Distributing Health Care: Economic and Ethical Issues

by Paul Dolan and Jan Abel Olsen

Book Overview

This is a new health economics textbook with a difference. It is based firmly in the discipline of economics and, as such, it fills a gap in the health economics market. But, unlike other texts in the area, it is very explicit about the distributive implications of economic models and it provides clear rathionale for public involvement in the market for health care. It separatesthe efficiency reasons for public involvement(based on notions of 'market...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192632531
• ISBN13: 9780192632531
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"