Health economics is concerned with the analysis of health care inputs such as expenditure and employment, and an appraisal of their impact on that desired outcome, the health of society. Clearly, many inputs may affect an individual’s health. In...

Evaluation of the effectiveness of health care, particularly by examining the social OPPORTUNITY COSTS of alternative forms of treatment. The peculiar nature of the market for health care—that doctors have a major influence on both demand and...

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Americans want quality medical care despite its increasingly high cost. In 1970 the United States spent a little more than 7 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP—the total value of all the goods and services produced by the nation) on...

Health Economics is a journal published by Wiley Interscience, covering the subject of health economics. It was established in 1992, and is published...

Boston's striking janitors want better health insurance coverage. Maybe they'll even get it. But if they do, they will be the exception, not the rule. The current is running the other way on health insurance in this country, and it is a powerful current...

The newspaper headlines seem promising these days. Right to work could be headed to a vote of the people. Oklahoma -- once victim to the boom and bust cycles of oil -- has diversified its economic base, and no longer feels the brunt when...