The Problem of Health Technology

ISBN-13: 9780415953481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 304 str.

Pascale Lehoux; Lehoux Lehoux

Opis

The author brings a fresh perspective on the use and dissemination of health technology by examining what technology does and what humans expect out of it.

Spis treści

1: Health Technology Assessment: Promises and Pitfalls; 2: What Do Technologies Do?; 3: What Do Humans Want and for Whom?; 4: Reconciling Competing Objectives; 5: An Alternative Framework; 6: Conclusion: Toward Better Innovations

O autorze

Pascale Lehoux is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration at the University of Montreal. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Toronto, and she holds a Canada Research Chair on Innovations in Health.