Louise Potvin · David V. McQueen Editors 2009 Values and Research

Peter Zweifel · Friedrich Breyer · Mathias Kifmann 2009 Health Economics is a fascinating subject. This book provides a systematic treatment of this field of study. It is based on a German version which has been well received since 1992, resulting in five editions so far. It serves both as a textbook in university courses at the Master […]

Kanagasingam Yogesan, Lodewijk Bos, Peter Brett, and Michael Christopher Gibbons (Eds.) 2009 Digital homecare is defined as the use of information and communication technologies to enable delivery and management of health care services at home. Due to various needs digital home care is becoming part of main stream health care delivery in most of the countries. This book […]

J.O. R amsay . Giles Hooker . Spencer Graves 2009 This contribution to the useR! series by Springer is designed to show newcomers how to do functional data analysis in the two popular languages, Matlab and R. We hope that this book will substantially reduce the time and effort required to use these techniques to gain valuable insights […]

DasunWeerasinghe (Ed.) 2009 First International Conference eHealth 2008, the First International Conference on Electronic healthcare for the twenty-first century, was held in City University, London, during September 8–9, 2008. The conference was organized as a meeting point for telecare product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic and mobile health, to examine and […]

Malcolm MacLachlan • Leslie Swartz Editors 2009 Until fairly recently, the fields of disability studies and international development were viewed as completely separate. Much of what we know about disability and contemporary approaches to disability was researched and written about in wealthier countries, and it remains true to say that the major debates about disability are dominated by people […]

Nancy B. Finn • William F. Bria 2009 This series is directed to Healthcare professionals who are leading the transformation of health care by using information and knowledge. Historically, the series was launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, to offer a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; […]

Rashid Mehmood Eduardo Cerqueira Radoslaw Piesiewicz Imrich Chlamtac (Eds.) 2009 Systems and Applications in Europe The First International ICST Conference on Communications Infrastructure, Systems and Applications in Europe (EuropeComm 2009) was held August 11–13, 2009, in London. EuropeComm 2009 brought together decision makers from the EU commission, top researchers and industry executives to discuss the directions of communications research […]

Cheryl Vince Whitman l Carmen E. Aldinger Editors 2009