Warren Greenberg

The Health Care Marketplace

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this wide-ranging book, Warren Greenberg surveys the health care industry using the economics of industrial organisations approach. By doing so, he provides the reader with an understanding of the differences between health care and other industries in the economy. As a result, this will be ideal for students in health care economy and policy who need to gain an understanding of this, the single largest sector of the economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4612-7237-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 289g
• ISBN-13: 9781461272373
• ISBN-10: 1461272378
• Artikelnr.: 39497772

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the Economics of Health Care.- 2. Physician Services Industry.- 3. Hospital Industry.- 4. Insurance, Managed Care, and System Integration.- 5. Employer and Employee as Purchasers of Health Care Services.- 6. Health Insurance in the Public Sector.- 7. Long-Term Care Industry.- 8. Antitrust in the Health Care Sector.- 9. Regulation and Competition in Health Care.- 10. Technology and Rationing in Health Care.- 11. Insights from Canada, Israel, and the Netherlands.