The Economics of Health Reconsidered - Hardcover

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Lynn Unruh, PhD, RN, is a professor emerita in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Unruh received her bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Illinois and her doctorate in economics from the University of Notre Dame. She has published extensively on nurse staffing and quality in hospitals and nursing homes, the nursing workforce, the work environment in hospitals and nursing homes, the organizational responses of hospitals and nursing homes to reimbursement and regulatory and market forces. Andrew J. Barnes, PhD, MPH, is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned his doctorate from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and his master of public health degree from Tulane University. Dr. Barnes publishes books, articles, and policy briefs on intersecting behavioral economics, health policy, and substance use. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Thomas Rice, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Between 2006 and 2011, he also served as vice chancellor of academic personnel for UCLA. Dr. Rice received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982. Dr. Rice has published widely on issues such as the behavioral economics of healthcare, competition, and regulation in health services, comparative healthcare systems, health insurance, physicians’ economic behavior, cost containment, and the Medicare program.