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1 online resource |
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Economic Analysis in Health Care; CONTENTS; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction to economic analysis in health care; 1.1. Life, death and big business: why health economics is important; 1.2. Health care as an economic good; 1.3. Health and health care; 1.4. Wants, demands and needs; 1.5. The production of health and health care; 1.6. Deciding who gets what in health care; 1.7. Is the market for health care special?; 1.8. Describing versus evaluating the use of health care resources; 1.9. Judging the use of health care resources; Chapter 2 The demand for health care |
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2.1. Why study demand? Profits, policy and improving health2.2. Consumer choice theory; 2.2.1. Preferences and utility; 2.2.2. Budget constraints and maximisation; 2.3. Demand functions; 2.3.1. The determinants of demand; 2.3.2. Estimating demand functions; 2.3.3. Price and income elasticity of demand; 2.4. Modelling choices about health; 2.4.1. Understanding consumption of health and health care; 2.4.2. Understanding investment in health care; 2.4.3. Predictions of the Grossman model; 2.5. Needs, wants and demands; 2.6. Asymmetry of information and imperfect agency |
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2.7. Aggregate demand for health care: theory and evidenceChapter 3 The production and costs of health care; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. The theory of production; 3.2.1. Production functions; 3.2.2. Marginal products; 3.2.3. Technical efficiency and isoquants; 3.2.4. Substitutability between inputs; 3.2.5. Production frontiers; 3.3. Multi-product firms; 3.4. Returns to scale, additivity and fixed factors; 3.5. Costs; 3.5.1. Costs and production; 3.5.2. Cost functions; 3.5.3. Scale economies, long- and short-run cost functions and scope economies; Chapter 4 The supply of health care |
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4.1. Firms, markets and industries in the health care sector of the economy4.2. Structure, conduct and performance in the health care industry; 4.3. Profit maximisation models; 4.3.1. How firms maximise profits; 4.3.2. Perfect competition; 4.3.3. Monopoly; 4.3.4. Monopolistic competition; 4.3.5. Oligopoly; 4.3.6. Game theory; 4.4. Goals other than profit maximisation; 4.4.1. Growth maximisation; 4.4.2. Behavioural theories of the firm; 4.4.3. Utility maximisation; 4.4.4. Maximising net income per physician; 4.5. Competition, contestability and industrial policy |
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Chapter 5 Markets, market failure and the role of government in health care5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Using perfectly competitive markets to allocate resources; 5.2.1. Equilibrium in competitive markets; 5.2.2. The efficiency of competitive markets; 5.3. Market failure in health care; 5.3.1. Externalities; 5.3.2. Caring externalities; 5.3.3. Market power; 5.3.4. Public goods; 5.3.5. Information imperfections; 5.4. Government intervention in health care; 5.4.1. Direct government involvement in the finance and provision of health care; 5.4.2. Taxes and subsidies; 5.4.3. Regulation |
| Summary |
Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the field of economics in health care and the evaluation of health care technologies. This new edition has been fully updated with up-to-date case studies from the UK, Europe and the Rest of the World. It includes a new chapter on health care labour markets and contains new material integrated throughout the text on the economics of public health.-Adopts an international perspective towards topics in health economics -Creates a useful balance of theoretical treatment and practical application throughout the book -Focuses on both market-related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics |
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Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed November 21, 2013) |
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Medical care -- Cost effectiveness
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Medical care -- Finance.
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Medical economics.
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Economics, Medical
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Delivery of Health Care -- economics
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Costs and Cost Analysis
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MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
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Medical care -- Cost effectiveness
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Medical care -- Finance
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Medical economics
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Devlin, Nancy
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Spencer, Anne
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Parkin, David
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| ISBN |
9781118472514 |
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1118472519 |
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