Gesamtwirtschaftliche Effekte medizinisch-technischer Innovationen -- Wachstumsperspektiven der Gesundheitswirtschaft und ihrer Sektoren -- Auswirkungen demografischer Alterung auf die Gesundheitswirtschaft bis zum Jahr 2060.

This book examines the global HIV/AIDS pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing its economic impact, the reasons behind the political response to the pandemic, international laws relating to public health and patents and mechanisms for financing global and national responses. The...

Komparative Perspektive -- Makropolitische & rechtliche Perspektive -- Konsumentenseitige & logistische Perspektive -- Gesundheitswirtschaftliche Perspektive -- Finanzwirtschaftliche & mathematische Perspektive -- Personalpolitische Perspektive -- Personalmanagement-Perspektive --...

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. This book is about medicines production in sub-Saharan Africa, an enquiry driven by the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. It is a collective endeavour by a group of editors and authors with a strong African and more broadly Southern...

Murtin examines the long-term causes of health improvements over the last two centuries. Focusing on the relative importance of income and education, Murtin finds that education alone accounts for the bulk of health improvements since 1870, and explains the strong correlation between longevity...

Health care is a very important component of the American economy. The United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put the 2008 direct health care expenditures at about $2.34 trillion, or about 16.2 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), or an average of...

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population will potentially result in a significant growth in the number of beneficiaries in major federal entitlement programs, leading to...

The EU and the U.S. confront distinct factor market dynamics and common policy challenges. Labor market developments and long-term changes in capital markets and capital flows represent key problems in aging societies. The analyses presented here compare the European and U.S. patterns in this...