The Economics of Health Care in Asia-Pacific Countries (Academia Studies in Asian Economies series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840649291 ISBN 13: 9781840649291

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Hu (health economics, U. of California at Berkeley, US) and Hsieh (Institute of Economics, Sinica, Taiwan) present 12 papers on health care reform and health policy in Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, and China that were originally presented at the March 1999 Taipei International Conference on Health Economics. Focusing on quantitative economic research the papers are organized around the themes of health care reform, production of health, health care utilization, hospital behavior, and health care financing. Econometric analyses from the United States are also included as object lessons for Asian countries. One of the primary focuses of the authors is the reduction of both health care costs to organizations and health care utilization by consumers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

Teh-Wei Hu, Professor of Health Economics, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley and Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1840649291
• ISBN 13: 9781840649291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Hu Teh-Wei, Hsieh Chee-Ruey