wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Smoking Puzzle
ISBN: 9780674010390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their longevity and future health if they quit later in life. Older adults' decisions to quit smoking require personal experience with the serious health impacts associated with smoking. Smokers over fifty revise their risk perceptions only after experiencing a major health shock--such as a heart attack. But less serious symptoms, such as shortness... How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book c... |
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443,11 |
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Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies
ISBN: 9780521576468 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is about the cost effectiveness of present and future medical technologies. Methods of analyzing cost effectiveness are described in terms of choices that take into consideration dollar values of treatment, quality of life and the rationale for deciding who should receive treatment in situations of rationed care. Essays in the book range from lay level to technical state of the art, making the book of interest to a wide variety of readers.
This book is about the cost effectiveness of present and future medical technologies. Methods of analyzing cost effectiveness are described in terms o...
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205,77 |
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Pharmaceutical Innovation
ISBN: 9780521874908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The pharmaceutical industry worldwide is a rapidly burgeoning industry contributing to growth of gross domestic product and employment. Technological change in this field has been very rapid, with many new products being introduced. For this reason in part, health care budgets throughout the world have increased dramatically, eliciting growing pressures for cost containment. This book explores four important issues in pharmaceutical innovations: (1) the industry structure of pharmaceutical innovation; (2) incentives for correcting market failures in allocating resources for research and...
The pharmaceutical industry worldwide is a rapidly burgeoning industry contributing to growth of gross domestic product and employment. Technological ...
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266,13 |
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Long-Term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions
ISBN: 9781461368342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to lead to a higher proportion of old and very old people in the global population. As a result, an increased proportion of global income will be devoted to LTC services. With this in mind, Long-term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions aims to address the following important objectives:
Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to lead to a higher proportion ...
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883,53 |
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Medical Malpractice
ISBN: 9780262515160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Most experts would agree that the current medical malpractice system in the United States does not work effectively either to compensate victims fairly or prevent injuries caused by medical errors. Policy responses to a series of medical malpractice crises have not resulted in effective reform and have not altered the fundamental incentives of the stakeholders. In Medical Malpractice, economist Frank Sloan and lawyer Lindsey Chepke examine the U.S. medical malpractice process from legal, medical, economic, and insurance perspectives, analyze past efforts at reform, and offer realistic,... Most experts would agree that the current medical malpractice system in the United States does not work effectively either to compensate victims fa... |
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167,27 |
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Long-Term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions
ISBN: 9780792398240 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to lead to a higher proportion of old and very old people in the global population. As a result, an increased proportion of global income will be devoted to LTC services. With this in mind, Long-term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions aims to address the following important objectives:
Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to lead to a higher proportion ...
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883,53 |
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Drinkers, Drivers, and Bartenders: Balancing Private Choices and Public Accountability
ISBN: 9780226762807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. According to the United States Public Health Service, over 100,000 deaths a year are attributable to alcohol, including 20,000 highway fatalities. In response, legislatures have enacted various forms of regulation intended both to reduce alcohol consumption and to curb its harmful effects. This groundbreaking study focuses on one such form of regulation, the liability imposed on alcohol servers and social hosts by tort law. Basing their analysis on important new data from their extensive research and in-depth interviews with actors on all sides of the issue, the authors conclude that, despite...
According to the United States Public Health Service, over 100,000 deaths a year are attributable to alcohol, including 20,000 highway fatalities. In ...
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412,44 |
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Insuring Medical Malpractice
ISBN: 9780195069594 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The cost of malpractice insurance to physicians has been increasing in recent years, as has the threat to physicians of being sued. This book describes and analyzes the workings of the market for physicians' liability insurance. The authors use their own data and other sources to study questions such as: Is the market for medical malpractice insurance competitive? Has the profitability of medical malpractice insurance been excessive? Why do malpractice insurers demand reinsurance? What effect has insurance regulation had on premiums? And it explores what experience rating is and how it is...
The cost of malpractice insurance to physicians has been increasing in recent years, as has the threat to physicians of being sued. This book describe...
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632,70 |