Organizational Culture and Occupational Health -- The Importance of Leadership for Occupational Health -- Public and Private Policies Promoting Occupational Health -- Evidence-Based Studies and Interventions Promoting Occupational Health.

This book focuses on how companies are innovating with regard to the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) − the lowest socio-economic segment, and the organizational conditions they need to be successful. The authors use several examples of disruptive innovations for this market, particularly in the...

This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan. In the past hundred years, medicine has gone from being a charitable activity to a large economic sector, amounting...

Combining conceptual, pragmatic and operational approaches, this edited collection addresses the demand for knowledge and understanding of IT in the healthcare sector. With new technology outbreaks, our vision of healthcare has been drastically changed, switching from a ‘traditional’ path to...

Unternehmen mit Gewinnmaximierung und öffentliche Großkrankenhäuser ohne Erfolgsdruck - beide Welten kennt der Autor. Er verfügt über 17 Jahre Berufserfahrung im Krankenhausmanagement, als Finanzdirektor der TILAK, Verwaltungsdirektor der Universitätsklinik Innsbruck, Geschäftsführer der...

Das Buch behandelt die aktuelle Steuerungsproblematik im Gesundheitssystem auf Makro-, Meso- und Mikroebene. Es wird ein Bezugsrahmen für notwendige Veränderungen im System geliefert sowie daraus Anforderungen an ein modernes Krankenhausmanagement abgeleitet. Zudem wird die Wirksamkeit der...

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...

Healthcare is changing and you need to know how-and what to do about it. Getting good medical care shouldn’t be so confusing-or so costly. Healthcare, Insurance, and You simplifies the many confusing details about our healthcare system so you can make informed decisions. Result? Better health...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Selected socio-economic aspects of post-communist health care transition -- Chapter 3: Transformation of hospital governance in post-Semashko health systems -- Chapter 4: Economic implications of transforming hospital governance -- Chapter 5: Statistical...