Women's feltibnkhafaja

Many sources have urged IbnKhafajah to be so keen on woman, which had so clear impact on his soul, and this has led him to experience love in a distinctive manner. Those factors have overlapped with each other to form an integrated fabric, Which has been overwhelmed by the poet's passionate soul against the harbingers external reality. He hasn't left his surroundings to escape the deteriorated political and social conditions. However, he turned toward the depth of his soul, rebelling against those conditions and refusing them. Throughout his artistic pictures, he has drawn his relation with woman taking from nature his own distinctive psychological view. Therefore, woman becomes a sensory and merely concept at the same time. He has started to gift it the most sincere and hottest emotions. So, it has been crucial to realise the factors that which have shaped the motives of his own experience with woman and problematic of her existence in in his poetry and his life. IbnKhafajah's flirtatious experience and his relation with woman are to with factors connected with political and social conditions that have distinguished his era, and others; inner, related to his distinctive personality. These factors have helped to shape this experience for the poet and develop and matur it.

Analysis of the Factors Affecting Patient's Choice of Health Provider, and an Estimation of Marginal Willingness to Pay for Better Service Quality, Using Multinomial Logit Model

The aim of the study is two folds. First, it aims at analyzing the factors affecting Patient's choice of health service provider (Private clinic, public hospital, or private hospital). This study applies a multinomial logit model (MNL) to analyze patient's choice, using a sample of 695 respondents drawn from Damascus City. Second, the study estimates the marginal willingness to pay for an extra gain from a specific change in each of the characteristics of health provider, such as reputation and waiting time. Analysis results were as follows: - Perceived reputation of the health provider is the most important factor affecting the patient's choice of health provider. - Ironically, higher treatment cost is associated with higher probability of choosing the more expensive health provider alternative. - The choice of a specific health provider against another is negatively associated with associated commuting time. - Waiting time at the private clinic has no significant effect on patient's choice of the private clinic. - Marginal willingness to pay for extra level on perceived reputation index of a private clinic is estimated at US$1.41, and US$0.07 for an extra hour saved of waiting time. - Marginal willingness to pay for extra level on perceived reputation index of a private hospital is estimated at US$1.06, and US$4.79 for an extra hour saved of waiting time. - Patient's demographic characteristics have an insignificant effect on the choice of a specific health provider against another. The study recommends health providers to enhance the level of their professional reputation as it turned out to be the most crucial factor affecting patient's choice, and at the same time keep on improving other factors such as internal procedures, waiting time, and location.

Economic Valuation of Health Insurance Service Using the Contingent Valuation Technique

The objectives of this paper are: First, to use the contingent valuation technique in estimating respondents' maximum willingness to pay for a suggested programme of health insurance; Second, to identify the factors that have a significant effect on the respondent's decision in approving or disapproving the suggested programme of health insurance.