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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372525
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Cost-benefit analysis and evolutionary computing : optimal scheduling of interactive road projects
Taplin, John H. E. (ed.); Qiu, Min (ed.);  … - 2005
and scheduling road expansion and maintenance. The book presents substantial applications for both rural and urban … projects and to the optimization of maintenance. The authors confirm the extreme sensitivity to project timing but also show …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420110
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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 …-33 -- Donald W. Light (1997), 'From Managed Competition to Managed Cooperation: Theory and Lessons from the British Experience … Cost of Health', in Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, Chapter 8, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850669
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851278
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The economics of health behaviours
Kenkel, Donald Scott (contributor);  … - 2008
', Journal of Econometrics, 93, 49-72 -- Jonathan Gruber and Botond Köszegi (2001), 'Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence …Recommended readings (Machine generated): H. Leibenstein (1950), 'Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of … Kevin M. Murphy (1988), 'A Theory of Rational Addiction', Journal of Political Economy, 96 (4), August, 675-700 -- Engelbert …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852260
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The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries
Hu, Teh-wei (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2002
In order to control ever-increasing health care expenditure, Western and Asian countries are seeking to develop more efficient health care models. Studies on health care that focus specifically on Asian countries are rare, rendering this a unique and welcome addition to the literature. This book...
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