) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

rasantes Wachstum erfahren und dazu geführt, dass im Bereich des internetbasierten Tourismus eine besonders ausgeprägte … Virtual Reality (VR) im Tourismus die Ausnahme und wird damit nicht gezielt genutzt, um Informationen dreidimensional und … transformieren und die nachfragerseitige Bedeutung der Vertrauenseigenschaften mindern kann. Somit kann in der im Tourismus …

pattern of tourism demand. Despite the cultural and economic importance of tourism and its overwhelming dependence on climatic … factors, relatively few studies have tackled the impact of climate change on tourism. In particular there are few quantitative … studies on the effect that climate change will have on tourism. The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap and so …

Tourism has a more and more important role in the economic development of many countries. Mountain tourism is an anti … role, medical spa treatments practicing hiking, alpinism. Mountain tourism generates increased economic benefits for the …, being able to be a remedy for unindustrialised regions. Mountain tourism contributes to the economic development of the …

This thesis explores health technology innovation within indigenous enterprises in China, India, and Brazil. The main … nature and, c) the increasingly globalized nature of health product innovation limits what countries can achieve … independently. The fourth paper analyzes key issues and trends in health biotechnology firms’ transition to innovation in China …

health promotion within Alberta's (Canada) 17 Regional Health Authorities (RHAs). Design : A series of phases were conducted … to develop individual and organisational scales to measure health promotion infrastructure. Instruments were designed … with focus groups and then pre-tested prior to the validation study. Setting : In 1993 all hospitals and Public Health …