Access to health care

This text addresses current concerns in health services and investigates whether it is possible to offer truly universal and comprehensive services, equally available to all, without waiting lists and unacceptable delays in receiving treatment. Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives, it looks at the ...

Guía metodológica para la gestión clínica de procesos

aplicación en las organizaciones de enfermería

Este libro lleva por título el de Guía metodológica para la gestión clínica por procesos. Aplicación en las Organizaciones de Enfermería. Sin embargo sus contenidos son mucho más amplios que los que implicaría la denominación. En efecto, el libro combina un tratamiento excelente de conceptos ...

Managed care and monopoly power

the antitrust challenge

As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals ...

Leading health care organizations

This book addresses the topic of leadership in healthcare. There is a great deal of rhetoric around leadership but the reality is that there is no 'best way' of leading, this book explores the rhetoric with papers that contribute insights into; taking healthcare forward in ...

Globalization and health

an introduction

There is widespread recognition that globalization is changing the world around us, but so far there has been no systematic analysis of how it is impacting on human health. Such impacts are diverse, encompassing global economic, political, sociocultural, technological and environmental changes. Globalization and Health ...

Reorganizing health care delivery systems

problems of managed care and other models of health care delivery

This book addresses important themes in medical sociology, with papers that range from those with an explicit policy point of view to narrower papers on more specific issues in health care delivery. One of the lessons of the past decade is that no countries in ...

The contigent valuation method in health care

an economic evaluation of Alzheimer´s disease

The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care is offered as a contribution to improving instruments of political decision making in health care. At a fundamental level, it is about methodological aspects of the contingent valuation method. It gives a holistic view of applying the contingent ...

Universities in the marketplace

the commercialization of higher education

This text investigates the commercialization of higher education and argues that this can only succeed in the short-term, while those universities that uphold academic values will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students

Ideas para el Gobierno

la universidad

La medición de la eficiencia en las instituciones de educación superior

Este libro profundiza en el conocimiento de la tecnología de producción de las instituciones de educación superior y ofrece evidencia empírica que analiza la eficiencia técnica de una muestra de departamentos de Economía de las universidades públicas españolas. La metodología utilizada se fundamenta en las ...

Digital dragon

high-technology enterprises in China

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs and local government officials, as well as numerous published primary sources, Digital Dragon is the first detailed look at a major Chinese institutional experiment and at high-tech endeavors in China. Can China become a true global economic power? The evolution ...

The great telecoms swindle

how the collapse of Worldcom finally exposed the technology myth

With the demise of WorldCom amidst a flurry of accounting scandals dominating the front pages, and following hotly in the footsteps of the equally spectacular downfall of other telecoms giants including Global Crossing and Lucent Technologies, this is an account, written by industry insiders, that ...

Broadbandits

inside the $750 billion telecom heist

"Broadbandits weaves together a story of greed, money, power, and crime to reveal to the millions of people who lost their investments in telecom stock where, and to whom, their hard-earned dollars went." #Charles Dubow, Executive Editor, Forbes.com INDICE PART I:THE FIBER BARONS ...

Traditional telecommunications networks

This reference work provides a thorough and up-to-date survey and analysis of recent developments in the economics of telecommunications. The handbooks serve both as a source of reference and technical supplement for the field of telecommunications economics. Volume I reviews the traditional literature to bring ...

Odisea 21: la evolución del sector audiovisual

modos de producción cambiantes y nuevas tecnologías

Coordinadoras y editoras Nereida López Vidales y Carmen Peñafiel Saiz ÍNDICE (RESUMEN).: Actores y receptores. Planteamiento de nuevos retos. La producción radiofónica en la era digital. Propuestas, evolución y cambios en la radiodifusión. La producción televisiva a partir del año 2000. La influencia de las ...

Pricing communication services

economics, technology and modelling

Recent advances in technology, combined with the deregulation of the telecommunication market and the proliferation of the Internet, have created a highly competitive environment for communication service providers. There is no simple recipe for pricing network service contracts in all contexts. Pricing is a complex ...

Telecomunicaciones, infraestructuras y libre competencia

En este libro sobre Telecomunicaciones, infraestructuras y libre competencia dispone el lector un estudio sobre el nuevo reto que plantea al jurista, el impacto de las telecomunicaciones y las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación en las sociedades capitalistas avanzadas. Aquí encontrará también una variada y ...

The global internet economy

By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions ...

Hacia un nuevo sistema mundial de comunicación

industrias culturales en la era digital

En el marco de la Fundación Alternativas, un equipo de investigadores ha estudiado las transformaciones que las nuevas tecnologías y redes digitales están produciendo en la comunicación y las industrias culturales en general, y las tendencias y escenarios que se están ya configurando en Europa ...

Il mercato delle telecomunicazioni

dal monopolio delle telecomunicazioni alla liberalizzazione negli Stati Uniti e nell'UE

Nel volume sono analizzati gli effetti della liberalizzazione del mercato delle telecomunicazioni nei principali paesi industrializzati - Stati Uniti e Unione Europea - con specifica attenzione al caso italiano. Seguendo un'impostazione economico-istituzionale, gli autori forniscono da un lato un'aggiornata esposizione delle caratteristiche dei diversi mercati ...