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Health Economics
Health Economics by Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde, Peter Tu
- GenresEconomics
624 pages, Paperback
First published September 20, 2013
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April 28, 2016
This book is great. Simple yet very informative overview over Health Economics. You can also download the slides from the websites summarised by the author.
November 25, 2021
This is a fantastic textbook. It covers:
- basic modeling of supply and demand for healthcare and a good explanation of the insurance concepts of adverse selection and moral hazard.
-a really interesting comparison of the three major healthcare policy models: single payer in British Commonwealth and Scandinavia; managed competition in Europe and Asia; and the hard-to-define American model. Unfortunately, this text doesn't fully evaluate all of the changes wrought by the Affordable Care Act, which seems to have moved the U.S. much closer to the managed competition model.
- the problem of declining childbirth rates and a timely discussion of "externalities," including public health approaches to vaccination and obesity.
- the challenges to classical economics modeling and its presumption of rational actors raised by Daniel Kahneman's work.
The take-away is that there are no easy answers to the modern world's health policy issues. But it's still satisfying to get a rational, objective overview of them.
- basic modeling of supply and demand for healthcare and a good explanation of the insurance concepts of adverse selection and moral hazard.
-a really interesting comparison of the three major healthcare policy models: single payer in British Commonwealth and Scandinavia; managed competition in Europe and Asia; and the hard-to-define American model. Unfortunately, this text doesn't fully evaluate all of the changes wrought by the Affordable Care Act, which seems to have moved the U.S. much closer to the managed competition model.
- the problem of declining childbirth rates and a timely discussion of "externalities," including public health approaches to vaccination and obesity.
- the challenges to classical economics modeling and its presumption of rational actors raised by Daniel Kahneman's work.
The take-away is that there are no easy answers to the modern world's health policy issues. But it's still satisfying to get a rational, objective overview of them.
May 13, 2019
Excellent book mainly for undergraduates. Good examples. Looking forward for a new edition!
December 10, 2019
This book helped me with my graduate studies in health economics.
Some information was even written in laymen language, which was also quite helpful.
Some information was even written in laymen language, which was also quite helpful.
July 15, 2023
Required reading for my health economics class
February 19, 2022
Finland! Take notes
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