Health Economics and Policy

James Henderson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

512 Seiten

2014 | 6th edition
South-Western College Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-285-75849-7 (ISBN)

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Demonstrates how microeconomic principles apply to health care delivery and its policies. This book explores the changing nature of health care, the social and political sides of issues, and the future of health care delivery and finance under the Affordable Care Act. It teaches students to analyze public policy from an economic perspective.

The 6th edition of HEALTH ECONOMICS AND POLICY thoroughly demonstrates how microeconomic principles apply to health care delivery and its policies. While you explore the changing nature of health care, the social and political sides of issues, and the future of health care delivery and finance under the Affordable Care Act, you learn to analyze public policy from an economic perspective.

James W. Henderson is the Ben H. Williams Professor of Economics at Baylor University, where his teaching and research center on health economics and policy. Before joining the Baylor faculty, Dr. Henderson was vice president of finance and management at the Dallas Minority Business Center. Dr. Henderson's economic research has appeared in Atlantic Economic Journal, Health Care Financing Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Rural Health and PharmacoEconomics. He has lectured in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Mexico, Sweden, China and Ukraine. Dr. Henderson earned his Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University.

1. U.S. Medical Care: A System in Transition.
2. Using Economics to Study Health Issues.
3. Analyzing Medical Care Markets.
4. Economic Evaluation in Health Care.
5. Demand for Health and Medical Care.
6. The Market for Health Insurance.
7. Managed Care.
8. The Physicians' Services Market.
9. The Hospital Services Market.
10. The Market for Pharmaceuticals.
11. Confounding Factors.
12. Policies That Enhance Access.
13. Policies to Contain Costs.
14. Medical Care Systems Worldwide.
15. Medical Care Reform in the United States.
16. Lessons for Public Policy.
Glossary.
Index.

Verlagsort	Florence
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 262 mm
Gewicht	1180 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	1-285-75849-8 / 1285758498
ISBN-13	978-1-285-75849-7 / 9781285758497
Zustand	Neuware