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...

part Section I: Pressures for Change -- chapter 1 Access -- chapter 2 Cost -- chapter 3 Quality -- chapter Conclusion to Section I -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 4 Align Incentives via Payment System Design -- chapter 5 Managed Care Organizations, Accountable Care Organizations, and...

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...