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CEAs (cost-effectiveness analyses) are used by decision makers in the health sector to make enlightened evaluations and this book provides an in depth look at how to evaluate the evaluator. The book is aimed specifically at Public health specialists.
A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians. Exploring cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making for resource allocation purposes, this volume proposes that analysts include a "reference-case" analysis in all CEAs designed to inform resource allocation and puts forth the most explicit set of guidelines (together with their rationale) ever defined on the conduct of CEAs. Important theoretical an...
Standard recommendations such as annual Pap smears for women and prostate tests for men over forty are in fact simply rules of thumb that ignore the complexities of individual cases and the tradeoffs between escalating costs and early detection, Russell argues. By looking beyond these recommendations to examine conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of screening tests, Russell demonstrates that medical experts' recommendations are often far simpler and more solid-looking than the evidence behind them. It is not at all clear, for example, that annual Pap smears are effective enough in reducing deaths from cervical cancer to justify the enormous additional costs involved in testing all women every year rather than every three years. Nor is there solid evidence for the value of prostate cancer screening, despite recommendations that all men over forty be tested annually.
Is prevention better than cure, or treatment more important because people need rescue? In this volume the prevention-treatment relationship is examined factually by economists and scholars of health policy and evidence-based medicine.
THE COMPELLING STORY OF THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF THE MOTHER OF AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ICON, MALCOLM X.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB, TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE AND THE RANDOM HOUSE BEST FIRST CHAPTER this story is "told with passion and immediacy" and "a major contribution to Black history".Louise Little was the mother of Malcolm Little, the man who would become the American civil rights icon Malcolm X.Drawing on a wide range of previously unseen sources, The Life of Louise Norton Little tells of Louise's early life in Grenada and journey to Canada and the United States. Louise was a proud and independent black woman. She and her children endured many injustices at the hands of the welfare s...
Ju ̈ rgen G. Backhaus 1 Johann Heinrich Gottlob (von) Justi was born in 1702 in Bru ̈ cken in Prussia (county of Sangerhausen), studied law and cameral sciences in Wittenberg and Jena, yet had to leave the university, entered the Prussian military service, was captured during the Austrian war of succession by the Austrians but escaped to Leipzig (Saxony) where he studied mineral sciences. In 1750 he was called to a chair ‘‘Cameral Sciences and Rhetorics’’ at the new Theresian Academy of Knights in Vienna. There, he gave two important inaugural lectures which are the focal point of this book. In 1754, Justi was appointed a mineral counsellor in Gottingen ̈ (Hanover), and lectured a...
This book traces a literary and cultural history of interviews from the 1860s to today; it reveals the ways in which writers have been interview subjects, interviewers and have used interviews creatively in their fiction and non-fiction.
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.