Health Policy

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Volume 85, issue 3, 2008

Assessing health system performance in developing countries: A review of the literature pp. 263-276

Margaret Elizabeth Kruk and Lynn P. Freedman

Nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing in the UK--A thematic review of the literature pp. 277-292

Richard Jason Cooper, Claire Anderson, Tony Avery, Paul Bissell, Louise Guillaume, Allen Hutchinson, Veronica James, Joanne Lymn, Aileen McIntosh, Elizabeth Murphy, Julie Ratcliffe, Sue Read and Paul Ward

Joint replacement recipients' post-surgery views about health information privacy and registry participation pp. 293-304

Amanda L. Terry, Bert M. Chesworth, Paul Stolee, Robert B. Bourne and Mark Speechley

Prices and distribution margins of in-patent drugs in pharmacy: A comparison in seven European countries pp. 305-313

Livio Garattini, Nicola Motterlini and Dante Cornago

Making policy decisions about population screening for breast cancer: The role of citizens' deliberation pp. 314-320

Charlotte Paul, Rachel Nicholls, Patricia Priest and Rob McGee

Has cost containment after the National Health Insurance system been successful: Determinants of Taiwan hospital costs pp. 321-335

Jung-Hua Hung and Li Chang

Challenges of rehabilitation case mix measurement in Ontario hospitals pp. 336-348

Jason Murray Sutherland and Jan Walker

Health-related quality of life and beneficiaries of long-term care insurance in Japan pp. 349-355

Hirohisa Imai, Yoshinori Fujii, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Hiroyuki Nakao and Yuichiro Yahata

Representation and legitimacy in health policy formulation at a national level: Perspectives from a study of health technology eligibility procedures in the United Kingdom pp. 356-362

Timothy Milewa

Professional satisfaction among Singapore physicians pp. 363-371

Feng Qian and Meng Kin Lim

Sustainability of the workforce: Government policies and the rural fit pp. 372-379

Andrea Baumann, Mabel Hunsberger, Jennifer Blythe and Mary Crea

The cost of in-patient care in Western Australia in the last years of life: A population-based data linkage study pp. 380-390

Rachael Elizabeth Moorin and Cashel D'Arcy James Holman

Volume 85, issue 2, 2008

Economic evaluation of cystic fibrosis screening: A review of the literature pp. 133-147

Muralikrishnan Radhakrishnan, Kees van Gool, Jane Hall, Martin Delatycki and John Massie

Falling on stony ground A qualitative study of implementation of clinical guidelines' prescribing recommendations in primary care pp. 148-161

Arash Rashidian, Martin P. Eccles and Ian Russell

Prevention of HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users in Russia: Opportunities and barriers to scaling-up of harm reduction programmes pp. 162-171

Elena Tkatchenko-Schmidt, Adrian Renton, Ruzanna Gevorgyan, Ludmila Davydenko and Rifat Atun

Comparing integrated care policy in Europe: Does policy matter pp. 172-183

Ingrid Mur-Veeman, Arno van Raak and Aggie Paulus

Private demand for cholera vaccines in rural Matlab, Bangladesh pp. 184-195

Ziaul Islam, Brian Maskery, Andrew Nyamete, Mark S. Horowitz, Mohammad Yunus and Dale Whittington

Impact of age and procedure on resource use for patients with ischemic heart disease pp. 196-206

Kazuaki Kuwabara, Yuichi Imanaka, Shinya Matsuda, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideki Hashimoto, Koichi B. Ishikawa, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Kenshi Hayashida and Kenji Fujimori

What's in a wait: Contrasting management science and economic perspectives on waiting for emergency care pp. 207-217

Alec Morton and Gwyn Bevan

Distribution matters: Equity considerations among health planners in Tanzania pp. 218-227

Trygve Ottersen, Deogratius Mbilinyi, Ottar Mæstad and Ole Frithjof Norheim

The relationship between quality management systems and organizational performance in the Italian National Health Service pp. 228-241

Manuela S. Macinati

Prescribing in maternity care in Russia: The legacy of Soviet medicine pp. 242-251

Kirill Danichevski, Martin McKee and Dina Balabanova

The rise and fall(acy) of clinical directorates in Italy pp. 252-262

Federico Lega

Volume 85, issue 1, 2008

Assessing genetic testing: Who are the "lay experts"? pp. 1-18

Joanna Goven

Approaching the management of hospital units with an operation research technique: The case of 32 Greek obstetric and gynaecology public units pp. 19-31

Maria Katharaki

Factors associated with enrollment, satisfaction, and sustainability of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme program in six study areas in rural Beijing pp. 32-44

Hongman Wang, Danan Gu and Matthew Egan Dupre

The impact of integrated care on direct nursing home care pp. 45-59

Aggie T.G. Paulus and Arno J.A. van Raak

The emerging mental health strategy of the European Union: A multi-level work-in-progress pp. 60-70

Brendan D. Kelly

Social inequality in health: Dichotomy or gradient?: A comparative study of problematizations in national public health programmes pp. 71-82

Signild Vallgarda

Palestinian women's pregnancy intentions: Analysis and critique of the Demographic and Health Survey 2004 pp. 83-93

Rita Giacaman, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Awad Mataria and Laura Wick

Uses of first line emergency services in Cuba pp. 94-104

Pol De Vos, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Armando Rodriguez, René Garcia, Mariano Bonet and Patrick Van der Stuyft

The National Health Insurance system as one type of new typology: The case of South Korea and Taiwan pp. 105-113

Sang-Yi Lee, Chang-Bae Chun, Yong-Gab Lee and Nam Kyu Seo

Duplicative medications in patients who visit multiple medical institutions among the insured of a corporate health insurance society in Japan pp. 114-123

Hiroki Kinoshita, Yasuki Kobayashi and Takashi Fukuda

Preference heterogeneity and choice of cardiac rehabilitation program: Results from a discrete choice experiment pp. 124-132

Trine Kjaer and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Volume 84, issue 2-3, 2007

Do differences in health make a difference? A review for health policymakers pp. 123-132

Daniel Rainham

AIDS denial in Asia: Dimensions and roots pp. 133-141

Binod Nepal

Policy and regulatory responses to dual practice in the health sector pp. 142-152

Ariadna Garcia-Prado and Paula González

Do patients in hospitals benefit from single rooms? A literature review pp. 153-161

Irene van de Glind, Stanny de Roode and Anne Goossensen

Empowering the chronically ill? Patient collectives in the new Dutch health insurance system pp. 162-169

Yvette Bartholomee and Hans Maarse

Ethics policies on euthanasia in hospitals--A survey in Flanders (Belgium) pp. 170-180

Joke Lemiengre, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterle, Geert Verbeke, Catherine Guisson, Paul Schotsmans and Chris Gastmans

Implementation of electronic medical records in hospitals: two case studies pp. 181-190

John Ovretveit, Tim Scott, Thomas G. Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell and Mats Brommels

Quality improvement designs are related to the degree of organisation of quality systems: An empirical study of hospital departments pp. 191-199

Stefan Kunkel, Urban Rosenqvist and Ragnar Westerling

Hospital response to prospective financing of in-patient days: The Belgian case pp. 200-209

Julian Perelman and Marie-Christine Closon

Hospitalisation among the elderly in urban China pp. 210-219

Jun Gao, Joanna H. Raven and Shenglan Tang

Priority-setting for healthcare: Who, how, and is it fair? pp. 220-233

Devidas Menon, Tania Stafinski and Douglas Martin

Beyond scientific rigour: Funding cancer research of public value pp. 234-242

Carla Saunders, Afaf Girgis, Phyllis Butow, Sally Crossing and Andrew Penman

National public health target awareness of staff at two organisational levels in health care pp. 243-248

Malou Lindberg and Susan Wilhelmsson

Managing to manage healthcare resources in the English NHS? What can health economics teach? What can health economics learn? pp. 249-261

Angela Bate, Cam Donaldson and Madeleine J. Murtagh

Failure to validate the Health Survey for England physical activity module in a cardiac population pp. 262-268

Alison Orrell, Patrick Doherty, Simon Coulton, Jeremy Miles, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Robert Lewin

`Where is the public health sector?': Public and private sector healthcare provision in Madhya Pradesh, India pp. 269-276

Ayesha De Costa and Vinod Diwan

Clinician reflections on promotion of healthy behaviors in primary care practice pp. 277-283

Susan A. Flocke, Benjamin F. Crabtree and Kurt C. Stange

Women's status, institutional barriers and reproductive health care: A case study in Yunnan, China pp. 284-297

Lichun Tian, Jianghong Li, Kaining Zhang and Philip Guest

International migration patterns of physicians to the United States: A cross-national panel analysis pp. 298-307

Peter S. Hussey

Managed care and a process of integration in health care sector: A case study from Poland pp. 308-320

Katarzyna Kowalska

What difference does it make? The calculation of QALY gains from health profiles using patient and general population values pp. 321-331

Paul McNamee

Knowledge and practice of unqualified and semi-qualified allopathic providers in rural Bangladesh: Implications for the HRH problem pp. 332-343

Syed Masud Ahmed and Md. Awlad Hossain

Innovation and motivation in public health professionals pp. 344-358

Manuel García-Goñi, Andrés Maroto-Sánchez and Luis Rubalcaba

Safe motherhood in Ghana: Still on the agenda? pp. 359-367

Tamunosa Okiwelu, Julia Hussein, Sam Adjei, Daniel Arhinful and Margaret Armar-Klemesu

Volume 84, issue 1, 2007

The effects of coxib formulary restrictions on analgesic use and cost: Regional evidence from Canada pp. 1-13

Deborah A. Marshall, Donald J. Willison, Paul Grootendorst, Jacques LeLorier, Malcolm Maclure, Nathalie A. Kulin, Odile E. Sheehy, Leanne Warren, Kathy Sykora and Elham Rahme

The impact of generic reference pricing interventions in the statin market pp. 14-29

Jaume Puig-Junoy

Pricing behaviour of pharmacies after market deregulation for OTC drugs: The case of Germany pp. 30-38

Tom Stargardt, Jonas Schreyögg and Reinhard Busse

Conditional reimbursement within the Dutch drug policy pp. 39-50

Maartje Niezen, Antoinette de Bont, Elly Stolk, Arthur Eyck, Louis Niessen and Herman Stoevelaar

Sources of medicine information in Finland pp. 51-57

Ulla Närhi and Satu Helakorpi

Priority setting for high cost medications (HCMs) in public hospitals in Australia: A case study pp. 58-66

Gisselle Gallego, Susan Joyce Taylor and Jo-anne Elizabeth Brien

Effects of essential medicines on cardiovascular products available for the market in Thailand pp. 67-74

Siriporn Burapadaja, Naohito Kawasaki, Suporn Charumanee and Fumihiko Ogata

Costs, health effects and cost-effectiveness of alcohol and tobacco control strategies in Estonia pp. 75-88

Taavi Lai, Jarno Habicht, Marge Reinap, Dan Chisholm and Rob Baltussen

The politics of global immunization initiatives: Can we learn from research on global environmental issues? pp. 89-100

Kristin Ingstad Sandberg and Gunnar Bjune

Public policies and the problematic USA population health profile pp. 101-111

Dennis Raphael

Outcome measures for clinical genetics services: A comparison of genetics healthcare professionals and patients' views pp. 112-122

Katherine Payne, Stuart G. Nicholls, Marion McAllister, Rhona MacLeod, Ian Ellis, Dian Donnai and Linda M. Davies