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Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg present the cutting edge of research covering the ever-expanding social capital field. With excellent contributions from leading academics, the Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health offers a developed examination of new research across sociology, epidemiology, economics, psychology, and political science.

Money and Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Money and Medicine

"This book frames the evolutionary path of medicine and provides a useful forecasting model. Tracing health spending from ancient times to the present with a single ratio, health expenditures as a share of income, reveals an s-shaped growth curve, rising rapidly after science made therapies more effective and more expensive, inflecting as the rate of expansion peaked with the coalescence of national health systems in the 1960s, and decelerating after 1975. Medicine became qualitatively different as it scaled up along therapeutic, organizational, financial, and moral dimensions. The development of health insurance and changes in the flow of funds made macro effects on total spending different from micro determinants of allocation. Institutional inertia and lags require a span of observation long enough to distinguish temporary fluctuations from shifts in trend"--

Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study

"A ground breaking set of case studies about how [health care] coverage decisions are made" Robert A. Berenson M.D. Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, Washington D.C. and former Director of the Center for Health Plans and Providers of the Medicare program Developed countries are facing rapidly rising health care costs and one of the major factors driving health care cost growth is the continual development and diffusion of new, generally more expensive, health care technologies. This book contains: * A description of the institutions, procedures and criteria used by eight countries for assessing technologies for public insurance coverage * An analysis of the role of interest groups, and o...

Public Health Reports
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 612

Public Health Reports

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-10
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies This groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations. Editors Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa have crafted an anthology that is unique in both form and content. The book combines previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works created for this volume. The sections of the text are arranged thematically as critical dialogues, each with a brief preface that provides context and a conceptual direction for the scholarly ...

The Economics of Health and Health Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 752

The Economics of Health and Health Care

Folland, Goodman, and Stano’s bestselling The Economics of Health and Health Care text offers the market-leading overview of all aspects of Health Economics, teaching through core economic themes, rather than concepts unique to the health care economy. The Eighth Edition of this key textbook has been revised and updated throughout, and reflects changes since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition to its revised treatment of health insurance, the text also introduces the key literature on social capital as it applies to individual and public health, as well as looking at public health initiatives relating to population health and economic equity, and comparing nume...

Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification

This insightful book explores the spread of network imagery in three areas of sociology – social capital, social support, and China – using as its protagonist a man active in all three: Nan Lin. Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification provides a unique combination of Nan Lin’s core contributions to the field presented alongside new and original analyses.

Princeton Alumni Weekly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1038

Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Hospital Management and Healthcare Policy: Financing, Resourcing and Accessibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Hospital Management and Healthcare Policy: Financing, Resourcing and Accessibility

Hospital management and healthcare policy are two related fields that significantly impact the delivery, accessibility, and quality of healthcare services. Hospital management refers to the administration and coordination of all the activities and resources in operating a hospital or healthcare facility, which includes strategic planning, financial management, human resources, patient care, and quality improvement. Effective hospital management is essential for ensuring the safety, quality of care, and cost-effective delivery of services. Healthcare policy refers to the regulations and guidelines that govern the provision and financing of healthcare services at the national, state, and local level. It encompasses issues such as healthcare access, affordability, quality, equity, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Public Health Reports
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Public Health Reports

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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