Health information management

integrating information technology in health care work

Featuring case studies and practitioner perspectives, this is an accessible textbook that combines theoretical backgrounds and starting points with practice-oriented guidelines and advice on the best methods for bringing these ideas to the challenges of everyday health care management. The topics covered include: patient care ...

International health care reform

a legal, economic and political analysis

"International Health Care Reform" clearly explains the arguments in economics and justice for intervention by governments in health care markets; the structure and dynamics of health care systems; and the features of competition-oriented reform models. The book will appeal to students and researchers involved in ...

Restoring fiscal sanity

how to balance the budget

America will face persistent, annual deficits of over half a trillion dollars over the next decade. If current policies continue, these deficits will slow economic growth, reduce household incomes, and impose enormous burdens on the next generation. To address the problem, a team of Brookings ...

Health economics

fundamentals and flow of funds

A primer for the field, written by the Executive Director of the International Health Economics Association. This book offers a readable and rigorous conceptual framework for studying incentives, organizations and profits in medical care. Updated with new material on the calculation of payment rates (RBRVS ...

El merco regulador del medicamento

un análisis institucional conparado España-Estados Unidos

Money,politics and health care

reconstructing the federal-provincial partnership

eds.Harvey Lazar;France St-Hilaire The First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal, announced in February 2003 just a few months following the release of the Romanow and Kirby reports on the future of health care in Canada, gave rise to high expectations. Many Canadians ...

Health Program Planning and evaluation

a practical, systematic approach for community health

Today#s challenging health care conditions require the development of increasingly sophisticated health programs in order to compete for funding and support. The influencing forces of federal legislation, rigid public health goals, an emphasis on outcomes of health care and evidence-based practice, and use of ...

Essencials of health care marketing

A complete curriculum of marketing management tools and techniques, ideal for graduate and upper-level graduate courses, is contained in this text. Filled with examples from a wide array of health care providers, health systems, HMOs, physician-hospital organizations, and more, the chapters cover market research, strategy ...

Public health

what it is and how it works

This book is a straightforward introduction to the complex, multidimensional field of public health and how it functions in modern day America.

Quality health care

a guide to developing and using indicators

Written by an internationally-recognized expert in the field of quality management, this book will serve as your guide for planning and implementing a successful quality measurement program in your healthcare facility. It begins by presenting an overview of the context for quality measurement, the forces ...

¿Más recursos para la salud?

Tal y como comenta el autor en la presentación, con la obra se pretende redirigir el debate político sobre si en España son necesarios más recursos para la salud desde los diferentes puntos de vista en función de una política sanitaria más basada en la ...

The price of smoking

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a ...

Privatización y negocio sanitario

la salud del capital

El libro hace un recorrido crítico por las circunstancias en las que se han gestado y se han desarrollado históricamente los distintos #sistemas sanitarios#, tanto en nuestro país como en el resto del mundo, mostrando cómo la consolidación y evolución de los distintos sistemas se ...

Los inventores de enfermedades

cómo nos convierten en pacientes

Jörg Blech nos descubre de qué manera la industria farmacéutica nos manipula y hace todo lo posible por convertirnos sistemáticamente en pacientes y da las claves sobre cómo podemos protegernos de ello. En los últimos años, en el mundo industrializado, han hecho su aparición una ...

Territorial politics and health policy

UK health policy in comparative perspective

CONTENTS: 1. Laboratories of democracy? 2. Medical politics and the politics of medicine 3. Scotland: professionalism 4. England: markets 5. Wales: localism 6. Northern Ireland: permissive managerialism 7. Creating divergent policy in the UK 8. Conclusion: international debates, local conclusions

Public Health, ethics, and equity

ÍNDICE: Amartya Sen: Preface Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: Introduction I. Health Equity 1 Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2 Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3 Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4 Norman ...

Who should pay for Medicare?

Good news first? The good news is that Americans today are living longer, in part because of continual advances in healthcare. But the bad news is that with our aging population larger than ever before, nothing is being done to ensure that we can continue ...

European integration and health policy

the artful dance of economics and history

Monitoring the quality of health care

Issues and scientific approaches

The cure

Enterprise medicine for business: a novel for managers