I. RESEARCH My research uses state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical methods to study how individuals, firms, and regulators interact in health care markets. Since I joined Wharton as an Assistant Professor in the Health Care Management Department in 2004, I have been intrigued by the economics of increasingly important but little studied health care industries such as emergency medical serv...

extract today home health care is implementing in many countries. in iran, because of increasing population growth and hospital investments, home health care is not avoidable. home health care not only causes decreasing length of hospitalization and rapid offloading of hospital's beds for the use of other patients, but also presenting direct health services in home based on individual need...

maternity child health is one of the important and essential aspects of health services that must be considered as a priority in administrative programs because mothers and their children more than other people in the community are affected by perilous environmental factors. they are very vulnerable that lead to disease, failure to thrive, inability and death. every year, poor hygiene leads to ...

Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Nursing Care Division, Juntendo Geriatric Koto Medical Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0076 Japan Health Science Division, ELSEVIER, JAPAN 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-0044, Japan Division of Health Care Economics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo113-8549, Japan E-mail: e-mail: [email protected]...

1Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology, Strasse des 17 Juni 135, Berlin 10623, Germany; 2 European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, rue de l’Autonomie 4, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium; 3WHO Country Office in Republic of Moldova, World Health Organization, 29 Sfatul Tarii Street, MD2029 Chisinau, Republic of Moldova; 4MTVC (Training, Research and Development...

This paper addresses issues related to health care in the context of the debate about the typology of welfare state regimes and comparative studies conducted in reference to the debate. Particular attention has been paid to the phenomenon of decommodification as one of the key dimensions that define welfare regimes identified in the literature associated with this debate. The study presents a h...

Mark V. Pauly has outlined a new proposal to reduce the number of uninsured that would:                   that could be easily modified in response to lessons learned from this new approach.     -     -    with flexible, refundable tax credits or " coupons, " redeemable for insurance premiums or a reduction in taxe...