Health economics

In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists, updated for 2021.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists, updated for 2021.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists--updated with everything they need to know in 2021!

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists--updated with everything they need to know in 2021!

The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation.

The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation.

This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being.

Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade.

The current worldwide AIDS crisis is about 20 years old, but the disease itself is much older.

This is an open access title.

This is an open access title.

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

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.

Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda.

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.

From prompting a transition from hunter-gatherer to an agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests, strategic taxation and the regulation of beer has played a pivotal role throughout history.

From prompting a transition from hunter-gatherer to an agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests, strategic taxation and the regulation of beer has played a pivotal role throughout history.

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.

Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

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 Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health returns for a third edition, fully updated to encompass the changes in the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, British HIV Association, and Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare guidelines and recommendations.

The Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health returns for a third edition, fully updated to encompass the changes in the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, British HIV Association, and Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare guidelines and recommendations.

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.