Health Economics

A comprehensive book for advanced undergraduate students in health economics, it discusses current developments and debates in modern health economics from an international perspective. Economic models are presented, complemented by real-life explanations and analysis, and discussions of the influence of the models on policymaking.

Broad scope, featuring comparative health policy and empirical examples from around the world

Topical issues such as the obesity epidemic, economic epidemiology, socioeconomic health disparities, and behavioral economics

Informed by the latest research including the Oregon Medicaid Experiment and the potential impacts of US health reform

A rich learning resource, complete with hundreds of exercises to help solidify and extend understanding

Student-friendly, with an engaging, lively style, enhanced by cartoons and images that relate the principles of health economics to everyday life

Préface
Written by academics from leading institutions, this comprehensive textbook introduces and discusses current developments and debates in modern health economics from an international perspective.

Auteur
Jay Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor at Stanford University, School of Medicine, USA. Timothy Hyde is a doctoral student at Yale University, USA. Peter Tu is a doctoral student at Harvard University, USA.

Contenu

1. Why Health Economics?.- PART I: DEMAND FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE.- 2. Demand for Health Care.- 3. Demand for Health: The Grossman Model.- 4. Socioeconomic Disparities in Health.- PART II: SUPPLY OF HEALTH CARE.- 5. The Labor Market for Physicians.- 6. Hospitals.- PART III: INFORMATION ECONOMICS.- 7. Demand for Insurance.- 8. Adverse Selection: Akerlof's Market for Lemons.- 9. Adverse Selection: The Rothschild-Stiglitz Model.- 10. Adverse Selection in Real Markets.- 11. Moral Hazard.- PART IV: ECONOMICS OF HEALTH INNOVATION.- 12. Pharmaceuticals and the Economics of Innovation.- 13. Technology and The Price of Health Care.- 14. Health Technology Assessment.- PART V: HEALTH POLICY.- 15. The Health Policy Conundrum.- 16. The Beveridge Model: Nationalized Health Care.- 17. The Bismarck Model: Social Health Insurance.- 18. The American Model.- 19. Population Aging and the Future of Health Policy.- PART VI: PUBLIC HEALTH ECONOMICS.- 20. The Economics of Health Externalities.- 21. Economic Epidemiology.- 22. Obesity.- PART VII: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ECONOMICS.- 23. Prospect Theory.- 24 Time Inconsistency and Health.<p