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100 _aMcPake, Barbara.
245 _aHealth economics :
_ban international perspective /
_cBarbara McPake and Charles Normand.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aAbingdon, Oxon ;
_aNew York, N.Y. :
_bRoutledge,
_c2007.
300 _axx, 291p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aIntroduction: health economics in international perspective -- The demand for health and health services -- Demand, elasticity, and health -- Production, health, and health care: efficient use of inputs -- Cost of delivering health services -- Basic market models -- Supplier-induced demand and agency -- Market failure and government -- The theoretical bases of economic evaluation -- Issues in the measurement of costs -- Measuring benefits in economic evaluation -- Practical steps in economic evaluation -- Economic evaluation as a framework for choice -- Contracting -- Market structures -- Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation -- The economics of regulation -- Incentives and agency -- Health systems: a framework for analysis -- Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance -- Public health service systems -- Voluntary insurance based systems -- Social insurance systems -- Parallel systems -- Economics of health sector reform.
650 _aMedical economics.
650 _aMedical economics
_v Cross-cultural studies.
650 2 _aEconomics, Medical.
650 2 2 _aWorld Health.
700 _aNormand, Charles E. M.
856 _Table of contents only
_u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019057.html
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