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 ...

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

Financial management of health care organizations

an introduction to fundamental tools, concepts, and applications

El interfaz público-privado en sanidad

Debates and dilemmas in promoting health

a reader

The economics of health and health care

Uncertain times

Kenneth Arrow and the changing economics of health care

Sanidad en un mundo digital

En este texto se recogen pensamientos inconexos que el autor ha ido exponiendo en el espacio i-wonder de infonomia.com. A lo largo del texto se explora el potencial de Internet y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en las organizaciones sanitarias, que ...

Creación y regulación de centros y establecimientos sanitarios

autorización, registro e inspección

Es frecuente leer en prensa o ver u oír en los medios de comunicación noticias relacionadas con los centros y establecimientos sanitarios. Sin embargo, hasta el momento, no existía en la bibliografía jurídica española, ninguna monografía que abordara esta materia de modo integral. Por ello ...

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 ...

Exclusión social y salud

balance y perspectivas