Operations Research and Health Care Policy

Operations research tools are ideally suited to providing solutions and insights for the many problems health policy-maker's face. Indeed, a growing body of literature on health policy analysis, based on operations research methods, has emerged to address the problems mentioned above and severa...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Zaric, Gregory S. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 190
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6507-2
Table of Contents:
  • Considerations for Developing Applied Health Policy Models: The Example of HIV Treatment Expansion in Resource-Limited Settings
  • Cost-effectiveness Analysis Using Registry and Administrative Data
  • Public Health Modeling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • OR in Public Health: A Little Help Can Go a Long Way
  • Review of Operations Research Tools and Techniques Used for Influenza Pandemic Planning
  • Analytical Long-Term Care Capacity Planning
  • Managing Community-based Care for Chronic Diseases: The Quantitative Approach
  • Project Management Approach to Implement Clinical Pathways: An Example for Thyroidectomy
  • EMS Planning and Management
  • Impact of In-patient Reimbursement Systems on Hospital Performance: The Austrian Case-based Payment Strategy
  • Assessing Prevention for Positives: Cost-Utility Assessment of Behavioral Interventions for Reducing HIV Transmission
  • Modeling the Impact of New HIV Prevention Techniques in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • REACH: A Practical HIV Resource Allocation Tool for Decision Makers
  • Active Vaccine and Drug Surveillance Towards a 100 Million Member System
  • Application of Operations Research to Funding Decisions for Treatments with Rare Disease
  • Modeling Risk Sharing Agreements and Patient Access Schemes
  • Evaluating Health Care Policy Decisions: Canadian Blood Services in Atlantic Canada
  • Improving the Efficiency of Cost-effective Analysis to Inform Policy Decisions in the Real World: Lessons from the Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit at Cancer Care Ontario.