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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management

Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008

This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...

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Elgar encyclopedia of healthcare management

Lega, Federico (ed.) - 2023

"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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Progressing performance and wellbeing at work : travelling the loop

Paauwe, Jaap - 2024

essential book showcases proven methods with which managers can improve employee wellbeing. This timely book will be highly …

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The development of human resource management across nations : unity and diversity

Kaufman, Bruce E. (contributor) - 2014

development of HRM, but assembled 17 chapters in which world-class local experts report on that history in their own country. The … out of the usual narrow ethnocentric view that often afflicts studies of HRM.'--Chris Brewster, University of Reading, UK …. This innovative book describes the historical development of human resource management (HRM) in seventeen countries around …

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Cost-benefit analysis and health care evaluations

Brent, Robert J. - 2003

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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Reforming healthcare systems

Marmor, Theodore - 2011

. Zugangsregulierung und Inanspruchnahme fachärztlicher Leistungen in Europa', Das Gesundheitswesen, 72 (8/09), 447-54. -- Rothgang, H., M …-115 -- Uwe E. Reinhardt (1996), 'Spending More Through "Cost Control " Our Obsessive Quest to Gut the Hospital', Health Affairs …

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The political economy of HIV/AIDS in developing countries : TRIPS, public health systems, and free access

Coriat, Benjamin (contributor) - 2008

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 Elgar companion to health economics

Jones, Andrew M. (contributor) - 2006

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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The economics of health behaviours

Kenkel, Donald Scott (contributor); … - 2008

This three-volume set brings together the most important and interesting papers on the economics of health behaviours such as smoking, drinking, drug use, and risky sex. Volume I explores the theoretical foundations; it also includes empirical papers on the household production of health and the...

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Applied benefit-cost analysis

Schmitz, Andrew (contributor); Zerbe, Richard O. (contributor) - 2008

Benefit-cost analysis reduces all of the impacts of a proposed policy change to a common unit of measurement. It is used in a wide variety of fields including agriculture, life and health, transportation and the environment. In this single volume the editors, both leading scholars in their...

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