Current issues in health economics
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 o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2010.
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| Series: | Contributions to economic analysis ;
v. 290. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. School policies and children's obesity / Particia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- ch. 2. Alcohol policies and child maltreatment / Sara Markowitz, Michael Grossman, Ryan Conrad
- ch. 3. Child care choices and childhood obesity / Resul Cesur, Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin
- ch. 4. Individual time preferences and health behaviors, with an application to health insurance / W. David Bradford, James F. Burgess
- ch. 5. Disparate effects of CHIP premiums on disenrollment for minorities / James Marton, Cynthia S. Searcy, Jennifer Ghandhi
- ch. 6. Health outcomes from head start participation / Carolina C. Felix, David E. Frisvold
- ch. 7. Universal helmet laws and motorcycle fatalities : a longitudinal analysis of policy changes / Michael T. French, Gulcin Gumus, Jenny F. Homer
- ch. 8. Accounting for racial/ethnic disparities in children's obesity status at 2 years of age / Jason M. Fletcher
- ch. 9. Effects of education on adult health in Sweden : results from a natural experiment / Jasmina Spasojevic
- ch. 10. A survey on the economics of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry / Ian McCarthy
- ch. 11. The indirect impacts of smoking bans in gaming venues / Joseph G. Hirschberg, Jeanette N. Lye.
