Domenico Esposito

Copayments and the Demand for Prescription Drugs

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Its results have applications for the private insurance and pharmaceutical sectors as well as the public sector, and it will be of great interest to professionals and researchers in the fields of health economics, economic and healthcare policy-making, and microeconomics. Its primary findings are especially critical to the United States public health sector which is on the cusp of providing a prescription drug benefit to nearly forty million elderly Americans.

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The increasing proliferation of copayments is one of the most striking recent developments in the health sector. As debate over their nature and implementation rages on, this volume examines the influence of copayments on the choice of drugs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780415701457
• ISBN-10: 0415701457
• Artikelnr.: 21882622

Autorenporträt

Domenico Esposito

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Literature on the Demand for Prescription Drugs 3.
Coronary Heart Disease and Statins 4. Economic Differentiation of Statins
5. The Structure of Demand for Prescription Drugs 6. The Economics of Drug
Demand 7. Econometric Specification of Prescription Drug Choice 8. Data 9.
Descriptive Statistics 10. Multivariate Regression Results 11. Multivariate
Sensitivity Analyses 12. Extensions 13. Policy Implications and Conclusions