Challenging health economics / [electronic resource]
by Mooney, Gavin H.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 250 p.).ISBN: 9780191717086 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Medical economics | Public health -- Economic aspects | Public health -- Political aspects | Medical policyOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text mounts a critique of health economics, arguing it has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, and lack of education on health. The author proposes a form of collective decision making through communitarianism as a basis for a new paradigm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text mounts a critique of health economics, arguing it has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, and lack of education on health. The author proposes a form of collective decision making through communitarianism as a basis for a new paradigm.
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