TY  - BOOK
AU  - Folland,Sherman
AU  - Goodman,Allen C.
AU  - Stano,Miron
TI  - The economics of health and health care
SN  - 9780132954808 (pbk)
U1  - 338.473621 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, N.J.
PB  - Pearson
KW  - Economics, Medical
KW  - Government Regulation
KW  - Health Care Reform
KW  - economics
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Insurance, Health
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 556-589) and index; Microeconomic 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 -- Social insurance -- Comparative health care systems -- Health system reform -- The health economics of Bads -- Epidemiology and economics : HIV/AIDS in Africa
ER  -