education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing countries are issues …

Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance students’ economic understanding of how … health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving … from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within …

In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas--or we can acknowledge … today’s demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that … the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions …

This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health … systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical … evidence to enhance readers’ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject …

One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system … in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic prognosis. In their frontline work as providers, Thomas Lee … results in chaos. Lee and Mongan argue that attacking this chaos is even more important than whether health care is managed by …

that differences in the American and British approaches to health care and commercialization of research led to the … establishment of different BRCA services in the two countries. In Britain, the technology was available through the National Health …

differences in the American and British approaches to health care and commercialization of research led to the establishment of … different BRCA services in the two countries. In Britain, the technology was available through the National Health Service as an … American provider of BRCA testing to market its services in Britain. British scientists, health-care providers, and patients …

state, the interaction between taxation and markets, the future of pension and health care systems, and international tax …

, savings, retirement, and health care -- all within a realistic framework for modeling and discussing policy. International in … productivity. And although there are serious crises in pay-as-you-go social insurance programs and in health care, these have …

systems; expert systems in the health field; health care; the disabled; computers in education; attitudes toward the new …