Health economics

A timely look at the healthcare valuation process in an era of dynamic healthcare reform, including theory, methodology, and professional standards In light of the dynamic nature of the healthcare industry sector, the analysis supporting business valuation engagements for healthcare enterprises, assets, and services must address the expected economic conditions and events resulting from the four pillars of the healthcare industry: Reimbursement, Regulation, Competition, and Technology.

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.

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

This book examines the concept of dignity from a variety of global perspectives.

The third edition of Health Services Planning represents a necessary revision of the second edition (2003) and reflects the significant changes that have occurred in the social and health environments, the healthcare field, and the planning endeavor itself.

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.

Across the globe every nation wrestles with how it will pay for, provide, regulate and administer its healthcare system.

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

This book presents a systemic perspective on the broadly perceived problem of social care, meant in terms of a network engaging balanced resources and actors to assure the functionality, in an integrative approach.

Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options.

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 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 discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity assessments in the context of wills, enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives.

In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.

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.

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

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.

It is a societal given, borne out by the facts: the higher one's social status, the better health, and the longer life expectancy.

This book analyses the development and use of mathematical models in public health research and policy.

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

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.

This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.

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.

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

This book brings together research and theory about integrated care ecosystems with modern Socio-Technical Systems Design.

This book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of Medicare under the Affordable Care Act.

When politicians reshape public health agencies, scientists resist changes.

Combining conceptual, pragmatic and operational approaches, this edited collection addresses the demand for knowledge and understanding of IT in the healthcare sector.

Since the 1994 publication of HACCP: A practical approach, many changes have occurred in the world of food safety.

The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization, characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, and the interplay of competing ideas about global health.

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

Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process.

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.

Recent Developments in Health Econometrics is Volume 297 of the Contributions to Economic Analysis serial and is dedicated to Professor Andrew Jones.

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment.

This guide helps readers understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and medical coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.

This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises.

This book presents recent work on healthcare management and engineering using artificial intelligence and data mining techniques.

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.

The fall-out from the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had profound implications for countries across the world, leading different states to determine the best approach to mitigating its effects.

This book analyses the factors that influence the development and implementation of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) from multiple perspectives.

Expanding upon Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Leadership and Collaboration, the third installment to this original and innovative collection of books considers a variety of research models and theories.

Explores the forces determining the trajectory of medical progress, bringing together scientific policy, economics, sociology and innovation.

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%.