Purpose The aim of the paper is to discuss the current knowledge about Health Lean Management (LM) implementations extending the focus toward the unexplored setting of Local Health Networks (HNs). In particular, the study analyses the fundamental variables of LM implementations: context, project...

"This book discusses aspects of health literacy in to relation to conceptual frameworks, methodological issues, ethical considerations, raising of awareness and promotion of communication, learning needs and strategies for various groups of target populations, technology insights and...

We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...