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Personal Social Services

  • 1st Edition
  • May 21, 2014
  • B. P. Davies
  • W. F. Maunder
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 9 3 1 4 - 4
Personal Social Services serves as a comprehensive source of statistical data for any researcher, be they students or professional. The text opens with a definition of children’s services, health and welfare services. It describes and discusses local authority personal social service statistics generated by authorities responsible for rendering social services. The volume also provides the changes that occurred from 1948 to 1970. The book surveyed the services being given to aged people and the handicapped. The discussion proceeds to the powers and duties of local authorities, and a description of the way they conduct their obligations. The process of private fostering and adoption are described. A part of the text reviews and describes the statistical returns. The statistical returns for children’s services and those coming from the services for old people and the handicapped are evaluated. Another chapter focuses on the returns from mental health service. The last chapter of the book discusses the development of statistical data, the needs this data serves, the inputs, outputs, their combinations and interpretation. The book will provide useful information to government service provider, statistician, students, and researchers in the field of statistics.

Theory and Practice of Managed Competition in Health Care Finance

  • 1st Edition
  • April 23, 2014
  • A.C. Enthoven
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 2 7 2 - 4
These lectures review the research and experience on the subject of health care economy. The author also sets down a moderately rigorous statement of the economic concepts underlying the kind of competition that he regards as the most promising way to achieve a reasonable degree of equity and efficiency in health care. The first lecture is on the public policy goals of health care financing and delivery and discusses efficiency in health care. The second presents an economic analysis of the systems for organizing and financing medical care systems in the United States. The third lecture is about ``managed competition'', and the fourth reviews American experience with efforts to convert from the traditional system to a competitive system.The book is addressed primarily to economists, health policy makers and health services researchers. It explains how market forces may be managed in pursuit of equity and efficiency in health care. It addresses systematically many of the causes of market failure and proposes a strategy (``managed competition'') for overcoming them. It should be of interest to policy makers in any country interested in incentives for more efficient health care delivery. It should also be very useful supplemental reading for courses in health care economics.

Encyclopedia of Health Economics

  • 1st Edition
  • February 21, 2014
  • A J. Culyer
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 5 6 7 8 - 7
The Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Three Volume Set offers students, researchers and policymakers objective and detailed empirical analysis and clear reviews of current theories and polices. It helps practitioners such as health care managers and planners by providing accessible overviews into the broad field of health economics, including the economics of designing health service finance and delivery and the economics of public and population health. This encyclopedia provides an organized overview of this diverse field, providing one trusted source for up-to-date research and analysis of this highly charged and fast-moving subject area.

The Private Sector’s Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia

  • 1st Edition
  • January 7, 2013
  • Scott Hipsher
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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The private sector has an important role in poverty reduction in Asia. The Private Sector’s Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia argues that the best way to create sustainable projects is to create win-win situations where both private companies and individuals working their way out of poverty can benefit. The book provides a practical guide for managers and individuals working in the private sector in the least developed areas of Asia to help make a difference to the lives of others. The book’s opening chapter considers the private sector’s role in poverty reduction in Asia and following chapters discuss the variable nature of development, developing economy environments in Asia and business practices and strategies in these economies. A number of Asian economies are considered in turn, including: China; Vietnam; Thailand; Cambodia; Laos PDR; Southeast Asian countries; South Asian countries; Central Asian countries; and the Himalayas. The final chapter looks at creating sustainable win-win situations.

The World’s Health Care Crisis

  • 1st Edition
  • July 6, 2011
  • Ibis Sanchez Serrano
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 1 8 7 6 - 5
At present, human society is facing a health care crisis that is affecting patients worldwide. In the United States, it is generally believed that the major problem is lack of affordable access to health care (i.e. health insurance). This book takes an unprecedented approach to address this issue by proposing that the major problem is not lack of affordable access to health care per se, but lack of access to better, safer, and more affordable medicines. The latter problem is present not only in the United States and the developing world but also in countries with socialized health care systems, such as Europe and the rest of the industrialized world. This book provides a comparative analysis of the health care systems throughout the world and also examines the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

Handbook of the Economics of Education

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 3
  • November 10, 2010
  • Eric A. Hanushek + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 4 2 9 - 3
  • eBook
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How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the determinants of educational outcomes and issues surrounding teacher salaries and licensure. And reflecting government demands for more evidence-based policies, they take new looks at institutional feaures of school systems. Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin (University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging research on the economics of education and prior work. In conjunction with Volume 4, they measure our current understanding of educational acquisition and its economic and social effects.

Health Systems Policy, Finance, and Organization

  • 1st Edition
  • June 23, 2009
  • Guy Carrin + 3 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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This volume is unique in its systematic approach to these three pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties. Assembling such comparative materials is usually an onerous task because so many programs possess their own vocabularies, goals, and methods. This book will provide common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology.

Handbook of the Economics of Education

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 2
  • October 30, 2006
  • Eric A. Hanushek + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 2 8 1 9 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 6 5 6 7 - 8
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. With contributions from leading researchers, each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of the current state of the topic under examination. These surveys summarize the most recent discussions in journals, and elucidate new developments. Although original material is also included, the main aim of this series is the provision of comprehensive and accessible surveys

Handbook of Health Economics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 1A
  • July 19, 2000
  • A J. Culyer + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 0 4 7 0 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 4 1 7 - 5
The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful. It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main discipline: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric information; econometrics; the theory of incomplete markets; and the foundations of welfare economics, among others. Perhaps it has had an even greater effect outside the field of economics, introducing terms such as opportunity cost, elasticity, the margin, and the production function into medical parlance. Indeed, health economists are likely to be as heavily cited in the clinical as in the economics literature. Partly because of the large share of public resources that health care commands in almost every developed country, health policy is often a contentious and visible issue; elections have sometimes turned on issues of health policy. Showing the versatility of economic theory, health economics and health economists have usually been part of policy debates, despite the vast differences in medical care institutions across countries. The publication of the first Handbook of Health Economics marks another step in the evolution of health economics.

The Perception of Poverty

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 156
  • March 15, 1986
  • A.J.M. Hagenaars
  • English
  • eBook
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An attempt to define, measure and explain poverty is presented in this volume by means of a newly developed theoretical model. A combination of theory and empirical application is achieved by using the theoretical model on a sizeable data set derived from an extensive survey conducted in eight European countries. The nature of poverty is thereby empirically defined (and not a priori) as being the income level at which households feel that their income is just between sufficient and insufficient.An aggregate poverty index, associated with this poverty line definition, is calculated for each country and for subgroups within each country.Conclusions for social policy are drawn, describing which groups are at especially high risk of entering poverty, and who therefore need more specific policies. It is also discussed to what extent economic growth will eliminate poverty and which alternative measures are available.

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