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Essentials of Health Economics
Diane M. Dewar, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, School of Public Health

Softcover, 350 pages
ISBN 0763792241
978-0763792244
Jones & Bartlett
April 2010
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Essentials of Health Economics takes a timely approach to the study of the public health care system through the lens of economics. With the use of numerous examples and profiles related to the field, students and faculty will be able to grasp the importance and relevance of health economics as well as how it relates to more general analysis of health policy issues. These topics are covered:

  • Health Care System Issues

  • The Role of Economics

  • The Demand for Health

  • The Demand for Health Care

  • The Market for Health Insurance

  • Health Care Production, Costs, and Supply

  • The Health Care Workforce Market

  • Technology Transfer in Health Care

  • Health Care Markets

  • The Competitive Market

  • Market Failures and the Role of Government

  • Issues in Health Economics

  • Socioeconomic Factors

  • Hospital Industry

  • The Pharmaceutical Industry

  • Evaluating the Health Care System

  • Economic Evaluations

  • Comparing Health Care Systems

  • Health Care Reform

  • Public Policy and Health Economics

This book has wide appeal among students of public health and health administration, since it conveys the essence of the economic issues at hand while avoiding complicated methodological issues that would interest only students of economics. It is written with the non-specialist in mind, while focusing on how to do descriptive, explanatory, and evaluative economics in a systematic way.

 

Diane M. Dewar, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, School of Public Health, and the Department of Economics at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She has over 15 years of teaching experience that includes graduate courses in health economics, health policy and economic evaluation methods; as well as undergraduate courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, health economics, comparative health policy, introductory sociology and introductory psychology. Professor Dewar received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University at Albany, with concentrations in health economics and econometrics. She is a recipient of the William Waters Research Award from the Association of Social Economists, honorable mention for the Aetna Susan B. Anthony Award for Research on Older Women from the Gerontological Section of the American Public Health Association, and is a member of the Public Health Honor Society, Delta Omega, Alpha Gamma Chapter. She has been a Principal Investigator or co-Investigator on grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is the Chair of the National Fellowship Panel of the American Association of University Women, has served on Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant review study groups, and serves on the Health Economics Committee of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.

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