Health economics

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.

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization?

Of all forms of alternative medicine, chiropractic is the one that is most generally accepted.

Translating the realities of healthcare reform and healthcare costs into competitive hospital practice is the goal of this accessible, jargon-free guide.

Medical tourism, a complex interplay of healthcare, economics, and culture, offers both opportunities and challenges for patients, providers, and nations alike.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the subject matter of human and planetary health at various anglesThe year 2015 was a special year in the field of human and planetary health.

Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the measurement and causes of health inequality.

An international survey of different approaches to the provision and regulation of long-term care for the elderly.

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

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

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

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

There is plenty of controversy surrounding pharmaceuticals, but it cannot be denied that the pharmaceutical industry is both socially beneficial and profitable.

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.

The new edition of a textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence, updated with material on the Affordable Care Act and other developments.

Costing billions of dollars annually, international trade in agricultural products is impactful and influenced by several factors, including climate change, food policy, and government legislation.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

This book represents a valuable interdisciplinary contribution created to fill an existing gap in the field of health economics and healthcare systems.

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This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

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Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the ''public choice'' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with political institutions to determine health policies.

This two-volume book examines the most important global problem-the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems.

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

This book addresses the disparities that arise when measuring and modeling societal behavior and progress across the social sciences.

Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years.

This book takes as a starting point that welfare states in developed societies do not provide systems of social insurance against the risk of an early death.

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

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.

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.

If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and happiness, particularly for people on low incomes?

This book examines economic policies utilized within Southeast Europe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

An accessible overview of the challenges in tackling AMR, and the economic and policy responses of the multidisciplinary ''One Health'' approach.

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Life expectancy is about more than just health - it's about the kind of society we live in.

This fully updated edition of the China Ethnic Statistic Yearbook, comprised of entirely original research, presents data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

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.

Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem.

While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies.

The healthcare industry is one of the largest and fastest-growing service industries in the world.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of performing return-on-investment (ROI) analyses for healthcare quality improvement (QI).

Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health.