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In the future, as our society becomes older and older, an increasing number of people will be confronted with Alzheimer's disease.

This book offers a unique combination of conceptual, institutional and empirical analyses of the design of healthcare financing systems, and explores the complex interactions of finance and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries.

This book examines the drivers of inbound medical tourism in Germany. It develops coherent definitions of medical tourism and medical travel, and presents multiple unique data sets to identify inbound medical travelers in Germany.

Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs.

Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today.

Health care arguably is the single most regulated industry in industrial countries, and possibly in newly industrialized and developing countries as well.

This volume reflects both the main issues confronting health economics and the state of the art in health economics a decade before the end of the twentieth century. It contains a selection from almost 150 papers presented at the Second World Congress on Health Economics, held at the University of ZUrich, Switzerland, 10-14 September 1990.

Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs.

Most economic evaluations of health care programmes at the moment are cost effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. The aim of the book is to tty and provide a coherent framework within cost-bene:fit analysis and welfare economics for the different methods of economic evaluation in the health care field.

Confronted with the continuing cost expansion in the health care sector, policy makers face a dilemma: limiting moral hazard in medical care requires that consumers participate in the cost, yet copayment is strongly resisted by today's socially insured.

Hospital Cost Analysis provides an overview of theoretical developments in the economic analysis of production and costs in the multiproduct firm, and discusses these developments.

Hospital Cost Analysis provides an overview of theoretical developments in the economic analysis of production and costs in the multiproduct firm, and discusses these developments.

Health, The Medical Profession, and Regulation presents new evidence concerning health and the environment, inequality of health in many countries, and the compatibility of different quality of life measurements, along with new solutions to problems of health policy.

Report By The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (July, 2004), with various Supplementary Materials

Health care arguably is the single most regulated industry in industrial countries, and possibly in newly industrialized and developing countries as well.

This volume reflects both the main issues confronting health economics and the state of the art in health economics a decade before the end of the twentieth century. It contains a selection from almost 150 papers presented at the Second World Congress on Health Economics, held at the University of ZUrich, Switzerland, 10-14 September 1990.

Report By The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (July, 2004), with various Supplementary Materials

Health, The Medical Profession, and Regulation presents new evidence concerning health and the environment, inequality of health in many countries, and the compatibility of different quality of life measurements, along with new solutions to problems of health policy.

Confronted with the continuing cost expansion in the health care sector, policy makers face a dilemma: limiting moral hazard in medical care requires that consumers participate in the cost, yet copayment is strongly resisted by today's socially insured.

Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today.

Most economic evaluations of health care programmes at the moment are cost effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. The aim of the book is to tty and provide a coherent framework within cost-bene:fit analysis and welfare economics for the different methods of economic evaluation in the health care field.