Health Policy

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Volume 99, issue 3, 2011

The role of institutional design and organizational practice for health financing performance and universal coverage pp. 183-192

Inke Mathauer and Guy Carrin

Health insurance systems in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Medicine benefits and data for decision making pp. 193-202

João L. Carapinha, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Abayneh Tamer Desta and Anita K. Wagner

Mutual health insurance in Rwanda: Evidence on access to care and financial risk protection pp. 203-209

Priyanka Saksena, Adélio Fernandes Antunes, Ke Xu, Laurent Musango and Guy Carrin

Determinants of utilisation of maternal care services after the reduction of user fees: A case study from rural Burkina Faso pp. 210-218

Manuela De Allegri, Valéry Ridde, Valérie R. Louis, Malabika Sarker, Justin Tiendrebéogo, Maurice Yé, Olaf Müller and Albrecht Jahn

User fees abolition policy in Niger: Comparing the under five years exemption implementation in two districts pp. 219-225

Valéry Ridde, Aïssa Diarra and Mahaman Moha

"We charge them; otherwise we cannot run the hospital" front line workers, clients and health financing policy implementation gaps in Ghana pp. 226-233

Irene Akua Agyepong and Richard A. Nagai

Community and facility-level engagement in planning and budgeting for the government health sector - A district perspective from Kenya pp. 234-243

Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara, Benjamin Tsofa, Sassy Molyneux, Catherine Goodman and F. Ellis McKenzie

Priority setting for systematic review of health care interventions in Nigeria pp. 244-249

Martin Meremikwu, Ekong Udoh, Bridget Nwagbara, Emmanuel Effa, Chioma Oringanje, Bassey Edet, Eucharia Nwagbara, Segun Bello and Felix Eke

Asthma in Nigeria: Are the facilities and resources available to support internationally endorsed standards of care? pp. 250-254

Olufemi Olumuyiwa Desalu, Cajetan Chigozie Onyedum, Kufre Robert Iseh, Fatai Kunle Salawu and Alakija Kazeem Salami

The Alma-Ata declaration: An appraisal of Nigeria's primary oral health care three decades later pp. 255-260

Nosayaba Osazuwa-Peters

Equity in the use of antiretroviral treatment in the public health care system in urban South Africa pp. 261-266

Susan Cleary, Sheetal Silal, Stephen Birch, Henri Carrara, Victoria Pillay-van Wyk, Thomas Rehle and Helen Schneider

Too little, too late: Comparison of nutritional status and quality of life of nutrition care and support recipient and non-recipients among HIV-positive adults in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa pp. 267-276

Jecinter Akinyi Oketch, Marie Paterson, Eleni Winfred Maunder and Nigel Campbell Rollins

Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS: A study of the knowledge, awareness and willingness to pay for VCT among students in tertiary institutions in Enugu State Nigeria pp. 277-284

Benjamin Uzochukwu, Nkolika Uguru, Uche Ezeoke, Obinna Onwujekwe and Tochi Sibeudu

Volume 99, issue 2, 2011

Time for a paradigm change? Tracing the institutionalisation of health impact assessment in the Republic of Ireland across health and environmental sectors pp. 91-96

Noreen Kearns and Lisa Pursell

Association between ethnicity and prostate cancer outcomes across hospital and surgeon volume groups pp. 97-106

Ravishankar Jayadevappa, Sumedha Chhatre, Jerry C. Johnson and Stanley Bruce Malkowicz

Informal payments and the quality of health care: Mechanisms revealed by Tanzanian health workers pp. 107-115

Ottar Mæstad and Aziza Mwisongo

Diabetes prevalence and income: Results of the Canadian Community Health Survey pp. 116-123

Serban Dinca-Panaitescu, Mihaela Dinca-Panaitescu, Toba Bryant, Isolde Daiski, Beryl Pilkington and Dennis Raphael

Health reform and cesarean sections in the private sector: The experience of Peru pp. 124-130

Alejandro Arrieta

Advocacy for free maternal and child health care in Nigeria--Results and outcomes pp. 131-138

Friday Okonofua, Eyitayo Lambo, John Okeibunor and Kingsley Agholor

A nationwide study on generic medicines substitution practices of Australian community pharmacists and patient acceptance pp. 139-148

Chee Ping Chong, Geoff March, Alice Clark, Andrew Gilbert, Mohamed Azmi Hassali and Mohd Baidi Bahari

Flexible employment and nurses' intention to leave the profession: The role of support at work pp. 149-157

Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Margaret Denton and Jennifer Millen Plenderleith

An analysis of hospital capital planning and financing in three European countries: Using the principal-agent approach to identify the potential for economic problems pp. 158-166

Ceri R. Thompson and Martin McKee

Enhancing community system in China's recent health reform: An effort to improve equity in essential health care pp. 167-173

Hua Li and Wei Yu

Healthcare utilisation among the Belgian elderly in relation to their socio-economic status pp. 174-182

Sarah Hoeck, Guido François, Johan Van der Heyden, Joanna Geerts and Guido Van Hal

Volume 99, issue 1, 2011

How ephedrine escaped regulation in the United States: A historical review of misuse and associated policy pp. 1-9

Joseph Palamar

The opinion of adolescents and adults on Dutch restrictive and educational alcohol policy measures pp. 10-16

Rosalie van der Sar, Evelien P.M. Brouwers, Ien A.M. van de Goor and Henk F.L. Garretsen

Universal health care in Thailand: Concerns among the health care workforce pp. 17-22

Stian H. Thoresen and Angela Fielding

Socio-economic determinants of mortality in Taiwan: Combining individual and aggregate data pp. 23-36

Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Fu-Min Tseng

An evaluation of the policy on community health organizations in China: Will the priority of new healthcare reform in China be a success? pp. 37-43

Hufeng Wang, Michael K. Gusmano and Qi Cao

Changing patient consultation patterns in primary care: an investigation of uptake of the Minor Ailments Service in Scotland pp. 44-51

Andrew Wagner, Peter R. Noyce and Darren M. Ashcroft

Are breast cancer navigation programs cost-effective? Evidence from the Chicago Cancer Navigation Project pp. 52-59

Talar W. Markossian and Elizabeth A. Calhoun

Patients' attitudes towards generic drug substitution in Japan pp. 60-65

Eriko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Karigome, Tomoya Sakurada, Nobunori Satoh and Shiro Ueda

Assessing the causes inducing lengthening of hospital stays by means of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol pp. 66-71

Pierre Fontaine, Jessica Jacques, Daniel Gillain, Walter Sermeus, Philippe Kolh and Pierre Gillet

Improving children's healthcare through state health insurance programs: An emerging need pp. 72-82

Chia-Ching Chen, Tetsuji Yamada, John Smith and I-Ming Chiu

Potential primary health care savings for chronic disease care associated with Australian Aboriginal involvement in land management pp. 83-89

David Campbell, Christopher Paul Burgess, Stephen Thomas Garnett and John Wakerman

Volume 98, issue 2-3, 2010

Evaluating health systems' preparedness for emerging infectious diseases: A novel conceptual and analytic framework pp. 91-97

Ralf Krumkamp, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Amena Ahmad, Ralf Reintjes and Richard Coker

Life sustaining treatment at end-of-life in Japan: Do the perspectives of the general public reflect those of the bereaved of patients who had died in hospitals? pp. 98-106

Naoki Ikegami and Sumie Ikezaki

Factors associated with the implementation of quality and safety requirements for cross-border care in acute myocardial infarction: Results from 315 hospitals in four countries pp. 107-113

Oliver Groene and Rosa Suñol

Socio-economic inequalities in child survival in India: A decomposition analysis pp. 114-120

Jalandhar Pradhan and Perianayagam Arokiasamy

Sibling caregiving among children orphaned by AIDS: Synthesis of recent studies for policy implications pp. 121-130

Satoko Yanagisawa, Krishna C. Poudel and Masamine Jimba

Effect of a French experiment of team work between general practitioners and nurses on efficacy and cost of type 2 diabetes patients care pp. 131-143

Julien Mousquès, Yann Bourgueil, Philippe Le Fur and Engin Yilmaz

Job tenure and self-reported workplace discrimination for cancer survivors 2 years after diagnosis: Does employment legislation matter? pp. 144-155

Alain Paraponaris, Luis Sagaon Teyssier and Bruno Ventelou

The effects of integrated inpatient health care on patient satisfaction and health-related quality of life: Results of a survey among heart disease patients in Germany pp. 156-163

Stefan Nickel, Birgit Thiedemann and Olaf von dem Knesebeck

The potential of legislation on organ donation to increase the supply of donor organs pp. 164-170

Remco Coppen, Roland D. Friele, Jouke van der Zee and Sjef K. Gevers

Impact of medical travel on imports and exports of medical services pp. 171-177

Tricia J. Johnson and Andrew N. Garman

Health policy processes in Vietnam: A comparison of three maternal health case studies pp. 178-185

Bui Thi Thu Ha, Andrew Green, Nancy Gerein and Katrine Danielsen

Do generic firms and the Spanish public purchaser respond to consumer price differences of generics under reference pricing? pp. 186-194

Jaume Puig-Junoy and Iván Moreno-Torres

Manifestations of tuberculosis stigma within the healthcare system: The case of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan district in Ghana pp. 195-202

Emmanuel Atsu Dodor and Shona J. Kelly

Does the way physicians are paid influence the way they practice? The case of Canadian family physicians' work activity pp. 203-217

Sisira Sarma, Rose Anne Devlin, Bachir Belhadji and Amardeep Thind

Guiding the process of health technology disinvestment pp. 218-226

Nora Ibargoyen-Roteta, Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea and José Asua

Determinants of the use of different types of health care provider in urban China: A tracer illness study of URTI pp. 227-235

Dongfu Qian, Henry Lucas, Jiaying Chen, Ling Xu and Yaoguang Zhang

Specialty choice and physicians' career paths in Japan: An analysis of National Physician Survey data from 1996 to 2006 pp. 236-244

Soichi Koike, Shinya Matsumoto, Tomoko Kodama, Hiroo Ide, Hideo Yasunaga and Tomoaki Imamura

A randomized experiment of issue framing and voter support of tax increases for health insurance expansion pp. 245-255

Hector P. Rodriguez, Miriam J. Laugesen and Carolyn A. Watts

Advance directives for euthanasia in dementia: Do law-based opportunities lead to more euthanasia? pp. 256-262

Marike E. de Boer, Rose-Marie Dröes, Cees Jonker, Jan A. Eefsting and Cees M.P.M. Hertogh

Determinants of suicides in Denmark: Evidence from time series data pp. 263-269

Antonio Andres and Ferda Halicioglu

Volume 98, issue 1, 2010

Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets pp. 1-2

John Armstrong, Francesco Paolucci and Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven

Risk equalisation and voluntary health insurance markets: The case of Australia pp. 3-14

Luke Connelly, Francesco Paolucci, James R.G. Butler and Paul Collins

Risk equalisation and voluntary health insurance markets: The case of Ireland pp. 15-26

John Armstrong

Risk equalisation and voluntary health insurance: The South Africa experience pp. 27-38

Heather McLeod and Pieter Grobler

Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets: A three country comparison pp. 39-49

John Armstrong, Francesco Paolucci, Heather McLeod and Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven

Health insurance and use of alternative medicine in Mexico pp. 50-57

Edwin van Gameren

An assessment of the implementation of the Health Care Funds for the Poor policy in rural Vietnam pp. 58-64

Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Curt Löfgren, Ho Dang Phuc, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc and Lars Lindholm

Hospital competition and patient-perceived quality of care: Evidence from a single-payer system in Taiwan pp. 65-73

Chi-Chen Chen and Shou-Hsia Cheng

Does case-mix based reimbursement stimulate the development of process-oriented care delivery? pp. 74-80

Leti Vos, Michel L.A. Dückers, Cordula Wagner and Godefridus G. van Merode

Inequity in a market-based health system: Evidence from Canada's dental sector pp. 81-90

Michel Grignon, Jeremiah Hurley, Li Wang and Sara Allin