The price of smoking

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a ...

Los inventores de enfermedades

cómo nos convierten en pacientes

Jörg Blech nos descubre de qué manera la industria farmacéutica nos manipula y hace todo lo posible por convertirnos sistemáticamente en pacientes y da las claves sobre cómo podemos protegernos de ello. En los últimos años, en el mundo industrializado, han hecho su aparición una ...

Territorial politics and health policy

UK health policy in comparative perspective

CONTENTS: 1. Laboratories of democracy? 2. Medical politics and the politics of medicine 3. Scotland: professionalism 4. England: markets 5. Wales: localism 6. Northern Ireland: permissive managerialism 7. Creating divergent policy in the UK 8. Conclusion: international debates, local conclusions

Public Health, ethics, and equity

ÍNDICE: Amartya Sen: Preface Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: Introduction I. Health Equity 1 Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2 Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3 Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4 Norman ...

Who should pay for Medicare?

Good news first? The good news is that Americans today are living longer, in part because of continual advances in healthcare. But the bad news is that with our aging population larger than ever before, nothing is being done to ensure that we can continue ...

La escuela no es una empresa

el ataque neoliberal a la enseñanza pública

En este libro, cuyo título es un grito de alarma popularizado entre los sindicatos de enseñantes y profesores franceses, el autor denuncia la progresiva mercantilización de la escuela, dónde los objetivos y los resultados ya no son el aprendizaje y la formación de adultos responsables ...

Financing human capital

a capital markets approach to student funding

Most higher education finance literature assumes that students cannot pledge their future earnings to finance their education in a free society. Investing in Human Capital challenges that assumption and explores human capital contracts as an alternative mechanism for financing higher education. Investing in Human Capital ...

Calidad en los servicios educativos

Este libro es un verdadero manual de consulta que presenta tanto una guía completa sobre los sistemas de calidad así como la teoría y experiencias quedan amplia respuesta a las expectativas del lector. En el se presenta la teoría y la práctica de la calidad ...

The political economy of education

implications for growth and inequality

The dominant role played by the state in the financing, regulation, and provision of primary and secondary education reflects the widely-held belief that education is necessary for personal and societal well-being. The economic organization of education depends on political as well as market mechanisms to ...

Modelos de gestión para médicos de familia

Este libro comprende temas variados, desde la calidad a la inteligencia artificial, tema en el que el autor posee amplia experiencia, de la teoría de juegos a las proporciones y el caos, de la teoría de la decisión a la historia clínica electrónica. Los temas ...

Transport developments and innovations in an evolving world

The book is describing technological developments as well as urban futures in the information age where the development of ICT sets the pace and options. Despite this dynamic development, the book describes how stabile daily travelling still is and highlights the achievable impacts and acceptability ...

Urban and regional transportation modeling

essays in honor of David Boyce

Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of- the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning. Authors from academia and industry, all experts ...

Technology, television and competition

The Politics of Digital TV.

In the late 19805s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. A key common feature to the debates ayer digital TV (DTV) in the United States, Western Europe and japan was the eventual victory ...

Wireless data services

technologies business models and global markets

There are over 1.3 billion mobile subscribers around the world. It is interesting to note that wireless technologies have been adopted differently in key geographies such as Asia, Europe, and North America. Technologies such as i-mode in Japan, SMS in Europe, PDAs and Blackberry ...

The laws of cool

knowledge work and the culture of information

Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even the world of higher education. But what perspective can the knowledge of the humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what is the role of ...

Understanding changing telecommunications

building a succesful telecom business

This volume will be an invaluable tool for all those needing a broad and complete view of the telecommunications industry, ranging from managers and planning staff with operators, service providers, network and terminal vendors, business analysts and investors to engineers and students. ÍNDICE:1 Introduction ...

Profiling machines

mapping the personal information economy

In this book Greg Elmer brings the perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information. When we ...

Mobile disruption

the technologies and applications driving the mobile internet

* A disruptive technology is a technology or innovation that results in worse product performance different from the expected or predicted performance; an example is that the Internet accessible mobile phone was thought to be a portable substitute for the PC-the actual applications of mobile phones ...

AS media studies

the essential introduction

In full colour throughout and featuring new case studies, this fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction covers all aspects of Media Studies for students of the AS and A-level media syllabus. The authors, who are experienced teachers ...

Scheduled-based dynamic transit modeling

theory and applications

Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling. In the last ten years the schedule-based dynamic approach has been developed and applied especially for operational planning. It allows time evolution of on- board loads and travel ...