japanischen Markt f?r Medizintechnik setzt die Thematik in einen empirischen Rahmen. Es wird deutlich, dass die zuvor in einem … Hersteller sind, verglichen mit ihrer Position auf dem Weltmarkt f?r Medizintechnik, im L?ndermarkt Japan deutlich unterrepr?sentiert. …

unterzogen. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, was die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Medizintechnik ausmacht. Hierbei liegt ein … Erfolgsfaktoren mit der Medizintechnik verglichen. Das Konzept der "Langen Wellen" präzisiert die Spezifika der Medizintechnikbranche … between the medical device industry cluster, innovations and the German health care system. It is showed which impact …

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

eignet. Ein Exkurs zum amerikanischen Gesundheitswesen vermittelt dem Leser den n?tigen Hintergrund. Eine kritische …The paper is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and … health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a stronger indicator of fertility than child mortality alone;and (3) what …-year time span (1990-2005) is used. Resultsindicate that both the child mortality rate and the child health model are strong … indicatorsof fertility change and produce better results than population mortality or socioeconomicfactors alone. Use of health …

In an era when most societies are coping with greater demand for health resources, choices will have to be made about … the provision of health services. Strategic health planning must take into account the comparative burden of diseases and … analyzing information on population health and making it more relevant for health policy and planning purposes. The …