Health Economics, Policy and Law

2006 - 2025

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2020

Health care and the future of economic growth: exploring alternative perspectives pp. 419-439

Martin Hensher, John Tisdell, Ben Canny and Craig Zimitat

Re-thinking unmet need for health care: introducing a dynamic perspective pp. 440-457

Samantha Smith and Sheelah Connolly

An analysis of the development assistance for health (DAH) allocations for STD control in Africa pp. 458-476

Fumitaka Furuoka, Mohammad Zahirul Hoque, Ray Jacob and Patrick Ziegenhain

HPV vaccine status and sexual behavior among young sexually-active women in the US: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007–2014 pp. 477-495

Andrew J. Leidner, Harrell W. Chesson and Makram Talih

Shifting threats and rhetoric: how Republican governors framed Medicaid expansion pp. 496-508

Phillip M. Singer and Michael Rozier

The resolution process and the timing of settlement of medical malpractice claims pp. 509-529

Samantha Bielen, Peter Grajzl and Wim Marneffe

Volume 15, issue 3, 2020

Transforming health care: the policy and politics of service reconfiguration in the UK's four health systems pp. 289-307

Ellen Stewart, Scott L. Greer, Angelo Ercia and Peter D. Donnelly

The regulation of competition and procurement in the National Health Service 2015–2018: enduring hierarchical control and the limits of juridification pp. 308-324

Dorota Osipovič, Pauline Allen, Marie Sanderson, Valerie Moran and Kath Checkland

Getting involved: the extent and impact of patient and public involvement in the Swedish health system pp. 325-340

Mio Fredriksson and Jonathan Tritter

Does managed competition constrain hospitals' contract prices? Evidence from the Netherlands pp. 341-354

Rudy Douven, Monique Burger and Frederik Schut

The reimbursement of new medical technologies in German inpatient care: What factors explain which hospitals receive innovation payments? pp. 355-369

Patricia Ex, Verena Vogt, Reinhard Busse and Cornelia Henschke

Paradigms in operation: explaining pharmaceutical benefit assessment outcomes in England and Germany pp. 370-385

Katharina Kieslich

Why do health technology assessment drug reimbursement recommendations differ between countries? A parallel convergent mixed methods study pp. 386-402

Elena Nicod, Laia Maynou, Erica Visintin and John Cairns

Quality improvement in hospitals in the Russian Federation, 2000–2016: a systematic review pp. 403-413

Vasiliy V. Vlassov, Katie Bates and Martin McKee

Response to Rudolf Klein pp. 414-415

Carolyn Hughes Tuohy

The regulation of competition and procurement in the National Health Service 2015–2018: enduring hierarchical control and the limits of juridification – ADDENDUM pp. 416-416

Dorota Osipovič, Pauline Allen, Marie Sanderson, Valerie Moran and Kath Checkland

Quality improvement in hospitals in the Russian Federation, 2000–2016: a systematic review – ADDENDUM pp. 417-417

Vasiliy V. Vlassov, Katie Bates and Martin McKee

Volume 15, issue 2, 2020

The implementation of European Union (EU) rules on cross-border care: moving towards convergence? pp. 141-159

Zuzana Nordeng and Frode Veggeland

Integration vs separation in the provision of health care: 24 OECD countries compared pp. 160-172

Federico Toth

Coverage mandates and market dynamics: employer, insurer and patient responses to parity laws pp. 173-195

Robert A. Nathenson

Opening the black box of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs): unpacking the technical remuneration structure of the Dutch DRG system pp. 196-209

Sam van Herwaarden, Iris Wallenburg, Joris Messelink and Roland Bal

When do people choose to be informed? Predictors of information-seeking in the choice of primary care provider in Sweden pp. 210-224

Caroline Hoffstedt, Magnus Fredriksson, Håkan Lenhoff and Ulrika Winblad

Who knows best? Older people’s and practitioner contributions to understanding and preventing avoidable hospital admissions pp. 225-246

Jon Glasby, Rosemary Littlechild, Nick Le Mesurier and Rachel Thwaites

Should performance-based incentives be used to motivate health care providers? Views of health sector managers in Cambodia, China and Pakistan pp. 247-260

Mishal Khan, Imara Roychowdhury, Ankita Meghani, Farah Hashmani, Josephine Borghi and Marco Liverani

Political party ambitions and type-2 diabetes policy in Brazil and Mexico pp. 261-276

Eduardo J. Gómez

Addressing perceived economic obstacles to genetic testing as a way to mitigate disparities in family health history for adoptees pp. 277-287

Thomas May and James P. Evans

Volume 15, issue 1, 2020

The National Health Service (NHS) in ‘crisis’: the role played by a shift from horizontal to vertical principles of equity pp. 1-17

Sheena Asthana and Alex Gibson

Fairness in drug prices: do economists think differently from the public? pp. 18-29

Antonio J. Trujillo, Taruja Karmarkar, Caleb Alexander, William Padula, Jeremy Greene and Gerard Anderson

Access to treatment and the constitutional right to health in Germany: a triumph of hope over evidence? pp. 30-42

Stefanie Ettelt

Access to health care in post-apartheid South Africa: availability, affordability, acceptability pp. 43-55

Ronelle Burger and Carmen Christian

Is universal and uniform health insurance better for China? Evidence from the perspective of supply-induced demand pp. 56-71

Jianxing Yu, Yue Qiu and Ziying He

Willingness to pay for improved public health care services in Saudi Arabia: a contingent valuation study among heads of Saudi households pp. 72-93

Mohammed K. Al-Hanawi, Omar Alsharqi and Kirit Vaidya

Value-based provider payment: towards a theoretically preferred design pp. 94-112

Daniëlle Cattel, Frank Eijkenaar and Frederik T. Schut

Attitudes of health professionals concerning bedside rationing criteria: a survey from Portugal pp. 113-127

Micaela Pinho and Pedro Veiga

Health economics methods for public health resource allocation: a qualitative interview study of decision makers from an English local authority pp. 128-140

Emma Frew and Katie Breheny

Volume 14, issue 4, 2019

The dilemma of knowledge use in political decision-making: National Guidelines in a Swedish priority-setting context pp. 425-442

Johanna Sandberg, Bo Persson and Peter Garpenby

Social preferences for prioritising the treatment of disabled and chronically ill patients: beyond the order effect pp. 443-467

John Mckie and Jeff Richardson

Impacts of the type of social health insurance on health service utilisation and expenditures: implications for a unified system in China pp. 468-486

Si Ying Tan, Xun Wu and Wei Yang

Program design, implementation and performance: the case of social health insurance in India pp. 487-508

Dayashankar Maurya and M. Ramesh

Not so sweet refrain: sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, industry opposition and harnessing the lessons learned from tobacco control legal challenges pp. 509-535

Anita George

Impact of the Spanish smoke-free laws on cigarette sales, 2000–2015: partial bans on smoking in public places failed and only a total tobacco ban worked pp. 536-552

Jaime Pinilla, Beatriz G. López-Valcárcel and Miguel A. Negrín

Volume 14, issue 3, 2019

The effect of universal health insurance for children in Vietnam pp. 299-314

Binh T. Nguyen and Anthony T. Lo Sasso

Can universal access be achieved in a voluntary private health insurance market? Dutch private insurers caught between competing logics pp. 315-336

Robert A. A. Vonk and Frederik T. Schut

The effects of payments for pharmaceuticals: a systematic literature review pp. 337-354

Katarzyna Kolasa and Marta Kowalczyk

A European late starter: lessons from the history of reform in Irish health care pp. 355-373

Maev-Ann Wren and Sheelah Connolly

The effects of competition on premiums: using United Healthcare’s 2015 entry into Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces as an instrumental variable pp. 374-399

Cagdas Agirdas, Robert J. Krebs and Masato Yano

Does certificate of need law enhance competition in inpatient care market? An empirical analysis pp. 400-420

Jomon A. Paul, Huan Ni and Aniruddha Bagchi

Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform. University of Toronto Press, Toronto2018. p. 717 pp. 421-424

Rudolf Klein

Volume 14, issue 2, 2019

Reputations count: why benchmarking performance is improving health care across the world pp. 141-161

Gwyn Bevan, Alice Evans and Sabina Nuti

When health technology assessment is confidential and experts have no power: the case of Hungary pp. 162-181

Marcell Csanádi, Olga Löblová, Piotr Ozierański, András Harsányi, Zoltán Kaló, Martin McKee and Lawrence King

Transparency in practice: Evidence from ‘verification analyses’ issued by the Polish Agency for Health Technology Assessment in 2012–2015 pp. 182-204

Piotr Ozierański, Olga Löblová, Natalia Nicholls, Marcell Csanádi, Zoltán Kaló, Martin McKee and Lawrence King

Smoking, health and academic outcomes: evidence from a limited smoking campus policy pp. 205-230

Colin Cannonier, Monica G. Burke and Kathryn Steward

Family networks and healthy behaviour: evidence from Nepal pp. 231-248

Jolene Skordis, Noemi Pace, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Imran Rasul, Emla Fitzsimons, David Osrin, Dharma Manandhar and Anthony Costello

Does government expenditure reduce inequalities in infant mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries?: A time-series, ecological analysis of 48 countries from 1993 to 2013 pp. 249-273

Peter Baker, Thomas Hone, Aaron Reeves, Mauricio Avendano and Christopher Millett

Projecting shortages and surpluses of doctors and nurses in the OECD: what looms ahead pp. 274-290

Richard M. Scheffler and Daniel R. Arnold

Demand-based models and market failure in health care: projecting shortages and surpluses in doctors and nurses pp. 291-294

Stephen Birch

Response to Stephen Birch pp. 295-297

Richard M. Scheffler and Daniel R. Arnold

Volume 14, issue 1, 2019

The National Health Service (NHS) at 70: Bevan’s double-edged legacy pp. 1-10

Rudolf Klein

Looking forward to the next 70 years: from a National Ill-Health Service to a National Health System pp. 11-14

David J. Hunter

Could local integration of health and social care finally overcome the pull to the centre? pp. 15-18

Anna Dixon

Making and breaking a health service pp. 19-24

Tim Doran

The National Health Service (NHS) at 70: some comparative reflections pp. 25-28

Carolyn H. Tuohy

Seventy years of the British National Health Service: problem, politics and policy streams pp. 29-39

Martin Powell

Supplementary physicians’ fees: a sustainable system? pp. 40-60

Piet Calcoen and Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven

Projecting future demand for informal care among older people in China: the road towards a sustainable long-term care system pp. 61-81

Bo Hu

Trends in ageing and ageing-in-place and the future market for institutional care: scenarios and policy implications pp. 82-100

Peter Alders and Frederik T. Schut

Comparative analysis of health system performance in Montreal and New York: the importance of context for interpreting indicators pp. 101-118

Michael K. Gusmano, Erin Strumpf, Julie Fiset-Laniel, Daniel Weisz and Victor G. Rodwin

Methods for the economic evaluation of changes to the organisation and delivery of health services: principal challenges and recommendations pp. 119-134

Rachel Meacock