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Health Economics, 3rd Edition

By Charles E. Phelps

ISBN-10: 0-321-06898-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-06898-9What's this?

Published by Prentice Hall

Pub. Date: Jul 5, 2002

Format: Paper

Table of Contents



 1. Why Health Economics?


 2. An Overview of How Markets Interrelate in Medical Care and Health Insurance.


 3. The Transformation of Medical Care to Health.


 4. The Demand for Medical Care: Conceptual Framework.


 5. Empirical Studies of Medical Care Demand and Applications.


 6. The Physician.


 7. Physicians in the Marketplace.


 8. The Hospital as a Supplier of Medical Care.


 9. Hospitals in the Marketplace.


10. Health Insurance.


11. Managed Care.


12. Government Provision of Health Insurance: Medicare and Its Revisions.


13. Medical Malpractice.


14. Externalities in Health and Medical Care.


15. Managing the Market: Regulation and Technical Change in Health Care.


16. Universal Insurance Issues and International Comparisons of Health Care Systems.


Author's Postscript.


Appendix: Introduction to Basic Economics Concepts.


Answers to Selected Problems.


Bibliography.


Acknowledgments.


Index.

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