This newly updated and expanded edition strikes the necessary balance of population-based health economics and the more traditional. market-oriented approach to health care economics.
The book examines economics through the lens of descriptive, explanatory, and evaluative economics.
The book examines economics through the lens of descriptive, explanatory, and evaluative economics.The Sixth Edition is an extensive revision that refines its approach to evaluative economics by focusing on the tools and methods used to ...
This book demonstrates the multiplicity of ways in which economists analyze the health care system, and is suitable for courses in Health Economics, Health Policy/Systems, or Public Health, taken by health services students or practitioners ...
This edition contains revised and updated data tables, where applicable.
Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care
The Economics of Health and Medical Care: An Introduction
This book sets out an alternative approach, which places care at the center of an economics of health, showing how essential it is that care is appropriately recognized in policy as a means of enhancing the dignity of the individual.
Among the several reasons for revising the first edition, perhaps the most compelling is to keep up with the changes occurring in the health care sector. Competition is now the...
This new edition has been fully updated with up-to-date case studies from the UK, Europe and the Rest of the World.
Examining the different structures and techniques involved in making decisions about who benefits from those health care resources available in a publicly funded system, this title provides a concise and compact introduction to health ...