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More About This Title Health Economics and Financing, Fifth Edition
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Health Economics and Financing serves as the perfect primer for the economic analysis of medical markets. It prepares students of medicine, public health, policy and administration who wish to engage the central economic issues of their field—without extensive mathematics or highly technical analytical techniques.
Getzen’s text includes effective explanations of how and why health and medicine are both like and unlike other economic goods, as well as knowledge about institutional features, for students who intend to go into this unique and rewarding line of work.
Health Economics and Financing serves as an excellent primer for introducing students to the principles and core concepts of health economics rather than its literature, equations, or research methods.
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Thomas E. Getzen is the author of Health Economics and Financing, 5th Edition, published by Wiley.
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Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Author xxvi
Foreword xxvii
1 Choices: Money, Medicine, and Health 1
2 Demand and Supply 23
3 Cost–Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 44
4 Health Insurance: Financing Medical Care 69
5 Insurance Contracts and Managed Care 96
6 Physicians 124
7 Medical Education, Organization, and Business Practices 146
8 Hospitals 172
9 Management and Regulation of Hospital Costs 191
10 Long-Term Care 212
11 Pharmaceuticals 236
12 Financing and Ownership of Health Care Providers 259
13 Macroeconomics of Medical Care 292
14 The Role of Government and Public Goods 319
15 History, Demography, and the Growth of Modern Medicine 347
16 International Comparisons of Health and Health Expenditures 372
17 Economic Evaluation of Health Policy: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 408
18 Value for Money in the Future of Health Care 427
Glossary 443
Index 453
