1. Terms of trade: the flow of funds through the health care system -- 2. Demand -- 3. Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis -- 4. Insurance -- 5. Insurance contracts and managed care -- 6. Physicians -- 7. Medical education, organziation, and business practices -- 8. Hospitals -- 9. Management and regulation of hospital costs -- 10. Managed care -- 11. Long-term care -- 12. Pharmaceuticals -- 13. Introduction to the macroeconomics of health -- 14. The role of government -- 15. Public goods and public health -- 16. Economic history, population growth, and medical care -- 17. International comparisons of health and health expenditures -- 18. Dynamics of national health spending -- 19. Value for money in the future of health care.
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