The aim of this series of articles was to introduce doctors to the essentials of health economics and to assess the contribution of economic analysis to solving health service problems. Nevertheless , the Health Service is neither totally "economic" in its operation nor is economics as a discipline completely "healthy" in its development. Both could show signs of improvement. In this sixth and ...

factors affecting on job motivation from the managers point of view in teaching hospitals affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences in 2009 hamouzadeh p*1, sadeghifar j2, moradkhani b3 received: 25 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: the fact that managers are planners of health care system plays an important role in the development of health care and treatm...

Dear readers, when you are hunting the new book collection to read this day, advances in health economics and health services research a research annual volume 9 1988 private sector involvement in health care implications for access cost and quality can be your referred book. Yeah, even many books are offered, this book can steal the reader heart so much. The content and theme of this book real...

PharmacoEconomic News Special Issue ¥ June 1999 CO N F E R E N C E H I G H L I G H T S The Evidence for Evidence Getting Value for Money in Economic Evaluations of Health and Health Care O n April 29-30, 1999, the Institute of Health Economics hosted its first conference, The Evidence for Evidence – Getting Value for Money in Economic Evaluations of Health and Health Care. The conference was or...

BACKGROUND The application of conjoint analysis (including discrete-choice experiments and other multiattribute stated-preference methods) in health has increased rapidly over the past decade. A wider acceptance of these methods is limited by an absence of consensus-based methodological standards. OBJECTIVE The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Good Res...

1329 surgical pathology of St Thomas's Hospital (now the department of histopathology) for their willing support, collaboration, and help with this scheme and to the deans and staff of the medical school for their encouragement.