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Medical Economics An Integrated Approach to the Economics of Health.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Obermann, Konrad
Otros Autores: Thielscher, Christian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 1 0 |a Medical Economics  |h [electronic resource] :  |b An Integrated Approach to the Economics of Health. 
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500 |a Description based upon print version of record. 
505 0 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: approaching health economics -- Our approach and structure of the book -- Part I Health, healthcare and healthcare systems -- 1 Understanding "health" in health economics -- 1.1 Definitions and models of "health" and "disease" -- 1.2 Pathology and the definition of specific diseases -- 1.3 Factors influencing health and disease -- 1.4 Data, data sources and data analysis -- 1.5 Health and human rights -- Further reading -- 2 From disease to care 
505 8 |a 2.1 Need and demand for healthcare -- 2.2 Healthcare systems -- 2.3 Providing care -- 2.4 Quality of care -- Further reading -- 3 Ethics, values and the idea of a good life -- 3.1 Theories of justice -- 3.2 Governance and the role of social institutions -- 3.3 Positive and normative health economics -- 3.4 Disease, incentives and moral convictions: towards a dictatorship of health? -- Further reading -- 4 Healthcare management -- 4.1 Management: history and terminology -- 4.2 Management and organizations -- 4.3 Management activities -- Further reading -- 5 Financing healthcare 
505 8 |a 5.1 Spending on healthcare -- 5.2 Describing financial flows: national health accounts -- 5.3 Who pays for whom? Equity in financing -- 5.4 Effects of healthcare spending on the household -- Further reading -- 6 The relationship between macroeconomics and health -- 6.1 The economic consequences of disease -- 6.2 Investing in health -- 6.3 The basis for government spending: fiscal space -- 6.4 Social security, automatic stabilizers and projecting future costs -- Further reading -- 7 Comparing healthcare systems -- 7.1 Comparative healthcare system analysis: economics, data, history and attitudes 
505 8 |a 7.2 Social health insurance in Germany -- 7.3 The Beveridge Report and the UK welfare state -- 7.4 Sin taxes to finance national health insurance: the Philippines -- 7.5 World war and vested interests prevented the creation of a national health insurance: the United States -- Further reading -- Part II Health economic theory -- 8 Approaching healthcare from an economic perspective -- 8.1 Economic thinking in healthcare and the role of health economics -- The role of public goods -- The role of health economics: providing data and reflecting on goals 
505 8 |a 8.2 Economics as a field of study and economics as a method -- 8.3 A very short history of health economics -- 8.4 The political economy of healthcare systems -- 8.5 Mathematics, models and causality in health economics -- Independent and dependent variables, models, econometrics and mixed methods -- Further reading -- 9 Neoclassical economics: The prevailing approach -- 9.1 Homo economicus -- Utility -- Marginal analysis -- Efficiency -- Rationality -- Human capital and investing in people -- 9.2 Welfare economics -- 9.3 Two key works: Kenneth Arrow and Michael Grossman -- 9.4 Game theory 
500 |a Vaccination 
500 |a Written by two medics, who are also qualified economists, this introduction to health economics draws on a wider range of economic thinking than that normally underpinning health policy to explore how economics can best contribute to improved health care. 
590 |a ProQuest Ebook Central  |b Ebook Central Academic Complete 
650 0 |a Medical economics. 
650 2 |a Economics, Medical 
650 6 |a Économie de la santé. 
650 7 |a Medical economics  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Thielscher, Christian. 
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