TY  - BOOK
AU  - McPake,Barbara
AU  - Normand,Charles E.M
TI  - Health economics: an international perspective 
SN  - 9780415391290 (hbk)
AV  - RA 410 M398.2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Medical economics
KW  - Economía médica
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Estudios interculturales
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; 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
ER  -