Behavioral economics in healthcare

Examining the roots of decisional errors stemming from biases, shortcuts, and reliance on incentives, Yıldırım offers a deeper understanding of the influences on modern healthcare decisions and provides an avenue to guide the design of a more effective healthcare system which fosters improved mut...

Capitalism, health and wellbeing

Rooted in thoughtful evidence and achievable actions, this work tackles the barriers posed by the drive for economic growth to empower readers to contribute to positive transformation and create a healthier, more just and more sustainable world.

Health management 2.0

With fresh insights for health professionals, this book promotes a modern interdisciplinary and dynamic approach to health leadership and management, and outlines international best practice for future teaching and training.

Healthcare in the age of finance capital

How the financialization of healthcare has eroded the quality of care, driven up prices, and worsened health inequalitiesFinancial actors and healthcare leaders increasingly view healthcare organizations as financial assets to be bought, sold, and managed for maximum profit, regardless of the eff...

How to deliver integrated care

This book introduces service planners and managers to successful strategies to design, implement and manage care integration programmes. It details the various components of change in individual chapters, which are illustrated with practical examples from actual care implementation projects.

Langchain for life sciences and healthcare

Massively better healthcare

In this groundbreaking book, Halle Tecco provides an insider’s guide to transforming our healthcare system through innovation.

Medical economics

Written by two medics, who are also qualified economists, this introduction to health economics draws on a wider range of economic thinking than that normally underpinning health policy to explore how economics can best contribute to improved health care.

Nature, wellness and sustainability in health tourism

Through a blend of case studies, theoretical insights, and evidence-based research, authors demonstrate how natural environments such as forests, mountains, and coastal areas are being rediscovered as spaces for physical and mental rejuvenation.

Recent developments in health econometrics

Recent Developments in Health Econometrics highlights recent developments in health econometrics, especially in areas of empirical health economics, where Professor Andrew Jones has contributed so significantly.

Research and theory to foster change in the face of grand health care challenges

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Volume 22 focuses on environmental uncertainty and the responsiveness of health care organizations, the mechanisms of change and how leaders within organizations frame and execute change, and investigates organizational preparedness and response in the f...

Responding to the grand challenges in healthcare via organizational innovation

This book contains two Open Access chapters. Responding to The Grand Challenges in Healthcare Via Organizational Innovation explores scenarios for dealing with unexpected crises, improving diversity, equity and inclusion in health care, inter-sector collaboration, and analyzes organizational gove...

Responsible management of shifts in work modes – values for post pandemic sustainability, volume 2

Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes – Values for Post Pandemic Sustainability, Volume 2 explores ethical leadership, people management, resilience, and the management of consequences for business and healthcare systems.

Structural approaches to address issues in patient safety

This volume delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational systems and structures in health care environments to mitigate risks, reduce medical errors and ultimately improve patient safety, the quality of care, provider well-being, and the overall patient e...

Sustainable hospitality management

The hospitality industry is major industry. Due a steady growth, by 2030 the hospitality and tourism industry is expected to provide 380 million jobs. This title explores the challenges presented including labor shortages, containing and reducing the ecological footprint, Over tourism, and a poor...

The contributions of health care management to grand health care challenges

The 20th volume of Advances in Health Care Management showcases how health care management research helps to further understand grand challenges in health care: what they are, why they exist, the consequences that they have, and what can be done to address them.

The online healthcare community

Essential for students, researchers, and healthcare professionals keen on understanding the changing healthcare landscape, this work explores the shift to virtual healthcare emphasizing OHC's engagement, expertise sharing, and capacity for industry transformation, especially across tech-driven na...

Transforming healthcare

Shedding light on current transformations in payment mechanisms and transparency of hospital performance data and prices, this volume of Advances in Health Care Management presents findings on hospital profitability, cost, and organizational structures.

World healthcare cooperatives

Considering more than 100 million households worldwide that have benefitted from healthcare cooperatives, this pioneering collection highlights both the challenges a successful healthcare cooperative may face, as well as its proven effectiveness in making a difference.