The Economics of Health and Health Care

by Sherman Folland, Miron Stano, Allen C. Goodman

This clear, step-by-step best-selling introduction to the economics of health and health care thoroughly develops and explains economic ideas and models to reflect the full spectrum of the most current health economics literature. KEY This book uses core economic themes as basic as supply and demand, as venerable as technology or labor issues, and as modern as the economics of information. Chapter topics include health care, health capital, information, health insurance markets, managed care, nonprofit firms, hospitals, physicians and labor, the pharmaceutical industry, government intervention and regulation, and epidemiology and economics. Useful as a reference work for health service researchers, government specialists, and physicians and others in the health care field.

Genres: Economics, Nonfiction, Health

648 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Angela]

Is all this health care we're providing in the U.S. improving collective health? Probably not, actually. Really interesting concepts and info; too bad the thing is nearly impossible to read. Stodgy, convoluted writing and ridiculously unnecessary econ graphs kill what could be an outstanding book. I feel like I want to re-write it for them in the spirit of The Economic Way of Thinking.

[Mike Pollack]

I didn’t actually finish this book, got to page 314 and hit a wall with this. While some of the concepts were interesting they weren’t as applicable to the health research I do... also in full disclosure I was reading the second edition which is from the mid-1990s and thus somewhat outdated...

[Jagdish Sharma]

Whare to get this book from for reading ?

[Najah AL]

Hi how can I actually read the book it self