Health, health care and health economics : perspectives on distribution

The economics of health care has become an issue for both academics and policymakers in developed countries as the mounting costs of comprehensive care becomes a matter of concern. Insights into relationships and interactions among patients, physicians and hospitals, insurers and payers, and government regulators have drawn on the economic tools of price theory, cost-benefit analysis, theories of moral hazard and adverse selection, and the dynamics of the insurance market. This text offers an international perspective on the distribution of health care costs.