Background: Helicopter emergency services (HEMS) are of increasing relevance for emergency medical services (EMS) of developed countries. Despite the known cost intensity of HEMS, there is only very limited knowledge of its cost dynamics and structures. This averts an efficient resource...

1 Einführung: Wirtschaftswissenschaft - ein auch für Mediziner und Gesundheitswissenschaftler relevantes Fach; Grundprobleme der Gesundheitsökonomik -- 2 Ziele- und Wertesystem: Wertesystem; Ziele der Gesundheitspolitik; Fallstudie -- 3 Nachfrage: Bedürfnisse; Raum und Distanz; Kaufkraft;...

Background: Hospitals should monitor the costs of all direct and indirect processes in order to achieve efficiency and safeguard financial sustainability. One neglected process with significant costs is the processing of reusable medical devices and their packaging performed in the central...

Background: Knowledge of the costs of health services improves health facility management and aids in health financing for universal health coverage. Because of resource requirements that are often not present in low- and middle-income countries, costing exercises are rare and infrequent. Here...