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A textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to explain in economic terms how health care institutions and markets function.This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers'economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole.The book includes discussion of recent empirical evidence on the U.S. health system and can be used for an undergraduate course on U.S. health economics. It also contains sufficient material for an undergraduate or masters course on global health economics, or for a course on health economics aimed at health professionals. It includes a chapter on nurses as well as a chapter on the economics of hospitals and pharmaceuticals, which can be used in master's courses for students in

Who reads Health Economics (The MIT Press)?

Author

Sloan, Frank A. & Hsieh, Chee-Ruey

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262016766

Category

health

Subjects

Management, Medical, Economics

Rating

4.3 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14