Health economics

This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Rapid growth in health care expenditures has plagued America since 1965 when Congress first created medicare (health care insurance for the elderly) and medicaid (health care assistance for the poor).

Rapid growth in health care expenditures has plagued America since 1965 when Congress first created medicare (health care insurance for the elderly) and medicaid (health care assistance for the poor).

First published in 1998.

First published in 1998.

Limited resources in health care mean that the value of counselling is decided in a highly competitive economic arena.

Limited resources in health care mean that the value of counselling is decided in a highly competitive economic arena.

Neuropsychologists are being increasingly called upon to demonstrate the value of their services.

Neuropsychologists are being increasingly called upon to demonstrate the value of their services.

Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty.

Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty.

Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary.

Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary.

This book focuses on relatively unexplored areas in pension and health care arrangements, including financing, in East Asia.

This book focuses on relatively unexplored areas in pension and health care arrangements, including financing, in East Asia.

A collection of articles covering the economic history of the US over the last 50 years.

A collection of articles covering the economic history of the US over the last 50 years.

Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis of the health care industry in the context of market forces driving the industry, including negotiated markets, managed care, and the growing influence of oligopolies.

Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis of the health care industry in the context of market forces driving the industry, including negotiated markets, managed care, and the growing influence of oligopolies.

An in-depth analysis of the nursing home industry in America -- its past, present, and future.

An in-depth analysis of the nursing home industry in America -- its past, present, and future.

Five years have elapsed since the Chinese government announced its ambitious health care reform programme.

Five years have elapsed since the Chinese government announced its ambitious health care reform programme.

The sexual lives of people with disabilities are rarely discussed.

The sexual lives of people with disabilities are rarely discussed.

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades.

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades.

From market crisis to market boom, from welfare to wealth care, from homelessness to helplessness, and an all-out assault on the global environment-these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary economic life that Profit Pathology takes on.

From market crisis to market boom, from welfare to wealth care, from homelessness to helplessness, and an all-out assault on the global environment-these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary economic life that Profit Pathology takes on.

Patient self-reported data has become increasingly important in today's clinical trials.

Patient self-reported data has become increasingly important in today's clinical trials.

For the last two decades, major Asian economies have successfully kept their economic growth momentum going.

For the last two decades, major Asian economies have successfully kept their economic growth momentum going.

This book offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety.

This book offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety.

Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.

Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.

The current value of global trade has reached a staggering annual figure of $6 trillion in merchandise crossing borders.

The current value of global trade has reached a staggering annual figure of $6 trillion in merchandise crossing borders.

The pharmaceutical industry faces a well-documented perfect storm: on the one hand, the patent cliff; the lack of new blockbusters and, on the other, economic pressure on pricing from markets with growing expectations and shrinking budgets.

The pharmaceutical industry faces a well-documented perfect storm: on the one hand, the patent cliff; the lack of new blockbusters and, on the other, economic pressure on pricing from markets with growing expectations and shrinking budgets.

China's current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.

China's current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.

This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years.

This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years.

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform.

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform.

Biosimilars have the potential to change the way we think about, identify, and manage health problems.

Cluster Randomised Trials, Second Edition discusses the design, conduct, and analysis of trials that randomise groups of individuals to different treatments.

Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures through computationally intensive bootstrap strategies to advanced empirical likelihood techniques.