Economics

• NEW - Totally rewritten chapter on managed care.

  • Explains both the theory and the practice of managed care organizations. Investigates impacts of managed care on the quality, quantity, and price of health care. Ex.___

• NEW - Analysis on “who pays” for health insurance.

  • Shows that when employees negotiate a better health insurance package, they may pay for it in the form of lower wages. Consumers may pay for the health insurance in the form of higher prices. Ex.___

• NEW - Chapter on economic "bads"(Chapter 25)—Items such as cigarettes are examined in the context of our economy.

  • Introduces students to items such as alcohol or tobacco that might be bad for us. Students learn how users of alcohol and tobacco respond to economic incentives, through taxes and advertising bans. Ex.___

• NEW - Chapter on pharmaceuticals (Chapter 26)—Rather than a simple “industry study,” the text looks at portions of the pharmaceutical industry with important economic content. These include questions as to the optimal combinations of drug therapies and other economic technologies, patent protection issues, and price discrimination by pharmaceutical firms.

  • Presents an important health care sector with straightforward economic methods, drawing key inferences with new charts and diagrams. Ex.___

• NEW - Cost-benefit chapter covered earlier in text (Chapter 4).

  • Follows directly from presentation of microeconomic and statistical methods. Ex.___

• Changes in government policies regarding health care covered in 2 chapters—Chapter 20 looks at conceptual issues regarding government intervention in health care markets. Chapter 21 investigates the principle regulatory mechanisms including antitrust policy.

• Organization of content by economic themes such as supply and demand, technology, labor issues, and the economics of information.

  • Emphasizes the applicability of traditional economic analyses to a wide range of health-related problems. Ex.___

• Focus on health care economic principles, including consumer utility, and economic profit.

  • Applies standard economic concepts to the health care and health services sectors. Ex.___

• Reviews on microeconomic concepts and statistical tools for students who may need additional preparation in those areas.

  • Shows how economists analyze problems using examples that are relevant to health economics. Requires no calculus. Ex.___

• Ideas and models are extensively used.

  • Provides clear, thorough explanations of complex concepts, e.g., unique treatment of the demand of health capital (Chapter 6) and new treatments of the economics of managed care (Chapter 12). Ex.___

• Graphs, tables, and charts used extensively throughout.

  • Helps to illustrate the concepts and discussions presented in the text. Ex.___

• Extensive bibliography of the current health economics literature—Over 750 references.

  • Allows students and instructors to find and to use the original source materials. Ex.___

• Contemporary ideas highlighted.

  • Provides up-to-date features. Ex.___

• Totally rewritten chapter on managed care.

  • Explains both the theory and the practice of managed care organizations. Investigates impacts of managed care on the quality, quantity, and price of health care. Ex.___

• Analysis on “who pays” for health insurance.

  • Shows that when employees negotiate a better health insurance package, they may pay for it in the form of lower wages. Consumers may pay for the health insurance in the form of higher prices. Ex.___

• Chapter on economic "bads"(Chapter 25)—Items such as cigarettes are examined in the context of our economy.

  • Introduces students to items such as alcohol or tobacco that might be bad for us. Students learn how users of alcohol and tobacco respond to economic incentives, through taxes and advertising bans. Ex.___

• Chapter on pharmaceuticals (Chapter 26)—Rather than a simple “industry study,” the text looks at portions of the pharmaceutical industry with important economic content. These include questions as to the optimal combinations of drug therapies and other economic technologies, patent protection issues, and price discrimination by pharmaceutical firms.

  • Presents an important health care sector with straightforward economic methods, drawing key inferences with new charts and diagrams. Ex.___

• Cost-benefit chapter covered earlier in text (Chapter 4).

  • Follows directly from presentation of microeconomic and statistical methods. Ex.___

I. BASIC ECONOMIC TOOLS.

II. SUPPLY AND DEMAND.

III. INFORMATION.

IV. INSURANCE AND ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH PROVIDERS.

V. TECHNOLOGY.

VI. LABOR.

VII. HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES.

VIII. SOCIAL INSURANCE AND HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM.

IX. POLICY ISSUES AND ANALYSES.

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  Economics of Health and Health Care, The, 6/E
  Folland, Goodman & Stano
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 648 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136080308 | ISBN-13: 9780136080305
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  For courses in Health Economics, U.S. Health Policy/Systems, or Public Health, taken by health services students or practitioners.

   

  Students in this course have varying backgrounds in Economics–Folland’s text makes Economics concepts the backbone of the Heath Care coverage.

   

  Folland is the best-selling Heath Care Economics text that teaches through core economic themes rather than concepts unique to the health care economy.

   

  The Sixth Edition retains the text’s hallmark features while updating content to reflect the major changes in the health policy arena. The core economics themes chosen are as basic as supply and demand, as ever-present as technology or labor issues, and as modern as the economics of information.

   

This best-selling comprehensive introduction to the economics of health and health care thoroughly develops and explains economic ideas and models and reflects the full spectrum of the most current health economics literature. It provides students with a solid working knowledge of the analytical tools of economics and econometrics as applied to contemporary health care issues.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Totally re-written chapter on managed care.
• New analyses on "who pays" for health insurance.
• New chapter on economic "bads" (Chapter 25). Most analyses look at things that are good for us - "bad" items such as cigarettes are usually not covered.
• New chapter on pharmaceuticals (Chapter 26). Rather than a simple "industry study," the text examines portions of the pharmaceutical industry with important economic content. These include questions as to the optimal combinations of drug therapies and other economic technologies, patent protection issues, and price discrimination by pharmaceutical firms.

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