附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is the minimum a doctor should know about health economics? -- Public and private roles in health. -- The rationale for government intervention in the tobacco market. -- Measurement of equity in health. -- What should consumers in poor countries pay for publicly-provided health services? -- Compensatory finance in health: geographic equity in a federal system. -- An ounce of prevention is worth how much cure? -- DALYs and cost-effectiveness analysis. -- Criteria for public spending on health care. -- Cost-effectiveness and the socialization of health care. -- Is the eradication of polio in the western hemisphere economically justified? -- Cost-benefit analysis of a regional vaccination system. -- Cost-effective malaria control in Brazil. -- Do the poor in Brazil pay more for food? -- Do Brazilian nutrition programs make a difference? -- Economic aspects of food fortification. -- Malnutrition and dietary protein. -- Family health care spending in Latin America. -- Basic patterns in national health expenditure. -- Economic crisis and health policy response.
