This handbook gives profound insight into the main ideas and concepts of integrated care. It offers a managed care perspective with a focus on patient orientation, efficiency, and quality by applying widely recognized management approaches to the field of health care. The handbook also provides...

Part I: Foundations of Integrated Care -- Part II: Management of Integrated Care -- Part III: Tools and Instruments -- Part IV: Evaluation and Health Services Research -- Part V: Selected Client Groups -- Part VI: Case Studies.

This handbook gives profound insight into the main ideas and concepts of integrated care. It offers a managed care perspective with a focus on patient orientation, efficiency, and quality by applying widely recognized management approaches to the field of health care. The handbook also provides...

"There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an...

There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an...

This dissertation is a collection of four essays dealing with topics of the production of health and health care finance. In almost all industrialized countries public health care expenditure continues to increase at a faster pace than GDP. Thus, debate on health policy often focuses on limiting...