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050		4	_aHB171.5 _b.E35 2005
100			_aStephen Jan
245	0	0	_aEconomic analysis for management and policy / _cStephen Jan ... [et al.].
260			_aMaidenhead, England : _bOpen University Press, _c2005.
300			_aviii, 208 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aUnderstanding public health.
500			_aInclude index.
505			_a1. Introduction to welfare economics -- 2. Aspects of economic evaluation -- 3. Derivation of demand -- 4. Models of demand, public goods and aggregated demand -- 5. The production process : concepts and assumptions -- 6. Costs and the cost function -- 7. Market analysis -- 8. Behaviour of health care providers -- 9. What is the evidence of competition on consumer and provider sides? -- 10. Alternative models of provider competition -- 11. The economic rationale for government involvement in the health sector -- 12. Economic theories of regulation -- 13. Institutional economics and appropriate contracts -- 14. Legal and economic analysis of contracts -- 15. Agency and organizational decision making -- 16. Agency in the health sector -- 17. Equity in health care -- general concepts -- 18. Equity and health care.
650		0	_aMedical economics.
700	1		_aJan, Stephen.
942			_cBK