoretical and empirical approaches draw heavily on the general field of applied microeconomics, but the text moves from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole. The book takes a global perspective, with description and analysis of institutional features of health sectors in countries around the world. This second edition has been updated to include material on the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, material on the expansion of health insurance in Massachusetts, and an evaluation of Oregon's Medicaid expansion via lottery. The discussion of health care and health insurance in China has been substantially revised to reflect widespread changes there. Tables and figures have been updated with newly available data. Also new to this edition is a discussion of the health economics literature published between 2010 and 2015. The text includes readings, extensive references, review and discussion questions, and exercises. A student solutions manual offers solutions to selected exercises. Downloadable supplementary material is available for instructors.
Author: Barbara McPake Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134166087 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 313
Book Description
Beginning with a look into simple models of supply and demand within health care, this key text moves on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis, and then compares differing health care systems around the world. Featuring an array of case studies based on systems from around the world, the book successfully bridges the divide between the insurance-based system employed in the United States, the publicly-funded options more common in Europe and Canada, and the mixed arrangements characteristic of most developing countries. This informative textbook, essential for students on the ever-growing number of health economics courses internationally, will also be useful in other areas, such as public health studies, medicine and health science.
Author: Peter Zweifel Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401123926 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 365
Book Description
This volume reflects both the main issues confronting health economics and the state of the art in health economics a decade before the end of the twentieth century. It contains a selection from almost 150 papers presented at the Second World Congress on Health Economics, held at the University of ZUrich, Switzerland, 10-14 September 1990. This is ten years after the last Congress (held in Leiden, The Netherlands) and more than 17 years after the Tokyo meeting organized by the International Economic Associ ation (which might be called the First World Congress were it not for its small size and symposium-like character). Out of the 16 papers appearing in this book, only four were invited, and they were refereed like all the others. The remaining contributions are survivors of stiff competition. However, in spite of the large sample of papers we were able to draw from, certain gaps of coverage persist. In particular, environmental impacts on health were designated as a field of priority interest in the call for papers to this Congress. Yet, not even half a dozen contribu tions were submitted, which is remarkable in view of the intense interest of the public in the health effects of environmental degradation, ranging from noise level to ozone concentration. Another specially designed field was the political economy of health, dealing with the behavior of policy makers when deciding about changes in the health care systems. It did not attract as many contributions as we had hoped for or expected.
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