En portada: Inspiring innovation & discovery : McMaster UNiversity Maroon & Grey 1887 by senator William McMaster
Health and health care systems: an introduction -- Efficiency and equity -- The basics of markets -- Methods of economic evaluation -- Individual-level demand for production of health -- The determinants of population health -- The nature of health care as an economic commodity --The demand for health care -- The demand for health care insurance -- Private insurance markets -- Systems of health care finance -- Health care funding -- Physicians, their practices, and the market for physician services -- Health care institutions: hospitals -- Pharmaceuticals -- Aging and technology: do they threaten the sustainability of the health care system?