Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health
Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the …

This Handbook chapter surveys the extensive body of research on the economics of the
pharmaceutical industry (with peripheral attention paid also to regulated medical devices) …

The US health-care sector is large and growing—health-care spending in 2011 amounted to
$2.7 trillion and 18 percent of GDP. Approximately half of health-care output is allocated via …

For courses in Health Economics, US Health Policy/Systems, or Public Health, taken by
health services students or practitioners, the text makes economic concepts the backbone of …

This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal
design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately …

作者顾昕, 1963 年生, 北京师范大学社会发展与公共政策研究所教授(北京100875). ①
从分析的角度来看,“卫生体制”(health sy stem) 与“医疗体制”(health care system) 是有区别的 …

Health Economics presents a systematic treatment of the economics of health behavior and
health care delivery. Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of …

This paper investigates the effects of market-wide changes in health insurance by examining
the single largest change in health insurance coverage in American history: the introduction …

Consumer incentives are reflected in a wide range of choices, many of which occur in both
insurance-and tax-financed health care systems. However, health insurance and sick leave …

The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning
literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health …