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  title info:
    title: Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services
    sub title: Methods and Applications
  name:
    name part: Oleske, Denise M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2001
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 401 p. 14 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In the previous edition of this book, the predominant theme was applying epidemiology to assist managers in dealing with an environment in which the structure of health care financing was rapidly changing to managed care and in which there was increasing competition among health care providers. While these phenomena continue to exist, new challenges have emerged, and in particular the explosion of information technology has given way to a global society and decision making that is increasingly shared with consumers because of their access to the same sets of data. Thus, the questions with which health care managers are confronted on a daily basis are now exceedingly more complex: (1) How can a population be defined considering that both exposures and diseases originating in one corner of the globe can rapidly become a threat to any nation’s security? (2) Where do influences on a population begin and end? (3) How can we protect and promote health in that population or any population if privacy is preeminent? This edition brings in this editor’s view of the increasing need for health care managers, be they in private or public settings, to use epidemiological concepts and methods. The ch- lenges posed by health care delivery in the 21st century are immense, ranging from redefining life and health given the advances in genetic technology, global environmental changes, and multinational simultaneous increases in poverty and longevity, to economic decisions rega- ing technology and service levels that fewer and fewer can afford.
  table of contents: Fundamentals -- An Epidemiological Framework for the Delivery of Health Care Services -- Measurement Issues in the Use of Epidemiological Data -- Descriptive Epidemiological Measures -- Assessing Causality -- Strategic Planning -- Evaluating Health Services, Programs, and Systems -- Specialty Areas -- Epidemiology and Health Care Quality Management -- Control of Transmissible Diseases in Health Care Settings -- Genetic Epidemiology -- Technology Assessment -- Health Risks from the Environment -- Spanning Topics -- Epidemiology and the Public Policy Process -- The Contribution of Epidemiological Information in Economic Decision Making -- Ethics, Epidemiology, and Health Service Delivery.
  note: edited by Denise M. Oleske.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Public health
  subject:
    topic: Health informatics
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Medical education
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Medical Education
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Health Informatics
  classification: RA1-1270
  classification: 613
  classification: 614
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780306475573
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b112328
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    record creation date: 100301
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