Health economics

This book presents an introduction to modern public health seen from the perspective of practitioners of public health medicine.

First Published in 2018.

First Published in 2018.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward.

The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

This second edition reviews recent reforms and the likely impact of future developments in management and competition in the NHS.

The concepts and terminology of the new General Medical Services Contract can be confusing and daunting.

Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities.

This book is vital for health service managers and clinicians, in both purchaser and provider organizations, in community and hospital settings.

In the face of the relentless rise in health costs, many countries have had to set priorities so that maximum benefit can be made of unlimited funds.

Nach der sozialrechtlichen Anerkennung ist es für systemisch approbierte Therapeut:innen die Herausforderung der Stunde, die systemischen Kernideen in das Gesundheitssystem einzubringen.

Theory of Drug Development presents a formal quantitative framework for understanding drug development that goes beyond simply describing the properties of the statistics in individual studies.

Murtin examines the long-term causes of health improvements over the last two centuries.

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

This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging.

The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD.

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care.

This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die.

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.

This book explains  the politics of thirty years of 'market reform' in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual.

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

The global demographic transition presents marked asymmetries as poor, emerging, and advanced countries are undergoing different stages of transition.

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.

Agent-based models are tools that provide researchers in economic fields with unprecedented analytical capabilities.

This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response.

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

Epidemics know no borders and are often characterized by a high level of uncertainty, causing major challenges in risk governance.

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas.

First Published in 1984.

First Published in 1984.

This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of governments which have fundamentally altered the status quo of health care systems.

This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of governments which have fundamentally altered the status quo of health care systems.

There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries.

There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries.

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century.

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century.

Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years.

Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years.

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU.

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU.

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care.

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care.

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before.

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades.

In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policy-makers and researchers.