This title was first published in 2001: The papers in this volume, selected from nearly 100 submissions to the Fourth International Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, reflect the work taking place in health economics. The first five chapters in the collection examine the role of economics within clinical guidelines and suggest methods of improving the quality of economic evaluation which is now at the centre of decision-making in the NHS.

1: Economics and Clinical Guidelines; 1: Economics and Clinical Guidelines - Pointing in the Right Direction?; 2: From Guidelines to Good Practice; 3: The Use of Databases in Health Economics and Outcomes Research; 4: Charging Ahead; 5: Staging Type 2 Diabetes; 2: Inequalities and Access; 6: Tackling Health Inequalities; 7: Accessibility and Availability of Health Services; 3: Demand; 8: Demanding to Manage or Managing to Demand?; 9: Citizen, Consumer or Both? Re-conceptualising 'Demand' in Health Care; 10: Income, Income Distribution and Hospitalisation: an Ecologic Study in Rome, Italy; 11: Health Care Tax Relief and the Demand for Private Health Care for the Over-60s; 4: Performance; 12: Comparative Costs and Hospital Performance; 13: Turkish Hospital Managers' Perceptions of their Job Satisfaction and Job Abandonment; 5: Reforms; 14: What Structures Health Care Reforms? A Comparative Analysis of British and Canadian Experiences; 15: Lessons from the Provincial Health Care Reforms in Canada: When the Same Objective of Cost Containment Leads to Heterogeneous Results; 16: The Process of Health Priority Setting in France: an Attempt at Critical Analysis; 17: Turkish Healthcare Reforms and Reasons for Failure

Manouche Tavakoli, Huw Davies, Mo Malek