Challenging Health Economics

by Gavin H. Mooney

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care. It argues that health economics has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, poor housing, and lack of education on health. It is suggested that some of the structural issues of economies, particularly the individualism of neo liberalism which is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019923597X
• ISBN13: 9780199235971
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"