Rice (health services, UCLA School of Public Health) joins forces with new co-author Unruh (health management and informatics, U. of Central Florida), a specialist in the nursing market and hospital and nursing home organization and financing, in creating this timely third edition textbook. In response to comments from users of past editions, the text has been revised to better meet the needs of health economics professors and students. All existing chapters have been revised and updated, and three new chapters added covering basic microeconomic theory as it relates to the traditional competitive model of healthcare provision, for-profit versus nonprofit organizations in healthcare, and labor economics theory as applied to healthcare workforce issues, particularly the markets for physicians and nurses. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less