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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824227703321

Titolo

Incentives and choice in health care / / edited by Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-10017-3

9786612100178

0-262-28381-6

1-4356-4789-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SloanFrank A

KasperHirschel

Disciplina

338.4/73621

Soggetti

Medical economics

Medical economics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]405) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 To Find the Answer, One Must Know the Question: Health Economics and Public Policy; 3 Health Capital: Theory and Empirical Evidence; 4 What We Know and Don't Know about the Effects of Cost Sharing on the Demand for Medical Care-and So What?; 5 Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Implications for Health Insurance Markets; 6 Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Health Care: An Overview of Economic Issues; 7 Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank, or Pretty Woman: To What Extent Do Addictive Behaviors Respond to Incentives?

8 Medical Career Choices and Rates of Return9 The Effects of Incentives on Pharmaceutical Innovation; 10 Physician Fees and Behavior: Implications for Structuring a Fee Schedule; 11 Physician Pay for Performance: Alternative Perspectives; 12 Competition, Information Provision, and Hospital Quality; 13 Summing Up; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leading scholars in the field of health economics evaluate the role of incentives in health and health-care decision making from the perspectives of both supply and demand.