Health Policy

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Volume 107, issue 2, 2012

Comprehensive care programs for patients with multiple chronic conditions: A systematic literature review pp. 108-145

Simone R. de Bruin, Nathalie Versnel, Lidwien C. Lemmens, Claudia C.M. Molema, François G. Schellevis, Giel Nijpels and Caroline A. Baan

Clinical guidelines in the European Union: Mapping the regulatory basis, development, quality control, implementation and evaluation across member states pp. 146-156

Helena Legido-Quigley, Dimitra Panteli, Serena Brusamento, Cécile Knai, Vanessa Saliba, Eva Turk, Meritxell Solé, Uta Augustin, Josip Car, Martin McKee and Reinhard Busse

Systematic review of the methodological quality of clinical guideline development for the management of chronic disease in Europe pp. 157-167

Cécile Knai, Serena Brusamento, Helena Legido-Quigley, Vanessa Saliba, Dimitra Panteli, Eva Turk, Josip Car, Martin McKee and Reinhard Busse

Assessing the effectiveness of strategies to implement clinical guidelines for the management of chronic diseases at primary care level in EU Member States: A systematic review pp. 168-183

Serena Brusamento, Helena Legido-Quigley, Dimitra Panteli, Eva Turk, Cecile Knai, Vanessa Saliba, Josip Car, Martin McKee and Reinhard Busse

Evaluation of the introduction of a diagnosis procedure combination system for patient outcome and hospitalisation charges for patients with hip fracture or lung cancer in Japan pp. 184-193

Akiko Kondo and Koichi Kawabuchi

Effects of the per diem prospective payment system with DRG-like grouping system (DPC/PDPS) on resource usage and healthcare quality in Japan pp. 194-201

Hironori Hamada, Miho Sekimoto and Yuichi Imanaka

The impacts of DRG-based payments on health care provider behaviors under a universal coverage system: A population-based study pp. 202-208

Shou-Hsia Cheng, Chi-Chen Chen and Shu-Ling Tsai

Bundles: An opportunity to align incentives for continuing care in Canada? pp. 209-217

Jason M. Sutherland, Erik Hellsten and Kevin Yu

A systematic review of coverage decision-making on health technologies—Evidence from the real world pp. 218-230

Katharina Elisabeth Fischer

Patient involvement in a scientific advisory process: Setting the research agenda for medical products pp. 231-242

Janneke Elisabeth Elberse, Carina Anna Cornelia Maria Pittens, Tjard de Cock Buning and Jacqueline Elisabeth Willy Broerse

Facts and figures about patient associations in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2009: Review of their activities and aims pp. 243-248

Helen Kamphuis, Karin Hekkert, Marie-Christine van Dongen and Tijn Kool

Increasing patient centredness in outpatient care through closer collaboration with patient groups? pp. 249-257

Stefan Nickel, Alf Trojan and Christopher Kofahl

The measurement of relative efficiency of general practice and the implications for policy makers pp. 258-268

Ferruccio Pelone, Dionne Sofia Kringos, Luca Valerio, Alessandro Romaniello, Agnese Lazzari, Walter Ricciardi and Antonio Giulio de Belvis

Governance and the functions of boards pp. 269-275

Inger Johanne Pettersen, Kari Nyland and Katarina Kaarboe

Unexpected impact of changes in out-of-pocket payments for health care on Czech household budgets pp. 276-288

Veronika Kočiš Krůtilová and Sanni Yaya

Feasibility of a community action model oriented to reduce inequalities in health pp. 289-295

Carmen Fuertes, M. Isabel Pasarín, Carme Borrell, Lucía Artazcoz and Èlia Díez

Turning health research into health promotion: A study of causality and ‘critical insights’ in a United Kingdom health campaign pp. 296-303

Joe Piggin

Preferences for support services among adolescents and young adults with cancer or a blood disorder: A discrete choice experiment pp. 304-311

Stephen Goodall, Madeleine King, Jane Ewing, Narelle Smith and Patricia Kenny

The vaccine gap between Japan and the UK pp. 312-317

Rumiko Shimazawa and Masayuki Ikeda

Volume 107, issue 1, 2012

Informing policy makers about future health spending: A comparative analysis of forecasting methods in OECD countries pp. 1-10

Roberto Astolfi, Luca Lorenzoni and Jillian Oderkirk

Conceptual frameworks for comparing healthcare politics and policy pp. 11-20

Theodore Marmor and Claus Wendt

Assessment of the Turkish health care system reforms: A stakeholder analysis pp. 21-30

Fevzi Akinci, Salih Mollahaliloğlu, Hakki Gürsöz and Fatma Öğücü

Priority setting and policy advocacy by nursing associations: A scoping review and implications using a socio-ecological whole systems lens pp. 31-43

Jo-Anne MacDonald, Nancy Edwards, Barbara Davies, Patricia Marck and Judith Read Guernsey

Nurse migration and health workforce planning: Ireland as illustrative of international challenges pp. 44-53

Niamh Humphries, Ruairi Brugha and Hannah McGee

Retaining nurses: The impact of Ontario's “70% Full-Time Commitment” pp. 54-65

Frieda Daniels, Audrey Laporte, Louise Lemieux-Charles, Andrea Baumann, Kanecy Onate and Raisa Deber

Rebalancing brain drain: Exploring resource reallocation to address health worker migration and promote global health pp. 66-73

Timothy Ken Mackey and Bryan Albert Liang

Variations in labor supply between female and male hospital physicians: Results from a modern welfare state pp. 74-82

Karl-Arne Johannessen and Terje P. Hagen

International application of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation in obesity reduction: Factors that may influence policy effectiveness in country-specific contexts pp. 83-90

Judy Jou and Win Techakehakij

Understanding the process of establishing a food and nutrition policy: the case of Slovenia pp. 91-97

Susanna Kugelberg, Kristina Jönsson and Agneta Yngve

Enhancing public trust in the food safety regulatory system pp. 98-103

Andrew Papadopoulos, Jan M. Sargeant, Shannon E. Majowicz, Byron Sheldrick, Carolyn McKeen, Jeff Wilson and Catherine E. Dewey

Volume 106, issue 3, 2012

Policies to promote use of generic medicines in low and middle income countries: A review of published literature, 2000–2010 pp. 211-224

Warren A. Kaplan, Lindsay Sarah Ritz, Marie Vitello and Veronika J. Wirtz

Sale strategies of pharmaceutical companies in a “pharmerging” country: The problems will not improve if the gaps remain pp. 225-232

Murat Civaner

On reimbursement reforms and stockpiling of prescription drugs: The case of insulin pp. 233-240

Niels Skipper

Not a good buy: Value for money of prescription drugs sold on the Internet pp. 241-245

Rosella Levaggi, Claudio Marcantoni, Laura Filippucci and Umberto Gelatti

General practitioners’ preferences for the organisation of primary care: A discrete choice experiment pp. 246-256

Line Pedersen, Trine Kjær, Jakob Kragstrup and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Physician density in a two-tiered health care system pp. 257-268

Martin Gächter, Peter Schwazer, Engelbert Theurl and Hannes Winner

Association between family doctors’ practices characteristics and patient evaluation of care pp. 269-275

Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, Davorina Petek and Janko Kersnik

Organizational changes in the course of the PHC reform in Lithuania from 1994 to 2010 pp. 276-283

Ida Liseckiene, Irena Miseviciene and Mindaugas Dudonis

Predicting the place of out-of-hours care—A market simulation based on discrete choice analysis pp. 284-290

Hilde Philips, Dominik Mahr, Roy Remmen, Marcel Weverbergh, Diana De Graeve and Paul Van Royen

The role of proximity to death in need-based approaches to health care pp. 291-302

Yukiko Asada, George Kephart, Jeremiah Hurley, Yoko Yoshida, Andrea Smith and Stephen Bornstein

Public health actions to improve palliative care in Germany: Results of a three-round Delphi study pp. 303-312

Mareike Behmann, Saskia Jünger, Lukas Radbruch and Nils Schneider

Volume 106, issue 2, 2012

Ensuring access to health care—Germany reforms supply structures to tackle inequalities pp. 105-109

Susanne Ozegowski and Leonie Sundmacher

New Zealand's post-2008 health system reforms: Toward re-centralization of organizational arrangements pp. 110-113

Robin Gauld

Ten years of structural reforms in Danish healthcare pp. 114-119

Terkel Christiansen

Economies of scale and scope in the Danish hospital sector prior to radical restructuring plans pp. 120-126

Troels Kristensen, Kim Rose Olsen, Jannie Kilsmark, Jørgen Lauridsen and Kjeld Møller Pedersen

Balancing economic freedom against social policy principles: EC competition law and national health systems pp. 127-137

Elias Mossialos and Julia Lear

Differential effects of negative publicity on beef consumption according to household characteristics in South Korea pp. 138-148

Hyungho Youn, Byung In Lim and Hyun Jin

An economic analysis of tobacco elimination policies in Turkey pp. 149-160

Selin Arslanhan, Asena Caner, Kerem Helvacioglu, Ismail Saglam and Tuncay Teksoz

Public support for smoke-free areas in Israel: A case for action pp. 161-168

Laura J. Rosen, David A. Rier, Robert Schwartz, Anat Oren, Anna Kopel, Alexandra Gevman, Mitch Zeller and Gregory Connolly

Responses to increasing cigarette prices in France: How did persistent smokers react? pp. 169-176

Patrick Peretti-Watel, L’haridon, Olivier and Valerie Seror

Exploring non-health outcomes of health promotion: The perspective of participants in a lifestyle behaviour change intervention pp. 177-186

Adrienne F.G. Goebbels, Jeroen Lakerveld, André J.H.A. Ament, Sandra D.M. Bot and Johan L. Severens

The opportunity cost of exercise: Do higher-earning Australians exercise longer, harder, or both? pp. 187-194

Shiko Maruyama and Qing Yin

Measuring inequalities in health: What do we know? What do we need to know? pp. 195-206

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

Calculating an intervention's (cost-)effectiveness for the real-world target population: The potential of combining strengths of both RCTs and observational data pp. 207-210

Mattias Neyt, Irina Cleemput, Nancy Thiry and Chris De Laet

Volume 106, issue 1, 2012

The challenge and the future of health care turnaround plans: Evidence from the Italian experience pp. 3-9

Francesca Ferrè, Corrado Cuccurullo and Federico Lega

The financial crisis in Italy: Implications for the healthcare sector pp. 10-16

Antonio Giulio de Belvis, Francesca Ferrè, Maria Lucia Specchia, Luca Valerio, Giovanni Fattore and Walter Ricciardi

Health policy reform in tough times: The case of Portugal pp. 17-22

Pedro Barros

Spanish health care cuts: Penny wise and pound foolish? pp. 23-28

Joan Gené-Badia, Pedro Gallo, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Sandra García-Armesto

Comparing health policy agendas across eleven high income countries: Islands of difference in a sea of similarity pp. 29-36

Tim Tenbensel, Samantha Eagle and Toni Ashton

Leadership and governance in seven developed health systems pp. 37-49

Peter C. Smith, Anders Anell, Reinhard Busse, Luca Crivelli, Judith Healy, Anne Karin Lindahl, Gert Westert and Tobechukwu Kene

Assessing health care planning – A framework-led comparison of Germany and New Zealand pp. 50-59

Stefanie Ettelt, Mihaly Fazekas, Nicholas Mays and Ellen Nolte

What characterises the privately insured in universal health care systems? A review of the empirical evidence pp. 60-75

Astrid Kiil

Gender sensitivity in national health plans in Latin America and the European Union pp. 88-96

Erica Briones-Vozmediano, Carmen Vives-Cases and Rosana Peiró-Pérez

The human factor: Re-organisations in public health policy pp. 97-103

Kathryn Oliver, Martin Everett, Arpana Verma and Frank de Vocht