Health Economics, Policy and Law

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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

Volume 13, issue 3-4, 2018

Space, place and (waiting) time: reflections on health policy and politics pp. 226-250

Sally Sheard

Can history improve big bang health reform? Commentary pp. 251-262

Gregory P. Marchildon

Bitter pills: the impact of medicare on mental health pp. 263-279

Erika Dyck

Medicare and the care of First Nations, Métis and Inuit pp. 280-298

Josée G. Lavoie

Pharmaceutical policy reform in Canada: lessons from history pp. 299-322

Katherine Boothe

Expanding Canadian Medicare to include a national pharmaceutical benefit while controlling expenditures: possible lessons from Israel pp. 323-343

Bruce Rosen

Expanding the breadth of Medicare: learning from Australia pp. 344-368

Stephen Duckett

Why policy needs history (and historians) pp. 369-381

Virginia Berridge

The impact of slow economic growth on health sector reform: a cross-national perspective pp. 382-405

Richard B. Saltman

Rising inequality and the implications for the future of private insurance in Canada pp. 406-432

Mark Stabile and Maripier Isabelle

A successful Charter challenge to medicare? Policy options for Canadian provincial governments pp. 433-449

Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas

Doctors as Stewards of medicare, or not: CAMSI, MRG, CDM, DRHC and the thin alphabet soup of physician support pp. 450-474

Jacalyn Duffin

Nurses as change agents for a better future in health care: the politics of drift and dilution pp. 475-491

Anne M. Rafferty

Competition in health care: lessons from the English experience pp. 492-508

Carol Propper

Volume 13, issue 2, 2018

Creating a ‘hostile environment for migrants’: the British government’s use of health service data to restrict immigration is a very bad idea pp. 107-117

Lucinda Hiam, Sarah Steele and Martin McKee

The Norwegian National Council for Priority Setting in Health Care: decisions and justifications 1 pp. 118-136

Gry Wester and Berit Bringedal

Who’s afraid of institutionalizing health technology assessment (HTA)?: Interests and policy positions on HTA in the Czech Republic pp. 137-161

Olga Löblová

Involving citizens in disinvestment decisions: what do health professionals think? Findings from a multi-method study in the English NHS pp. 162-188

Tom Daniels, Iestyn Williams, Stirling Bryan, Craig Mitton and Suzanne Robinson

What should health insurance cover? A comparison of Israeli and US approaches to benefit design under national health reform pp. 189-208

Rachel Nissanholtz Gannot, David P. Chinitz and Sara Rosenbaum

‘Fair innings’ in the face of ageing and demographic change pp. 209-217

Nisha C. Hazra, Martin C. Gulliford and Caroline Rudisill

Volume 13, issue 1, 2018

The state of American health care: November 2016 to November 2020, a look forward pp. 1-9

Theodore Marmor and Michael K. Gusmano

The efficiency of the local health systems: investigating the roles of health administrations and health care providers pp. 10-32

Laura Anselmi, Mylène Lagarde and Kara Hanson

Adopting new medical technologies in Russian hospitals: what causes inefficiency? (qualitative study) pp. 33-49

Sergey Shishkin and Liudmila Zasimova

Outsourcing day surgery to private for-profit hospitals: the price effects of competitive tendering pp. 50-67

Terje P. Hagen, Geir Hiller Holom and Kebebew N. Amayu

The incidence of health financing in South Africa: findings from a recent data set pp. 68-91

John Ataguba and Di McIntyre

Legal advocacy as a tool to advance Roma Health pp. 92-105

Tamar Ezer, Alphia Abdikeeva and Martin McKee