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Book Detail
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Money and Medicine:
The Evolution of National Health Expenditures
Getzen, Thomas E.
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Category: History of Medicine Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Affiliation: Temple University Audience: Professional and scholarly Dimensions: 6.39 x 1.15 x 9.53 in
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Synopsis:
In Money and Medicine, Thomas E. Getzen provides a unified narrative of medical spending from ancient Egypt and Babylonia to the present day. Drawing on a historical reports, documents, and data, spanning millennia Getzen concentrates on a single indicator-the share of income devoted to medical care-to illustrate the growth of expenditures over time and across countries. In doing so, he explains inertial responses to the 2008 financial crisis and 2020 Covid recession while providing a forecasting model for trends over the next fifty years.
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