Incentives and choice in health care [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/73621
• Soggetto topico: Medical economics; Medical economics - United States
• Altri autori: SloanFrank A KasperHirschel
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Incentives and choice in health care
• ISBN: 1-282-10017-3; 9786612100178; 0-262-28381-6; 1-4356-4789-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781807403321
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