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Examines how microeconomic principles apply to health care delivery and its policies by exploring the changing nature of health care, the social and political sides of issues, and the future of health care delivery and finance as the U.S. transitions beyond the Affordable Care Act. Discusses how to analyze public policy from an economic perspective, and addresses today's policy environment and changes as well as reform alternatives. Includes special features that discuss issues in healthcare today, profile health care leaders and offer global comparisons. Appendices show how to interpret empirical results and perform economic evaluations

Providing a critical assessment of developments in health and health-care policy, this book is primarily focused on the UK covering issues such as the policy-making process, the development of the National Health Service, health-care governance and health promotion

Intro -- APHA-ADV FM -- APHA-ADV Chapter 1 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 2 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 3 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 4 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 5 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 6 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 7 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 8 -- _GoBack -- APHA-ADV Chapter 9 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 10 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 11 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 12 -- APHA-ADV Chapter 13 -- APHA-ADV Resources -- _GoBack -- APHA-ADV Contributors -- _GoBack -- APHA-ADV_Index.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributor Bio -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Diary of a Policymaker -- References -- Chapter 2: The Scourge of Modern Lifestyles -- 2.1 Tobacco Use -- 2.1.1 Prevalence of Tobacco Use -- 2.1.2 Health Consequences of Tobacco Use -- 2.1.3 Tobacco Control Policies -- 2.1.4 Tobacco Control: Looking Forward -- 2.2 Physical Activity -- 2.2.1 Prevalence of Physical Activity -- 2.2.2 Getting More People Moving and Moving More -- 2.2.3 Policies to Address Physical Activity -- 2.2.4 Physical Activity: Looking Forward -- 2.3 Breastfeeding -- 2.3.1 Prevalence of Breastfeeding -- 2.3.2 Economic Cost of Suboptimal Breastfeeding -- 2.3.3 Breastfeeding Support Policies: Looking Forward -- References -- Chapter 3: ROI Analysis: Art or Science? -- 3.1 The Science of ROI Analysis -- 3.2 Applicability of ROI Analysis in Public Health -- 3.3 The Art of ROI Analysis -- References -- Chapter 4: What Is ROI, By The Way? -- 4.1 Defining the Decision Problem -- 4.1.1 Defining the Audience -- 4.1.2 Framing the Decision Problem -- 4.2 Developing Conceptual Framework and Economic Model -- 4.2.1 Population of Interest -- 4.2.2 Perspective of Analysis -- 4.2.3 Disease Process -- 4.2.4 Interventions -- 4.2.5 Resources and Costs -- 4.2.6 Timeframe of Analysis -- 4.2.7 ROI Metrics -- 4.2.8 Understanding the Current Situation -- 4.2.9 Usability Requirements -- 4.3 Collection of Supporting Data to Populate the Model -- 4.4 Using ROI Results to Make Business Cases -- References -- Chapter 5: Modelling the ROI of Public Health Interventions -- 5.1 Objective -- 5.2 Defining the Audience and Assessing Their Needs -- 5.3 Population of Interest -- 5.4 Perspectives of Analyses -- 5.5 The Economic Model -- 5.6 Model Structure -- 5.6.1 Modelling Smokers -- 5.6.2 Intervention Efficacy, Uptake and Costs.

1. Functional health and the health stock -- 2. A framework for risk and health policy analysis -- 3. Insurance, moral hazard and adverse selection -- 4. Health policy evaluation -- 5. Health policy in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan : settling down to a model? -- 6. Publicly funded healthcare systems : United Kingdom and Canada -- 7. Singapore : Medisave, Medishield, Medifund and ElderShield -- 8. Universal publicly funded basic healthcare in Australia and New Zealand -- 9. Three European countries : France, Switzerland and Sweden -- 10. The American market-based system -- 11. The way forward.

We analyze the policy issue of medical marijuana to illustrate how key virtues of federalism can be used to make a threshold determination as to whether a particular public policy should be subject to federal regulation or reserved for states. When the substantive merits of the policy issue are currently debated and unresolved, and that issue area has traditionally been regulated by states, we employ a three-prong test for determining as a threshold matter whether the federal government should assert preemptive jurisdiction over the policy. That test has its roots in well-established theories of federalism that comprise what we refer to as the "classic virtues of federalism": Based on our analysis, medical marijuana is a policy that should be left to the states. Adapted from the source document.

v. 1. Health communication in the delivery of health care -- v. 2. Health communication and health promotion -- v. 3. Health risk communication -- v. 4. Health communication and new information technologies (eHealth) -- v. 5. Health communication and the health care system

The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for ailments they cannot cure, consuming money better spent on increasing disability benefits, and leaving the ill who could be treated unable to get an appointment. Dr Adrian Massey has worked at the intersection of medicine and society for decades. He argues compellingly that our hypermedicalised society has falsely equated sickness with illness, and sickness with unfitness to work - whereas sickness is primarily a social problem requiring social, not medical, solutions. This title lays bare Britain's gross error: when doctors cannot 'fix' anxiety or chronic pain, workplace attendance is still treated as a matter for arbitration by our strained primary care service.--