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Record Nr.

UNINA9910362460503321

Autore

Morris, Stephen

Titolo

Economic analysis in health care / Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2007

ISBN

9780470016855

047001685X

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Classificazione

44.05

Altri autori (Persone)

Devlin, N. J (Nancy J.)

Parkin, David

Disciplina

338.4/33621

Locazione

SES

Collocazione

M/424 MOR

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.