...Stephanie Bilderback Purpose This paper explores the significance of work-based learning in the context of leadership development, organizational growth and the promising economic success in Tennessee organizations. It aims to investigate the practical implications of work-based learning, focusing...

... to determine elements of telehealth that have the potential to increase costs for the health system in the short to medium term. A search of PubMed, EMBASE and Scopus databases was performed in May 2018 using broad terms for telehealth and economics. Articles were included if they identified...

..., social, economic and political events. This escalating complexity necessitates changes in how we study and intervene in our world (Mitchell, 2009). Twentieth century research pursued large scale answers to many problems on the assumption that life and the world we live in could be, to a large extent...

...Mark Learmonth; Neil Small; Russell Mannion Purpose Mainstream health economics labours under a misleading understanding of the nature of the topic area and suffers from a concomitant poverty of thinking about theory and method. The purpose here is to explore this critical position and argue...

...Brian Ferguson; Jennifer N.W. Lim This paper attempts to define quality (particularly in terms of evidence‐based health care) and considers the incentives available to bring about improvements in quality. It examines the contribution that economics, as a discipline, can make to the debate...

...Peter Kangis; Leo van der Geer Reports on a small‐scale study of 30 general practitioners and 30 specialists in Greece where pharmaco‐economic information was presented to these prescribers and an attempt made to observe changes in reported choice of treatment consequent on this exposure. Concludes...

... and implementation of action plans within each department. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Costs Economics Management Operational audit A common argument for regulation in health care is that the level of information and knowledge available to producers and consumers is insufficient for the decisions made...