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Health economics : an international perspective
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Health economics : an international perspective

Barbara McPake

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Introduction: health economics in international perspective
The demand for health and health services
Demand, elasticity, and health
Production, health, and health care: efficient use of inputs
Cost of delivering health services
Basic market models
Supplier-induced demand and agency
Market failure and government
The theoretical bases of economic evaluation
Issues in the measurement of costs
Measuring benefits in economic evaluation
Practical steps in economic evaluation
Economic evaluation as a framework for choice
Contracting
Market structures
Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation
The economics of regulation
Incentives and agency
Health systems: a framework for analysis
Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance
Public health service systems
Voluntary insurance based systems
Social insurance systems
Parallel systems
Economics of health sector reform.

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Health economics : an international perspective by Barbara McPake. ISBN 9780203995242. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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