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Incentives and choice in health care /

"A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return pharmaceutical manufacturers ex...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sloan, Frank A., Kasper, Hirschel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • To find an answer, one must know the question : health economics and public policy / Henry J. Aaron
  • Health capital : theory and empirical evidence / Donna Gilleskie
  • What we know and don't know about the effects of cost sharing on the demand for medical care
  • and so what? / Joseph P. newhouse and Anna D. Sinaiko
  • Adverse selection and moral hazard : implications for health insurance markets / Mark V. Pauly
  • Direct-to-consumer advertising in health care : an overview of economic issues / Ernst R. Berndt and Julie M. Donohue
  • Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank, or Pretty Woman : to what extent do addictive behaviors respond to incentives? / John Cawley
  • Medical career choices and rates of return / Sean Nicholson
  • The effects of incentives on pharmaceutical innovation / Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh
  • Physician fees and behavior : implications for structuring a fee schedule / Thomas G. McGuire
  • Physician pay for performance : alternative perspectives / Brian R. Golden and Frank A. Sloan
  • Competition, information provision, and hospital quality / Gautam Gowrisankaran
  • Summing up / Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper.