Health Policy and Economics
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Contingent Valuation
Richard T. Carson
‘For those of us who have been involved in willingness to pay studies for some time, Contingent Valuation is a fascinating read, tracking the early development of the method and debates around it from an insider’s perspective. As someone...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Maternal Employment and Child Health
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
As women’s labor force participation has risen around the globe, scholarly and policy discourse on the ramifications of this employment growth has intensified. This book explores the links between maternal employment and child health usi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Research on Cost–Benefit Analysis
Robert J. Brent
‘This is a very nice and very useful set of articles on cost–benefit applications. The book will be particularly useful for students but also for professionals interested in keeping up with the state of applied work. I will use some of t... -
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The Economics of Sport, Health and Happiness
Edited by Plácido Rodríguez , Stefan Késenne, Brad R. Humphreys
‘The reading of the book is stimulating and equally informative; engaging in sport activities appear to really matter for overall labour productivity market outcomes and the readers are told, individual life satisfaction is reportedly th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Welfare States and Public Opinion
Claus Wendt, Monika Mischke, Michaela Pfeifer
‘. . . 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 wid...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Reforming Healthcare Systems
Edited by Theodore Marmor, Claus Wendt
‘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 app... -
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Innovation and Health
Thomas Grebel
‘In this thought provoking and insightful book, Thomas Grebel provides the contours of a novel theoretical framework allowing us to cope with the complex nature of the creation, diffusion and normative direction of innovations in the hea... -
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Democratizing Health
Edited by Hans Löfgren, Evelyne de Leeuw, Michael Leahy
This book examines the important role of consumer activism in health policy in different national contexts.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions
Robert J. Brent
‘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 m...eBook:Find out more$33.60
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Obesity and the Economics of Prevention
Franco Sassi
‘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 t... -
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Innovation and Commercialisation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Bruce Rasmussen
‘The processes of discovery, testing and distribution of new medicines have undergone radical change in recent decades, from a focus on small molecule drugs to biomedicine and related technologies. Bruce Rasmussen very effectively draws ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration and the Globalisation of Health Care
John Connell
‘. . . 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 ...eBook:Find out more$40.00