Health economics Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Dictionary of Health Economics, Third Edition
Book SynopsisIn his Foreword Tony Culyer says, quoting the Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank Engine, that he wants his book to be 'a really useful engine'. Well, he's succeeded; it's really useful, and, for me at least, it'' a true engine of discovery.'- Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK'For anyone who thinks health economics is just economic evaluation and in particular cost-effectiveness analysis, this Dictionary will open their eyes to the breadth of health economics. The Dictionary takes a laudably inclusive approach, covering not just core economics terms but also terms within medicine, epidemiology, and the health sector that economists working in health need to understand. It also includes terms, and useful references, for those working as health economists in low and middle income countries. Any student or teacher should have this at their elbow.'- Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UKThis third edition of Anthony Culyer's authoritative The Dictionary of Health Economics brings the material right up to date as well as adding plentiful amounts of new information, with a number of revised definitions. There are now nearly 3,000 entries in this comprehensive work. This third edition includes 250 new references as sources for definitions and examples of practice and the bibliography comprises roughly 1,400 items. Anthony Culyer has refined and made the system of cross-references and internet links even more comprehensive than in previous editions. This Dictionary is as complete a statement as exists anywhere of what it is that every health economist ought to know.Trade ReviewAcclaim for the second edition:In the second edition of this Dictionary, Culyer, a well-known and highly respected health economist, attempts to define many of the complex health care terms used not only in the field of medicine, but also in the fields of allied health sciences, nursing, public health, and economics. The Dictionary's main strength is its comprehensiveness. It features 2,310 terms used by various national health care systems including those of the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK. The Dictionary clearly identifies and concisely defines each term, and cites current literature that uses the term. . . this Dictionary is an extraordinary work, and Culyer should be commended for his effort. --- R.M. Mullner, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the third edition Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Acknowledgements Conventions The Dictionary of Health Economics Bibliography
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics of Health Law
Book SynopsisRonen Avraham, David Hyman and Charles Silver, leading authorities in their fields, discuss the effects of economic and legal constraints and regulation on healthcare. They examine the impact of access to healthcare on mortality and clinical outcomes and investigate healthcare financing, including payment to providers, expanding costs, health insurance and the provision of long-term care. The distribution of spending and the expansion of provision are also investigated. The regulatory aspect includes discussions on the regulation of healthcare practice, medical malpractice and liability, and public health and ethical issues.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Introduction Ronen Avraham, David A. Hyman and Charles M. Silver PART I ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE: HEALTHCARE, MORTALITY AND OTHER CLINICAL OUTCOMES 1. Andrew P. Wilper, Steffie Woolhandler, Karen E. Lasser, Danny McCormick, David H. Bor and David U. Himmelstein (2009), ‘Health Insurance and Mortality in US Adults’, American Journal of Public Health, 99 (12), December, 2289–95 2. Richard Kronick (2009), ‘Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Revisited’, HSR: Health Services Research, 44 (4), August, 1211–31 3. Katherine Baicker, Sarah L. Taubman, Heidi L. Allen, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan H. Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Eric C. Schneider, Bill J. Wright, Alan M. Zaslavsky and Amy N. Finkelstein (2013), ‘The Oregon Experiment – Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes’, New England Journal of Medicine, 368 (18), May 2, 1713–22 PART II FINANCING HEALTH CARE A Payment Structure and Incentives 4. Ching-to Albert Ma and Thomas G. McGuire (1997), ‘Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment’, American Economic Review, 87 (4), September, 685–704 5. Sherry Glied and Joshua Graff Zivin (2002), ‘How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?’, Journal of Health Economics, 21 (2), March, 337–53 6. Thomas L. Greaney (2009), ‘Economic Regulation of Physicians: A Behavioral Economics Perspective’, Saint Louis University Law Journal, 53, 1189–209 7. Austin B. Frakt (2011), ‘How Much Do Hospitals Cost Shift? A Review of the Evidence’, Milbank Quarterly, 89 (1), March, 90–130 B Cost Drivers 8. Joseph P. Newhouse (1992), ‘Medical Care Costs: How Much Welfare Loss?’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6 (3), Summer, 3–21 9. Burton A. Weisbrod (1991), ‘The Health Care Quadrilemma: An Essay on Technological Change, Insurance, Quality of Care, and Cost Containment’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXIX (2), June, 523–52 10. Einer Elhauge (1997), ‘The Limited Regulatory Potential of Medical Technology Assessment’, Virginia Law Review, 82, 1525–617 C Health Insurance 11. Kenneth J. Arrow (1963), ‘Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care’, American Economic Review, LIII (5), December, 941–73 12. Mark V. Pauly (1968), ‘The Economics of Moral Hazard’, American Economic Review, 58 (3), Part I, June, 531–7 13. Kenneth J. Arrow (1968), ‘The Economics of Moral Hazard: Further Comment’, American Economic Review, 58 (3), Part 1, June, 537–9 14. Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra (2008), ‘Myths and Misconceptions about U.S. Health Insurance’, Health Affairs, 27 (6), October, w533–w543, content.healthaffairs.org, accessed 13 August 2013 15. Sherry A. Glied (2005), ‘The Employer-Based Health Insurance System: Mistake or Cornerstone?’, in David Mechanic, Lynn B. Rogut, David C. Colby and James R. Knickman (eds), Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care, Chapter 3, Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 37–52 D Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection 16. John A. Nyman (2004), ‘Is “Moral Hazard” Inefficient? The Policy Implications of a New Theory’, Health Affairs, 23 (5), September–October, 194–9 17. David M. Cutler and Sarah J. Reber (1998), ‘Paying for Health Insurance: The Trade-off between Competition and Adverse Selection’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113 (2), May, 433–66 E Long-Term Care 18. Mark V. Pauly (1990), ‘The Rational Nonpurchase of Long-Term-Care Insurance’, Journal of Political Economy, 98 (1), February, 153–68 19. Jeffrey R. Brown and Amy Finkelstein (2011), ‘Insuring Long-Term Care in the United States’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25 (4), Fall, 119–41 and ‘Appendix: Calculating Loads and Comprehensiveness’, http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.25.4.119. Accessed 25.02.2014, 1-13 PART III DISTRIBTUTION OF SPENDING AND CROWD-OUT 20. Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan S. Skinner (2005), ‘Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities’, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48 (1), Supplement, Winter, S42–S53 21. Tomas J. Philipson, Seth A. Seabury, Lee M. Lockwood, Dana P. Goldman and Darius N. Lakdawalla (2010), ‘Geographic Variation in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets’ and ‘Comment and Discussion’, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring, 325–55, 56–61 22. David M. Cutler and Jonathan Gruber (1996), ‘Does Public Insurance Crowd out Private Insurance?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (2), May, 391–430 PART IV COMPETITION AND FRAGMENTATION IN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY 23. David Hyman (2010), ‘Health Care Fragmentation: We Get What We Pay For’, in Einer Elhauge (ed.), Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions, Chapter 2, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 23–36 24. Thomas (Tim) Greaney (2009), ‘Competition Policy and Organizational Fragmentation in Health Care’, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 71 (2), 217–39 Index Volume II Contents: An introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I PART I REGULATION OF HEALTH CARE PRACTICE A Drugs and Devices 1. Anup Malani and Tomas Philipson (2012), ‘The Regulation of Medical Products’, in Patricia Danzon and Sean Nicholson (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, Chapter 5, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 100–42 2. Michelle M. Mello, Sara Abiola and James Colgrove (2012), ‘Pharmaceutical Companies’ Role in State Vaccination Policymaking: The Case of Huyman Papillomavirus Vaccination’, American Journal of Public Health, 102 (5), May, 893–8 B Licensure and Guidelines 3. Ronen Avraham (2011), ‘Clinical Practice Guidelines – The Warped Incentives in the U.S. Healthcare System?’, American Journal of Law and Medicine, 37 (1), Spring, 7–40 4. Shirley Svorny (1993), ‘Advances in Economic Theories of Medical Licensure’, Federation Bulletin: The Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline, 80 (1), Spring, 27–32 C Provider Rankings 5. Peter K. Lindenauer, Denise Remus, Sheila Roman, Michael B. Rothberg, Evan M. Benjamin, Allen Ma and Dale W. Bratzler (2007), ‘Public Reporting and Pay for Performance in Hospital Quality Improvement’, New England Journal of Medicine, 356 (5), February, 486–96 6. David Dranove, Daniel Kessler, Mark McClellan and Mark Satterthwaite (2003), ‘Is More Information Better? The Effects of “Report Cards” on Health Care Providers’, Journal of Political Economy, 111 (3), June, 555–88 PART II MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND LIABILITY 7. Richard A. Epstein (1976), ‘Medical Malpractice: The Case for Contract’, American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1 (1), 87–149 8. Jennifer Arlen (2013), ‘Economic Analysis of Medical Malpractice Liability and Its Reform’, in Jennifer Arlen (ed.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Tort, Chapter 2, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 33–69 9. Kenneth S. Abraham and Paul C. Weiler (1994), ‘Enterprise Medical Liability and the Evolution of the American Health Care System’, Harvard Law Review, 108 (2), December, 381–436 10. Kathryn Zeiler, Bernard S. Black, Charles Silver, David A. Hyman and William M. Sage (2008), ‘Physicians’ Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003’, Journal of Legal Studies, 36 (S2), June, S9–S45 11. David M. Studdert, Michelle M. Mello, Atul A. Gawande, Tejal K. Gandhi, Allen Kachalia, Catherine Yoon, Ann Louise Puopolo and Trojen A. Brennan (2006), ‘Claims, Errors, and Compensation Payments in Medical Malpractice Litigation’, New England Journal of Medicine, 354 (19), May, 2024–33 12. Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan (1996), ‘Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (2), May, 353–90 13. Daniel P. Kessler (2011), ‘Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25 (2), Spring, 93–110 14. Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny and Max M. Schanzenbach (2012), ‘The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums’, Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 28 (4), October, 657–86 15. Janet Currie and W. Bentley MacLeod (2008), ‘First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123 (2), May, 795–830 PART III PUBLIC HEALTH A Infections and Antibiotic Resistance 16. Ramanan Laxminarayan and Anup Malani (2011), ‘Economics of Infectious Diseases’, in Sherry Glied and Peter C. Smith (eds), Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, Chapter 9, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 189–205 17. William M. Sage and David A. Hyman (2010), ‘Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance: Regulatory Strategies and Institutional Capacity’, Tulane Law Review, 84 (4), March, 781–840 B Obesity 18. Ronen Avraham and K.A.D. Camara (2007), ‘The Tragedy of Human Commons’, Cardozo Law Review, 29 (2), November, 479–511 [33] 19. Tomas Philipson (2001), ‘The World-Wide Growth in Obesity: An Economic Research Agenda’, Health Economics, 10, 1–7 20. Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner (2008), 'Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Review of Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles's Obesity, Business and Public Policy', Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (4), December, 974–82 PART IV ETHICAL ISSUES 21. Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Margaret P. Battin (1998), ‘What are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?’, New England Journal of Medicine, 339 (3), July, 167–72 22. Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth (2012), ‘Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate’, American Economic Review, 102 (5), August, 2018–47 23. Jason Snyder (2010), ‘Gaming the Liver Transplant Market’, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 26 (3), December, 546–68 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The LSE Companion to Health Policy
Book SynopsisThe LSE Companion to Health Policy covers a wide range of conceptual and practical issues from a number of different perspectives introducing the reader to, and summarising, the vast literature that analyzes the complexities of health policy. The Companion also assesses the current state of the art. Health policy is a wide-ranging subject covering many academic disciplines, but what most studies in health policy have in common is an interest in applying theory to improve practice. This Companion brings academic rigor to bear evidence on a range of central areas within health policy. It covers key issues on the quality, access and inequalities in health and health care; supply and health markets; insurance and expenditures; pharmaceuticals and new technologies; ageing and long-term care; and behavior and health production. This unique Companion on health policy contains the most important features for health system reform at a time of funding constraints and will therefore hold great appeal for policy analysts and makers, students, academics and management professionals. Contributors: S. Allin, R.G. Bevan, R. Butterfield, C. Campbell, A. Comas-Herrera, Z. Cooper, J. Costa-Font, M. Di Cesare, H.A. Elgazzar, J.-L. Fernandez, A. Gibbs, C. Henderson, C. Hernandez-Quevedo, L. Kossarova, C. Masseria, A. McGuire, P. Mladovsky, A. Morton, M. Murphy, I. Papanicolas, M. Raikou, C. Rudisill, V. Serra-Sastre, C. Stavropoulou, N. Varol, J.M. Wiener, R. Wittenberg, V. ZiganteTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Alistair McGuire and Joan Costa-Font PART I: QUALITY, ACCESS AND INEQUALITIES 1. Inequalities in Health: Why Do We Care? How Do We Care? What Can We Do About Them? Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Joan Costa-Font 2. Strengthening Community Participation in Primary Health Care: Experiences from South Africa Andrew Gibbs and Catherine Campbell 3. Socioeconomic Status and Access to Health Care: The Quandary of Transition Economies Heba A. Elgazzar 4. Quality of Ambulatory Care: Hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Lucia Kossarova PART II: SUPPLY AND HEALTH CARE MARKETS 5. Choice in Health Care: Drivers and Consequences Valentina Zigante, Joan Costa-Font and Zack Cooper 6. A Million Years of Waiting: Competing Accounts and Comparative Experiences of Hospital Waiting-time Policy Alec Morton and R. Gwyn Bevan 7. Measuring Access to Health Care in Europe Sara Allin and Cristina Masseria PART III: INSURANCE AND EXPENDITURES 8. How are Rising Health Care Expenditures Explained? Alistair McGuire, Victoria Serra-Sastre and Maria Raikou 9. Providing Financial Incentives for Improved Quality and Efficiency: A Literature Review of the Effects of Payment for Performance (P4P) Policies Irene Papanicolas 10. Social Health Protection: Policy Options for Low- and Middle-income Countries Philipa Mladovsky PART IV: PHARMACEUTICALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 11. Technology Diffusion in Health Care: Conceptual Aspects and Evidence Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire 12. Do International Launch Strategies of Pharmaceutical Corporations Respond to Changes in the Regulatory Environment? Nebibe Varol, Joan Costa-Font and Alistair McGuire PART V: AGEING AND LONG-TERM CARE 13. Proximity to Death and Health Care Costs Michael Murphy 14. The Health and Social Care Divide in the United Kingdom Catherine Henderson 15. Barriers to and Opportunities for Private Long-term Care Insurance in England: What Can We Learn from Other Countries? Adelina Comas-Herrera, Rebecca Butterfield, José-Luis Fernández, Raphael Wittenberg and Joshua M. Wiener PART VI: BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH PRODUCTION 16. Historical Trends of Mortality and its Implications for Health Policies in England and Wales: The Cause-of-Death Approach Mariachiara Di Cesare and Michael Murphy 17. Risk Research and Health-related Behaviours Caroline Rudisill 18. The Doctor–Patient Relationship: A Review of the Theory and Policy Implications Charitini Stavropoulou Index
£156.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cost–Benefit Analysis and Health Care
Book SynopsisCost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications throughout all regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link between cost-benefit analysis and the mainstream health care evaluation field, which is dominated by non-economists. The need to build a bridge between the two is more important than ever before, as the general understanding of cost-benefit analysis appears to have regressed.Case studies are used throughout to explain and illustrate the various methodologies being examined. In addition, the author now covers more of the statistical requirements that are necessary to understand and carry out health care evaluations, and follows an applied economics approach. Ultimately, he resolves a number of disputes and makes some new, but subtle, contributions by reinterpreting, correcting and extending existing work. The book covers the topic in an accessible manner, from the foundations to the frontiers of the field, and clearly explains all the necessary economic principles along the way.Cost-Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition will be invaluable to students and researchers of health economics, public policy and health care policy, as well as policymakers and health care practitioners. It can also be used as a comprehensive introductory text by anyone with an interest in cost-benefit analysis. From this perspective, the new additional final chapter is particularly useful as it supplies a summary of CBA that highlights the main conclusions of the text in a single chapter.Contents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of 'Cost' 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost utility Analysis 10. Cost-utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost-benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost-benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost-benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions IndexTrade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘Professor Brent’s book is a superb and much-needed text in the field of health care evaluation. The economic approaches for appraisal of health care programs are presented with greater clarity than any other available text. A comprehensive review of cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost–utility analysis, and cost–benefit analysis is given in a simple and yet very insightful manner that pointedly demonstrates their fundamental principles, methodological requirements, and common linkages for evaluation research. The book skilfully merges theory and application of the economic analyses of health care, combining the latest literature with adroit illustrations of required methodologies and easily understandable examples that inform the reader of how empirical evaluation research should be conducted. Major evaluation concerns about the appropriateness of discounting health benefits, the appropriate discount (interest) rate, and intangible benefits and costs are critically appraised. Not only is the criterion of economic efficiency of health care programs explored directly and with lucidity, but the important social question of the equity of health interventions is also assessed straightforwardly. Students of health care as well as health policy analysts and administrators are provided with a considerable solid foundation for undertaking evaluation of complex health care issues. In short, Professor Brent has even made the economics of health care evaluation accessible to non-economists in the health care field.’ -- Paul L. Solano, University of Delaware, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of ‘Cost’ 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost–utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost–utility Analysis 10. Cost–utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost–benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost–benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost–benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions Index
£144.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The LSE Companion to Health Policy
Book SynopsisThe LSE Companion to Health Policy covers a wide range of conceptual and practical issues from a number of different perspectives introducing the reader to, and summarising, the vast literature that analyzes the complexities of health policy. The Companion also assesses the current state of the art. Health policy is a wide-ranging subject covering many academic disciplines, but what most studies in health policy have in common is an interest in applying theory to improve practice. This Companion brings academic rigor to bear evidence on a range of central areas within health policy. It covers key issues on the quality, access and inequalities in health and health care; supply and health markets; insurance and expenditures; pharmaceuticals and new technologies; ageing and long-term care; and behavior and health production. This unique Companion on health policy contains the most important features for health system reform at a time of funding constraints and will therefore hold great appeal for policy analysts and makers, students, academics and management professionals. Contributors: S. Allin, R.G. Bevan, R. Butterfield, C. Campbell, A. Comas-Herrera, Z. Cooper, J. Costa-Font, M. Di Cesare, H.A. Elgazzar, J.-L. Fernandez, A. Gibbs, C. Henderson, C. Hernandez-Quevedo, L. Kossarova, C. Masseria, A. McGuire, P. Mladovsky, A. Morton, M. Murphy, I. Papanicolas, M. Raikou, C. Rudisill, V. Serra-Sastre, C. Stavropoulou, N. Varol, J.M. Wiener, R. Wittenberg, V. ZiganteTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Alistair McGuire and Joan Costa-Font PART I: QUALITY, ACCESS AND INEQUALITIES 1. Inequalities in Health: Why Do We Care? How Do We Care? What Can We Do About Them? Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Joan Costa-Font 2. Strengthening Community Participation in Primary Health Care: Experiences from South Africa Andrew Gibbs and Catherine Campbell 3. Socioeconomic Status and Access to Health Care: The Quandary of Transition Economies Heba A. Elgazzar 4. Quality of Ambulatory Care: Hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Lucia Kossarova PART II: SUPPLY AND HEALTH CARE MARKETS 5. Choice in Health Care: Drivers and Consequences Valentina Zigante, Joan Costa-Font and Zack Cooper 6. A Million Years of Waiting: Competing Accounts and Comparative Experiences of Hospital Waiting-time Policy Alec Morton and R. Gwyn Bevan 7. Measuring Access to Health Care in Europe Sara Allin and Cristina Masseria PART III: INSURANCE AND EXPENDITURES 8. How are Rising Health Care Expenditures Explained? Alistair McGuire, Victoria Serra-Sastre and Maria Raikou 9. Providing Financial Incentives for Improved Quality and Efficiency: A Literature Review of the Effects of Payment for Performance (P4P) Policies Irene Papanicolas 10. Social Health Protection: Policy Options for Low- and Middle-income Countries Philipa Mladovsky PART IV: PHARMACEUTICALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 11. Technology Diffusion in Health Care: Conceptual Aspects and Evidence Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire 12. Do International Launch Strategies of Pharmaceutical Corporations Respond to Changes in the Regulatory Environment? Nebibe Varol, Joan Costa-Font and Alistair McGuire PART V: AGEING AND LONG-TERM CARE 13. Proximity to Death and Health Care Costs Michael Murphy 14. The Health and Social Care Divide in the United Kingdom Catherine Henderson 15. Barriers to and Opportunities for Private Long-term Care Insurance in England: What Can We Learn from Other Countries? Adelina Comas-Herrera, Rebecca Butterfield, José-Luis Fernández, Raphael Wittenberg and Joshua M. Wiener PART VI: BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH PRODUCTION 16. Historical Trends of Mortality and its Implications for Health Policies in England and Wales: The Cause-of-Death Approach Mariachiara Di Cesare and Michael Murphy 17. Risk Research and Health-related Behaviours Caroline Rudisill 18. The Doctor–Patient Relationship: A Review of the Theory and Policy Implications Charitini Stavropoulou Index
£40.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Improving Health Services: Background, Method and
Book SynopsisThis is a thought-provoking, original and incredibly informative study of how health services research can improve both service practice and policy rather than yet another catalogue of disjointed case studies and initiatives. An absolutely essential read for experts and novices alike.'- Elias Mossialos, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Reflecting on more than 50 years of personal experience at the interface of epidemiology and health services research, Professor Walter Holland has written a book full of candid and - often - critical observations. He always succeeds in seeing the wood through the trees, and this book convincingly demonstrates the value of research in improving health service practice and policy.'- Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands'In his latest opus, Improving Health Services, Professor Walter Holland, a distinguished health services researcher with a long career in recommending health policy on the basis of evidence, takes on the task of defining the key elements of effective health policy research, Its essential multidisciplinary requirements and its optimal but realistic relationship to health policy formulation, implementation and analysis. Few scholars are more qualified to present the history of health services research in the United Kingdom and the United States, the essential elements of sound health services research and to discuss its role in the future of health services in the United Kingdom. It is, therefore, essential reading for scholars in the field and those wishing to pursue a career in the field.'- Roger Detels, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine, USThis insightful book describes how Health Services Research (HSR) can be developed and used to evaluate, advance and improve all aspects of health services. It demonstrates the need for good HSR to avoid the continuation or development of ineffective or cost-inefficient services.Drawing on his extensive personal experience in the development of HSR, Walter Holland provides examples from the US and the UK to illustrate important lessons for the future improvement of health services. Taking a distinctive approach to describing the purposes and activities of HSR, the book focuses on the significance of close collaboration with those responsible for the delivery and decisions of health policy. The major message is the importance of heeding the findings of HSR so as to develop evidence-based health policy, and to understand and influence the actions of health professionals, managers and politicians. Holland strongly advocates greater use of HSR and emphasizes its ability to provide vital evidence on how to improve health services.This highly informative and detailed book will strongly appeal to health service researchers, public health practitioners, clinicians, health-service managers, administrators and health policymakers.Contents: Preface 1. Health Services Research: A General Perspective 2. Health Services Research in the United States 3. Health and Health Services Research in the United Kingdom: A Historical Review 4. Personal Reflections 5. Organisational and Funding Issues 6. Health Services Research in Practice 7. Priorities in Medical Research: The House of Lords Select Committee 8. Key Questions 9. Conclusions Postscript Appendix: Department of Health Reports on Health Services Research IndexTrade Review‘For five decades Professor Holland has observed the evolution of Health Services Research in the United Kingdom and internationally from a unique vantage point. The unit he created in St Thomas’s Hospital led its development and gave him a platform to influence policy at the highest level. In this enthralling and insightful book he takes us on a grand historical tour, charting the progress that has been made in Health Services Research but, as important, pointing out the lessons from the many missed opportunities along the way.’ -- Martin McKee CBE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK‘This is a thought-provoking, original and incredibly informative study of how health services research can improve both service practice and policy rather than yet another catalogue of disjointed case studies and initiatives. An absolutely essential read for experts and novices alike.’ -- Elias Mossialos, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK‘No-one is better placed to tell the story of health services research over the past 50 years than Walter Holland, a major contributor and advocate. He reveals the cast of characters involved in the scientific struggles for acceptance and the political intrigue required. Unusually for someone who knows where the bodies are buried, he is prepared to share his insights and to exhort today’s researchers never to forget that “HSR and its results are a highly emotive political subject”.’ -- Nick Black, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK‘Reflecting on more than 50 years of personal experience at the interface of epidemiology and health services research, Professor Walter Holland has written a book full of candid and – often – critical observations. He always succeeds in seeing the wood through the trees, and this book convincingly demonstrates the value of research in improving health service practice and policy.’ -- Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands‘In his latest opus, Improving Health Services, Professor Walter Holland, a distinguished health services researcher with a long career in recommending health policy on the basis of evidence, takes on the task of defining the key elements of effective health policy research, Its essential multidisciplinary requirements and its optimal but realistic relationship to health policy formulation, implementation and analysis. Few scholars are more qualified to present the history of health services research in the United Kingdom and the United States, the essential elements of sound health services research and to discuss its role in the future of health services in the United Kingdom. It is, therefore, essential reading for scholars in the field and those wishing to pursue a career in the field.’ -- Roger Detels, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine, U‘This book should be regarded as required reading for all those involved in or contemplating careers in this area.’ -- Jim McEwen, International Journal of Epidemiology‘Prof Holland's unrivalled experience as a health service researcher and government adviser. It deserves a place in any library serious about supporting the study of health services from a population perspective.’ -- Alan Maryon-Davis, Public Health TodayTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Health Services Research: A General Perspective 2. Health Services Research in the United States 3. Health and Health Services Research in the United Kingdom: A Historical Review 4. Personal Reflections 5. Organisational and Funding Issues 6. Health Services Research in Practice 7. Priorities in Medical Research: The House of Lords Select Committee 8. Key Questions 9. Conclusions Postscript Appendix: Department of Health Reports on Health Services Research Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
Book SynopsisThe authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.'- Nick Drager, Honorary Professor LSHTM, Professor of Practice McGill University, Canada'Lunt, Horsfall and Hanefield have brought together the world's leading scholars in the field for this Handbook. Collectively, they chart the course for medical tourism research in covering an exhaustive range of topics. This book is rich in both the breadth and depth of information offered in a time where medical tourism is of increasing importance to the global and domestic health policy and service provision landscape. The editors have done a superb job of steering the contributors and piecing together the various sections of the book to produce a coherent and, what is likely to become, definitive work. It will be essential reading for anyone with interests in the subject.'- Robin Gauld, University of Otago, New ZealandThe growth of international travel for purposes of medical treatment has been accompanied by increased academic research and analysis. This Handbook explores the emergence of medical travel and patient mobility and the implications for patients and health systems.Bringing together leading scholars and analysts from across the globe, this unprecedented Handbook examines the regional and national experiences of medical tourism, including coverage of the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The chapters explore topics on issues of risk, law and ethics; and include treatment-focused discussions which highlight patient decision-making, patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dental, fertility and bariatric treatment.Students, practitioners and researchers of global health policy, health and globalization, international business, travel medicine and health ethics will find the subjects discussed to be of considerable interest.Contributors: P.P. Barros, D. Bell, A. Bochaton, A.V. Bustamante, M. Calnan, V. Calovski, V. Casey, R. Chanda, A. Chandu, O.N.Y. Cheung, A. Chikanda, I.G. Cohen, J. Connell, V.A. Crooks, J. Crush, L. Culley, H. Endo, M. Exworthy, J.R. Frederick, W. Friesen, L.L. Gan, A.N. Garman, M.W. Hadler, C.M. Hall, C. Hamlyn-Williams, L.N. Handlos, J. Hanefeld, A.J. He, R. Holliday, D. Horsfall, N. Hudson, S.S. Jervelund, K.N. Jin, T.J. Johnson, R. Johnston, S. Karsavuran, S. Kaya, R.A. Kearns, N.M. Kronfol, M. Lakhanpaul, J. Yeonjae Lee, H. Legido-Quigley, N. Lunt, T. Mainil, L. Manikam, B. Maswikwa, M. Mckee, D. Morgan, T. Noree, S. Okamura, M. Ormond, S. Peckham, G. Pennings, L. Puczkó, D. Reisman, D. Sanders, C.D. Shaw, M. Smith, R. Smith, J. Snyder, E.J. Sobo, I. Sziva, M. Toya, M. Walton-Roberts, R. Whitmore, A. Whittaker, A. Y ld zTrade Review‘The authors take a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to examine key issues of the cross border movement of patients. State-of-the-art analysis is underpinned by extensive country studies. An essential read for policy makers, regulators, practitioners and students who want to understand, influence and shape this key dimension of the globalisation of health.’ -- Nick Drager, Honorary Professor LSHTM, Professor of Practice, McGill University, Canada‘Lunt, Horsfall and Hanefield have brought together the world’s leading scholars in the field for this Handbook. Collectively, they chart the course for medical tourism research in covering an exhaustive range of topics. This book is rich in both the breadth and depth of information offered in a time where medical tourism is of increasing importance to the global and domestic health policy and service provision landscape. The editors have done a superb job of steering the contributors and piecing together the various sections of the book to produce a coherent and, what is likely to become, definitive work. It will be essential reading for anyone with interests in the subject.’ -- Robin Gauld, University of Otago, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT 1. The Shaping of Contemporary Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall and Johanna Hanefeld 2. Medical Tourism – Concepts and Definitions John Connell 3. Medical Tourism by Numbers Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt 4. Globalization and Trade in Health Services Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith 5. Patients’ Willingness to Travel Mark Exworthy and Stephen Peckham 6. Travelling for Value: Global Drivers of Change in the Tertiary and Quarternary Markets Tricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. Garman PART II MACRO-LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS 7. Health Systems and Medical Tourism Pedro P. Barros 8. The Economics of Health and Medical Tourism David Reisman 9. OECD Accounting for Trade in Healthcare David Morgan 10. Financing Mechanisms Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith 11. The Implications of Medical Travel upon Equity in Lower and Middle Income Countries Andrea Whittaker 12. What’s Where? Why There? And Why Care? A Geography of Responsibility in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond PART III UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 13. A Review of Small-Scale Niche Treatment Providers Olive N.Y. Cheung 14. Regional Differences: Scope and Trust Among Medical Tourism Facilitators Lydia L. Gan and James R. Frederick 15. Government and Governance Strategies in Medical Tourism Meghann Ormond and Tomas Mainil 16. Marketing Medical Tourism in Korea Ki Nam Jin 17. Medical Tourism and the Internet Daniel Horsfall and Neil Lunt 18. Networks and Supply Chains: The Nature of Medical Tourism Markets Neil Lunt 19. The Coming Perfect Storm: Medical Tourism as a Biosecurity Issue C. Michael Hall PART IV REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF MEDICAL TOURISM 20. Diasporic Medical Return: Korean Immigrants’ Use of Homeland Medical Services Jane Yeonjae Lee, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen 21. Culture and Medical Travel Elisa J. Sobo 22. Use of Cross-Border Healthcare among Immigrants Signe Smith Jervelund and Line Neerup Handlos 23. Migration: The Mobility of Patients and Health Professionals Margaret Walton-Roberts 24. United States (US)-Mexico Bi-National Insurance Efforts and the Prospective Impacts of Health Care Reforms in the US and Mexico Arturo Vargas Bustamante 25. European Retirement Migration: Access to Health Care and Policy Implications Helena Legido-Quigley and Martin Mckee 26. Medical Tourism: A Case Study of Thailand Thinnakorn Noree 27. International Medical Travel Developments within Thailand and South-East Asia Audrey Bochaton 28. The National Context of Medical Travel within Japan Hiroyoshi Endo, Serina Okamura and Masafumi Toya 29. Medical Tourism and Outward FDI in Health Services: India in South Asia Rupa Chanda 30. Medical Tourism Developments within the Middle-East Nabil M. Kronfol 31. Migration and Patient Mobility in Latin America Max William Hadler 32. The Rise of Medical Tourism to South Africa Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, David Sanders and Belinda Maswikwa 33. Medical Tourism Developments within Turkey Sıdıka Kaya, Seda Karsavuran and Ahmet Yıldız PART V ETHICAL, LEGAL AND REGULATORY 34. Ethics of Medical Tourism Guido Pennings 35. Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients’ Home Country I. Glenn Cohen 36. Child Medical Tourism: A New Phenomenon Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams, Monica Lakhanpaul and Logan Manikam 37. Hospital Accreditation and Medical Tourism Charles D. Shaw 38. Medical Tourism and Trust: Towards an Agenda for Research Michael Calnan and Vid Calovski PART VI MOTIVATION, CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND OUTCOMES 39. Putting the Thermal Back into Medical Tourism Melanie Smith, László Puczkó and Ivett Sziva 40. Dental Tourism Arun Chandu 41. Transplantation Tourism in Asia: Snapshot, Consequences and the Imperative for Policy Changes Alex Jingwei He 42. Cosmetic Surgery Tourism Ruth Holliday and David Bell 43. Journey Without End: Travelling Overseas for Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Study of UK Patients Travelling for Bariatric Surgery Johanna Hanefeld and Daniel Horsfall 44. Cross-Border Reproductive Travel Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley 45. ‘They Go the Extra Mile, the Extra Ten Miles…’: Examining Canadian Medical Tourists’ Interactions with Health Care Workers Abroad Valorie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder 46. Outcomes and Medical Tourism Neil Lunt and Daniel Horsfall Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Handbook on Ageing and Public
Book SynopsisWith the collective knowledge of expert contributors in the field, The International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy explores the challenges arising from the ageing of populations across the globe.With an expansive look at the topic, this comprehensive Handbook examines various national state approaches to welfare provisions for older people and highlights alternatives based around the voluntary and third-party sector, families and private initiatives. Each of these issues are broken down further and split into six comprehensive sections:- Context- Pensions- Health- Welfare- Case Studies- Policy Innovation and Civil SocietyAcademics interested in policy challenges for mature societies will find this Handbook a highly relevant reference tool. It also offers an important message for policy makers and practitioners in the field of public policy.Contributors include: J. Atanackovic, D.E. Bloom, I. Bode, A. Börsch-Supan, I.L. Bourgeault, R. Canning, B.A. Carnes, L. Carter-Edwards, T. Chen, E. Collom, R. Edlin, A. Elissen, M. Eloundou-Enyegue, M. Erlinghagen, J. Field, V. Galasso, R. Gauld, K. Hank, S. Harper, J. Hoffman, R. Holzmann, K. Howse, J.H. Johnson Jr., M. Kaplan, M. Kautto, H.G. Koenig, D. Lain, R. Lee, G.W. Leeson, E. Le , Z. Li, P. Lloyd-Sherlock, B.L. Lowell, A. Lusardi, A. Mason, R. McKinnon, A.M. Parnell, P. Profeta, N. Redondo, M. Sánchez, C. Saraceno, K. Spencer-Suarez, M.Tenikue, V. Timonen, F.M. Torres-Gil, S. Vickerstaff, B. Vriehoef, J. Warburton, A. Webb, E. WesterhoutTrade Review‘International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy gathers under one cover the collective knowledge of experts in the field who explore challenges arising from ageing populations around the world, and considers national state approaches to welfare for older people and how public and private initiatives work. College-level collections strong in public policies and aging with find this a powerful collection of in-depth articles suitable for framing inquiries and considering social structures.’ -- The Midwest Book Review‘This Handbook on ageing and public policy makes a substantial contribution in bringing together chapters spanning a -- breadth of issues in the areas of policy challenges and practitioner perspectives.’– EE Journal 1848 Social Policy & AdministrationTable of ContentsContents 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Social Policy for the Twenty-first-century Demography Sarah Harper 2. Introduction to Parts I-IV: Perspectives on the Challenges of Population Ageing PART I: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – CONTEXT 3. Drivers of Demographic Change in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries George W. Leeson 4. A Biodemographic Perspective on Longevity and Ageing Bruce A. Carnes 5. Migration and Ageing Societies Sarah Harper 6. On the Mechanical Contributions of Ageing to Global Income Inequality Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue and Michael Tenikue 7. Population Ageing and the Size of the Welfare State Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta PART II: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – PENSIONS 8. Global Pension Systems Robert Holzmann 9. The Design and Implementation of Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Issues and Options David E. Bloom and Roddy McKinnon 10. Understanding Pension Wealth Zhenyu Li and Anthony Webb 11. Rational Pension Reform Axel Börsch-Supan 12. National Transfer Accounts and Intergenerational Transfers Ron Lee and Andy Mason PART III: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – HEALTH 13. Assessing the Cost Effectiveness of Therapies for Older People Richard Edlin 14. Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure Growth Ed Westerhout 15. Developing Appropriate and Effective Care for People with Chronic Disease Bert Vrieheof and Arianne Elissen PART IV: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR MATURE SOCIETIES – WELFARE 16. Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice in Age-related Transfers Kenneth Howse 17. Health and Social Protection Policies for Older People in Latin America Peter Lloyd-Sherlock 18. Ageing Electorates and Gerontocracy: The Politics of Ageing in a Global World Fernando M. Torres-Gil and Kimberly Spencer-Suarez 19. Working Beyond Retirement Age: Lessons for Policy David Lain and Sarah Vickerstaff 20. Families, Older Persons and Care in Contexts of Poverty: the Case of South Africa Jaco Hoffman PART V and VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES 21. Policy and Practitioner Responses to the Challenges of Population Ageing: Introduction Jaco Hoffman 22. Sustaining the Nordic Welfare Model in the Face of Population Ageing Virpi Timonen and Mikko Kautto 23. Kinship Solidarity in Southern Europe Chiara Saraceno 24. Ageing and Social Policy in Australia Jeni Warburton 25. The Pension System in China: An Overview Taichang Chen 26. How Technology is Re-shaping the Processes of Providing Health Care for Ageing Populations Robin Gauld 27. Ageing and Care Giving in America: the Immigrant Workforce B. Lindsay Lowell 28. Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Programme Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Jelena Atanackovic PART VI: PRACTIONER PERSPECTIVES – POLICY INNOVATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY 29. Intergenerational Programmes and Policies in Aging Societies Matthew Kaplan and Mariano Sánchez 30. Population Ageing and Private Sector Provision: the Case of Dependent Older Women in Latin America Nélida Redondo 31. Demographic Change and the Role of Older People in the Voluntary Sector Karsten Hank and Marcel Erlinghagen 32. The Third Sector as a Provider of Services for Older People Ewa Leś 33. State-third Sector Partnership Frameworks: from Administration to Participation? Ingo Bode 34. Microfinance, Cooperatives and Timebanks- Community Provided Welfare Ed Collom 35. Faith-Based Organizations and the Provision of Care for Older People Lori Carter-Edwards, James H. Johnson Jr., Allan M. Parnell and Harold G. Koenig 36. Lifelong Learning and Employers: Re-skilling Older Workers John Field and Roy Canning 37. Retirement Planning and Financial Literacy Annamaria Lusardi Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Regulating Health Foods: Policy Challenges and
Book SynopsisRegulating Health Foods is likely to be of much interest to food researchers and regulators, as well as to many members of the public. The focus on regulation and policy for health foods (functional food, supplements and nutraceuticals) is highly topical. The different regulatory policies for health foods that apply in a number of high income and emerging nations are outlined and compared. Using concepts from social sciences (economics in particular), implications of these different approaches for both consumers and businesses are identified and discussed. The book should be a very useful addition to the literature on health foods.'- Michele Veeman, University of Alberta, Canada'The supply of foods marketed as healthy and functional is guided by both consumer demand and regulatory regimes. While many texts have attempted to document such drivers over the past decade or so, this volume provides a refreshing, concise yet comprehensive catalogue that includes trends in developed and emerging markets for health foods. Well resourced, including an annotated bibliography of many of the supporting studies summarized in the text, this book provides a good starting point for any researcher interested in understanding potential policy challenges and consumer conundrums.'- Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University, US'Regulating Health Foods systematically organizes the widely disparate definitions, regulations and policies used internationally to govern functional foods, supplements and nutraceuticals, doing so from the standpoint of the industry and its regulators. Food scientists, regulators and industry professionals will especially appreciate its detailed international perspective.'- Marion Nestle, New York University, USWith ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has responded with new food innovations, formulations and enhancements that comprise the growing health food market, manifesting the need to design regulatory frameworks to govern valid health claims.Regulating Health Foods provides an assessment of the regulatory environment governing the health food sector in key developed markets, including the US, the EU, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as significant emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea. It examines the different definitions of 'health food', product approval processes and health claims regulation in these markets. Against this backdrop, the book also offers insight into the nature of the health food sector in selected countries and examines the drivers of consumer demand for foods offering health benefits.This book is informative and accessible for students interested in food and nutrition policy, food economics, as well as socio-economic issues surrounding food and health. Academics and policymakers interested in food policy and regulation will benefit from the detailed analysis of the regulatory systems in a number of countries, and a comprehensive overview of key literature summarizing consumer attitudes toward health foods and health claims.Contents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are 'Health Foods'? 3. Evolving Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks 4. Health Claim Regulations in Developed Markets 5. Health Claim Regulations in Emerging Markets 6. Industry and Market Trends 7. Consumer Responses to Health Foods 8. Through the Looking glass References IndexTrade Review‘Regulating Health Foods is likely to be of much interest to food researchers and regulators, as well as to many members of the public. The focus on regulation and policy for health foods (functional food, supplements and nutraceuticals) is highly topical. The different regulatory policies for health foods that apply in a number of high income and emerging nations are outlined and compared. Using concepts from social sciences (economics in particular), implications of these different approaches for both consumers and businesses are identified and discussed. The book should be a very useful addition to the literature on health foods.’ -- Michele Veeman, University of Alberta, Canada‘The supply of foods marketed as healthy and functional is guided by both consumer demand and regulatory regimes. While many texts have attempted to document such drivers over the past decade or so, this volume provides a refreshing, concise yet comprehensive catalogue that includes trends in developed and emerging markets for health foods. Well resourced, including an annotated bibliography of many of the supporting studies summarized in the text, this book provides a good starting point for any researcher interested in understanding potential policy challenges and consumer conundrums.’ -- Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University, US‘Regulating Health Foods systematically organizes the widely disparate definitions, regulations and policies used internationally to govern functional foods, supplements and nutraceuticals, doing so from the standpoint of the industry and its regulators. Food scientists, regulators and industry professionals will especially appreciate its detailed international perspective.’ -- Marion Nestle, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are “Health Foods”? 3. Evolving Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks 4. Health Claim Regulations in Developed Markets 5. Health Claim Regulations in Emerging Markets 6. Industry and Market Trends 7. Consumer Responses to Health Foods 8. Through the Looking glass References Index
£104.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cost–Benefit Analysis and Health Care
Book SynopsisCost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications throughout all regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link between cost-benefit analysis and the mainstream health care evaluation field, which is dominated by non-economists. The need to build a bridge between the two is more important than ever before, as the general understanding of cost-benefit analysis appears to have regressed.Case studies are used throughout to explain and illustrate the various methodologies being examined. In addition, the author now covers more of the statistical requirements that are necessary to understand and carry out health care evaluations, and follows an applied economics approach. Ultimately, he resolves a number of disputes and makes some new, but subtle, contributions by reinterpreting, correcting and extending existing work. The book covers the topic in an accessible manner, from the foundations to the frontiers of the field, and clearly explains all the necessary economic principles along the way.Cost-Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition will be invaluable to students and researchers of health economics, public policy and health care policy, as well as policymakers and health care practitioners. It can also be used as a comprehensive introductory text by anyone with an interest in cost-benefit analysis. From this perspective, the new additional final chapter is particularly useful as it supplies a summary of CBA that highlights the main conclusions of the text in a single chapter.Contents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of 'Cost' 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost utility Analysis 10. Cost-utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost-benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost-benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost-benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions IndexTrade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘Professor Brent’s book is a superb and much-needed text in the field of health care evaluation. The economic approaches for appraisal of health care programs are presented with greater clarity than any other available text. A comprehensive review of cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost–utility analysis, and cost–benefit analysis is given in a simple and yet very insightful manner that pointedly demonstrates their fundamental principles, methodological requirements, and common linkages for evaluation research. The book skilfully merges theory and application of the economic analyses of health care, combining the latest literature with adroit illustrations of required methodologies and easily understandable examples that inform the reader of how empirical evaluation research should be conducted. Major evaluation concerns about the appropriateness of discounting health benefits, the appropriate discount (interest) rate, and intangible benefits and costs are critically appraised. Not only is the criterion of economic efficiency of health care programs explored directly and with lucidity, but the important social question of the equity of health interventions is also assessed straightforwardly. Students of health care as well as health policy analysts and administrators are provided with a considerable solid foundation for undertaking evaluation of complex health care issues. In short, Professor Brent has even made the economics of health care evaluation accessible to non-economists in the health care field.’ -- Paul L. Solano, University of Delaware, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to Health Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of ‘Cost’ 3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7. Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of Cost–utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost–utility Analysis 10. Cost–utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost–benefit Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost–benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost–benefit Analysis and Equity 14. Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions Index
£46.50
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Sick of Inequality?: An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisThere is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject. The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.Trade Review'With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenstrom bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between income inequalities and health.' --Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden'A terrific analysis of one of the big questions in social science. This engaging book distils the wisdom of hundreds of academic studies, while doing justice to the complexity of the issues.' --Andrew Leigh, Economist and Australian ParliamentarianTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Health 3. Measuring Inequality 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From Group Averages? 7. Income Inequality And Health: What Does The Literature Tell Us? 8. Searching For The Inequality Effect: What Tools Are Appropriate? 9. Conclusion Index
£79.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Sick of Inequality?: An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisThere is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject. The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.Trade Review'With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenstrom bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between income inequalities and health.' --Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden'A terrific analysis of one of the big questions in social science. This engaging book distils the wisdom of hundreds of academic studies, while doing justice to the complexity of the issues.' --Andrew Leigh, Economist and Australian ParliamentarianTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Health 3. Measuring Inequality 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From Group Averages? 7. Income Inequality And Health: What Does The Literature Tell Us? 8. Searching For The Inequality Effect: What Tools Are Appropriate? 9. Conclusion Index
£23.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Health Policy: Choice, Equality and Cost
Book SynopsisThis lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and political management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be made.This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad multidisciplinary context.Trade Review'Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman's new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care must be to address them. This makes the economics of health care inseparable from the ethics of health care. This book is highly recommended for clear and sensible thinking about the economics of health policy.' --John Davis, Marquette University, US and University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Good Health 3. The Invisible Mind 4. Inputs and Outcomes 5. The Individual 6. The Practitioner 7. The Public 8. The Logic of Insurance 9. Insurance: Public and Private 10. Equity and Equality 11. The Right to Health 12. Inequality and Health 13. Narrowing the Gap 14. Equalising Medical Care 15. The Cost of Care 16. Cost Containment 17. State, Market and Cost 18. Conclusion Index
£116.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Health Policy: Choice, Equality and Cost
Book SynopsisThis lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and political management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be made.This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad multidisciplinary context.Trade Review'Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman's new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care must be to address them. This makes the economics of health care inseparable from the ethics of health care. This book is highly recommended for clear and sensible thinking about the economics of health policy.' --John Davis, Marquette University, US and University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Good Health 3. The Invisible Mind 4. Inputs and Outcomes 5. The Individual 6. The Practitioner 7. The Public 8. The Logic of Insurance 9. Insurance: Public and Private 10. Equity and Equality 11. The Right to Health 12. Inequality and Health 13. Narrowing the Gap 14. Equalising Medical Care 15. The Cost of Care 16. Cost Containment 17. State, Market and Cost 18. Conclusion Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing: An
Book SynopsisExamining 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 the relative merits of tax-funded Beveridge systems and insurance-based Bismarck systems. The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing charts and compares healthcare system outcomes throughout 11 countries, from the UK to Colombia. Thematic chapters investigate the economic and legal explanations for the relevant similarities, variations and trends across the globe. Concluding that systemic factors may be less significant than previously believed, this comprehensive book notes that no one system consistently outperforms the others, yet incentives and funding improvements may lift performances across all curative healthcare systems. Analytical and comparative, this book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of health law and health economics. Public authorities including health ministries, policymakers and international health organisations will also find this to be an invaluable resource. Contributors include: F. Bachner, J. Bobek, J. Boertjens, P. Bogetoft, J.M. Burke, F. Dewallens, I. Durand-Zaleski, A. Geissler, C. Góngora Torres, M. Guy, T. Haanperä, J. Janus, S. Jerabkova, L. Lepuschütz, J. Lombard, M. Mikkers, G. O'Nolan, M.J. Perez-Villadoniga, H. Platou, K. Polin, W. Quentin, W. Sauter, V. Shestalova, K.H. Søvig, V. Stephani, A. van den Heever, J. van Manen, J. VermeulenTrade Review'How we pay for our healthcare systems is nothing short of a test of our success as communities and nations: healthcare preserves and promotes human dignity. The balance between rising demands and costs, access for all, and efficiency and quality is pursued in different ways. Studies like this - even though comparable data is scarce - help us see possible better ways forward. The editors have assembled an impressive team, and their comparative research design yields rich insights.' --Tamara Hervey, University of Sheffield, UK'Due to aging populations and technological advancements, countries are facing the challenge of improving healthcare quality, while maintaining access and containing cost. Focusing on the hospital sector, this book discusses how a variety of 11 countries try to meet this challenge. Specific attention is paid to the role of the regulatory framework, market structure, rationing and reimbursement methods. Although no best practice emerges, this book may be very useful for policymakers and anyone else interested in cross-country comparison.' --Frederik T. Schut, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: healthcare financing – an international comparison of models and outcomes Jos Boertjens, Johan van Manen, Misja Mikkers and Wolf Sauter PART I THEMATIC CHAPTERS 1. Explaining America’s spendthrift healthcare system: the enduring effects of public regulation on private competition William M. Sage 2. Effective access to healthcare services abroad under the EU Directive on Cross-Border Patients’ Rights Jarleth M. Burke 3. A legal perspective on tax-based versus insurance-based healthcare systems: comparing England and the Netherlands Jos Boertjens and Mary Guy 4. A theoretical model of the determinants of waiting lists: an application to the Spanish national health system Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez and Maria J. Perez-Villadoniga 5. Financial incentives to change the healthcare landscape: a case study Josine Janus 6. Population-based financing: the future of healthcare? Peter Bogetoft, Misja Mikkers and Victoria Shestalova PART II COUNTRY REPORTS 7. Country report: Austria Julia Bobek, Lena Lepuschütz and Florian Bachner 8. Country report: Belgium Filip Dewallens and Julie Vermeulen 9. Country report: Czech Republic – hospital financing in the Czech Republic Silvie Jerabkova 10. Country report: Colombia – approach to healthcare financing in Colombia and its impact on quality, affordability and competition Catalina Góngora Torres 11. Country report: England Tuomas Haanperä 12. Country report: France Isabelle Durand-Zaleski and Johan van Manen 13. Country report: Germany Katherine Polin, Wilm Quentin, Victor Stephani and Alexander Geissler 14. Country report: Ireland John Lombard and Gerald O’Nolan 15. Country report: the Netherlands Johan van Manen 16. Country report: Norway Karl Harald Søvig and Harald Platou 17. Country report: South Africa Alex van den Heever Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Empirical Health Economics
Book SynopsisThis research review discusses some of the most influential literature in the area of empirical health economics. Health economics provides empirical evidence to aid decision-making across a broad spectrum of issues in health and health care. This evidence is often derived from econometric methods. This literature analysis covers landmark contributions to the development and application of these methods which span the field, ranging from structural models, models for health care costs and other microeconometric approaches, including bayesian methods, longitudinal data, applications to health technology assessment, along with field experiments and policy evaluation. This review will be of interest to economic researchers and students as well as health scholar's wishing to explore the development of modern econometrics applied to health policy. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Andrew M. Jones PART I STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 1. Richard Auster, Irving Leveson and Deborah Sarachek (1969), ‘The Production of Health, an Exploratory Study’, Journal of Human Resources, 4 (4), Autumn, 411–36 2. Mark R. Rosenzweig and T. Paul Schultz (1983), ‘Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogenity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth Weight’, Journal of Political Economy, 91 (5), October, 723–46 3. Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman and Kevin M. Murphy (1994), ‘An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction’, American Economic Review, 84 (3), June, 396–418 4. Donna B. Gilleskie (1998), ‘A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Medical Care Use and Work Absence’, Econometrica, 66 (1), January, 1–45 5. Marcos Vera-Hernández (2003),’Structural Estimation of a Principal Agent Model: Moral Hazard in Medical Insurance’, RAND Journal of Economics, 34 (4), Winter, 670–93 6. Peter Arcidiacono, Holger Sieg and Frank Sloan (2007), ‘Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking’, International Economic Review, 48 (1), February, 37–65 PART II METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE COSTS 7. Naihua N. Duan, Willard G. Manning, Jr., Carl N. Morris and Joseph P. Newhouse (1983), ‘A Comparison of Alternative Models for the Demand for Medical Care’, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1 (2), April, 115–26 8. Williard G. Manning (1998),’The Logged Dependent Variable, Heteroscedasticity, and the Retransformation Problem’, Journal of Health Economics, 17 (3), June, 283–95 9. David K. Blough, Carolyn W. Madden, and Mark C. Hornbrook (1999), ‘Modeling Risk Using Generalized Linear Models’, Journal of Health Economics, 18 (2), April, 153–71 10. Donna B. Gilleskie and Thomas A. Mroz (2004), ‘A Flexible Approach for Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures’, Journal of Health Economics, 23 (3), March, 391–418 11. Anirban Basu and Paul J. Rathouz (2005),’Estimating Marginal and Incremental Effects on Health Outcomes Using Flexible Link and Variance Function Models’, Biostatistics, 6 (1), January, 93–109 12. Willard G. Manning, Anirban Basu and John Mullahy (2005), ’Generalized Modelling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data’ Journal of Health Economics, 24 (3), May, 465–88 13. Andrew M. Jones, James Lomas and Nigel Rice (2015),’ Healthcare Cost Regressions: Going Beyond the Mean to Estimate the Full Distribution’, Health Economics, 24 (9), April, 1192–212 PART III MICROECONOMETRIC METHODS APPLIED TO HEALTH 14. John Mullahy (1986),’Specification and Testing of Some Modified Count Data Models’, Journal of Econometrics, 33 (3), December, 341–65 15. Bryan Dowd, Roger Feldman, Steven Cassou and Michael Finch (1991), ‘Health Plan Choice and the Utilization of Health Care Services’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 73 (1), February, 85–93 16. Marcel Kerkhofs and Maarten Lindeboom (1995), ‘Subjective Health Measures and State Dependent Reporting Errors’, Health Economics, 4 (3), May–June, 221–35 17. Winfried Pohlmeier and Volker Ulrich (1995), ’An Econometric Model of the Two-Part Decisonmaking Process in the Demand for Health Care’, Journal of Human Resources, 30 (2), Spring, 339–61 18. Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi (1997),’Demand for Medical Care by the Elderly: A Finite Mixture Approach’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12 (3), May/ June, 313–36 19. David M. Zimmer and Pravin K. Trivedi (2006), ‘Using Trivariate Copulas to Model Sample Selection and Treatment Effects: Application to Family Health Care Demand’, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 24 (1), January, 63–76 PART IV BAYESIAN APPROACHES 20. Gary Koop, Jacek Osiewalski and Mark F.J. Steel (1997),’Bayesian Efficiency Analysis through Individual Effects: Hospital Cost Frontiers’, Journal of Econometrics, 76 (1-2), February, 77–105 21. Barton H. Hamilton (1999),’HMO Selection and Medicare Costs: Bayesian MCMC Estimation of a Robust Panel Data Tobit Model with Survival’, Health Economics, 8 (5), July, 403–14 22. John Geweke, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Robert J. Town (2003),’Bayesian Inference for Hospital Quality in A Selection Model’,Econometrica, 71 (4), July, 1215–38 23. Partha Deb, Murat K. Munkin and Pravin K. Trivedi (2006),’Bayesian Analysis of the Two-Part Model with Endogeneity: Application to Health Care Expenditure’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21 (7), November, 1081–99 PART V LONGITUDINAL AND SPATIAL APPROACHES 24. José M. Labeaga (1999),’A Double-Hurdle Rational Addiction Model with Heterogeneity: Estimating the Demand for Tobacco’, Journal of Econometrics, 93 (1), November, 49–72 25. Paul Contoyannis, Andrew M. Jones and Nigel Rice (2004), ’The Dynamics of Health in the British Household Panel Survey’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19 (4), July–August, 473–503 26. Teresa Bago d’Uva (2006),’Latent Class Models for Utilisation of Health Care’, Health Economics, 15 (4), March, 329–43 27. Francesco Moscone, Martin Knapp and Elisa Tosetti (2007),’Mental Health Expenditure in England: A Spatial Panel Approach’, Journal of Health Economics, 26 (4), July, 842–64 PART VI ECONOMETRICS AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT 28. Mark McClellan, Barbara J. McNeil and Joseph P. Newhouse, (1994), ‘Does More Intensive Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly Reduce Mortality?, Journal of the American Medical Association, 272 (11), September, 859–66 29. Jeffrey S. Hoch, Andrew H. Briggs and Andrew R. Willan (2002), ’Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue: A Framework for the Marriage of Health Econometrics and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis’, Health Economics, 11 (5), January, 415–30 30. Anirban Basu, James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro-Lozano and Sergio Urzua (2007),’Use of Instrumental Variables in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Self-Selection: An Application to Treatments of Breast Cancer Patients’, Health Economics, 16 (11), October, 1133–57 PART VII FIELD EXPERIMENTS 31. Willard G. Manning, Joseph P. Newhouse, Naihua N. Duan, Emmett B. Keeler and Arleen Leibowitz (1987),’Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment’, American Economic Review, 77 (3), June, 251–77 [27] 32. Paul Gertler (2004), ‘Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Childs Health? Evidence from PROGRESA’s Control Randomized Experiment’, American Economic Review, 94 (2), May, 336–41 33. Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, and the Oregon Health Study Group (2012), ‘The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence From The First Year’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (3), August, 1057–106 PART VIII QUASI-EXPERIMENTS AND POLICY EVALUATION 34. David Card and Lara D. Shore-Sheppard (2004),’Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low-Income Children’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86 (3), August, 752–66 35. Arild Aakvik, James J. Heckman and Edward J. Vytlacil (2005), ‘Estimating Treatment Effects for Discrete Outcomes when Responses to Treatment Vary: An Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs’, Journal of Econometrics, 125 (1–2), April, 15–51 36. Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait (2006),’Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality’, American Economic Review, 96 (1), March, 290–302 37. Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G. Salvanes (2007),’From The Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (1), February, 409–39 38. Douglas Almond and Joseph J. Doyle Jr (2011),’After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 3 (3), August, 1–34 39. Martin Gaynor, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Carol Propper (2013), ‘Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition, and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5 (4), November, 134–66 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Teaching Health Economics: Best
Book SynopsisThis Handbook features the best teaching practices in the Health Economics (HE) field over the past decade. HE is still considered a relatively new field in the world of economics. While most academic programs leading to HE specializations are housed in economics departments, many courses often reside elsewhere: in schools of public health, health professions, health sciences, nursing, pharmacy, business, or public/health administration. Teaching in these diverse, specialized curricula requires a customized subset of methods and materials developed for both the instructors and the students.The editors have sought to expand applicability beyond North America and Western Europe, and to address issues in both less developed health economies and more advanced ones. The chapters herein present new and innovative teaching methods.Instructors with or without professional training in HE will welcome the featured practical applications that encompass HE courses taught in various economics and non-economics undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.Trade Review‘This text provides unprecedented teaching tips to create an active learning environment for students in public health and medicine as well as traditional economics programs. Instructors will appreciate the tips on active learning techniques for online teaching and the focus on international and country-specific applications.’ -- J. Mick Tilford, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, US'This Handbook is a treasure trove of approaches, ideas, and tools to improve everybody's teaching of health economics. Whether you're teaching an online class for the first time, preparing to teach in another country, or seeking fresh new simulations and classroom activities, you’ll find great information to make your teaching more effective and inclusive.' -- Joanne Spetz, University of California, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xix PART I ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS 1 Introduction to learning and teaching health economics 2 Allen C. Goodman and Maia Platt 2 The health insurance game 17 Jennifer Kohn 3 Assessing competency in health economics using portfolios 32 Neha Batura, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Jane Hughes and Jolene Skordis 4 Labs and cases in health insurance and cost-effectiveness analyses to enhance active learning experiences in an introductory health economics course for students in health professions 44 Carolyn S. Dewa and Jeffrey S. Hoch 5 Active learning techniques to enhance understanding of complex stochastic modeling methods 61 Michal Horný 6 Using net benefit regression to teach cost-effectiveness analysis with a dataset 77 Jeffrey S. Hoch and Carolyn S. Dewa 7 Noricum – healthy cooperation or nasty snake pit: a strategic role play teaching how to handle healthcare system conflicts 88 Florian Buchner 8 Teaching health economics to non-economists 108 Elizabeth Pitney Seidler PART II TEACHING TIPS AND TOOLS FOR ONLINE ENVIRONMENT 9 Strategic pedagogy: pursuing best practices for teaching asynchronous online health economics courses 124 Neil Meredith 10 Integration of an online homework platform and interactive e-textbook into a virtual learning environment of a health economics course 135 M. Femi Ayadi 11 Engaging distance learners with no economic background in an online health economics course 146 Heather Brown 12 Opportunities and challenges in delivering postgraduate health economics programs online 157 Lisa Gold and Jennifer Watts 13 Using distance education to teach health economics: national and global experiences 170 Diane M. Dewar 14 Teaching in a pandemic: quickly adapting to the unexpected 178 Jill Boylston Herndon PART III INTERNATIONAL AND COUNTRY-SPECIFIC PERSPECTIVES AND APPLICATIONS 15 Video-conferencing in a health economics course with alumni in healthcare and partners abroad 189 Ashley Hodgson 16 Teaching international health systems through experiential learning 204 Simon Condliffe 17 Strengthening capacity for teaching of health economics in sub-Saharan Africa 222 Thomas Wilkinson, Susan Cleary and Justice Nonvignon 18 Lessons from incorporating study-abroad experience in master courses in health economics 237 Arturo Schweiger, Maria Clara Zerbino, Ruth Litmanovich, Noemi Savoia and Mercedes Alfaro Latorre PART IV DISSEMINATION AND SOCIETAL IMPACT OF HEALTH ECONOMICS SKILLS 19 Bringing health economics knowledge to non-economists in Quebec, Canada: A case study of a multi-modal knowledge transfer approach for patient-oriented research (POR) 246 Maude Laberge, Annie Poirier, Simon Berthelot, Thomas Poder, Erin Strumpf and Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun 20 On the importance of partnerships between public health research institutions and health economics faculty in universities, for the engagement of non-economics students in health economics training: perspectives from Brazil 266 Tânia Maria Costa da Silva Beume Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Living with Pandemics: Places, People and Policy
Book SynopsisProviding an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.Interdisciplinary chapters written by social policy, geography, planning, policy, sociology and public health experts explore the broader impacts of COVID-19, positioning the pandemic in the context of wider trends and risks including climate change. Chapters highlight the importance of place and local contexts in understanding its impacts in different settings including Europe, Canada, North America, South Korea, South Africa and Lebanon. In doing so, the book develops a pandemic preparedness, responsiveness and recovery research framework and intends to inform post-pandemic policy development and research. This is an important book for geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, planning and business and management researchers and students, particularly those focusing on crisis management and risk and resilience. With key case studies from across the globe, it will help elucidate key issues for policy makers and practitioners across a range of sectors including strategic management, social policy, public health and the built environment.Trade Review‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors add what is too often left out: how do we prepare for future pandemics? We already know they will come.’ -- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface: what’s next? COVID-19 as a planetary inflection point for places, people, policy and research xxi PART I INTRODUCTION 1 A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations and impacts for people, place and policy 2 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon PART II PANDEMICS, PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY 2 Human-centered solutions to the digital divide: lessons from a global pandemic 36 Kira Allmann 3 Living with pandemics in higher education: people, place and policy 47 Matthew Thomas, Tendayi Gonondo, Peter Rautenbach, Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Angus Thomas and Holly Westlake 4 Building post-COVID community resilience by moving beyond emergency food support 59 Megan K. Blake 5 The job–food–health nexus in South African townships and the impact of COVID-19 69 Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Katrina du Toit 6 Repercussions and impact of COVID-19 pandemic encampment mechanisms on Lebanese informal tented settlements along the Lebanese–Syrian borderline 79 Paul Moawad and Lauren Andres 7 COVID-19 and the emergence of a level 2.5 society in South Korea 91 Jin-Tae Hwang 8 COVID-19, digital transformations and essential services 103 Maria Savona PART III PANDEMICS, PLACE AND ENVIRONMENT 9 COVID-19 and the climate emergency: lessons in the time of crisis? 116 Suzanne Bartington 10 The emergence of coworking models in the face of pandemic 129 Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino and Mina Akhavan 11 A refuge from the storm? The English Church during COVID-19 140 Andrew Davies 12 Coronavirus and the digitalisation of planning: perspectives from practice and academia 149 Charles Goode and Ben Rayner 13 Housing during and after the pandemic: an exploration of immediate and structural effects of COVID-19 on housing markets 159 Vincent Gruis and Aksel Ersoy 14 City-building in a context of crisis: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential investment in London 166 Frances Brill and Mike Raco 15 ‘Escape to the country’: the implications of coronavirus upon the English housing crisis 174 Charles Goode 16 Mobility during and after the pandemic 184 Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth 17 Global pandemic disruptions, reconfiguration and glocalization of production networks 195 Vida Vanchan 18 COVID-19 and the immediate and longer-term impacts on the retail and hospitality industries: dark stores and turnover-based rental models 202 John R. Bryson PART IV PANDEMICS AND POLICY 19 Impact, response and reflection: COVID-19 and health policy 218 Steve Gulati 20 Governance and policy in pandemics: approaches to crisis, chaos and catastrophe 227 Jessica Pykett and Anna Lavis 21 Reimagining work? COVID-19 and the impacts on employment in Canada and the United States 237 Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai 22 Evidence-informed COVID-19 policy: what problem was the UK government trying to solve? 250 Paul Cairney 23 In the eye of the storm: English local government and the COVID-19 crisis 261 Arianna Giovannini 24 COVID-19 and the impacts on commercial aviation: a dead stop? 272 Pere Suau-Sanchez, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Natàlia Cugueró-Escofet and Keith J. Mason PART V CONCLUSION 25 The preparedness, responsiveness and recovery triality: a pandemic research and policy framework 286 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Pandemic Economics
Book SynopsisDiscussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockdown caused unprecedented economic policies and ruin. The book prepares for the next pandemic, that unquestionably will arrive, the impact of which is predicted to potentially exceed that of the current Covid-19 wreckage. Highlighting how economic theory can anticipate a pandemic's impact despite the uncertainty and unreliability of traditional statistics, Peter van Bergeijk assesses the lack of preparation by international economic institutions and the ability for humanity to deeply hurt the economy by its response to infectious disease. Chapters offer an overview and critical analysis of global non-pharmaceutical interventions and economic policies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking forward, the book investigates the economic impact, policy (in)effectiveness and resilience in different social contexts, illustrating a pandemic trilemma of health, freedom and the economy. It suggests how to prepare for the next pandemic at the individual level, in city planning, nationally, internationally and globally, with a focus on analysing the impact of pandemics from a global perspective. Pandemic Economics will be a stimulating read for (health) economics and development studies scholars as it provides a historic overview of the uneven impact of pandemics, with up to date studies of the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. The forward-looking suggestions for economic policies and preparations for future pandemics will also make this an important read for economic and health policy makers.Trade Review‘Although Pandemic Economics originates from and is projected for the economic profession, it fits into a broader specter of emerging literature on the Covid-19 pandemic and public policy. It also strongly evokes the lessons from the scholarship on “behavioral economics.” Therefore, if, as van Beregijk insists, the next pandemic “is a certainty – only its timing is uncertain,” then a broad range of social scientists will benefit from reading this monograph.’ -- Ian Ezerin Ian, International Social Science Review‘Highly recommended. All readers.’ -- E P Hoffman, CHOICE'If you want to understand how the current Covid-19 pandemic will reshape economies this is the book for you. The book takes us on a rollercoaster journey through past pandemics, the current pandemic and looks to the future. Hold on to your hat. A fascinating insight into where the world has been and is heading.' -- Andy Sumner, King's College London, UK'Brilliantly narrated, Pandemic Economics provides the evidence that policymakers should have been better prepared for Covid-19 and the insights on how to strike a better balance between the protection of lives and livelihoods. As it may well happen again, this is a must read now and time again.' -- Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute, US and the International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands'An entertaining and timely story of past, present, and future problems of Pandemic Economics. The art of economics with lacking data is to select the right model and tools given the circumstances, not develop new ones. Remember Monty Python: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! We are aware, but not prepared.' -- Charles van Marrewijk, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Political Economy of Health
Book SynopsisThis ground breaking Handbook brings together a number of chapters into one comprehensive book on the timely subject matter of the political economy of health and health care. The book contains up-to-date discussion on the state of the art of the key questions of the subject matter, and it provides a unique understanding of health policy making by drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to political economy. This Handbook highlights the key theoretical and empirical debates in academia and policy across a variety of scholarly groups, illustrating the various methods and principles used while sharing the common goal of understanding the institutional mechanisms, constraints, and determinants that influence decision-making. The expert contributors discuss the design of health care systems, political markets, financing and policy reforms, and healthcare during pandemics in six thematic sections, as well as providing insightful lessons to be learned for the future. Scholars and professionals interested in an in-depth state-of-the-art companion to the main issues under discussion of the effects of the design in our health systems, along with the constraints that they face, will find this Handbook an excellent resource.Trade Review‘Health systems and reforms in the health sector play a fundamental role in policy-making and in the political process, as emphasized during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This book collects important contributions to develop an innovative view of the political economy of health systems, where political and economic factors interact in determining policy decisions in the health care domain. The book provides an excellent unified, broad, and thorough vision of one of the most promising and interdisciplinary areas of the current and future political economy debate.’ -- Paola Profeta, Bocconi University, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH SYSTEMS 1 An introduction to the Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems 2 Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati PART II CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS 2 Health and healthcare as a human right 12 Hiroaki Matsuura 3 Do democratic regimes exhibit ‘better’ health outcomes? 27 Alberto Batinti and Joan Costa-Font 4 Soviet communism and later-life health and health care 42 Joan Costa-Font and Anna Nicińska 5 Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 57 Roger D. Congleton 6 The coordination in European Union healthcare after Covid-19 70 Marco Buso, Massimo Bordignon, Rosella Levaggi and Gilberto Turati 7 Efficiency and equity effects of healthcare decentralization: evidence from Italy 85 Caterina Ferrario, Rosella Levaggi and Massimiliano Piacenza 8 Political economy of health care insurance expansion in Mexico 112 David G. Lugo-Palacios and Alejandro Sanders Villa 9 Weird health care for WEIRD societies? 130 Hartmut Kliemt PART III POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL MARKETS AND HEALTH CARE DECISIONS 10 Medical composition of cabinets and the health care system 147 Joan Costa-Font, Nicolas Marchi and Debra Winberg 11 Women politicians and public health 157 Sonia Bhalotra and Mariana Lopes da Fonseca 12 Community and civic participation effects on health and well-being 177 Luke Munford and Daniel Gray 13 Ideology and health spending 200 Bernd Theilen 14 Lobbying, health, and healthcare 213 Nathaniel Z. Counts and Vinu Ilakkuvan 15 Healthcare corruption 236 Martin McKee, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova 16 Provider power and healthcare systems 247 Mason Barnard, Irini Papanicolas and Peter Smith 17 Health effects of trade policy and corporate interest groups 270 Pepita Barlow 18 Institutional quality and health outcomes 292 Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Martorana and Luigi Siciliani PART IV THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND POLICY REFORMS 19 Towards a general political economy of private supplementary health insurance 319 Claudio Lucarelli and Mark Pauly 20 Political economy of public financing of health in low- and middle-income countries 339 Sumit Mazumdar and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra 21 Political economy of health system reform: evidence from Spain 370 Guillem López-Casasnovas 22 The pharmaceutical patent system and access to medicines 380 Valbona Muzaka PART V POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH CARE DURING COVID-19 23 Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government 397 Peter T. Leeson and Henry A. Thompson 24 Political preferences and nudging for healthcare: evidence from Covid certificates 412 Mario Cesare Nurchis, Luca Salmasi and Gilberto Turati 25 Multilevel governance in the first wave of Covid-19 430 Marta Angelici, Paolo Berta, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati PART VI LESSONS FROM THE HANDBOOK 26 The political economy of health systems: research space, goals and lessons 447 Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati Index 454
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Pandemic Recovery?: Reframing and Rescaling
Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an integrated and pragmatic approach to understanding recovery from all types of shocks. Whilst particular focus is given to identifying and exploring various aspects of recovering societies in the context of COVID-19, Pandemic Recovery? is framed with a wider appreciation of other societal challenges, most notably anthropogenic climate change.This forward-thinking and topical book provides expert examination of pandemic recovery in the context of reframing and rescaling broader societal challenges. Chapters offer thematic and in-depth focus, independently engaging with different aspects of recovery, simultaneously unpacking recovery in practice and in various settings.This critical analysis is split into five thematic sections exploring people, organisations, climate change and sustainability, and the policy and practice of recovery. The expert contributors highlight a clear consensus throughout that no shock is ever isolated from others and discuss how thiscan adversely impact recovery processes. The book further argues that this recognition paves the way for the development of a social science of recovery, but also preparedness for future shocks and the fostering of resilience.This progressive and enterprising book provides a valuable teaching resource which will be important for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD students, scholars and policymakers in a wide variety of disciplines including geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, city and regional planning, and business and management.Trade Review‘A comprehensive survey of “recovery society” highlighting how Covid-19 amplified existing inequalities, as well as generating myriad improvisations and forms of resilience. Perhaps most importantly, it underlines how political efforts too often remain premised on the pre-pandemic status quo even as shock events – including those associated with catastrophic climate change – continue to challenge communities across the world.’ -- Wendy Larner, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface: Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Broader Societal Challenges xxi Acknowledgements xxv 1 Introduction: shock chains and parallel shocks: towards a social science of the recovery society 1 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon PART I PEOPLE 2 Shocks, recovery processes and cultivating urban plasticity: a neuroplasticity-informed perspective on urban resilience 27 Joshua Kearney, John R. Bryson, Matthew Broome, Joanne Leach, Carlo Luiu, Francis Pope and Jonathan Radcliffe 3 Covid, telecommuting, and ethnic inequalities in the United States 42 Barney Warf 4 Addressing disparities and housing precarity: a pandemic recovery agenda 61 Brenda Parker and Catherine Leviten-Reid 5 Women in the urban informal economy and pathways towards inclusive cities 78 Rets’epile C. Kalaoane and Abraham R. Matamanda 6 The precariat and the age of permanent crisis: a research agenda for urban planning in India 95 Surajit Chakravarty PART II ORGANISATIONS 7 The central and local state after Covid: contesting the governance paradigm 113 Patrick Diamond and Martin Laffin 8 Food resilient urbanism: reconstructing hunger with NGOs 125 Lucy Natarajan, Hyunji Cho, Bernice Yanful and Abigail Woodward 9 Work after COVID-19 – is it bringing us closer to a post-carbon future? 140 Andrew Herod 10 Production space in the post-pandemic era: the intra-urban evolution of office districts 152 William Graves, Chuck McShane and Jonathan Kozar 11 Strategic decoupling, selective decoupling or recoupling of global supply chains in manufacturing GPNs during the post-COVID-19 era 164 Godfrey Yeung PART III PLACE 12 Artificial intelligence and post-pandemic recovery 178 Aksel Ersoy, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Tong Wang and Paul Chan 13 Recovery from the pandemic: planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities 187 Tianzhu Liu, Willem K. Korthals Altes, Frédéric Wallet and Romain Melot 14 The intersecting political and health crises in Hong Kong and the socio-economic and political consequences 199 May Chu 15 Remote work, coworking spaces, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: exploring peripheral and rural areas 210 Francesca Chiara Ciccarelli and Ilaria Mariotti PART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY 16 What are the prospects of a just transition towards sustainable climate change policies? The search for practical lessons from policy studies 224 Paul Cairney, Irina Timonina and Hannes Stephan 17 The impact of the pandemic on circular innovation, transitions and research 238 Joanna Williams and Rendy Bayu Aditya 18 Inflection points and discontinuities? Pandemic recovery, experiential consumption, and the emergence of circular economy retail business models 251 John R. Bryson and Yinghao Zhang 19 Flexible working and the future of urban mobility: a novel conceptual framework 267 Li Wan and Jerry Chen 20 Sustainable aviation after COVID-19: will technology save all, or a more radical change is required? 289 Pol Fontanet-Pérez, Pere Suau-Sanchez and Xosé H. Vázquez PART V THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF RECOVERY 21 Pandemic recovery? Reframing and rescaling societal challenges 304 Martin Hurst 22 Response, recovery and resilience: the role of healthcare leaders 314 Steve Gulati and Sheena Gohal 23 The magic of ordinary rather than extraordinary resilience? Higher education and longer-term pandemic impacts 325 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon 24 The value of public domain and placemaking rediscovered 336 Wouter J. Verheul 25 Comeback tourism: a critical research approach 350 Lars Fuglsang PART VI CONCLUSION 26 Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability: new paradigm shifts, and theoretical directions to unpacking recovery processes and behavioural change 362 Lauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon Index 385
£140.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Research Handbook on Health Information Systems
Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook provides comprehensive explanations and examples of theoretical frameworks and practical methods to support the design and conduct of high-quality health information systems research.
£190.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Nudged into Lockdown?: Behavioral Economics,
Book SynopsisUtilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on the role of cognitive biases in decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic. The extensive use of, and support for, stringent social distancing measures in particular is explored in depth. Nudged into Lockdown? provides clear explanations of complex scientific information regarding Covid-19, vaccines, and policy responses, to highlight issues at the center of policy-making during the pandemic. With a comprehensive overview of the policy debates around Covid-19, the book offers an alternative thought-provoking perspective on the topic, as well as suggestions for policy-making during future pandemics and other crises. It further highlights applications of a range of concepts from heuristics and biases literature, including priming, framing, anchoring, Prospect Theory, and loss aversion. Providing directions for future research in the area, this book will be an invigorating read for established academics, as well as postgraduate students looking to undertake research in Covid-19 related decision-making. It will also be a critical read for economics, political science, and public policy scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the topic.Trade Review‘If you are looking for an engaging treatment by an economist of what optimal pandemic policy response should look like, and what common pitfalls to avoid, that brings to bear insights from epidemiology, economics, and behavioural economics, then I would highly recommend Nudged into Lockdown. Consider this your nudge.’ -- Jeremy Clark, Journal of Economic Psychology‘Nudged into Lockdown? forcefully addresses an important point that has too often gone missing in applied work on nudging and choice architecture: namely, that policy makers and experts, too, make systematic errors when interpreting data and may succumb to biased assessments of risk and uncertainty themselves. The book provides durable insights into how both orthodox benefit-cost analysis and key findings from the behavioural sciences – regarding trust, autonomy and pro-social adaptative responses in decentralised social systems – were sometimes overlooked or underutilised by those who designed covid-response policies.’ -- Nathan Berg, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics‘In responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic, most governments abandoned the existing scientific and policy consensus and mimicked one another to embrace lockdowns of varying stringency. Remarkably, hardly any seemed to produce cost–benefit analysis. Unremarkably, the cost–benefit balance varied between rich and poor countries. In this rigorous, multi-disciplinary examination, written in clearly accessible language, Ananish Chaudhuri explores the reasons for the herd-like behaviour by governments and for the public compliance with their edicts. A must-read for understanding what really happened with Covid-19 and why, and for being better prepared for the inevitable next pandemic.’ -- Ramesh Thakur, Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND), Crawford School, The Australian National University, Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations 1998–2007‘This book is at once scholarly and readily accessible to all. The case Chaudhuri makes is not for any specific policy response, but rather for rational and fully informed decisions – for epidemiology over ideology. If the careful logic and vivid illustrations here pry open enough minds, we will be far better prepared for the next great public health crisis than we were for Covid-19.’ -- David L. Katz, MD, MPH President, True Health Initiative and Founding Director, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Yale University, US, 1998–2019‘Ananish Chaudhuri lays out the many irrationalities involved in the support for lockdowns in New Zealand and elsewhere: an inability to judge small probabilities, the problems with gut feelings, and many ex-post justification biases. Chaudhuri makes the argument carefully and yet manages to retain great humanism and compassion. A delight to read.’ -- Paul Frijters, Professor in Wellbeing Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and co-author of An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks‘In response to the Covid pandemic, many countries adopted containment policies that did not condition on people’s health status or demographic characteristics. This timely and insightful book addresses the questions of what considerations led to those policies and whether those policies were well-informed. The book begins from the premise that the design of effective policy cannot be based solely on the insights of classic epidemiology models. The reason is both simple and sensible: those models don’t take into account behavioral responses of people to policies like containment. The author’s analysis is multidisciplinary in nature, blending economics, psychology, political science and epidemiology. The result is a rich and informative analysis. I highly recommend this well-written and timely book.’ -- Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Center for International Macroeconomics, Northwestern University, US‘This book is a very timely one for those, like me, who believe the democratic world’s lockdown response to the Covid virus will go down as the worst public policy response of the last few centuries. It is sceptical. It is interesting. It is Great Barrington over Chief Medical Officer. There is more to living and the good life than fear of dying of Covid. All the politicians who focused on that matrix, and ignored other causes of death as well as all the benefits of living in a free society, and more, should have to read this book.’ -- James Allan, Garrick Professor in Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia‘In this book Ananish Chaudhuri achieves the impossible – he offers an easy-to-read book that delivers profound insights about our behavior which applies not just to pandemics, but to many other recurrent situations in our daily lives! A must-read for anyone that wants to make better decisions.’ -- Sudipta Sarangi, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, US, Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and author of The Economics of Small Things‘Careful comparison of costs and benefits is usually considered a hallmark of wise decision-making. Yet in 2020 many governments abandoned this standard as they tried to minimize deaths from Covid-19 regardless of cost. Traditional cost–benefit arguments were rebuked, by politicians who by nature rarely admit error, but also by ordinary folk affronted that someone would want to “kill granny”. This book draws insights from experimental economics, political science and psychology to show how various biases in decision-making processes contributed to this situation. Fifty years ago, Essence of Decision led a generation of scholars to examine models of government decision-making. Hopefully Ananish Chaudhuri’s lively book has a similar impact, for scholars, students and members of the public concerned about the retreat from rationality that is revealed by policy choices and public attitudes in the Covid-19 era.’ -- John Gibson, Professor of Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists‘This is an excellent book that nicely discusses cutting-edge applications in behavioural economics pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is thought-provoking and contains pioneering approaches that broaden the scope of behavioural research. Excellent writing style, making the content of the book accessible to a broad audience. Highly recommended!’ -- Michalis Drouvelis, Professor of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK and Co-ordinating Editor, Theory and Decision‘In New Zealand now it is hard to remember the shock of lockdown as a pandemic response. So much has happened. The virus has been kept at bay, so far. The predicted economic disaster has not happened – yet. Massive financial relief for businesses forcibly suspended and jobs at risk was followed by a rapid recovery when shops reopened. But Ananish Chaudhuri is by no means alone in thinking the country could pay a high and lingering price for its unprecedented lockdown, and that these costs, especially the human costs, should have been weighed against the risks the virus posed. His book uses fascinating behavioral studies of economic decision making and the psychology of popular risk assessment to question the merits of measures that New Zealand’s Government took and New Zealanders overwhelmingly accepted. They should read this book and wonder if these were questions they should have asked.’ -- John Roughan, Political Columnist, New Zealand HeraldTable of ContentsContents: 1. Prologue 2. Gut feelings: biases, heuristics and Covid-19 3. Pathogens and probabilities 4. Should we trust people to do the right thing? 5. Politics, pathogens and party lines 6. Irrational exuberance in the midst of Covid-19 7. Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource
Book SynopsisThis insightful Research Handbook delivers a comprehensive analysis of the significant contemporary trends and issues affecting human resource management (HRM) for health care, and their subsequent impact on individuals, organisations and national health services.Over the last twenty years the combination of new role creation, technical advances in clinical work, changes to clinician working hours and patient-service expectation has changed HRM within health care beyond recognition. Bringing together original contributions from leading international scholars, this Research Handbook utilises empirical evidence within theoretical frameworks to explain the dynamics behind the management of human resources for health care and their resulting effects. Through an in-depth analysis of the potential means of improvement, contributors highlight key action areas for critical issues facing health care providers, such as the collaboration between HRM and public health, the importance of support workers and the crucial need for HRM leadership at multiple organisational levels.The Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care provides a forward-thinking resource for students, academics and researchers working in HRM health and social care, health care leadership and health management. It will also be of great benefit to policy makers, human resource managers and clinical professionals in both local and national health care organisations.Trade Review‘This Research Handbook assembles outstanding scholars from across the globe to provide compelling, expansive, holistic, and sophisticated analyses of both the daunting workplace challenges to sustainably delivering accessible, high-quality care and the promise of engaged and imaginative human resource management as a solution to these challenges.’ -- Timothy Vogus, Vanderbilt University, US‘I am very impressed with the scope of the new Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care, in particular its international character and the inclusion of a section on the contexts – political economic, demographic, organizational and technological – in which health care work takes place.’ -- Adrienne Eaton, Rutgers University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care 1 Aoife M. McDermott, Paula Hyde, Louise FitzGerald and Ariel C. Avgar PART I THE CONTEXT FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE 2 Commentary on Part I. Context: a pretext and opportunity for the renovation of human resources policies and practices in health and social care 18 Jean-Louis Denis 3 The international health labour market and health worker migration 25 Jennifer Creese and Niamh Humphries 4 Organisation and delivery of HRM: strategic HRM, business models and private equity 41 Paula Hyde 5 Employment relationships in health care 55 Nick Krachler and Stephen Bach 6 Labor relations in health care 72 Rebecca Kolins Givan and Nick Krachler 7 Confronting technological change on the frontlines of health care delivery 90 Adam Seth Litwin PART II THE CLINICAL WORKFORCE AND STAFFING 8 Commentary on Part II. The clinical workforce 109 Trish Reay 9 Cycles of deterioration: the medical workforce and the working lives of hospital doctors 117 John-Paul Byrne and Niamh Humphries 10 Researching how to ‘retain and sustain’ the nursing and midwifery professions: time to intervene to improve the practice environment 132 Anne Matthews and Marcia Kirwan 11 Allied health professionals: hidden but essential 149 Matthew Walker, Pauline Stanton, Beni Halvorsen, Jillian Cavanagh and Timothy Bartram 12 Key issues in workforce redesign: insights from support roles in health care 164 Ian Kessler 13 Key considerations in health workforce planning 181 Sarah Simkin, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault PART III ORGANIZING WORK AND TEAMWORK 14 Commentary on Part III. Organizing work and teamwork 201 Jody Hoffer Gittell 15 Occupational segregation, workforce re-design and the consequences for work and employment (in)equalities 206 Anne McBride 16 Participation, involvement and employee voice in health care 224 Leah Hague, Michael Barry, Paula K. Mowbray and Adrian Wilkinson 17 Maintaining workforce capacity: retention and recruitment of health care workers 238 Rachel Williams 18 High-performance work practices in health care: progress on key themes and prospects for future research 255 Steven Kilroy 19 Managing interprofessional teamwork: strategic relational human resource management and the power of relational coordination 273 Qian Zhang, Hao Gong and Jody Hoffer Gittell PART IV EXPERIENCES OF WORK 20 Commentary on Part IV. The experience of work in health care 290 David E. Guest 21 Creating a healthy work environment and worker well-being 300 Anthony Montgomery and Olga Lainidi 22 Pay and reward in health care services: insights from the case of the UK 318 Mark Exworthy and David Nash 23 Job quality: looking after the people who look after the people 335 David A. Buchanan and Simone Jordan 24 Work–life balance in health care 357 Sari Mansour, Malik Faisal Azeem and Denis Chênevert 25 Organizational, team and individual resilience in health care: what does this mean for HRM? 373 Anaïs Galy, Patrick Groulx, Julia Aubouin-Bonnaventure, Denis Chênevert, Evelyne Fouquereau and Séverine Chevalier PART V HRM SUPPORT FOR LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT 26 Commentary on Part V. HRM support for leadership, management and improvement: the key role of health contexts and professionalism 397 Gerry McGivern 27 Virtualizing HR in health care: early insights from a study of surgical teams during COVID-19 406 Tracey Rosell and Martin Kitchener 28 Key issues in management and leadership of interorganisational coordination 420 Ninna Meier 29 A call for strategic HRM to support service innovation in health care 436 Graeme Currie 30 Conclusion to Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care 446 Aoife M. McDermott, Paula Hyde, Louise FitzGerald and Ariel C. Avgar Index 460
£220.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia: New
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective dementia interventions to reduce the symptoms of this debilitating condition and also, for the first time, a Cost-Benefit Analysis of those interventions to establish whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Focussing on new interventions such as years of education, medicare eligibility, hearing aids and vision correction, Robert Brent also takes an innovative look at the need to reduce elder abuse and initiate an international convention for human rights. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia takes an insightful look at dementia by using a behavioural definition and explaining how the symptoms can affect daily life activities, rather than just using the medical definition. It examines the causality of dementia interventions to establish their effectiveness, dealing with the risk factors and expanding the current list of interventions. Furthermore, it provides an in-depth three-step procedure for evaluating the monetary benefits of those interventions to establish whether these are found to be socially worthwhile. Written in a comprehensive, yet accessible style, this book will be an excellent resource for economists interested in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of dementia care. Healthcare professionals and policymakers as well as non-professionals will find the different interventions discussed to reduce symptoms of dementia illuminating and informative.Trade Review‘The book offers a fascinating paradigm to reflect upon dementia interventions, promising to widen the lens of interested governments, public health and policy makers, as well as clinicians alike. By interlinking concepts of protecting human rights, preventing elder abuse, caring for persons living with dementia, all contributing to improving global health and economy, this book offers a solid rationale for an international United Nations convention on the human rights for older persons.’ -- Kiran Rabheru, University of Ottawa, Canada‘Robert Brent’s Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia provides a comprehensive and accessible examination of how economic tools can assist in making interventions for dementia more effective. Using state-of-the-art economic methods, Brent examines a broad range of efforts ranging from the role of Medicare eligibility to the importance of vision correction and hearing aids. Despite the rigorous attention to the costs and benefits of alternative policies, the book does not lose sight of concerns such as advocacy of broader protections for the human rights of those with dementia.’ -- W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to dementia, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the new interventions 2. Measuring dementia symptoms PART II THE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES 3. Years of education 4. Medicare eligibility 5. Hearing aids 6. Vision correction 7. Avoiding nursing homes PART III PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF DEMENTIA INTERVENTIONS 8. Elder abuse 9. Human rights Index
£75.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of Health Behaviours
Book SynopsisThis three-volume set brings together the most important and interesting papers on the economics of health behaviours such as smoking, drinking, drug use, and risky sex. Volume I explores the theoretical foundations; it also includes empirical papers on the household production of health and the link between schooling and health. Volume II covers research into the prediction and explanations of health behaviours and into the labour market consequences of unhealthy behaviour. Volume III features interactions between health behaviours and the impact of related public policies. This authoritative collection will be of particular interest to economists, social scientists and health services researchers.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction John H. Cawley and Donald S. Kenkel PART I THE FOUNDATIONS FOR STUDYING HEALTH BEHAVIOURS 1. H. Leibenstein (1950), ‘Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand’ 2. Michael Grossman (1972), ‘On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health’ 3. Pauline M. Ippolito (1981), ‘Information and the Life Cycle Consumption of Hazardous Goods’ 4. Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy (1988), ‘A Theory of Rational Addiction’ 5. Engelbert J. Dockner and Gustav Feichtinger (1993), ‘Cyclical Consumption Patterns and Rational Addiction’ 6. Athanasios Orphanides and David Zervos (1995), ‘Rational Addiction with Learning and Regret’ 7. David Laibson (1997), ‘Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting’ 8. Gary S. Becker and Casey B. Mulligan (1997), ‘The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference’ 9. B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel (2004), ‘Addiction and Cue-Triggered Decision Processes’ PART II THE HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION OF HEALTH 10. Mark R. Rosenzweig and T. Paul Schultz (1983), ‘Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogeneity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and their Effects on Birth Weight’ 11. John Mullahy and Paul R. Portney (1990), ‘Air Pollution, Cigarette Smoking, and the Production of Respiratory Health’ 12. Donald S. Kenkel (1995), ‘Should You Eat Breakfast? Estimates from Health Production Functions’ 13. William N. Evans and Jeanne S. Ringel (1999), ‘Can Higher Cigarette Taxes Improve Birth Outcomes?’ 14. Paul Contoyannis and Andrew M. Jones (2004), ‘Socio-economic Status, Health and Lifestyle’ PART III THE ROLE OF TASTES, INFORMATION, AND SCHOOLING 15. Phillip Farrell and Victor R. Fuchs (1982), ‘Schooling and Health: The Cigarette Connection’ 16. W. Kip Viscusi (1990), ‘Do Smokers Underestimate Risks?’ 17. Donald S. Kenkel (1991), ‘Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, and Schooling’ 18. V. Kerry Smith, Donald H. Taylor, Frank A. Sloan, F. Reed Johnson and William H. Desvousges (2001), ‘Do Smokers Respond to Health Shocks?’ 19. David M. Cutler and Edward Glaeser (2005), ‘What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking, and Other Health-related Behaviors?’ PART IV EMPIRICAL TESTS OF THE MODEL OF RATIONAL ADDICTION 20. Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman and Kevin M. Murphy (1994), ‘An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction’ 21. Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka and Ismail Sirtalan (1998), ‘An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction: Results from the Monitoring the Future Panels’ 22. José M. Labeaga (1999), ‘A Double-hurdle Rational Addiction Model with Heterogeneity: Estimating the Demand for Tobacco’ 23. Jonathan Gruber and Botond Koszegi (2001), ‘Is Addiction “Rational”? Theory and Evidence’ 24. M. Christopher Auld and Paul Grootendorst (2004), ‘An Empirical Analysis of Milk Addiction’ 25. Donna B. Gilleskie and Koleman S. Strumpf (2005), ‘The Behavioral Dynamics of Youth Smoking’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I PREDICTING AND EXPLAINING UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOURS 1. Alan S. Blinder (1974), ‘The Economics of Brushing Teeth’ 2. Jan C. Van Ours (1995), ‘The Price Elasticity of Hard Drugs: The Case of Opium in the Dutch East Indies, 1923–1938’ 3. Avner Ahituv, V. Joseph Hotz and Tomas Philipson (1996), ‘The Responsiveness of the Demand for Condoms to the Local Prevalence of AIDS’ 4. Edward C. Norton, Richard C. Lindrooth and Susan T. Ennett (1998), ‘Controlling for the Endogeneity of Peer Substance Use on Adolescent Alcohol and Tobacco Use’ 5. Jin-Long Liu, Jin-Tan Liu, James K. Hammitt and Shin-Yi Chou (1999), ‘The Price Elasticity of Opium in Taiwan, 1914–1942’ 6. Alejandro Gaviria and Steven Raphael (2001) ‘School-Based Peer Effects and Juvenile Behavior’ 7. Christopher J. Ruhm and William E. Black (2002), ‘Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?’ 8. Susan Farrell, Willard G. Manning, Michael D. Finch (2003), ‘Alcohol Dependence and the Price of Alcoholic Beverages’ 9. Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher and Phillip B. Levine (2003), ‘Maternal Employment and Overweight Children’ 10. David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser and Jesse M. Shapiro (2003), ‘Why Have Americans Become More Obese?’ 11. Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer (2004), ‘An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System’ 12. Mireille Jacobson (2004), ‘Baby Booms and Drug Busts: Trends in Youth Drug Use in the United States, 1975–2000’ 13. Paul Gertler, Manisha Shah and Stefano M. Bertozzi (2005), ‘Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex’ 14. Emily Oster (2005), ‘Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sexual Behavior, and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic’ 15. Petter Lundborg (2006), ‘Having the Wrong Friends? Peer Effects in Adolescent Substance Use’ PART II THE IMPACT OF HEALTH BEHAVIOURS ON WAGES AND HUMAN CAPITAL 16. John Mullahy and Jody L. Sindelar (1993), ‘Alcoholism, Work, and Income’ 17. Philip J. Cook and Michael J. Moore (1993), ‘Drinking and Schooling’ 18. Phillip B. Levine, Tara A. Gustafson and Ann D. Velenchik (1997), ‘More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Wages’ 19. John Mullahy and Jody Sindelar (1996), ‘Employment, Unemployment, and Problem Drinking’ 20. Gary A. Zarkin, Michael T. French, Thomas Mroz and Jeremy W. Bray (1998), ‘Alcohol Use and Wages: New Results from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse’ 21. Thomas C. Buchmueller and Samuel H. Zuvekas (1998), ‘Drug Use, Drug Abuse, and Labour Market Outcomes’ 22. Ziggy MacDonald and Stephen Pudney (2000), ‘The Wages of Sin? Illegal Drug Use and the Labour Market’ 23. John Cawley (2004), ‘The Impact of Obesity on Wages’ 24. Jan C. van Ours (2004), ‘A Pint a Day Raises a Man’s Pay; but Smoking Blows That Gain Away’ 25. John Cawley and Sheldon Danziger (2005), ‘Morbid Obesity and the Transition from Welfare to Work’ 26. M. Christopher Auld (2005), ‘Smoking, Drinking, and Income’ 27. Jeremy W. Bray (2005), ‘Alcohol Use, Human Capital, and Wages’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HEALTH BEHAVIOURS 1. Rosalie Liccardo Pacula (1997), ‘Economic Modelling of the Gateway Effect’ 2. Thomas S. Dee (1999), ‘The Complementarity of Teen Smoking and Drinking’ 3. Matthew C. Farrelly, Jeremy W. Bray, Gary A. Zarkin and Brett W. Wendling (2001), ‘The Joint Demand for Cigarettes and Marijuana: Evidence from the National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse’ 4. Stephen Pudney (2003), ‘The Road to Ruin? Sequences of Initiation to Drugs and Crime in Britain’ 5. Jan C. van Ours (2003), ‘Is Cannabis a Stepping-Stone for Cocaine?’ 6. John Cawley, Sara Markowitz and John Tauras (2004), ‘Lighting Up and Slimming Down: The Effects of Body Weight and Cigarette Prices on Adolescent Smoking Initiation’ 7. Inas Rashad and Robert Kaestner (2004), ‘Teenage Sex, Drugs and Alcohol Use: Problems Identifying the Cause of Risky Behaviors’ PART II PUBLIC POLICIES AND HEALTH BEHAVIOURS 8. Lynne Schneider, Benjamin Klein and Kevin M. Murphy (1981), ‘Governmental Regulation of Cigarette Health Information’ 9. Philip J. Cook and George Tauchen (1984), ‘The Effect of Minimum Drinking Age Legislation on Youthful Auto Fatalities, 1970–1977’ 10. Pauline M. Ipppolito and Alan D. Mathios (1990), ‘Information, Advertising and Health Choices: A Study of the Cereal Market’ 11. Jeffrey Wasserman, Willard G. Manning, Joseph P. Newhouse and John D. Winkler (1991), ‘The Effects of Excise Taxes and Regulations on Cigarette Smoking’ 12. Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel (1991), ‘Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition’ 13. Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner (1995), ‘A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Public Health Subsidies for STD Testing’ 14. Willard G. Manning, Linda Blumberg and Lawrence H. Moulton (1995), ‘The Demand for Alcohol: The Differential Response to Price’ 15. Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Lee-Lan Yen, Jin-Tan Liu and Chyongchiou Jeng Lin (1996), ‘Smoking, Health Knowledge, and Anti-Smoking Campaigns: An Empirical Study in Taiwan’ 16. Christopher J. Ruhm (1996), ‘Alcohol Policies and Highway Vehicle Fatalities’ 17. William N. Evans and Matthew C. Farrelly (1998), ‘The Compensating Behavior of Smokers: Taxes, Tar, and Nicotine’ 18. Phillip J. Cook, Allan M. Parnell, Michael J. Moore and Deanna Pagnini (1999), ‘The Effects of Short-Term Variation in Abortion Funding on Pregnancy Outcomes’ 19. Thomas S. Dee (1999), ‘State Alcohol Policies, Teen Drinking and Traffic Fatalities’ 20. Alan D. Mathios (2000), ‘The Impact of Mandatory Disclosure Laws on Product Choices: An Analysis of the Salad Dressing Market’ 21. Sara Markowitz and Michael Grossman (2000), ‘The Effects of Beer Taxes on Physical Child Abuse’ 22. Martin Forster and Andrew M. Jones (2001), ‘The Role of Tobacco Taxes in Starting and Quitting Smoking: Duration Analysis of British Data’ 23. John DiNardo and Thomas Lemieux (2001), ‘Alcohol, Marijuana, and American Youth: The Unintended Consequences of Government Regulation’ 24. Reagan Baughman, Michael Conlin, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and John Pepper (2001), ‘Slippery When Wet: The Effects of Local Alcohol Access Laws on Highway Safety’ 25. Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios (2002), ‘Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce the Onset of Youth Smoking?’ 26. Jeffrey A. Miron (2003), ‘The Effect of Drug Prohibition on Drug Prices: Evidence from the Markets for Cocaine and Heroin’ 27. Christopher Carpenter (2004), ‘How Do Zero Tolerance Drunk Driving Laws Work?’ 28. Peter M. Lance, John S. Akin, William H. Dow and Chung-Ping Loh (2004), ‘Is Cigarette Smoking in Poorer Nations Highly Sensitive to Price? Evidence from Russia and China’ 29. Jonathan Gruber and Botond Köszegi (2004), ‘Tax Incidence when Individuals are Time Inconsistent: The Case of Cigarette Excise Taxes’ 30. Gabriel A. Picone, Frank Sloan and Justin G. Trogdon (2004), ‘The Effect of the Tobacco Settlement and Smoking Bans on Alcohol Consumption’ 31. Angela K. Dills, Mireille Jacobson and Jeffrey A. Miron (2005), ‘The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Drunkenness Arrests’ 32. Douglas E. Levy and Ellen Meara (2006), ‘The Effect of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement on Prenatal Smoking’ 33. Jérôme Adda and Francesca Cornaglia (2006), ‘Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity’ Name Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions: A
Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost?benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated. This book argues that HIV/AIDS policies need to be evidence based and that CBA is the best way to assemble and summarize the evidence. The work explains why CBA is needed and highlights a number of myths, misinformation and counterintuitive results in the field, and critiques the Millennium Development Goals approach. It also presents HIV/AIDS as a hunger issue in sub-Saharan Africa and as a sexual transmission problem in the US. The roles of nutrition, income, education, religion, agricultural policy, concurrency and sexual networks are all examined. Robert Brent explains the main cost?benefit methods and applications, including threshold analysis, willingness to pay, cost minimization, cost-effectiveness, human capital theory and the value of a statistical life. Applications cover female education, possible vaccines, condoms, and various forms of treatment. He concludes by explaining how CBA incorporates social considerations such as equity.With timely and controversial discussions, this book will be read with interest by AIDS activists, NGO members, policy-makers and public officials, as well as being accessible to non-economists interested in the subject of HIV/AIDS.Trade Review‘Professor Brent’s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost–benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach.’ -- William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WHY COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES 1. Introduction to the Book 2. Why Not Just Simply do What is Right and Try to Save Lives? 3. Myths and Misinformation 4. Counterintuitive Results 5. What is Wrong with Setting any Targets? 6. What is Wrong with Setting the Particular MDG Targets? 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis 101 8. Cost–Benefit Analysis 201 PART II: HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE 9. Introduction to Part II 10. HIV and Hunger 11. Nutrition and HIV at the Individual Level 12. Nutrition and HIV at the Country Level 13. Income as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 14. Education as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 15. Islam as a Factor Lowering HIV Rates 16. Impact of HIV on Agricultural Households 17. Agricultural Policy and HIV Interventions 18. Sex and HIV I: The Role of Transmission 19. Sex and HIV II: The Role of Concurrency 20. Sex and HIV III: The Role of Networks PART III: COST–BENEFIT METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Threshold Analysis Theory 23. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Effectiveness of HIV Education 24. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Benefits of Avoiding HIV 25. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Costs of a Possible HIV/AIDS Vaccine 26. Willingness to Pay Theory 27. Willingness to Pay Practice: The Benefits of Condoms 28. Cost Minimization Theory 29. Cost Minimization Practice: The Costs of Treating TB 30. Cost-Effectiveness Theory 31. Cost-Effectiveness Practice: The Benefits of ARVs 32. Human Capital Theory 33. Human Capital Practice: The Benefits of Female Primary Education 34. Value of a Statistical Life Theory 35. Value of a Statistical Life Practice: The Benefits of VCT PART IV: SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CBA 36. Introduction to IV 37. Commodification: Everything is Seen as a Commodity to be Bought and Sold 38. What is So “Social” About CBA? Fundamentals of CBA 39. Social and Private Perspectives in CBA 40. CBA and Equity I: Allowing for Ability to Pay 41. CBA and Equity II: Allocating by Time and Other Non-Price Methods 42. Conclusions I: How Not to Set Priorities for HIV 43. Conclusions II: Using CBA to Set Priorities for HIV References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Migration and the Globalisation of Health Care:
Book SynopsisThe international migration of health workers has been described by Nelson Mandela as the ‘poaching’ of desperately needed skills from under-privileged regions. This book examines the controversial recent history of skilled migration, and explores the economic and cultural rationale behind this rise of a complex global market in qualified migrants and its multifaceted outcomes. John Connell pays particular attention to the increase in demand for migrants in more developed countries due to the complex ramifications of aging, and new opportunities and expectations. He illustrates how globalization has linked sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and North America, and created new demand in Japan for international migrants from China and isolated island states. The long-established skill-drain, with its impact on household relations and negative consequences for health care, is carefully balanced against new flows of remittances, the return of skills and complex regional changes. Wide-ranging policy interventions, and greater social justice, have been challenged by the rise of the ‘competition state’ and limitations to economic growth in the global south.This comprehensive and definitive analysis of the global migration of health workers will prove an essential resource for academics and research students in health and social policy, and in the various disciplines that relate to migration, including sociology, economics and geography.Trade Review‘This book addresses a major current topic and attempts to cover the trends, arguments and dilemmas. The author is eminently qualified to tackle such an exercise as he has a long history of migration and other research, especially in the Pacific region. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the major issues together with detailed analysis and debate. . . this book is a major achievement for its intellectual depth and the international coverage provided. I would recommend it for policy makers, scholars, researchers and postgraduate students. It fills a gap in a very important but neglected policy area.’ -- Robyn Iredale, Journal of Population Research‘. . . the observations that John Connell makes about health systems worldwide in Migration and the Globalisation of Health Care are poignant and timely. He delivers a long-term prognosis for health systems throughout the world, and his findings should give us cause for alarm. Connell’s big-picture assessment of the status quo and his tried-and-tested recommendations for improving it deserve the attention of health policymakers and practitioners everywhere.’ -- Rick Docksai, World Future ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Geography of Need 3. Phases of Globalisation 4. The Scope for Migration 5. An Overseas Orientation: Towards Migration? 6. Moving Out? Rationales for Migration 7. Migration and Health Provision 8. The Costs and Benefits of Skill Drain 9. Policy Implications 10. The Enigma of Globalisation References Index
£102.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Health Care Systems in Developing and Transition
Book SynopsisHealth policy is a central preoccupation of many, if not all, developing countries. This innovative book presents a selection of ten studies illustrating that carefully conducted research can address common health policy issues.The studies included in this book exemplify the major gains to patients and citizens that can accrue from research efforts, stimulating research capacity in developing countries. Although many of the challenges confronting health systems are universal, it is often the case that research results derived from developed countries can be misleading when applied to low or middle-income settings. The authors also demonstrate the best examples of successful research on health policies and systems from diverse countries such as Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.This insightful book will be a valuable research tool for academics, researchers and policymakers in economics and health. International agencies interested in applied research in health policy and economics will also find it a stimulating read.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Lyn Squire Introduction: Health System Performance, Finance and Design Diana Pinto Masís and Peter C. Smith PART I: HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE 1. Productivity Change in Health Services in Developing Countries: Some Empirical Estimates Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya 2. Health Sector Outcomes in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: A Tale of Two Countries Aparnaa Somanathan, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya and Tahmina Begum PART II: HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING 3. Preventing Impoverishment, Promoting Equity and Protecting Households from Financial Crisis: Universal Health Insurance through Institutional Reform in Mexico Felicia Marie Knaul, Héctor Arreola-Ornelas, Oscar Méndez-Carniado and Martha Miranda-Muñoz 4. Community Prepayment of Health Care and the Willingness to Pay: Evidence of Rural Households in the Central Cameroon Joachim Nyemeck Binam, Diarra Ibrahim and Valère Nkelzok 5. Risk Segmentation, Moral Hazard and Equity in Chile’s Mandatory Health Insurance System Claudio Sapelli PART III: HEALTH SYSTEM DESIGN 6. The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Access and Equity: Peru’s Mother and Infant Insurance Program Miguel Jaramillo 7. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Hospital Competition and Cardiac Patients in Taiwan Hsien-Ming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and Jason Hockenberry 8. Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Ernesto Schargrodsky PART IV: HIV/AIDS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD 9. Antenatal Clinics, Patients and HIV Prevalence in Cambodia Vonthanak Saphonn, Leng Bun Hor, Sun Penh Ly and Samrith Chhuon 10. Rural Household Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and Economic Efficiency in Southern Nigeria A.S. Oyekale Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Policy in an Ageing Society: Age and
Book SynopsisAround half the world's population live in countries where the fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and where life expectancy is increasing dramatically. Using Singapore as a case study, Social Policy in an Ageing Society explores what might happen in a dynamic and prosperous society when falling births, longer life expectancy and rising expectations put disproportionate pressure on scarce resources that have alternative uses.David Reisman investigates the challenges facing Singapore, where a rapidly rising median age and the growing pressure of the elderly upon medical attention are threatening to disrupt the economic and even the political status quo. The dependency of the old upon the young is becoming a financial and an emotional burden. Health care is swelling in quantity and price. Voluntary and compulsory savings are being used up. New demands for pensions and subsidies are challenging the national ideology of family network and self-reliance. Despite a wealth of prospective problems, the author argues that viable solutions can be found. Discretionary savings can increase. Reverse mortgages can monetise owner-occupied property. A higher participation rate can give the elderly the opportunity to earn a living for themselves. This book concludes that public policy must play its part in facilitating these solutions. It must ensure that the old retain their dignity. The old should not lie where they fall.This comprehensive, intelligible and highly original cross-disciplinary study will appeal to a wide-ranging audience. Readers will include academics, researchers and students with an interest in health economics, the economics of development, social policy and administration, public policy and the socio-economic aspects of medicine.Trade Review'. . . this book is likely to be most useful for researchers in health economics and development economics. It will be especially valuable to readers with a detailed interest in Singapore and comparable city-states in the Asia-Pacific region, especially those who wish to see data and socio-economic policy considered in a comparative context.' -- David R. Phillips, Ageing & SocietyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Old and Ill 3. The Provident Fund 4. Affordable Health Care 5. Payment for Health: Medisave 6. Payment for Health: MediShield and Medifund 7. Home and Family 8. Assets: Capital and Property 9. Labour in the Retirement Years 10. Older Workers: The Policy Options 11. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Reforming Healthcare Systems
Book SynopsisHealthcare is one of modern society's most crucial arenas - costly, important and controversial. This comprehensive research review brings together more than fifty scholarly articles on both healthcare systems in general and health reform in particular. The editors have carefully selected papers by leading academics which will enhance our understanding of the central feature of social and political life. The articles are distinguished by their clear prose and wide disciplinary range. This book is an essential reference resource for students, and practitioners interested in this topical field.Trade Review‘Why is healthcare reform a pervasive global phenomenon? Why do policymakers continually reform their healthcare systems? Why do ideas for reform, such as market mechanisms, which often have little basis in evidence, continue to hold appeal? This impressive and wide-ranging two volume collection of published articles has no ready answers but it offers valuable insights to aid understanding and policy learning. The editors are to be congratulated on provoking debate about the purpose, nature and value of health system reform. Policymakers are well-advised to consult this collection before embarking on massive “redisorganisation” which delivers limited results.’ -- David J. Hunter, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I – Ideas, Interests and Institutions Acknowledgements Introduction Theodore Marmor and Claus Wendt. PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. David Mechanic (1975), ‘The Comparative Study of Health Care Delivery Systems’ 2. T.R. Marmor, M.L. Barer and R.G. Evans (1994), ‘The Determinants of a Population’s Health: What Can Be Done To Improve a Democratic Nation’s Health Status?’ 3. Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw (1994), ‘Ethics, Institutional Complexity and Health Care Reform: The Struggle for Normative Balance’ 4. Rudolf Klein (1997), ‘Learning from Others: Shall the Last Be the First?’ 5. Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Freeman and Kieke Okma (2005), ‘Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care’ PART II METHDOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISON 6. OECD (1987), ‘The Health Systems of OECD Countries’ 7. Michael Moran (2000), ‘Understanding the Welfare State: The Case of Health Care’ 8. Viola Burau and Robert H. Blank (2006), ‘Comparing Health Policy: An Assessment of Typologies of Health Systems’ 9. Claus Wendt, Lorraine Frisina and Heinz Rothgang (2009), ‘Healthcare System Types: A Conceptual Framework for Comparison’ PART III HEALTHCARE REFORMS AND THE POWER OF IDEAS 10. Alain C. Enthoven (1993), ‘The History and Principles of Managed Competition’ 11. Theodore R. Marmor (2000), ‘The Ideological Context of Medicare’s Politics: The Presumptions of Medicare’s Founders versus the Rise of the Procompetitive Ideas in Medical Care’ 12. Susan Giaimo and Philip Manow (1997), ‘Institutions and Ideas into Politics: Health Care Reform in Britain and Germany’ 13. Thomas R. Oliver and Pamela Paul-Shaheen (1997), ‘Translating Ideas into Actions: Entrepreneurial Leadership in State Health Care Reforms’ 14. Vandna Bhatia and William D. Coleman (2003), ‘Ideas and Discourse: Reform and Resistance in the Canadian and German Health Systems’ PART IV INTERESTS AND ACTORS IN THE HEALTHCARE ARENA 15. Jean De Kervasdoué and Victor G. Rodwin (1984), ‘Health Policy and the Expanding Role of the State: 1945–1980’ 16. Rudolf Klein (1979), ‘Ideology, Class and the National Health Service’ 17. Ellen M. Immergut (1990), ‘Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care’ 18. Joseph White (2003), ‘Three Meanings of Capacity; Or, Why the Federal Government Is Most Likely to Lead on Insurance Access Issues’ 19. Carolyn Hughes Tuohy (2003), ‘Agency, Contract, and Governance: Shifting Shapes of Accountability in the Health Care Arena’ PART V INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND PERSISTENCE 20. David Wilsford (1994), ‘Path Dependency, or Why History Makes It Difficult but Not Impossible to Reform Health Care Systems in a Big Way’ 21. Jacob S. Hacker (1998), ‘The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance: Structure and Sequence in the Development of British, Canadian, and U.S. Medical Policy’ 22. Sven Steinmo and Jon Watts (1995), ‘It’s the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America’ 23. Rudolf Klein (1998), ‘Why Britain Is Reorganizing Its National Health Service – Yet Again’ 24. Richard Freeman (1999), ‘Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe’ 25. Susan Giaimo and Philip Manow (1999), ‘Adapting the Welfare State: The Case of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States’ Volume II – Retrenchment, Priority Setting and Solidarity An introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I. PART I LESSONS FOR HEALTH REFORM FROM CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISON 1. Richard Freeman and Michael Moran (2000), ‘Reforming Health Care in Europe’ 2. Richard B. Saltman (1997), ‘The Context for Health Reform in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and the United States’ 3. Claus Wendt, Simone Grimmeisen and Heinz Rothgang (2005), ‘Convergence or Divergence of OECD Health Care Systems?’ 4. Robin Gauld, Naoki Ikegami, Michael D. Barr, Tung-Liang Chiang, Derek Gould and Soonman Kwon (2006), ‘Advanced Asia’s Health Systems in Comparison’ 5. Núria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde (2005), ‘Why Neoliberal Health Reforms have Failed in Latin America’ PART II HEALTHCARE AND THE MARKET 6. Robert G. Evans (1997), ‘Going for the Gold: The Redistributive Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform’ 7. Alan Jacobs (1998), ‘Seeing Difference: Market Health Reform in Europe’ 8. Donald W. Light (1997), ‘From Managed Competition to Managed Cooperation: Theory and Lessons from the British Experience’ 9. Sarah Thomson and Elias Mossialos (2006), ‘Choice of Public or Private Health Insurance: Learning from the Experience of Germany and the Netherlands’ PART III HEALTH POLICY RETRENCHMENT 10. Brian Abel-Smith (1992), ‘Cost Containment and New Priorities in the European Community’ 11. Joseph P. Newhouse (1993), ‘An Iconoclastic View of Health Cost Containment’ 12. Jacob S. Hacker (2004), ‘Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States’ 13. Theodore R. Marmor, Jonathan Oberlander and Joseph White (2009), ‘The Obama Administration’s Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope Versus Reality’ 14. Naoki Ikegami and John Creighton Campbell (2004), ‘Japan’s Health Care System: Containing Costs and Attempting Reform’ 15. Ronald Dworkin (2000), ‘Justice and the High Cost of Health’ PART IV PRIORITY SETTING AND RATIONING 16. A. Weale (1995), ‘The Ethics of Rationing’ 17. Lawrence Jacobs, Theodore R. Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander (1999), ‘The Oregon Health Plan and the Political Paradox of Rationing: What Advocates and Critics Have Claimed and What Oregon Did’ 18. Chris Ham (1997), ‘Priority Setting in Health Care: Learning From International Experience’ PART V THE PRINCIPLE OF SOLIDARITY 19. David Chinitz, Alex Preker and Jürgen Wasem (1998), ‘Balancing Competition and Solidarity in Health Care Financing’ 20. Hans Maarse and Aggie Paulus (2003), ‘Has Solidarity Survived? A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Social Health Insurance Reform in Four European Countries’ 21. Mark Schlesinger (1997), ‘Paradigms Lost: The Persisting Search for Community in U.S. Health Policy’ 22. Richard B. Saltman (1997), ‘Equity and Distributive Justice in European Health Care Reform’ 23. Eddy van Doorslaer, Xander Koolman and Frank Puffer (2002), ‘Equity in the Use of Physician Visits in OECD Countries: Has Equal Treatment for Equal Need Been Achieved?’ PART VI INTENDED AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF HEALTHCARE REFORMS 24. David Mechanic (2001), ‘The Managed Care Backlash: Perceptions and Rhetoric in Health Care Policy and the Potential for Healthcare Reform’ 25. Jonathan Oberlander (2003), ‘The Politics of Health Reform: Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good Plans?’ 26. Gwyn Bevan and Ray Robinson (2005), ‘The Interplay between Economic and Political Logics: Path Dependency in Health Care in England’ 27. Robin Gauld (2008), ‘The Unintended Consequences of New Zealand’s Primary Health Care Reforms’ 28. Uwe E. Reinhardt (1996), ‘Spending More Through “Cost Control”: Our Obsessive Quest to Gut the Hospital’
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Democratizing Health: Consumer Groups in the
Book SynopsisThis book examines the important role of consumer activism in health policy in different national contexts. In an age of shifting boundaries between state and civil society, consumer groups are potentially drivers of democratization in the health domain. The expert contributors explore how their activities bring new dynamics to relations between service providers, the medical profession, government agencies, and other policy actors. This book is unique in comprehensively analyzing the opportunities and dilemmas of this type of activism, including ambiguous partnerships between consumer groups and stakeholders such as the pharmaceutical industry. These themes are explored within an internationally comparative framework, with case studies from various countries. Students and researchers in the fields of health policy and sociology, public policy and social movements will find this relevant and path-breaking book enlightening. It will also prove invaluable for participants and activists in patient and health consumer organizations.Contributors include: K. Adams, W. Armstrong, R. Baggott, R. Bal, S. Barraclough, G. Braunegger-Kallinger, J. Church, D. Delnoij, R. Edwards, R. Forster, M. Fox, B. Fredericks, J. Geissler, P.C. John, K. Jones, M. Koivusalo, K. Krajic, A. Lambertson, M. Leahy, D. Legge, H. Lofgren, T. Milewa, C. Nunez Daw, O. O'Donovan, K.-L. Phua, A. Schipaanboord, J. Tritter, D. Truong, P. Vaillancourt Rosenau, A. VitryTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction – Consumer Groups and the Democratization of Health Policy Michael Leahy, Hans Löfgren and Evelyne de Leeuw 2. Health Activism in the Age of Governance Timothy Milewa 3. Health Consumer Groups in the United Kingdom: Progress or Stagnation? Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott 4. Citizens, Consumers and Stakeholders in European Health Policy Meri Koivusalo and Jonathan Tritter 5. The People’s Health Movement: Health for All, Now! Prem Chandran John and David G. Legge 6. Aboriginal Community Control and Decolonizing Health Policy: A Yarn from Australia Bronwyn Fredericks, Karen Adams and Rebecca Edwards 7. The Irish Health Service’s Expert Advisory Groups: Spaces for Advancing Epistemological Justice? Orla O’Donovan 8. Patient Empowerment in the Netherlands Atie Schipaanboord, Diana Delnoij and Roland Bal 9. Health Policy in Germany: Consumer Groups in a Corporatist Polity Jens Geissler 10. Austrian Health Consumer Groups: Voices Gaining Strength? Rudolf Forster, Gudrun Braunegger-Kallinger and Karl Krajic 11. Malaysia: The Consumer Voice in the Policy Process Simon Barraclough and Phua Kai Lit 12. From Activism to State Inclusion: Health Consumer Groups in Australia Hans Löfgren, Michael Leahy and Evelyne de Leeuw 13. Health Consumers in Canada: Swimming Against a Neo-liberal Tide John Church and Wendy Armstrong 14. Empowering Health Care Consumers in the United States Michael H. Fox and Anna Lambertson 15. Health Policy in the United States: Consumers and Citizens in a Market Polity Christina Nuñez Daw, Denise Truong and Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau 16. Health Consumer Groups and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Is Transparency the Answer? Agnes Vitry and Hans Löfgren Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Welfare States and Public Opinion: Perceptions of
Book SynopsisWelfare States and Public Opinion comprises an informed inquiry into three fields of social policy health policy, family policy, and unemployment benefits and social assistance. Though the analyses stem from research spanning fifteen countries across Europe, the conclusions can be applied to social policy problems in nations worldwide. Combining a detailed analysis of the institutional structure of social policy with the study of public attitudes toward healthcare, family policy, and benefits for the unemployed and poor, this book represents a new stream in public opinion research. The authors demonstrate that the institutional designs of social policies have a great impact on inequalities among social groups, and provide best practices for gaining public support for social policy reform.The wealth of information found in this comprehensive study will be of interest not only to scholars and students of sociology, political science, social policy, public policy and law, but to health and social policymakers the world over.Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Perceptions of Welfare State Institutions: Theories and Concepts 3. Healthcare Our Greatest Good? 4. Family Policy One for All? 5. Public Support for Unemployment Benefits and Social Assistance Schemes Money for Nothing or Help in Dire Straits? 6. Conclusion: Comparing Public Attitudes in Three Fields of Social Policy Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘. . . the book is well researched and is a solid overview of the first decade of the 21st century, with a sound theoretical underpinning rooted in Max Weber’s typological method. Wendt, Mischke, and Pfeifer have provided excellent analyses of their data sets to create a well-documented, scholarly study.’ -- Cynthia R. Jasper and Emily Lupton Metrish, Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences‘. . . offers a fresh perspective. . . as well as interesting empirical findings that advance the research field. . . The cluster analyses of the institutional programme characteristics are by themselves interesting, given the rather wide scope of empirical indicators used. However, the volume’s approach becomes especially valuable when applied to the question of, for example, public preferences for more/less spending and satisfaction with existing programmes.’ -- Carsten Jensen, Social Policy and AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Perceptions of Welfare State Institutions: Theories and Concepts 3. Healthcare – Our Greatest Good? 4. Family Policy – One for All? 5. Public Support for Unemployment Benefits and Social Assistance Schemes – Money for Nothing or Help in Dire Straits? 6. Conclusion: Comparing Public Attitudes in Three Fields of Social Policy Bibliography Index
£89.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Health Tourism: Social Welfare through
Book SynopsisIn this unique and pathbreaking book, David Reisman examines the relatively new phenomenon of health travel. He presents a multidisciplinary account of the way in which lower costs, shorter waiting times, different services, and the chance to combine recreational tourism with a check-up or an operation all come together to make medical travel a new industry with the potential to create jobs and wealth, while at the same time giving sick people high-quality care at an affordable price. The book illustrates that it is no longer the case that medical attention must be consumed at home. Patients are travelling to Mexico, India and Thailand for a heart bypass. They are going to Hungary, Poland and Malaysia for dentistry. Doctors are migrating to Britain, the USA and Canada for new challenges. Hospitals are opening subsidiaries in Dubai, the Philippines and Costa Rica to see overseas patients on the spot. Integrating academic perspectives from medicine, tourism, health economics, development studies and public policy, the author concludes that the benefits both to the importing and the exporting nations are considerable, but that there are also some costs. He suggests that the new industry should be regulated and supported in order that it can do its best both for the local population and for the sick people who travel abroad for treatment. This fascinating and highly original book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in areas such as health economics, tourism, social policy, development studies, Asian studies and public policy. It will also prove invaluable to practitioners actively involved in planning and delivering medical attention in the global economic order.Trade Review'The book provides an extraordinary in-depth study of one aspect of globalisation and will be invaluable to anyone interested in developments in health care, international business or possibly geography.' --Jo Guiver, Journal of Transport Geography'Health Tourism is a fascinating read. . . This book provides a unique look at a rapidly emerging issue for social and public policy as well as developmental studies, and would lend itself to animated debates, particularly at the graduate level.' --Marion Joppe, Annals of Tourism ResearchTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. A Taxonomy of Trade 3. Price 4. Quality 5. Differentiation 6. Health Tourism: The Benefits 7. Health Tourism: The Costs 8. Health Tourism and Public Policy 9. The Singapore Experience 10. Health Hubs in Asia Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second
Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Health Economics is a comprehensive and accessible look at the field, as seen by its leading figures.'- Joseph Newhouse, Harvard Medical School, USThis comprehensive collection brings together more than 50 contributions from some of the most influential researchers in health economics. It authoritatively covers theoretical and empirical issues in health economics, with a balanced range of material on equity and efficiency in health care systems, health technology assessment and issues of concern for developing countries. This thoroughly revised second edition is expanded to include four new chapters, while all existing chapters have been extensively updated.The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition intends to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the current frontier of research by providing concise and readable introductions to key topics.Contributors: T. Adam, H. Al-Janabi, M.C. Auld, P.P. Barros, A. Basu, S. Birch, D. Bishai, H. Bleichrodt, W.D. Bradford, J. Brazier, F. Breyer, A. Briggs, J.F. Burgess Jr, L. Burgess, M. Chalkley, D. Chisholm, K. Claxton, J. Coast, P. Contoyannis, R. Cookson, G. Currie, D. Dawson, P. Deb, C. Donaldson, B. Dowd, M. Drummond, T.T.-T. Ensor, S.L. Ettner, D.B. Evans, D. Feeny, R. Feldman, E. Fenwick, A. Gafni, P.-Y. Geoffard, K. Gerard, J. Glazer, D.C. Grabowski, H. Gravelle, P. Grootendorst, P.J. Huckfeldt, T. Iversen, A.M. Jones, D. Kenkel, A.N. Kleit, D.N. Lakdawalla, M. Lindeboom, P. Lorgelly, J. Louviere, H. Lurås, W. Manning, X. Martinez-Giralt, H. Mason, A. McGuire, T.G. McGuire, D. Meltzer, A. Mills, C. Mitton, S. Morris, J. Mullahy, D. Nair, E.C. Norton, J.A. Nyman, O. O'Donnell, T. Olmstead, N. Palmer, S.J. Peacock, T.J. Philipson, J.L. Pinto, D. Polsky, C. Propper, M. Raikou, R. Rannan-Eliya, N. Rice, T. Rice, J. Roberts, D. Rowen, C.J. Ruhm, M. Ryan, M. Schoenbaum, M.J. Sculpher, P. Shackley, L. Siciliani, J.L. Sindelar, P.C. Smith, R. Smith, A. Somanathan, A. Street, D.J. Street, M. Sutton, R. Thompson, P.K. Trivedi, A. Tsuchiya, E. van Doorslaer, C.H. Van Houtven, D.J. Vanness, S. Venkatapuram, R. Viney, A. Wagstaff, M.C. Weinstein, J.A. Williams, D. Wilson, P. ZweifelTrade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition: This companion is a timely addition... It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics... there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues... I have found the Companion very useful.' --Sukhan Jackson, Economic Analysis and Policy'This encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.' --R.M. Mullner, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Andrew M. Jones POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS PART I: POPULATION HEALTH 1. Understanding the Relationship between Macroeconomic Conditions and Health Christopher J. Ruhm 2. The Dynamics of Health Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice and Paul Contoyannis 3. Health and Work of Older Workers Maarten Lindeboom 4. Using Observational Data to Identify the Causal Effects of Health-related Behaviour M. Christopher Auld 5. Economics of Public Health Interventions for Children in Developing Countries David Bishai, Divya Nair and Taghreed Adam 6. Health Behaviours Among Young People Don Kenkel 7. Economics of Obesity Peter J. Huckfeldt, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Tomas J. Philipson 8. Illicit Drugs and Drug-related Crime Jody L. Sindelar and Todd Olmstead PART II: HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND DEMAND 9. The Value of Health Insurance John A. Nyman 10. Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance Pierre-Yves Geoffard 11. Prescription Drug Insurance and Reimbursement Paul Grootendorst 12. The Economics of Social Health Insurance Peter Zweifel and Friedrich Breyer 13. Competition and Health Plan Choice Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman 14. Empirical Models of Health Care Use Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi 15. Unofficial Payments in Low- and Middle-income Countries Tim Ensor and Robin Thompson 16. Trade in Health Services: Current Challenges and Future Prospects of Globalization Richard Smith PART III: EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 17. Decomposition of Inequalities in Health and Health Care Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff 18. Economic Studies of Equity in the Consumption of Health Care Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris and Matt Sutton 19. Equity in Health and Health Care Systems in Asia Ravindra Rannan-Eliya and Aparnaa Somanathan PART IV: ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH CARE MARKETS 20. Hospital Competition and Patient Choice in Publicly Funded Health Care Richard Cookson and Diane Dawson 21. Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care Pedro Pita Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt 22. Contracts, Information and Incentives in Health Care Martin Chalkley 23. Contracting-out Health Service Provision in Resource- and Information-poor Settings Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills 24. Waiting Times and Waiting Lists Luigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen PART V: PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVES AND BEHAVIOUR 25. The Physician as the Patient’s Agent Thomas Rice 26. Capitation and Incentives in Primary Care Tor Iversen and Hilde Lurås 27. Optimal Risk Adjustment Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire 28. The Role of Economic Incentives in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care Susan L. Ettner, Michael Schoenbaum and Jessica A. Williams 29. Nursing Home Quality of Care David C. Grabowski and Edward C. Norton 30. Informal Care David C. Grabowski, Edward C. Norton and Courtney H. Van Houtven 31. Direct to Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceuticals: Research Amid the Controversy W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Kleit PART VI: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS 32. Concepts and Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Health Care Organizations Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street 33. The Use of Performance Measures in Health Care Systems Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson 34. Productivity Analysis in Health Care James F. Burgess Jr EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE PART VII: MEASURING BENEFITS 35. Conceptual Foundations for Health Utility Measurement Han Bleichrodt and Jose Luis Pinto 36. The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life David Feeny 37. Methods for Developing Preference-based Measures of Health John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Donna Rowen 38. Distributional Judgements in the Context of Economic Evaluation Aki Tsuchiya 39. The Capability Approach: An Alternative Evaluation Paradigm for Health Economics? Richard Smith, Paula Lorgelly, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sridhar Venkatapuram and Joanna Coast 40. Contingent Valuation in Health Care Cam Donaldson, Helen Mason and Phil Shackley 41. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard and Gillian Currie 42. Design of Choice Experiments in Health Economics Leonie Burgess, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney and Jordan Louviere PART VIII: MEASURING COSTS AND STATISTICAL ISSUES 43. Estimating Costs for Economic Evaluation Maria Raikou and Alistair McGuire 44. Dealing with Skewed Data on Costs and Expenditures Willard Manning 45. Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis David Meltzer 46. Selection Bias in Observational Data Daniel Polsky and Anirban Basu PART IX: ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND DECISION MAKING 47. Decision Rules for Incremental Cost-effectiveness Analysis Milton C. Weinstein 48. Generalized Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Principles and Practice David B. Evans, Dan Chisholm and Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer 49. Decision Rules in Economic Evaluation Revisited Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni 50. Statistical Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis Alongside Clinical Trials Andrew Briggs 51. Decision-making with Uncertainty: The Value of Information Karl Claxton, Elisabeth Fenwick and Mark J. Sculpher 52. Moving Beyond Mean-based Evaluation of Health Care David J. Vanness and John Mullahy 53. Priority Setting Methods in Health Services Stuart J. Peacock and Craig Mitton 54. Economic Evaluation and Decision-makers Michael Drummond Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not
Book SynopsisPresents an overview of the obesity epidemic; examines statistics and projections about the condition's impact on health, society, politics, and the world economy; and discusses the benefits of effective interventions in the long term.Trade Review‘This volume, initiated by the OECD, provides an overview of trends and future projections of obesity; discusses the economic costs associated with this major health issue; and examines various government and market strategies designed to prevent this growing problem. . . A timely, valuable volume on a critical issue. . . Highly recommended.’ -- E.P. Hoffman, Choice‘This book presents a valuable set of results and suggestions about the best preventive interventions to reduce the burden of obesity. It will aid any country concerned about this burden in defining public policies aimed at altering current trends.’ -- Julio Frenk, Harvard School of Public Health, US‘The positive message of this book is that the obesity epidemic can be successfully addressed by comprehensive strategies involving multiple interventions directed at individuals and populations.’ -- Ala Alwan, World Health Organization‘This innovative and well-researched book combines insights from a wide range of disciplines. It provides a clear exposition of the evidence that policy makers need to take action.’ -- Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Obesity and the Economics of Prevention Special Focus I: Promoting Health and Fighting Chronic Diseases: What Impact on the Economy? by Marc Suhrcke 2. Obesity: Past and Projected Future Trends 3. The Social Dimensions of Obesity Special Focus II: The Size and Risks of the International Epidemic of Child Obesity by Tim Lobstein 4. How Does Obesity Spread? Special Focus II: Are Health Behaviors Driven by Information? by Donald Kenkel 5. Tackling Special Focus IV: Community Interventions for the Prevention of Obesity by Francesco Branca 6. The Impact of Inventions Special Focus V: Regulation of Food Advertising to Children: The UK Experience by Jonathan Porter Special Focus VI: The Case of Self-Regulation in Food Advertising by Stephan Loerke 7. Information, Incentives and Choice: A Viable Approach to Preventing Obesity Annexes
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Innovation Imperative in Health Care
Book SynopsisThis insightful book discusses vital concepts of system sustainability in terms of productivity, quality improvement, innovation and cost control in the context of maximizing the potential of staff in the health care sector through effective human resource management.Health systems in the western world face increasingly intense pressure to contain or reduce costs, while countries such as China and India move towards universal coverage. The contributors illustrate that radical gains in efficiency and innovative practice are required internationally in health care systems. They argue that the high proportion of health care system costs invested in staffing place the human resource function at the forefront of meeting this challenge. Sustained system change and productivity gains, more effective management of staff and work climate are essential elements of reform and are all covered in this bookThe book provides practical examples as to how health service managers can rise to the challenge of sustaining services against greater pressures than ever before. It will strongly appeal to academics and students of health service management and public sector management. Health service managers, HR professionals in health as well as clinical staff will also find plenty of informative information in this enriching compendium.Contributors include: J. Appleby, N. Ashkanasy, F. Barwell, H. Bevan, M. Cooke, S. Cross, H. Flanagan, A. Grove, J. Hartley, M. Hopkins, H. Laschinger, S. Leggat, P. Mazelan, J. Ovretveit, A. RichardsenTrade ReviewHealthy organisations are twice as likely to get better results than unhealthy ones, and this could be a matter of life and death if your business is healthcare. Whatever way you look at it, HR has a key role to play and the authors once again points the way. --Clare Chapman, Group People Director, BT (British Telecoms)If healthcare systems around the world are to respond to the growing demands of an ageing population and advances in technology, then healthcare workforces will need to managed with imagination, agility and innovation. This important book sets out some of these challenges in a thoughtful and accessible way, allowing the reader to tap into the research pedigree of its authors and to draw out lessons and evidence which will inform both strategy and practice. --Stephen Bevan, Director, Centre for Workforce Effectiveness, The Work FoundationTable of ContentsContents: PART I: OVERALL CONTEXT: QUALITY, COST, PRODUCTIVITY IN HEALTH CARE ORGANISATIONS 1. Background and Context Ronald J. Burke, Peter Spurgeon and Cary L. Cooper 2. Productivity in Health Care John Appleby 3. Raising Quality and Reducing Costs – in One Improvement? John Øvretveit 4. A Trilogy for Health Care Improvement: Quality, Productivity and Innovation Helen Bevan PART II: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 5. The Contribution of ‘Best-Practice’ HR Management to Better Organisational Performance Sandra G. Leggat 6. Fostering Creativity in Health Care: Health Care Workers as Agents of Creativity March L. To, Neal M. Ashkanasy and Cynthia D. Fisher 7. Hospital Restructuring and Downsizing: Déjà Vu All Over Again Ronald J. Burke 8. A Better Model of Managing Sickness Absence Hugh Flanagan, Fred Barwell, Patti Mazelan and Peter Spurgeon PART III: BETTER LEADERSHIP, BETTER ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE 9. Nurse Leaders: Partners in Health Care Leadership Margaret M. Hopkins and Deborah A. O’Neil 10. Enhancing Medical Leadership and Engagement: Impact upon Organisational Performance Peter Spurgeon 11. A Review of Quality Improvement in Health Care and Recommendations for the Future Amy L. Grove and James O. Meredith 12. Leadership Across Complex Systems and Boundaries Jean Hartley PART IV: MANAGING STAFF BETTER 13. Workforce Engagement and Organisational Performance Astrid M. Richardsen and Ronald J. Burke 14. Organisational and Health Effects of Workplace Empowerment in Health Care Settings Heather Laschinger 15. Stress Amongst Health Care Professionals and What Can be Done Cary L. Cooper 16. A Safer Clinical Systems Approach Matthew Cooke, Steve Cross and Peter Spurgeon PART V: CONCLUDING COMMENTS 17. Concluding Comments Peter Spurgeon, Ronald J. Burke and Cary L. Cooper Index
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Center for Global Development Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in
Book SynopsisAuthored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Global Health, shows what works—and what doesn’t—in global health. In a foreword to the book, Bill Gates says, “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution—one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive.Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health chronicles the global health revolution from the ground up, showcasing twenty-two local, national, and regional health programs that have been part of this global change. The book profiles eighteen remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries succeeded, and four examples of promising interventions that fell short of their health targets when scaled-up in real world conditions. Each case demonstrates how much effort—and sometimes luck—is required to fight illness and sustain good health.The cases are grouped into four main categories, reflecting the diversity of strategies to improve population health in low-and middle-income countries: rolling out medicines and technologies; expanding access to health services; targeting cash transfers to improve health; and promoting population-wide behavior change to decrease risk. The programs covered also come from various regions around the world: seven from sub-Saharan Africa, six from Latin America and the Caribbean, five from East and Southeast Asia, and four from South Asia.Trade Review“This is one of the most uplifting volumes on global health that I have come across. Solid evidence of cost-effective health interventions at scale gives us hope that millions more lives of the poorest and most vulnerable among us can be saved.”—Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former Finance Minister, Nigeria “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”—Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “This book serves as both an inspiration and as a practical tool—it reminds us that our work is constantly evolving and that our investments yield tangible change. These stories are proof that we are making a difference.”—Jimmy Kolker, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, United States Department of Health and Human Services“Positive deviance is usually thought of as finding the successful examples in a community, learning what they do best, and then scaling up those behaviors. This book is about global positive deviance. The authors have found examples of exceptional success in global health that serve as lessons for all of us working in the field.”—Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health“As we look forward, and begin the work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the chronicles of global health presented in this and previous editions of Millions Saved provide us with documented evidence on what works and does not work in global public health. The studies from Latin America showcase that targeted interventions addressing the needs of vulnerable and marginal populations can yield enormous dividends in health, social and economic development.”—Carissa Etienne, Director, Pan American Health Organization “I applaud the book’s range of major categories of interventions for improving health, its learnings from programs that disappointed at scale, and its incorporation of costs in the discussion about program effectiveness and impact. Importantly, the book draws conclusions about common features and key lessons, rather than only offering a compilation of interesting case studies, which is essential for the volume to be effective.”—Jere Behrman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Organising Care in a Time of Covid-19:
Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to radical transformations in the organisation and delivery of health and care services across the world. In many countries, policy makers have rushed to re-organise care services to meet the surge demand of COVID-19, from re-purposing existing services to creating new ‘field’ hospitals. Such strategies signal important and sweeping changes in the organisation of both ‘COVID’ and ‘non-COVID’ care, whilst asking more fundamental questions about the long-term organisation of care ‘after COVID’. In some contexts, the pandemic has exposed the fragilities and vulnerabilities of care systems, whilst in others, it has shown how services are organised to be more resilient and adaptive to unanticipated pressures. The COVID-19 pandemic presents a rare opportunity to examine empirically and to develop new theoretical frameworks on how and why health systems adapt to such unusual and intense pressures. International contributors consider how responses to COVID-19 are transforming the organisation and governance of health and care services and explore questions around strategic leadership at local, regional, national and transnational level. The book offers unique insight and analysis on the dynamics of policy-making, the organisation and governance of care organisations, the role of technologies in governing, the changing role of professionals and the possibilities for more resilient care systems.Table of Contents 1. Intra-Crisis Policy Transfer: the case of Covid 19 in the UK Martin Powell and Sophie King-Hill, University of Birmingham, UK Learning from abroad and policy transfer feature in the literature on learning (eg Bennett and Howlett 1992; Vagionaki and Trein 2019) and in health care (eg Klein 1997; Ettelt et al 2012), but it focuses on ‘normal’ rather than crisis policy making. This chapter brings together the literatures on learning and policy transfer with material on crisis learning in order to assess policy transfer in the Covid 19 Pandemic in the UK. The leading authors in the field of policy transfer, Dolowitz and Marsh (1996) suggested a series of questions that might be addressed: Who transfers policy? Why engage in policy transfer? What is transferred? Are there different degrees of transfer? From where are lessons drawn? What factors constrain policy transfer? They later added a further question about how the process of policy transfer related to policy “success” or “failure.” (Dolowitz and Marsh 2000; cf Marsh and McConnell 2009)). However, although their titles stress ‘learning’ and ‘lessons’ (eg ‘Who learns what from whom’ (Dolowitz and Marsh 1996) and ‘Learning from abroad’ (Dolowitz and Marsh 2000)), the literature arguably say little about learning (eg Ingold and Monaghan 2016). The policy transfer literature focuses on ‘normal’ times, but there is little on policy transfer in a crisis, with its constituent elements of threat, uncertainty, and urgency. Conversely, it is broadly argued that lesson-drawing is one of the most underdeveloped aspects of crisis management. The literature distinguishes learning across crises and learning within a crisis, or inter-crisis and inter-crisis management, and between ‘routine’ and ‘non-routine’ or ‘less routine’ crises (eg Moynihan 2008, 2009). While there is some literature on inter-crisis learning from Pandemics (eg Stark 2018), the material on intra-learning during Pandemics is limited. For example, Baekkeskov and Robin (2014) claim that ‘pandemic response is unique’ because it was ruled by bureaucratized experts rather than by elected politicians. They argue that while natural disaster responses appear to follow a political logic, national pandemic vaccination policies follow a bureaucratic logic. However, pandemic vaccination policies diverge significantly between countries because expert judgments differ significantly. Baekkeskov (2016) focuses on the different response policies in the Netherlands and Denmark to the 2009 H1N1 ‘swine’ influenza pandemic. The main aims explore how the main elements of learning, particularly cross-national lesson-drawing and policy transfer play out in the Covid 19 crisis. The main research questions are drawn from Dolowitz and Marsh (1996, 2000) framework (above). However, it addresses them with respect to the crisis and learning literatures. From the crisis perspective, how do threat, uncertainty, and urgency relate to policy transfer in a non-routine and intra-crisis situation? From the learning perspective, to what extent did the UK look to learn from abroad?; where did the UK look, and why?; and what did the UK learn? The material is primarily drawn from documents such as the Minutes of the scientific advisory bodies (eg SPI; NERVTAG), and associated scientific published articles (eg Lancet), Hansard Debates, media sources, and (possibly) interviews, and analysed by Interpretative Content Analysis. 2. Population health management in the NHS: what can we learn from covid-19? Kath Checkland, University of Manchester, UK The NHS Long Term Plan (NHS England 2019) sets out the agenda for NHS services in England for the next decade. One of the key strands of the Plan is a move towards what is called ‘Population Health Management’. This approach is briefly defined as: [the use of] predictive prevention (linked to new opportunities for tailored screening, case finding and early diagnosis) to better support people to stay healthy and avoid illness complications (NHS England 2019 p12). Later in the document it is explained that such an approach involves the active identification of people at risk using digital tools and large data sets, and the provision of care of some kind to prevent future health problems. This approach is lauded as being ‘proactive’ in contrast to previous ‘reactive’ care. The evidence underpinning the introduction of such an approach is not described. The covid-19 crisis provides us with an opportunity to interrogate the population health management approach in more depth, and to consider critically what it might offer, what the problems might be and what this means for the post-covid organisation of the NHS. Early in the covid-19 pandemic it was announced that in the UK a cohort of ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ patients would be identified using digital tools and singled out for special care to prevent them contracting the virus. This process was called ‘shielding’ and it represents an example of population health management. A cohort of people have been actively identified using digital tools, and care has been provided to prevent future health problems. In this paper the ‘shielding’ scheme will be explored and critiqued using three theoretical lenses. Firstly, it will be considered as an example of categorisation (Bowker and Star 2000). Who is in, who is out and the basis of those decisions will be considered, and the implications addressed, including the uncertainties surrounding the classification schema and the political factors at work. Secondly, it will be considered as an example of the construction of risk (Johnson and Covello 2012). Within the policy discourse around shielding, reducing the death rate from covid-19 is presented as a simple matter of identifying risk-bearing individuals. But risk is socially and culturally constructed (Adams 2001), and biomedical risk is only one type of risk which might be considered (Adam 2011). Moreover, the construction of the category of ‘high risk’ is neither transparent nor straightforward. Finally, the paper will explore population health management as a framing device which highlights particular causes of disease and distress and obscures others (Jones and Exworthy 2015). The experience of GPs in the UK in operationalising the shielding policy will be explored through these three lenses to bring to the surface the inherent contradictions and unexamined assumptions which underpin the rhetoric. Comparisons will made with a more traditional public health approach which takes account of the social determinants of health alongside biomedical and individually focused issues (Hall et al. 2018). The implications for the post-covid organisation of the health and care system will be discussed. 3. COVID-19 and primary care service delivery Judith Smith, Emily Burn University of Birmingham, UK Becks Fisher, Health Foundation, UK Louise Locock, University of Aberdeen, UK The COVID19 pandemic has led to a wholesale re-ordering of primary care service delivery both in the UK and other countries. Virtually overnight, practices were closed and consultations moved to telephone calls or online interactions wherever possible. Service changes which have been the source of protracted debate and which would ordinarily have taken years to implement have become normal practice. At the same time, other challenges and changes have included the development of ‘hot hubs’ for primary care across cities or districts, and the addition of new staff and roles into large teams (including formerly retired staff, part-time staff working full-time and extra hours, clinical academics, volunteers). While primary care was braced for a wave of COVID19-related workload, as the pandemic evolved a growing concern emerged that patients who need to seek help have not done so, and that a backlog of ill health may be building in the community. Primary care staff are now facing another challenge as the consequences of the lockdown start to surface. In this chapter, we will firstly describe the NHS in England primary care policy response (informed by content from weekly NHSE letter to primary care, NHSE webinar content and other policy documents). We will locate this in a wider UK and international context as appropriate. We will also draw on co-author Becks Fisher’s frontline experience as a GP to describe how existing primary care organisations in one locality worked to create a new service. We will then present findings from an ongoing empirical study supported by the Health Foundation to capture narratives from a sample of GPs, practice managers and community nurses in England, Wales and Scotland about their experiences of and responses to this unusual and shifting situation. This will include analysis of contemporary blogs and reflective articles, as well as longitudinal data captured in self-recordings, written contributions and short online interviews. This rich qualitative analysis will be complemented by analysis of national data from NHS Digital, used to describe trends in consultation numbers and types. The chapter will conclude by discussing the ways in which primary health care professionals’ roles may be changing as new forms of service provision emerge in the UK and overseas in response to the Covid-19 crisis, and considering how far such changes may be sustained, or be appropriate, for the longer term. We anticipate that policy makers will consider there to be many positive features of the shift to more virtual service provision in primary care, as well as stresses and challenges. We will examine the implications for GPs’ and their teams’ recovery and support. 4. Remote by default: a case study of disruptive technology in primary care Trisha Greenhalgh, Alex Rushforth, Sara Shaw, Catherine Pope, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Joseph Wherton, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, patients can no longer walk into a GP surgery and ask to be seen. They must apply online, phone the surgery or contact NHS111. Depending on local triage pathways, they may then get a call-back (phone or video) from a clinician, or a face-to-face appointment, possibly in a ‘hot hub’. This shift from in-person to remote-by-default consulting is the fastest and most extensive scale-up of a radical service innovation since the NHS was established in 1948. Clinicians are faced with a triple novelty: a new disease (uncertain, serious, contagious), a new way of interacting with patients (phone, video) and major changes to workflows and clinical pathways. The changes to what used to be the family doctor service are radical, frightening and difficult. They cut to the core of what it is to care and be cared for, and what ‘good’ and ‘excellent’ health services look and feel like. Much is at stake. Lives depend on getting the right patients to hospital at the right time to ensure benefit from critical care without overwhelming the hospital with referrals. This requires accurate identification of cases for referral and monitoring of those with moderate disease – often through the medium of a new or repurposed technology. Success of such new models of care is not just about the functionality of technologies but also about their clinical safety, how we make them work, and the extent to which NHS infrastructure can accommodate them quickly enough. We know from health systems research that disruptive technological innovation, especially in heavily institutionalised environments, is complex, uncertain, challenging and risky. We are currently undertaking a rapid programme of research funded by the ESRC’s COVID response fund, to explore the clinical, technical, organisational and professional challenges of the shift to remote-by-default. This chapter will provide empirical detail of the case study plus a scholarly analysis that draws on the theoretical literature on disruptive innovation at pace and scale. 5. Using Social and Behavioural Science to Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic in Tanzania Ramadhani Marijani, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Since its outbreak in December 2019 in Wuhan City China, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting on the health and socioeconomic status of the entire humanity. After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, there have been more than 4.5 million people confirmed cases globally as of May 11th 2020 claiming more than 283,526 deaths and the number keeps on increasing. Sadly, the pandemic continues bursting across the world’s most economically fragile and politically vulnerable continent-Africa. Effective and sustainable management of the pandemics calls for global solidarity and partnership because it is essential to end the spread of the virus and save lives, but most equally important is to avoid the perennial negative effects on social stability and security, especially in developing countries (Lun et al., 2020:1; Anderson et al., 2020). Relatedly, various stakeholders including national governments and international organizations respond differently with the view of containing the disease. For example, while the World Health Organization (WHO) renders global support through coordination and technical guidance (WHO, 2020), the World Bank, the European Union and other bilateral organizations are focusing on providing financial assistances (Bacha, 2020). Socially, the response has led to a massive global public health campaign to slow the spread of the virus by increasing hand washing, reducing face touching, wearing masks in public and physical distancing. Hitherto, while efforts to develop pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 are under way, the social and behavioural sciences can provide valuable insights for managing the pandemic and its impacts (Van Bavel,et al., 2020). It is from the foregoing context, that the health care sector is attracting the attention of social and behavioural science researchers and scholars (Van Roekel, 2019; Nagtegaal, et al., 2019; Tummers,2019; Crupi, et al., 2018; SonneNørgaard, 2018; Thaler and Sunstein, 2008). Public administration scholars are not an exceptional in this endeavor. Behavioral Public Administration is believed to address the limit of rationality by reducing biases in human behaviors (StraBheim, 2020; Lindblom, 1959; Simon, 1957; Laswell, 1951). Central to the BPA philosophy is that, people should not be drafted to act and behave in a certain ways but rather encouraged to act in ways that are better for them to stop poor habits and induce desired behavior among non-compliant majority (John, et al., 2020). Given the rapidly developing situation in Africa and Tanzania in particular, we intend to conduct a rapid narrative review of how Tanzania government responds to COVID-19 pandemic, and offers policy and practical implications from Behavioral Public Administration perspectives. Our intention is not to replace the intensive medical and public health interventions, but rather to provide evidence on the behavioral side of those plans and support leadership in improving those mitigations interventions. 6. Professionalism in a pandemic: shifting perceptions of nursing through social media Charlotte Croft and Trishna Uttamlal, University of Warwick, UK This chapter sets out to explore how models of professionalism have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we consider how nurses have harnessed social media platforms to change widely-held public perceptions about their profession and enhance their potential for future organizational influence. Within global health systems nurses are one of the largest professional groups, and a key resource in the ongoing drive for high quality care, cost improvements and service innovation. Yet nurses have struggled to successfully leverage political or organizational capital beyond their professional jurisdiction. Existing research relates this to a perpetuation of historic professional stereotypes, undermining nurses’ potential organizational influence. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the important, yet previously under-recognised, role of nurses to the forefront of public consciousness, reflected through increased media interest. Further to this, nurses across the world have themselves used social media to promote the reality of their highly skilled modern roles as part of the pandemic response, to an unusually engaged public. We, therefore, ask: how has nurses’ expressions of their profession through social media changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how does that influence our understandings of changing models of professionalism? We draw on findings from a research project which was ongoing at the outset of the global pandemic, analysing over 600 social media blogs by nurses to understand how they communicate their profession to others. As COVID-19 progressed, we noted changes in the way nurses attempted to explain the complexities of their many and varied clinical skills, increased the frequency of posting pictures of themselves in uniform, and agentically positioned themselves as a key resource in the pandemic response. We subsequently engaged in additional data collection of over 600 nurses’ social media blogs and posts in ‘real time’, to gain insight into a professional group’s use of social media before, during, and potentially after, a time of crisis. Through comparative analysis of over 1200 articles of social media content, we identified three key areas in which nurses’ communication has changed: past, present and future professional identity; professional work; and professional leadership. We propose the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to influence models of professionalism, as groups which have not traditionally been at the forefront of public consciousness with regard to health system leadership, now take centre stage through social media. We suggest the pandemic acts as a transitory, formative space through which such professional groups are able to shift public perceptions about their identity, work and potential leadership, leveraging increased influence over more powerful organizational and political actors. We explore the potential implications of shifting models of professionalism, and set out a research agenda to further enhance understandings of how under-represented professional groups may communicate, perpetuate or change perceptions of their profession through agentic use of social media platforms. 7. Coordinating major system change in Colombia's health services in response to COVID-19 Simon Turner and Natalia Niño, University of los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Coronavirus (COVID-19) is posing a major and unprecedented challenge to health service planning and delivery across health systems internationally (Wang et al. 2020). Early evidence from Asian economies (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan) coping with COVID-19 suggests that "integration of services in the health system and across other sectors amplifies the ability to absorb and adapt to shock" (Legido-Quigley et al. 2020, p.849). However, local evidence is needed in order to contextualize and implement potential lessons for responding to COVID-19 in relation to other health systems. The changes required by health systems to address the challenges posed by COVID-19 will be analysed using a social science concept, "major system change", that the lead author has used to examine other forms of service-wide change (e.g. stroke service centralization) (Turner et al. 2016). Major system change in health care involves coordinated change across multiple organizations, including providers and purchasers of services, across a metropolitan area or region with the aim of improving services across an entire geographical area (Best et al. 2012). There is an emerging literature on barriers and enablers of change involving multiple organizations, some of which have been distilled into a framework of ´simple rules´ for guiding improvement work (Best et al. 2012; Turner et al. 2016). These include involving stakeholders inside and outside the health service, combining top-down and bottom-up leadership, creating feedback loops, and learning from history or past experiences. However, little is known about how navigating major system change is influenced by a context of 'crisis' decision-making, characterized by time pressure, complexity and uncertainty (t'Hart et al. 1993), and constraints on the evidence base for, and available resources to, implement change. This contribution will explore major system change in the context of a national qualitative study, funded by Colombia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, of the response to COVID-19 in Colombia, an upper middle-income country in Latin America. Colombia faces particular challenges in coordinating its response to system-wide problems like COVID-19. While the need for multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral care is recognised (Law 1438/2011), there remains a lack of system leadership and coordination (Rodríguez-Villamizar et al. 2016, 2017). Specific organizational problems that need to be overcome to improve integration are (a) improving the capacity of specialist services to meet demand from critically ill and other types of patient affected by COVID-19 and (b) coordinating a variety of individual health service organizations and municipalities in the planning and delivery of services at local and national level. Thus, enabling integration to create the 'adaptive capacity' (Legido-Quigley et al. 2020) of suggested importance to Asian countries' response to COVID-19 may be particularly challenging and will require active intervention. This contribution will draw on findings from a qualitative study of responses to COVID-19 at the local health level within Colombia. Key themes being explored by the study include how different professions understand and participate in change processes; organizational processes including orientations toward collaboration with other organizations both within and beyond the health service in responding to COVID-19; and how the regulation and culture of the health system locally and nationally shapes the approach to, and implementation, of major system change in relation to COVID-19. The contribution will appraise the relevance of the concept of major system change in a context of 'crisis' decision-making and contribute to international lessons on improving health systems' capacity to respond to COVID-19 and future pandemics. 8. Dancing with a Virus: Finding new Rhythms of Organizing and Caring in Dutch Hospitals Iris Wallenburg, Bert de Graaff & Roland Bal, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands From early March 2020, hospitals in the Netherlands have faced an inflow of severely ill patients infected with SARS-CoV-2. The unfolding political and organizational response ensued a yet unknown organizational order imbued with professional and organizational uncertainties, ranging from a loss of the clinical gaze—i.e. physicians and nurses being confronted with an unknown clinical picture who couldn’t rely on their clinical (tacit) knowledge and routines anymore—to scarcity of personal protective equipment and uncertainty about the financial consequences of reprofiling and repurposing existing services (Bal, de Graaff et al. 2020). Hospitals quickly turned into crisis-organizations, developing new organizational routines to keep up with the demand surge of Covid-patients—whilst (at least temporarily) letting go of regular health services as well as of ‘old’ quality standards, routines, professional values and institutional arrangements. In this paper, we study how hospitals in the Netherlands engage in organizing and delivering care in times of Covid-19, in particular how they work with the different temporal orders of the (anticipated) crisis and the emergent organizational responses. Within the organizing literature, time and temporal structures are depicted as processes that give rhythm and form and hence stability to everyday work practices (e.g. Orlikowski and Yates 2002). Disruption of these normal temporal orders requires synchronization and repair work, aligning different rhythms of work (Henke 1999, Bruyninckx 2017). In case of the Covid-19 outbreak, however, disruption becomes normal as the crisis unfolds and the virus develops its own rhythm in being more or less present, while organizations seek to find a rhythm in responding to and engaging with the virus and disease symptoms. We conceptualize this process of engaging with the virus and emerging organizational needs as ‘a dance of agency’ (Pickering 2012) in which the virus is ‘the other’ requiring organizational efforts and that must be moved with in a fluid and open-ended manner to find solutions to emerging issues. We build on an extensive (and ongoing) ethnographic study in one university hospital that played a key role in the Dutch Corona crisis. As embedded researchers, we were able to study the crisis ‘from within’ through non-participatory observations of, and interviews with, crisis-management teams from the start of the crisis onwards. In addition, we conducted semi-structured interviews with nurse managers and nurses in four other hospitals in the Netherlands, interrogating them about the impact of the crisis on care provision and how hospitals organize and account for the care delivered. We provide a layered and in-depth account of how hospital organizations improvise and establish new organizational rhythms of organizing and providing care in uncertain times. 9. Will the “new” become the “normal”? Exploring Sustainability of Rapid Health System Transformations Carolyn Steele Gray, MA PhD (corresponding author) University of Toronto, Canada James Shaw, PT, PhD, University of Toronto Walter P. Wodchis, PhD, University of Toronto Kerry Kuluski, PhD, University of Toronto Paul Wankah, MD, MSc, Université de Sherbrooke Mylaine Breton, PhD, Université de Sherbrooke G. Ross Baker, PhD, University of Toronto Nick Zonneveld, Msc, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands Henk Nies, PhD, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mirella Minkman, PhD, Vilans, centre of excellence for long-term care, The Netherlands Abstract Health, social and community care agencies are undergoing rapid changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Arguably we are facing a “window of opportunity” in which “there is a heightened probability that efforts to alter a system state will be more likely to succeed” [1]. Some leaders for system transformation efforts seeking to improve integration of health and social care services are taking advantage of this window, hoping the changes put in place will advance, rather than upend, years of effort [2]. While there is an opportunity to progress integrated care, changes made in a turbulent environment may be unsustainable. The crisis literature cautions that in time compressed environments the emphasis is often on short-term needs, rather than longer term goals[3], which can have lasting long-term institutional impacts[4]. In addition, a major crisis like the pandemic creates economic and social dislocations which can limit the ability of systems to respond effectively. Thus despite efforts of systems to respond rapidly, questions remain regarding how this moment in time will impact the trajectory of transformation for integrated care initiatives. This paper presents a theoretical framework and short case reports to explore whether rapid changes made in response to COVID-19: 1) advance integrated care and; 2) are likely to be sustained over time. The Dynamic Sustainability Framework (DSF) [5] has been widely adopted to guide research and practice on sustainable adoption of new interventions. Taking a dynamic view of sustainability, DSF suggests interventions need to consistently adapt to fit with a changing environment. Disaster response/emergency theories argue that an assessment of the environment requires attention to pre and post disaster contexts to understand adoption and sustainability of interventions. This paper presents a blended theoretical approach, bringing together the DSF with Brundiers and Eakin’s work from the disaster/response literature. The proposed framework is applied to three cases from different jurisdictions to demonstrate applicability and suggest future research. The three selected cases capture some of the more prominent shifts occurring internationally. These jurisdictions were all undergoing transformation towards integrated health and social are service delivery prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Case #1: Digitization/rapid virtualization in Ontario, Canada Case #2: New partnerships occurring in Dutch Hills, Netherlands Case #3: New accountability and governance structures in Quebec, Canada This paper offers a theoretical contribution by bringing together health services and organizational behaviour literatures on sustainability with the literature on disaster/emergency response. The brief case reports illustrate the proposed relationships between components of the framework, and offer an early exploration of how rapid responses during a pandemic may, or may not, have lasting impact on systems that were seeking to shift towards greater integrated care delivery. While the cases focus on integrated care efforts, the theoretical grounding of this work may have wider applications to help others explore whether COVID-19 responses may lead to sustainable change over time. This framework will be tested through in-depth prospective comparative case studies. 10. Reflecting the Clinical Gaze: Necropolitical Moments in a Pandemic Professor Joanne Travaglia and Dr Hamish Robertson, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, it became clear that health systems were not prepared to cope with the anticipated demand for acute services. Faced with the need to ration care, guidelines were issued by national bodies, and clinicians encouraged patients to exercise their right of control over their lives, and possible death. Yet unlike in previous crises, for example Hurricane Katrina in the USA, disquiet began to emerge early on. Examined through the lens of Mbembe’s 2003/2017 framework of necropolitics, the state’s right to decide who may live and who must die, these decisions and guidelines can be seen in a very different light. Across the world reports have emerged about the implications of health systems attempts at prioritising care. In most cases prioritisation favoured young, well and non-disabled bodies. The rationale was that such people had a better chance of surviving. Underpinning this argument was the belief that the fairest way to allocate limited health resources is to allocate them to people where they would not be ‘wasted’. This argument is seductive, not least of all because it reads as rational, impartial and objective. This approach belies the fact that it makes vulnerable individuals and groups even more vulnerable, reinforcing the inequities associated with the social determinants of health. Feminist bioethicists have argued that capitalist systems have a deep antipathy towards dependent people. As so few healthcare systems are resourced to the level of actual population health need, they are rife with implicit and explicit narratives about the need to ration resources. We know that access to healthcare is inequitable even without a pandemic because healthcare systems reflect our social structures and their associated inequalities. The consequences of a pandemic scenario for people whose lives are already precarious may be especially serious. Deep seated inequities are frequently exacerbated during emergency situations as in the case of COVID-19. In Britain, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s first release of COVID-19 critical care guidelines (later revised) disadvantaged patients with learning disabilities and autism. In Wales there were reports of care homes placing do not resuscitate (DNR) orders on the files of elderly patients without proper consultation. In Australia and elsewhere there were reports of General Practitioners ‘encouraging’ elderly patients to sign DNR orders so that they would not end up being ‘burdens’ on strained healthcare systems. While there may be no definitive answer to the question of who should survive, when it comes to choosing who will survive and who is likely to die, we need to consider how health systems and societies both historically and currently value and protect different patients. In this paper we will explore the risks to the vulnerable during times of crises, and the response to these risks during COVID19. We do this by focusing on the necropolitical dimensions of healthcare systems both in ‘business as usual’ and in crisis situations. 11. Covid-19 and the flexibility of bureaucracy Kirstine Zinck Pedersen and Paul du Gay, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Bureaucracy is commonly associated with a lack of the responsiveness, flexibility and innovative capability necessary for an organization to change rapidly when needed. However, with the Covid-19 crisis, we have seen large professional bureaucracies such as hospitals be able to change their organization, retrain their staff, establish new physical facilities, and introduce new guidelines, technologies and safety procedures with an astonishing speed. We have also seen ad hoc project teams, praised for their agility and innovative capacities, such as the Covid-19 crisis response team run by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner in the USA, fail abysmally to achieve any of their core tasks. While some might continue to suggest that flexibility is a product of de-bureaucratization, we argue the opposite in this paper. Based on interviews with Danish healthcare managers and clinicians, we show how rapid and flexible responses during the Covid 19 crisis were linked to classic bureaucratic features such as clear lines of command, visible hierarchies, formalization, authority based on expertise and office-holding, and a focus towards the duties, purposes and ethics of office as the driving mobilizing force in making the reorganizations happen. 12. The temporal dimensions of health technology adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic: revisiting innovation theory to consider implications for health services and research Jean Ledger, UCL, UK Traditionally, innovation theory has focused on variable adoption timescales. In Rogers’1 seminal and socially framed concept of diffusion, innovations take time to spread through communication channels and social networks. New ideas may be taken up more rapidly, but this is due to their specific attributes and the actions of dedicated ‘opinion leaders’ and innovation champions. During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, timescales have been drastically shortened across the board with the fast uptake of digital technologies by health care providers, such as online consultations in primary and secondary care, driven by the necessity of physical distancing and protecting vulnerable members of the public. A global pandemic has therefore created an atypical innovation adoption context resulting in radical shifts in health service delivery. Practical problems that require urgent remedy have temporarily displaced many of the implementation barriers to service innovation cited in the health and organisational literature, such as cultural or professional resistance and a lack of incentives. In this paper, we revisit Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory and recent service innovation frameworks2 in light of examples of digital health adoption in the UK, analysing how certain ‘high compatibility’ _digital health solutions have experienced an expedited rate of adoption. We suggest this is because, in the context of the pandemic, the combination of technological utility and user needs has created an ideal tipping point for digital tools to address system, organisational and professional problems. Of theoretical interest, the role of individual change agents, which is strongly emphasised in Rogers’ original theory, has arguably become less central during Covid-19 compared to collective decision making at organisational and national levels, cooperation, and dedicated resources to support staff. We reflect on the prospect that certain digital health solutions that are less complex and confer observable benefits to health professionals and patients are likely to be sustained longer term, opening up new digital care service models and shifting workflows. Finally, we consider implications for the health services research community and whether certain assumptions about the temporal dimensions of innovation adoption should be revisited. 13. What and whose science are the government following? The organisation of scientific advice to government in the COVID-19 response. Richard Gleave, Public Health England, UK “We are following the science” is one of the standard lines used by government ministers in explaining their policy decisions on the response to COVID-19. However both empirical studies and social theory have shown that science cannot be conceived as a single version of objective truth that enables unambiguous advice to be given to decision-makers that can then be universally implemented. The media and public discourse during the pandemic has exposed the contested nature of science and the associated challenge of evidence-based policy and practice (Bacevic 2020). In addition there has been an unprecedented spotlight on the scientists and the scientific organisations that provide this advice ((Winter 2020) (Elliot 2020)). This paper will combine empirical data from the auto-ethnographic contemporaneous data collection of a senior manager working for Public Health England with organisational and public policy theory to show that the organisation of the production of scientific advice has been a significant factor in making the key policy decisions and their implementation. It will focus on two crucial elements on the organisation of scientific advice to government - the organisation of knowledge about COVID-19 and the organisation of advice-giving. Firstly because advice is based on knowledge and because COVID-19 is a novel infection, the usual body of scientific research about the virus and the disease does not exist and so knowledge to inform policy and practice making is partial and emergent. Even though empirical studies question the extent to which policy can ever be evidence-based ((Boswell 2018; Oliver et al. 2014)), the lack of conventional scientific research on COVID-19 means that other sorts of knowledge have been privileged in the pandemic. Using theories and frameworks of evidence-based policy and practice ((Nutley, Walter, and Davies 2003; Smith 2013; Cairney 2016)), the alignment and tensions between epidemiological data, modelling, international comparative experience, expert opinion, story-telling and other sources of knowledge at crucial stages of the pandemic response will be explored. Secondly the advice is given by multiple actors. The landscape of advice-givers includes a panoply of formal advisers and advisory organisations and a range of informal channels largely from the individual scientific commentator but also with embryonic informal organisational entities forming (Vaughan 2020). SAGE, NERVTAG and PHE, Chris Whitty, Patrick Vallance and Neil Fergusson have visible identities in the media. The legitimacy of the advice and advice-giver leads to competition and collaboration between organisational and individual actors which will be analysed using the concept of the “field” as developed in neo-institutional theory ((Scott 1994), (Zietsma et al. 2017)) and by Bourdieu (Bourdieu 1993). Never before has the machinery of providing scientific advice been so directly in the spotlight and this paper will explore the wider organisational issues that arise from this focus within the response to a global pandemic. 14. Organisational learning and educational intervention in COVID-19 (Title check?) Paula Rowland – Wilson Center, University of Toronto Decisions to re-purpose and re-profile health services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have mobilized a watershed of educational and training needs for health care providers from a wide range of professions. In Ontario, Canada, this re-organisation proceeded through two phases in the early stages of the pandemic. The first reorganisation of work was in preparation for a surge of critically ill patients. This reorganisation created a collection of continuing education (CE) interventions, related to “upskilling” and “reskilling” a cascade of health care providers into successively more acute settings of care. When this surge did not manifest, it became apparent that long term care centres were enormously vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks. The CE apparatus shifted abruptly, now providing training for health care providers (and members of the Canadian Armed Forces) to provide care in these community-based settings. These two CE responses were rapidly mediated through a complex series of negotiations between health care organizations, educational institutes, professional associations, unions, professional regulatory bodies, and the provincial Ministry. Throughout this process, high stakes questions about knowledge, standards, governance, and jurisdiction were actively contested at a rapid pace. Tensions related to ethics, accountability, and responsibility manifested in the design, delivery and financial support of these CE interventions. Further, discrepancies between the power and privileges of the various professions, their governing relationships with health care organisations, and their status as “essential” to the COVID-19 effort were revealed. These contestations were largely in private (virtual) meetings, but also spilled over into public debates and documents shared more broadly on social media and organizational websites. In this chapter, we will use Abbott’s theorizing on systems of professions to sensitize our analysis of these educational responses to rapid re-organisation of care in one Canadian province. This will involve text analysis of publicly available documents within a single bounded case consisting of: an academic teaching hospital, affiliated educational institutions, the governing provincial ministry and various regulatory bodies and professional associations for the professions most implicated in the COVID-19 response (medicine, nursing, respiratory therapy, physiotherapy, and personal support workers). We will collect texts and statements related to requirements around CE, scopes of practice, accreditation of educational offerings, content of educational offerings, and assessment practices related to education. In these moments of crisis and rapid response, we argue that CE acts as a mediating intervention between the professions and their newly transformed worksites. Our focus on CE responses to re-organisations of care provides an analytical window into these larger system dynamics. Further, these negotiations are taking place in worksites and in the public sphere, both enormously consequential arenas for determining the legitimacy and jurisdictional domains for each of the professions. The ways these controversies have been understood, navigated, and temporarily resolved have implications for the future of health care professions. To that end, we aim to contribute to a broader theorization of the professions in health care, particularly related to changing conceptualizations of professionalism, the role of professions in society, and the relationships between professions and health service organizations. 15. Exploring professional and hierarchical modes of organizing and their effects on inter-entity coordination processes and operational effectiveness: the case of French public hospitals during the sanitary outbreak Olivier Saulpic and Philippe Zarlowski, ESCP Business School, France During the sanitary outbreak in France, media interviews of medical practitioners and further anecdotal evidence seem to indicate that operational processes in public hospitals have been reorganized quickly across medical services and departments. This has enabled hospitals to operate effectively in a transversal mode, while the administration teams have been placed in a supporting role, to facilitate patient management and care activity in the hospitals. If it were confirmed, the change in the internal governance of operations in French public hospitals, and its effects, would offer a stark contrast with the organization and performance of hospitals before the crisis. Since the implementation of the French DRG-system in France and the implementation of the “new governance” for public hospitals (2006-08), recurring questions have been raised about the efficacy and unintended, detrimental effects of these reforms. The reforms have instituted new accountability mechanisms in public hospitals. Notably, they have created medical divisions, headed by doctors who report to the administrative executive team of the hospital. At the same time, as the new DRG-system enables the calculation of operating incomes at the level entities within the hospital, the internal performance management and measurement systems (PMMS) have been focused on the achievement of economic targets set for each medical division in a hierarchical, management by objective mode of organizing. Research projects on the implementation of the new management system in public hospitals and its effects, together with reports commissioned by French public authorities have documented that the reform did not lead to the anticipated levels of transformation and effectiveness in operational processes and care pathways. On the contrary, analyses tend to indicate that the new PMMSs would not facilitate, or would even constrain, inter-division coordination. The new organization may facilitate the mutualization of resources and the coordination processes within a division. However, it may also focus actors’ attention on the local performance of their division, and the executive team of a division has few incentives, if any, to coordinate with other actors to improve the care pathways. Indeed, in the hierarchical accountability system, inter-divisional processes entail the complex negotiation of transfer prices and internal billings between divisions in a client-supplier mode. During the sanitary outbreak, financial constraints and the focus on economic performance objectives have been released and medical practitioners have been placed at the center of decision-making processes, introducing a temporary shift from a hierarchical medico-economic logic to a more professionally driven model. While the focus on a single, urgent priority can contribute to explain the improvement in the hospital’s’ operational efficiency during the outbreak, it remains interesting to explore the proposition that the change in the internal governance of hospitals has also contributed to their efficiency and facilitated the coordination between entities. We also wish to try to understand the conditions under which this change could be sustained. To that end, we plan to conduct interviews with doctors heading entities in three public hospitals in Paris. These interviews will aim to document examples of reorganization and new operating modes involving cooperation between entities, as well as the structures and decision-making processes that underpinned them. We also intend to analyze how they differ from the previous situation and whether this can contribute to account for the effectiveness of operations and inter-entity coordination during the time of the crisis, and to understand the conditions for their continuation beyond the crisis. Through our contacts in public hospitals in France, we have already secured that doctors heading medical entities which were at the center of patients’ pathways during the outbreak will agree to participate in interviews, before or during the summer. 16. Organisation behaviour for understanding and assisting healthcare response to covid 19 outbreak and beyond John Ovretveit, Director of Research, Professor of Health Improvement, Implementation and Evaluation, Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden From an organisations systems perspective the covid- 19 outbreak was not a single emergency event but an evolving process with an ”emergent response” as services adapted to daily changes in information, demand and supply of resources. This article reports methods and early findings from a rapid implementation active research project into the emergency response of stockholm healthcare to the pandemic. One set of findings were that three emergent responses with different organisation and systems were undertaken corresponding to the three timescales of illness demand: emergency, resurgence, and upsurge of chronic mental and physical health. These responses need to be managed separately to, but coordinated with, existing routine service operations. In dynamic situations the most effective type of response is an emergent data-driven iterative adaptive response. Implementation science discovers and applies strategies that are effective for implementing such responses and interventions for more effective clinical practice and service delivery. The article considers how to develop one stream of organisation behaviour research practice and theory to enable and evaluate responses to infectious disease outbreaks
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Post-COVID Economic Revival, Volume II: Sectors,
Book SynopsisThis two-volume book examines the most important global problem—the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This economic crisis has its own basis and differs from others by the lockdown of most businesses on the decision of authorities. The uncertainty of the future economic revival obliges scientists around the world to unite in search of effective solutions that will become the basis for prosperity and human wellbeing. The death of millions of people around the world, several waves of coronavirus, and a global pandemic have forced most states to seek extraordinary measures to save people and revive economic activity. The world economy experienced a global shock, probably never experienced before due to lockdowns. The disruptions and gaps in the value chains were primarily caused by the lockdowns of enterprises. The change in the essence of the economic crisis has raised the question of how to overcome it and revive economic activity. The crisis caused a sharp decline in incomes of the population around the world, which led to social upheavals. Post-COVID economic revival in a globalized world has become the most important problem of our time. This book offers contributions of authors from different countries and explores problem solving in the fields of public administration (Volume I, Part I), financial services (Volume I, Part II), different branches (Volume II, Part III) and the social sector (Volume II, Part IV). The second volume of the book is devoted problems in sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, tourism, aircraft, the automotive industry, electricity, culture, etc. The second part of the second volume examines trends in the revival in the social sector—medicine, pharmaceuticals, the labor market and social insurance. Despite the fact that the book is divided into two volumes and four parts, a holistic and systematic perception of the new reality of the post-COVID age can be obtained by reading the entire book. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in public administration and economics, particularly those who are interested in Post-COVID economic revival.Table of ContentsChapter 27: Post-COVID revival: economy and society.- Part III: Markets at Post-COVID Age.- Chapter 28: The National Technological Initiative of Russia Project Implementation as a Basis for the Development of Perspective Technological Markets and Industries in Russia.- Chapter 29: Opportunities and Prospects for Transition to Post-COVID Circular Economy.- Chapter 30: Disposal of Medical Waste in the COVID-19 and the post-COVID period.-Chapter 31: Pricing in the Context of Structural Modernization in Post-COVID Economy.- Chapter 32: The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture.- Chapter 33: Economic Mechanisms of Regulation of Innovative Industrial Technologies in the Post-COVID Age.- Chapter 34: Post-lockdown Flights: New Strategies for Civil Aircraft Manufacturers and Airlines.- Chapter 35: China's Electricity Market Reform in the Post-COVID Era.- Chapter 36: Creative Industries: a Review of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 37: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Housing and Construction Markets.- Chapter 38: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Automation of Planning and Operational Management of Organizational and Technical Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 39: The Changing Role of the Internal Audit of the Transport Facility in the Post-COVID Period.- Chapter 40: The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Automotive Industry.- Chapter 41: Tourism at the Post-COVID Age.- Part IV: Social Development at Post-COVID Age.- Chapter 42: Influence of COVID-19 on Healthcare System.- Chapter 43: Government Protection of Both Parties in the Operation of the Post-Epidemic Labor Market in China.- Chapter 44: Flexible Employment Development in Post-COVID Economic Revival.- Chapter 45: The Impact and Response of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Market in Post-Epidemic Era.- Chapter 46: The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Healthcare System in Poland.- Chapter 47: Back to the (Ab)normality: Eastern-European Labor Markets after Pandemic.- Chapter 48: Health Insurance Problems of Unknown Infections.- Chapter 49: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market in Poland.- Chapter 50: Analytical Review of the Market for COVID-19 Vaccines: Production, Cost, and Distribution.- Chapter 51: Judicial Institutions and Legal Services in the Post-COVID Period.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Service Design Practices for Healthcare
Book SynopsisThis book offers an overview of service design practices for healthcare and hospital management. It explores how these practices can help to generate innovations in healthcare and contribute to the improvement of patient-centered care. Respected experts, including scholars from various disciplines and practitioners from healthcare institutions, share essential insights into established research areas, fields of work and work structures, and discuss successful approaches, methods and tools. By illustrating innovative services, products, processes, systems, and technologies, as well as their application in practice, the authors highlight the role of participating stakeholders in service design projects and the added value that comes from sharing, communicating, networking and collaborating. This book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners in the hospital and healthcare sector. It will also appeal to anyone interested in organizational development, service business model innovation, customer involvement and perceptions, and service experience.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Service Design within a Multiplicity Logics in Healthcare.- Chapter 2: Service design for hybrid market constellations in healthcare - From VUCA 2 VUCAR.- Chapter 3: Towards a conceptual framework of hybrid strategies in healthcare: Co-alignment of market and non-market activities.- Chapter 4: When the patient innovates Emerging practices in service ecosystems.- Chapter 5: Negotiating Care through Tangible Tools and Tangible Service Designing in Emergent Public Health Service Ecosystems.- Chapter 6: A Speculation for the Future of Service Design in Healthcare: Looking through the Lens of a Speculative Service Design Framework.- Chapter 7: Crossing asymmetries in multistakeholder service design in integrated care.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Adolescent Mental Health in The Middle East and
Book SynopsisThis 2-volume set focuses on adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), and presents the latest research on the health risk behaviours and social behaviours that adolescents from the MENA region engage in. While there has been a surge in peer-reviewed research publications on population health in the MENA region in the last couple of decades, very few books offer a resource to address the diverse negative influences that disproportionately affect adolescents and children in the MENA region, including increased tobacco consumption culture, low emphasis on physical activity, increased sedentary behaviours, weak health policies, and societal issues related to displacement and political conflicts. These books offer a synthesis of current knowledge on adolescent health issues in the MENA region, and aim to provide evidence-informed adolescent health care practices that address current issues related to mental, physical, reproductive and nutritional health. Volume 1 focuses on mental health in the MENA region, the development and implementation of youth friendly public policies, and how to strategize in the age of COVID-19. The study will aid health care professionals, policy makers, government organizations and health program planners to assess current policies and practices related to adolescent health in the MENA region, and to identify the best courses of action moving forward. Table of Contents1-Adolescent Mental Health in the MENA Region and the link with Policy and Programming.- 2-There is no Health Without Mental Health: The Middle East and North Africa.- 3-A Silent Epidemic of Depression among Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Emerging Tribulation.- 4-Understanding mental illness stigma in Arab youths’ everyday lives.- 5-Developing and Implementing Youth Friendly Public Policies: A perspective into the Arab Region.- 6-Adolescent health in Saudi Arabia: Policy dimensions.- 7-Health Policies of Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How Do We Strategize in the Age COVID-19?.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Practical Strategies to Assess Value in Health
Book SynopsisThese days, the idea of “value” is at the center of many activities and decisions in health care in the United States. While there exist books that detail the technical steps for how to carry out a specific type of value assessment, such as cost-effectiveness or return on investment, there are few that attempt to teach healthcare professionals how to think about value. This book provides a deeper understanding of value as a concept as well as an endeavor (as in, to determine or uncover the value of care) within the healthcare industry by illustrating the different components of value that should guide decision-making processes for policy, infrastructure, and quality improvement. Through an exploration of theories of economics and implementation science, as well as practical suggestions for real-world applications, this text provides a foundation for the long and complicated “value” journey the US has bet its entire healthcare system on. In the US, policy to promote what is referred to as “value-based care” is here to stay. As we move forward within this construct, we need to move beyond the over-simplified definition of value as “quality per dollar spent” to a more functional framework for how to think about value that can adapt to different circumstances and points of view. Only then will it be possible to compare value across settings, conditions, and activities.The book consists of 9 chapters organized in four sections: Part I: Understanding the Challenges of Assessing the Value of Health Care Part II: A Primer on Fundamental Concepts and Current Techniques Used to Measure Value in Health Care Part III: A Discussion of the Real-world Motivations and Requirements that Should be Contemplated when Exploring Value Part IV: How to Design and Perform a Value Assessment Practical Strategies to Assess Value in Health Care is an essential resource for healthcare professionals at all levels and points of care who are interested in understanding how best to assess and interpret value for a particular situation including providers, administrators, payers, insurers, health plans, and policy-makers.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. Part I: Understanding the Challenges of Assessing the Value of Health Care Chapter 2. Challenge One: Complexity. Chapter 3. Challenge Two: Continuity. Chapter 4. Challenge Three: Lack of Consistency. Part II: A Primer on Fundamental Concepts and Current Techniques Used to Measure Value in Health Care Chapter 5. Key Economic Concepts and Their Implications. Chapter 6. Current Methods of Value Assessments. Part III: A Discussion of the Real-world Motivations and Requirements that Should be Contemplated when Exploring Value. Chapter 7. Practical and Human Considerations. Part IV How to Design and Perform a Value Assessment Chapter 8. The Value Assessment Framework. Chapter 9. Examples and Practical Suggestions
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Springer International Publishing AG The COVID-19 Crisis and Entrepreneurship:
Book Synopsis2020 introduced a global pandemic that led to global economic, social, and regional lockdowns affecting public life in ways never been imagined before. This book takes a look at how researchers from fields encompassing economics and political science, along with thought leaders in business and economic policy, experienced the crises themselves as experts in their field, as well as from a personal viewpoint. Most importantly, however, it looks into the future how entrepreneurship and economic policies may change and positively influence the societies and the economy after the pandemic. Keeping in mind that, with climate change and the digital revolution, change was already around the corner and inevitable, renowned economic and policy experts are asked for their assessment of future roads and feasible economic policies. The book follows the chronology of the pandemic and focuses on leading researchers and thought leaders in public policy and business. An introduction to each chapter describes the context particular to the contributing author when the pandemic struck and their own reactions, experiences, and insights triggered by the emerging pandemic. Table of ContentsThe Journey: Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis.- Part I: The Future is Risky and Entrepreneurial.- Resilience Is the New Competitive.- Depths of Change: Ranging from Clubhouse to Game Changer.- Oxygenating Innovation? The Not-So-Brave New World of COVID-19?.- Part II: Economies Under Pressure: Challenges for the Future After the COVID-19 Crisis.- COVID-19, Schumpeter, and the Size of the Market.- COVID-19 Crisis: Modernization Push at the Macroeconomic and Firm Level, Providing for Not So Disparate Opportunities and Challenges for Majors and Start-Ups.- Entrepreneurship and Economic Resilience in Times of Crisis: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Business Angel Investing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Part III: Reflecting on the Future of Entrepreneurship Research: Diversity and Impact After the COVID-19 Crisis.- Dreaming of a Different Future.- Editorial Quandaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Personal Exposé.- Part IV: Acting Under Uncertainty: Personal Perspectives from Sweden, Egypt and Germany.- My Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic So Far.- “Hibernating” in Cairo: COVID-19, as seen from Egypt.- COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: The Era of Connection and Creation.- Part V: The Educational Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship: Moving the Digital Way Forward After the COVID-19 Crisis.- Entrepreneurial Intention of Dutch Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are Today’s Students Still Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs?.- COVID-19: Entrepreneurial Universities and Academic Entrepreneurship.- Internationalization Meets Digitalization: Entrepreneurial Responses in Higher Education to the COVID-19 Pandemic.- The Silver Lining for Pandemic-Era International Education.- The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Catalyst for Digital Entrepreneurship Education: Reflections on a Rapid Transformation of an Educational Ecosystem.
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Springer International Publishing AG How Can we Use Simulation to Improve Competencies
Book SynopsisThis open access book offers an overview of theories related to simulation and describes different simulation areas within nursing. It illustrates how simulation may be used in different levels in professional education. The book deals with the role of the Simulation Facilitator, peer learning and the use of Virtual Reality in simulation. It provides new insights and paths to the development of the use of simulation within nursing and healthcare and contributes with new knowledge from research and experiences of implementation of different simulating scenarios within nursing and midwifery. It is intended to teachers in nursing and other healthcare professionals with an interest in the use of active learning methods. Table of Contents• Chapter 1Simulation: A historical and pedagogical perspective• Chapter 2How to use simulation as a learning method in bachelor and postgraduate/master education of nurses? (Iben Akselbo, Ingvild Aune)• Chapter 3Facilitating learning activities in postgraduate and master in oncology nursing (Svein Inge Molnes)This chapter deals with the oncology nursing students’ needs of training in seeing the complex situation for the cancer patient. When the patient's situation worsens it is important to act and communicate appropriate with the patient and relatives.• Chapter 4Simulating preoperative preparations with focus on non-technical skills in an OR nursing education program in Norway (Kjersti Natvig Antonsen and Janne Kristin Hofstad).Few studies have identified the non-technical skills of the operating room nurse. Simulation prepares the nurses for complex surgical teamwork in clinical practice. This book-chapter presents a practical guide to simulation with an emphasis on the roles of the operating room nurses and interactions within the team.• Chapter 5 Training Interprofessional Teamwork in Palliative Care: A Pilot study of Online Simulation Activity for Registered Nurses and Nursing Associates (Astrid Rønsen, Randi Beate Tosterud).Successful interdisciplinary teamwork is essential in Palliative Care to achieve quality in patient care. Simulation is usually conduced with participants physically present but because of the COVID 19 pandemic situation, this was not possible. In this chapter we present how the students and facilitators perceived and experienced this transformation to online simulation. • Chapter 6The use of Critical Response Process as a debriefing structure in simulation activity in nursing education (Randi Tosterud, Jon Viktor Haugom). In the use of simulation as a learning approach, the debriefing phase is considered as crucial to achieve learning. In debriefing the participants reflect and discuss what happened in the scenario. Feedback is an important factor, and research show that there must be certain conditions present to achieve learning from feedback. The Simulating Facilitator and the structure used have impact on these conditions. In this chapter we will present a new structure for debriefing in medical simulation and a study focusing how the structure affects the Simulating Facilitator role.• Chapter 7 Learning without a teacher: perceptions of peer-to-peer learning activities in simulation training (Lise Degn, Hanne Selberg, Anne-Lene Rye Marcussen)This chapter reports from a pilot study carried out at Copenhagen University College. In the pilot, 5th semester nursing students were subjected to an intensified simulation intervention, combined with other supporting elements designed to increase collaborative and peer learning. One of the supporting elements was a series of peer-to-peer sessions, where students in small groups trained practical skills for mastery learning. In the chapter, we describe the study and analyze how the students perceive strengths and weaknesses of the peer-to-peer format, and how these perceptions seem to be linked to the students’ perceptions of learning and authority. We discuss how the method may work as a positive addition to simulation training in nursing education and particularly how it contributes to the students’ development of professional identity. • Chapter 8Train the trainer course How can the skills of a facilitator benefit academic staff in nursing and other health education programmes. (Ulrika Eriksson and Astrid Kilvk) As part of the learning process within simulations, the possibilities of feedback are stated as an essential part of promoting learning. Central to this facilitation of learning is the individual Simulation Facilitator. In this chapter, we will take a closer look at what a Simulation Facilitator course is, what distinguishes a facilitator from a teacher, the importance of a common language and framework and what side effects the Simulator Facilitator competence can have for teachers in academia. • Chapter 9Playful learning with VR- SIMI model- the use of 360-degree video as a learning tool for nursing students in a psychiatric simulation setting (Siri Haugan, Eivind Kværnø, Johnny Sandaker, Jonas Langset Hustad;Gunnar Orn Thordarson)By looking for new fields of visibility, educational institutions can elevate students' perspective and activation so that learning is formed. The potential of 360 video / VR gives the teacher flexibility to create systematic experiential learning, and create emotional learning in collaboration with students. This chapter will provide knowledge about the practical use of 360 video / VR, as well as provide insight into technical potential and challenges. Background on why this method is suitable for promoting nursing students' competence in mental health work will be presented. The chapter's function is to give an introduction and inspire to turn 360 / VR in professional education, especially with a focus on nursing education.• Chapter 10Virtual Reality (VR) in anatomy teaching and learning in higher healthcare education (Katrine Aasekjær, Beate Eltarvåg Gjesdal, Ivar Rosenberg, Lars Peder Vatshelle Bovim, )The chapter will provide knowledge about Virtual Reality, what this is and how VR is used in teaching and learning anatomy using goggles. Definition and knowledge about VR in education will be followed by an explanation of our pedagogical thinking and decision-making when implementing VR as a digital learning resource in the midwifery and radiography program. The chapter will end with an instruction in how to implement VR in healthcare education using examples and experience from our own planning, implementation and use of VR, from both teachers and students’ perspectivesContributors's bio:Ulrika Eriksson, Assistant Professor, emergency nurse and Director for Unit for Healthcare Simulation, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Her research and teaching areas are simulation, traumatology, adult learning, non- technical skills and crises resource management. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. She is an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses Astrid Kilvik, Assistant professor, research librarian at the medicine and health library at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. She has responsibility for the library service for the nursing education at the university. From the term beginning 2021 Astrid Kilvik is elected as a member of the Executive Board of EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries). She has been a board member of SMH (Norwegian Library Association, Section for Medicine and Health) for many years. Hanne Karlsaune, Assistant professor at the bachelor’s in nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. Therese Antonsen, Assistant professor at the bachelor’s in nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. Katrine Aasekjær, Associated professor and midwife at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. She is responsible for the simulation and skill training course at the master programme in midwifery and uses virtual reality in teaching anatomy at the programme. Aasekjær`s research involves developing and use of digital resources in education, focusing on active and collaborative learning. Lars Peder Vatshelle Bovim, Assistant professor and a physiotherapist at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. He is a project manager for virtual reality training room. He has wide experience and competencies in using virtual reality in both teaching and patient follow-up. His research is related to the use of VR in both teaching and patient treatment. Ivar Rosenberg, Project leader at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. He is responsible for the digital training and follow-up of the teaching staff at the faculty of Health and Social Science. He has extensive competencies in digital learning and developing digital learning resources in higher education. Beate Eltarvåg Gjesdal, Assistant professor and PhD student at the Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen, Norway. In her PhD thesis she uses VR technology monitoring people with cerebral palsy and their walking function. Gjesdal is also a teacher at her department, using VR in teaching anatomy to students at the radiographic bachelor programme. Randi Tosterud, Associate Professor and intensive care nurse at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway. Her doctoral thesis focuses on simulation used as a learning approach in nursing education. Her research interest is development of simulation as a learning approach, especially focusing the debriefing phase and how to facilitate for learner centered and active learning. She has participated in building and developing Centre for Simulation and Patient Safety at NTNU, Gjøvik. She is a Simulation Facilitator and has completed the Advanced TeamSTEPPS® Course (NY, USA). She is an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses Jon Viktor Haugom, Assistant professor and intensive care nurse at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Gjøvik, Norway. As a member of the Simulation team at “Center for simulation and patient safety” NTNU Gjøvik, Haugom has worked as a Simulation Facilitator and Operations Specialist, as well as an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses. Astrid Rønsen, Assosiated professor and programme leader in Interdisciplinary Palliative Care for post graduate students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway. She uses simulation as a learning approach in different settings for raising awareness in Interdisciplinary teamwork, communications skills, and relational ethics. At NTNU she is a part of a research group in Education quality. Sven Inge Molnes, Associate professor and programme leader for the postgraduate education in oncolgy nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Ålesund. Areas of expertise and research are subject development at the individual and system level, prehospital, palliative care, spiritual care, pedagogy and mentoring, simulation, quality in education, interprofessional collaboration and welfare technology. He has published several scientific papers about simulation. Kjersti Natvig Antonsen, Assistant professor and operating room nurse at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. She is a course coordinator and lecturer at the postgraduate program in operating room nursing, specialization in surgical nursing and surgery, medical and natural sciences. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. Janne Kristin Hofstad, Assistant professor and operating room nurse at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. She is a course coordinator and lecturer at the postgraduate program in operating room nursing, specialization in surgical nursing and surgery, medical and natural Sciences. She is a member of PAFFA research group: Pain and Function after Fast track Arthroplasty at the department of orthopaedic surgery, Trondheim university hospital. Her research area is postoperative pain treatment. She is a Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. Siri Haugan, Assistant professor and RN nurse at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. She teaches and supervises students in the fields of mental health, substance abuse and addiction disorders, as well as sociological perspectives on illness and health. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. Eivind Kværnø, intensive care nurse and employed as a Simulation technician at the Simulation Unit, NTNU, Trondheim. He is responsible for running simulations for all studies at the faculty of Nursing. The last 2 years he has been looking at how VR (virtual reality) can be used as a supplement to traditional simulation. He has an interest in how nurses work and learn together in teams, especially in the critical care setting. He is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation; NTNU. Johnny Sandaker, psychiatric nurse, and head of Center for Simulation and Innovation at Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway. He is a Simulation Facilitator and leads and participates in several VR-projects in collaboration with industry and other hospitals. He is currently an associate member of a VR-research group at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Jonas Langset Hustad, Assistant professor and Senior Executive Officer at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, NTNU. He creates educational media in close collaboration with educators. He completed his Master’s in Film and Video Production, and was the Chief Executive Officer of Brillefilm, a film company specializing in science communication. Lise Degn, Associate Professor in Higher Education Policy at The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her work focuses on higher education quality, research and higher education policy and governance. She is currently co-leader of the PIQUED project (Pathways to Quality in Higher Education) and has published in journals such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, International Journal of Academic Development etc. Hanne Selberg, RN, Assistant professor and simulation project manager at the Department of Nursing and Nutrition, University College Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a Simulation Facilitator and has both nationally and internationally been giving presentations on simulation-based training and presented results of projects related to simulation-based teaching. She is co-author on several project reports on simulation and chapters in books on simulation pedagogy. Anne-Lene Rye Markussen, RN, Assistant professor at the department of Nursing and Nutrition, University College Copenhagen, Denmark. She teaches oncology nursing, palliative care and simulation in the nursing education with focus on acute and critical care. She has responsibilities in relation to simulation across the nursing education at the university. She is a Simulation Facilitator and has participated in the planning and intervention part of the PIQUED project.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Healthcare Value Chain: Demystifying the Role
Book SynopsisThis volume analyzes group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in order to better understand the significant roles that these entities play in the healthcare supply chain. It examines who they contract with, on what terms, and who they represent and answer to while charting their historical development. The analysis reveals that the current roles of both players have historical roots that explain why they behave the way they do. Finally, the book reviews the evidence base on the performance results of these two players. This work fills a void in our understanding about two important and controversial players in the healthcare value chain. Both organizations are cloaked in secrecy — partly by virtue of the private sector contracts they negotiate, partly by virtue of the lack of academic attention. Both play potentially important roles in controlling healthcare costs, albeit using contracting strategies and reimbursement mechanisms that arouse suspicion among stakeholders. This timely text explicates how these organizations arose and evolved to shed more light on how they really operate. Trade Review“Throughout the book, Burns does a nice job ... summaries which still apply today. ... this is an impressive text that will guide readers through the evolution of these two critically important but often under-recognized industries.” (Kevin A. Schulman, Health Affairs, healthaffairs.org, December 1, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to the value chaina) What is a value chainb) How does a value chain workc) Value chains versus supply chainsd) Issues with the term “value”e) Balancing cost, quality, and access to innovative products Chapter 2 Introduction to the intermediaries in the healthcare value chaina) Number and range of intermediariesb) MCOs, PBMs, GPOs, wholesalersc) Nagging questions about value added by intermediariesd) Continuing calls and efforts to “dis-intermediate” the intermediaries Chapter 3 Overview of GPOsa) What are GPOsb) Types of GPOs in healthcarec) Goals of GPOsd) Confusing GPOs and IDNs (integrated delivery networks) Chapter 4 History of GPOs (co-authored with David Cassak)a) Early history of groups: 1910-1950sb) Rise of local shared service organizations: 1960s-1970sc) Emergence of contract complianced) Emergence of product portfoliose) Rise of national and regional groups: 1970s-1980sf) Desperately seeking compliance: 1980s-1990sg) Dealing with healthcare reform, capitation, and managed care: 1990sh) Competitive threat posed by IDNs: 1990si) Competitive threat posed by Columbia/HCAj) Group mergers: 1990sk) Aftermath: Consolidated vendors, consolidated buyersl) Value and performance challenges in the new millenniumm) Senate hearings overviewn) Group mergers in the new millenniumo) Growing threat of regional GPOs Chapter 5 Performance of GPOsa) GPO operations and strategyb) Hospital pricesc) Value of group purchasingd) GPO feese) GPO contracting practicesf) GPO customer service and satisfactiong) GPO clinical review processesh) GPO oversight, codes of conduct, and self-regulationi) GPO competition: national and regional Chapter 6 Analysis of Specific GPO Issuesa) Price transparencyb) Exclusionary agreementsc) New market entry and access to innovative technologyd) Differentiation versus commodification of GPOse) Drug shortages Chapter 7 Overview of PBMsa) What are PBMsb) Goals of PBMsc) Range of PBM functions & services to employers/insurersd) Types of PBMs in healthcaree) PBM business modelsf) Types of formularies and feesg) Relationship between MCOs and PBMsh) Direct versus indirect contracting for PBM services by employersi) Growth of PBMs tied to rise of outpatient care and IPAs Chapter 8 History of PBMsa) Early PBMs (PCS, Medco) and claims administration: 1960s-1970sb) Early PBMs (DPS, Pharmacy Gold) as pharmacy departments in staff model HMOsc) Online claims processing and efficient benefits administration: 1980sd) Role of HMOs and PBMs as countervailing power to Big Pharma: 1980se) Rise of mail-order pharmacies: 1980sf) Shift to include cost and clinical controls in 1990s (e.g., tiers)g) Vertical pharma-PBM mergers in early 1990sh) Regulatory and government scrutiny of PBM mergersi) New PBM functions in formulary design, DUR, & disease managementj) Growth of PBM covered lives & growth in pharmaceutical benefits by employersk) Vertical mergers of PBMs with retail pharmacies (Rite Aid-PCS; CVS-Caremark): 1990s and 2000sl) Horizontal consolidation of PBMs (ESI-Medco) in the new millenniumm) Government scrutiny of PBMs as possible source of high drug costsn) PBMs and pay-for-performance models Chapter 9 Performance of PBMsa) Issues in measuring PBM performanceb) Market share trends: script volumes and covered livesc) Prescription drug management indicatorsd) Impact of GPO rebates on Medicare Part D premiumse) Rise in formulary exclusionsf) Trends in out-of-pocket drug spendingg) Trends in employers’ receipt of PBM rebatesh) Trends in percentage change in list and net drug pricesi) Trends and sources of rising PBM profits Chapter 10 Analysis of Specific PBM Issuesa) Uneasy relationship between PBMs and Big Pharmab) Rising drug pricesc) Lack of transparencyd) Insourcing versus outsourcing the PBM functione) Competition for PBM contractsf) Role of PBMs in opioid epidemic
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Springer International Publishing AG Healthcare Operations Management: A Holistic Care
Book SynopsisAddressing the entire care chain, this book presents the outcomes of advanced research on healthcare operations management based on real-world data and practices in China. It includes hands-on methods and applications in this interdisciplinary research field, which combines healthcare service, operations management, industrial engineering and information technology.The content is divided into three parts, reflecting the entire care chain. The first part discusses the pre-hospital service stage and explores resource deployment problems in emergency medical service, such as ambulance allocation. The second part focuses on inpatient care services, including staffing and task allocation among nurses and doctors based on multi-project management under uncertainties. In addition, a highly promising diagnosis approach is proposed and a specific algorithm is derived on the basis of real-world datasets which can improve the diagnosis accuracy remarkably. In turn, the third part considers the post-hospital service stage, which most often takes place at community hospitals, and provides a quantitative evaluation and optimization of scheduling for tasks and team members for home care services.The book is intended for a broad audience, including students, researchers and practitioners working in various areas of healthcare management, service management, and operations management.Table of Contents1. Introduction to the Healthcare Operations Management.- 2. Research on the Optimal Deployment of First Aid Stations and Ambulances Considering the Temporal and Spatial Stochasticity of Demand.- 3. Improving Diagnostic Accuracy Based on Multiple Cutoff Levels of Multiple Tumour Markers.- 4. Robust Optimisation for Multiple Medical Service Project Scheduling Considering the Uncertainty of Activity Durations and Resource Allocation.- 5. Study on Home Care Scheduling with Considerations of the Patient Satisfaction and Operation Costs.
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Springer International Publishing AG Leadership and Management in Healthcare: A Guide for Medical and Dental Practitioners
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive guide to leadership in healthcare and the management of complex clinical scenarios in the medical or dental practice. Training in leadership and hospital management is not part of the curriculum and so guidance is often not provided in depth.This book outlines strategies for dealing with the management problems that arise in the healthcare profession, and it prepares the reader for interviews, examinations and the supervision of a team. It opens with an overview of the NHS, its evidence-based practice and healthcare regulations. Subsequent chapters discuss data protection, management of new business cases, formal complaints and inappropriate use of social media. Information is provided on the recruitment of new junior trainees, the management of underperforming allied health professionals, and the handling of injuries sustained at work. This book is ideal for final-year medical and dental undergraduate students, foundation year doctors, core trainees, junior and senior specialists and newly-appointed consultants.Table of ContentsPart 1: The management, structure and function of the Na-tional Health Service.- 1. The structure of the NHS in England.- 2. Quality, efficiency and value in the NHS.- 3. Evidence-based practice in the NHS.- 4. Healthcare Regulation in the United Kingdom.- 5. Staffing in the NHS.- 6. Ethical practice and Medico-legal themes in the NHS.- 7. Clinical effectiveness and clinical audit.- 8. Trainee performance and assessment in the NHS.- 9. Clinical risk management in the NHS.- 10. Data protection and freedom of information.- . Part B:Management scenarios.- 11. Management of an underperforming allied health professional.- 12. Management of an injury sustained at work.- 13. Management of clinical incidents at work.- 14. Justifying existing levels of care.- 15. Management of a suspected victim of physical abuse.- 16. Management of a breach of data confidentiality.- 17. Management of a formal complaint.- 18. Management of a contaminated needlestick injury.- 19. Management of staff with repeated episodes of absenteeism.- 20. Management of a new business case.- 21. Management of a conflict between personal and work confidential information.- 22. Management of a non-compliant trainee.- 23. Management of recruiting new junior trainees.- 24. Management of suspected fraud in your department.- 25. Management of violence and aggression at work.- 26. Management of Health Tourism in your department.- 27. Management of colleagues affected by stress at work.- 28. Management of inappropriate use of social media.- 29. Appendix 1.- 30. List of commonly asked Acts and Legislations.- 31. Appendix 2.- 32. Appendix 3.
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