Health economics / Shirley Johnson-Lans
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TextPublisher: Boston : Pearson Education South Asia Pte. Ltd., c2006Description: xx, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9810699484 [newsprint]Subject(s): Medical economicsDDC classification: Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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College Library | 338.433621 J63 2006 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000002621 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Part one Introduction; Chapter 1 The subject matter of health economics -- Part two The demand for health care, and the insurance market; Chapter 2 The demand for health and the demand health care -- Chapter 3 The nature of heath insurance markets -- Chapter 4 The evolution to managed care -- Chapter 5 Social insurance in the United States: medicare and medicaid -- Part three The providers of health care: physicians, nurses, and hospitals; Chapter 6 Physician and nurses as inputs into the production of health care -- Chapter 7 Physician as providers of health -- Chapter 8 Hospitals -- Part four Evaluation of the technology, technological change, and the bio-pharmaceutical industry -- Chapter 9 Cost-benefit and cost effectiveness analysis -- Chapter 10 The role of technology in health care -- Chapter 11 The economics of prescription drugs -- Part five Comparative systems and public policy -- Chapter 12 Comparative health-care systems -- Chapter 13 Health care: a global perspective -- Chapter 14 The health-care systems of the United States; where do we go next? --
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