Irrationality in health care : what behavioral economics reveals about what we do and why /

"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 such simple questions as 'Would requiring everyone to buy health insuranc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hough, Douglas E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Medical economics > United States.
Medical care > United States.
Health behavior > United States.
Economics > Psychological aspects.
Medical care.
Medical economics.
Health behavior.
Economics, Behavioral
Delivery of Health Care
Economics, Medical
Health Behavior
Patient Care
Économie de la santé > États-Unis.
Habitudes sanitaires > États-Unis.
Économie politique > Aspect psychologique.
Prestation de soins.
Économie de la santé.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Soins médicaux.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Economics > Psychological aspects
Health behavior
Medical care
Medical economics
Gesundheitspolitik
Gesundheitsökonomie
Gesundheitsförderung
Verhaltensökonomie
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is behavioral economics
  • and why should we care?
  • Keeping what we have, even if we don't like it
  • Managing expectations and behavior
  • Understanding the stubbornly inconsistent patient
  • Understanding the stubbornly inconsistent consumer
  • Understanding the medical decision making process, or, Why a physician can make the same mistakes as a patient
  • Explaining the cumulative impact of physicians' decisions
  • Can we use the concepts of behavioral economics to transform health care?

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