Artem Boltyenkov explores the ways in which the hearing impaired can afford aided hearing. The most humane option for all hearing impaired is full reimbursement healthcare economic policy. Unfortunately, providing free aided hearing for all hearing impaired in the population is very costly....

1. Significance of the Study of Health Economics -- 2. Economic Tools Used for the Analysis of Health Sector -- 3. Health Economics: A Review -- 4. Significance of Health Financing and Investment for Health Economics -- 5. Determinants of Health Status -- 6. Health Management for the Health...

Methodische Grundlagen -- Einführung -- Die Entwicklung der Gesundheitsökonomie und ihre methodischen Ansätze -- Gerechtigkeitsethische Überlegungen zur Gesundheitsversorgung -- Die Berechnung von Kosten und Nutzen -- Grundformen gesundheitsökonomischer Evaluationen -- Das QALY-Konzept als...

Schon immer war es eine große Herausforderung für Ärzte, Pflegekräfte und andere Mitarbeiter des Gesundheitswesens, die knappen Mittel bestmöglich einzusetzen. Die Notwendigkeit einer expliziten Ausbildung in Ökonomie wurde diesen Berufsgruppen jedoch erst in den letzten Jahren durch die...

This book provides a robust set of health economic principles and methods to inform societal decisions in relation to research, reimbursement and regulation (pricing and monitoring of performance in practice). We provide a theoretical and practical framework that navigates to avoid common biases...

The extensive monetary policy of central banks during the Great Recession has re-newed the interest in the relation between (possibly) non-neutral money and wealth and income inequality. In this work, a dynamic general equilibrium model approach is used to study the effects of an inflation rate...

This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption, environmental resource management, agricultural...