Instructor Resources: PowerPoint slides, sample exercises, and
course lesson plans.
The healthcare landscape is shifting rapidly. A solid grounding in
economics enables healthcare managers to make informed and thoughtful
decisions in the face of changing market and regulatory demands.
Health Economics: Core Concepts and Essential Tools takes a unique,
streamlined approach to explaining the building blocks of health
economics. Rather than interweaving technical information with
introductory content, each chapter is divided into two main sections:
Core Concepts and Technical Material. This treatment allows students to
gain an intuitive understanding of each chapter topic before delving
into advanced graphs, equations, and other technical details.
Health Economics: Core Concepts and Essential Tools focuses on nine
topics that are essential to understanding health economics and its
connection to health policy:
The purpose of health economics The relationship between health and
wealth The production of health The production of health-related goods
and services The demand for healthcare Perfect competition and other
market structures Physician behavior The insurance market
Cost-effectiveness analysis
The Core Concepts section in each chapter provides learning objectives
and a straightforward but comprehensive overview of the chapter topic.
The Technical Material section allows for deeper examination of the
chapter topic through discussion of relevant literature as well as
graphical examples and mathematical techniques.
Like the other titles in Health Administration Press's Gateway to
Healthcare Management series, this book is written at an introductory
level and suitable for use by undergraduates and other students new to
healthcare management. Examples and anecdotes bring concepts to life,
learning aids reinforce key concepts, review questions boost
comprehension, and a running glossary introduces essential terminology.
