Routledge International Studies in Health Economics
Human Enhancement Technologies and Healthcare Policy
1st Edition
By Jacek Klich
August 01, 2024
Human enhancement (HE) is considered one of the most profoundly impactful effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This book presents the definition, theory, scope, and main challenges of HE from a health policy and healthcare systems perspective. It offers a comprehensive view of the ...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
July 19, 2024
The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector is certain to boost levels of automation and productivity but, paradoxically, it will also increase the availability of “first line competence.” At the same time as demographic trends are affecting demand for health and social...
The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Health 4.0
1st Edition
Edited
By Marek Ćwiklicki, Mariusz Duplaga, Jacek Klich
September 25, 2023
Health 4.0 is a term that has derived from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), as it pertains to the healthcare industry. This book offers a novel, concise, but at the same time, broad picture of the challenges that the technological revolution has created for the healthcare system. It...
Equity and Healthcare Reform in Developing Economies: The Case of Turkey
1st Edition
By Songül Çınaroğlu
May 06, 2022
Ensuring equity in healthcare is the main concern of health policymakers in order to provide a sustainable health system. This concern is more prominent in developing countries due to the scarcity of resources. This book provides a comprehensive analysis and discussion on the distributive pattern ...
Economics and HIV: The Sickness of Economics
1st Edition
By Deborah Johnston
February 27, 2015
Economics has largely failed to provide useful insights on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The inability of a dominant branch of social science to assist in understanding an illness with significant social, economic and emotional effects is a serious failing in its own right. Moreover, the inadequacy in its...
Individual Decisions for Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Bjorn Lindgren
March 31, 2014
Although economics is a relative newcomer to research into the determinants of good health, its significance should not be under-estimated. This book poses the important question of whether economic theory can be developed to explain why people engage in activities that are obviously a danger to ...
State Health Insurance Market Reform: Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets
1st Edition
By Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit
September 25, 2012
In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policy-makers and researchers....
Copayments and the Demand for Prescription Drugs
1st Edition
By Domenico Esposito
July 11, 2012
Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the health sector over recent years. The exact nature and use of copayments by health care insurers continues to be hot topic of debate. ...
Efficiency Measurement in Health and Health Care
1st Edition
By Bruce Hollingsworth, Stuart J. Peacock
November 24, 2009
This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much of the literature in this area is confusing and impregnable, Hollingsworth and Peacock show the logical links between the economic theory ...
Health, Economic Development and Household Poverty: From Understanding to Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Bennett, Lucy Gilson, Anne Mills
February 10, 2009
Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of ...
Evidence-Based Medicine: In its Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney
September 06, 2006
Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition....