目录<BR>1 What Is the Minimum a Doctor Should Know about Health Economics? <BR>2 Public and Private Roles in Health <BR>3 The Rationale for Government Intervention in the Tobacco Market <BR>4 Measurement of Equity in Health <BR>5 What Should Consumers in Poor Countries Pay for Publicly-Provided Health Services? <BR>6 Compensatory Finance in Health: Geographic Equity in a Federal System <BR>7 An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth How Much Cure? <BR>8 DALYs and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis <BR>9 Criteria for Public Spending on Health Care<BR>10 Cost-Effectiveness and the Socialization of Health Care <BR>11 Is the Eradication of Polio in the Western Hemisphere Economically Justified? <BR>12 Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Regional Vaccination System <BR>13 Cost-Effective Malaria Control in Brazil <BR>14 Do the Poor in Brazil Pay More for Food? <BR>15 Do Brazilian Nutrition Programs Make a Difference? <BR>15 Economic Aspects of Food Fortification<BR>16 Malnutrition and Dietary Protein<BR>17 Family Health Care Spending in Latin America<BR>18 Basic Patterns in National Health Expenditure<BR>19 Economic Crisis and Health Policy Response