Machine generated contents note: SECTION ONE: ECONOMICS AND CLINICAL GUIDELINES 1 -- 1 Economics and Clinical Guidelines - Pointing in the Right -- Direction? 3 -- Anne Ludbrook and Luke Vale -- 2 From Guidelines to Good Practice: Improving the Quality of -- Economic Evaluations 20 -- Christopher Evans, Lisa Kennedy, Bruce Crawford and Mo Malek -- 3 The Use of Databases in Health Economics and Outcomes -- Research: An International Perspective 33 -- Christopher Evans, Lisa Kennedy and Bruce Crawford -- 4 Charging Ahead: The Policy and Practice of Health Charges in -- Britain 54 -- Allan Bruce -- 5 Staging Type 2 Diabetes: Future Challenges in Cost of Illness -- Modelling, Health Policy and Global Health 67 -- Marsha A. Dowell, Billie R. Rozell and Matthew Dowell -- SECTION TWO: INEQUALITIES AND ACCESS 85 -- 6 Tackling Health Inequalities: Explaining the Outcomes of the -- Policy Process 87 -- Mark Exworthy, Martin Powell and Lee Berney -- 7 Accessibility and Availability of Health Services: Has the Gap -- between the South and the Other Areas of Israel Diminished -- since Implementation of the National Health Insurance Law? 104 -- Nurit Nirel, Dina Pilpel, Bruce Rosen; Irit Zmora, -- Miriam Greenstein and Sima Zalcberg -- SECTION THREE: DEMAND 127 -- 8 Demanding to Manage or Managing to Demand? 129 -- Annabelle Mark, David Pencheon and Richard Elliott -- 9 Citizen, Consumer or Both? Re-conceptualising 'Demand' in -- Health Care 146 -- Richard D. Smith and Brian Salter -- 10 Income, Income Distribution and Hospitalisation: an Ecologic -- Study in Rome, Italy 158 -- Laura Cacciani, Enrico Materia, Giulia Cesaroni, Giovanni Baglio, -- Marina Davoli, Massimo Arcd and Carlo A. Perucci -- 11 Health Care Tax Relief and the Demand for Private Health -- Care for the Over-60s 172 -- Manouche Tavakoli and John O.S. Wilson -- SECTION FOUR: PERFORMANCE 183 -- 12 Comparative Costs and Hospital Performance 185 -- Diane Dawson, Maria Goddard and Andrew Street -- 13 Turkish Hospital Managers' Perceptions of their Job Satisfaction -- and Job Abandonment 203 -- Yavuz Yildrim and Giilsiin Erigiiq -- SECTION FIVE: REFORMS 217 -- 14 What Structures Health Care Reforms? A Comparative Analysis -- of British and Canadian Experiences 219 -- Damien Contandriopoulos, Jean-Louis Denis and Ann Langley -- 15 Lessons from the Provincial Health Care Reforms in Canada: -- When the Same Objective of Cost Containment Leads to -- Heterogeneous Results 237 -- Astrid Brousselle, Marc-Andre Fournier and Francois Champagne -- 16 The Process of Health Priority Setting in France: an Attempt at -- Critical Analysis 256 -- Pascal Jaro, Francoise Riou, Jean Pascal, Christophe Lerat, -- Christine Quelier, Jacques Chaperon and Pierre Le Beux -- 17 Turkish Healthcare Reforms and Reasons for Failure 271 -- Mehtap Tatar and Giilsiin Erigiiq.