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 has been enhanced by the opportunities created within the fast growing field of outcomes research. Volume 14 "Investing in Health: the Social and Economic Benefits of Health Care Innovation" of the series "Research in Human Capital and Development" presents several truly innovative 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 Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Investing in Health: The Social and Economic Benefits of Health Care Innovation (Irina Farquhar, Kent Summers, Alan Sorkin)