Health Care Issues: An International Perspective

Edited by Dr. J.N. Yfantopoulos, G.T. Papanikos & Z. Boutsioli

ISBN: 978-960-6672-15-6, 500 pages, Hardback

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