Health economics

Presents a strategic vision of the role that performance measurement can play in securing health system improvement.

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 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.

A fascinating analysis of a widely used, but little understood illicit drug.

Health Care for Us All challenges the common belief that health care problems in the United States are difficult and possibly insoluble.

An examination of patient classification systems in fifteen different countries throughout the world.

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

This book is a groundbreaking book that delves into the critical intersection of health care and sustainability.

"e;This book would be an excellent choice for anyone wishing to be introduced to the field of health economics it is undoubtedly the best 'Health Economics 101' textbook around.

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.

'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie AmosTo thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way.

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond.

Why are the costs of health care and higher education rising so dramatically?

Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s.

The new edition of a textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence, updated with material on the Affordable Care Act and other developments.

Was denken Sie, wird möglich, wenn man das Know-how der Allgemeinmedizin mit der altbewährten Naturheilkunde sowie den vielfältigen Möglichkeiten der Alternativmedizin kombiniert?

Public Health Law and Ethics defines these fields for a new generation.

An in-depth analysis of the fundamental role that decentralization plays in developing countries, using detailed statistical data to examine the actual fiscal structure between tiers of government, and the effects of decentralization at the local, national and international levels.

If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and happiness, particularly for people on low incomes?

Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years.

This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries.

In India today only 35 percent of people have access to medicines.

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework.

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

Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics.

There is very little argument that the world is facing severe environmental challenges.

Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare.

Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare.

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "e;battle of the bulge"e; of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action.

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.

There is an urgent need to better understand the causes and consequences of obesity, and to learn what works to prevent or reduce obesity.

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "e;battle of the bulge"e; of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action.

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

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

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

Health care in the US and elsewhere has been rocked by economic upheaval.

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.

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 US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation.

The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation.

This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being.

This is an open access title.

This is an open access title.