Emotions in Organizational Behavior or Health Economics

Emotions in Organizational Behavior

Author: Charmine Hartel

This edited volume looks at the range of research on emotions within an organizational behavior framework and is organized in terms of the individual and interpersonal and organizational levels. Particular emphasis was made to bring in leading researcher

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Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds

Author: Thomas E Getzen

A practical primer to the dynamic field of health economics. Written by Thomas Getzen, a leading academic and practitioner, and currently Director of the International Health Economics Association, this complete, accessible text introduces students to the economic analysis of medical markets and the production of health.
Updated and revised with new cases and the latest developments in the field, the new Second Edition traces the economic rationale and development of the medical care organization. It thoroughly introduces students to the principles and concepts of health economics without requiring prolonged preparatory work or extensive mathematical manipulation.
* Cases illustrate practical uses of economic theory in each chapter.
* More streamlined presentation of macro and historical materials.
* Covers the relationship of marketing to marginal cost.

Booknews

An introduction to the economic analysis of medical markets and the production of health, primarily for students of medicine, public health, or administration who have little or no background in economics, but also for beginning economics students. Describes the incentives and organizational structure of the health care industry with a Flow of Funds approach, outlines the ongoing evolution of managed care in the US, and macroeconomic perspectives the dynamics of change and determinants of national health spending. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	About the Author
	Foreword
1	Terms of Trade: The Flow of Funds Through the Health Care System	1
2	Demand	21
3	Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis	39
4	Insurance	67
5	Insurance Contracts and Managed Care	86
6	Physicians	106
7	Medical Education, Organization, and Business Practices	127
8	Hospitals	154
9	Management and Regulation of Hospital Costs	175
10	Managed Care	197
11	Long-Term Care	227
12	Pharmaceuticals	251
13	Introduction to the Macroeconomics of Health	277
14	The Role of Government	284
15	Public Goods and Public Health	305
16	Economic History, Population Growth, and Medical Care	324
17	International Comparisons of Health and Health Expenditures	349
18	Dynamics of National Health Spending	376
19	Value for Money in the Future of Health Care	401
	Glossary	411
	Index	421