TY - BOOK AU - Sloan, Frank A. AU - Hsieh, Chee-Ruey TI - Health economics SN - 9780262035118 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - The MIT Press N2 - Health economics is the study of how to efficiently allocate scarce resources in healthcare, focusing on costs, outcomes, and behaviors to improve health systems' effectiveness, equity, and accessibility for all, analyzing everything from individual patient choices and provider efficiency to public health policies and insurance impacts. ER -