Incentives and Choice in Health Care

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-262-69365-3
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 435 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: The MIT Press

Leading scholars in the field of health economics evaluate the role of incentives in health and health-care decision making from the perspectives of both supply and demand.A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return pharmaceutical manufacturers expect on their investments in research and development, or disincentives, such as increases in copayments patients must make when they visit physicians or are admitted to hospitals.In this volume, leading scholars in health economics review these new and important results and describe their own recent research assessing the role of incentives in health care markets and decisions people make that affect their personal health. The contexts include demand decisions—choices made by individuals about health care services they consume and the health insurance policies they purchase—and supply decisions made by medical students, practicing physicians, hospitals, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Researchers and students of health economics and policy makers will find this book a valuable resource, both for learning economic concepts, particularly as they apply to health care, and for reading up-to-date summaries of the empirical evidence. General readers will find the book's chapters accessible, interesting, and useful for gaining an understanding of the likely effects of alternative health care policies.Contributors
Henry J. Aaron, Ernst R. Berndt, John Cawley, Julie M. Donohue, Donna Gilleskie, Brian R. Golden, Gautam Gowrisankaran, Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Hirschel Kasper, Thomas G. McGuire, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sean Nicholson, Mark V. Pauly, Anna D. Sinaiko, Frank Sloan

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloan, Frank A.

Kasper, Hirschel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sloan, Frank A.

Kasper, Hirschel

Aaron, Henry J.

Gilleskie, Donna

Newhouse, Joseph P.

Sinaiko, Anna D.

Pauly, Mark V.

Berndt, Ernst R.

Donohue, Julie M.

Cawley, John

Nicholson, Sean

Hsieh, Chee-Ruey

McGuire, Thomas G.

Golden, Brian R.

Gowrisankaran, Gautam

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Sloan, Frank A.
Frank Sloan, awarded the Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics in 2016, is J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University. He is coauthor of The Price of Smoking (2004) and Medical Malpractice (2008) and coeditor of Incentives and Choices in Health Care (2008), all published by the MIT Press.

Hsieh, Chee-Ruey
Chee-Ruey Hsieh is a Research Professor of Health Economics at Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, and the Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University.

Newhouse, Joseph P.
Joseph P. Newhouse is John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University and Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Health Economics.

Kasper, Hirschel
Hirschel Kasper is Professor of Economics at Oberlin College.

Sloan, Frank A.
Frank Sloan, awarded the Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics in 2016, is J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University. He is coauthor of The Price of Smoking (2004) and Medical Malpractice (2008) and coeditor of Incentives and Choices in Health Care (2008), all published by the MIT Press.

Kasper, Hirschel
Hirschel Kasper is Professor of Economics at Oberlin College.

Aaron, Henry J.
Henry J. Aaron is Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair at the Brookings Institution.

Berndt, Ernst R.
Ernst R. Berndt is Professor of Applied Economics at the Sloan School, MIT.

Hirschel Kasper is Professor of Economics at Oberlin College.