The Economics of Health and Medical Care

The Economics of Health and Medical Care, Fifth Edition

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Author(s):	Phillip Jacobs, PhD, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada John Rapoport, PhD, Mount Holyoke University, Massachusetts
Details:	ISBN-13: 9780763725952 ISBN-10:0763725951 Paperback 438 pages © 2004
Price:	International Sales $163.95 US List Add to Cart

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This text strikes the necessary balance of population-based health economics and the more traditional, market-oriented approach to health care economics. The Fifth Edition provides the necessary tools to develop a systematic and disciplined approach for solving economic problems in a health care context while learning the importance of being able to identify, define, measure, explain, and predict certain economic phenomena and evaluate the relevance of end results. Fundamental, yet comprehensive in coverage, the focus is on how to think about economic problems in a systematic way--using the three major tasks of economics--Descriptive Economics, Explanatory Economics, and Evaluative Economics.

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Part I: Descriptive Economics

Chapter 1. Output of the Health Care Sector
Chapter 2. Economic Dimensions of the Health Care System

Part II: Explanatory Economics

Chapter 3. Demand for Medical Care: A Simple Model
Chapter 4. Additional Topics in the Demand for Health and Medical Care
Chapter 5. Health Care Production and Costs
Chapter 6. Behavior of Supply
Chapter 7. Provider Payment
Chapter 8. Competitive Markets
Chapter 9. Market Power in Health Care
Chapter 10. Health Insurance
Chapter 11. The Labor Market

Part III: Evaluative Economics

Chapter 12. Value Judgements and Economic Evaluation
Chapter 13. Financing Health Care
Chapter 14. Public Health Insurance
Chapter 15. Reform of the Health Care Market
Chapter 16. Regulation and Antitrust Policy in Health Care
Chapter 17. Economic Evaluation of Health Services

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Phillip Jacobs, PhD-University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada

John Rapoport, PhD-Mount Holyoke University, Massachusetts

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Primary Courses: Health Care Economics, Health Policy, Public Health and Medical Economics, Economics of Health Care, Introduction to Health Economics

Programs: Health Administration, Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Health Sciences