Economic analysis in health care /

Morris, Stephen.

Economic analysis in health care / Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin. - Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley & Sons, c2007. - xiv, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-385) and indexes.

Introduction to economic analysis in health care -- The demand for health care -- The production and costs of health care -- The supply of health care -- Markets, market failure, and the role of government in health care -- Health insurance and health care financing -- Equity in health care -- Welfarist and non-welfarist foundations of economic evaluation -- Principles of economic evaluation in health care -- Measuring and valuing health care output -- Economic evaluation methods -- The use of economic evaluation in decision making.

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