Incentives and Choice in Health Care

Bys: Henry J. Aaron, Donna Gilleskie, Joseph P. Newhouse, et al.

Book Overview

Leading scholars in the field of health economics evaluate the role of incentives in health and health-care decision making from the perspectives of both supply and demand.

A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262693658
• ISBN13: 9780262693653
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher