Health Economics, Policy and Law

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Volume 8, issue 4, 2013

Delays in medical malpractice litigation in civil law jurisdictions: some evidence from the Italian Court of Cassation pp. 423-452

Veronica Grembi and Nuno Garoupa

The effect of medical malpractice liability on rate of referrals received by specialist physicians pp. 453-475

Xiao Xu, Stephen Spurr, Bin Nan and A. Mark Fendrick

Market competition, ownership, payment systems and the performance of health care providers – a panel study among Finnish occupational health services providers pp. 477-510

Eila Kankaanpää, Ismo Linnosmaa and Hannu Valtonen

Analytical perspectives on performance-based management: an outline of theoretical assumptions in the existing literature pp. 511-527

Sarah Wadmann, Sarah Johansen, Ane Lind, Hans Okkels Birk and Klaus Hoeyer

Universal health coverage and user charges pp. 529-535

Peter C. Smith

User charges for health care services: some further thoughts pp. 537-541

Jeremiah Hurley

Achieving sustainable universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries pp. 543-548

Di Mcintyre and Filip Meheus

Universal health coverage and user charges: response to commentaries pp. 549-551

Peter C. Smith

Volume 8, issue 3, 2013

Public vs private administration of rural health insurance schemes: a comparative study in Zhejiang of China pp. 269-288

Xiaoyuan Zhou, Zhengzhong Mao, Bernd Rechel, Chaojie Liu, Jialin Jiang and Yinying Zhang

The 2010 U.S. health care reform: approaching and avoiding how other countries finance health care pp. 289-315

Joseph White

Is patient satisfaction in primary care dependent on structural and organizational characteristics among providers? Findings based on data from the national patient survey in Sweden pp. 317-333

Anna Glenngård

Efficiency improvements of public hospitals under a capitation payment scheme pp. 335-364

Javier García-Lacalle and Emilio Martín

Employer-provided health insurance and hospital mergers pp. 365-384

Christopher Garmon

Perspectives on the importance of interdisciplinarity pp. 385-386

Adam Oliver

The special interdisciplinary contribution of institutional economics pp. 387-396

David Chinitz

Disciplining health policy? Explaining health policy by reference to…what? pp. 397-405

Calum Paton

Contagious ideas: Marmor and Klein on transatlantic health policy and politics - “Politics, Health and Health Care” by Theodore R Marmor and Rudolf Klein, Yale University Press, 2012, 573pp pp. 407-414

Simon Stevens

Volume 8, issue 2, 2013

NICE's social value judgements about equity in health and health care pp. 145-165

Koonal Shah, Richard Cookson, Anthony Culyer and Peter Littlejohns

The medicalisation of health inequalities and the English NHS: the role of resource allocation pp. 167-183

Sheena Asthana, Alex Gibson and Joyce Halliday

Neglected infectious diseases: Are push and pull incentive mechanisms suitable for promoting drug development research? pp. 185-208

Frank Mueller-Langer

Community rating in the absence of risk equalisation: lessons from the Irish private health insurance market pp. 209-224

Brian Turner and Edward Shinnick

Adverse selection and moral hazard in the provision of clinical trial ancillary care pp. 225-234

Michael R. Richards and Lorens A. Helmchen

Reflecting on the UK government's health and social care act 2012: introduction pp. 235-236

Adam Oliver

Sleepwalking into a political fiasco pp. 237-242

Rudolf Klein

Never Say Never Again: re-forming and deforming the NHS pp. 243-249

Calum Paton

Framing health reform pp. 251-257

Julian Le Grand and Zack Cooper

Reflection on reviews of ‘Never again?’ pp. 259-263

John Appleby

Response on reviews of ‘Never again?’ pp. 265-268

Nicholas Timmins

Volume 8, issue 1, 2013

The impact of pricing and patent expiration on demand for pharmaceuticals: an examination of the use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials pp. 7-20

Klaus Kaier

Who benefits from health services in South Africa? pp. 21-46

John Ataguba and Di McIntyre

The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England pp. 47-73

Ruth Hancock, Juliette Malley, Raphael Wittenberg, Marcello Morciano, Linda Pickard, Derek King and Adelina Comas-Herrera

Courts and health care rationing: the case of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court pp. 75-93

Daniel W. L. Wang

Access to primary care in Hong Kong, Greater London and New York City pp. 95-109

Pui Hing Chau, Jean Woo, Michael K. Gusmano, Daniel Weisz, Victor G. Rodwin and Kam Che Chan

The US Supreme Court decision on the constitutional legitimacy of the Affordable Care Act pp. 111-112

Adam Oliver

The Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court: American health care reform inches forward despite dysfunctional political institutions and politics pp. 113-118

Timothy Jost

NFIB vs Sebelius: the political expediency of the Roberts court pp. 119-124

Michael K. Gusmano

Much ado about nothing: the US Supreme Court's rules on health reform pp. 125-132

Uwe E. Reinhardt

Medicaid after the Supreme Court decision pp. 133-137

Howard S. Berliner

Health care reform after the Supreme Court: even more known unknowns pp. 139-143

Alex Waddan

Volume 7, issue 4, 2012

Introduction pp. 383-384

Adam Oliver

Comparing the United States and United Kingdom: contrasts and correspondences pp. 385-391

Rudolf Klein

Evidence and values: paying for end-of-life drugs in the British NHS pp. 393-409

Kalipso Chalkidou

Valuing end-of-life care in the United States: the case of new cancer drugs pp. 411-430

Corinna Sorenson

Setting priorities in and for end-of-life care: challenges in the application of economic evaluation pp. 431-439

Charles Normand

Delivering better end-of-life care in England: barriers to access for patients with a non-cancer diagnosis pp. 441-454

Rachael Addicott

US health care: the unwinnable war against death pp. 455-466

Daniel Callahan

Stealing on insensibly: end of life politics in the United States pp. 467-483

Lawrence D. Brown

End-of-life care for patients with dementia in the United States: institutional realities pp. 485-498

Michael Gusmano

Dementia, death and advance directives pp. 499-506

Jonathan Wolff

Volume 7, issue 3, 2012

Incentives, health promotion and equality pp. 263-283

Kristin Voigt

Informal payments for health care – the phenomenon and its context pp. 285-308

Nissim Cohen

Reassessing catastrophic health-care payments with a Nigerian case study pp. 309-326

John Ataguba

Political or dental power in private and public service provision: a study of municipal expenditures for child dental care pp. 327-342

Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Mickael Bech and Jørgen Lauridsen

The ‘healthy immigrant’ effect: initial evidence for Ireland pp. 343-362

Anne Nolan

The impact of geographic market definition on the stringency of hospital merger control in Germany and the Netherlands pp. 363-381

Marco Varkevisser and Frederik T. Schut

Volume 7, issue 2, 2012

Empirically evaluating the impact of adjudicative tribunals in the health sector: context, challenges and opportunities pp. 147-174

Steven J. Hoffman and Lorne Sossin

Pharmaceutical lobbying under postcommunism: universal or country-specific methods of securing state drug reimbursement in Poland? pp. 175-195

Piotr Ozierański, Martin McKee and Lawrence King

Healthcare policy tools as determinants of health-system efficiency: evidence from the OECD pp. 197-226

Dominika Wranik

Socioeconomic status and child health: what is the role of health care, health conditions, injuries and maternal health? pp. 227-242

Sara Allin and Mark Stabile

The evaluation of lifestyle interventions in the Netherlands pp. 243-261

David R. Rappange and Werner Brouwer

Volume 7, issue 1, 2012

Reflections on the evolution of health technology assessment in Europe pp. 25-45

Corinna Sorenson and Kalipso Chalkidou

Choice policies in Northern European health systems pp. 47-71

Karsten Vrangbaek, Ruth Robertson, Ulrika Winblad, Hester Van de Bovenkamp and Anna Dixon

Paying for hospital care: the experience with implementing activity-based funding in five European countries pp. 73-101

Jacqueline O'Reilly, Reinhard Busse, Unto Häkkinen, Zeynep Or, Andrew Street and Miriam Wiley

The rise of the regulatory state in health care: a comparative analysis of the Netherlands, England and Italy pp. 103-124

Jan-Kees Helderman, Gwyn Bevan and George France

Overcoming fragmentation in health care: chronic care in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands pp. 125-146

Ellen Nolte, Cécile Knai, Maria Hofmarcher, Annalijn Conklin, Antje Erler, Arianne Elissen, Maria Flamm, Brigit Fullerton, Andreas Sönnichsen and Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef