Health Policy

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Volume 89, issue 3, 2009

International perspectives on the cost-effectiveness of tandem mass spectrometry for rare metabolic conditions pp. 252-260

Richard Norman, Marion Haas and Bridget Wilcken

Use of economic evaluation in local health care decision-making in England: A qualitative investigation pp. 261-270

Oya Eddama and Joanna Coast

Evaluation of Croatian model of polycentric health planning and decision making pp. 271-278

Selma Sogoric, Aleksandar Dzakula, Tea Vukusic Rukavina, Sonja Grozic-Zivolic, Danijela Lazaric-Zec, Ankica Dzono-Boban, Ognjen Brborovic, Slobodan Lang and Silvije Vuletic

Is certainty more important than diagnosis for understanding race and gender disparities?: An experiment using coronary heart disease and depression case vignettes pp. 279-287

Karen E. Lutfey, Carol L. Link, Richard W. Grant, Lisa D. Marceau and John B. McKinlay

Which physicians have access to electronic prescribing and which ones end up using it? pp. 288-294

Jos A. Pagn, William R. Pratt and Jun Sun

Medicine access and utilization in a population covered by primary health care in Brazil pp. 295-302

Andra Dmaso Bertoldi, Alusio Jardim Dornellas de Barros, Anita Wagner, Dennis Ross-Degnan and Pedro Curi Hallal

Estimation of avoidable skin cancers and cost-savings to government associated with regulation of the solarium industry in Australia pp. 303-311

Nicholas Hirst, Louisa Gordon, Peter Gies and Adle C. Green

Services production and patient satisfaction in primary care pp. 312-321

Jostein Grytten, Fredrik Carlsen and Irene Skau

Breast milk as the "water that supports and preserves life"--Socio-cultural constructions of breastfeeding and their implications for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 322-328

Jennifer Hofmann, Manuela De Allegri, Malabika Sarker, Mamadou Sanon and Thomas Bhler

Is renal transplantation the most cost-effective and preferable therapy for patients suffering from end-stage renal disease or not? pp. 329-331

Dimitris Niakas and Nick Kontodimopoulos

Volume 89, issue 2, 2009

Estimation of hospital efficiency--Do different definitions and casemix measures for hospital output affect the results? pp. 149-159

Kirsi Vitikainen, Andrew Street and Miika Linna

Conflicting accountabilities: Doctor's dilemma in TB control in rural India pp. 160-167

Grethe Fochsen, Kirti Deshpande, Karin C. Ringsberg and Anna Thorson

Euthanasia requests and cancer types in the Netherlands: Is there a relationship? pp. 168-173

Ebun Abarshi, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen and Gerrit van der Wal

Consumer use of publicly released hospital performance information: Assessment of the National Hospital Evaluation Program in Korea pp. 174-183

Hye-Young Kang, Sun Jeong Kim, Woohyun Cho and Sunhee Lee

Public health policy decisions on medical innovations: What role can early economic evaluation play? pp. 184-192

Susanne Hartz and Juergen John

From cost-effectiveness information to decision-making on liquid-based cytology: Mind the gap pp. 193-200

Rosa Legood, Jane Wolstenholme and Alastair Gray

Cost-effectiveness of screening and correcting refractive errors in school children in Africa, Asia, America and Europe pp. 201-215

Rob Baltussen, Jeroen Naus and Hans Limburg

Smoke-free restaurants in Shanghai: Should it be mandatory and is it acceptable? pp. 216-224

Pinpin Zheng, Hua Fu and Guangyao Li

Cost-effectiveness of introducing the conjugated pneumococcal vaccine to routine free immunizations for infants in Lazio, Italy pp. 225-238

Paolo Giorgi-Rossi, Monica Merito and Piero Borgia

Volume 89, issue 1, 2009

The increasing burden of injuries in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Making the case for safety investments pp. 1-13

Adnan A. Hyder and Anju Aggarwal

The symptom mitigation path of mobile community residents: Community pharmacy's role pp. 14-25

Minna Heleena Väänänen, Alan Lyles and Marja Airaksinen

Factors associated with system-level activities for patient safety and infection control pp. 26-36

Haruhisa Fukuda, Yuichi Imanaka, Masahiro Hirose and Kenshi Hayashida

Relationship between anxiety level of patients and their satisfaction with different aspects of healthcare pp. 37-45

Carmen Herrera-Espiñeira, Maria del Mar Rodríguez del Aguila, Mercedes Rodríguez del Castillo, Antonia Fernández Valdivia and Isabel Reyes Sánchez

Analysing uncertainty around costs of innovative medical technologies: The case of fibrin sealant (QUIXIL®) for total knee replacement pp. 46-57

Lotte Steuten, Laura Vallejo-Torres, Philippe Bastide and Martin Buxton

Ethics frameworks in Canadian health policies: Foundation, scaffolding, or window dressing? pp. 58-71

Mita Giacomini, Nuala Kenny and Deirdre DeJean

Cost-effectiveness of screening methods for urinary schistosomiasis in a school-based control programme in Ibadan, Nigeria pp. 72-77

Akinola Ayoola Fatiregun, Kayode O. Osungbade and Aderonke E. Olumide

Estimating the budget impact of new technologies added to the National List of Health Services in Israel: Stakeholders' incentives for adopting a financial risk-sharing mechanism pp. 78-83

Ariel Hammerman and Dan Greenberg

The Philip Morris Nordic journalist program: Strategies, implementation and outcomes pp. 84-96

Heikki Hiilamo, Ulrika Kahl and Mats Lambe

Cost implications of improving the quality of child care using integrated clinical algorithms: Evidence from Northeast Brazil pp. 97-106

Taghreed Adam, Sally J. Edwards, Débora G. Amorim, João Amaral, Cesar G. Victora and David B. Evans

The provision of oral care by local government authorities in Israel: Policy issues and empirical evidence pp. 107-114

Yaffa Machnes and Abraham Carmeli

Gender difference in physician workforce participation in Japan pp. 115-123

Chie Kaneto, Satoshi Toyokawa, Kazuo Inoue and Yasuki Kobayashi

General practitioners' workload associated to practice size rather than chronic care organisation pp. 124-129

Michel Wensing, Pieter Van den Hombergh, Jan Van Doremalen, Richard Grol and Joachim Szecsenyi

Volume 88, issue 2-3, 2008

Prioritising pain in policy making: The need for a whole systems perspective pp. 166-175

Ceri Phillips, Chris Main, Rhiannon Buck, Mansel Aylward, Gwenllian Wynne-Jones and Angela Farr

Disease management programmes for patients with coronary heart disease--An empirical study of German programmes pp. 176-185

Oliver Gapp, Bernd Schweikert, Christa Meisinger and Rolf Holle

Reimbursement of malaria chemoprophylaxis for travellers from Europe to Sub-Saharan Africa: Cost-effectiveness analysis from the perspective of the French national health insurance system pp. 186-199

Thierry Pistone, Michaël Schwarzinger, Pierre Chauvin, Khaled Ezzedine, Marie-Catherine Receveur, Félix Djossou, Mahinda Siriwardana, Bernard Larouzé and Denis Malvy

Pediatric epidemic crisis: Lessons for policy and practice development pp. 200-208

David B. Nicholas, Robin E. Gearing, Donna Koller, Robyn Salter and Enid K. Selkirk

Cash benefits in long-term home care pp. 209-221

Bernard van den Berg and Wolter H.J. Hassink

Barriers to addressing the social determinants of health: Insights from the Canadian experience pp. 222-235

Dennis Raphael, Ann Curry-Stevens and Toba Bryant

Economic barriers to implementation of innovations in health care: Is the long run-short run efficiency discrepancy a paradox? pp. 236-242

Eddy M.M. Adang and Michel Wensing

Seed grants as a means of stimulating cancer research funding pp. 243-249

Christopher S. Hanson, Dona Schneider and Ann Marie Hill

The Australian funding debate on quadrivalent HPV vaccine: A case study for the national pharmaceutical policy pp. 250-257

Elizabeth Ellen Roughead, Andrew L. Gilbert and Agnes I. Vitry

Determinants of the uptake of medicines use reviews (MURs) by community pharmacies in England: A multi-method study pp. 258-268

Fay Bradley, Andrew C. Wagner, Rebecca Elvey, Peter R. Noyce and Darren M. Ashcroft

Pakistan's health policy: Appropriateness and relevance to women's health needs pp. 269-281

Narjis Rizvi and Sania Nishtar

Private health expenditure in the Greek health care system: Where truth ends and the myth begins pp. 282-293

Olga Siskou, Daphne Kaitelidou, Vasiliki Papakonstantinou and Lycourgos Liaropoulos

Outsourcing primary health care services--How politicians explain the grounds for their decisions pp. 294-307

Ritva Laamanen, Nina Simonsen-Rehn, Sakari Suominen, John Øvretveit and Mats Brommels

Drug formulary decision-making in two regional health authorities in British Columbia, Canada pp. 308-316

Kristy Armstrong, Craig Mitton, Bruce Carleton and Jean Shoveller

Re-evaluating the volume-outcome relationship in hemodialysis patients pp. 317-325

Eric L. Eisenstein, Jie L. Sun, Kevin J. Anstrom, Judith A. Stafford, Lynda A. Szczech, Lawrence H. Muhlbaier and Daniel B. Mark

Why non-urgent patients choose emergency over primary care services? Empirical evidence and managerial implications pp. 326-338

Federico Lega and Alessandro Mengoni

Strategies that promote high quality care in Indonesia pp. 339-347

Sarah L. Barber and Paul J. Gertler

Managing public health care policy: Who's being forgotten? pp. 348-358

Margaret Brunton, Claire Jordan and Christa Fouche

Eliciting preferences for resource allocation in mental health care in Ireland pp. 359-370

Eamon O'Shea, Brenda Gannon and Brendan Kennelly

The influence of health insurance towards accessing essential medicines: The experience from Shenzhen labor health insurance pp. 371-380

Minmin Zhu, Hassan H. Dib, Xinping Zhang, Shengchun Tang and Liqun Liu

Economic evaluations of maintaining patient safety systems in teaching hospitals pp. 381-391

Haruhisa Fukuda, Yuichi Imanaka, Masahiro Hirose and Kenshi Hayashida

Hypothetical modeling about the cost effectiveness of kidney transplantation for end-stage renal disease: Untested assumptions, unaccounted variables and unknown consequences pp. 392-396

Joseph L. Verheijde, Mohamed Y. Rady and Joan L. McGregor

Author's response to Chapman and Hayen pp. 397-399

Jeanine Baker and Samara McPhedran

Volume 88, issue 1, 2008

Emotions in physician agency pp. 1-14

Francesca Barigozzi and Rosella Levaggi

Ex-ante evaluation of PFIs within the Italian health-care sector: What is the basis for this PPP? pp. 15-24

Antonio Barretta and Pasquale Ruggiero

The impact of the introduction of market incentives on occupational health services and occupational health professionals: Experiences from The Netherlands pp. 25-37

Harmen Nico Plomp

Changes in out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Vietnam and its impact on equity in payments, 1992-2002 pp. 38-48

Anoshua Chaudhuri and Kakoli Roy

Cost of illness: An international comparison: Australia, Canada, France, Germany and The Netherlands pp. 49-61

Richard Heijink, Manuela Noethen, Thomas Renaud, Marc Koopmanschap and Johan Polder

Overview of the clinical application of regenerative medicine products in Japan pp. 62-72

Mina Tsubouchi, Shigeyuki Matsui, Yoshiro Banno, Kiyoshi Kurokawa and Koji Kawakami

Give me a break!: Informal caregiver attitudes towards respite care pp. 73-87

Job van Exel, Gjalt de Graaf and Werner Brouwer

Health sector reforms in Argentina and the performance of the health financing system pp. 88-99

Eleonora Cavagnero

Management patterns and healthcare costs for hospitalized patients with cerebral infarction pp. 100-109

Miho Sekimoto, Chieko Kakutani, Isao Inoue, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Kenshi Hayashida and Yuichi Imanaka

The economic impact of SARS: How does the reality match the predictions? pp. 110-120

Marcus Richard Keogh-Brown and Richard David Smith

Financial incentives do not always work--An example of cesarean sections in Taiwan pp. 121-129

Joan C. Lo

Internet use and the logics of personal empowerment in health pp. 130-140

Marc Lemire, Claude Sicotte and Guy Paré

The emergence of proprietary medical facilities in China pp. 141-151

Xiaohui Hou and Joseph Coyne

Declines in Australian suicide: A reanalysis of Mcphedran and Baker (2008) pp. 152-154

Simon Chapman and Andrew Hayen