Unhealthy Profits
Unhealthy Profits

Author: John Lister

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-11-19

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0244734429

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The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) - the use of private funds to build public sector infrastructure - began in 1992. Since then it has been one of the most contentious policies advocated by both Conservative and Labour governments. After 25 years of costly failure the policy has now been abandoned by Labour and Tory parties. 125 British PFIs are NHS projects, which will cost over £80 billion for buildings built for £12bn. Many PFI companies are now owned offshore, paying no tax on profits, while the extra costs of PFI hang like a millstone dragging down NHS trusts. Unhealthy Profits explores the theory and practice, costs and consequences of PFI, how it has spread world-wide, and what can be done about it. And as a unique case study, it tells the story of the UNISON Branch in Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust that has commissioned the book - and fought PFI all the way.

The Ultimate Question
The Ultimate Question

Author: Fred Reichheld

Publisher:

Published: 2007-08

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781602521605

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One Simple Question Can Determine Your Company's Future. Do You Know the Answer? The Ultimate Question offers hands-on guidance on how to: Distinguish good profits from bad. Measure NPS and benchmark performance against world-class standards. Quantify the economic value generated by customer word of mouth. Assign accountability for improving customer relationships. Identify core customers and set priorities for strategic investments. Move customers beyond mere satisfaction to true loyalty. Create communities of passionate advocates that stimulate innovation and growth. Practical and compelling, The Ultimate Question will help you solve your organization's growth dilemma.

The Neoliberal Diet
The Neoliberal Diet

Author: Gerardo Otero

Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 147731699X

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This “remarkable, comprehensive” study of neoliberal agribusiness and the obesity epidemic “is critical reading for food studies scholars” (Contemporary Sociology). Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much “energy-dense” food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger than individual lifestyle choices. Since the 1980s, the shift toward neoliberal regulation has enabled agribusiness multinationals to thrive by selling a combination of meat and highly processed foods loaded with refined flour and sugars—a diet that originated in the United States. Drawing on extensive empirical data, Gerardo Otero identifies the socioeconomic and political forces that created this diet, which has been exported around the globe at the expense of people’s health. Otero shows how state-level actions, particularly subsidies for big farms and agribusiness, have ensured the dominance of processed foods and made fresh foods inaccessible to many. Comparing agrifood performance across several nations, including the NAFTA region, and correlating food access to class inequality, he convincingly demonstrates the structural character of food production and the effect of inequality on individual food choices. Resolving the global obesity crisis, Otero concludes, lies not in blaming individuals but in creating state-level programs to reduce inequality and make healthier food accessible to all.

Toward a Healthy Society
Toward a Healthy Society

Author: Milton Fisk

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Ideally, the public fund behind this insurance would be derived from a progressive income tax."--BOOK JACKET.

Food and Nutrition Economics
Food and Nutrition Economics

Author: George C. Davis

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0199379122

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Winner of the 2017 Quality of Communication Award presented by The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association As the importance of food and nutrition becomes more widely recognized by practitioners and researchers in the health sciences, one persisting gap in the knowledge base remains: what are the economic factors that influence our food and our health? Food and Nutrition Economics offers a much-needed resource for non-economists looking to understand the basic economic principles that govern our food and nutritional systems. Comprising both a quick grounding in nutrition with the fundamentals of economics and expert applications to food systems, it is a uniquely accessible and much-needed bridge between previously disparate scholarly and professional fields. This book is intended for upper level undergraduates, graduate students, and health professionals with no background in economics who recognize that economics affects much of their work. Concerned because previous encounters with economics have been hampered by math hurdles? Don't be; this book offers a specialized primer in consumer economics (including behavioral economics of food consumption), producer economics, market-level analysis, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit analysis, all in an accessible and conversational manner that requires nothing more than middle-school math acumen. Grounding these lessons in contemporary issues such as soft drink taxes, food prices, convenience, nutrition education programs, and the food environment, Food and Nutrition Economics is an innovative and needed entry in the rapidly expanding universe of food studies, health science, and their related fields.

Sick to Debt
Sick to Debt

Author: Peter A. Ubel

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0300249195

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An informed argument for reworking the broken market†‘based U.S. healthcare system by making cost and quality more transparent The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high†‘deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amounts out of pocket before insurance kicks in. The idea behind this shift is that patients will become better consumers of healthcare when forced to pay for their medical expenses. Laying bare the perils of the current situation, Peter A. Ubel—a physician and behavioral scientist—notes that even when patients have time to shop around, healthcare costs remain largely opaque, difficult to access, and hard to compare. Arguing for a middle path between a market†‘based and a completely free system, Ubel envisions more transparent, smarter healthcare plans that tie the prices of treatments to the value they provide so that people can afford to receive the care they deserve.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress Senate

Publisher:

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 2602

ISBN-13:

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The Ultimate Question 2.0
The Ultimate Question 2.0

Author: Frederick F. Reichheld

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1422173356

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Based on extensive research, this book shows how companies can rigorously measure Net Promoter statistics, help managers improve them, and create communities of passionate advocates that stimulate innovation.