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Medical Economics An Integrated Approach to the Economics of Health.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle Upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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