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Economics of healthcare: a brief introduction

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024Description: xvii, 252 p. : ill. Includes IndexISBN:
  • 9781009258432
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.433621 F7E2
Summary: An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US healthcare system. The conversational writing style, with occasional doses of humour, allows students to see how applicable economic reasoning can be to unpacking some of the sector's thorniest issues, while accessible real-world examples teach the institutional details of healthcare and health insurance, as well as the economics that underpin the behaviour of key players in these markets. Many chapters are enhanced by 'Supplements' that offer how-to guides to tools commonly used by health economists, and economists more generally. They help form the basic 'economist's toolbox' for readers with no prior training in economics, and offer deeper dives into interesting related material. A test bank and lectures slides are available online for instructors, alongside additional resources and readings for students, taken from popular media and health care and policy journals. Contents Part I - Patients 1 - How Economists View Human Behavior 2 - Where Does Health Come From? 3 - Demand for Medical Care 4 - Health Insurance and Demand for Medical Care 5 - Evaluating Evidence Part II - Providers 6 - Provider-Firms and the Market 7 - The Healthcare Labor Force 8 - Providers and Incentives 9 - Hospitals Part III - Health Insurers 10 - Health Insurance as a Product 11 - Adverse Selection 12 - Prices 13 - Managed Care 14 - Public Insurance Part IV - The Sector at Large 15 - Pharmaceuticals 16 - Externalities 17 - Medical Malpractice 18 - Inequality 19 - International Comparisons References Index https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/economics-of-healthcare/5BFC30228E3AF893A551339ECCB8F03B#overview
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An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US healthcare system. The conversational writing style, with occasional doses of humour, allows students to see how applicable economic reasoning can be to unpacking some of the sector's thorniest issues, while accessible real-world examples teach the institutional details of healthcare and health insurance, as well as the economics that underpin the behaviour of key players in these markets. Many chapters are enhanced by 'Supplements' that offer how-to guides to tools commonly used by health economists, and economists more generally. They help form the basic 'economist's toolbox' for readers with no prior training in economics, and offer deeper dives into interesting related material. A test bank and lectures slides are available online for instructors, alongside additional resources and readings for students, taken from popular media and health care and policy journals.

Contents
Part I - Patients
1 - How Economists View Human Behavior
2 - Where Does Health Come From?
3 - Demand for Medical Care
4 - Health Insurance and Demand for Medical Care
5 - Evaluating Evidence
Part II - Providers
6 - Provider-Firms and the Market
7 - The Healthcare Labor Force
8 - Providers and Incentives
9 - Hospitals
Part III - Health Insurers
10 - Health Insurance as a Product
11 - Adverse Selection
12 - Prices
13 - Managed Care
14 - Public Insurance
Part IV - The Sector at Large
15 - Pharmaceuticals
16 - Externalities
17 - Medical Malpractice
18 - Inequality
19 - International Comparisons
References
Index


https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/economics-of-healthcare/5BFC30228E3AF893A551339ECCB8F03B#overview

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