Economics of Health and Medical Care

by Hicks, Lanis

• ISBN13: 9781449665395
• ISBN10: 144966539X
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-10-31
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

The Economics of Health and Medical Care is an introduction to population-based health economics as well as the traditional, market-oriented approach to health care 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 inform decision making, with a particular emphasis on determining alternative approaches to addressing a problem, issue, or decision and comparing the relative benefits and costs of those approaches.The Sixth Edition also offers: Expanded material on health insurance, to incorporate more theory regarding insurance markets and also on the substantial implications that insurance has for efficiency in the health care industry. New coverage of health care reform and its impact on different sectors of the economy and on different individuals in the system. New coverage of other changes in health policy such as the implications of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act

Table of Contents

A HeadNew to This Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PartI DESCRIPTIVE ECONOMICS
Chapter1 Output of the Health Care Sector
Chapter2 Economic Dimensions of the Health Care System
PartII EXPLANATORY ECONOMICS
Chapter3 Demand for Medical Care: A Simple Model
Chapter4 Additional Topics in the Demand for Health and Medical Care
Chapter5 Health Care Production and Costs
Chapter6 Behavior of Supply
Chapter7 Provider Payment
Chapter8 Competitive Markets
Chapter9 Market Power in Health Care
Chapter10 Health Insurance
Chapter11 The Labor Market
PartIII EVALUATIVE ECONOMICS
Chapter12 Economic Evaluation of Health Services
Chapter13 Value Judgments and Economic Evaluation
Chapter14 Financing Health Care
Chapter15 Public Health Insurance
Chapter16 Reform of the Health Care Market
Chapter17 Regulation and Antitrust Policy in Health Care
Chapter18 Evolving Issues in Health Care
AppendixA Glossary of Health Economics Terms
AppendixB Answers to Odd-Numbered Questions