Health Economics, Social Policy and Healthcare Management
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 4046
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare is recognized as one of the most crucial factors influencing economic growth in developed countries. Moreover, healthcare, as part of welfare services, is also becoming more and more crucial in developing countries.
However, aging, technological innovation, and more complex patient needs are creating enormous financial pressure, therefore raising issues about the sustainability of healthcare expenditure.
For these reasons, new management and evaluation tools and techniques aiming to assess the value of new health programs are designed in order to integrate the healthcare and social perspectives.
Moreover, the development of digital technologies as new tools to manage chronic patients and to pursue financial and economic affordability while increasing organizational efficiency calls for new approaches to the evaluation of healthcare programs. Further, the development and design of new health professional roles as well as task shifting are perceived as a new challenge for integration, coordination, and quality of care.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect relevant research that will allow a better understanding of the methodological and policy challenges concerning the challenges highlighted above.
In more detail, the papers that will be considered for publication will be on:
- New methods or applications for health technology assessment;
- Economic evaluations;
- Health policy evaluations;
- Health professional roles;
- Economic impact of the introduction of digital technologies in healthcare.
Prof. Dr. Matteo Ruggeri
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- health technology assessment
- health economics
- economic evaluations
- health and social policy evaluation
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