First published in 2006 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

	Table of Contents	iii
	List of Contributors	vii
1.	Health care issues: an introduction J.N. Yfantopoulos, G.T. Papanikos & Z. Boutsioli	1
PART 1: Health Care Economic Issues
2.	The role of official development assistance in improving health in the world: an illustration with under-five mortality rate C. Korachais	27
3.	Essential elements for a hedonic model in the medical market R. Bradley	51
4.	Is taking a pill a day good for health expenditure? Evidence from a cross section time series analysis of 19 OECD countries from 1970 to 2000 B. Verbelen	71
5.	Comparative cost analysis of health expenditure between tobacco smoker and non smoker families in an urban slum S.P. Mukhopadhyay	101
6.	Long-run responsiveness of cigarrete smoking to cigarette price: evidence from Taiwan C.-P. Loh, C.-S. Chien & T.-C. Liu	111
7.	The use and costs of disease specific medication during the waiting time and three months after total hip replacement U. Tuominen, J. Hirvonen & M. Blom	137
8.	Rehabilitation care and Diagnosis Related Groups (REDIA-Study): the impacts of adopting DRGs in the acute care sector on quality and cost of rehabilitation care in Germany N. Meyer & A. Klemann	141
9.	A comparison of neoclassical and managerial discretion models and the new classical model of the firm with respect to the stractrure and behavior of hospitals G.S. Rivers	153
PART 2: Health Care Management Issues
10.	Implementing strategies in health care organizations: results from an on field research A. Francesconi	191
11.	Who must the hospital be administered by? By doctors or by administrators? An application from Turkey M. Uydaci, O. Alkan & E. Dinçer	207
12.	Physicians and quality management: is there a good match? A. Manaf	225
13.	‘Emergency surgical pathway’ … keep it separate from elective pathway G.R. Mufti	251
14.	Estimating expected caseload for physicians: with application to hypertensive patients M. Cree & K. Carriere	261
15.	Improving health outcomes in geriatrics: combined research, university-community collaboration and practice programs D. Nunez & C. Armbruster	273
PART 3: Health Care Policy Issues
16.	European integration process and European national health systems: from competition, cooperation solutions to a centered approach S. Bruzzi	285
17.	Measuring health inequalities J.P. Scanlan	311
18.	Integrated health care network: the experience of the rehabilitation sector C. Masella & N. Piraino	331
19.	Health education programs in Greek primary schools – enchancing development and implemention of school health education M. Gerouki	353
20.	School-based Telemedicine in Kansas: parent perceptions of health and economic benefits R. Spaulding, D. Cook & G. Doolittle	371
21.	Perception of the health status and environmental features in urban areas: preliminary results M.-L. Cristina, F. Perdelli, M. Sartini & P. Orlando	387
22.	The discrete choice experiment technique: developing a research tool for understanding service users’ views and improving the performance of the Greek health care system P. Papanikolaou	395
PART 4: Specific Health Care Country Analyses
23.	Financing under adversity: the case of Palestinian Health Care System (HCS) M. Ashour	417
24.	Why is HIV prevalence higher for rich people? Evidence from Kenya J. Fliedner & E. Deuchert	437
25.	Using an area-based socio-economic indicator in ecological analysis to explore inequalities in mortality in Styria, Austria G. Grasser & U. Reichenpfader	455
26.	Social insurance and country of birth: analysis of differences in the use of social insurance between native born and foreign born Swedes M. Ossowicki & J. Söderberg	467
27.	Regional health policy and health care reform in Slovakia: analysis and suggested approach J. Sebo, H. Kuvikova & B. Merickova	493
28.	The process of health policy reform in the English-speaking Caribbean: case studies in National Health Insurance R. Van Kalliecharan	517