Health Policy

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Volume 111, issue 3, 2013

Reimbursement systems and quality of hospital care: An empirical analysis for Italy pp. 273-289

Marina Cavalieri, Lara Gitto and Calogero Guccio

Volume 111, issue 2, 2013

Development of a national position paper for chronic care: Example of Belgium pp. 105-109

Dominique Paulus, Koen Van den Heede, Sophie Gerkens, Anja Desomer and Raf Mertens

Diagnostic procedures and treatment of childhood obesity by pediatricians: ‘The Dutch Approach’ pp. 110-115

Luuk Schwiebbe, Henk Talma, Edgar G. van Mil, Willem P.F. Fetter, Remy A. HiraSing and Carry M. Renders

The role of anti-smoking legislation on cigarette and alcohol consumption habits in Italy pp. 116-126

Luca Pieroni, Manuela Chiavarini, Liliana Minelli and Luca Salmasi

Support for a smoke-free bylaw in parks and on beaches pp. 127-134

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Ann Pederson and Wendy Rice

Expanding the role of community pharmacists: Policymaking in the absence of policy-relevant evidence? pp. 135-148

Elias Mossialos, Huseyin Naci and Emilie Courtin

Subnational responsibilities for healthcare and Austria's rejection of the EU's patients’ rights Directive pp. 149-156

Thomas Kostera

Productivity and patient satisfaction in primary care—Conflicting or compatible goals? pp. 157-165

Anna Glenngård

Utilization of long-term care services under the public long-term care insurance program in Korea: Implications of a subsidy policy pp. 166-174

Hongsoo Kim, Soonman Kwon, Nan-He Yoon and Kyung-Rae Hyun

Academic Collaborative Centre Limburg: A platform for knowledge transfer and exchange in public health policy, research and practice? pp. 175-183

Marjan Hoeijmakers, Janneke Harting and Maria Jansen

How effective is an ethical international recruitment policy? Reflections on a decade of experience in England pp. 184-192

Ruth Young

The association between lifting an administrative restriction on antidepressant dispensing and treatment patterns in Iceland pp. 193-199

G. Thengilsdottir, H. Gardarsdottir, A.B. Almarsdottir, C.B. McClure and E.R. Heerdink

Developing a national medicines information strategy in Finland—A stakeholders’ perspective on the strengths, challenges and opportunities in medicines information pp. 200-205

Katri Hämeen-Anttila, Suvi Luhtanen, Marja Airaksinen and Marika Pohjanoksa-Mäntylä

Volume 111, issue 1, 2013

Exploring the role of ICT in the provision of integrated care—Evidence from eight countries pp. 1-13

Maria Lluch and Fabienne Abadie

Healthcare payment reforms across western countries on three continents: Lessons from stakeholder preferences when asked to rate the supportiveness for fulfilling patients’ needs pp. 14-23

Pieter Van Herck, Roselinde Kessels, Lieven Annemans, Abdelouahab Bellou, Johan Wens and Walter Sermeus

Copayments, gatekeeping, and the utilization of outpatient public and private care at age 50 and above in Europe pp. 24-33

Anikó Bíró

Public healthcare expenditure in Spain: Measuring the impact of driving factors pp. 34-42

Ángela Blanco-Moreno, Rosa M. Urbanos-Garrido and Israel John Thuissard-Vasallo

An empirical analysis of public and private medical practice in Australia pp. 43-51

Terence Cheng, Catherine M. Joyce and Anthony Scott

Implementing market-based reforms in the English NHS: Bureaucratic coping strategies and social embeddedness pp. 52-59

Lorelei Jones, Mark Exworthy and Francesca Frosini

Factors associated with prolonged length of hospital stay of elderly patients in acute care hospitals in Japan: A multilevel analysis of patients with femoral neck fracture pp. 60-67

Takako Motohashi, Hironori Hamada, Jason Lee, Miho Sekimoto and Yuichi Imanaka

Do follow-on therapeutic substitutes induce price competition between hospital medicines? Evidence from the Danish hospital sector pp. 68-77

Gisela Hostenkamp

Prospective political analysis for policy design: Enhancing the political viability of single-payer health reform in Vermont pp. 78-85

Nathan J. Blanchet and Ashley M. Fox

Governance of natural health products regulation: An iterative process pp. 86-94

Rishma Walji and Mary Wiktorowicz

Is patient choice democratizing Swedish primary care? pp. 95-98

Mio Fredriksson

Disability weights in the Global Burden of Disease 2010: Unclear meaning and overstatement of international agreement pp. 99-104

Erik Nord

Volume 110, issue 2, 2013

Defining informal payments in healthcare: A systematic review pp. 105-114

Răzvan M. Cherecheş, Marius I. Ungureanu, Petru Sandu and Ioana A. Rus

Effects of pay for performance in health care: A systematic review of systematic reviews pp. 115-130

Frank Eijkenaar, Martin Emmert, Manfred Scheppach and Oliver Schöffski

Trends and income related differences in out-of-pocket costs for prescription and over-the-counter medicines in Finland from 1985 to 2006 pp. 131-140

Katri Aaltonen, Mikko Niemelä, Pauline Norris, J. Simon Bell and Sirpa Hartikainen

Growth in private payments for health care by Canadian households pp. 141-146

Michael R. Law, Jamie R. Daw, Lucy Cheng and Steven G. Morgan

How does complementary private prescription drug insurance coverage affect seniors’ use of publicly funded medications? pp. 147-155

Sara Allin, Michael R. Law and Audrey Laporte

Sources of financial pressure and up coding behavior in French public hospitals pp. 156-163

Irène Georgescu and Frank G.H. Hartmann

What can we learn from the U.S. expanded end-stage renal disease bundle? pp. 164-171

James D. Chambers, Daniel E. Weiner, Sarah K. Bliss and Peter J. Neumann

Analysis of the costs of dialysis and the effects of an incentive mechanism for low-cost dialysis modalities pp. 172-179

Irina Cleemput and Chris De Laet

Disinvestment in the age of cost-cutting sound and fury. Tools for the Spanish National Health System pp. 180-185

Sandra García-Armesto, Carlos Campillo-Artero and Enrique Bernal-Delgado

Voluntary agreements between government and business—A scoping review of the literature with specific reference to the Public Health Responsibility Deal pp. 186-197

Anna Bryden, Mark Petticrew, Nicholas Mays, Elizabeth Eastmure and Cecile Knai

World Health Assembly Agendas and trends of international health issues for the last 43 years: Analysis of World Health Assembly Agendas between 1970 and 2012 pp. 198-206

Tomomi Kitamura, Hiromi Obara, Yoshihiro Takashima, Kenzo Takahashi, Kimiko Inaoka, Mari Nagai, Hiroyoshi Endo, Masamine Jimba and Yasuo Sugiura

The efficacy of different models of smoke-free laws in reducing exposure to second-hand smoke: A multi-country comparison pp. 207-213

Mark Ward, Laura M. Currie, Zubair Kabir and Luke Clancy

The policy of public health genomics in Italy pp. 214-219

Benedetto Simone, Walter Mazzucco, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Antonella Agodi, Domenico Coviello, Francesca Dagna Bricarelli, Bruno Dallapiccola, Emilio Di Maria, Antonio Federici, Maurizio Genuardi, Liliana Varesco, Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia

Reported barriers to evaluation in chronic care: Experiences in six European countries pp. 220-228

Cécile Knai, Ellen Nolte, Matthias Brunn, Arianne Elissen, Annalijn Conklin, Janice Pedersen Pedersen, Laura Brereton, Antje Erler, Anne Frølich, Maria Flamm, Birgitte Fullerton, Ramune Jacobsen, Robert Krohn, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson, Bert Vrijhoef, Karine Chevreul, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Fadila Farsi, Antonio Sarría-Santamera and Andreas Soennichsen

The effectiveness of transplant legislation, procedures and management: Cross-country evidence pp. 229-242

Firat Bilgel

Does the private sector receive an excessive return from investments in health care infrastructure projects? Evidence from the UK pp. 243-270

Veronica Vecchi, Mark Hellowell and Stefano Gatti

The association between the availability of ambulatory care and non-emergency treatment in emergency medicine departments: A comprehensive and nationwide validation pp. 271-279

Chien-Lung Chan, Wender Lin, Nan-Ping Yang and Hsin-Tsung Huang

The effect of lifestyle choices on emergency department use in Australia pp. 280-290

Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones and Elizabeth Savage

Twitter and the health reforms in the English National Health Service pp. 291-297

Dominic King, Daniel Ramirez-Cano, Felix Greaves, Ivo Vlaev, Steve Beales and Ara Darzi

Volume 110, issue 1, 2013

Moving forward: Lessons for Cyprus as it implements its health insurance scheme pp. 1-5

Jonathan Cylus, Irene Papanicolas, Elisavet Constantinou and Mamas Theodorou

Bringing a European perspective to the health human resources debate: A scoping study pp. 6-13

Ellen Kuhlmann, Ronald Batenburg, Peter P. Groenewegen and Christa Larsen

Hospital physicians’ assessments of their interaction with GPs: The role of physician and community characteristics pp. 14-21

Pål E. Martinussen

Can organizational justice help the retention of general practitioners? pp. 22-28

Tarja Heponiemi, Kristiina Manderbacka, Jukka Vänskä and Marko Elovainio

The national and international implications of a decade of doctor migration in the Irish context pp. 29-38

Posy Bidwell, Niamh Humphries, Patrick Dicker, Steve Thomas, Charles Normand and Ruairí Brugha

Retaining physicians in Lithuania: Integrating research and health policy pp. 39-48

Liudvika Starkiene, Jurate Macijauskiene, Olga Riklikiene, Marius Stricka and Zilvinas Padaiga

Drug reimbursement recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: Have they impacted the National Health Service budget? pp. 49-59

Josephine Mauskopf, Costel Chirila, Julie Birt, Kristina S. Boye and Lee Bowman

Does access to medicines differ by gender? Evidence from 15 low and middle income countries pp. 60-66

Peter Stephens, Dennis Ross-Degnan and Anita K Wagner

Here today, gone tomorrow: The issue attention cycle and national print media coverage of prescription drug financing in Canada pp. 67-75

Jamie R. Daw, Steven G. Morgan, Paige A. Thomson and Michael R. Law

Non-prescription medicines for pain and fever—A comparison of recommendations and counseling from staff in pharmacy and general sales stores pp. 76-83

Carola Bardage, Tommy Westerlund, Sahra Barzi and Cecilia Bernsten

Explaining governmental involvement in home care across Europe: An international comparative study pp. 84-93

Nadine Genet, Madelon Kroneman and Wienke G.W. Boerma

Long-term care-service use and increases in care-need level among home-based elderly people in a Japanese urban area pp. 94-100

Soichi Koike and Yuji Furui