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Volume 121, issue 12, 2017

Introduction of freedom of choice for hospital outpatient care in Portugal: Implications and results of the 2016 reform pp. 1203-1207

J. Simões, G.F. Augusto and I. Fronteira

Migration intentions among Portuguese junior doctors: Results from a survey pp. 1208-1214

Pedro Ramos and Hélio Alves

The influence of registered nurses and nurse practitioners on patient experience with primary care: results from the Canadian QUALICO-PC study pp. 1215-1224

Mehdi Ammi, Sarah Ambrose, Bill Hogg and Sabrina Wong

Good, better, best? A comprehensive comparison of healthcare providers’ performance: An application to physiotherapy practices in primary care pp. 1225-1232

Sander Steenhuis, Niels Groeneweg, Xander Koolman and France Portrait

Australian general practitioners initiate statin therapy primarily on the basis of lipid levels; New Zealand general practitioners use absolute risk pp. 1233-1239

Chris Schilling, Josh Knight, Duncan Mortimer, Dennis Petrie, Philip Clarke, John Chalmers, Andrew Kerr and Rod Jackson

A review of international coverage and pricing strategies for personalized medicine and orphan drugs pp. 1240-1248

Irina Degtiar

Economic evaluations of alcohol prevention interventions: Is the evidence sufficient? A review of methodological challenges pp. 1249-1262

Sarah R. Hill, Luke Vale, David Hunter, Emily Henderson and Yemi Oluboyede

Evaluation of minimum volume standards for surgery in the Netherlands (2003–2017): A successful policy? pp. 1263-1273

Roos Mesman, Marjan J. Faber, Bart J.J.M. Berden and Gert P. Westert

How has the management of acute coronary syndrome changed in the Russian Federation during the last 10 years? pp. 1274-1279

Anna Kontsevaya, Tamara Sabgaida, Alla Ivanova, David A. Leon and Martin McKee

“We don’t have the infrastructure to support them at home”: How health system inadequacies impact on long-term care admissions of people with dementia pp. 1280-1287

Nora-Ann Donnelly, Niamh Humphries, Anne Hickey and Frank Doyle

The effect of taxation and regulation on cigarette smoking: Fresh evidence from Turkey pp. 1288-1295

Tamer Cetin

Structural integration and performance of inter-sectoral public health-related policy networks: An analysis across policy phases pp. 1296-1302

D.T.J.M. Peters, J. Raab, K.M. Grêaux, K. Stronks and J. Harting

Optimising the introduction of multiple childhood vaccines in Japan: A model proposing the introduction sequence achieving the highest health gains pp. 1303-1312

Baudouin Standaert, Nadia Schecroun, Olivier Ethgen, Oleksandr Topachevskyi, Yoriko Morioka and Ilse Van Vlaenderen

Volume 121, issue 11, 2017

Trade policy governance: What health policymakers and advocates need to know pp. 1105-1112

Holly Jarman

Shelter from the Storm: Roles, responsibilities, and challenges in United States housing policy governance pp. 1113-1123

Charley Willison

The governance of integrated health and social care in England since 2010: great expectations not met once again? pp. 1124-1130

Mark Exworthy, Martin Powell and Jon Glasby

Child survival in England: Strengthening governance for health pp. 1131-1138

Ingrid Wolfe, Kate Mandeville, Katherine Harrison and Raghu Lingam

Synthetic biology regulation and governance: Lessons from TAPIC for the United States, European Union, and Singapore pp. 1139-1146

Benjamin D. Trump

Governing energy while neglecting health – The case of Poland pp. 1147-1153

Nikolay Vasev

What do women want? Valuing women’s preferences and estimating demand for alternative models of maternity care using a discrete choice experiment pp. 1154-1160

Christopher G. Fawsitt, Jane Bourke, Richard A. Greene, Brendan McElroy, Nicolas Krucien, Rosemary Murphy and Jennifer E. Lutomski

Maternity services for rural and remote Australia: barriers to operationalising national policy pp. 1161-1168

Jo Longman, Jude Kornelsen, Jen Pilcher, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, Stefan Grzybowski, Sarah Robin, Margaret Rolfe, Deborah Donoghue, Geoffrey G. Morgan and Lesley Barclay

Improving risk equalization for individuals with persistently high costs: Experiences from the Netherlands pp. 1169-1176

Frank Eijkenaar and René C.J.A. van Vliet

Reforming voluntary drug insurance in Russian healthcare: does social solidarity matter? pp. 1177-1185

Christopher Gerry, Maria Kaneva and Liudmila Zasimova

The impact of introducing a new hospital financing system (DRGs) in Poland on hospitalisations for atherosclerosis: An interrupted time series analysis (2004–2012) pp. 1186-1193

Elżbieta Buczak-Stec, Paweł Goryński, Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Krzysztof Kanecki and Piotr Tyszko

Implementation of national palliative care guidelines in Swedish acute care hospitals: A qualitative content analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions pp. 1194-1201

S. Lind, L. Wallin, T. Brytting, C.J. Fürst and J. Sandberg

Volume 121, issue 10, 2017

Pandemic legislation in the European Union: Fit for purpose? The need for a systematic comparison of national laws pp. 1021-1024

Elizabeth M. Speakman, Scott Burris and Richard Coker

Time for a change in how new antibiotics are reimbursed: Development of an insurance framework for funding new antibiotics based on a policy of risk mitigation pp. 1025-1030

Adrian Towse, Christopher K. Hoyle, Jonathan Goodall, Mark Hirsch, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz and John H. Rex

An exploration of person-centred concepts in human services: A thematic analysis of the literature pp. 1031-1039

Rebecca A. Waters and Angus Buchanan

Insurees’ preferences in hospital choice—A population-based study pp. 1040-1046

Johannes Schuldt, Anna Doktor, Marcel Lichters, Bodo Vogt and Bernt-Peter Robra

Self-help organisations as patient representatives in health care and policy decision-making pp. 1047-1052

Daniela Rojatz and Rudolf Forster

Rethinking informal payments by patients in Europe: An institutional approach pp. 1053-1062

Colin Williams and Adrian V. Horodnic

Inequity in healthcare use among older people after 2008: The case of southern European countries pp. 1063-1071

Lara Tavares and Francesca Zantomio

Inequalities in cervical cancer screening utilisation and results: A comparison between Italian natives and immigrants from disadvantaged countries pp. 1072-1078

Federica Gallo, Adele Caprioglio, Roberta Castagno, Guglielmo Ronco, Nereo Segnan and Livia Giordano

General practitioners’ preferences with regard to colorectal cancer screening organisation Colon cancer screening medico-legal aspects pp. 1079-1084

Frédérique Papin-Lefebvre, Elodie Guillaume, Grégoire Moutel, Guy Launoy and Célia Berchi

Supplementary insurance as a switching cost for basic health insurance: Empirical results from the Netherlands pp. 1085-1092

Daniëlle M.I.D. Willemse-Duijmelinck, Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Ilaria Mosca

Classification trees for identifying non-use of community-based long-term care services among older adults pp. 1093-1099

Michael James Penkunas, Kirsten Yuna Eom and Angelique Wei-Ming Chan

Volume 121, issue 9, 2017

How have systematic priority setting approaches influenced policy making? A synthesis of the current literature pp. 937-946

Lydia Kapiriri and Donya Razavi

Health policy in times of austerity—A conceptual framework for evaluating effects of policy on efficiency and equity illustrated with examples from Europe since 2008 pp. 947-954

Martin Wenzl, Huseyin Naci and Elias Mossialos

The impact of health expenditure on the number of chronic diseases pp. 955-962

Leonardo Becchetti, Pierluigi Conzo and Francesco Salustri

Single-entry models (SEMs) for scheduled services: Towards a roadmap for the implementation of recommended practices pp. 963-970

Elena Lopatina, Zaheed Damani, Eric Bohm, Tom W. Noseworthy, Barbara Conner-Spady, Gail MacKean, Chris S. Simpson and Deborah A. Marshall

Effects of EU harmonization policies on national public supervision of clinical trials: A dynamic cycle of institutional change and institutional work pp. 971-977

Jacqueline C.F. van Oijen, Kor J. Grit, Hester M. van de Bovenkamp and Roland A. Bal

Prioritisation of specialist health care services; not NICE, not easy but it can be done pp. 978-985

Pippa Anderson, Philip Webb and Sam Groves

The impact of the mass media on obstetricians’ behavior in Norway pp. 986-993

Jostein Grytten, Irene Skau and Rune Sørensen

The McDonaldization of appraisal? Doctors’ views of the early impacts of medical revalidation in the United Kingdom pp. 994-1000

Julian Archer, Suzanne Nunn and Sam Regan de Bere

Effects of long-term high continuity of care on avoidable hospitalizations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients pp. 1001-1007

I-Po Lin and Shiao-Chi Wu

The relationship between health services standardized costs and mortality is non-linear: Results from a large HMO population pp. 1008-1014

Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Michal Skornick-Bouchbinder, Moshe Hoshen and Shai Brill

Health-seeking behavior and medical facility choice in Samsun, Turkey pp. 1015-1019

Cihad Dündar

Volume 121, issue 8, 2017

Measuring and managing health system performance: An update from New Zealand pp. 831-835

Linda Maree Chalmers, Toni Ashton and Tim Tenbensel

New decision-making processes for the pricing of health technologies in Japan: The FY 2016/2017 pilot phase for the introduction of economic evaluations pp. 836-841

Takeru Shiroiwa, Takashi Fukuda, Shunya Ikeda and Tomoyuki Takura

Hospital quality variation matters – A time-trend and cross-section analysis of outcomes in German hospitals from 2006 to 2014 pp. 842-852

Christoph Pross, Reinhard Busse and Alexander Geissler

Contrasting approaches to primary care performance governance in Denmark and New Zealand pp. 853-861

Tim Tenbensel and Viola Burau

Consistency of priorities for quality improvement for nursing homes in Italy and Canada: A comparison of optimization models of resident satisfaction pp. 862-869

Sara Barsanti, Kevin Walker, Chiara Seghieri, Antonella Rosa and Walter P. Wodchis

Review of early assessment models of innovative medical technologies pp. 870-879

Iben Fasterholdt, Murray Krahn, Kristian Kidholm, Knud Bonnet Yderstræde and Kjeld Møller Pedersen

Post market surveillance in the german medical device sector – current state and future perspectives pp. 880-886

Claus Zippel and Sabine Bohnet-Joschko

The taxation of unhealthy energy-dense foods (EDFs) and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs): An overview of patterns observed in the policy content and policy context of 13 case studies pp. 887-894

Luc Louis Hagenaars, Patrick Paulus Theodoor Jeurissen and Niek Sieds Klazinga

Staff and patient perspectives of a smoke-free health services policy in South Australia: A state-wide implementation pp. 895-902

Kimberley Martin, Joanne Dono, Greg Sharplin, Jacqueline Bowden and Caroline Miller

System influences on work disability due to low back pain: An international evidence synthesis pp. 903-912

Serena Bartys, Pernille Frederiksen, Tom Bendix and Kim Burton

Social preferences for prioritizing the treatment of severely ill patients: The relevance of severity, expected benefit, past health and lifetime health pp. 913-922

John McKie and Jeff Richardson

The ageing society and emergency hospital admissions pp. 923-928

Raphael Wittenberg, Luke Sharpin, Barry McCormick and Jeremy Hurst

Processes and experiences of Portugal’s international recruitment scheme of Colombian physicians: Did it work? pp. 929-935

Erika Masanet

Volume 121, issue 7, 2017

The role of the European Structural and Investment Funds in Financing Health System in Lithuania: Experience from 2007 to 2013 funding period and implications for the future pp. 727-730

Liubove Murauskiene and Marina Karanikolos

The bare necessities? A realist review of necessity argumentations used in health care coverage decisions pp. 731-744

Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek, Antoinette de Bont and Bert Boer

Are public-private partnerships the solution to tackle neglected tropical diseases? A systematic review of the literature pp. 745-754

Céline Aerts, Temmy Sunyoto, Fabrizio Tediosi and Elisa Sicuri

Time-driven activity-based costing in health care: A systematic review of the literature pp. 755-763

George Keel, Carl Savage, Rafiq Muhammad and Pamela Mazzocato

New insights into health financing: First results of the international data collection under the System of Health Accounts 2011 framework pp. 764-769

Michael Mueller and David Morgan

Approaches to appropriate care delivery from a policy perspective: A case study of Australia, England and Switzerland pp. 770-777

Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Matthew Anstey, Nikola Biller-Andorno and Alexandra Norrish

The impact of economic conditions on the disablement process: A Markov transition approach using SHARE data pp. 778-785

Yves Arrighi, Thomas Rapp and Nicolas Sirven

Implementing shared-decision-making for diabetes care across country settings: What really matters to people? pp. 786-792

Michela Tinelli, Panagiotis Petrou, George Samoutis, Vivie Traynor, George Olympios and Alistair McGuire

Including values in evidence-based policy making for breast screening: An empirically grounded tool to assist expert decision makers pp. 793-799

Lisa Parker

Understanding perspectives on major system change: A comparative case study of public engagement and the implementation of urgent and emergency care system reconfiguration pp. 800-808

Conor Foley, Elsa Droog, Orla Healy, Sheena McHugh, Claire Buckley and John Patrick Browne

Job Stickiness of young nurses in Ontario: Does the employer organization participation in the Nursing Graduate Guarantee initiative make a difference? pp. 809-815

Mohamad Alameddine, Andrea Baumann, Kanecy Onate, Mary Crea, Nour El Arnaout and Raisa Deber

Understanding stakeholders’ perspectives and experiences of general practice accreditation pp. 816-822

Deborah Debono, David Greenfield, Luke Testa, Virginia Mumford, Anne Hogden, Marjorie Pawsey, Johanna Westbrook and Jeffrey Braithwaite

Increase in computed tomography in Australia driven mainly by practice change: A decomposition analysis pp. 823-829

Cameron M. Wright, Max K. Bulsara, Richard Norman and Rachael E. Moorin

Volume 121, issue 6, 2017

Popular initiatives in 2014–2016 call for the introduction of mandatory dental care insurance in Switzerland: The contrasting positions at stake pp. 575-581

Enrico di Bella, Lucia Leporatti, Marcello Montefiori, Ivo Krejci and Stefano Ardu

Health decentralization at a dead-end: towards new recovery plans for Italian hospitals pp. 582-587

Marianna Mauro, Anna Maresso and Annamaria Guglielmo

The emerging market for supplemental long term care insurance in Germany in the context of the 2013 Pflege-Bahr reform pp. 588-593

Pamela Nadash and Alison Evans Cuellar

The Directorate-General for Health and Consumers 1999–2014: An assessment of its functional capacities pp. 594-603

Timo Clemens, Kristine Sørensen, Nicole Rosenkötter, Kai Michelsen and Helmut Brand

Assessing impacts of the WHO FCTC on national legislations: A case study of the Republic of Korea pp. 604-612

Sun Goo Lee

Informal and formal care: Substitutes or complements in care for people with dementia? Empirical evidence for 8 European countries pp. 613-622

Patrick Bremer, David Challis, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Kai Saks, Bruno Vellas, Sandra M.G. Zwakhalen and Dirk Sauerland

Community residential facilities in mental health services: A ten-year comparison in Lombardy pp. 623-628

Angelo Barbato, Graziella Civenti and D’Avanzo, Barbara

What do we mean when we talk about the Triple Aim? A systematic review of evolving definitions and adaptations of the framework at the health system level pp. 629-636

Gustavo Mery, Shilpi Majumder, Adalsteinn Brown and Mark J. Dobrow

A rapidly changing global medicines environment: How adaptable are funding decision-making systems? pp. 637-643

Christine Leopold, Steven G. Morgan and Anita K. Wagner

Deaths amenable to health care: Converging trends in the EU? pp. 644-652

Anke Weber and Marie Clerc

Understanding what matters: An exploratory study to investigate the views of the general public for priority setting criteria in health care pp. 653-662

Julie Ratcliffe, Emily Lancsar, Ruth Walker and Yuanyuan Gu

The effects of population ageing on health care expenditure: A Bayesian VAR analysis using data from Italy pp. 663-674

Milena Lopreite and Marianna Mauro

Gatekeeping and the utilization of physician services in France: Evidence on the Médecin traitant reform pp. 675-682

Magali Dumontet, Thomas Buchmueller, Paul Dourgnon, Florence Jusot and Jérôme Wittwer

Stakeholder views on criteria and processes for priority setting in Norway: a qualitative study pp. 683-690

Jeremy M. Aidem

Economic losses and burden of disease by medical conditions in Norway pp. 691-698

Jonas Minet Kinge, Kjartan Sælensminde, Joseph Dieleman, Stein Emil Vollset and Ole Frithjof Norheim

The role of private non-profit healthcare organizations in NHS systems: Implications for the Portuguese hospital devolution program pp. 699-707

Álvaro S. Almeida

Supplementary Health Insurance from the consumer point of view pp. 708-714

Giora Kaplan, Yael Shahar and Orna Tal

The impact on productivity of a hypothetical tax on sugar-sweetened beverages pp. 715-725

Takeshi Nomaguchi, Michelle Cunich, Belen Zapata-Diomedi and J. Lennert Veerman

Volume 121, issue 5, 2017

The new regulatory tools of the 2016 Health Law to fight drug shortages in France pp. 471-476

François Bocquet, Albane Degrassat-Théas, Jérôme Peigné and Pascal Paubel

Out-of-pocket expenditure and financial protection in the Chilean health care system—A systematic review pp. 481-494

Kira Johanna Koch, Camilo Cid Pedraza and Andreas Schmid

Neoliberal reforms in health systems and the construction of long-lasting inequalities in health care: A case study from Chile pp. 495-503

Elena S. Rotarou and Dikaios Sakellariou

Selective contracting and channelling patients to preferred providers: A scoping review pp. 504-514

Romy E. Bes, Emile C. Curfs, Peter P. Groenewegen and Judith D. de Jong

On the role of environmental corruption in healthcare infrastructures: An empirical assessment for Italy using DEA with truncated regression approach pp. 515-524

Marina Cavalieri, Calogero Guccio and Ilde Rizzo

A strategic document as a tool for implementing change. Lessons from the merger creating the South-East Health region in Norway pp. 525-533

Tarald Rohde and Hans Torvatn

Do benefits in kind or refunds affect health service utilization and health outcomes? A natural experiment from Japan pp. 534-542

Reo Takaku and Shun-ichiro Bessho

Introducing a GP copayment in Australia: Who would carry the cost burden? pp. 543-552

Rosemary Kate Elkins and Stefanie Schurer

Physician payment schemes and physician productivity: Analysis of Turkish healthcare reforms pp. 553-557

Burcay Erus and Ozan Hatipoglu

Policy objective of generic medicines from the investment perspective: The case of clopidogrel pp. 558-565

Péter Elek, András Harsányi, Tamás Zelei, Kata Csetneki and Zoltán Kaló

Community perspectives on the use of regulation and law for obesity prevention in children: A citizens’ jury pp. 566-573

Jackie M. Street, Jana Sisnowski, Rebecca Tooher, Lucy C. Farrell and Annette J. Braunack-Mayer

Volume 121, issue 4, 2017

The 2016 proposal for the reorganisation of urgent care provision in Belgium: A political struggle to co-locate primary care providers and emergency departments pp. 339-345

Koen Van den Heede, Wilm Quentin, Cécile Dubois, Stephan Devriese and Carine Van de Voorde

Implementation of the 2013 amended Patients’ Rights Act in Norway: Clinical priority guidelines and access to specialised health care pp. 346-353

Kjell Arne Johansson, Elizabeth Nygaard, Berit Herlofsen and Frode Lindemark

Payers’ experiences with confidential pharmaceutical price discounts: A survey of public and statutory health systems in North America, Europe, and Australasia pp. 354-362

Steven G. Morgan, Sabine Vogler and Anita K. Wagner

Association between copayment, medication adherence and outcomes in the management of patients with diabetes and heart failure pp. 363-377

George Gourzoulidis, Georgia Kourlaba, Panagiotis Stafylas, Gregory Giamouzis, John Parissis and Nikolaos Maniadakis

Does enrollment in multidisciplinary team-based primary care practice improve adherence to guideline-recommended processes of care? Quebec’s Family Medicine Groups, 2002–2010 pp. 378-388

Mamadou Diop, Julie Fiset-Laniel, Sylvie Provost, Pierre Tousignant, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Marie-Jo Ouimet, Eric Latimer and Erin Strumpf

The financial burden of prescription drugs for neurological conditions in Canada: Results from the National Population Health Study of Neurological Conditions pp. 389-396

Sara Guilcher, Sarah Munce, James Conklin, Tanya Packer, Molly Verrier, Connie Marras, Tarik Bereket, Joan Versnel, Richard Riopelle and Susan Jaglal

Leveraging consumer’s behaviour to promote generic drugs in Italy pp. 397-406

Cristina Zerbini, Beatrice Luceri and Donata Tania Vergura

Implementing hospital pay-for-performance: Lessons learned from the French pilot program pp. 407-417

Anne Girault, Martine Bellanger, Benoît Lalloué, Philippe Loirat, Jean-Claude Moisdon and Etienne Minvielle

Productivity growth, case mix and optimal size of hospitals. A 16-year study of the Norwegian hospital sector pp. 418-425

Kjartan Sarheim Anthun, Sverre Kittelsen and Jon Magnussen

Using administrative data to look at changes in the level and distribution of out-of-pocket medical expenditure: An example using Medicare data from Australia pp. 426-433

Xinyang Hua, Guido Erreygers, John Chalmers, Tracey-Lea Laba and Philip Clarke

Unmet healthcare needs in Ireland: Analysis using the EU-SILC survey pp. 434-441

Sheelah Connolly and Maev-Ann Wren

Private health insurance in Sweden: Fast-track lanes and the alleged attempts to stop them pp. 442-449

John Lapidus

Public reaction to the UK government strategy on childhood obesity in England: A qualitative and quantitative summary of online reaction to media reports pp. 450-457

Rebecca Gregg, Ajay Patel, Sumaiya Patel and O’Connor, Laura

The role, costs and value for money of external consultancies in the health sector: A study of New Zealand’s District Health Boards pp. 458-467

Erin Penno and Robin Gauld

Volume 121, issue 3, 2017

HTA of medical devices: Challenges and ideas for the future from a European perspective pp. 215-229

Sabine Fuchs, Britta Olberg, Dimitra Panteli, Matthias Perleth and Reinhard Busse

The determinants of medical technology adoption in different decisional systems: A systematic literature review pp. 230-242

Yauheniya Varabyova, Carl Blankart, Ann Lennarson Greer and Jonas Schreyögg

Eliciting preferences for medical devices in South Korea: A discrete choice experiment pp. 243-249

Hye-Jae Lee and Eun-Young Bae

Corruption and use of antibiotics in regions of Europe pp. 250-256

Björn Rönnerstrand and Victor Lapuente

Drug information by public health and regulatory institutions: Results of an 8-country survey in Europe pp. 257-264

Giulio Formoso, Maria Font-Pous, Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, David Phizackerley, Dick Bijl, Juan Erviti, Blanka Pospíšilová and Jean Louis Montastruc

Why do generic drugs fail to achieve an adequate market share in Greece? Empirical findings and policy suggestions pp. 265-272

T. Balasopoulos, A. Charonis, K. Athanasakis, J. Kyriopoulos and E. Pavi

Determinants of evidence use in public health policy making: Results from a study across six EU countries pp. 273-281

Ien van de Goor, Riitta-Maija Hämäläinen, Ahmed Syed, Cathrine Juel Lau, Petru Sandu, Hilde Spitters, Leena Eklund Karlsson, Diana Dulf, Adriana Valente, Tommaso Castellani and Arja R. Aro

A Knowledge Translation framework on ageing and health pp. 282-291

Moriah E. Ellen, Ulysses Panisset, Islene Araujo de Carvalho, James Goodwin and John Beard

EU accession: A policy window opportunity for nursing? pp. 292-299

Paul De Raeve, Anne-Marie Rafferty, Louise Bariball, Ruth Young and Olga Boiko

Addressing health inequalities by using Structural Funds. A question of opportunities pp. 300-306

Oana Maria Neagu, Kai Michelsen, Jonathan Watson, Barrie Dowdeswell and Helmut Brand

Poverty and private health expenditures in Italian households during the recent crisis pp. 307-314

Simone Sarti, Marco Terraneo and Mara Tognetti Bordogna

Financial hardship on the path to Universal Health Coverage in the Gulf States pp. 315-320

Riyadh Alshamsan, Hannah Leslie, Azeem Majeed and Margaret Kruk

The likely effects of employer-mandated complementary health insurance on health coverage in France pp. 321-328

Aurélie Pierre and Florence Jusot

Features of public healthcare services provided to migrant patients in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Region (Greece) pp. 329-337

Christos A. Tsitsakis, Anastasios Karasavvoglou, Efstathios Tsaridis, Georgia Ramantani, Giannoula Florou, Persefoni Polychronidou and Stamatios Stamatakis

Volume 121, issue 2, 2017

Policies towards hospital and GP competition in five European countries pp. 103-110

Luigi Siciliani, Martin Chalkley and Hugh Gravelle

Competition policy for health care provision in France pp. 111-118

Philippe Choné

Competition policy for health care provision in Germany pp. 119-125

Mathias Kifmann

Competition policy for health care provision in the Netherlands pp. 126-133

Frederik T. Schut and Marco Varkevisser

Competition policy for health care provision in Norway pp. 134-140

Kurt Brekke and Odd Rune Straume

Competition policy for health care provision in Portugal pp. 141-148

Pedro Barros

Understanding competition between healthcare providers: Introducing an intermediary inter-organizational perspective pp. 149-157

Daan Westra, Federica Angeli, Martin Carree and Dirk Ruwaard

Exploring the unanticipated effects of multi-sectoral partnerships in chronic disease prevention pp. 158-168

Cameron David Willis, Crystal Corrigan, Lisa Stockton, Julie Kathryn Greene and Barbara Lyn Riley

Effects of person-centred care on health outcomes—A randomized controlled trial in patients with acute coronary syndrome pp. 169-179

Laura Pirhonen, Elisabeth Hansson Olofsson, Andreas Fors, Inger Ekman and Kristian Bolin

Increased cost sharing and changes in noncompliance with specialty referrals in The Netherlands pp. 180-188

Thamar E.M. van Esch, Anne E.M. Brabers, Christel E. van Dijk, Lisette Gusdorf, Peter P. Groenewegen and Judith D. de Jong

The effects of expanded nurse practitioner and physician assistant scope of practice on the cost of Medicaid patient care pp. 189-196

Edward Timmons

Changes in primary care provision in Turkey: A comparison of 1993 and 2012 pp. 197-206

Mehmet Akman, Sibel Sakarya, Mehmet Sargın, İlhami Ünlüoğlu, Memet Taşkın Eğici, Wienke G.W. Boerma and Willemijn L.A. Schäfer

Development of a multi stakeholder partnership to improve access to and delivery of neurosurgical services in Ontario pp. 207-214

Sunjay Sharma, Des Bohn, Iphigenia Mikroyiannakis, Joslyn Trowbridge, Donna Thompson, Robert Bell and James Rutka

Volume 121, issue 1, 2017

The arduous quest for translating health care productivity gains into cost savings. Lessons from their evolution at economic scoring agencies in the Netherlands and the US pp. 1-8

Ab Klink, H. Christiaan Schakel, Sander Visser and Patrick Jeurissen

Uncomfortable trade-offs: Canadian policy makers’ perspectives on setting objectives for their health systems pp. 9-16

Julia Abelson, Sara Allin, Michel Grignon, Dianna Pasic and Marjan Walli-Attaei

Public reporting of hospital quality shows inconsistent ranking results pp. 17-26

Martin Emmert, Fatemeh Taheri-Zadeh, Benjamin Kolb and Uwe Sander

The international generalisability of evidence for health policy: A cross country comparison of medication adherence following policy change pp. 27-34

Sarah-Jo Sinnott, Helen Whelton, Jessica Myers Franklin and Jennifer Milan Polinski

Purchase habits, use of paracetamol, and information sources on a reregulated Swedish pharmacy market: A population-based study pp. 35-41

T. Hedenrud and H. Håkonsen

The recommodification of healthcare? A case study of user charges and inequalities in access to healthcare in Sweden 1980–2005 pp. 42-49

Kristin Farrants, Clare Bambra, Lotta Nylen, Adetayo Kasim, Bo Burström and David Hunter

Assessment of cost sharing in the Pima County Marketplace pp. 50-57

Nicholas B. Jennings and Howard J. Eng

Primary care managers’ perceptions of their capability in providing care planning to patients with complex needs pp. 58-65

Lena Gunvor Larsson, Siv Bäck-Pettersson, Sven Kylén, Bertil Marklund and Eric Carlström

What women want: Exploring pregnant women’s preferences for alternative models of maternity care pp. 66-74

Christopher Godfrey Fawsitt, Jane Bourke, Jennifer E. Lutomski, Sarah Meaney, Brendan McElroy, Rosemary Murphy and Richard Anthony Greene

Complaints in long-term care facilities for older persons: Why residents do not give ‘free advice’ pp. 75-81

Manja Bomhoff and Roland Friele

Developments in home-care use. Policy and changing community-based care use by independent community-dwelling adults in the Netherlands pp. 82-89

Inger Plaisier, Debbie Verbeek-Oudijk and Mirjam de Klerk