Incentives and Choice in Health Care.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 To Find the Answer, One Must Know the Question: Health Economics and Public Policy -- 3 Health Capital: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- 4 What We Know and Don't Know about the Effects of Cost Sharing on the Demand for Medical Care-and So What? -- 5 Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Implications for Health Insurance Markets -- 6 Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Health Care: An Overview of Economic Issues -- 7 Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank, or Pretty Woman: To What Extent Do Addictive Behaviors Respond to Incentives? -- 8 Medical Career Choices and Rates of Return -- 9 The Effects of Incentives on Pharmaceutical Innovation -- 10 Physician Fees and Behavior: Implications for Structuring a Fee Schedule -- 11 Physician Pay for Performance: Alternative Perspectives -- 12 Competition, Information Provision, and Hospital Quality -- 13 Summing Up -- References -- Index.

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.

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