Symposium on healthcare policy, financing, and economics

Symposium on Organizations and Economics

Most production in modern economies occurs within organizations, and this production is regulated only to a limited extent by prices. The size of some of the largest organizations, like General Motors or IBM or AT&T, exceeds that of many national economies. Moreover, many of the organizations which play an important role in resource allocation, including governmental organizations, are not prof...

Labour economics and healthcare professional education

  Healthcare professional education is the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development for doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. Labour economics is the relationship between workers and employers, and the resultant effect on employment and wages.   Healthcare professional education ultimately produces a workforce, and that workforce is governed by the rule...

Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire Economics , Planning , and Policy : Bottom Lines

González-Cabán, Armando; Omi, Philip N., technical coordinators. 1999. Proceedings of the symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: bottom lines; 1999 April 59; San Diego, CA. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-173. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 332 p. These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address curre...

Introduction to Symposium on Sports Economics

Health care economics, financing, organization, and delivery.

BACKGROUND The US health care system is in a state of rapid evolution, with changing payment, organizational, and management structures. To learn how to function optimally in a system in which care is increasingly managed and competitive, today's medical students must understand the structural and economic underpinnings of the system within which they will practice. At the outset of the Undergr...