Intercultural Dialogue on Health Economics, Management and Policy: Challenges and Chances

Edited by Sabine Bohnet-Joschko & Zoe Boutsioli

ISBN: 978-618-5065-26-3, 326 pages

First published in 2014 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 40€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

1.	Intercultural Dialogue on Health Economics Management and Policy: Challenges and Chances: An Introduction Sabine Bohnet-Joschko and Zoe Boutsioli	1
Part A: Health Quality, Economics and Outcomes
2.	Quality of Life of Australian Chronically-Ill Adults: Smoking has more Effect on Females than Males Upali Jayasinghe and Mark Harris	11
3.	Poverty vs. Health of Women Seda Kocabacak	29
4.	Establishing the Connection between Livable Community Assets and Public Health Virginia Sisiopiku and Abdul Muqueet Abro	41
5.	The Relationship among Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Stress and Intention of Leaving the Job of Health Personnel Ece Ugurluoglu Aldogan, Ozgur Ugurluoglu, Pinar Doganay Payziner and Yonca Ozatkan	55
6.	The Study about Factors of Emotional Intelligence, Optimism and Psychological Resiliency that Affects on Emotional Labor Displays among Healthcare Employees Şebnem Aslan	65
7.	Back to Square one: How Patient Satisfaction Survey Flaws Bias Assessments of Health Care Quality Moses Altsech	79
8.	The Conflict between Efficiency and Equality in Health Outcomes: Determination of SWF Parameters Micaela Moreira Pinho, Anabela Botelho and Paula Veiga	91
9.	Current Knowledge on the Benefits and Disbenefits of Clinical Genetic Services from a CBA Perspective: Are New Methodologies Needed? Christalla Pithara	105
10.	Change in Healthcare: Using Existing Theory to Develop Tools for Qualitative Analysis Sara McCafferty	117
11.	Cost Analysis in Health Institutions: A Sample Application Ozlem Ozer and Ilkay Sevinc Turac	129
12.	A Private Hospital Example for the Analysis of Unit Costs in Hospital Enterprises Aliye Asli Sonsuz and İsmail Agirbas	141
Part B: Decision-Making, Governance and Ethics in Healthcare
13.	Supporting Seniors at Home through Integrated Health Care: Canada and France Compared Douglas Angus, Corinne Grenier, Michèle St-Pierre, François Gambarelli and Alejandra Dubois	157
14.	Decision Making in a Local Governmental Organization: A Case Study of Decision Making in a Local Japanese Healthcare Management Organization by Analytic Hierarchy Process Fumihiko Isada	171
15.	Equity Aspect of Health Care Delivery in India Lakshmi Narayan Dash	183
16.	Mental Health Disability Discrimination Litigation in Britain Graeme Lockwood	193
17.	Price Elasticity of Demand of the Pharmaceuticals in Latvia Diana Araja	207
18.	Contracting Out in Hospitals: Evaluation of Hospital Managers Cagdas Erkan Akyurek and Sukru Anil Toygar	221
19.	Health Care Corporations: Reconciling Profit Making Prerogatives with Moral Obligations in an Economically Disparate World Simeon EH Davies	233
Part C: Knowledge, Innovation and Communication in Healthcare
20.	Patient-oriented Interactive E-health Tools on USA Hospital Web Sites Edgar Huang and Chiu-Chi Angela Chang	247
21.	Near Miss Reporting Systems in the German Hospital Sector: Evidence on the Diffusion of Clinical Risk Management Approaches Sabine Bohnet-Joschko and Claus Zippel	259
22.	Determining the Levels of Communication Skills of Faculty of Health Sciences Students Türkan Yildirim, Bayram Göktaş and İ. H. Cankul	271
23.	HIV / AIDS Education for Young People in Greece: Needs and Challenges Nikolaos Manesis and Margarita Gerouki	287
24.	The Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviors of Adults towards Alternative Medicine: A Study in Turkey Dilaver Tengilimoğlu and Alper Güzel	299
25.	Functional Food Innovation and Health Care Cost Savings: The Case of CLA-Enhanced Milk Jill Hobbs, Stavroula Malla and Tomasz Cybruk	315