This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and
health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A …

Background Telemedicine, the use of information technology and telecommunication to
provide healthcare at a distance, is a burgeoning field with applications throughout …

Background Clinical video telehealth (CVT) offers the opportunity to improve access to
healthcare providers in medically underserved areas. However, because CVT encounters …

The striking growth of online communities in recent years has sparked significant interest in
understanding and quantifying benefits of participation. While research has begun to …

Importance As the US population continues to increase and age, there is an unmet need for
dermatologic care; therefore, it is important to identify and understand the characteristics and …

The availability of, and access to, primary health care is one neighbourhood characteristic
that has the potential to impact health thus representing an important area of focus for …

Now in its fourth edition, The Economics of Health Reconsidered presents an argument that
still holds true: despite assertions to the contrary, neither economic theory nor evidence …

Background: There is substantial variation in the cost and intensity of care delivered by US
hospitals. We assessed how the structure of patient-sharing networks of physicians affiliated …

For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand
and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask …

Background Growing physician maldistribution and population demographic shifts have
contributed to large geographic variation in healthcare access and the emergence of …