| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Health care issues, costs and access series |
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Health care issues, costs, and access.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Commentary health technology : moral hazard, inefficiencies, and solutions / Read G. Pierce, Kevin J. Bozic, Philip R. Lee -- The future of health-care quality in the United States / Brandon Roberts -- Short communications the elasticity of physician supply and medical malpractice litigation in the United States / Brandon Roberts -- How do the drug ads and other factors affect the way dentists prescribe the medications and has prescription medicine increased the overall cost of health care? / Kim L. Capehart -- The affects of contemporary and alternative medicine on healthcare and dentistry / Kim L. Capehart -- America's weightiest health issue : not obesity, but bloated health care expenses / George Everett -- Research and review studies analysis of number of days required for full-time care before death and the cost of care in the last month of life among the Chinese elderly / Danan Gu, Donghui Gu, Jie Zhou -- Costing of primary care in developing countries : how much health can we buy for a few dollars? / Steffen Flessa, Paul Marschall -- Costs of epidemiological changes in chronic diseases in Mexico / Armando Arredondo, Emanuel Orozco, Edson Servan -- Deficit and health reform : two different phenomena? / Z. Darmopilova, Z. Zigova -- Screening colonoscopy in Germany : a cost-saving analysis / Andreas Sieg, Hermann Brenner -- A fully Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis using conditionally specified prior distributions / M. Martel, M.A. Negrin, F.J. Vazquez-Polo -- Medication management and the older person / Maggi Banning -- Training needs of healthcare professionals working with breastfeeding mothers in England and in Poland / Joanna Kosmala-Anderson [and others] -- The design and evaluation of a radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled inpatient safety management system / Chuan-Jun Su, Ta-Wei Chu -- A note on estimating a mean cost of hospital stay with incomplete information / Isabella Locatelli and Alfio Marazzi. |
| Summary |
"It is difficult to find an area of such unyielding cost increases as health care except perhaps energy costs. These costs and the underlying health care systems continue to constitute major issues around the world. This new book tackles these tough issues head on from multiple perspectives around the world."--Publisher's description. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Medical economics.
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Medical care, Cost of.
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Health Care Costs.
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Delivery of Health Care -- economics.
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Quality of Health Care -- economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Medical care, Cost of. (OCoLC)fst01013902
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Medical economics. (OCoLC)fst01014004
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| Added Author |
Hofmann, Bernice R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Health care costs. New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2009 9781604569766 (DLC) 2008035991 (OCoLC)244246636 |
| ISBN |
9781617285165 (electronic bk.) |
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1617285161 (electronic bk.) |
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