TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phelps,Charles E.
TI  - Health economics
SN  - 9780673387462
U1  - 338.4336 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Medical economics
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - economics
KW  - Economics, Medical
N1  - 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
ER  -