Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde, Peter Tu

Health Economics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive book for advanced undergraduate students in health economics, it discusses current developments and debates in modern health economics from an international perspective. Economic models are presented, complemented by real-life explanations and analysis, and discussions of the influence of the models on policymaking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137029973
• Artikelnr.: 47510889

Autorenporträt

Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde and Peter Tu

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why Health Economics?
PART I: DEMAND FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
2. Demand for Health Care
3. Demand for Health: The Grossman Model
4. Socioeconomic Disparities in Health
PART II: SUPPLY OF HEALTH CARE
5. The Labor Market for Physicians
6. Hospitals
PART III: INFORMATION ECONOMICS
7. Demand for Insurance
8. Adverse Selection: Akerlof's Market for Lemons
9. Adverse Selection: The Rothschild-Stiglitz Model
10. Adverse Selection in Real Markets
11. Moral Hazard
PART IV: ECONOMICS OF HEALTH INNOVATION
12. Pharmaceuticals and the Economics of Innovation
13. Technology and The Price of Health Care
14. Health Technology Assessment
PART V: HEALTH POLICY
15. The Health Policy Conundrum
16. The Beveridge Model: Nationalized Health Care
17. The Bismarck Model: Social Health Insurance
18. The American Model
19. Population Aging and the Future of Health Policy
PART VI: PUBLIC HEALTH ECONOMICS
20. The Economics of Health Externalities
21. Economic Epidemiology
22. Obesity
PART VII: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ECONOMICS
23. Prospect Theory
24 Time Inconsistency and Health.