Health economics

This book describes the 60-year history of the AO Foundation and its impact on the treatment of bone trauma.

As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes.

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

The third edition of Health Services Planning represents a necessary revision of the second edition (2003) and reflects the significant changes that have occurred in the social and health environments, the healthcare field, and the planning endeavor itself.

Getting older is not what it used to be.

This book examines the nature of service design and service thinking in healthcare and hospital management.

This 2006 book analyses tensions between those paying for cancer care, those providing care and those marketing drugs and devices.

This text presents statistical methods for studying causal effects and discusses how readers can assess such effects in simple randomized experiments.

Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death?

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

This book presents emerging technology management approaches and applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors such as energy, healthcare, transportation and education.

This monograph provides a concise point of research topics and reference for modeling correlated response data with time-dependent covariates, and longitudinal data for the analysis of population-averaged models, highlighting methods by a variety of pioneering scholars.

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Homeopathy is over 200 years old and is still experiencing an uninterrupted influx of new practitioners and patients.

Patient-oriented approaches to healthcare management have been brought to the fore in recent years, yet this book underlines how even further change is needed in order to fully mobilise the experiential knowledge of patients, and ultimately improve our healthcare systems.

This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.

An evidence-based analysis of the opportunities and challenges of moving towards more person-centred health systems.

This proceedings volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the unprecedented crises generated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications for individuals, businesses, organizations, governments and systems in developing countries.

For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.

This book presents simulation as an essential, powerful tool to develop the best possible healthcare system for patients.

This new edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner.

Addresses in roughly equal measure the science and management behind several recent marketable biomedical innovations.

Costing billions of dollars annually, international trade in agricultural products is impactful and influenced by several factors, including climate change, food policy, and government legislation.

Why is our health care system so fragmented in the care it gives patients?

This new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.

Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death?

Nursing Work has been transformed by political economy and women's struggle.

This book reviews the development of physics-based modeling and sensor-based data fusion for optimizing medical decision making in connection with spatiotemporal cardiovascular disease processes.

The recent rise of "e;Medicare for All"e; in American political discourse was many years in the making.

In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement.

Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings is a collaborative edited book that aims to introduce the reader to experiences of using the technology in providing mental health care, education and Capacity building approaches in resource limited settings around the globe.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care.

This book presents a systemic perspective on the broadly perceived problem of social care, meant in terms of a network engaging balanced resources and actors to assure the functionality, in an integrative approach.

Much has been written about the economic causes of obesity, but this book offers a comprehensive and deep investigation of the causes and treatment of these issues in a single volume.

This book explores the ongoing transition of China's economy by examining how its healthcare industry is growing and changing.

Supporting Children and Their Families Facing Health Inequities in Canada fills an urgent national need to analyze disparities among vulnerable populations, where socio-economic and cultural factors compromise health and create barriers.

This volume of Research on Economic Inequality contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how these measurements contribute towards policies for social mobility.

This book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of Medicare under the Affordable Care Act.

This innovative book analyses the evolving nature of leadership, exploring an ever-increasing range of theoretical concepts and applying these to practices within healthcare organisations.

This two-volume book examines the most important global problem-the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades.

* Accompanies the new 4 part ITV series August 2019 * Sunday Times Bestseller EAT SHOP SAVE is the ITV phenomenon helping families across the UK to get seriously fitter, healthier and richer.

Measurements of individual benefits of different health and medical interventions are fundamental for prioritizing among different alternative uses of resources in the healthcare sector.

The book contains selected contributions from the 48th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS 2022) held in Bergamo, Italy, July 2022.

Despite its high cost, the US healthcare system produces relatively short life spans, and is wasteful, inefficient and has serious safety and quality issues.

Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations.

In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three.