By Jacek Klich
August 01, 2024
Human enhancement (HE) is considered one of the most profoundly impactful effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This book presents the definition, theory, scope, and main challenges of HE from a health policy and healthcare systems perspective. It offers a comprehensive view of the ...
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
July 19, 2024
The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector is certain to boost levels of automation and productivity but paradoxically, it will also increase the availability of ‘first line competence’. At the same time as demographic trends are affecting demand for health and social ...
Edited
By Marek Ćwiklicki, Mariusz Duplaga, Jacek Klich
September 25, 2023
Health 4.0 is a term that has derived from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), as it pertains to the healthcare industry. This book offers a novel, concise, but at the same time, broad picture of the challenges that the technological revolution has created for the healthcare system. It...
By Neil McHugh, Olga Biosca, Cam Donaldson
September 08, 2023
Health systems across the world face multiple pressures. Input costs are soaring, systems are struggling to keep up with increasing demand for their services and areas of the world still lack universal health coverage. All of this whilst health inequalities between the best and worst-off within ...
By Songül Çınaroğlu
May 06, 2022
Ensuring equity in healthcare is the main concern of health policymakers in order to provide a sustainable health system. This concern is more prominent in developing countries due to the scarcity of resources. This book provides a comprehensive analysis and discussion on the distributive pattern ...
By Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
June 13, 2019
Steep socioeconomic hierarchy in post-industrial Western society threatens public health because of the physiological consequences of material and psychosocial insecurities and deprivations. Following on from their previous books, the authors continue their exploration of the geography of early ...
Edited
By Davide Consoli, Andrea Mina, Richard R. Nelson, Ronnie Ramlogan
October 21, 2015
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why...
By Deborah Johnston
February 27, 2015
Economics has largely failed to provide useful insights on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The inability of a dominant branch of social science to assist in understanding an illness with significant social, economic and emotional effects is a serious failing in its own right. Moreover, the inadequacy in its...
Edited
By Bjorn Lindgren
March 31, 2014
Although economics is a relative newcomer to research into the determinants of good health, its significance should not be under-estimated. This book poses the important question of whether economic theory can be developed to explain why people engage in activities that are obviously a danger to ...
By Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit
September 25, 2012
In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policy-makers and researchers....
By Domenico Esposito
July 11, 2012
Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the health sector over recent years. The exact nature and use of copayments by health care insurers continues to be hot topic of debate. ...
By Padmashree Gehl Sampath
December 01, 2010
Reconfiguring Global Health Innovation presents the findings of multi-year research, contrasting experiences of different latecomer countries in building health innovation systems to cater to local needs. It analyses the emerging industrial structures in health innovation as more and more latecomer...