TY - BOOK ID - 85285584 TI - Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs AU - Aizcorbe, Ana, AU - Baker, Colin, AU - Berndt, Ernst R., AU - Cutler, David M., PY - 2018 SN - 9780226530994 022653099X 022653085X 9780226530857 022653085X 9780226530857 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Medical care, Cost of KW - Medical care KW - Cost of medical care KW - Health care costs KW - Health care expenditures KW - Medical costs KW - Medical expenses KW - Medical service, Cost of KW - Medicine KW - Medical economics KW - Medical savings accounts KW - Measurement. KW - Cost control. KW - Costs KW - Medical care, Cost of - United States - Measurement KW - Medical care - United States - Cost control KW - Health Care Costs KW - Models, Theoretical KW - United States KW - health costs. KW - health outcomes. KW - market design. KW - pharmaceuticals. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85285584 AB - Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U.S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health. The research in Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs seeks to connect our knowledge of expenditures with what we are able to measure of results, probing questions of methodology, changes in the pharmaceutical industry, and the shifting landscape of physician practice. The research in this volume investigates, for example, obesity's effect on health care spending, the effect of generic pharmaceutical releases on the market, and the disparity between disease-based and population-based spending measures. This vast and varied volume applies a range of economic tools to the analysis of health care and health outcomes. Practical and descriptive, this new volume in the Studies in Income and Wealth series is full of insights relevant to health policy students and specialists alike. ER -