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001 2007019057
003 DLC
005 20070601083211.0
008 070504s2007 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007019057
020 $a9780415391290 (hbk)
020 $a9780415391320 (pbk)
035 $a(DNLM)101306406
040 $aDNLM/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aRA410$b.M398 2007
060 10 $aW 74.1$bM478h 2007
082 00 $a338.4/33621$222
100 1 $aMcPake, Barbara.
245 10 $aHealth economics :$ban international perspective /$cBarbara McPake and Charles Normand.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$bRoutledge,$c2007.
263 $a0711
300 $ap. ;$ccm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: health economics in international perspective -- The demand for health and health services -- Demand, elasticity, and health -- Production, health, and health care: efficient use of inputs -- Cost of delivering health services -- Basic market models -- Supplier-induced demand and agency -- Market failure and government -- The theoretical bases of economic evaluation -- Issues in the measurement of costs -- Measuring benefits in economic evaluation -- Practical steps in economic evaluation -- Economic evaluation as a framework for choice -- Contracting -- Market structures -- Hospital and health provider behaviour and motivation -- The economics of regulation -- Incentives and agency -- Health systems: a framework for analysis -- Health systems around the world: an introduction to variation and performance -- Public health service systems -- Voluntary insurance based systems -- Social insurance systems -- Parallel systems -- Economics of health sector reform.
650 0 $aMedical economics.
650 0 $aMedical economics$vCross-cultural studies.
650 12 $aEconomics, Medical.
650 22 $aWorld Health.
700 1 $aNormand, Charles E. M.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019057.html