Abstract: Während technischer Fortschritt prinzipiell als wohlfahrtserhöhend gilt, ist seine Rolle im Gesundheitswesen weniger eindeutig. Zwar verbessert er Lebensqualität und -erwartung, ist aber auch eine wichtige Ursache steigender Gesundheitsausgaben. Die Arbeit zeigt Wege zu einem...

Across the globe every nation wrestles with how it will pay for, provide, regulate and administer its healthcare system. Health economics is the field of economics that deals with every one of those issues and the difficult issue of allocating resources where the allocation can literally mean...

Verlagsinfo: "A health-economics textbook for the rest of us. The economics of healthcare are messy. For most consumers, there's minimal control around costs or services. Sometimes doctors get paid a lot; other times they don't get paid at all. Insurance and drug companies are bad, except when...

"The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care.? This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative...