Health Care Costs

Preface; Health Technology: Moral Hazard, Inefficiencies, and Solutions; The Future of Health-Care Quality in the United States; The Elasticity of Physician Supply and Medical Malpractice Litigation in the United States; How do the Drug Ads and Other Factors Affect the Way Dentists Prescribe the Medications and has Prescription Medicine Increased the Overall Cost of Health Care?; The Affects of Contemporary and Alternative Medicine on Healthcare and Dentistry; America's Weightiest Health Issue: Not Obesity, but Bloated Health Care Expenses; Research and Review Studies; Analysis of Number of Days Required for Full-Time Care before Death and the Cost of Care in the Last Month of Life among the Chinese Elderly; Costing of Primary Care in Developing Countries: How Much Health Can We Buy for a Few Dollars?; Costs of Epidemiological Changes in Chronic Diseases in Mexico; Deficit and Health Reform - Two Different Phenomena?; Screening Colonoscopy in Germany. A Cost-Saving Analysis; A Fully Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using Conditionally Specified Prior Distributions; Medication Management and the Older Person; Training Needs of Healthcare Professionals Working with Breastfeeding Mothers in England and in Poland; The Design and Evaluation of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Enabled Inpatient Safety Management System; A Note on Estimating A Mean Cost of Hospital Stay with Incomplete Information; Index.