Sökning: "cost containment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden cost containment.

1. 1. Economic policy in health care : Sickness absence and pharmaceutical costs

   Författare :David Granlund; Magnus Wikström; Niklas Rudholm; Åke G Blomquist; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vertical fiscal externalities; sickness absence; sickness benefits; health care expenditure; fixed budgets; pharmaceuticals; cost containment; dynamic panel data models; endogeneity; propensity score matching; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two concerns health care and sickness absence, and the last two pharmaceutical costs and prices. Paper [I] presents an economic federation model which resembles the situation in, for example, Sweden. LÄS MER

3. 2. Health care pricing and payment reforms in China : the implications for health service delivery and cost containment

   Författare :Qingyue Meng; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :China; financing; pricing policy; payment; exemption program; tuberculosis; hospital performance and charges; drug pricing; rational use of drugs;

   Sammanfattning : China's transition into a market economy has exerted some influence on the health sector in terms of a significant growth of facilities, but it has also produced a range of destabilizing social costs. This thesis analyzes the relations between healthcare pricing and payment reforms and the different delivery aspects such as the exemption program for the poor, public health programs for tuberculosis control and the provision of hospital services. LÄS MER

4. 3. The role of economic evaluations in health care decision making

   Författare :Jonas Lundkvist; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Economic evaluation; cost-effectiveness; decision making; drugs; reimbursement;

   Sammanfattning : Increasing health care expenditures, a rapid introduction of new medical technologies and a need for cost containment policies in most countries during the last decades have led to a growing interest in information from economic evaluations for decision making about resource allocation in health care. Economic evaluations can provide valuable information in many types of decision making, e. LÄS MER

5. 4. Environmental aspects of coal mine drainage: a regional study of Moatize in Mozambique

   Författare :Estevao Pondja; Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; coal mining; acid mine drainage; mine water treatment; climate change; low-cost adsorbent;

   Sammanfattning : Mozambique is one of the largest coal producers in Africa. Extraction of the coal is carried out in the Moatize district of the Tete province in the center of the country. A surface mining technique is used to extract the coal below ground level. LÄS MER

7. 5. Scheduling and Optimization of Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems

   Författare :Viacheslav Izosimov; Zebo Peng; Petru Eles; Anton Cervin; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Embedded systems; Real-Time systems; Design optimization; Fault tolerance; Transient faults; Soft errors; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Safety-critical applications have to function correctly even in presence of faults. This thesis deals with techniques for tolerating effects of transient and intermittent faults. Reexecution, software replication, and rollback recovery with checkpointing are used to provide the required level of fault tolerance. LÄS MER