Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Information Resources Management Association

Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 478

ISBN13: 9781522531685|ISBN10: 1522531688|EISBN13: 9781522531692

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3168-5

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The effective delivery of healthcare services is vital to the general welfare and well-being of a country’s citizens. Financial infrastructure and policy reform can play a significant role in optimizing existing healthcare programs.

Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is a comprehensive source of academic material on the importance of economic structures and policy reform initiatives in modern healthcare systems. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as clinical costing, patient engagement, and e-health, this book is ideally designed for medical practitioners, researchers, professionals, and students interested in the optimization of healthcare delivery.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

E-Health

Chapter 1

Telemedicine and Electronic Health: Issues and Implications in Developing Countries (pages 1-19)

Kijpokin Kasemsap

This chapter reveals the overview of telemedicine; telemedicine in developing countries; Electronic Health Record (EHR); and mobile health technologies. Telemedicine and Electronic Health (e-health) are modern technologies toward...

Chapter 2

Mobile Health Technology Evaluation: Innovativeness and Efficacy vs. Cost Effectiveness (pages 20-41)

Sherina Idrish, Afrin Rifat, Mehree Iqbal, Nabila Nisha

Globally, the advancement of mobile technology and the growing number of mobile phone users has promoted the boom in mobile health services. The influence of mobile technology has, in fact, made healthcare delivery more accessible...

Chapter 3

Customer Value Dimensions in E-Healthcare Services: Lessons From Finland (pages 42-55)

Kirsti Lindberg-Repo, Apramey Dube

Healthcare services have been extensively researched for customer value creation activities. There has been, however, limited attention on the dimensions of customer value, as reported by customers themselves, in e-healthcare...

Chapter 4

Realizing the Value of EHR Systems Critical Success Factors (pages 56-76)

Elizabeth A. Regan, Jumee Wang

Now that a majority of hospitals and primary care physicians have made the transition to electronic health record (EHR) systems, realizing value from this investment has become a major issue. The issue raises two key questions: Why...

Finance

Chapter 5

Health Infrastructure and Economic Development in India (pages 78-97)

Dibyendu Ghosh, Soumyananda Dinda

The chapter examines different aspects of health care service facilities and health infrastructure available in India. Major health outcomes like Life expectancy at birth and infant mortality rate depend on available health...

Chapter 6

The Health Outcomes in Recession: Preliminarily Findings for Greece (pages 98-108)

Vassilis Fragoulakis, Elena Athanasiadi, Antonia Mourtzikou, Marilena Stamouli, Athanassios Vozikis

The aim of the present study is to provide an overview of recent reforms in Greece as imposed by the fiscal adjustments. Potential harmful consequences of these vast healthcare reforms are also discussed, as a collateral victim of...

Chapter 7

The Impact of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Hospitals' Utilization and Income Structure in Weifang Prefecture, China (pages 109-121)

Martine Audibert, Jacky Mathonnat, Aurore Pélissier, Xiao Xian Huang

The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme was gradually introduced from 2003 in China. This paper is based on a representative survey of 24 randomly selected township hospitals in Weifang prefecture over the period 2000-2008. Using a...

Chapter 8

Anatomy and Significance of Public Healthcare Expenditure and Economic Growth Nexus in India: Its Implications for Public Health Infrastructure Thereof (pages 122-145)

Sovik Mukherjee

The objective of this chapter is to take a closer look at the liaison between the two focus variables viz. growth and public healthcare expenditure, and the associated implications for public health infrastructure development....

Chapter 9

Health Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (pages 146-163)

Samuel Adams, Edem Kwame Mensah Klobodu, Richmond Odartey Lamptey

In this study, we examine the effect of health infrastructure on economic growth in 30 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries over the period 1990-2014. Using modern econometric techniques that account for cross-sectional dependence in...

Chapter 10

Evaluating Cost Sharing Measures in Public Primary Units in Greece: Cost Sharing Measures in Primary Care (pages 164-174)

Olga Siskou, Helen Stokou, Mamas Theodorou, Daphne Kaitelidou, Peter Galanis, Konstantinos Tsavalias, Olympia Konstantakopoulou, Georgios Charalambous, Lycourgos L. Liaropoulos

The mission of this paper is to investigate the economic viability and the workload imposed on nurses of the introduction of a cost sharing mechanism (€5/visit) in public primary health care units. The Ministry of Health provided...

Chapter 11

Policies and Politics: The Alternatives and Limitations of Health Finance Reform in Hong Kong (pages 175-184)

Raymond K. H. Chan

Since the late 1950s, Hong Kong's public health services have increased. They are mainly funded by taxes, supplemented by minimal user fees. In the late 1980s, the government recognized the limitations of this financing model and...

Chapter 12

Linking Cost Control to Cost Management in Healthcare Services: An Analysis of Three Case Studies (pages 185-219)

Michele Bertoni, Bruno De Rosa, Guido Grisi, Alessio Rebelli

The issue of healthcare costs has become increasingly problematic over the years. This chapter summarizes the problems faced by hospitals when measuring the costs of healthcare treatments, explaining how an Activity-Based Costing...

Chapter 13

Relational Dynamics and Health Economics: Resurrecting Healing (pages 220-235)

David S. Bathory

Primary care physicians' and allied healing professionals are overwhelmed with greater demands to provide complex care within business structures that either mandate high volume or exorbitant fees for service in order to support...

Chapter 14

How Behavioral Economics Can Help When You Think You Don't Have Enough Money: A Glimpse Into the Romanian Healthcare System (pages 236-251)

Elena Druică, Rodica Ianole

This work is a position paper discussing alternative viewpoints on factors that may influence the values of certain crucial healthcare efficiency indicators. We draw attention to the latest research in the area of behavioral...

Healthcare Administration

Chapter 15

The Determinants of Health Expenditures in Tunisia: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach (pages 253-267)

Sami Chaabouni, Chokri Abednnadher

This article examines the determinants of health expenditures in Tunisia during the period 1961-2008, using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach by Pesaran et al. (2001). The results of the bounds test show that there...

Chapter 16

Health Expenditure: Short and Long-Term Relations in Latin America, 1995-2010 (pages 268-292)

Jesus Salgado-Vega, Fatima Y. Salgado-Naime

This chapter explores the factors associated with the growth of total health expenditure, in addition to its main components, government health expenditure and out-of-pocket payments. Results suggest that health expenditure in...

Chapter 17

Bridging the Gaps With Nonprofits: The Intersection of Institutions, Interests, and the Health Policy Process (pages 293-310)

Laura Caccioppoli

This chapter will examine how nonprofits are both bridging the gaps left behind from health policy, and are at the intersection of institutions, interests, and the policy process. Using cultural competency as a theoretical lens, the...

Chapter 18

From the Margins to the Mainstream: Clinical Costing for Clinical Improvement (pages 311-333)

Ronald Ma

Healthcare system performance needs information on cost and revenue of care because of the rising healthcare costs. Empowering clinicians with clinical costing information is central to the success of containing costs. This...

Chapter 19

The Administrative Policy Quandary in Canada's Health Service Organizations (pages 334-353)

Grace I. Paterson, Jacqueline M. MacDonald, Naomi Nonnekes Mensink

This chapter examines the process for administrative health service policy development with respect to information sharing and decision-making as well as the relationship of policy to decision making. The challenges experienced by...

Chapter 20

Human Resources for Mental Health in Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence From Bangladesh (pages 354-374)

Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Reshman Tabassum, Paolo C Colet, Jonas Preposi Cruz, Sukhen Dey, Lal B. Rawal, Anwar Islam

Mental disorders are a major public health challenge globally, contributing to 40% of the global burden of disease. Nevertheless, it remains highly neglected by health planners and policy makers, particularly in low and middle income...

Chapter 21

Demand for Health Care in Kenya: The Effects of Information About Quality (pages 375-384)

Moses K. Muriithi, Germano Mwabu

Although studies on health care demand have previously been conducted in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, it has hitherto not been shown how health seeking behavior conditional on illness is affected by information on health care...

Chapter 22

Hospital Units Merging Reasons for Conflicts in the Human Resources (pages 385-404)

Athanasia Stamatopoulou, Eleni Stamatopoulou, Denis Yannacopoulos

The necessity for the control of expenses of health and the reduction of cost, led the Ministry of Health and the government of Greece to the decision-making for fusions of hospitals units of health following the new tendency of...

Chapter 23

Framework of Indian Healthcare System and Its Challenges: An Insight (pages 405-429)

Prashant Mehta

India, one of the oldest civilizations and second most populous country is ethnically, linguistically, geographically, religious, and demographically diverse is poorly ranked due to complex public healthcare system, which suffers...

Medical Practice

Chapter 24

Could Patient Engagement Promote a Health System Free From Malpractice Litigation Risk? (pages 431-454)

Massimo Miglioretti, Francesca Mariani, Luca Vecchio

In recent decades, medical malpractice litigation experienced a large-scale expansion in the United States as well as in Europe, involving both medical and surgical specialties. Previous studies have investigated the reasons why...

Chapter 25

A Simulation Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Chronic Disease Management Interventions (pages 455-474)

Rafael Diaz, Joshua G. Behr

The treatment and management of chronic diseases currently comprise a major fraction of the United States' healthcare expenditures. These expenses are projected to increase as the US population ages. Utilization of the ambulatory...

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