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Health Systems, Health, Wealth And Societal Well-Being: Assessing The Case For Investing In Health Systems

Assessing the case for investing in health systems

By: McKee , Martin,Figueras , Josep,Saltman , Richard B.

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Health Systems, Health, Wealth And Societal Well-Being: Assessing The Case For Investing In Health Systems

Assessing the case for investing in health systems

By: McKee , Martin,Figueras , Josep,Saltman , Richard B.

This book argues that health systems are not, as is often believed, simply a drag on resources, but rather part and parcel of improving health and achieving better economic growth.

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0335244300

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Purchasing To Improve Health Systems Performance

By: Figueras, Josep,Robinson, Ray,Jakubowski, Elke

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Purchasing To Improve Health Systems Performance

By: Figueras, Josep,Robinson, Ray,Jakubowski, Elke

Purchasing is championed as key to improving health systems performance. However, despite the central role the purchasing function plays in many health system reforms, there is very little evidence about its development or its real impact on societal objectives. This book addresses this gap and provides: ·A comprehensive account of the theory and practice of purchasing for health services across Europe ·An up-to-date analysis of the evidence on different approaches to purchasing ·Support for policy-makers and practitioners as they formulate purchasing strategies so that they can increase effectiveness and improve performance in their own national context ·An assessment of the intersecting roles of citizens, the government and the providers Written by leading health policy analysts, this book is essential reading for health policy makers, planners and managers as well as researchers and students in the field of health studies. Contributors: Toni Ashton, Philip Berman, Michael Borowitz, Helmut Brand, Reinhard Busse, Andrea Donatini, Martin Dlouhy, Antonio Duran, Tamás Evetovits, André P. van den Exter, Josep Figueras, Nick Freemantle, Julian Forder, Péter Gaál, Chris Ham, Brian Hardy, Petr Hava, David Hunter, Danguole Jankauskiene, Maris Jesse, Ninel Kadyrova, Joe Kutzin, John Langenbrunner, Donald W. Light, Hans Maarse, Nicholas Mays, Martin McKee, Eva Orosz, John Øvretveit, Dominique Polton, Alexander S. Preker, Thomas A. Rathwell, Sabine Richard, Ray Robinson, Andrei Rys, Constantino Sakellarides, Sergey Shishkin, Peter C. Smith, Markus Schneider, Francesco Taroni, Marcial Velasco-Garrido, Miriam Wiley

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0335213677

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9780335213672

Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe

By: Saltman , Richard B.,Figueras, Josep,Sakellarides , Constantino

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Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe

By: Saltman , Richard B.,Figueras, Josep,Sakellarides , Constantino

This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe. 17 chapters written by scholars and policy makers from all parts of Europe draw together the available evidence from epidemiology and public health, economics, public policy, organizational behaviour and management theory as well as real world policy making experience, laying out the options that health sector decision-makers confront. Through its cross-disciplinary, cross-national approach, the book highlights the underlying trends that now influence health policy formulation across Europe. An authoritative introduction provides a broad synthesis of present trends and strategies in European health policy.

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0335199704

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9780335199709

Three Selected Papers on Catalan Folklore

Traditional Literature and Ethnopoetics, Introduction to a History of Folklores Extraordinary Stories, Urban Legends

By: Josep M. Pujol

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Three Selected Papers on Catalan Folklore

Traditional Literature and Ethnopoetics, Introduction to a History of Folklores Extraordinary Stories, Urban Legends

By: Josep M. Pujol

This volume contains a selection of three translations of articles by Josep M. Pujol (Barcelona, 1947–2012), one in each of the three areas that he defined to characterise his work in the field of folklore: the theory of interactive artistic communication; the history of folklore studies and folk literature; and folk narrative. The three articles give a taste of the important contributions he made to the study of folklore, and which have been studied and contextualised by Carme Oriol in the introduction that precedes the three texts. This edition also includes the complete folkloric bibliography of Josep M. Pujol in chronological order, with all the references.

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PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA i VIRGILI

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8469591762

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9788469591765

The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

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The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

Old troubles with remote origins persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. When did Spain screw up? The Spanish Frustration provides an interpretation of several important aspects of present-day Spain and its past stories. It argues that, in the long term, Spain missed the opportunity to become a consolidated modern nation-state because it was entangled in imperial adventures for several centuries when it should have been building a solid domestic basis for further endeavors. In short: a ruinous empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy.

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Anthem Press

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178308989X

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9781783089895

Thermal Testing of Integrated Circuits

By: Josep Altet,Antonio Rubio

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Thermal Testing of Integrated Circuits

By: Josep Altet,Antonio Rubio

Temperature has been always considered as an appreciable magnitude to detect failures in electric systems. In this book, the authors present the feasibility of considering temperature as an observable for testing purposes, with full coverage of the state of the art.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402070764

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Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 1 Introductory Survey

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

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Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 1 Introductory Survey

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

Preliminary material -- CHRONICLE OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- POSSIBLE CONTACTS WITH EGYPT BEFORE THE FIRST MILLENNIUM -- THE EGYPTIAN, PSEUDOEGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MATERIAL -- INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- Plates I-XXVIII.

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BRILL

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9004295364

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9789004295360

EBOOK: Decentralization in Health Care: Strategies and Outcomes

By: Richard Saltman,Reinhard Busse,Josep Figueras

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EBOOK: Decentralization in Health Care: Strategies and Outcomes

By: Richard Saltman,Reinhard Busse,Josep Figueras

·What are the characteristics that define a Social Health Insurance system? ·How is success measured in SHI systems? ·How are SHI systems developing in response to external pressures? Using the seven Social Health Insurance countries in western Europe - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland - as well as Israel, this important book reviews core structural and organizational dimensions, as well as recent reforms and innovations. Covering a wide range of policy issues, the book: ·Explores the pressures these health systems confront to be more efficient, more effective, and more responsive ·Reviews their success in addressing these pressures ·Examines the implications of change on the structure of SHI’s as they are currently defined ·Draws out policy lessons about past experience and likely future developments in SHI systems in a manner useful to policymakers in Europe and elsewhere Social Health Insurance Systems in Western Europe will be of interest to students of health policy and management as well as health managers and policy-makers. Contributors: Helmut Brand, Jan Bultman, Reinhard Busse, Laurent Chambaud, David Chinitz, Diana M.J. Delnoij, André P. den Exter, Aad A. de Roo, Anna Dixon, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Hans F.W. Dubois, Josep Figueras, Bernhard Gibis, Stefan Greß, Bernhard J. Güntert, Jean Hermesse, Maria M. Hofmarcher, Martin McKee, Pedro W. Koch-Wulkan, Claude Le Pen, Kieke G.H. Okma, Martin Pfaff, Richard B. Saltman, Wendy G.M. van der Kraan, Jürgen Wasem, Manfred Wildner, Matthias Wismar.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335230210

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9780335230211

Remembering the Tatas

Domestic Women and Slavery in Tetouan (19th - 20th centuries)

By: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

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Remembering the Tatas

Domestic Women and Slavery in Tetouan (19th - 20th centuries)

By: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

This book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.

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9004681612

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Health and Ritual in Morocco

Conceptions of the Body and Healing Practices

By: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

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Health and Ritual in Morocco

Conceptions of the Body and Healing Practices

By: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

In Health and Ritual in Morocco, J. L. Mateo Dieste analyzes the many notions of the body in contemporary Morocco and shows how a rich universe of healing systems and rituals conforms to social and historical power relationships.

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9004232869

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9789004232860

Low-Power CMOS Digital Pixel Imagers for High-Speed Uncooled PbSe IR Applications

By: Josep Maria Margarit

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Low-Power CMOS Digital Pixel Imagers for High-Speed Uncooled PbSe IR Applications

By: Josep Maria Margarit

This book describes the development of a new low-cost medium wavelength IR (MWIR) monolithic imager technology for high-speed uncooled industrial applications. It takes the baton on the latest technological advances in the field of vapor phase deposition (VPD) PbSe-based MWIR detection accomplished by the industrial partner NIT S.L., adding fundamental knowledge on the investigation of novel VLSI analog and mixed-signal design techniques at circuit and system levels for the development of the readout integrated device attached to the detector. In order to fulfill the operational requirements of VPD PbSe, this work proposes null inter-pixel crosstalk vision sensor architectures based on a digital-only focal plane array (FPA) of configurable pixel sensors. Each digital pixel sensor (DPS) cell is equipped with fast communication modules, self-biasing, offset cancellation, analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and fixed pattern noise (FPN) correction. In-pixel power consumption is minimized by the use of comprehensive MOSFET subthreshold operation.

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Springer

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3319499629

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EBOOK: Purchasing to Improve Health Systems Performance

By: Josep Figueras,Ray Robinson,Elke Jakubowski

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EBOOK: Purchasing to Improve Health Systems Performance

By: Josep Figueras,Ray Robinson,Elke Jakubowski

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0335225004

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9780335225002

Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 2 Study of the Material

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

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Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 2 Study of the Material

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

Preliminary material /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- INTRODUCTION /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- I. WESTERN LANGUEDOC /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- II. CATALONIA /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- III. VALENCIA /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- IV. MURCIA /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- INDEX /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- LIST OF PLATES /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- Plates XXIX-LXV /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA.

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9004296417

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9789004296411

EBOOK: Economic Crisis, Health Systems and Health in Europe: Impact and Implications for Policy

By: Sarah Thomson,Josep Figueras,Tamás Evetovits,Matthew Jowett,Philipa Mladovsky,Anna Maresso,Jonathan Cylus,Marina Karanikolos,Hans Kluge

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EBOOK: Economic Crisis, Health Systems and Health in Europe: Impact and Implications for Policy

By: Sarah Thomson,Josep Figueras,Tamás Evetovits,Matthew Jowett,Philipa Mladovsky,Anna Maresso,Jonathan Cylus,Marina Karanikolos,Hans Kluge

Economic shocks pose a threat to health and health system performance by increasing people’s need for health care and making access to care more difficult – a situation compounded by cuts in public spending on health and other social services. But these negative effects can be avoided by timely public policy action. While important public policy levers lie outside the health sector, in the hands of those responsible for fiscal policy and social protection, the health system response is critical. This book looks at how health systems in Europe reacted to pressure created by the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. Drawing on the experience of over 45 countries, the authors:  analyse health system responses to the crisis in three policy areas: public funding for the health system; health coverage; and health service planning, purchasing and delivery assess the impact of these responses on health systems and population health identify policies most likely to sustain the performance of health systems facing financial pressure explore the political economy of implementing reforms in a crisis The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the choices available to policy-makers - and the implications of failing to protect health and health-system performance - in the face of economic and other forms of shock.

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0335264018

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9780335264018

EBOOK: Decentralization in Health Care: Strategies and Outcomes

By: Richard Saltman,Reinhard Busse,Josep Figueras

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By: Richard Saltman,Reinhard Busse,Josep Figueras

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EBOOK: Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe

By: Richard B. Saltman,Josep Figueras,Constantino Sakellarides

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By: Richard B. Saltman,Josep Figueras,Constantino Sakellarides

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033523268X

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9780335232680

The Parameterization Method for Invariant Manifolds

From Rigorous Results to Effective Computations

By: Àlex Haro,Marta Canadell,Jordi-Lluis Figueras,Alejandro Luque,Josep Maria Mondelo

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The Parameterization Method for Invariant Manifolds

From Rigorous Results to Effective Computations

By: Àlex Haro,Marta Canadell,Jordi-Lluis Figueras,Alejandro Luque,Josep Maria Mondelo

This monograph presents some theoretical and computational aspects of the parameterization method for invariant manifolds, focusing on the following contexts: invariant manifolds associated with fixed points, invariant tori in quasi-periodically forced systems, invariant tori in Hamiltonian systems and normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. This book provides algorithms of computation and some practical details of their implementation. The methodology is illustrated with 12 detailed examples, many of them well known in the literature of numerical computation in dynamical systems. A public version of the software used for some of the examples is available online. The book is aimed at mathematicians, scientists and engineers interested in the theory and applications of computational dynamical systems.

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3319296620

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