Ebook: Health Economics and Policy: Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs

Print Length: 668 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 1st edition
Publication Date: April 27, 2018
LCCN 2017051203
ISBN 9789813232860 (hardcover)

Request #1536258134.4814

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The collection represents an extraordinary intellectual achievement and ... a handbook for anyone thinking about health and health policy.

Victor Fuchs offers a selection of his public lectures, articles, papers, and op-eds during the past 50 years. Also included are forewords by Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, and Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine.

Organized in eight parts, it begins with an introduction to the field of health economics and ends with tributes to the founders and leaders of the field. In between, Fuchs discusses the determinants of health, the cost of medical care, international comparisons, health insurance, demography and aging, and health policy and health care reform.

A special introduction precedes each Part. This book represents what Fuchs calls the economic perspective applied to health and medical care, a perspective of which Angus Deaton says, "Fuchs has long been the master."