Health economics / Charles E. Phelps.
Publication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1992.Description: xv, 559 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780673387462
- 0673387461
- 338.4336 20 PHE
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Contents;
1. Why health economics?
2. An overview of how markets interrelate in medical and health insurance
3. The transformation of medical care to health
4. The demand for medical care: Conceptual framework
5. Empirical studies of medical care demand and applications
6. The physician
7. Physicians in the marketplace
8. The hospital as a supplier of medical care
9. Hospitals in the marketplace
11. The demand for health insurance
12. Government provision of health insurance: Medicare and its revisions
13. Other government care programs
14. Medical malpractice
15. Externalities in health and medical care
16. Regulation in the U.S. health care sector
17. International comparisons of health care
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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