TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phelps,Charles E.
TI  - Health economics
SN  - 9781138207981 (hbk.)
U1  - 338.473621 
KW  - Economics, Medical
KW  - Health Services Needs and Demand
KW  - economics
KW  - Insurance, Health
KW  - Financial Management, Hospital
KW  - Marketing of Health Services
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - United States
N1  - Why health economics? -- Utility and health -- The transformation of medical care to health -- The demand for medical care : conceptual framework -- Empirical studies of medical care demand and applications -- The physician and the physician-firm -- Physicians in the marketplace -- The hospital as a supplier of medical care -- Hospitals in the marketplace -- The demand for health insurance -- Health insurance supply and managed care -- Government provision of health insurance -- Medical malpractice -- Externalities in health and medical care -- Managing the market : regulation, quality certification, and technical change -- Universal insurance issues and international comparisons of health care systems
ER  -