Product Description: First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism...read more

Product Description: This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care. It argues that health economics has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, poor housing, and lack of education on health...read more

Product Description: First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Designed for health care professionals (rather than economists), this book provides an economic analysis of a wide range of practical health care issues, and is a companion volume to Economics, Medicine and Health Care. Explores such topics as alternative methods of financing health care; setting health care priorities; incentives for doctors; competition in the health sector, etc...read more

Product Description: This work charts the progress of changing values in medical and healthcare decision-making, particularly as a result of economic pressures, and the role of clinical ethics in determining what courses of action and treatment medical and healthcare professionals should pursue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)