Health economics

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.

Health systems worldwide are grappling with the challenge of coordinating difference in an increasingly complex care environment.

This book deals with the quest for a divided welfare state in Sweden.

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

This volume presents novel concepts to help physicians and health care providers better understand the thought processes and approaches used in clinical decision-making and how we develop those skills  as we transition from being a medical student to post-graduate trainee to independent practitioner.

This book covers several areas, such as immunology, infectious diseases, physiology, general nursing, and medicine as well as measurement accuracy and the history of our understanding of fever.

This book describes numerous projects which shed light on some of the most persistent issues of the day in health and social care.

This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth.

This book addresses the disparities that arise when measuring and modeling societal behavior and progress across the social sciences.

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

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings.

This book gathers scientific contributions on comprehensive approaches to personalized medicine.

This book provides practical applications of statistical and mathematical concepts to resolve common issues in hospital management.

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 book presents a hands on approach to the digital health innovation and entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are dissatisfied with the existing literature on or are contemplating getting involved in digital health entrepreneurship.

Alternative medicine (AM) is hugely popular; about 40% of the US general population have used at least one type of alternative treatment in the past year, and in Germany this figure is around 70%.

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB).

This book offers a practical introduction to healthcare analytics that does not require a background in data science or statistics.

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 book examines the drivers of inbound medical tourism in Germany.

This book presents different patient-oriented perspectives from surgeons, economic evaluation and management researchers, and business companies active in the healthcare sector, striking a balance between the appropriateness/effectiveness of treatment and efficiency/cost.

This book describes current trends in m_Health technology, systems, and applications.

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