This book offers a systematic review of major issues and trends in health care policy, including those related to physical health and disease trends, mental and behavioral health concerns, reorganizing the U.S. health system, and managed care and health care personnel.
This book focuses on the politics, policies, and methodologies of public health and the twenty-first century challenges to the public health system of the United States.
This book describes successes in many countries and looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy issues in health and health care.
It identifies fifty key concepts used across the discipline of public health in order to give the reader a broad perspective of the core topics relevant to training and practice.
This book provides a framework for understanding pricing, regulation, costs, market demand, profitability, and risk-issues that all healthcare managers face.
This authoritative reference has nearly 3,000 entries and is as complete a statement that exists anywhere of what it is that every health economist ought to know.
This reference presents coherent summaries of major subjects and methodologies, marking important advances and revisions. Introduces non-economists to the best research in health economics.
It examines the ethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy models and their effect on the future development of global health and policy.
Factoring health and related costs into decision making is essential to confronting the nation's health problems and enhancing public well-being. From the National Research Council - Committee on Health Impact Assessment