Healthcare management and economics perspectives on public and private administration /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Mervio, Mika Markus, 1961-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2013.
• Subjects: Health services administration.; Health facilities > Business management.; Public health administration.; Management information systems.; Delivery of Health Care > economics.; Health Facility Administration.; Public Health Administration.; Comparative methodology; Human resource management; Primary health services; Public-private healthcare management; Service delivery
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"This book discusses public and private healthcare organizations by gathering perspectives on the differences in service, management, delivery, and efficiency and highlighting the impact of citizens and information technology in these healthcare processes"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Stakeholders' expectations on health services: in search of an assessment model of performance / Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, Luciana de Oliveira Miranda Gomes
• Changing health care from inside out: policy entrepreneur questioning ophthalmology service production in Finland / Lauri Kokkinen, Juhani Lehto
• Comparative study between Japan and the UK on shifting the third sector-government relationships / Ichiro Tsukamoto, Mariko Nishimura
• Participative typologies: a comparative study among health councils in Montevideo, Uruguay and Porto Alegre, Brazil / Andrea de Oliveira Gonçalves, Rodrigo de Souza Gonçalves, Elionor Farah Jreige Weffort
• Regulating patients' access to healthcare services / Nadine Reibling, Claus Wendt
• The politics of health finance reform in Hong Kong / Raymond K. H. Chan
• Outsourced health care services: experiences and positions of medical staff / Tiina Tiilikka
• Salami slicing a role for private providers: the carve-up of Europe's health services / John Lister
• Healthcare providers in the English National Health Service: public, private or hybrids? / Pauline Allen, Will Bartlett, Virginie Pérotin
• Employees' perceptions on organisational justice, job control and job demands: do ownership and human resource management practices matter? / Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Timo Sinervo, Marko Elovainio
• How would a ban on prescriber-identifying information impact pharmaceutical marketing? / Doug Walker
• The hybridized nature of America's health care system: Medicare as a case of both market and public failure / Monica Gaughan
• Primary health services utilization and inequality: the emerging symbiotic public/private model in Hong Kong / Raymond K. H. Chan, Kang Hu
• Risk society and the hybris of modern Japanese state/society / Mika Markus Merviö
• Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011 with gender view / Yoiko Andô
• Women and health in Japan: the rise and obstacles of gender and sex-specific medicine / Hiroko Hara
• DV laws in Japan: the next steps in the journey of a thousand miles / Marjory D. Fields
• Making sense of the best interest of children in vulnerable family relationships / Mutsuko Takahashi.