Health economics

The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine.

Why does poverty persist?

Why does poverty persist?

Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health.

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care.

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

Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health.

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care.

The obesity epidemic and the growing debate about what, if any, public health policy should be adopted is the subject of endless debates within the media and in governments around the world.

Beer has been consumed across the globe for centuries and was the drink of choice in many ancient societies.

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

While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

In recent years, debates on the economics of happiness have shown that, over the long-term, well-being is influenced more by social and personal relationships than by income.

The rapid increase in recent years in the number of children and adults accessing care for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), raises a number of questions.

The rapid increase in recent years in the number of children and adults accessing care for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), raises a number of questions.

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What is human happiness and how can we promote it?

What is human happiness and how can we promote it?

In today's world of scare resources, determining the optimal allocation of funds to preventive health care interventions (PHIs) is a challenge.

In today's world of scare resources, determining the optimal allocation of funds to preventive health care interventions (PHIs) is a challenge.

Increase in life expectancy is arguably the most remarkable by-product of modern economic growth.

The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology.

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

Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods.

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics.

Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics.

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.

Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total healthcare expenditure in most developed economies, and yet they play a critical role in the ongoing debate over how best to advance, improve, and afford healthcare.

Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total healthcare expenditure in most developed economies, and yet they play a critical role in the ongoing debate over how best to advance, improve, and afford healthcare.

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.

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.

A COMPLETE UPDATE AND REVISION OF THE CLASSIC TEXT"e;At last, a manual of operations for comparing the cost-effectiveness of a preventive service with a treatment intervention.

A COMPLETE UPDATE AND REVISION OF THE CLASSIC TEXT"e;At last, a manual of operations for comparing the cost-effectiveness of a preventive service with a treatment intervention.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization?

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization?

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAROne of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable.

The global financial crisis has had a seismic impact upon the wealth of nations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of international and domestic tourism and sharply focused attention on the importance of tourist health, safety and wellbeing like never before.

The past decade has brought to the fore the critical need to constantly envision and consider various scenarios where ongoing trends and sudden changes could together alter the provision of healthcare and the direction of medical research.

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

'Understanding global health economics and policy has never been so important.

During the past three decades, health care systems in the East Asian regions of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have undergone major changes.