| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Health economics // Charles E. Phelps. |
| Author: |
Phelps, Charles E. |
| Published: |
New York :Addison-Wesley, : c2010., |
| Description: |
xvi, 640 p. :ill. ;25 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Why health economics? -- Utility and health -- The transformation of medical care to health -- The demand for medical care : conceptual framework -- Empirical studies of medical care demand and applications -- The physician and the physician firm -- Physicians in the marketplace -- The hospital as a supplier of medical care -- Hospitals in the marketplace -- The demand for health insurance -- Health insurance supply and managed care -- Government provision of health insurance -- Medical malpractice -- Externalities in health and medical care -- Managing the market : regulation and technical change in health care -- Universal insurance issues and international comparisons of health care systems. |
| Subject: |
Medical economics - United States. - |
| ISBN: |
0321594576 |