Health Policy

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Volume 95, issue 2-3, 2010

An approach to health system strengthening in the Union of Myanmar pp. 95-102

Nilar Tin, Saw Lwin, Nyo Nyo Kyaing, Thein Thein Htay, John Grundy, Margareta Skold, Thomas O'Connell and Siddharth Nirupam

Purchasing health services abroad: Practices of cross-border contracting and patient mobility in six European countries pp. 103-112

Irene A. Glinos, Rita Baeten and Hans Maarse

Evaluating the policy of setting up microscopy centres at township hospitals in Shandong China: Experience from patients and providers pp. 113-121

Xiaolin Wei, Renzhong Li, Guanyang Zou, John Walley, James Newell and Zhimin Liu

Stakeholder perceptions of aid coordination implementation in the Zambian health sector pp. 122-128

Jesper Sundewall, Kristina Jönsson, Caesar Cheelo and Göran Tomson

Physician scarcity is a predictor of further scarcity in US, and a predictor of concentration in Japan pp. 129-136

Masatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuo Inoue, Robert Bowman, Satomi Noguchi and Eiji Kajii

Disinvestment for re-allocation: A process to identify priorities in healthcare pp. 137-143

Sabina Nuti, Milena Vainieri and Anna Bonini

Reliable in their failure: An analysis of healthcare reform policies in public systems pp. 144-152

Damien Contandriopoulos and Astrid Brousselle

Policy and practice, lost in transition: Reasons for high drop-out from pre-antiretroviral care in a resource-poor setting of eastern Uganda pp. 153-158

Muhamadi Lubega, Xavier Nsabagasani, Nazarius M. Tumwesigye, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Anna Mia Ekström, George Pariyo and Stefan Peterson

Predicting impact of price increases on demand for reproductive health services: Can it be done well? pp. 159-165

John H. Bratt

Efficiency, equity and feasibility of strategies to identify the poor: An application to premium exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana pp. 166-173

Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Genevieve Aryeetey, Ernst Spaan, Irene Agyepong and Rob Baltussen

The role of health technology assessment on pharmaceutical reimbursement in selected middle-income countries pp. 174-184

Wija Oortwijn, Judith Mathijssen and David Banta

Measurement of efficiency of the dialysis sector in Turkey using data envelopment analysis pp. 185-193

Hacer Özgen and Ismet Sahin

Can an appropriateness evaluation tool be used to prioritize patients on a waiting list for cataract extraction? pp. 194-203

Carlota Las Hayas, Nerea González, Urko Aguirre, Juan Antonio Blasco, Belen Elizalde, Emilio Perea, Antonio Escobar, Gemma Navarro, Xabier Castells and Jose María Quintana

Minor access control of Hong Kong under the framework convention on tobacco control pp. 204-210

Ming-yue Kan and Maggie Lau

Establishment of a Community Advisory Board (CAB) for tuberculosis control and research in the Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu (INK) area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa pp. 211-215

Sbongile P. Ntshanga, Paulos S. Ngcobo and Musawenkosi L.H. Mabaso

The US Orphan Drug Act: Rare disease research stimulator or commercial opportunity? pp. 216-228

Olivier Wellman-Labadie and Youwen Zhou

A survey exploring knowledge and perceptions of general practitioners towards the use of generic medicines in the northern state of Malaysia pp. 229-235

Gin Nie Chua, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Asrul Shafie and Ahmed Awaisu

Physician and patient characteristics associated with prescriptions and costs of drugs in the Lazio region of Italy pp. 236-244

Letizia Orzella, Francesco Chini, Paolo Giorgi Rossi and Piero Borgia

Impact of regulation of Community Pharmacies on efficiency, access and equity. Evidence from the UK and Spain pp. 245-254

Maria Lluch and Panos Kanavos

Perceived barriers to utilization of maternal health services in rural Cambodia pp. 255-263

Sadatoshi Matsuoka, Hirotsugu Aiga, Lon Chan Rasmey, Tung Rathavy and Akiko Okitsu

Norwegian priority guidelines: Estimating the distributional implications across age, gender and SES pp. 264-270

Fredrik Carlsen and Oddvar Kaarboe

The direct medical cost of cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, pregnancy and female infertility in a large HMO in Israel pp. 271-276

Gabriel Chodick, Avi Porath, Hillel Alapi, Tal Sella, Shira Flash, Francis Wood and Varda Shalev

Volume 95, issue 1, 2010

A comparative analysis of remuneration models for pharmaceutical professional services pp. 1-9

Cecilia Bernsten, Karolina Andersson, Yves Gariepy and Steven Simoens

Public involvement at the design stage of primary health research: A narrative review of case examples pp. 10-23

Jonathan Boote, Wendy Baird and Claire Beecroft

Measuring moral hazard and adverse selection by propensity scoring in the mixed health care economy of Hong Kong pp. 24-35

Irene O.L. Wong, Michael J. Lindner, Benjamin J. Cowling, Eric H.Y. Lau, Su-Vui Lo and Gabriel M. Leung

What prevents young adolescents from smoking? Self-reported motives of 12-15-year-old non-smokers pp. 36-40

Sven Schneider, Sabine Loeber, Maria Janßen, Silke Roehrig and Denise Solle

The effects of the fraud and abuse enforcement program under the National Health Insurance program in Korea pp. 41-49

HeeChung Kang, JaeSeok Hong, KwangSoo Lee and Sera Kim

Who is that masked person: The use of face masks on Mexico City public transportation during the Influenza A (H1N1) outbreak pp. 50-56

Bradly John Condon and Tapen Sinha

Factors associated with health education delivery by rural doctors for tuberculosis patients in Shandong Province, China pp. 57-61

Lizheng Shi, Jinan Liu and Lingzhong Xu

Rural-urban differences in health-seeking for the treatment of childhood malaria in south-east Nigeria pp. 62-68

Theodora A. Okeke and Joseph C. Okeibunor

Costs of hospital-based methadone maintenance treatment in HIV/AIDS control among injecting drug users in Indonesia pp. 69-73

Irvan Afriandi, Adiatma Siregar, Filip Meheus, Teddy Hidayat, Andre van der Ven, Reinout van Crevel and Rob Baltussen

There is a long way to go: A nationwide survey of professional training for mental health practitioners in China pp. 74-81

Xiao Gao, Todd Jackson, Hong Chen, Yanmei Liu, Ruiqiang Wang, Mingyi Qian and Xiting Huang

Healthcare policies over the last 20 years: Reforms and counter-reforms pp. 82-89

Federico Toth

Volume 94, issue 3, 2010

Interventions to improve team effectiveness: A systematic review pp. 183-195

Martina Buljac-Samardzic, Connie M. Dekker-van Doorn, Jeroen D.H. van Wijngaarden and Kees P. van Wijk

Developing Health Technology Assessment to address health care system needs pp. 196-202

Marcial Velasco Garrido, Ansgar Gerhardus, John-Arne Røttingen and Reinhard Busse

Factors associated with differences in mortality and self-reported health across states in the United States pp. 203-210

Zhuo Chen, Kakoli Roy, Anne C. Haddix and Stephen B. Thacker

Scarcity and inequity of mental health research resources in low-and-middle income countries: A global survey pp. 211-220

Denise Razzouk, Pratap Sharan, Carla Gallo, Oye Gureje, Exaltacion E. Lamberte, Jair de Jesus Mari, Guido Mazzotti, Vikram Patel, Leslie Swartz, Sylvie Olifson, Itzhak Levav, Andres de Francisco and Shekhar Saxena

Initial effects of a reimbursement restriction to improve the cost-effectiveness of antihypertensive treatment pp. 221-229

Björn Wettermark, Brian Godman, Martin Neovius, Niklas Hedberg, Tor-Olov Mellgren and Thomas Kahan

Development and dissemination of institutional practice guidelines on medical end-of-life decisions in Dutch health care institutions pp. 230-238

Berniek A.M. Hesselink, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Gerrit van der Wal, Paul J. van der Maas, Agnes van der Heide and Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen

From policy to plate: Barriers to implementing healthy eating policies in primary schools in Wales pp. 239-245

Sue Moore, Simon Murphy, Katy Tapper and Laurence Moore

Continuing Medical Education in six European countries: A comparative analysis pp. 246-254

Livio Garattini, Sara Gritti, Paola De Compadri and Gianluigi Casadei

Kidney black markets and legal transplants: Are they opposite sides of the same coin? pp. 255-265

Roger Mendoza

Perception of the economic value of primary care services: A willingness to pay study pp. 266-272

Jesús Martín-Fernández, Tomás Gómez-Gascón, Juan Oliva, María Isabel del Cura-González, Julia Domínguez-Bidagor, Milagros Beamud-Lagos and Teresa Sanz-Cuesta

Volume 94, issue 2, 2010

Personalized medicine: Factors influencing reimbursement pp. 91-100

Lisa M. Meckley and Peter J. Neumann

The influence of housing tenure and marital status on smoking in South Korea pp. 101-110

Seungji Lim, Woojin Chung, Hanjoong Kim and Sunmi Lee

Psychosocial work environment and emotional exhaustion--Does a service provision model play a role? pp. 111-119

Anne M. Koponen, Ritva Laamanen, Nina Simonsen-Rehn, Jari Sundell, Mats Brommels and Sakari Suominen

Determinants of length of stay for psychiatric inpatients: Analysis of a national database covering the entire Korean elderly population pp. 120-128

Woojin Chung, Sun-Min Oh, Tongwoo Suh, Young Moon Lee, Byoung Hoon Oh and Chung-Won Yoon

The preferred doctor scheme: A political reading of a French experiment of Gate-keeping pp. 129-134

Paul Dourgnon and Michel Naiditch

Agency problems in hospitals participating in self-management project under global budget system in Taiwan pp. 135-143

Yu-Hua Yan, Shuofen Hsu, Chen-Wei Yang and Shih-Chieh Fang

Geographic inequities in provision and utilization of malaria treatment services in southeast Nigeria: Diagnosis, providers and drugs pp. 144-149

Obinna Onwujekwe, Kara Hanson, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Ogochukwu Ezeoke, Soludo Eze and Nkem Dike

Are English treatment centres treating less complex patients? pp. 150-157

Andrew Street, Peter Sivey, Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo and Luigi Siciliani

Crossborder trade in health services: Lessons from the European laboratory pp. 158-163

Holly Jarman and Scott Greer

The demand for preventive care services and its relationship with inpatient services pp. 164-174

Wei-Hua Tian, Chin-Shyan Chen and Tsai-Ching Liu

Health problems and retirement due to ill-health among Australian retirees aged 45-64 years pp. 175-181

Sabrina W. Pit, Rupendra Shrestha, Deborah Schofield and Megan Passey

Volume 94, issue 1, 2010

Setting priorities for safe motherhood interventions in resource-scarce settings pp. 1-13

Ndola Prata, Amita Sreenivas, Fiona Greig, Julia Walsh and Malcolm Potts

Regional inequality in health and its determinants: Evidence from China pp. 14-25

Pengqian Fang, Siping Dong, Jingjing Xiao, Chaojie Liu, Xianwei Feng and Yiping Wang

Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Turkey pp. 26-33

Mahmut Saadi Yardim, Nesrin Cilingiroglu and Nazan Yardim

First approaches to the monetary impact of environmental health disturbances in Germany pp. 34-44

Florian Haucke and Ulrike Brückner

Welfare state regimes and population health: Integrating the East Asian welfare states pp. 45-53

Syahirah Abdul Karim, Terje A. Eikemo and Clare Bambra

Estimation of Japanese international financial assistance for HIV/AIDS control for 2003-2007: Difficulties and limitations of data collection pp. 54-60

Koichiro Mori, Kiyoshi Yonemoto, Teiji Takei, Jose Izazola-Licea and Benjamin Gobet

Study on doctor shopping behavior: Insight from patients with upper respiratory tract infection in Taiwan pp. 61-67

Ming-Jye Wang and Shu-Ping Lin

Evaluating community pharmacists' perceptions of future generic substitution policy implementation: A national survey from Malaysia pp. 68-75

Chee Ping Chong, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Mohd Baidi Bahari and Asrul Shafie

Context matters: Where would you be the least worse off in the US if you were uninsured? pp. 76-83

Carolyn Garcia, José A. Pagán and Rachel Hardeman

Difference in lifetime medical expenditures between male smokers and non-smokers pp. 84-89

Kenshi Hayashida, Yuichi Imanaka, Genki Murakami, Yuko Takahashi, Masato Nagai, Shinichi Kuriyama and Ichiro Tsuji

Erratum to "Balancing adoption and affordability of medical devices in Europe" [Health Policy 92 (2009) 218-224] pp. 90-90

Jonas Schreyögg, Michael Bäumler and Reinhard Busse