Health economics

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.

This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises.

This book examines economic policies utilized within Southeast Europe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

This book discusses dental healthcare professionals in the European Union and EU policy output and activities in the context of Europeanization and its impact on oral health care.

The book shows readers exactly how to use Lean tools to design healthcare work that is smooth, efficient, error free and focused on patients and patient outcomes.

This book analyses the factors that influence the development and implementation of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) from multiple perspectives.

This handbook shares profound insights into the main principles and concepts of integrated 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.

The purpose of this volume, bringing together key actors of the well-being community, including scholars and policy-makers, is to advance the understanding and undertaking of the well-being transition away from growth and toward resilience and sustainability, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity.

This book explores the undeveloped potential of video-ethnography to study the material, embodied and sensory dimensions of workplace practices.

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work.

This book's main message is to advocate for a collaborative, affective, visualised and future-oriented research agenda.

In recent years, improving efficiency in healthcare facilities in general, and in hospitals specifically, has become increasingly important.

In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.

This book introduces the concept of 'healthy healthcare' and posits that this new concept is necessary in light of a shortage of healthcare staff in the near future.

This book presents an empirical investigation of the efforts that multinational pharmaceutical companies take in order to find a business model that allows for a profitable access to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets.

This timely volume explores the multiple domains where Behavior Analysts can provide meaningful assessment and interventions.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching health services management statistics effectively.

This heavily revised second edition defines the current state of the art for informatics education in medicine and healthcare.

Aiming at building efficient radiology operations, this book walks the reader through the entire radiology workflow, from the moment that the examination is requested to the reporting of findings.

Of all forms of alternative medicine, chiropractic is the one that is most generally accepted.

This book covers the complexity of diabetes and related complications and presents the socio-economic burden of the disease, taking into account the rising prevalence reaching pandemic proportions and the associated costs.

Things will always go wrong in organisations.

This fully updated edition of the China Ethnic Statistic Yearbook, comprised of entirely original research, presents data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

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.

The book provides a holistic and practical approach to lean management throughout the business value chain.

This comprehensive medical textbook is a compendium of the latest information on healthcare quality.

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

This book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of performing return-on-investment (ROI) analyses for healthcare quality improvement (QI).

This book provides an analysis of the role of fog computing, cloud computing, and Internet of Things in providing uninterrupted context-aware services as they relate to Healthcare 4.

This book presents recent work on healthcare management and engineering using artificial intelligence and data mining techniques.

This book explores in depth the phenomenon of user innovation in healthcare.

This in-depth book addresses a key void in the literature surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and health.

This book provides an insight on the importance that Internet of Things (IoT) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions can have in taking care of people's health.

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

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held on September 2-3, 2019, in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, Turkey.

Networks have become a prominent template for public service governance.

This book examines the often tough questions raised by infectious diseases through essays that explore a host of legal and ethical issues.

This book is the fourth in the series on leadership, interprofessional education and practice, following on from Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2014), Leadership and Collaboration: Further Developments for IPE and Collaborative Practice (2015) and Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2016).

Building on co-author Sharon Williams' previous title Improving Healthcare Operations, this book examines the role of co-design and coproduction in health and social care.

This book offers significant managerial and economic knowledge on hospitals, and will serve as a valuable tool for explaining complicated managerial and economical problems, and for facilitating decision-making processes.

This book includes state-of-the-art discussions on various issues and aspects of the implementation, testing, validation, and application of big data in the context of healthcare.

Industry 4.

This book brings together research and theory about integrated care ecosystems with modern Socio-Technical Systems Design.

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

"e;This timely book provides insight into the changing role of the 'hospital' in the face of technological, organizational innovation and ever-tightening health budgets.

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

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