| Contents |
Basic economic tools -- Introduction -- Microeconomic tools for health economics -- Statistical tools for health economics -- Supply and demand -- Production of health -- Demand for health capital -- Information: asymmetric information and agency -- Consumer choice and demand -- Information: inperfect agency and supplier-induced demand -- Health, health care and advertising -- Insurance and organization of health providers -- Insurance -- Health maintenance organizations (HMO's) -- Production and cost of health care -- Technology -- Role of nonprofit firms -- Technology -- Information: physician uncertainty and small area variations -- Social insurance -- Equity, efficiency, and need -- Social insurance -- Comparative health care systems -- Labor -- Labor markets and professional training -- Training and practice of physicians -- Regulation and competition -- Government intervention in health care markets and an introduction to regulation -- Regulation of the hospital sector -- Cost-benefit analysis and applications to health care -- Antitrust in health care. |
