Overview
- Readers will know the issues and future challenges confronting healthcare systems, have the tools used in the international literature for analyzing these issues and challenges and be acquainted with the crucial stylized facts and pieces of econometric evidence
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Health Economics presents a systematic treatment of the economics of health behavior and health care delivery. Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics, this text provides the background required to understand current research,
presenting theoretical models as well as empirical evidence and summarizing key results. Without neglecting ethical concerns, modern microeconomic theory is applied to
formulate theoretical implications and predictions. Issues discussed include the economic valuation of life and health, moral hazard in health care utilization, supplier-induced demand, the search for remuneration systems with favorable incentives, risk selection in health insurance markets, and technological change in medicine.
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
“The second edition of Health Economics is based on the German version of 1992. It contains all important facts on the specific characteristics of health products and global health markets at an advanced economic level. … The detailed mathematical formulas and derivation of theories are helpful for a better understanding of methodology … . Each chapter concludes with a summary and exercise questions which turn it into a valuable workbook. … a valuable work of reference for experts as well.” (Simone Torka, Journal of Public Health, Vol. 18, May, 2010)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Economics
Authors: Peter Zweifel, Friedrich Breyer, Mathias Kifmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68540-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-27804-7Published: 22 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42536-3Published: 14 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68540-1Published: 14 July 2009
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 529
Additional Information: Original English edition published by Oxford University Press, 1997
Topics: Economics, general, Public Health, Social Policy, Law and Economics, Sociology, general