Health Economics, Policy and Law

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Volume 11, issue 4, 2016

Is the pro-competition policy an effective solution for China’s public hospital reform? pp. 337-357

Jay Pan, Xuezheng Qin and Chee-Ruey Hsieh

Explaining medical disputes in Chinese public hospitals: the doctor–patient relationship and its implications for health policy reforms pp. 359-378

Alex Jingwei He and Jiwei Qian

How does the pharmaceutical industry influence prescription? A qualitative study of provider payment incentives and drug remunerations in hospitals in Shanghai pp. 379-395

Wei Yang

The future of Indian Health Services for native Americans in the United States: an analysis of policy options and recommendations pp. 397-414

Tiffany Henley and Maureen Boshier

Cost-effectiveness thresholds in health care: a bookshelf guide to their meaning and use pp. 415-432

Anthony Culyer

Beyond the threshold pp. 433-438

Anthony Harris

Clarifying the role of values in cost-effectiveness pp. 439-443

Michael K. Gusmano and Gregory Kaebnick

Cost-effectiveness thresholds: a comment on the commentaries pp. 445-447

Anthony Culyer

Volume 11, issue 3, 2016

Equity in health care financing in Portugal: findings from the Household Budget Survey 2010/2011 pp. 233-252

Carlota Quintal and José Lopes

Three worlds of health technology assessment: explaining patterns of diffusion of HTA agencies in Europe pp. 253-273

Olga Löblová

Out-of-pocket payments and community-wide health outcomes: an examination of influenza vaccination subsidies in Japan pp. 275-302

Yoko Ibuka and Shun-ichiro Bessho

Health reform in Finland: current proposals and unresolved challenges pp. 303-319

Richard B. Saltman and Juha Teperi

Medical savings accounts: assessing their impact on efficiency, equity and financial protection in health care pp. 321-335

Olivier J. Wouters, Jonathan Cylus, Wei Yang, Sarah Thomson and Martin McKee

Three worlds of health technology assessment: explaining patterns of diffusion of HTA agencies in Europe – CORRIGENDUM pp. 336-336

Olga Löblová

Volume 11, issue 2, 2016

Why healthcare providers merge pp. 121-140

Jeroen Postma and Anne-Fleur Roos

Switching rates in health insurance markets decrease with age: empirical evidence and policy implications from the Netherlands pp. 141-159

Daniëlle M.I.D. Duijmelinck and Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven

Results of the market-oriented reform in the Netherlands: a review pp. 161-178

Hans Maarse, Patrick Jeurissen and Dirk Ruwaard

Can a medical need clause help manage the growing costs of prescription drugs in the EU? pp. 179-192

Eleanor Brooks and Robert Geyer

Influence of provider mix and regulation on primary care services supplied to US patients pp. 193-213

Michael R. Richards and Daniel Polsky

Not everything is black or white: commentary on Filc D and Cohen N, blurring the boundaries between public and private health care services as an alternative explanation for the emergence of black medicine: the Israeli case pp. 215-221

David Chinitz and Avi Israeli

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck: black market medicine and privatization in Israel pp. 223-225

Dani Filc and Nissim Cohen

Review Essay pp. 227-231

Paul McCrone

Volume 11, issue 1, 2016

The role of the payment vehicle in non-market valuations of a health care service: willingness-to-pay for an ambulance helicopter service pp. 1-16

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Making governance work in the health care sector: evidence from a ‘natural experiment’ in Italy pp. 17-38

Sabina Nuti, Federico Vola, Anna Bonini and Milena Vainieri

The determinants of efficiency in the Canadian health care system pp. 39-65

Sara Allin, Michel Grignon and Li Wang

Making Fair Choices: a symposium pp. 67-69

Albert Weale

Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage: a précis pp. 71-77

Alex Voorhoeve, Trygve Ottersen and Ole F. Norheim

The administrator’s perspective pp. 79-83

Addis Tamire Woldemariam

Information will be the key to successful implementation pp. 85-89

Peter Littlejohns and Kalipso Chalkidou

Reasonable disagreement and the generally unacceptable: a philosophical analysis of Making Fair Choices pp. 91-96

Benedict E. Rumbold and James Wilson

The path from nowhere? pp. 97-102

Albert Weale

Response to our critics pp. 103-111

Alex Voorhoeve, Trygve Ottersen and Ole Fritjof Norheim

Democratic Governance and Health. Hospitals, Politics and Health Policy in New Zealand, by Miriam Laugesen and Robin Gauld, ISBN 978 1 877578 27 4, Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2012, 220 pp pp. 113-119

Martin Powell

Volume 10, issue 4, 2015

Introduction pp. 373-374

Adam Oliver

Human Resources in Health Care Systems: Reflecting on ‘Cross-National Comparisons of Human Resources for Health – what can we learn?’ pp. 375-379

Miriam J. Laugesen

Scoping the shape of an iceberg: the future of public involvement in heath policy: reflecting on ‘Public involvement policies in health: exploring their conceptual basis’ pp. 381-385

Colleen M. Flood

Reflecting on ‘Acquisition and disclosure of genetic information under alternative policy regimes: an economic analysis’ by Debora Wilson (Health Economics, Policy and Law 2006; 1: 263–276) pp. 387-392

Giovanni Fattore

Reflecting on ‘Measuring the globalization of health services: a possible index of openness of country health sector to trade’ pp. 393-398

William C. Hsiao

Reflecting on ‘The complexity of governance change: reforming the governance of medical performance in Germany’ pp. 399-403

Karsten Vrangbaek

Reflecting on ‘Valuing lives and life years: anomalies, implications, and an alternative’ pp. 405-409

Thomas Rice

Reflecting on ‘An economic model of social capital and health’ pp. 411-417

Martin Knapp

Objections to the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in the US: reflecting on ‘Has the time come for cost-effectiveness analysis in US health care?’ pp. 419-424

Michael K. Gusmano

Determining what should be included in a publicly funded health care system: reflecting on ‘Individual responsibility for what? A conceptual framework for exploring the suitability of private financing in a publicly funded health-care system’ pp. 425-430

Mark Stabile

Reflecting on ‘Are health problems systemic? Politics of access and choice under Beveridge and Bismarck systems’ pp. 431-435

Albert Weale

Reflecting on ‘European policymaking on the tobacco advertising ban: the importance of escape routes’ pp. 437-442

Martin McKee

Reflecting on ‘Equity in health care: the Irish perspective’ pp. 443-447

Jeremiah Hurley

Reflecting on ‘Health technology appraisal and the courts: accountability for reasonableness and the judicial model of procedural justice’ pp. 449-454

Jean V. McHale

Reflecting on ‘Choice policies in Northern European health systems’ pp. 455-459

Richard B. Saltman

Reflecting on ‘The evaluation of lifestyle interventions in the Netherlands’ pp. 461-465

Jan-Kees Helderman

The process of dying: whose business is it anyway? Reflecting on ‘Stealing on insensibly: end-of-life politics in the United States’ pp. 467-472

Mary Ruggie

Reflecting on ‘The 2010 U.S. health care reform: approaching and avoiding how other countries finance health care’ pp. 473-477

Scott L. Greer

Reflecting on ‘Analytical perspectives on performance-based management: an outline of theoretical assumptions in the existing literature’ pp. 479-483

Peter C. Smith

Reflecting on ‘Supporting health systems in Europe: added value of EU actions?’ pp. 485-489

Tamara Hervey

Volume 10, issue 3, 2015

In search of real autonomy for fertility patients pp. 243-250

Josephine Johnston, Michael K. Gusmano and Pasquale Patrizio

The impact of Universal Health Coverage on health care consumption and risky behaviours: evidence from Thailand pp. 251-266

Simone Ghislandi, Wanwiphang Manachotphong and Viviana M.E. Perego

What is the public appetite for healthy eating policies? Evidence from a cross-European survey pp. 267-292

Mario Mazzocchi, Silvia Cagnone, Tino Bech-Larsen, Barbara Niedźwiedzka, Anna Saba, Bhavani Shankar, Wim Verbeke and W Bruce Traill

Blurring the boundaries between public and private health care services as an alternative explanation for the emergence of black medicine: the Israeli case pp. 293-310

Dani Filc and Nissim Cohen

“Review of Improving Health Services: Background, Method and Applications” (Edward Elgar, 2013, E-ISBN 978 1 78347 0198; IAVN 978 1 78347 0181, Cheltenham, UK, 288 pp.), by Walter Holland pp. 311-315

Theodore R. Marmor

Does health services research improve health services? - “Improving Health Services: background, methods and applications” by Walter Holland, Edward Elgar 2013, 271pp., ISBN 978 1 78347 018 1 pp. 317-325

David J. Hunter

Incentivising improvements in health care delivery pp. 327-343

Adam Oliver

Incentives and models of governance pp. 345-350

Gwyn Bevan

Incentivising improvements in health care delivery: a response to Adam Oliver pp. 351-356

Tim Doran

Performance management: the clinician’s tale pp. 357-360

Peter C. Smith

Instrumentality in health care: a response to Adam Oliver pp. 361-365

Sandra J. Tanenbaum

Commentary to Adam Oliver’s 'Incentivising improvements in health care delivery' pp. 367-371

Karsten Vrangbaek

Volume 10, issue 2, 2015

Value congruence in health care priority setting: social values, institutions and decisions in three countries pp. 113-132

Claudia Landwehr and Dorothea Klinnert

The role of hospital payments in the adoption of new medical technologies: an international survey of current practice pp. 133-159

Corinna Sorenson, Michael Drummond, Aleksandra Torbica, Giuditta Callea and Ceu Mateus

Gaining pounds by losing pounds: preferences for lifestyle interventions to reduce obesity pp. 161-182

Mandy Ryan, Deokhee Yi, Alison Avenell, Flora Douglas, Lorna Aucott, Edwin van Teijlingen and Luke Vale

On the margins of health economics: a response to ‘resolving NICE’S nasty dilemma’ pp. 183-193

Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni

Structural patterns in Swedish health policy: a 30-year perspective pp. 195-215

Richard B. Saltman

A reflection on Richard B. Saltman ‘Structural patterns in Swedish health policy’ pp. 217-219

Carl Hampus Lyttkens

“The New Politics of the NHS ” by Rudolf Klein (London and New York: Radcliffe Publishing, 2013), seventh edition, ISBN-13: 978 184619 771 0, 332 pages pp. 223-227

Albert Weale

Making sense of complexity: the contribution of Rudolf Klein to our understanding of The New Politics of the NHS pp. 229-235

Jan-Kees Helderman

Review of Rudolf Klein, The New Politics of the NHS: From Creation to Reinvention, 7th ed., London: Radcliffe, 2013 pp. 237-240

Lawrence D. Brown

Volume 10, issue 1, 2015

Financial impact of the GFC: health care spending across the OECD pp. 7-19

David Morgan and Roberto Astolfi

Improving productive efficiency in hospitals: findings from a review of the international evidence pp. 21-43

Benedict E. Rumbold, Judith A. Smith, Jeremy Hurst, Anita Charlesworth and Aileen Clarke

The crisis as catalyst for reframing health care policies in the European Union † pp. 45-59

Jan-Kees Helderman

The reactions to macro-economic crises in Nordic health system policies: Denmark, Finland and Sweden, 1980–2013 pp. 61-81

Juhani Lehto, Karsten Vrangbæk and Ulrika Winblad

The health effects of the global financial crisis: can we reconcile the differing views? A network analysis of literature across disciplines pp. 83-99

David Stuckler, Aaron Reeves, Marina Karanikolos and Martin McKee

Does history provide a short cut to futurology? pp. 101-105

Rudolf Klein

Optimism about the future pp. 107-111

Nicholas Timmins