Markets vs Public Health Systems: Perspectives from the Austrian School of Economics

ISBN-13: 9781032193939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 96 str.

Lukasz Jasiński

Opis

This book draws on Austrian Economics to provide a theoretical framework to support greater involvement of the private sector to improve inefficiencies in public healthcare.

Spis treści

Introduction PART 1. MARKET PROCESSES IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM 1. Insurance as a market institution 2. Alternative market forms of financing access to medical services 3. The health system as an element of the market economy PART 2. UNIVERSAL (PUBLIC) HEALTH SYSTEM AS AN EFFECT OF STATE INTERVENTIONS 4. Interventionism in the health system 5. A universal (public) health system Summary

O autorze

Łukasz Jasiński is an economist and researcher at the Faculty of Economics of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Poland, Lublin).