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Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities

This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today. The contributors to the book - researchers from academia, regulatory agencies and consulting firms - address the use of efficiency measures in price regulation and in assessing the effects of past regulatory reforms. Industries examined include electricity supply, water supply, telecommunications and airlines, across a range of countries including the USA, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.

The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing

  • Categories: Law

Examining the ways and extent to which systemic factors affect health outcomes with regard to quality, affordability and access to curative healthcare, this explorative book compares tax-funded Beveridge systems and insurance-based Bismarck systems. Containing contributions from national experts, The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing charts and compares the merits of healthcare systems throughout 11 countries, from the UK to Colombia.

Public Services in EU Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Public Services in EU Law

Comprehensive analysis showing that utilities and welfare services are important building blocks for the EU social market economy.

Handbook of Health Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1149

Handbook of Health Economics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-05
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

"As a relatively new subdiscipline of economics, health economics has made many contributions to areas of the main discipline, such as insurance economics. This volume provides a survey of the burgeoning literature on the subject of health economics." {source : site de l'éditeur].

Coherence in EU Competition Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Coherence in EU Competition Law

  • Categories: Law

An examination of how competition law maintains its coherence, this volume charts the historical development of the EU competition regime and its path to decentalized enforcement, as well as studying the coherence of the regime's goals, boundaries, rules, and exceptions.

Performance Benchmarking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Performance Benchmarking

"In this book, Peter Bogetoft - THE expert on the theory and practice of benchmarking - provides an in–depth yet very accessible and readable explanation of the best way to do benchmarking, starting from the ground up." Rick Antle William S. Beinecke Professor of Accounting, Yale School of Management CFO, Compensation Valuation, Inc. "I highly recommend this well-written and comprehensive book on measuring and managing performance. Dr. Bogetoft summarizes the fundamental mathematical concepts in an elegant, intuitive, and understandable way." Jon A. Chilingerian Professor, Brandeis University and INSEAD "Bogetoft gives in his book Performance Benchmarking an excellent introduction to the m...

Towards an Integrated Health Information System in the Netherlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 95

Towards an Integrated Health Information System in the Netherlands

Twenty-first century health systems have to be built around data and information. An integrated health information system enables the secure flow of data to where they can be used, to provide information to strengthen integrated care delivery, enable public health monitoring and management, and foster medical and health research and innovation.

Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives

The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to ...

The Human Right to Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

The Human Right to Health

  • Categories: Law

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on how to effectively address the issue of unequal access to healthcare. It analyses the human right to health from the underexplored legal principle of solidarity, proposing a non-commercial understanding of the positive obligations inherent in the right to health.

The Regulation of E-cigarettes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

The Regulation of E-cigarettes

  • Categories: Law

Combining the insights of leading legal scholars and public health experts, this unique book analyses the various legal problems that are emerging at different levels of governance (international, European and national) in the context of the regulation of e-cigarettes. The expert authors assess in depth the possible application of the precautionary and harm reduction principles in this area, examine the legal constraints imposed on states by international and European rules, as well as the regulatory approaches currently in place in selected national jurisdictions.