The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't Pdf

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Release: 2012-09-25
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0300179286
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The Cost Disease pdf
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The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, the well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a major source of rapidly rising costs in service sectors of the economy. Once we understand that disease, he explains, effective responses become apparent.Baumol presents his analysis with characteristic clarity, tracing the fast-rising prices of health care and education in the United States and other major industrial nations, then examining the underlying causes, which have to do with the nature of providing labor-intensive services. The news is good, Baumol reassures us, because the nature of the disease is such that society will be able to afford the rising costs. Download The Cost Disease for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Reaching the Poor With Health, Nutrition, And Population Services: What Works, What Doesn't, And Why Pdf

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Release: 2005-08-29
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0821359614
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This volume presents eleven case studies that document how well or poorly health, nutrition, and population programs have reached disadvantaged groups in the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where they were undertaken. The studies were commissioned by the Reaching the Poor Program, undertaken by the Word Bank in cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Dutch and Swedish governments, in an effort to find better ways of ensuring that health, nutrition, and population programs benefit the neediest. These case studies, reinforced by other material gathered by the Reaching the Poor Program, indicate clearly that health programs do not have to be inequitable. Although most health, nutrition, and population services achieve much lower coverage among disadvantaged groups than among the better-off, many significant and instructive exceptions exist. These show that the poor can be reached much more effectively than at present and point to! potentially promising Download Reaching the Poor With Health, Nutrition, And Population Services for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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