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Johnson-Lans Shirley

A health economics primer - Japan Pearson Education 2006 - 363p. - Addison-Wesley series in economics. .

ISBN: 0-321-13669-1

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medical Economics
Health care economics, medical care vs health care
Demand for health, health care and insurance markets : Demand for health and the demand for health care, human capital, Grossman model
Nature of health insurance market : Employment based group insurance, elasticity of demand for health insurance,optimal insurance contracts, health insurance on the consumption of medical care
Evaluation to managed care : Indemnity and managed care insurers, studies comparing HMOs with indemnity plans, types of managed care plans, carve-outs- case of behavioural health care, managed competition
Social insurance in US: Social health insurance coverage for the elderly, poor and disabled, social insurance programs
Providers of health care : Physicians, nurses and hospitals
Physicians and nurses as inputs into the production of health care , supply and demand of nurses, hospitals
Evaluation of technology, technological change and the bio-pharmaceutical industry : Cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis, cost utility analysis
Role of technology in health care, economics of prescription drugs, governmental regulation of the pharmaceutical industry in US, price issues, profitability of the US pharmaceutical industry, demand for pharmaceuticals
Comparative system and public policy
Comparative health-care system, health care in Canada, Germany and UK, case study of health care in a developing nation
Health care- a global perspective, economics of immunization and prevention of communicable diseases, combating HIV/AIDS pandemic, demand for medical care in developing nations- income and price effects
Health care system of the US: Rising cost of medical care, access to health care- universal health care

Dewey Class. No.: 338.433 / LAN/H