Handbook of health economics Volume 1A
v. 1A. The state and scope of health economics / Anthony J. Culyer and Joseph P. Newhouse ; International comparisons of health expenditure / Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Benet Jönsson ; An overview of the normative economics of the health sector / Jeremiah Hurley ; Medical care prices and output / Ernest R....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Elsevier
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Handbooks in economics
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| Collection: | Elsevier Handbooks in Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | v. 1A. The state and scope of health economics / Anthony J. Culyer and Joseph P. Newhouse ; International comparisons of health expenditure / Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Benet Jönsson ; An overview of the normative economics of the health sector / Jeremiah Hurley ; Medical care prices and output / Ernest R. Berndt [and others] ; Advances in CE analysis / Alan M. Garber ; Information diffusion and best practice adoption / Charles E. Phelps ; Health econometrics / Andrew M. Jones ; The human capital model / Michael Grossman ; Moral hazard and consumer incentives in health care / Peter Zweifel and Willard G. Manning ; Physician agency / Thomas G. McGuire ; Insurance reimbursement / Mark V. Pauly ; The anatomy of health insurance / David M. Cutler and Richard J. Zeckhauser ; Health insurance and the labor market / Jonathan Gruber ; Managed care / Sherry Glied ; Risk adjustment in competitive health plan markets / Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Randall P. Ellis ; Government purchasing of health services / Martin Chalkley and James M. Malcomson. The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful. It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main discipline: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric information; econometrics; the theory of incomplete markets; and the foundations of welfare economics, among others. Perhaps it has had an even greater effect outside the field of economics, introducing terms such as opportunity cost, elasticity, the margin, and the production function into medical parlance. Indeed, health economists are likely to be as heavily cited in the clinical as in the economics literature. Partly because of the large share of public resources that health care commands in almost every developed country, health policy is often a contentious and visible issue; elections have sometimes turned on issues of health policy. Showing the versatility of economic theory, health economics and health economists have usually been part of policy debates, despite the vast differences in medical care institutions across countries. The publication of the first Handbook of Health Economics marks another step in the evolution of health economics |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Physical Description: | xi, 890 pages illustrations |