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Volume 119, issue 12, 2015

Recruitment and retention of health professionals across Europe: A literature review and multiple case study research pp. 1517-1528

Marieke Kroezen, Gilles Dussault, Isabel Craveiro, Marjolein Dieleman, Christel Jansen, James Buchan, Louise Barriball, Anne Marie Rafferty, Jeni Bremner and Walter Sermeus

Health professional mobility in the European Union: Exploring the equity and efficiency of free movement pp. 1529-1536

Irene A. Glinos

Health workforce planning in Europe: Creating learning country clusters pp. 1537-1544

Ronald Batenburg

Medical workforce education and training: A failed decentralisation attempt to reform organisation, financing, and planning in England pp. 1545-1549

Pavel V. Ovseiko and Alastair M. Buchan

The ‘rural pipeline’ and retention of rural health professionals in Europe's northern peripheries pp. 1550-1556

Dean B. Carson, Adrian Schoo and Peter Berggren

Enumerating the preventive youth health care workforce: Size, composition and regional variation in the Netherlands pp. 1557-1564

Marielle Jambroes, Majda Lamkaddem, Karien Stronks and Marie-Louise Essink-Bot

Health workforce governance and oral health: Diversity and challenges in Europe pp. 1565-1575

Jennifer E. Gallagher and Kenneth A. Eaton

Primary care practice composition in 34 countries pp. 1576-1583

Peter Groenewegen, Stephanie Heinemann, Stefan Greß and Willemijn Schäfer

Work environment issues and intention-to-leave in Portuguese nurses: A cross-sectional study pp. 1584-1592

Claudia Leone, Luk Bruyneel, Janet E. Anderson, Trevor Murrells, Gilles Dussault, Élvio Henriques de Jesus, Walter Sermeus, Linda Aiken and Anne Marie Rafferty

Health workforce planning and service expansion during an economic crisis: A case study of the national breast screening programme in Ireland pp. 1593-1599

S.M. McHugh, E. Tyrrell, B. Johnson, O. Healy, I.J. Perry and C. Normand

The impact of the financial crisis on human resources for health policies in three southern-Europe countries pp. 1600-1605

Tiago Correia, Gilles Dussault and Carla Pontes

Health workforce governance in Italy pp. 1606-1612

Maria Vicarelli and Emmanuele Pavolini

Mapping the governance of human resources for health in Serbia pp. 1613-1620

Milena Santric Milicevic, Milena Vasic and Matt Edwards

Health workforce policy and Turkey's health care reform pp. 1621-1626

Tuba I. Agartan

The role of governance in implementing task-shifting from physicians to nurses in advanced roles in Europe, U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia pp. 1627-1635

Claudia B. Maier

Why we need multi-level health workforce governance: Case studies from nursing and medicine in Germany pp. 1636-1644

Ellen Kuhlmann and Christa Larsen

Health workforce governance: Processes, tools and actors towards a competent workforce for integrated health services delivery pp. 1645-1654

Erica Barbazza, Margrieta Langins, Hans Kluge and Juan Tello

Volume 119, issue 11, 2015

The “Temporary Recommendations for Use”: A dual-purpose regulatory framework for off-label drug use in France pp. 1399-1405

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

Patients’ perceptions of generic drugs in Greece pp. 1406-1414

Leonora N. Skaltsas and Konstantinos Z. Vasileiou

Which hospitalisations are ambulatory care-sensitive, to what degree, and how could the rates be reduced? Results of a group consensus study in Germany pp. 1415-1423

Leonie Sundmacher, Diana Fischbach, Wiebke Schuettig, Christoph Naumann, Uta Augustin and Cristina Faisst

Hospital managers’ need for information in decision-making – An interview study in nine European countries pp. 1424-1432

Kristian Kidholm, Anne Mette Ølholm, Mette Birk-Olsen, Americo Cicchetti, Brynjar Fure, Esa Halmesmäki, Rabia Kahveci, Raul-Allan Kiivet, Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen, Claudia Wild and Laura Sampietro-Colom

Australian diagnosis related groups: Drivers of complexity adjustment pp. 1433-1441

Terri Jackson, Vera Dimitropoulos, Richard Madden and Steve Gillett

Determinants of the cost of capital for privately financed hospital projects in the UK pp. 1442-1449

Paolo Colla, Mark Hellowell, Veronica Vecchi and Stefano Gatti

The relationship between educational attainment and waiting time among the elderly in Norway pp. 1450-1458

Fredrik Carlsen and Oddvar Kaarboe

Informal dementia care: Consequences for caregivers’ health and health care use in 8 European countries pp. 1459-1471

Patrick Bremer, Esther Cabrera, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Connie Lethin, Kai Saks, Caroline Sutcliffe, Maria Soto, Sandra M.G. Zwakhalen and Ansgar Wübker

End-of-life preferences of the general public: Results from a Japanese national survey pp. 1472-1481

Lee Andrew Kissane, Baku Ikeda, Reiko Akizuki, Shoko Nozaki, Kimio Yoshimura and Naoki Ikegami

Preferences for end-of-life care among community-dwelling older adults and patients with advanced cancer: A discrete choice experiment pp. 1482-1489

Eric A. Finkelstein, Marcel Bilger, Terry N. Flynn and Chetna Malhotra

Ethical considerations in the regulation of euthanasia and physician-assisted death in Canada pp. 1490-1498

Joshua T. Landry, Thomas Foreman and Michael Kekewich

Satisfaction and responsiveness with health-care services in Qatar—evidence from a survey pp. 1499-1505

Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali, Zlatko Nikoloski and Husein Reka

Volume 119, issue 10, 2015

The impact of the EU Directive on patients’ rights and cross border health care in Malta pp. 1285-1292

Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Christoph Aluttis, Kristine Sorensen, Roderick Pace and Helmut Brand

Patient mobility in the context of austerity and an enlarged EU: The European Court of Justice's ruling in the Petru Case pp. 1293-1297

Markus Frischhut and Rosella Levaggi

Government, politics and health policy: A quantitative analysis of 30 European countries pp. 1298-1308

Johan P. Mackenbach and Martin McKee

The impact of international economic sanctions on Iranian cancer healthcare pp. 1309-1318

Shohreh Shahabi, Hooman Fazlalizadeh, Jennifer Stedman, Linus Chuang, Ahmad Shariftabrizi and Regina Ram

Considering long-term care insurance for middle-income countries: comparing South Korea with Japan and Germany pp. 1319-1329

Jong Chul Rhee, Nicolae Done and Gerard F. Anderson

Delivery of institutional long-term care under two social insurances: Lessons from the Korean experience pp. 1330-1337

Hongsoo Kim, Young-Il Jung and Soonman Kwon

The non-take up of long-term care benefit in France: A pecuniary motive? pp. 1338-1348

Yves Arrighi, Bérengère Davin-Casalena, Alain Trannoy and Bruno Ventelou

Unwinding the State subsidisation of private health insurance in Ireland pp. 1349-1357

Brian Turner

Effects of changes in copayment for obstetric emergency room visits on the utilization of obstetric emergency rooms pp. 1358-1365

Iris Raz, Lena Novack, Maayan Yitshak-Sade, Yemima Shahar, Arnon Wiznitzer, Ruslan Sergienko and Lora Warshawsky-Livne

Out-of-pocket payments for health care in Serbia pp. 1366-1374

Jelena Arsenijevic, Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot

The paradox of non-evidence based, publicly funded complementary alternative medicine in the English National Health Service: An explanation pp. 1375-1381

Maria K. Sheppard

Does prenatal care benefit maternal health? A study of post-partum maternal care use pp. 1382-1389

Tsai-Ching Liu, Bradley Chen, Yun-Shan Chan and Chin-Shyan Chen

The development of a national HIV Plan in Belgium: Achieving consensus despite institutional complexity pp. 1390-1398

Christoph Schweikardt and Yves Coppieters

Volume 119, issue 9, 2015

An analysis of perceived access to health care in Europe: How universal is universal coverage? pp. 1133-1144

Jonathan Cylus and Irene Papanicolas

Universal health insurance coverage for 1.3 billion people: What accounts for China's success? pp. 1145-1152

Hao Yu

Does health insurance mitigate inequities in non-communicable disease treatment? Evidence from 48 low- and middle-income countries pp. 1164-1175

Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Anton Palma, Lynn P. Freedman and Margaret E. Kruk

Costs and effects of new professional roles: Evidence from a literature review pp. 1176-1187

A. Tsiachristas, I. Wallenburg, C.M. Bond, R.F. Elliot, R. Busse, Job van Exel, M.P. Rutten-van Mölken and A. de Bont

Remuneration of medical specialists. Drivers of the differences between six European countries pp. 1188-1196

Lucy Kok, Seán Boyle, Marloes Lammers and Caren Tempelman

Lean in healthcare: A comprehensive review pp. 1197-1209

D’Andreamatteo, Antonio, Luca Ianni, Federico Lega and Massimo Sargiacomo

Factors that influence the way local communities respond to consultation processes about major service change: A qualitative study pp. 1210-1217

Helen Barratt, David A. Harrison, Rosalind Raine and Naomi J. Fulop

Learning from contract change in primary care dentistry: A qualitative study of stakeholders in the north of England pp. 1218-1225

Richard D. Holmes, Jimmy G. Steele, Cam Donaldson and Catherine Exley

Bottom-up priority setting revised. A second evaluation of an institutional intervention in a Swedish health care organisation pp. 1226-1236

Susanne Waldau

Local health care expenditure plans and their opportunity costs pp. 1237-1244

Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer, Jon Sussex, Nancy Devlin and Andrew Walker

Effects of pharmaceutical cost containment policies on doctors’ prescribing behavior: Focus on antibiotics pp. 1245-1254

Euna Han, Su-Mi Chae, Nam-Soon Kim and Sylvia Park

The impact of changes in national prescribing conditions for statins on their public expenditure and utilization in the Czech Republic 1997–2013 pp. 1255-1264

Leos Fuksa, Milan Vocelka and Magda Vytrisalova

General Practitioners’ intention to prescribe and prescribing patterns in selected European settings: The OTCSOCIOMED project pp. 1265-1274

Vasiliki Tsiantou, Joanna Moschandreas, Antonis Bertsias, Maria Papadakaki, Aristoula Saridaki, Dominic Agius, Zuleyha Alper, Tomas Faresjo, Martina Klimkova, Luc Martinez, George Samoutis, Jiří Vlček and Christos Lionis

National transparency assessment of Kuwait's pharmaceutical sector pp. 1275-1283

Dalia A. Badawi, Yousif Alkhamis, Mohammad Qaddoumi and Kazem Behbehani

Volume 119, issue 8, 2015

Measuring health system performance: A new approach to accountability and quality improvement in New Zealand pp. 999-1004

Toni Ashton

Centralising acute stroke care and moving care to the community in a Danish health region: Challenges in implementing a stroke care reform pp. 1005-1010

Karla Douw, Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen and Camilla Riis Pedersen

Strategic purchasing reform in Estonia: Reducing inequalities in access while improving care concentration and quality pp. 1011-1016

Triin Habicht, Jarno Habicht and Ewout van Ginneken

Developing cross-sectoral quality assurance for cataract surgery in the statutory quality assurance program of the German health care system: Experiences and lessons learned pp. 1017-1022

Anke Bramesfeld, Jürgen Pauletzki, Lars Behrenz, Joachim Szecsenyi, Gerald Willms and Björn Broge

Evaluation of a policy to strengthen case management and quality of diabetes care in general practice in Denmark pp. 1023-1030

Andreas Rudkjøbing, Karsten Vrangbaek, Hans Okkels Birk, John Sahl Andersen and Allan Krasnik

Association of Physician Certification Policy and Quality of Care: Evidence of percutaneous coronary intervention certification program in Taiwan pp. 1031-1038

Shu-Hui Kao, Dau-Kuan Lu, Yi-Ling Lin, Hui-Min Hsieh, Tsung-Hsien Lin and Herng-Chia Chiu

Effective strategy for improving health care outcomes: Multidisciplinary care in cerebral infarction patients pp. 1039-1045

Kyu-Tae Han, Eun-Cheol Park, Sun Jung Kim, Woorim Kim, Myung-Il Hahm, Sung-In Jang and Sang Gyu Lee

How to make medication error reporting systems work – Factors associated with their successful development and implementation pp. 1046-1054

Anna-Riia Holmström, Raisa Laaksonen and Marja Airaksinen

Why do high-volume hospitals achieve better outcomes? A systematic review about intermediate factors in volume–outcome relationships pp. 1055-1067

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

Patient perspectives on centralisation of low volume, highly specialised procedures in Sweden pp. 1068-1075

Ida Svederud, Martin Virhage, Emma Medin, Jonas Grundström, Sarah Friberg and Joakim Ramsberg

Incentivising effort in governance of public hospitals: Development of a delegation-based alternative to activity-based remuneration pp. 1076-1085

Rikke Søgaard, Søren Kristensen and Mickael Bech

Corporate governance in Czech hospitals after the transformation pp. 1086-1095

Petr Pirozek, Lenka Komarkova, Ondrej Leseticky and Tatana Hajdikova

Leaders’ experiences and perceptions implementing activity-based funding and pay-for-performance hospital funding models: A systematic review pp. 1096-1110

Pamela E. Baxter, Sarah J. Hewko, Kathryn A. Pfaff, Laura Cleghorn, Barbara J. Cunningham, Dawn Elston and Greta G. Cummings

Pricing hospital care: Global budgets and marginal pricing strategies pp. 1111-1118

Jason M. Sutherland

Effects of DRG-based hospital payment in Poland on treatment of patients with stroke pp. 1119-1125

Victor Bystrov, Anna Staszewska-Bystrova, Daniel Rutkowski and Tomasz Hermanowski

Costs of disposable material in the operating room do not show high correlation with surgical time: Implications for hospital payment pp. 1126-1132

Caroline Delo, Pol Leclercq, Dimitri Martins and Magali Pirson

Volume 119, issue 7, 2015

Swiss popular initiative for a single health insurer… once again! pp. 851-855

Carlo De Pietro and Luca Crivelli

Integrated health and social care in England – Progress and prospects pp. 856-859

Richard Humphries

Managed care in four managed competition OECD health systems pp. 860-873

Amir Shmueli, Piet Stam, Juergen Wasem and Maria Trottmann

Government interventions to aid choice: Help to self-help or paternalism? pp. 874-881

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen and Trine Kjær

Public healthcare interests require strict competition enforcement pp. 882-888

Edith M.H. Loozen

Income related inequalities in avoidable mortality in Norway: A population-based study using data from 1994–2011 pp. 889-898

Jonas Minet Kinge, Laura Vallejo-Torres and Stephen Morris

Unmet healthcare needs depending on employment status pp. 899-906

Sang-Yi Lee, Chul-Woung Kim, Jeong-Hee Kang and Nam-Kyu Seo

Affordability of out-of-pocket health care expenses among older Australians pp. 907-914

Anthony Carpenter, M. Mofizul Islam, Laurann Yen and Ian McRae

The relevance of work-related learning for vulnerable groups. Dutch case study of a Health Impact Assessment with equity focus pp. 915-924

Ilse Storm, Ellen Uiters, Mirjam C.M. Busch, Lea den Broeder and Albertine J. Schuit

Does the new EU Regulation on clinical trials adequately protect vulnerable research participants? pp. 925-931

Éloïse Gennet, Roberto Andorno and Bernice Elger

The European Union Food Distribution programme for the Most Deprived Persons of the community, 1987–2013: From agricultural policy to social inclusion policy? pp. 932-940

Martin Caraher

Health, economic crisis, and austerity: A comparison of Greece, Finland and Iceland pp. 941-953

José Tapia Granados and Javier M. Rodriguez

The fiscal crisis in the health sector: Patterns of cutback management across Europe pp. 954-963

Edoardo Ongaro, Francesca Ferré and Giovanni Fattore

Socio-economic burden of rare diseases: A systematic review of cost of illness evidence pp. 964-979

Aris Angelis, David Tordrup and Panos Kanavos

Decision solution, data manipulation and trust: The (un-)willingness to donate organs in Germany in critical times pp. 980-989

Lars Schwettmann

Equality, accessibility, and availability of physical therapy services in Israel—Perception of national directors pp. 990-997

Tamar Jacob and Ayala Parag

Volume 119, issue 6, 2015

A literature review to identify factors that determine policies for influenza vaccination pp. 697-708

Maria Laura Silva, Lionel Perrier, Jean Marie Cohen, William John Paget, Anne Mosnier and Hans Martin Späth

A cross-national comparative study on the influence of individual life course factors on mammography screening pp. 709-719

Sarah Missinne and Piet Bracke

Regulatory approaches to obesity prevention: A systematic overview of current laws addressing diet-related risk factors in the European Union and the United States pp. 720-731

Jana Sisnowski, Elizabeth Handsley and Jackie M. Street

Towards a framework for evaluating and grading evidence in public health pp. 732-736

Thomas Harder, Muna Abu Sin, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Bruno Coignard,, Helena de Carvalho Gomes, Phillippe Duclos, Tim Eckmanns, Randy Elder, Simon Ellis, Frode Forland, Paul Garner, Roberta James, Andreas Jansen, Gérard Krause, Daniel Lévy-Bruhl, Antony Morgan, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Susan Norris, Eva Rehfuess, Alex Sánchez-Vivar, Holger Schünemann, Anja Takla, Ole Wichmann, Walter Zingg and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak

The rise and fall of the world's first fat tax pp. 737-742

Malene Bødker, Charlotta Pisinger, Ulla Toft and Torben Jørgensen

English obesity policies: To govern and not to govern pp. 743-748

Signild Vallgårda

Unravelling the concept of integrated public health policy: Concept mapping with Dutch experts from science, policy, and practice pp. 749-759

Luuk Tubbing, Janneke Harting and Karien Stronks

Policy and planning of prevention in Italy: Results from an appraisal of prevention plans developed by Regions for the period 2010–2012 pp. 760-769

Annalisa Rosso, Carolina Marzuillo, Azzurra Massimi, Corrado De Vito, Anton Giulio de Belvis, Giuseppe La Torre, Antonio Federici, Walter Ricciardi and Paolo Villari

The influence of performance-based payment on childhood immunisation coverage pp. 770-777

Eero Merilind, Rauno Salupere, Katrin Västra and Ruth Kalda

The excess health care costs of KardioPro, an integrated care program for coronary heart disease prevention pp. 778-786

Christian Becker, Rolf Holle and Björn Stollenwerk

The effectiveness of preventive care at reducing curative care risk for the Taiwanese elderly under National Health Insurance pp. 787-793

Chin-Shyan Chen, Yu-I Peng, Ping-Chang Lee and Tsai-Ching Liu

Screening for cervical cancer: What are the determinants among adults with disabilities living in institutions? Findings from a National Survey in France pp. 794-801

Clémence Bussière, Marc Le Vaillant and Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury

A literature review of clinical outcomes associated with antipsychotic medication use in North American nursing home residents pp. 802-813

Yunwen Chiu, Lisa Bero, Nancy A. Hessol, Joel Lexchin and Charlene Harrington

What is the impact of policy differences on nursing home utilization? The cases of Germany and the Netherlands pp. 814-820

Peter Alders, Joan Costa-Font, Mirjam de Klerk and Richard Frank

The use of mystery guests by the Dutch Health Inspectorate: Results of a pilot study in long-term intramural elderly care pp. 821-830

Samantha A. Adams, Katharina T. Paul, Corry Ketelaars and Paul Robben

Factors associated with not receiving homecare, end-of-life homecare, or early homecare referral among cancer decedents: A population-based cohort study pp. 831-839

Daryl Bainbridge, Hsien Seow, Jonathan Sussman, Gregory Pond and Lisa Barbera

A gap in formal long-term care use related to characteristics of caregivers and households, under the public universal system in Japan: 2001–2010 pp. 840-849

Mutsumi Tokunaga, Hideki Hashimoto and Nanako Tamiya

Volume 119, issue 5, 2015

Cyprus in crisis: Recent changes in the pharmaceutical market and options for further reforms without sacrificing access to or quality of treatment pp. 563-568

Panagiotis Petrou and Sotiris Vandoros

European collaboration on relative effectiveness assessments: What is needed to be successful? pp. 569-576

Sarah Kleijnen, Wil Toenders, Folkert de Groot, Mirjana Huic, Elisabeth George, Beate Wieseler, Mira Pavlovic, Anna Bucsics, Paolo D. Siviero, Martin van der Graaff, Rafał Rdzany, Finn Børlum Kristensen and Wim Goettsch

Same drugs, valued differently? Comparing comparators and methods used in reimbursement recommendations in Australia, Canada, and Korea pp. 577-587

Green Bae, Eun Young Bae and SeungJin Bae

Why orphan drug coverage reimbursement decision-making needs patient and public involvement pp. 588-596

Conor M.W. Douglas, Elizabeth Wilcox, Michael Burgess and Larry D. Lynd

The unintended effects of the Medicare Part D low income subsidy pp. 597-603

Francesco Decarolis

The effect of new drug pricing systems and new reimbursement guidelines on pharmaceutical expenditures and prescribing behavior among hypertensive patients in Korea pp. 604-611

Mee-Hyun Cho, Ki-Bong Yoo, Hoo-Yeon Lee, Kwang-Sig Lee, Jeoung A Kwon, Kyu-Tae Han, Jae-Hyun Kim and Eun-Cheol Park

Price difference as a predictor of the selection between brand name and generic statins in Japan pp. 612-619

Osamu Takizawa, Hisashi Urushihara, Shiro Tanaka and Koji Kawakami

The effects of reduced copayments on discontinuation and adherence failure to statin medication in Australia pp. 620-627

Rachel J. Knott, Dennis Petrie, Emma L. Heeley, John P. Chalmers and Philip M. Clarke

From “retailers” to health care providers: Transforming the role of community pharmacists in chronic disease management pp. 628-639

Elias Mossialos, Emilie Courtin, Huseyin Naci, Shalom Benrimoj, Marcel Bouvy, Karen Farris, Peter Noyce and Ingrid Sketris

Competition among pharmacies and the typology of services delivered: The Portuguese case pp. 640-647

Maria Martins and Sónia Queirós

Reregulation of the Swedish pharmacy sector—A qualitative content analysis of the political rationale pp. 648-653

Kristin Wisell, Ulrika Winblad and Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong

Price elasticities in the German Statutory Health Insurance market before and after the health care reform of 2009 pp. 654-663

Jonas B. Pendzialek, Marion Danner, Dusan Simic and Stephanie Stock

Switching benefits and costs in competitive health insurance markets: A conceptual framework and empirical evidence from the Netherlands pp. 664-671

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

Estimating community health needs against a Triple Aim background: What can we learn from current predictive risk models? pp. 672-679

Arianne M.J. Elissen, Jeroen N. Struijs, Caroline A. Baan and Dirk Ruwaard

Association between all-cause mortality and insurance status transition among the elderly population in a rural area in Korea: Kangwha Cohort Study pp. 680-687

Sung-In Jang, Sang-Wook Yi, Jae-Woong Sull, Eun-Cheol Park, Jae-Hyun Kim and Heechoul Ohrr

How profitable is a voluntary deductible in health insurance for the consumer? pp. 688-695

K.P.M. van Winssen, R.C. van Kleef and W.P.M.M. van de Ven

Volume 119, issue 4, 2015

Impact of a quality improvement program on primary healthcare in Canada: A mixed-method evaluation pp. 405-416

Stewart B. Harris, Michael E. Green, Judith Belle Brown, Sharon Roberts, Grant Russell, Meghan Fournie, Susan Webster-Bogaert, Jann Paquette-Warren, Jyoti Kotecha, Han Han, Amardeep Thind, Moira Stewart, Sonja Reichert, Jordan W. Tompkins and Richard Birtwhistle

Impact of a pay for performance programme on French GPs’ consultation length pp. 417-426

Olivier Saint-Lary and Jonathan Sicsic

Determinants of the choice of GP practice registration in England: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment pp. 427-436

Mylene Lagarde, Bob Erens and Nicholas Mays

Out-of-hours primary care services: Demands and patient referral patterns in a Veneto region (Italy) Local Health Authority pp. 437-446

Alessandra Buja, Roberto Toffanin, Stefano Rigon, Paolo Sandonà, Daniela Carraro, Gianfranco Damiani and Vincenzo Baldo

Who provides GP after-hours care? pp. 447-455

Mai Pham and Ian McRae

Prescribing behavior of General Practitioners: Competition matters pp. 456-463

Catherine Schaumans

Is it worth reorganising cancer services on the basis of multidisciplinary teams (MDTs)? A systematic review of the objectives and organisation of MDTs and their impact on patient outcomes pp. 464-474

Joan Prades, Eline Remue, Elke van Hoof and Josep M. Borras

How can a country learn from the experience of another? Expanding nurses’ scope of practice in Portugal: Lessons from England pp. 475-487

Marta Temido and Gilles Dussault

Do new workforce roles reduce waiting times in ED? A difference-in-difference evaluation using hospital administrative data pp. 488-493

Anthony Scott and Jongsay Yong

Exploring the experiences of EU qualified doctors working in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study pp. 494-502

Helena Legido-Quigley, Vanessa Saliba and Martin McKee

The reporting characteristics and methodological quality of Cochrane reviews about health policy research pp. 503-510

Li Xiu-xia, Zheng Ya, Chen Yao-long, Yang Ke-hu and Zhang Zong-jiu

Inclusion of quasi-experimental studies in systematic reviews of health systems research pp. 511-521

Peter C. Rockers, John-Arne Røttingen, Ian Shemilt, Peter Tugwell and Till Bärnighausen

How to evaluate population management? Transforming the Care Continuum Alliance population health guide toward a broadly applicable analytical framework pp. 522-529

Jeroen N. Struijs, Hanneke W. Drewes, Richard Heijink and Caroline A. Baan

Essential levels of health information in Europe: An action plan for a coherent and sustainable infrastructure pp. 530-538

Fabrizio Carinci

MERIS (Medical Error Reporting Information System) as an innovative patient safety intervention: A health policy perspective pp. 539-548

Marina Riga, Athanassios Vozikis, Yannis Pollalis and Kyriakos Souliotis

Picking up the pieces—Applying the DISEASE FILTER to health data pp. 549-557

Christiane Gross, Thomas Schübel and Rasmus Hoffmann

Volume 119, issue 3, 2015

The basic benefit package: Composition and exceptions to the rules. A case study pp. 245-251

Madelon Kroneman and Judith D. de Jong

Policy trends and reforms in the German DRG-based hospital payment system pp. 252-257

Uwe Klein-Hitpaß and David Scheller-Kreinsen

The first attempt to create a national strategy for reducing waiting times in Poland: Will it succeed? pp. 258-263

Iwona Kowalska, Anna Sagan, Anna Mokrzycka and Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz

A roadmap for comparing readmission policies with application to Denmark, England, Germany and the United States pp. 264-273

Søren Kristensen, Mickael Bech and Wilm Quentin

Contracting private hospitals: Experiences from Southeast and East Asia pp. 274-286

Chantal Herberholz and Siripen Supakankunti

Electronic health records, adoption, quality of care, legal and privacy issues and their implementation in emergency departments pp. 287-297

Ofir Ben-Assuli

The effect of centralization of health care services on travel time and its equality pp. 298-306

Daisuke Kobayashi, Tetsuya Otsubo and Yuichi Imanaka

The Great Recession in Portugal: Impact on hospital care use pp. 307-315

Julian Perelman, Sónia Félix and Rui Santana

Trends in Dutch hospital spending by age and disease 1994–2010 pp. 316-323

Parida Wubulihasimu, Maria Gheorghe, Lany Slobbe, Johan Polder and Pieter van Baal

Congestion analysis to evaluate the efficiency and appropriateness of hospitals in Sicily pp. 324-332

Domenica Matranga and Francesca Sapienza

The impact of New Public Management on efficiency: An analysis of Madrid's hospitals pp. 333-340

José M. Alonso, Judith Clifton and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes

Improved estimates of Belgian private health expenditure can give important lessons to other OECD countries pp. 341-355

Piet Calcoen, Dirk Moens, Pieter Verlinden, Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Jozef Pacolet

Private health care expenditure and quality in Beveridge systems: Cross-regional differences in the Italian NHS pp. 356-366

Mario Del Vecchio, Lorenzo Fenech and Anna Prenestini

The impact of no-fault compensation on health care expenditures: An empirical study of OECD countries pp. 367-374

Tom Vandersteegen, Wim Marneffe, Irina Cleemput and Lode Vereeck

EU Country Specific Recommendations for health systems in the European Semester process: Trends, discourse and predictors pp. 375-383

Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Timo Clemens, Deborah Stoner and Helmut Brand

Patient Empowerment and its neighbours: Clarifying the boundaries and their mutual relationships pp. 384-394

Lia Paola Fumagalli, Giovanni Radaelli, Emanuele Lettieri, Bertele’, Paolo and Cristina Masella

Governance within the World Health Assembly: A 13-year analysis of WHO Member States’ contribution to global health governance pp. 395-404

Tess van der Rijt and Pang (Pangestu), Tikki

Volume 119, issue 2, 2015

Compulsory private complementary health insurance offered by employers in France: Implications and current debate pp. 111-116

Carine Franc and Aurélie Pierre

The use of dental services for children: Implications of the 2010 dental reform in Israel pp. 117-126

Shosh Shahrabani, Uri Benzion, Yaffa Machnes and Assaf Gal

Social values and health priority setting in Australia: An analysis applied to the context of health technology assessment pp. 127-136

Jennifer A. Whitty and Peter Littlejohns

A regulatory governance perspective on health technology assessment (HTA) in France: The contextual mediation of common functional pressures pp. 137-146

Anthony J.G. Barron, Corinna Klinger, Sara Mehmood Birchall Shah and John S.F. Wright

Using needs-based frameworks for evaluating new technologies: An application to genetic tests pp. 147-155

Wolf H. Rogowski and Sebastian Schleidgen

Medicare's use of cost-effectiveness analysis for prevention (but not for treatment) pp. 156-163

James D. Chambers, Michael J. Cangelosi and Peter J. Neumann

Value judgments for priority setting criteria in genetic testing: A discrete choice experiment pp. 164-173

Franziska Severin, Wolfgang Hess, Jörg Schmidtke, Axel Mühlbacher and Wolf Rogowski

Babies in waiting: Why increasing the IVF age cut-off might lead to fewer wanted pregnancies in the presence of procrastination pp. 174-179

Paul Dolan and Caroline Rudisill

Governance of conditional reimbursement practices in the Netherlands pp. 180-185

Wouter Boon, Luis Martins and Marc Koopmanschap

Experience with outcomes research into the real-world effectiveness of novel therapies in Dutch daily practice from the context of conditional reimbursement pp. 186-194

Jennifer G. Gaultney, Margreet G. Franken, Carin A. Uyl-de Groot, William K. Redekop, Peter C. Huijgens, Bronno van der Holt, Henk M. Lokhorst and Pieter Sonneveld

A comparative study of the role of disease severity in drug reimbursement decision making in four European countries pp. 195-202

Margreet Franken, Elly Stolk, Tessa Scharringhausen, Anthonius de Boer and Marc Koopmanschap

A comparative analysis of coverage decisions for outpatient pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Denmark, Norway and Sweden pp. 203-211

Mari Grepstad and Panos Kanavos

Cost-effectiveness of trastuzumab in metastatic breast cancer: Mainly a matter of price in the EU? pp. 212-216

Livio Garattini, Katelijne van de Vooren and Alessandro Curto

Medicine price awareness in chronic patients in Belgium pp. 217-223

Jessica Fraeyman, Linda Symons, Hans De Loof, Guido R.Y. De Meyer, Roy Remmen, Philippe Beutels and Guido Van Hal

Reforming private drug coverage in Canada: Inefficient drug benefit design and the barriers to change in unionized settings pp. 224-231

O’Brady, Sean, Marc-André Gagnon and Alan Cassels

Medicine shortages – A study of community pharmacies in Finland pp. 232-238

K. Heiskanen, R. Ahonen, P. Karttunen, R. Kanerva and J. Timonen

The effects of economic sanctions on disease specific clinical outcomes of patients with thalassemia and hemophilia in Iran pp. 239-243

Mehran Karimi and Sezaneh Haghpanah

Volume 119, issue 1, 2015

Working towards integrated community care for older people: Empowering organisational features from a professional perspective pp. 1-8

Bienke M. Janssen, Miranda W.C. Snoeren, Tine Van Regenmortel and Tineke A. Abma

Implementing care programmes for frail older people: A project management perspective pp. 9-16

Jill Bindels, Karen Cox, Tineke A. Abma, Onno C.P. van Schayck and Guy Widdershoven

The 3 A's of the access process to long-term care for elderly: Providers experiences in a multiple case study in the Netherlands pp. 17-25

Lisette Schipper, Katrien Luijkx, Bert Meijboom and Jos Schols

National Cancer Screening Programs and Evidence-Based Healthcare Policy in South Korea pp. 26-32

Minsoo Jung

Korean public opinion on alcohol control policy: A cross-sectional International Alcohol Control study pp. 33-43

Seonwha Seo, Sungsoo Chun, Maxine Newell and Mieun Yun

The smoking ban next door: Do hospitality businesses in border areas have reduced sales after a statewide smoke-free policy? pp. 44-49

Elizabeth G. Klein and Nancy E. Hood

Nationwide Smoking Cessation Treatment Support Program – Turkey project pp. 50-56

İsmail Çelik, Deniz Yüce, Mutlu Hayran, Mustafa Erman, Saadettin Kılıçkap, Turan Buzgan, Hasan Irmak, Nihat Tosun, Murat Tuncer and Recep Akdağ

Old wine in new bottles: Tobacco industry's submission to European Commission tobacco product directive public consultation pp. 57-65

Heikki Hiilamo and Stanton A. Glantz

Context analysis for epidemic control in the Netherlands pp. 66-73

Yvonne L. Huizer, Marleen M. Kraaij-Dirkzwager, Aura Timen, Tjerk Jan Schuitmaker and Jim E. van Steenbergen

The role of NGOs in child injury prevention: An organizational assessment of one network of NGOs pp. 74-81

Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Nhan T. Tran, Shreya Agrawal and Adnan A. Hyder

School health promotion providers’ roles in practice and theory: Results from a case study pp. 82-87

Friedrich Teutsch, Lisa Gugglberger and Wolfgang Dür

Will the next generation of preferential trade and investment agreements undermine prevention of noncommunicable diseases? A prospective policy analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement pp. 88-96

Anne Marie Thow, Wendy Snowdon, Ronald Labonté, Deborah Gleeson, David Stuckler, Libby Hattersley, Ashley Schram, Adrian Kay and Sharon Friel

The effects of the financial crisis and austerity measures on the Spanish health care system: A qualitative analysis of health professionals’ perceptions in the region of Valencia pp. 100-106

Francisco Cervero-Liceras, Martin McKee and Helena Legido-Quigley