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Investing in Health - The Social and Economic Benefits of Health Care Innovation (Hardcover)
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Investing in Health - The Social and Economic Benefits of Health Care Innovation (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Human Capital and Development
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Public health has, for many years, been concerned with efforts to
increase the efficiency of health care delivery, to measure changes
in health care resource utilization and associated costs, and to
link these changes to different types of interventions. These
efforts, as well as collaboration between biopharmaceutical
organizations, producers of medical devices, and managed care and
public health organizations, have been enhanced by the
opportunities created within the fast growing field of outcomes
research. This volume presents studies contributing to the
enhancement of the outcomes research paradigm by incorporating
economic and social interactions within the health care delivery,
clinical decision-making and outcomes systems. A multidisciplinary
team of scientists in the fields of outcomes research,
pharmacoeconomics, public health, health services research, and
health economics address such complex problems as: benefits and
cost of advancements in genetic technologies; methodologies for
constructing health care utilization and cost estimates; and the
effect of insurance type on resource utilization and health
outcomes. Other studies consider both the types of drugs purchased
and the prices paid, pharmaceutical spending and health outcomes,
incremental advantages of newer treatments, willingness to pay
measurements, disease-specific impacts on human capital and quality
of life, and modelling clinical trial results. One of the most
important findings in this book is the description of the role of
low energy in the symptomatology of depression and its strong
relationship with absenteeism, work productivity and social
functioning. Another paper documents the disease-specific
mortality, case-fatality and annual health care utilization in
diabetics and establishes the association of respiratory conditions
with elevated mortality among diabetics. The work contains other
papers which provide significant results in cardiovascular,
infectious, central nervous system disease areas as well as in
quality of life and health outcomes measurements.
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