Who Shall Live? Health, Economics and Social Choice (2nd Expanded Edition)

ISBN-13: 9789814354875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 388 str.

Victor R. Fuchs

Opis

Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) students, teachers, physicians, and general readers have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations and memorable examples of the importance of the non-medical determinants of health, the dominant role of physicians in health care expenditures, the necessity of choices about health at the individual and societal levels, and many other compelling themes. Now, in a new introduction of some 8,000 words including new tables and figures, Fuchs, often called the Dean of health 'economists', concisely summarizes the major changes of the past 37 years in health, medical care, and health policy. He focuses primarily on the United States but includes remarks about health policy in other countries