Health Economics, Policy and Law

2006 - 2025

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Volume 2, issue 4, 2007

Physicians’ career satisfaction, quality of care and patients’ trust: the role of community uninsurance pp. 347-362

José A. Pagán, Lakshmi Balasubramanian and Mark V. Pauly

Mental health service delivery in Ontario, Canada: how do policy legacies shape prospects for reform? pp. 363-389

Gillian Mulvale, Julia Abelson and Paula Goering

The complexity of governance change: reforming the governance of medical performance in Germany pp. 391-407

Viola Burau

Specialization and physician-ownership in the US hospital industry: beyond the moratorium pp. 409-418

Kathleen Carey, Burgess, Jr, James F. and Gary J. Young

Activity based financing in England: the need for continual refinement of payment by results pp. 419-427

Andrew Street and Alan Maynard

Hospital cost differences and payment by results pp. 429-433

James Malcomson

Activity-based payments and reforms of the English hospital payment system pp. 435-444

Randall Ellis and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

Payment by results: qualified ambition? pp. 445-448

Andrew Street and Alan Maynard

Coping accountably in a dangerous world pp. 449-455

David Chinitz

Letter pp. 457-457

Julian Le Grand

Volume 2, issue 3, 2007

Who switches sickness funds in Israel? pp. 251-265

Amir Shmueli, Jacques Bendelac and Leah Achdut

Funding pharmaceutical innovation through direct tax credits pp. 267-284

Kristina M. Lybecker and Robert A. Freeman

Lawsuit activity, defensive medicine, and small area variation: the case of cesarean sections revisited pp. 285-296

Henry Brown

Family history of chronic disease and participation in healthy behaviours pp. 297-315

Godfrey A. Gibbison and C. Douglas Johnson

Visible hand or invisible fist?: the new market and choice in the English NHS pp. 317-325

Calum Paton

Taking the iron fist a little further pp. 327-331

Ian Greener

Peering through a glass: darkly pp. 333-335

Nicholas Timmins

Politics over economics, fist over hand pp. 337-339

Calum Paton

America's health care dilemma: not a pretty sight pp. 341-346

David Wilsford

Volume 2, issue 2, 2007

Patient reactions to hospital choice in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden pp. 125-152

Karsten Vrangbæk, Katarina Østergren, Hans Okkels Birk and Ulrika Winblad

Implementing accountability for reasonableness – the case of pharmaceutical reimbursement in Sweden pp. 153-171

Sandra Jansson

Supplementary health insurance as a tool for risk-selection in mandatory basic health insurance markets pp. 173-192

Francesco Paolucci, Erik Schut, Konstantin Beck, Stefan GREß, Carine van de Voorde and Irit Zmora

Economists’ dream or nightmare? Maximizing health gains from available resources using the NICE guidelines pp. 193-202

Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni

NICE: A nightmare worth having? pp. 203-208

Michael Drummond

A response to Birch and Gafni – some reasons to be cheerful about NICE pp. 209-216

Marthe Gold and Stirling Bryan

Being naughty about NICE? Questioning the methods used to maximize health gains from NHS resources pp. 217-221

Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni

Organizational innovations and health care decentralization: a perspective from Spain pp. 223-232

Guillem López-Casasanovas

The American right-wing policy agenda pp. 233-239

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Volume 2, issue 1, 2007

Financial incentives and psychiatric services in Australia: an empirical analysis of three policy changes pp. 7-22

D. P. Doessel, Roman W. Scheurer, David C. Chant and Harvey Whiteford

Medicaid policy changes in mental health care and their effect on mental health outcomes pp. 23-49

Alison Evans Cuellar and Sara Markowitz

Regionalization versus competition in complex cancer surgery pp. 51-71

Vivian Ho, Robert Town and Martin J. Heslin

A new approach to the comparative analysis of health systems: invasive treatment for heart disease in the US, France, and their two world cities pp. 73-92

Michael K. Gusmano, Victor G. Rodwin, Daniel Weisz and Dhiman Das

Inconsistent objectives – reflections on some selective health care policy developments in Europe pp. 93-106

Adam Oliver

The hedgehog and the fox: Glouberman and Marmor on ‘Healthy Public Policy’ Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy Sholom Glouberman Ottawa: Canadian Health Policy Networks, 2004, 92 pp. Fads in Medical Care Management and Policy Theodore Marmor London: The Nuffield Trust, 2004, 72 pp pp. 107-115

Carolyn Hughes Tuohy

Volume 1, issue 4, 2006

Measuring the globalization of health services: a possible index of openness of country health sectors to trade pp. 323-342

Richard Smith

Structure and logic of regulation and governance of quality of health care: was OFSTED a model for the Commission for Health Improvement? pp. 343-370

Gwyn Bevan and Jocelyn Cornwell

Patient empowerment and the introduction of hospital choice in Denmark and Norway pp. 371-394

Karsten Vrangbæk and Katarina Østergren

The determinants of policy for population health pp. 395-407

Daniel M. Fox

Health determinants, policy indeterminacy? pp. 409-414

Lawrence D. Brown

The ‘long and lonely road’: translating evidence into policy pp. 415-421

Alan Maynard

Reply pp. 423-425

Daniel M. Fox

Health inequalities: still making policy in a fog? pp. 427-435

Martin Powell

Volume 1, issue 3, 2006

Better regulation in troubled times pp. 203-207

Robert Baldwin

Does it really matter where you live? A panel data multilevel analysis of Swedish municipality-level social capital on individual health-related quality of life pp. 209-235

M. Kamrul Islam, Juan Merlo, Ichiro Kawachi, Martin Lindström, Kristina Burström and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Pursuing cost containment in a pluralistic payer environment: from the aftermath of Clinton's failure at health care reform to the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 pp. 237-261

Rick Mayes and Robert E. Hurley

Acquisition and disclosure of genetic information under alternative policy regimes: an economic analysis pp. 263-276

Deborah Wilson

The private–public mix of healthcare: evidence from a decentralised NHS country pp. 277-298

Linda Midttun and Terje P. Hagen

NICE's use of cost effectiveness as an exemplar of a deliberative process pp. 299-318

Anthony Culyer

Volume 1, issue 2, 2006

Transformation of the US Veterans Health Administration pp. 99-105

Jonathan B. Perlin

Solidarity in competitive health insurance markets: analysing the relevant EC legal framework pp. 107-126

Francesco Paolucci, Andre Den Exter and Wynand Van De Ven

Conceptualizing decentralization in European health systems: a functional perspective pp. 127-147

Richard B. Saltman and Vaida Bankauskaite

Public involvement policies in health: exploring their conceptual basis pp. 149-162

Suzanne Wait and Ellen Nolte

Effect of the implementation of an enterprise-wide Electronic Health Record on productivity in the Veterans Health Administration pp. 163-169

Dwight C. Evans, W. Paul Nichol and Jonathan B. Perlin

The case for risk-based premiums in public health insurance pp. 171-188

Peter Zweifel and Michael Breuer

Response: Is there a case for risk-based premiums in health care insurance? pp. 189-193

Alistair Mcguire

Response: The case for risk-based subsidies in public health insurance pp. 195-199

Wynand Van De Ven

Reply to our critics pp. 201-202

Peter Zweifel and Michael Breuer

Volume 1, issue 1, 2006

Does greater Medicare HMO enrollment cause adverse selection into Medigap? pp. 3-21

Katherine A. Desmond, Thomas Rice and Peter D. Fox

A game theoretic model of drug launch in India pp. 23-39

Saradindu Bhaduri and Amit Ray

The trade in human organs in Tamil Nadu: the anatomy of regulatory failure pp. 41-57

Vangal R. Muraleedharan, Stephen Jan and S. Ram Prasad

Cross-national comparisons of human resources for health – what can we learn? pp. 59-78

Carl-Ardy Dubois and Martin McKee

Priority setting in health – a political economy perspective pp. 79-90

Maria Goddard, Katharina Hauck, Alex Preker and Peter C. Smith

The great transformation pp. 91-98

Rudolf Klein