Health care costs : causes, effects and control / Bernice R. Hofmann, editors [sic].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hofmann, Bernice R.

Series:

Health care issues, costs, and access.

Health care issues, costs and access series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical economics.

Medical care, Cost of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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.

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 ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61728-516-1

OCLC:

662453213