CHAPTER 1
Introduction 1
Section 1. Research Background and Objective 3
Section 2. Research Content and Method 5
CHAPTER 2
Current Status of End-of-Life Care 9
Section 1. Comparison of Quality of Death Index of the OECD countries 11
Section 2. End-of-Life Patients’ Preferred Place of Death 19
Section 3. Subject and Benefits of Hospice Palliative Care  24
CHAPTER 3
Cost Analysis of End-of Life Care 31
Section 1. Method of Analysis 33
Section 2. Results of Analysis 36
CHAPTER 4
Survey on the Awareness of End-of-Life Care Understanding 41
Section 1. Overview of the Survey 43
Section 2. Results of the Survey 44
CHAPTER 5
Analysis of the Social Value of
End-of-Life Care 51
Section 1. Method for Measuring Social Values 53
Section 2. Design for Measurement of Social Values of End-of-life Care 55
Section 3. Results of the Measurement of the Social Value regarding End-of-life care 60
CHAPTER 6
Conclusion 67
References 73