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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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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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MicroFranchising : creating wealth at the bottom of the pyramid

Fairbourne, Jason S. (contributor); … - 2007

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 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

), 2281-95. -- Enthoven, A.C. (1985), 'Reflections on the Management of the NHS. London', Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust …-97. -- Wendt, Claus (2009a), Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung? Gesundheitssysteme im Vergleich, 2nd Edition …-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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The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries

Hu, Teh-wei (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2002

-based, supplemental and national health insurance is explored, as are grants and the financing of hospitals and care for the elderly. The … effectiveness of education as an input to health investment and the rehabilitation of patients are also examined. Aiming to close …

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