Chapter 1: Service Design within a Multiplicity Logics in Healthcare -- Chapter 2: Service design for hybrid market constellations in healthcare - From VUCA 2 VUCAR -- Chapter 3: Towards a conceptual framework of hybrid strategies in healthcare: Co-alignment of market and non-market activities...

Part I - Policies, Governance and Strategies -- Chapter 1. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS DURING COVID-19 CRISIS: INSIGHTS FROM THE ITALIAN CONTEXT -- Chapter 2. Rethinking healthcare organizations in the era of Covid-19: Lessons from the pandemic -- Chapter 3. ITALIAN HEALTH...

Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they neglect the competition between health care providers for...

This book provides key economic facts, explains the economic concepts needed to examine the implications of these facts, and summarizes the results of empirical studies regarding our healthcare system's access, cost, and quality problems as well as identifying six key trends that are reforming...