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Financing Smoking Cessation Services. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 96
Although the World Health Organization advocates
that countries provide comprehensive smoking
cessation services, few countries do. While the
United States, United Kingdom, France, and Australia
have developed tobacco treatment guidelines, few
physicians adhere to them. Taiwan implemented the
Smoking Cessation Outpatient Services program in
2002. Between 2002 and 2005, about 3500 physicians
(10% of all physicians in Taiwan) completed the
training and were certified to provide smoking
cessation services. However, only 20,000 smokers
(0.5%) have received treatment for their addictions
in 2003. To promote these services to smokers, the
Taiwanese government increased reimbursement rates
and medication subsidies in 2005. This book provides
an analysis of the effects of increasing in
reimbursement rates and medication subsidies on
physician participation in the program, patient
utilization of services and cessation outcomes at
six-month follow-up. Provider and consumer
determinants on the provision, utilization, and
smoking cessation outcomes are also presented.
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