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Payer, Provider, Consumer: Industry Confronts Health Care Costs
Industry Confornts Health Care Costs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With this first monograph, Springer-Verlag launches an unusual publishing venture. The purpose of the Springer Series on Industry and Health Care is to explore in depth the current and potential future role of industry both management and labor in all private sector enterprises-as a financer of...
The State and Healthcare
Comparing OECD Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the USA, this volume is a thorough examination of the convergence toward hybrid forms of healthcare systems.
by Y.H. Venus Lun, Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Alexander M. Goulielmos
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's. In this comprehensive guide, the authors investigate the industry and describe the shipping market...
by Charlotte J. Lundgren, Alun H. Mr. Thomas, Robert C. York
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Sizeable natural resource endowments and potentially large financial inflows from their extraction provide an unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development in a growing number of sub-Saharan African countries. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that translating this resource wealth...
Dreams That Can Save Your Life
Early Warning Signs of Cancer and Other Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An exploration of dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance for your health and well-being
• 2018 Nautilus Silver Award
• Shares stories--confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their...
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, and endocrinology. The study revealed the incidence and frequency with which women participate...
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection...
Acoustic Wave Sensors
Theory, Design and Physico-Chemical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1996
Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts from both industry and academia, Acoustic Wave Sensors provides an in-depth look at the current state of acoustic wave devices and the scope of their use in chemical, biochemical, and physical measurements, as well as in engineering applications. Because...
Formal Development of a Network-Centric RTOS
Software Engineering for Reliable Embedded Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Many systems, devices and appliances used routinely in everyday life, ranging from cell phones to cars, contain significant amounts of software that is not directly visible to the user and is therefore called "embedded". For coordinating the various software components and allowing them...
Preventing Corruption
Investigation, Enforcement and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption. Providing a unique international coverage, it reveals the limits of current anti-corruption strategies and explores the involvement of western democratic states in corruption.
Contemporary Public Health
Principles, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer...
by J. D. Pickard, V. V. Dolenc, J. Lobo Antunes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons, we began to publish in 1974 this series of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. This series was first discussed in 1972...
by Scott L. McLean, Sean D. Foreman, Donna R. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The 2020 United States presidential race is arguably already over except for about 12 states and 20 counties. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2020, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their...