The Economics of Health and Health Care

Sherman Folland is Associate Professor of Economics at Oakland University, Michigan, USA Allen C. Goodman is Professor of Economics at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA Miron Stano is Professor of Economics at Oakland University, Michigan, USA

Part One: Basic Economics Tools  1. Introduction  2. Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics  3. Statistical Tools for Health Economics  4. Economic Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis  Part Two: Supply and Demand  5. Production of Health  6. The Production, Cost, and Technology of Health Care  7. Demand for Health Capital  8. Demand and Supply of Health Insurance  9. Consumer Choice and Demand  Part Three: Information and Insurance Markets  10. Asymmetric Information and Agency  11. The Organization of Health Insurance Markets  12. Managed Care  13. Nonprofit Firms  Part Four: Key Players in the Health Care Sector  14. Hospitals and Long-Term Care  15. The Physician's Practice  16. Health Care Labor Markets and Professional Training  17. The Pharmaceutical Industry  Part Five: Social Insurance  18. Equity, Efficiency, and Need  19. Government Intervention in Health Care Markets  20. Government Regulation: Principal Regulatory Mechanisms  21. Social Insurance  22. Comparative Health Care Systems  23. Health System Reform  Part Six: Special Topics  24. The Health Economics of Bads 25. Epidemiology and Economics: HIV/AIDS in Africa