Challenging health economics /

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care. It argues that health economics has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, poor housing, and...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Mooney, Gavin H.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Zusammenfassung:
This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care. It argues that health economics has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, poor housing, and lack of education on health. It is suggested that some of the structural issues of economies, particularly the individualism of neo liberalism which is becoming more and more pervasiveacross the globe, need to be addressed in health economics. The author instead proposes a form of collective decisi
Umfang:
1 online resource (267 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
0-19-160800-9
9786611981358
1-281-98135-4
0-19-155307-7
Schlagworte:
Medical economics.
Public health > Economic aspects.
Public health > Political aspects.
Medical policy.
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