Medical economics and health finance
- Title
- Medical economics and health finance / Steven R. Eastaugh.
- Published by
- Boston, Mass. : Auburn House Pub. Co., ©1981.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 340 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Covering a wide range of topics in medical economics, the author provides a comprehensive study of cost containment and financial management. The issues of health care competition, regulation, marketing, and the impact of health finances on the quality of care are addressed.
- Subject
- Contents
- Medical cost inflation -- economic models of physician and hospital behavior -- cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis -- the role of technology assessment -- consumerism, rate regulation, and alternative manpower programs -- competition health plans -- health marketing -- health regulation to constrain capital expansion -- limits to debt financing -- evaluation of financing alternatives -- financial concerns in medical school management -- cost and utilization studies in hospitals -- potential for effective cost containment in the 1980s.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.