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999 _c153481
_d153481
020 _a9783540278047
040 _cCUS
082 _a338.473621
_bZWE/H
100 _aZweifel, Peter
245 0 _aHealth economics/
_cPeter Zweifel, Friedrich Breyer and Mathias Kifmann
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aHeidelberg:
_bSpringer,
_c2009.
300 _axx, 529 p.
505 _a1. Introduction -- 2. Economic valuation of life and health -- 3. Individuals as producers of their health -- 4. Empirical studies of the production of health -- 5. Health goods, market failure and justice -- 6. Optimal health insurance contracts -- 7. Risk selection in health insurance markets -- 8. Physicians as suppliers of medical services -- 9. Hospital services and efficiency -- 10. Paying providers -- 11. Forms of delivery of medical care -- 12. The market for pharmaceuticals -- 13. The political economy of health care -- 14. Future challenges to health care systems.
650 _aMedical economics
650 _aSocial policy
650 _aEconomics
650 _aPublic health
700 _aBreyer, Friedrich
700 _aKifmann, Mathias
942 _cWB16