The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare: The Rise of the Patient Citizen

by Joan Costa-Font, Alberto Batinti, Gilberto Turati

The healthcare sector is one of the fastest growing areas of social and public spending worldwide, and it is expected to increase its government shares of GDP in the near future. Truly global in its scope, this book presents a unified, structured understanding of how the design of a country's health institutions influence its healthcare activities and outcomes. Building on the 'public choice' tradition in political economy, the authors explore how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110846825X
• ISBN13: 9781108468251
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"