Here are entered comprehensive works on the economic aspects of medical service from the point of view of both the practitioner and the public. Works on special aspects of medical economics are entered under specific headings, e.g. Medical care, Cost of.
Here are entered works on a method of financing health care in which a single public agency collects funds for health care through taxation of citizens and businesses, and distributes payments to health care providers, but interferes minimally with the actual practice of medicine.