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Making Choices in Health - WHO Guide to Cost Effectiveness Analysis
World Health Organization 2003; US$ 27.00Several guidelines on cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) already exist. There are two reasons for producing another set. The first is that traditional or ''incremental'' CEA ignores the question of whether the current mix of interventions represents an efficient use of resources. Secondly, the resources required to evaluate the large number of interventions... more...
Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death
Charles C Thomas 2006; US$ 116.95MEDICOLEGAL INVESTIGATION OF DEATH, known as the ?bible? of forensic pathology, is now in its thirty-third year of publication. This book has been completely rewritten, updated, expanded and improved. It embraces all aspects of the pathology of trauma as it is witnessed daily by law enforcement officers, interpreted by pathologists of varying experience... more...
Irrationality in Health Care
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 39.95The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to such simple questions as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make all of us better off?" The standard tools of health... more...
Foucault, Health and Medicine
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key... more...
Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 54.99A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians. Exploring cost-effectiveness... more...
Japan's Global Health Policy
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013; US$ 29.99Recent years have seen a considerable shift in the sources of financial assistance for global health activities. With the private sector as well as emerging economies joining the more developed nations as major players, the balance of power is changing, leading to a momentous shift in perceptions of ?global health.? more...
Of Medicines and Markets
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 24.95Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of IP and health provisions are pivotal to both human rights advocacy and "free" trade policy, and as this book chronicles, complex political... more...
Managerial Regimes Meet the 'Healthcare State'
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00This e-book aim to highlight the contingencies and dynamics of new governance approaches and the significance of contexts, thus redefining the universal discourse of managerialism. The findings highlight the significance of institutional configurations in relation to professional agency and importantly both at macro and at meso level: first, the regulatory... more...
Die richtige Medizin für das kranke Gesundheitssystem: Bürgerversicherung - Prämienmodell - Alternativkonzept?
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 14.19Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit den beiden Kranken- und Pflegeversicherungszweigen innerhalb der sozialen Sicherung. Es werden die systemimmanenten Konzeptions- und Finanzprobleme lokalisiert, dargestellt und diskutiert. Hierbei werden die jüngsten Reformen mit einbezogen. Darauf aufbauend erfolgt eine Erläuterung und Gegenüberstellung der... more...
Rabattverträge nach § 130a Abs. 8 SGB V und der deutsche Arzneimittelmarkt
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 14.19Deutschland bietet mit seinem modernen und im internationalen Vergleich leistungsfähigen Gesundheitswesen allen Bürgern den Zugang zu einer hochwertigen Gesundheitsversorgung. Weitere Grundprinzipien der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in Deutschland wie die Solidarität und das Sachleistungsprinzip gelten weltweit als Vorbild. Darüber hinaus ist das... more...









