Health Economics

Informationen zum Autor Frank Sloan is J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University. A leader in the field of health economics for forty years, he is coauthor of The Price of Smoking (2004) and Medical Malpractice (2008) and coeditor of Incentives and Choices in Health Care (2008), all published by the MIT Press. Chee-Ruey Hsieh is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academica Sinica, Taiwan, and the coeditor of three previous books on the economics of health care. Klappentext This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers¿ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole. Zusammenfassung A textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to explain in economic terms how health care institutions and markets function.

Product details

• Authors: Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (Visiting Scholar Hsieh, Frank A. Sloan, Frank A. (Professor of Health Policy and Ma Sloan, Frank A. (Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics Sloan, Frank A. Hsieh Sloan, Frank A./ Hsieh Sloan
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780262016766
• ISBN: 978-0-262-01676-6
• No. of pages: 816
• Series: Health Economics; The MIT Press
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics