| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 433 pages) : illustrations |
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Health, nutrition, and population series |
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Health, nutrition, and population series.
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World Bank e-Library.
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| Contents |
What is the minimum a doctor should know about health economics? -- Public and private roles in health. -- The rationale for government intervention in the tobacco market. -- Measurement of equity in health. -- What should consumers in poor countries pay for publicly-provided health services? -- Compensatory finance in health: geographic equity in a federal system. -- An ounce of prevention is worth how much cure? -- DALYs and cost-effectiveness analysis. -- Criteria for public spending on health care. -- Cost-effectiveness and the socialization of health care. -- Is the eradication of polio in the western hemisphere economically justified? -- Cost-benefit analysis of a regional vaccination system. -- Cost-effective malaria control in Brazil. -- Do the poor in Brazil pay more for food? -- Do Brazilian nutrition programs make a difference? -- Economic aspects of food fortification. -- Malnutrition and dietary protein. -- Family health care spending in Latin America. -- Basic patterns in national health expenditure. -- Economic crisis and health policy response |
| Summary |
Annotation Spanning over 20 years of thinking and writing, this title explains basic concepts, for the benefit of non-economists working in public health, and further develops some of those concepts to show how they can be applied to real situations. The empirical material refers to a variety of specific health problems or interventions--among others, smoking polio, malaria, immunizations, and various forms of malnutrition and programs directed to overcome them |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical economics -- Developing countries
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Medical economics.
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Economics, Medical
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Developing Countries
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Medical economics.
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Economia médica.
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Économie de la santé
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Promotion de la santé
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Réforme des services de santé
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Santé publique.
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Developing countries.
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Pays en développement.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Musgrove, Philip.
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| ISBN |
9780821355701 |
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0821355708 |
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0585495939 |
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9780585495934 |
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1280085487 |
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9781280085482 |
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