Author: Administrator

Long-term care is a set of services delivered over a sustained period of time to people who lack some degree of functional capacity. Put alternatively, long-term care is the help needed to cope, and sometimes to survive, when physical and cognitive disabilities impair the ability to perform activities …

Throughout the nineteenth century in the western world, home health care (HHC) existed to care for new mothers and those with infectious diseases. In the mid-twentieth century, HHC began to transform, as the proportion of older people in the general population steadily increased and with it the need …

In most developed economies, universal health insurance coverage is standard and healthcare is paid for using insurance that is either mandated for those who can afford the premiums or subsidized through taxes. In the US, however, insurance purchase was not mandated through the 2000s, and almost 20% of …

Microeconomics contains a theoretically based framework that describes how an individual business enterprise chooses to optimize production and cost efficiency, given existing technologies and prices of inputs. Within this supply side structure, the production function models the relationship between outputs produced and inputs used in the process, and …

Ambulance and Patient Transport Services include Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and private ambulance services, which supply emergency prehospital care, including basic medical support and roadside transport to hospitals for patients experiencing medical emergencies. In recent years, a number of economists have written thoughtful and careful papers on EMS; …