Current Issues in Health Economics

by Daniel J. Slottje

Across the globe every nation wrestles with how it will pay for, provide, regulate and administer its healthcare system. Health economics is the field of economics that deals with every one of those issues and the difficult issue of allocating resources where the allocation can literally mean life or death, alleviating suffering or not. A key issue that is always mentioned, but little acted on, is the role that preventive measures play in the battle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857241559
• ISBN13: 9780857241559
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"