title: Epidemiological Indexes in Healthcare based on Social Cost Factors.
abstract: Hospital healthcare the last dictate becomes an important subject for analysis which includes factors such as epidemiological indexes and many others like Surgical, Economic, Organizational, Structural issues necessary for the overall evaluation of the general hospital performance. The social cost includes the private cost, the public expenditures and the external cost affecting the society at large from an incoming event, a current action and / or a policy change. For that reason, the calculation of these social costs over time (t) could be defined as a social measure to dictate the variability of social indicators on society. In this study epidemiological factor based on the social cost maybe introduced with the main goal being the evaluation of the hospital healthcare performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos.
authors.forename: Stelios
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zimeras
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Athens, Athens.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diomidous
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Athens, Athens.
authors.forename: Antonis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kefaliakos
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Athens, Athens.
authors.forename: Spiros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zogas
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Athens, Athens.
authors.forename: Konstantina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Al-Fantel
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Athens, Athens.
authors.forename: Aggelos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mechili
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006115:Greece; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018803:Models, Economic; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors