1st Edition
Health Economics An Industrial Organization Perspective
360 Pages
79 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
358 Pages
79 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
352 Pages
79 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline during the last 25 years. All this intense research activity has come about through the teaching of courses on health economics, mostly at graduate level. However, the Industrial Organization aspects of the health care market do not occupy a central place in those courses. The authors propose a textbook of health... Read more
Preface Part 1: Principles of Economics 1. Introduction 2. Demand 3. Supply 4. Markets 5. Regulation 6. Mergers and Acquisitions 7. For-profit and Nonprofit Organizations Part 2: Health Care 8. Essential Concepts in Health Economics 9. Demand for Health and Health Care 10. Insurance 11. Contracts and Asymmetric Information Part 3: IO in Health Care 12. Competition in Health Care Markets 13. Public and Private Provision 14. Bargaining 15. Waiting Lists 16. Referrals, Gatekeeping and Levels of Care 17. Pharmaceutical Market
Biography
Pedro Luis de Oliveira Martins Pita Barros is Professor of Economics, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Xavier Martinez-Giralt is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Economic History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
