The continuously increasing cost of the US healthcare system has received significant
attention. Central to the ideas aimed at curbing this trend is the use of technology in the form …

This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and
health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A …

Importance Evidence suggests that maternal mortality has been increasing in the US.
Comprehensive estimates do not exist. Long-term trends in maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) …

Importance Health care spending in the United States is a major concern and is higher than
in other high-income countries, but there is little evidence that efforts to reform US health …

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART
DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the …

When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings
together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical …

This article summarizes the conception and diagnosis of the mental health continuum, the
findings supporting the two continua model of mental health and illness, and the benefits of …

Health care is an enormously expensive, highly complex, universally used service that
significantly affects economies and the quality of daily living. Service management …

Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for
advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors …

This paper represents an attempt to set out a conceptual framework for the OECD's Health
Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project. Two main issues are tackled: what concepts, or …