Unfavourable change in the proportion between professionally active and non-active part of the society; Increased share of senior citizens with higher probability of chronic diseases...

Age wave is coming into the CR very soon. It will lead (along with other things) to huge change in health - social services structure. This challenge will require radical rechaping of public funding of health and social services. HalthRefom.cz proposed substancial messure: public sponsored...

We review and evaluate the international literature on activity-based funding of health services,focussing especially on experience in Australia (Victoria), Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Inevaluating this literature we summarise the differences and pros and cons of three different...

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...

Purpose The survey at hand explores the factors describing the consumers' profile in the pharmaceutical markets of three European nations Design/methodology/approach A primary research was carried out using questionnaires with a sample of citizens (pharmacy customers) in the capital of each...

Purpose The survey at hand explores the factors describing the consumers’ profile in the pharmaceutical markets of three European nations Design/methodology/approach A primary research was carried out using questionnaires with a sample of citizens (pharmacy customers) in the capital of each...

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...

Problem definition: In a chronic care clinical practice setting, we investigate fee-for-service (FFS) and capitation payment systems, and explore their performance. We also identify conditions under which it is preferable to switch to an mHealth-based practice from an office visit-based...

Worldwide 10-20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders. Mental disorders, if remain untreated, can impose enormous and lifelong burden to the individual, family and society. Yet, a large proportion of affected children do not receive treatment owing to poor accessibility to...