Economics of specific sectors

Primarily intended for DNP and PhD students in nursing and health care who are expected to design research to identify health-related problems and solutions, this book focuses on the concepts, theories and processes of how social determinants affect the health of populations.

This book develops an empirically informed normative theory of need-based justice, summarizing core findings of the DFG research group FOR2104 "e;Need-based Justice and Distributive Procedures"e;.

This book is a conscious effort to discuss the immeasurable environmental damage caused by the human kind and it is by turning these into nature friendly or green as we call them, we can continue to live without any damage to our surroundings.

Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit den logistischen Grundlagen des Gesundheitsbetriebs, der Gestaltung, Planung, Normierung und Standardisierung von Behandlungs- und Pflegeleistungen, weist auf die Bedeutung des Einsatzes und der Bewirtschaftung von medizinischem Verbrauchsmaterial hin und zeigt die Einsatzbedingungen medizintechnischer Betriebsmittel im Gesundheitsbetrieb auf.

The impacts of climate change are increasingly felt worldwide, affecting every country regardless of geographical location.

The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world.

Over the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within agricultural economics, but also in other fields such as finance, trade, growth, environmental economics and industrial organization.

Inheritances are often regarded as a societal "e;evil,"e; enabling great fortunes to be passed from one generation to another, thus exacerbating wealth inequality and reducing wealth mobility.

For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other.

This book highlights how blockchain and other emerging technologies can improve services, processes, and applications for a sustainable healthcare system.

Matthias Conrad untersucht am Beispiel einer computerbasierten Unterrichtsserie im Fach Wirtschaft, wie sich das emotionale Erleben von Lernenden während einer Serie von selbstregulierten Lernsequenzen unter Verwendung von Tablet-PCs im Unterrichtsverlauf entwickelt und welche Wirkung hierbei auf die fachliche Leistung von Lernenden beobachtet werden kann.

This book presents the best, peer-reviewed contributions from the XII Congress of the Italian Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (SIE), held in Lucca, Italy, on May 2-4, 2022.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

This Element addresses the often-neglected politics and governance of behaviour change needed to address the climate crisis.

The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport is a reference work of chapters providing in-depth examination of the current issues and future developments facing public transport.

How can we determine if current growth patterns are sustainable, and what changes to we need to make to make them more so?

This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.

This study, first published in 1979, continues by examining the question of whether a competitive economy can efficiently allocate a stock of non-renewable natural resources through time.

This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers - or just curious readers- who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy.

The industrialisation of China prompted the biggest commodity boom of modern times.

This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world.

Reauthorization of the Superfund law continues to be a major source of controversy among political leaders and environmental activists.

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

Professor Ross Garnaut explains why Australia''s contribution is vital to the national interest and matters to the global effort.

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.

In this book, leading experts take a long-term view of the trends and policies of most relevance in achieving the structural readjustment required by the current crisis, which for too long has been viewed merely as an economic recession.

USING DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO VALUE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) within health economics.

While geopolitics has captured global attention, geoeconomics is the often hidden force that governs countries' relationships.

Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development.

Water and energy are inextricably linked as unsound management of either resource can have an impact on the cost, availability, and sustainability of the other.

Structural change is an evolutionary process that is often cumulative within territories, improving the quality of life and achieving higher development levels.

"e;The labor of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little.

This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and practices on eco-design.

Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital.

This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want.

Inner city slums, migrant settlements, construction workers, highlight informal work as underpinning urban poverty and marginalization.

The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere.

In this book key predictors of renewable feedstock adoption to achieve carbon neutrality in the European chemical industry are explored.

This study analyzes the impact of the revision of the Indian Patent Act (2005) on the Indian pharmaceutical industry, which has been achieving healthy growth over the past 30 to 40 years or more.

This book is intended as a warning against the kind of hard-core liberalism which blames state intervention for the disappointing results achieved in matters of macroeconomic, competition and social welfare policy.

This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoningIn this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States.

This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.

Die machthungrigen Lebensmittelkonzerne setzen alles aufs Spiel.

Ivanko and Kivirist - innkeepers, authors, and wearers of many other hats - truly walk the green talk, detailing the nitty-gritty of running a green business.

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide a public good; if MFIs create and deepen markets where none existed before, there may be a case for public support.