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020 _a9780138004873
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035 _a(OCoLC)462824275
082 0 4 _a338.433621
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090 _aRA410
_b.F65 2010
100 1 _aFolland, Sherman.
245 1 4 _aThe economics of health and health care /
_cSherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, Miron Stano.
250 _a6th ed., International ed.
260 _aUpper Saddle River, N.J. :
_bPearson Prentice Hall,
_c2010.
300 _a623 p. :
_bill. ;
_c26 cm.
500 _aPrevious ed.: 2007.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aMicroeconomic tools for health economics -- Statistical tools for health economics -- Economic efficiency and cost-benefit analysis -- Production of health -- The production, cost, and technology of health care -- Demand for health capital -- Demand and supply of health insurance -- Consumer choice and demand -- Asymmetric information and agency -- The organization of health insurance markets -- Managed care -- Nonprofit firms -- Hospitals and long-term care -- The physician's practice -- Health care labor markets and professional training -- The pharmaceutical industry -- Equity, efficiency, and need -- Government intervention in health care markets -- Government regulation : principal regulatory mechanisms -- Social insurance -- Comparative health care systems and health system reform -- Health system reform -- The health economics of bads -- Epidemiology and economics : HIV/AIDS in Africa.
520 8 _aThis step-by-step introduction to the economics of health and health care thoroughly develops and explains economic ideas and models to reflect the full spectrum of health economics literature, using such core economic themes as supply and demand.
650 0 _aMedical economics.
700 1 _aGoodman, Allen C.
700 1 _aStano, Miron.
942 _cBOOK
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