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The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it assesses the progress made and presents a rigorous diagnosis of...
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The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...
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"Management practices within the healthcare sector are shaped by a multitude of professional, social, political and technical factors. This Elgar Encyclopedia of Healthcare Management provides insights and definitions on essential themes that clarify complexity and specificity of leading within...
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Why microfranchising is needed now : introduction and book overview / Jason S. Fairbourne -- Microfranchising : the next step on the development ladder / Stephen W. Gibson -- The informal economy and microfranchising / Michael Henriques and Mathias Herr -- Current international development tools...
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Cost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation which can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. This book attempts to build a bridge between cost-benefit analysis, as developed by economists, and the health care evaluation literature...
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Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (1990), The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press. -- Esping … Capitalism', Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 39 (2), 65-82. -- Kohl, Jürgen and Claus Wendt (2004), 'Satisfaction with Health Care …-97. -- Wendt, Claus (2009a), Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung? Gesundheitssysteme im Vergleich, 2nd Edition …
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capitalism during the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that economics should centre on institutions - the durable … Schumpeterian perspectives. The nature of institutions in the growth and instability of capitalism is then explored with reference … author concludes, using institutional-evolutionary themes of political economy, that the evolution of modern capitalism is …
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Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry traces the discovery and development of drugs in Japan and the UK both historically and sociologically. It includes sixteen case studies of major pharmaceutical developments in the twentieth century, encompassing, amongst others, beta-blockers,...
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industry, which is regarded as the future for pharmaceuticals. Further sections discuss topics including demand and incentives … including biosimilars, insurance coverage for pharmaceuticals, price-fixing and direct-to-consumer advertising. An authoritative … and the Pricing of Pharmaceuticals', Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 6 (1), Spring, 75-90 -- Steven …
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disembedding of business systems, and the pursuit and pitfalls of responsible capitalism. It concludes by recommending potential … responsible capitalism : campaigns and political recipes …
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