Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Health Policy

This volume demonstrates how incentives can improve the delivery and use of health services in low- and middle-income countries. The authors describe the rationale for introducing incentives tied to achievement of specific health-related targets, and they provide clear guidance about designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that provide incentives to health care providers and patients. A set of case studies focuses on recent uses of incentives addressing a range of health conditions in diverse countries. In particular, these studies emphasize how explicit incentives can be used to...

Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health aspect of the epidemic, and financial commitments become subject to aid fatigue.

This book examines the roles and influence of multiple actors and initiatives that have come to constitute the global response to the epidemic. It considers how these actors and structures of governance...

Once focusing solely on reproduction and reproductive matters, the study of women's health has expanded to include cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and osteoporosis. The United States has established an office dedicated to researching women's health issues, and the Women's Health Initiative has begun collecting data on the prevention of diseases common among women. Yet the health care issues affecting diverse groups of women have remained underfunded and understudied.

Diversity and Women's Health calls attention to this glaring discrepancy and...

This publication focuses on the quality of life and care of members of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society (DMSG), Berlin, who have fallen ill with the disease. The up-to-date information describes the current situation of MS sufferers and reflects the changes in available therapies and political framework conditions.

A standard and therefore indispensable reference work for all who prepare, order, appraise, or evaluate reports on the consequences of accidents. This work convinces with its ability to combine legal and medical aspects and its interdisciplinary perspective and presentation. The 11^th edition comprises all relevant areas from both state and private insurance. New legal regulations such as the "Quality Assurance Law," Rehabilitation Law, and changes in the state retirement insurance are treated. The new edition includes a chapter on psychoreactive disorders, an expansion of the...