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Health Economics and Financing
Health Economics and Financing serves as the perfect primer for the economic analysis of medical markets. It prepares students of medicine, public health, policy and administration who wish to engage the central economic issues of their field—without extensive mathematics or highly technical analytical techniques.
Getzen’s text includes effective explanations of how and why health and medicine are both like and unlike other economic goods, as well as knowledge about institutional features, for students who intend to go into this unique and rewarding line of work. Health Economics and Financing serves as an excellent primer for introducing students to the principles and core concepts of health economics rather than its literature, equations, or research methods.
Getzen’s text includes effective explanations of how and why health and medicine are both like and unlike other economic goods, as well as knowledge about institutional features, for students who intend to go into this unique and rewarding line of work. Health Economics and Financing serves as an excellent primer for introducing students to the principles and core concepts of health economics rather than its literature, equations, or research methods.
496 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2012
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June 3, 2017
Compared to a previous text I've read, I find Getzen's Health Economics and Financing a much better read and introduction to health economics. Personally, I am much more interested in the actual practice of medicine and health-related studies or work than in the "office work" so I tend to get a little bored by books about economics, finance, accounting, and so on. (Though I obviously understand the importance of these topics, or else I would study them.) However, Getzen makes health (and general) economics and finance more interesting to learn and study. I really appreciate the relaxed tone of the text, and Getzen's way of introducing the unfamiliar with the familiar or tying new concepts with ones the reader already understands.
The summaries at the ends of each chapter are very useful. Often, the chapter's concepts are paraphrased in such a way that, if the reader had any doubts about whether or not he/she fully understood what was covered, he/she will definitely grasp them in the end.
I can easily recommend this book to anyone with an interest in health economics and financing, or healthcare management.
The summaries at the ends of each chapter are very useful. Often, the chapter's concepts are paraphrased in such a way that, if the reader had any doubts about whether or not he/she fully understood what was covered, he/she will definitely grasp them in the end.
I can easily recommend this book to anyone with an interest in health economics and financing, or healthcare management.
January 29, 2017
W chwilach zwątpienia sięgasz po Gatzena - jak mówi stare porzekadło osób zajmujących się ekonomiką zdrowia
June 26, 2012
A good intro to the world of economics for health professionals.
May 21, 2014
Love this textbook.
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