Health economics

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help health care and public health organisations make fairer decisions with better outcomes.

Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help health care and public health organisations make fairer decisions with better outcomes.

Why do some countries and populations suffer from poverty and ill health, whilst others are more prosperous and healthy?

Why do some countries and populations suffer from poverty and ill health, whilst others are more prosperous and healthy?

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.

In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure central health capabilities for all.

In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure central health capabilities for all.

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

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions.

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions.

Principles in Health Economics and Policy, second edition, is a concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy.

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.

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.