Economic and financial themes in Australian aged care: regulatory restraint and its consequences
DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2008.018448 | Warren P. Hogan | This contribution reflects the results of work for a review of aged care policies and services in Australia. Initial material covers the policy arrangements in place prior to the inauguration of the Aged Care Review in September 2002. The m... | 1 - 21 |
Access to grocery stores in Dallas
DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2008.018448 | Nathan Berg, James Murdoch | This paper presents geo-spatial information concerning access to grocery stores in Dallas County, Texas. A map shows the spatial distribution of neighbourhoods classified according to the number of grocery stores within a one-mile radius. N... | 22 - 37 |
Marketing issues in healthcare research
DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2008.018448 | Guilherme D. Pires, John Stanton | How marketing knowledge is applied to the healthcare sector is examined to identify where this knowledge is being used and can be used better. Social marketing, market segmentation, new technologies and consumer empowerment are discussed. R... | 38 - 60 |
A cluster analysis and time series approach to examine the healthcare expenditure convergence among Taiwan and the OECD countries
DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2008.018448 | David Han-Min Wang, Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu | The Healthcare Expenditure (HCE) in Taiwan and the OECD countries have significantly increased over the recent years. To shed light on the issue of the upward trend of HCEs, this paper performs convergence tests and cluster analysis on HCEs... | 61 - 69 |
Values in hospital leadership: a case study of a highly performing health system
DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2008.018448 | Valerie A. Storey, Thomas E. Beeman, Malcolm O. Asadoorian III, Amanda P. Cartwright | In the last decade, the economics of healthcare have undergone a dramatic change. Hospital leadership has the challenge of balancing concurrent and competing claims for resources. Executive hospital leadership has the ability to affect the ... | 70 - 90 |
The factors affecting firms| growth: investment in tangible versus intangible assets in the Greek pharmaceutical industry
DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2008.018448 | Ilias A. Makris | The present paper examines the factors that result in firms| good performance with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry, which constitutes an important part of the economy. An econometric analysis revealed that the investment in intangibl... | 91 - 104 |
