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| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies Cas, Études de |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara McPake; Lilani Kumaranayake; Charles E M Normand |
| ISBN: | 0415277353 9780415277358 0415277361 9780415277365 9780203935040 0203935047 |
| OCLC Number: | 49525750 |
| Description: | xx, 260 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Health economics in international perspective -- The demand for health and health services -- Demand, elasticity, and health -- Production, health, and health care : Efficient use of inputs -- Cost of delivering health services -- Basic market models -- Supplier-induced demand and agency -- Market failure and government -- The theoretical bases of economic evaluation -- Issues in the measurements of costs -- Measuring benefits in economic evaluation -- Practical steps in economic evaluation -- Economic evaluation as a framework for choice -- Contracting -- Market structures -- Hospital and health care provider behaviour and motivation -- The economics of regulation -- Incentives and agency -- Health systems : A framework for analysis -- Health systems around the world : An introduction to variation and performance -- Reliance on the state : Public health service systems -- Voluntary insurance-based systems -- Social insurance systems -- Parallel systems -- Trends in health sector reform. |
| Responsibility: | Barbara McPake, Lilani Kumaranayake, and Charles Normand. |
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Abstract:
"In this textbook, the authors have managed to cover the emotive subject of health economics from a truly international perspective." "Health Economics begins by looking at simple models of supply and demand within health care, before moving on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis, and then compares differing health care systems around the world. With an array of case studies based on systems from all over the world, the book successfully bridges the divide between the insurance-based system employed in the United States, the publicly funded operations more common in Europe and Canada and the mixed arrangements characteristic of most developing countries." "This textbook will become required reading on the ever-growing number of health economics courses across the world. It should also be genuinely useful in other areas, such as public health studies, medicine and health science."--BOOK JACKET.
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