Health care costs : causes, effects and control / / Bernice R. Hofmann, editors [sic].

• Superior document: Health care issues, costs and access series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hofmann, Bernice R.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Health care issues, costs, and access.
• Physical Description: xviii, 339 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Commentary health technology : moral hazard, inefficiencies, and solutions / Read G. Pierce, Kevin J. Bozic, Philip R. Lee -- The future of health-care quality in the United States / Brandon Roberts -- Short communications the elasticity of physician supply and medical malpractice litigation in the United States / Brandon Roberts -- How do the drug ads and other factors affect the way dentists prescribe the medications and has prescription medicine increased the overall cost of health care? / Kim L. Capehart -- The affects of contemporary and alternative medicine on healthcare and dentistry / Kim L. Capehart -- America's weightiest health issue : not obesity, but bloated health care expenses / George Everett -- Research and review studies analysis of number of days required for full-time care before death and the cost of care in the last month of life among the Chinese elderly / Danan Gu, Donghui Gu, Jie Zhou -- Costing of primary care in developing countries : how much health can we buy for a few dollars? / Steffen Flessa, Paul Marschall -- Costs of epidemiological changes in chronic diseases in Mexico / Armando Arredondo, Emanuel Orozco, Edson Servan -- Deficit and health reform : two different phenomena? / Z. Darmopilova, Z. Zigova -- Screening colonoscopy in Germany : a cost-saving analysis / Andreas Sieg, Hermann Brenner -- A fully Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis using conditionally specified prior distributions / M. Martel, M.A. Negrin, F.J. Vazquez-Polo -- Medication management and the older person / Maggi Banning -- Training needs of healthcare professionals working with breastfeeding mothers in England and in Poland / Joanna Kosmala-Anderson ... [et al.] -- The design and evaluation of a radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled inpatient safety management system / Chuan-Jun Su, Ta-Wei Chu -- A note on estimating a mean cost of hospital stay with incomplete information / Isabella Locatelli and Alfio Marazzi.