Health Economics and Financing 5th Edition by Thomas E. Getzen, ISBN-13: 978-1118184905

Health Economics and Financing 5th Edition by Thomas E. Getzen, ISBN-13: 978-1118184905
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496 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 5 edition (November 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118184904
ISBN-13: 978-1118184905

Health Economics and Financing serves as the perfect primer for the economic analysis of medical markets. It prepares students of medicine, public health, policy and administration who wish to engage the central economic issues of their field—without extensive mathematics or highly technical analytical techniques.

Getzen’s text includes effective explanations of how and why health and medicine are both like and unlike other economic goods, as well as knowledge about institutional features, for students who intend to go into this unique and rewarding line of work.

Health Economics and Financing serves as an excellent primer for introducing students to the principles and core concepts of health economics rather than its literature, equations, or research methods.

Biography

Thomas E. Getzen, Ph.D., is Professor of Risk, Insurance and Health Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University and Executive Director of iHEA, the International Health Economics Association, with 2400 academic and professional members in 72 countries (www.healtheconomics.org). He has also served as visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. His textbook Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds (Wiley; 4th ed., 2010) is used in graduate and undergraduate programs throughout the world. His research focuses on the macroeconomics of health, finance, forecasting medical expenditures and physician supply, price indexes, public health economics, and related issues. He recently completed a model of long-run medical cost trends for use by the Society of Actuaries, building on the work of economists at the CMS and CBO. Currently Professor Getzen is conducting an organizational study of tissue banking focused on organizational dynamics, pricing and the creation of medical value.

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