Steven R. Eastaugh

Health Economics

Efficiency, Quality, and Equity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful 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. Part One presents a basic overview of cost analysis, production functions, and provider cost behavior. Part Two considers economic models of physicians and hospital behavior, and recent changes in methods for paying physicians. Part Three focuses on employee cost sharing, HMOs, gatekeepers to contain utilization, and the use of case managers in long-term care. Part four looks at equity, social welfare, and the unique problems of urban medical centers. Part Five focuses on consumer information, quality measurement, and health manpower policies for nonphysician providers. Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis is reviewed in Part Six. The last part summarizes major future policy options and suggests a number of mixed strategies, including capitation. In short, Health Economics provides policy makers, health care providers, and students with the analytical tools needed to effectively balance efficiency and quality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9780865691964
• ISBN-10: 0865691967
• Artikelnr.: 25596059

Autorenporträt

STEVEN R. EASTAUGH is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Business and Public Management, The George Washington University. The winner of numerous awards, he is the author of six books, including Health Care Finance and Health Care Economics (Auburn House, 1992) as well as more than sixty journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

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