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The economics of new health technologies : incentives, organization, and financing / edited by Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, Alistair McGuire.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Public Health and Epidemiology Available online
Oxford Scholarship Online: Public Health and Epidemiology- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical technology--Economic aspects.
- Medical economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (573 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations. It is also pinpointed as the main driver of healthcare expenditure. Although offering remarkable benefits, changes in technology are not free and often entail significant financial, as well as physical or social risks. These need to be balanced out in the setting of government regulations, insurance contracts, and individuals' decisions to use and consume certaintechnologies. With this in mind, this book addresses the following important objectives: to provide a detailed ana
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Part01 Introduction; Chapter 1 What do we know about the role of health care technology in driving health care expenditure growth?; Part02 Innovation, diffusion, and technology change; Chapter 2 The process of health care innovation: problem sequences, systems, and symbiosis; Chapter 3 Technology: scientific force or power force?; Chapter 4 Diffusion of health technologies: evidence from the pharmaceutical sector; Part03 Technological change and health insurance; Chapter 5 Insurance and new technology
- Chapter 6 Technological change and health insuranceChapter 7 Health insurance and the uptake of new drugs in the United States; Chapter 8 Genetic advances and health insurance; Part04 Innovation, social demand, and valuation; Chapter 9 Ageing and pharmaceutical innovation; Chapter 10 New approaches to health care innovation: information for the chronic patient; Chapter 11 The convergence of nano-, bio- and information technologies in healthcare; Chapter 12 Treatment uncertainty and irreversibility in medical care: implications for cost-effectiveness analysis
- Chapter 13 The limits and challenges to the economic evaluation of health technologiesPart05 Incentives, mechanisms, and processes; Chapter 14 Intellectual property rights and pharmaceuticals development; Chapter 15 Home, or nursing home? The effect of medical innovation on the demand for long-term care; Chapter 16 Knowledge, technology, and demand for online health information; Chapter 17 Institutional pathways for integrating genetic testing into mainstream health care; Index; Footnotes; Ch01; Ch01fn01; Ch01fn02; Ch02; Ch02fn01; Ch02fn02; Ch02fn03; Ch02fn04; Ch02fn05; Ch02fn06; Ch02fn07
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- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-58054-3
- 9786613892997
- 0-19-156407-9
- OCLC:
- 567955423
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