Health economics

Résumé : "This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers' economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole."--

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- Part I. Demand for Health, Health Care Services, and Insurance -- Chapter 2 Health and Health Behaviors -- Chapter 3 Demand for Health Care Services -- Chapter 4 Demand for Private Health Insurance -- Part II. Supply of Health Care Services and Insurance -- Chapter 5 The Market for Physicians' Services -- Chapter 6 Hospitals -- Chapter 7 Quality of Care and Medical Malpractice -- Chapter 8 Nurses in Hospital and Long-Term Care Service -- Chapter 9 Pharmaceutical manufacturers -- Chapter 10 The Supply of Private Health Insurance -- Part III. Market Structure in the Health Care Sector -- Chapter 11 Private Financing of Health Care Services -- Chapter 12 Government Financing and Private Supply -- Chapter 13 Public Supply and Financing -- Part IV. Performance of the Health Care Sector: Positive and Normative Aspects -- Chapter 14 Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Chapter 15 Measuring Benefits and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Chapter 16 The Contribution of Personal Health Services to Longevity, Population Health, and Economic Growth -- Chapter 17 Frontiers of Health Economics.