The debate on economic aspects of health care is beset with the conflict of balancing supply and demand, of offering a less adequate service to all people, or a maximal service to relatively few. Somewhere along this continuum is an area of optimal service; providing a range of services which the country can afford, the point at which we can best cut our coat to fit our cloth
There is a puzzling disconnection between health economics and socio-economic determinants of health...
Most of the existing medical economics literature is descriptive rather than analytical, summarizing...
Over the past half century, Americans spent a rising share of total economic resources on health and...
upon the paradox of the economics of medical care. The anachronistic practices of "cost-reim-bu...
The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for t...
SINCE economists began to turn their attention to matters concerning the efficient allocation of res...
There is no doubt that economic issues are becoming more and more relevant also in national health s...
Is health care a luxury or a necessity? Ever since the publication of Newhouse paper in 1977, this q...
Economics is concerned with the way that scarce resources are allocated. Health economics uses conce...
Current wisdom holds that health care is a business and as such must abide by market principles. M...
Rising costs of health care provision throughout the world have provoked a vigorous debate about the...
IntroductionThe development of medicine in the last three decades has brought not only new diagnosti...
Health care is what economists call a superior good, one that claims an increasing part of the con...
Health care resources are scarce and yet the demand for them continues to grow. Decisions must be ta...
The development of the health care system in Switzerland has recently been driven by different proce...
There is a puzzling disconnection between health economics and socio-economic determinants of health...
Most of the existing medical economics literature is descriptive rather than analytical, summarizing...
Over the past half century, Americans spent a rising share of total economic resources on health and...
upon the paradox of the economics of medical care. The anachronistic practices of "cost-reim-bu...
The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for t...
SINCE economists began to turn their attention to matters concerning the efficient allocation of res...
There is no doubt that economic issues are becoming more and more relevant also in national health s...
Is health care a luxury or a necessity? Ever since the publication of Newhouse paper in 1977, this q...
Economics is concerned with the way that scarce resources are allocated. Health economics uses conce...
Current wisdom holds that health care is a business and as such must abide by market principles. M...
Rising costs of health care provision throughout the world have provoked a vigorous debate about the...
IntroductionThe development of medicine in the last three decades has brought not only new diagnosti...
Health care is what economists call a superior good, one that claims an increasing part of the con...
Health care resources are scarce and yet the demand for them continues to grow. Decisions must be ta...
The development of the health care system in Switzerland has recently been driven by different proce...
There is a puzzling disconnection between health economics and socio-economic determinants of health...
Most of the existing medical economics literature is descriptive rather than analytical, summarizing...
Over the past half century, Americans spent a rising share of total economic resources on health and...