Health Economics

Jay Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor at Stanford University, School of Medicine, USA. Timothy Hyde is a doctoral student at Yale University, USA. Peter Tu is a doctoral student at Harvard University, USA.

1. Why Health Economics?.- PART I: DEMAND FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE.- 2. Demand for Health Care.- 3. Demand for Health: The Grossman Model.- 4. Socioeconomic Disparities in Health.- PART II: SUPPLY OF HEALTH CARE.- 5. The Labor Market for Physicians.- 6. Hospitals.- PART III: INFORMATION ECONOMICS.- 7. Demand for Insurance.- 8. Adverse Selection: Akerlof's Market for Lemons.- 9. Adverse Selection: The Rothschild-Stiglitz Model.- 10. Adverse Selection in Real Markets.- 11. Moral Hazard.- PART IV: ECONOMICS OF HEALTH INNOVATION.- 12. Pharmaceuticals and the Economics of Innovation.- 13. Technology and The Price of Health Care.- 14. Health Technology Assessment.- PART V: HEALTH POLICY.- 15. The Health Policy Conundrum.- 16. The Beveridge Model: Nationalized Health Care.- 17. The Bismarck Model: Social Health Insurance.- 18. The American Model.- 19. Population Aging and the Future of Health Policy.- PART VI: PUBLIC HEALTH ECONOMICS.- 20. The Economics of Health Externalities.- 21. Economic Epidemiology.- 22. Obesity.- PART VII: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ECONOMICS.- 23. Prospect Theory.- 24 Time Inconsistency and Health.