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 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.
This edition contains revised and updated data tables, where applicable.
In this book, Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform.
Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care
In 1933 , Dr. Sidney R. Garfield established a prepaid plan for construction workers in the Mojave Desert in Southern California . The industrialist Henry Kaiser then employed Dr. Garfield to create a prepaid group practice plan for ...
This edition contains revised and updated data tables and contains information throughout the text on the latest changes that were made to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
O'Halloran, Patrick L. and David J. Bashaw, “U.S. Physician Board Certification and Labor Market Returns,” ... Olsen, Jan Abel, “But Health Can Still Be a Necessity....,” Journal of Health Economics 12(1993): ...