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Health Economics Efficiency, Quality, and Equity
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Steven R. Eastaugh
Book Code: R197
ISBN: 0-86569-197-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-86569-197-1
480 pages, figures, tables
Auburn House Paperback
Publication: 8/30/1992
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The book is an excellent introduction to the major issues affecting the health care sector today, and students can read sections at a time, where they will be introduced to some of the most important research in the fields of health services research and health policy.
    —Academic Medicine
  • Health Economics offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration into the ever-evolving and continually challenging system of health care economics for this decade. Hospital administrators, directors, managers, and physicians as well as others in health care with a concern for out-of-control costs would appreciate the author's perspective.
    —Clinical Gerontologist
Description: This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of the present status and future direction of health care economics and its far-reaching ramifications. Health Economics provides exhaustive analyses of such major issues as cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, quality enhancement, and technology assessment. Part one presents a basic overview of cost analysis, production functions, and provider cost behavior. Part two considers economic models of physicians and hospital behavior and recent changes in methods for paying physicians. Part three focuses on employee cost sharing, HMOs, gatekeepers to contain utilization, and the use of case managers in long-term care. Part four looks at equity, social welfare, and the unique problems of urban medical centers. Part five focuses on consumer information, quality measurement, and health manpower policies for nonphysician providers. Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis is reviewed in Part six. The last Part summarizes major future policy options and suggests a number of mixed strategies, including capitation. In short, Health Economics provides policy makers, health care providers, and students with the analytical tools needed to effectively balance efficiency and quality.
Table of Contents:
  • Cost Behavior and Cost Functions
  • Cost Inflation: Overtilled and Undertilled Fields
  • Cost Functions and Production Functions
  • Economic Models and Physician Behavior
  • Economic Models of Physician and Hospital Behavior
  • Physician Payment Options for the 1990s
  • Cost Sharing, Managed Care, and Competition Health Plans
  • Competition Health Plans: Managed Care and the Use of Case Managers
  • Employers, Cost Sharing, and Cost Containment
  • Equity, Access, and the Urban Medical Center
  • Access and the Uninsured
  • The Cost of Teaching Hospitals
  • Consumer Education, Service Quality, and Health Manpower
  • Quality Measurement, Consumer Information, and Value Shopping
  • Health Manpower Policies, Physician Extenders, and Nursing Education
  • Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Cost-Benefit
  • Cost-effectiveness and Cost-benefit Analysis
  • The Role of Technology Assessment
  • Benefit Evaluation: The Value of Life and Limb
  • Future Policy Trends
  • Capitation, Consolidation, and Universal Entitlement
LC Card Number: 91-26275
LCC Class: RA410
Dewey Class: 338.4
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