Meet the editors

Dr. Agrawal completed his neurosurgery training at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, in 2003. Dr. Agrawal is a self-motivated, enthusiastic, and results-oriented professional with more than eighteen years of rich experience in research and development, as well as teaching and mentoring in the field of neurosurgery. He is proficient in managing and leading teams for running successful process

operations and has experience in developing procedures and service standards of excellence. He has attended and participated in many international and national symposiums and conferences and delivered many lectures. He has published more than 750 scientific articles in various national and international journals. His expertise is in identifying training needs, designing training modules, and executing the same while working with limited resources. He has excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with proven abilities in teaching and training for various academic and professional courses. Presently he is working at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Dr. Srinivas Kosgi is a clinician and academician with sixteen years of experience in the field of psychiatry. He has an excellent track record of working in schizophrenia, forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, de-addiction psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and community psychiatry. His areas of interest are research in thought, language and communication deficits in schizophrenia, and designing treatment strategies for

prisoners. Dr. Kosgi has worked in thirty-two multi-center international drug trials. His current functions are developing administrative strategies in improving clinical services in psychiatry hospitals, training postgraduate students in psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychiatric social work, and psychiatric nursing. He currently heads psychiatric hospital services in the capacity of medical superintendent at Dharwad Institute of mental Health and Neuroscience Dharwad, Karnataka. Dr. Kosgi is a pioneer researcher in psychopharmacology and heads the state referral psychiatric hospital as medical superintendent.

Contents

**Section 1**

to the Public Healthcare System

Demand for Health and Healthcare

*by George Athanasiou and Chris Bachtsetzis*

*and Makwena B. Ntjana*

*by Alireza Ghorbani*

Is This the Norm?

*by Habibu Salisu Badamasi*

*by Makoto Takayama*

*by Adelakun Edward Odunyemi*

in Nigeria

among Elderly Population in Africa

**Preface XIII**

Global Perspective **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 43**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 71**

**Chapter 7 85**

**Chapter 8 107**

Coverage: Measure of Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria

*by Isaac Akintoyese Oyekola, Oludele Albert Ajani and Eyitayo Joseph Oyeyipo*

The Profession of Biokinetics in South Africa: The Need for Access

Structure, Processes and Results in Healthcare System in Slovenia

Shared Decision-Making towards a Higher Quality of Care:

Factors Influencing Access to Reliable Healthcare Financing

Medical Hegemony and Healthcare: Centrality in Healthcare

The Implications of Health Financing for Health Access and Equity

*by Yvonne Paul, Terry J. Ellapen, Takalani C. Muluvhu* 

*by Valentina Prevolnik Rupel and Dorjan Marušič*
