Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement

by National Academies

It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of existing services. And an even more fundamental question is the degree to which the increased spending actually has purchased improved health.

Accounting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309156793
• ISBN13: 9780309156790
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"