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Economics of Health and Health Care, The, 6/E
ISBN-10: 0136080308
ISBN-13: 9780136080305
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2010
Format: Cloth; 648 pp
Published: 07/30/2009
Status: Instock
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Description
For courses in Health Economics, U.S. Health Policy/Systems, or Public Health, taken by health services students or practitioners.
Students in this course have varying backgrounds in Economics—Folland’s text makes Economics concepts the backbone of the Health Care coverage.
Folland is the best-selling Health Care Economics text that teaches through core economic themes rather than concepts unique to the health care economy.
The Sixth Edition retains the text’s hallmark features while updating content to reflect the major changes in the health policy arena. The core economics themes chosen are as basic as supply and demand, as ever-present as technology or labor issues, and as modern as the economics of information.
Features
For courses in Health Economics, U.S. Health Policy/Systems, or Public Health, taken by health services students or practitioners.
Folland is the best-selling Heath Care Economics text that teaches through core economic themes rather than concepts unique to the health care economy.
The Sixth Edition retains the text’s hallmark features while updating content to reflect the major changes in the health policy arena. The core economics themes chosen are as basic as supply and demand, as ever-present as technology or labor issues, and as modern as the economics of information.
NEW–Discussion of John Nyman’s path-breaking health insurance analysis in Chapter 8–Examines Nyman’s argument that we should view insurance payoffs as income transfers from those who remain healthy to those who become ill. Rather than producing welfare-reducing moral hazard, these income transfers generate additional consumption of medical care and potential increases in economic well-being.
NEW–The most up-to-date evaluations of the Medicare Part D drug benefit in Chapter 21.
NEW–Exciting new work comparing the U.S. and Canadian health care systems, by Dave and June O’Neill, in Chapter 22.
NEW–A new chapter (Ch. 23) that carefully analyzes the process of health system reform–Notes that the most serious obstacle to reform (using the United States as a prime example) is the fundamental divide in philosophy. Should policies expand the government’s role through mandates, additional regulations, and tax subsidies or should they rely increasingly on markets through deregulation and tax changes that neutralize the current bias toward subsidized, employer-based insurance?
NEW–Updates to the well-received chapter on “Epidemiology and Economics: HIV/AIDS in Africa” (Ch. 25)–Shows the enormous changes in treatment cost and delivery that have occurred since the initial presentation in 2003.
Discussion of the applicability of traditional economic analyses–Relates material to a wide range of health-related problems.
Extensive pedagogy–Encourages student comprehension throughout.
–Abundance of graphs, tables, and charts
–Discussion questions and exercises to help students master the basics and prompt them to think about the issues
–Features on up-to-date applications of theory and policy developments, as well as tidbits of purely background information.
A comprehensive reference section with close to 1,000 sources–Addresses the complexity of the material and encourages students to enrich their work through referral of original sources.
Early introduction to the realities of the health economist’s profession–Also updates the immediacy of health care costs and health insurance coverage in 2009.
Clear connections between principles and application–Demonstrates the links between economic principles such as supply and demand and relates them to health care and insurance.
New To This Edition
NEW—Presentation of John Nyman’s path-breaking health insurance analysis in Chapter 8—Examines Nyman’s argument that we should view insurance payoffs as income transfers from those who remain healthy to those who become ill. Rather than producing welfare-reducing moral hazard, these income transfers generate additional consumption of medical care and potential increases in economic well-being.
NEW–The most up-to-date evaluations of the Medicare Part D drug benefit in Chapter 21.
NEW–Exciting new work comparing the U.S. and Canadian health care systems, by Dave and June O’Neill, in Chapter 22.
NEW–A new chapter (Ch. 23) that carefully analyzes the process of health system reform–Notes that the most serious obstacle to reform (using the United States as a prime example) is the fundamental divide in philosophy. Should policies expand the government’s role through mandates, additional regulations, and tax subsidies or should they rely increasingly on markets through deregulation and tax changes that neutralize the current bias toward subsidized, employer-based insurance?
NEW–Updates to the well-received chapter on “Epidemiology and Economics: HIV/AIDS in Africa” (Ch. 25)–Shows the enormous changes in treatment cost and delivery that have occurred since the initial presentation in 2003.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics
Chapter 3: Statistical Tools for Health Economics
Chapter 4: Economic Efficiency and Cost Benefit Analysis
Chapter 5: Production of Health
Chapter 6: The Production, Cost, and Technology of Health Care
Chapter 7: Demand for Health Capital
Chapter 8: Demand and Supply for Health Insurance
Chapter 9: Consumer Choice and Demand
Chapter 10: Asymmetric Information and Agency
Chapter 11: The Organization of Health Insurance Markets
Chapter 12: Managed Care
Chapter 13: Nonprofit Firms Nonprofit Firms
Chapter 14: Hospitals and Long-term Care
Chapter 15: The Physician’s Practice
Chapter 16: Health Care Labor Markets and Professional Training
Chapter 17: The Pharmaceutical Industry
Chapter 18: Equity, Efficiency and Need
Chapter 19: Government Intervention in Health Care Markets
Chapter 20: Government Regulation: Principal Regulatory Mechanisms
Chapter 21: Social Insurance
Chapter 22: Comparative Health Care Systems and Health System Reform
Chapter 23: Health System Reform
Chapter 24: The Health Economics of Bads
Chapter 25: Epidemiology and Economics: HIV/AIDS in Africa
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