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Sie sind aktiv in der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung und stehen vor der Herausforderung, dass Ihre Maßnahmen Ihre Zielgruppe nicht im gewünschten Maße erreichen? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie!Es bietet Ihnen einen schnellen Einstieg in das Thema Nudging zur Gesundheitsförderung am Arbeitsplatz. Sie erfahren die verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Hintergründe und Theorien des Nudgings und lernen anschaulich, wie Sie dieses erfolgreich zur Gesundheitsförderung einsetzen können. Sie...

The pandemic had a profound impact on the transportation industry. The industry suffered issues such as a lack of passengers, transportation systems surviving only with government help, and employees being laid off. However, with mass vaccinations kicking off worldwide movement restrictions will continue to lessen in the months to come and along with that needs to be research on transportation services in the post-COVID-19 era. This book provides a timely contribution to transportation manageme...

Dedicated and hard-working staff at all levels of large healthcare organisations can be frustrated by a perceived inability to influence healthcare priorities. One way of enabling such practitioners to shape and improve services is to bring them together in 'communities of influence'. These are informal groups or networks of committed people who meet regularly to share experiences, develop a collective voice and influence policy and practice at local and national levels. Such 'bottom-up' approac...

Dieses Buch gibt praktische, fundierte und systematische Hilfestellungen für das Projektmanagement speziell im Gesundheitswesen. Es beschreibt die wesentlichen Werkzeuge und Techniken die erforderlich sind, um ein Projekt erfolgreich durchzuführen.Das Gesundheitswesen steht vor großen Herausforderungen. Nur ein tiefgreifender Wandel und neue Rahmenbedingungen werden es zukunftssicher machen. Dabei geht es um sehr unterschiedliche Themen – von der Implementierung neuer Technologien, Kostenreduzie...

This book presents the concept of healthcare facilities management performance measurement (HCFMPM) using Ghana as a case study. It set forth in-depth theoretical and empirical underpinnings of performance measurement concepts for hospital facilities services, with the view to demonstrate critical performance dimensions to improve FM contributions and added value to healthcare delivery. The research approach adopted is mixed method encompassing qualitative interviews in case study setting and a...

This volume analyzes group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in order to better understand the significant roles that these entities play in the healthcare supply chain. It examines who they contract with, on what terms, and who they represent and answer to while charting their historical development. The analysis reveals that the current roles of both players have historical roots that explain why they behave the way they do. Finally, the book reviews the evid...

​This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care. It has collected the opinions of many cutting-edge researchers. Those who design and conduct economic evaluations or economics-related research in end of life populations will find this book thought provoking, instructive and informative. The provision of care to individuals with disorders associated with advancing age, such as cancer...

In this comprehensive Handbook, Kenneth Couch brings together expert contributors to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 on new and pre-existing inequalities in health, work, and education. While sharper impacts on pre-existing cross-group disparities were often resolved by vaccinations and the lifting of restrictions, this important work indicates that in many respects disadvantaged groups will endure lasting negative effects from the pandemic.An interdisciplinary and international ran...

An ideal entry point into health economics for everyone from aspiring economists to healthcare professionals. The economics of healthcare are messy. For most consumers, there’s little control over costs or services. Sometimes doctors are paid a lot; other times they aren’t paid at all. Insurance and drug companies are evil, except when they’re not. If economics is the study of market efficiency, how do we make sense of this? Better Health Economics is a warts-and-all introduction to a field...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. It covers four broad themes: AI as a general purpose technology; the relationships between AI, growth, jobs, and inequality; regulatory responses to changes brought on by AI; and the effects of AI on the way economic research is conducted. It explores...

Aus Sicht des Gesetzgebers ging es bei der Neuordnung des Arzneimittelmarktes in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (AMNOG) darum, den Versicherten die bestmögliche medizinische Versorgung zu ermöglichen, dabei aber die finanzielle Belastung für die Krankenkassen zu regulieren. In diesem Sinne sollen sich die Preise für Arzneimittel an deren (Zusatz-)Nutzen für Patienten orientieren. Der Verhandlung des Erstattungsbetrags zwischen pharmazeutischen Unternehmen und dem Spitzenverband Bund der ge...

Der demografische Wandel sowie die gesteigerte Bedeutung der individuellen Gesundheit lassen auch im Fitness- und Gesundheitsmarkt neue und interessante Tendenzen erkennen. Doch können die Einrichtungen diesen Ansprüchen in Angebot und Personal nachkommen? Und wie schafft es die Branche heute, ihre Beschäftigten fit für den Markt von morgen zu machen und dabei mit modernen und attraktiven Arbeitsmodellen das aktuelle und zukünftige Fachpersonal für sich zu begeistern?Neben einer Beschreibung des...

There is no end in sight to the frequency with which physicians, nursing professionals and other healthcare providers will become lawsuit targets in our litigious society. While politicians, practitioners, insurance companies and trial attorneys debate the nation’s chronic "malpractice crisis", suits continue to be filed. In addition, once COVID-19 is behind us and the unprecedented public support for health care providers wanes, as it will, it is anticipated that physicians and nurses will beco...

Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses explores informatics trends emerging over the next decade including personalized healthcare, telehealth, artificial intelligence, voice recognition, and predictive analytics. Emphasis is placed on their importance, benefits, and key challenges for nurses. Digital health and patient-generated data in the context of remote monitoring are highlighted with a focus on digital health tools, issues, challenges, and implications for the future....

This book reviews that narrate the development of current technologies under the theme of the emerging concept of healthcare, specifically in terms of what makes healthcare more efficient and effective with the help of high-precision algorithms. The mechanism that drives it is machine learning, deep learning, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT)—the scientific field that gives machines the ability to learn without being strictly programmed. It has emerged together with big data technologies an...