This is a 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.

This book is a thorough and insightful study of the present status and future direction of health care economics. It provides exhaustive analyses of such major issues as cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, quality enhancement, and technology assessment.

Part 1 Cost Behaviour and Cost Functions: Cost Inflation - Overtilled and Undertilled Fields; Cost Functions and Production Functions. Part 2 Economic Models and Physician Behaviour: Economic Models of Physician and Hospital Behaviour; Physician Payment Options for the 1990s. Part 3 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. Part 4 Equity, Access and the Urban Medical Centre: Access and the Uninsured; The Cost of Teaching Hospitals. Part 5 Consumer Education, Service Quality, and Health Manpower: Quality Measurement, Consumer Information, and Value Shopping; Health Manpower Policies, Physician Extenders and Nursing Education. Part 6 Efficiency, Effectiveness and Cost-benefit: Cost-effectiveness and Cost-benefit Analysis; The Role of Technology Assessment; Benefit Evaluation - The Value of Life and Limb. Part 7 Future Policy Trends: Capitation, Consolidation and Universal Entitlement.