Dedication & Acknowledgements  
The Essential Public Health Series  
Prologue  
Preface  
About the Author  
Part I: What is Health Economics?  
  Chapter 1: Health Care System Issues  
  Chapter 2: The Role of Economics  
Part II: Demand  
  Chapter 3: The Demand for Health  
  Chapter 4: The Demand for Health Care  
  Chapter 5: The Market for Health Insurance  
Part III: Supply  
  Chapter 6: Health Care Production, Costs, and Supply  
  Chapter 7: The Health Care Workforce Market  
  Chapter 8: Technology Transfer in Health Care  
Part IV: Health Care Markets  
  Chapter 9: The Competitive Market  
  Chapter 10: Market Failures and the Role of Government  
Part V: Issues in Health Economics  
  Chapter 11: Socioeconomic Factors  
  Chapter 12: Hospital Industry   
  Chapter 13: The Pharmaceutical Industry  
Part VI: Evaluating the Health Care System  
  Chapter 14: Economic Evaluations  
  Chapter 15: Comparing Health Care Systems  
  Chapter 16: Health Care Reform  
  Chapter 17: Public Policy and Health Economics  
Glossary