Irrationality in Health Care : What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why /

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The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results-and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance mak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hough, Douglas E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Economics > Psychological aspects.
Health behavior > United States.
Medical care > United States.
Medical economics > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Anomalies
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1 What Is Behavioral Economics- and Why Should We Care?
  • 2 Keeping What We Have, Even If We Don't Like It
  • 3 Managing Expectations and Behavior
  • 4 Understanding the Stubbornly Inconsistent Patient
  • 5 Understanding the Stubbornly Inconsistent Consumer
  • 6 Understanding the Medical Decision-Making Process, or Why a Physician Can Make the Same Mistakes as a Patient
  • 7 Explaining the Cumulative Impact of Physicians' Decisions
  • 8 Can We Use the Concepts of Behavioral Economics to Transform Health Care?
  • References
  • Index

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