Health Economics, Management and Policy

Edited by Dr. J.N. Yfantopoulos & G.T. Papanikos

ISBN: ISBN 960-88672-6-6, 432 pages, Hardback

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Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	vii
1.	Health Economics, Management and Policy: An Introduction John N. Yfantopoulos and Gregory T. Papanikos	1
PART 1 – HEALTH ECONOMICS
2.	The Effect of Structural Adjustment on Poverty and Health in Turkey: An Empirical Investigation Zafer Caliskan	15
3.	Government Health Expenditure and Health Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Data Analysis Oluyele Akinkugbe	39
4.	What Drives Pharmaceutical Expenditures in Greece? Dimitra Lambrelli and Owen O’ Donnel	55
5.	Benchmarking and Measuring the Performance of Elderly Care Units in Finland: Productivity, Productive Efficiency and Quality of Care in 2000-2003 Juha Laine	75
6.	Economic and Policy Considerations Centered on Self-Sampling for Cervical and Vaginal Diseases in Developed and Developing Countries Asma Aftab, Gilbert Saint-Jean and Arthur Fournier	89
7.	The Economic Burden of Chagas’ Disease in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review and a New Cost-Effectiveness Markov Model Leslie Wilson, Arthur Strosberg and Kimberly Barrio	99
PART 2 – HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
8.	“Global Boarders”: Leaving Zimbabwe – Factors Influencing Undergraduate Student’s Decision to Study Nursing in the UK Sue Dyson	135
9.	Aspects of Health Economy and Management in Public Health Education: The Example of Study Programs at Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences H. Kreuter and W. von Stünzner	173
10.	Organisational Learning and Care Management: A Case Study from Services for People with Learning Disabilities David M. Rea	191
11.	An Analysis of the Strategies for Public Hospitals Cristina Madorran-García and Isabel de Val-Pardo	219
12.	The Implications of UK National Health Service Managers’ Views Faruk Merali	237
13.	Disaster Preparedness in Healthcare Nilgun Sarp	261
14.	A Review of Decision Support Tools for Making Health Resource Allocation Decisions at the Institutional Level Roger Chafe	277
15.	International Food Safety Standards: Science vs. Socio-economic Determinants Tracy Murray	299
PART 3 – HEALTH POLICY AND OTHER ISSUES
16.	Exploring Possibilities for Consumer Choice in the German Health Care System Silvia Anton, Lisa Klautzer, Silke Toenshoff, Han de Vries and James P. Kahan	323
17.	Health Care Reform and Consequences for Patients with a Chronic Condition: Evidence from the Implementation of a List-patient System in Norwegian General Practice Jon Erik Finnvold and Jørgen Svalund	329
18.	Evolution of the French Health System: A Lexical Analysis Philippe Abecassis, Philippe Batifoulier, Isabelle Bilon, Frédéric Gannon and Bénédicte Martin	343
19.	Processes of Care for Cognitive Dependence in Old Age in the European Union Countries Vincent Coutton	363
20.	Analysis of Personality Design Levels of Smoking and Non-Smoking Teenagers Figen Gürsoy and Müdriye Yildiz Biçakçi	387
21.	Variables Impacting Obesity among African American Women in Omaha Shirley A. Blanchard	401
22.	Ethnic Question and Antenatal Screening for Sickle Cell/ Thalassaemia [Equans] in England Simon M. Dyson	419