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Mesauring The Effect Of Technological Change In Health Care Cost And Expenditure, Krishna P. Sharma
Mesauring The Effect Of Technological Change In Health Care Cost And Expenditure, Krishna P. Sharma
Wayne State University Dissertations
ABSTRACT
Background and objectives:
Technological change has a major role in driving up health care cost and expenditure. Yet we are not fully able to know the extent to which technological change affects cost and expenditure and the way new technologies enter the cost or expenditure functions. This paper uses historical data of US elderly males to see how health care spending associated with prostate cancer treatment behaves over time. Understanding the extent and mechanism by which a new technology actually translates into higher cost are main objectives of this study.
Study design, data and organization of the report:
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Pain And Human Dependence (Dolor Y Dependencia Humana), Fernando Estrada
Pain And Human Dependence (Dolor Y Dependencia Humana), Fernando Estrada
Fernando Estrada
This paper is a study of medical philosophy. The subject is studied from the author's own experience. On the basic sources of inspiration the works of Fernando Pessoa, Karl Kraus and Friedrich Nietzsche, raise the limits and scope of medical knowledge and experience of pain and disease.
Building Capacity In Medical Education Research In Australia, Ian G. Wilson
Building Capacity In Medical Education Research In Australia, Ian G. Wilson
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
ANZAME (the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medical Education) shares two significant concerns about medical education in Australia that were raised in articles published recently in the Journal.
Learning The Ways Of Teaching: Medical Students As Co-Assessors And Peer Teachers, Susan Vella, Lisa Brown
Learning The Ways Of Teaching: Medical Students As Co-Assessors And Peer Teachers, Susan Vella, Lisa Brown
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
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