THEMES ON HEALTH CARE: Challenges and
Future Actions
Edited by Zoe Boutsioli
ISBN: 978-960-6672-54-5, 442 pages
First published in
2009 by ATINER
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Table of Contents
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List of Contributors |
i |
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Table of Contents |
iii |
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Chapter 1 Health Care Systems:
Challenges and Future Actions – An Introduction Z. Boutsioli |
1 |
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Section 1: Health Insurance |
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Chapter 2 Development of Lists and
Referred Prices for Assistive Devices for Persons with Disability: Thai National Health
Security System K. Chunthai, K. Turner, C. Haruthai and P. Jirojanakul |
25 |
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Chapter 3 Introducing the Fixed
Standard Price System and Co-payment System into the Provision of Assistive
Devices for Persons with Disability in P. Jirojanakul, K. Chunthai,
C. Haruthai and K. Turner |
37 |
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Chapter 4 Public Utility
Corporation Model for Providing Comprehensive Health Insurance in the State
of U. Reischl |
51 |
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Chapter 5 Health Insurance and
Access to Care: The Plight of the L. Paringer |
61 |
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Section 2: Public Health |
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Chapter 6 The Longevity gains of
Education Y. Sanchez |
77 |
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Chapter 7 Perception and Awareness
of ’Healthy Eating’: Is there any Difference between Developed and Developing
Countries? J. Puspa and R. Kühl |
91 |
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Chapter 8 Employing an Excise Tax as Part of an Anti-obesity Strategy G. Hawley |
111 |
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Chapter 9 The Socio-economic
Determinants of Health Outcomes: Evidence from 23 OECD Countries D. BaŞar, Z. ÇaliŞkan
and S. KiliÇ |
125 |
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Chapter 10 Prediction of Daily AMI
Incidence based on the Weather Forecast: A Case Study of Finland N. Schreier, E. Moltchanova, O. Kuik, N. Lammi and M. Karvonen
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135 |
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Chapter 11 A Method of Finding
Target Groups for Controlling the Cost of Lifestyle-related Diseases T. Kojo, I. Innami and T. Kuroshima
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153 |
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Chapter 12 Designing Efficient
Organizational Structure for Rare Diseases: The Case of Centre of Reference
for Rare Diseases in I. Hirtzlin, A. Le Chaffotec,
C. Staropoli and L. Zhou |
169 |
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Chapter 13 Families: What makes them
Functional and Dysfunctional?- A Comparative Study of M. Mohanty |
187 |
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Chapter 14 New Challenges emerging
from Polish Health Economics Studies performed in Accordance with the Requirements
of One of the American Schools of Public Health M. Bryla, W. Stelmach
and I. Maniecka-Bryla |
213 |
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Section 3: Hospitals |
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Chapter 15 Situations of Burnout
among the Managers and Health Employees who Work in Clinics at Three
Hospitals in Ö.R. Önder, A.R. Demirbaş and N. Sarp |
225 |
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Chapter 16 Determining Conflict
Management Strategies of Managers at Ministry of Health Hospitals in A. Ezel Esatoglu,
S. Karagoz, |
243 |
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Chapter 17 Types of Disasters that
Hospitals faced in Ankara-Turkey N. Sarp |
263 |
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Chapter 18 Scents in a Paediatric Service: Stakes and Prospects M. Naja |
275 |
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Chapter 19 Procurement of
Intermediary Services: Interpreters in the Dutch
Health Care F. Felsö |
287 |
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Chapter 20 The Cost Efficiency of
Hospitals in J. Rój |
309 |
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Section 4: Health Care Economics |
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Chapter 21 The Impacts of Public
Health Care financing on Income Redistribution I. Honekamp and D. Possenriede |
321 |
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Chapter 22 Fudning Health Care in G. Yenimahalleli-Yasar |
333 |
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Chapter 23 Costs of Patients with
and without Nosocomial Infections in Surgery Wards
at S. Ajami, M. Bolokian
and M. Ataee |
349 |
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Chapter 24 Elaboration of
Therapeutic Protocols in an Intensive Care Unit - Impact on Medical Practices
and Costs D. Tonduangu and F. Jungfer
Bouvier |
357 |
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Chapter 25 International Law and
Optimal Antiretroviral Drug Access
C.E.S. Warburton |
365 |
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Chapter 26 Incompatible Logics of
Competing Stakeholders in Biotechnology Clusters E. Kasabov |
385 |
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Chapter 27 Economic Analysis of Autologous Blood Transfusion considering a Utilisation
Coefficient K. Gäbler, M. Leben, H. Hofmann and C. Trautner |
399 |
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Section 5: Health Policy |
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Chapter 28 Policy Change and
Institutional Isomorphism in Health Care G.E. Randall |
417 |
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Chapter 29 S. Ni Luasa |
431 |