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Health Economics

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ISBN-10: 0262016761

ISBN-13: 9780262016766

Edition: 2012

Authors: Frank A. Sloan, Chee-Ruey Hsieh

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This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers' economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole. The book includes discussion of recent empirical evidence on the U.S. health system and can be used for an undergraduate…    
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Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/23/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 848
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.586
Language: English

Frank Sloan is J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University. A leader in the field of health economics for more than thirty years, he is coauthor of The Price of Smoking (2004) and Medical Malpractice (2008) and coeditor of Incentives and Choices in Health Care (2008), all published by the MIT Press.

Chee-Ruey Hsieh is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academica Sinica, Taiwan, and the coeditor of three previous books on the economics of health care.