Health economics

This book investigates the powerful role of online intermediaries, which connect companies with their end customers, to facilitate joint product innovation.

This book provides a robust set of health economic principles and methods to inform societal decisions in relation to research, reimbursement and regulation (pricing and monitoring of performance in practice).

This volume deals with the construction of categorizations of health at work on the basis of individuals' perceptions and analyses of the psychosocial health effects at their work.

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book describes how the creation of new digital services-through vertical and horizontal integration of data coming from sensors on top of existing legacy systems-that has already had a major impact on industry is now extending to healthcare.

This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages.

This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-a-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.

This informative volume synthesizes the literatures on health economics, risk management, and health services into a concise guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance with an eye to its wide-scale upgrade.

This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness.

This book traces the genesis, principles and practice of homeopathy, and discusses the reasons for its enduring popularity.

This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years.

This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home.

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

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.

This timely reference analyzes the rationale, impact, and feasibility of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a public health measure to contribute curbing obesity and diabetes rates, specifically in Canada.

This book presents cutting edge research on the new ethical challenges posed by biomedical Big Data technologies and practices.

This book provides a comprehensive, updated summary of research evidence on the effects of stressful working and employment conditions on workers' health, as based on one of the worldwide leading theoretical models, effort-reward imbalance.

This book aims at exploring the link between corporate and organizational culture, public and private policies, leadership and managerial skills or attitudes, and the successful implementation of work-related healthcare in Europe.

This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty.

Thisbook shows how Microsoft Excel is able to teach healthservices management statistics effectively.

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This exciting resource examines pioneering, successful business models in healthcare services, emphasizing bold and innovative entrepreneurship in creating care delivery that is accessible, affordable, and effective.

This visionary reframing of health and healthcare uses a complexity science approach to building healthcare systems that are accessible, effective, and prepared for change and challenges.

A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change.

This book provides a principled approach to classification using the available data in a model which combines information from the social network and the healthcare models.

This important new volume presents recent research in healthcare information technology and analytics.

This book aims to study the factors effecting the adoption and diffusion of Health Information Technology (HIT) innovation.

This monograph discusses challenges faced during the implementation of national eHealth programs.

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This book focuses on how companies are innovating with regard to the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) - the lowest socio-economic segment, and the organizational conditions they need to be successful.

What are the possibilities for process mining in hospitals?

This book provides an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organisations.

This book disentangles the issues in connection with the advancement of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and its interface with health policy.

This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare (SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and improve hospitals' overall sustainability.

This volume addresses the dynamics of sustainable development in the healthcare industry, covering all major aspects, including R&D, manufacturing, regulation, market access, commercialization, and general management.

This contributed volume draws a vital picture of the health care sector, which, like no other is affected by technology push and stakeholder pull.

This book provides an overview of the global pharmaceutical pricing policies.

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This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the available and emerging mobile technologies and explores how these technologies can serve as support tools in enhancing user participation in health care and promoting well-being in the daily lives of individuals, thereby reducing the burden of chronic disease on the health care system.

How do firms jointly develop open information infrastructures?

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach health services management statistics effectively.

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are used in hospitals for the reimbursement of inpatient services.

This book focuses on the innovative and more critical management approach adopted in the PA (Public Administration) in order to identify and describe the main models and instruments to economically evaluate the decision making process in accordance to the specific conditions such as efficiency, effectiveness, cost and equity.

Recreational drug policies and regulations are complex issues with many dimensions.

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Fourth Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), held in Ancona, Italy, in October 2013.

The outsourcing of clinical trials to Latin America by the transnational innovative pharmaceutical industry began about twenty years ago.