Chee-Ruey (Visiting Scholar, Duke University) Hsieh
This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers' economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. The theoretical and empirical approaches draw heavily on the general field of applied microeconomics, but the text moves from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the...
This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems without providing a...