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Volume 83, issue 2-3, 2007

Institutional ethics policies on medical end-of-life decisions: A literature review pp. 131-143

Joke Lemiengre, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterle, Katleen Van Craen, Paul Schotsmans and Chris Gastmans

Achieving Millennium Development Goals for health: Building understanding, trust and capacity to respond pp. 144-161

Timothy John Downs and Heidi Jane Larson

Risk adjustment and risk selection in Europe: 6 years later pp. 162-179

Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven, Konstantin Beck, Carine Van de Voorde, Juergen Wasem and Irit Zmora

The MESH approach: Strengthening public health systems for the MDGs pp. 180-185

Stephen Thomas, Gavin Mooney and Sandi Mbatsha

Understanding differences in income-related health inequality between geographic regions in Taiwan using the SF-36 pp. 186-195

Miaw-Chwen Lee and Andrew Jones

Comparison of mosquito control programs in seven urban sites in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas pp. 196-212

Daniel E. Impoinvil, Sajjad Ahmad, Adriana Troyo, Joseph Keating, Andrew K. Githeko, Charles M. Mbogo, Lydiah Kibe, John I. Githure, Adel M. Gad, Ali N. Hassan, Laor Orshan, Alon Warburg, Olger Calderon-Arguedas, Victoria M. Sanchez-Loria, Rosanna Velit-Suarez, Dave D. Chadee, Robert J. Novak and John C. Beier

Association between physicians' communicative behaviors and judges' decisions in lawsuits on negligent care pp. 213-222

Akihito Hagihara and Kimio Tarumi

Patient rights in EU Member States after the ratification of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine pp. 223-235

Herman Nys, Loes Stultiens, Pascal Borry, Tom Goffin and Kris Dierickx

The short-term effect on technical and scale efficiency of establishing regional health systems and general management in Greek NHS hospitals pp. 236-245

Vassilios Aletras, Nick Kontodimopoulos, Athanasios Zagouldoudis and Dimitris Niakas

Sustained public preferences on hospital performance across Canadian provinces pp. 246-256

Guillermo A. Sandoval, Jan Barnsley, Whitney Berta, Michael Murray and Adalsteinn D. Brown

A national hypertension treatment program in Germany and its estimated impact on costs, life expectancy, and cost-effectiveness pp. 257-267

Afschin Gandjour and Stephanie Stock

Preventive service delivery: A new insight into French general practice pp. 268-276

Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury, Marc Le Vaillant, Philippe Szidon, Patrice Marie, Francois Raineri and Claude Sicotte

Implementation of preconceptional carrier screening for cystic fibrosis and haemoglobinopathies: A sociotechnical analysis pp. 277-286

Roos Achterbergh, Phillis Lakeman, Dirk Stemerding, Ellen H.M. Moors and Martina C. Cornel

Why invest in a national public health program for stroke?: An example using Australian data to estimate the potential benefits and cost implications pp. 287-294

Dominique A. Cadilhac, Robert C. Carter, Amanda G. Thrift and Helen M. Dewey

Cost-effectiveness of a folic acid fortification program in Chile pp. 295-303

Adolfo Llanos, Eva Hertrampf, Fanny Cortes, Andrea Pardo, Scott D. Grosse and Ricardo Uauy

Catastrophic health payments and health insurance: Some counterintuitive evidence from one low-income country pp. 304-313

Bjorn Ekman

Population preferences and choice of primary care models: A discrete choice experiment in Sweden pp. 314-322

Jonas Hjelmgren and Anders Anell

Health systems barriers to effective use of infectious disease surveillance data in the context of decentralization in Georgia: A qualitative study pp. 323-331

Mamuka Djibuti, Natia Rukhadze, David R. Hotchkiss, Thomas P. Eisele and Eva A. Silvestre

Care for a break? An investigation of informal caregivers' attitudes toward respite care using Q-methodology pp. 332-342

Job van Exel, Gjalt de Graaf and Werner Brouwer

A comparison of the impact of U.S. and Canadian cigarette pack warning label requirements on tobacco industry profitability and the public health pp. 343-352

Michael Givel

Assessment of indirect cost-of-illness in a subsistence farming society by using different valuation methods pp. 353-362

Tin Tin Su, Mamadou Sanon and Steffen Flessa

Changes and factors associated with dentists' willingness to treat patients with severe disabilities pp. 363-374

Wen-Chen Tsai, Pei-Tseng Kung, Hsien-Hsiung Chiang and Wei-Chieh Chang

Impact of SARS on healthcare utilization by disease categories: Implications for delivery of healthcare services pp. 375-381

Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Yiing-Jenq Chou and Chien-Shian Liou

A statistical analysis of pain relief after surgical operations pp. 382-390

Mehdi Farsi and Lara Gitto

Volume 83, issue 1, 2007

A transaction costs analysis of changing contractual relations in the English NHS pp. 17-26

Giorgia Marini and Andrew Street

Measles supplemental immunization activities improve measles vaccine coverage and equity: Evidence from Kenya, 2002 pp. 27-36

Maya Vijayaraghavan, Rebecca M. Martin, Nalinee Sangrujee, Geoffrey N. Kimani, Sammy Oyombe, Akpaka Kalu, Alfred Runyago, George Wanjau, Lisa Cairns and Steven N. Muchiri

The policy environment encouraging C-section in Lebanon pp. 37-49

Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian, Afamia Kaddour, Jocelyn DeJong, Rawan Shayboub and Anwar Nassar

The role of job satisfaction, job dissatisfaction and demographic factors on physicians' intentions to switch work sector from public to private pp. 50-64

Terhi Kankaanranta, Tapio Nummi, Jari Vainiomäki, Hannu Halila, Harri Hyppola, Mauri Isokoski, Santero Kujala, Esko Kumpusalo, Kari Mattila, Irma Virjo, Jukka Vanska and Pekka Rissanen

Does providing cost-effectiveness information change coverage priorities for citizens acting as social decision makers? pp. 65-72

Marthe Rachel Gold, Peter Franks, Taryn Siegelberg and Shoshanna Sofaer

Reorienting Health Ministry roles in transition settings: Capacity and strategy gaps pp. 73-83

Scott A. Fritzen

Reconstruction of health service systems in the post-conflict Northern Province in Sri Lanka pp. 84-93

Mari Nagai, Sandirasegaram Abraham, Miyoko Okamoto, Etsuko Kita and Atsuko Aoyama

Setting priorities for safe motherhood programme evaluation: A participatory process in three developing countries pp. 94-104

Banyana Cecilia Madi, Julia Hussein, Sennen Hounton, Lucia D'Ambruoso, Endang Achadi and Daniel Kojo Arhinful

Primary care in a post-communist country 10 years later: Comparison of service profiles of Lithuanian primary care physicians in 1994 and GPs in 2004 pp. 105-113

Ida Liseckiene, Wienke G.W. Boerma, Zemyna Milasauskiene, Leonas Valius, Irena Miseviciene and Peter P. Groenewegen

Medical specialists' allocation of working time pp. 114-127

Linda Midttun

Volume 82, issue 3, 2007

Governing UK medical performance: A struggle for policy dominance pp. 263-275

Brian Salter

Utilization of health-care services at the end-of-life pp. 276-287

Eva Jakobsson, Ingrid Bergh, Joakim Ohlen, Anders Oden and Fannie Gaston-Johansson

Running before we walk: How can we maximise the benefits from community service dietitians in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa? pp. 288-301

Marie Paterson, Maryann Green and Eleni M.W. Maunder

Evaluation of two methods of deliberative participation of older people in food-policy development pp. 302-319

Lada Timotijevic and Monique Maria Raats

Drug use and health-seeking behavior for childhood illness in Vietnam--A qualitative study pp. 320-329

Nguyen Quynh Hoa, Ann Ohman, Cecilia Stalsby Lundborg and Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc

Pricing and reimbursement of in-patent drugs in seven European countries: A comparative analysis pp. 330-339

Livio Garattini, Dante Cornago and Paola De Compadri

The impact of cost sharing of prescription drug expenditures on health care utilization by the elderly: Own- and cross-price elasticities pp. 340-347

Xin Li, Daphne Guh, Diane Lacaille, John Esdaile and Aslam H. Anis

Population impact--Definition, calculation and its use in prevention science in the example of tobacco smoking reduction pp. 348-356

Jochen Rene Thyrian and Ulrich John

German physicians "on strike"--Shedding light on the roots of physician dissatisfaction pp. 357-365

Katharina Janus, Volker Eric Amelung, Michael Gaitanides and Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz

Customers' and physicians' opinions of and experiences with generic substitution during the first year in Finland pp. 366-374

Reeta Heikkila, Pekka Mantyselka, Kaisa Hartikainen-Herranen and Riitta Ahonen

The impact of hospital financing on the length of stay: Evidence from Austria pp. 375-389

Engelbert Theurl and Hannes Winner

Volume 82, issue 2, 2007

Solving the disjuncture between research and practice: Telehealth trends in the 21st century pp. 133-141

Edward Alan Miller

Increasing tobacco taxes: A cheap tool to increase public health pp. 142-152

Pieter H.M. van Baal, Werner Brouwer, Rudolf T. Hoogenveen and Talitha L. Feenstra

Promotor(a)s, the organizations in which they work, and an emerging paradox: How organizational structure and scope impact promotor(a)s' work pp. 153-166

Marlynn L. May and Ricardo B. Contreras

The role of public policies in reducing smoking prevalence in California: Results from the California Tobacco Policy Simulation Model pp. 167-185

David T. Levy, Andrew Hyland, Cheryl Higbee, Lillian Remer and Christine Compton

Multiple perspectives on diagnosis delay for tuberculosis from key stakeholders in poor rural China: Case study in four provinces pp. 186-199

Fei Yan, Rachael Thomson, Shenglan Tang, Stephen Bertel Squire, Wei Wang, Xiaoyun Liu, Youlong Gong, Fengzeng Zhao and Rachel Tolhurst

The impact of contracting-out on health system performance: A conceptual framework pp. 200-211

Xingzhu Liu, David R. Hotchkiss and Sujata Bose

Concentration in the Greek private hospital sector: A descriptive analysis pp. 212-225

Zoe Boutsioli

Is there a business case for quality in The Netherlands?: A critical analysis of the recent reforms of the health care system pp. 226-239

Thomas Custers, Onyebuchi A. Arah and Niek S. Klazinga

Public responses to precautionary information from the Department of Health (UK) about possible health risks from mobile phones pp. 240-250

Julie Barnett, Lada Timotijevic, Richard Shepherd and Victoria Senior

Willingness to pay for drug abuse treatment: Results from a contingent valuation study in Taiwan pp. 251-262

Chao-Hsiun Tang, Jin-Tan Liu, Ching-Wen Chang and Wen-Ying Chang

Volume 82, issue 1, 2007

Capacity planning for cardiac catheterization: A case study pp. 1-11

Diwakar Gupta, Madhu Kailash Natarajan, Amiram Gafni, Lei Wang, Don Shilton, Douglas Holder and Salim Yusuf

Willingness to pay for health insurance among rural and poor persons: Field evidence from seven micro health insurance units in India pp. 12-27

David Dror, Ralf Radermacher and Ruth Koren

Post-hospital care of stroke patients in Taipei: Use of services and policy implications pp. 28-36

Kun-Yang Chuang, Shwu-Chong Wu, Yu-Tzu Dai and Ai-Hsuan Sandra Ma

Bringing `the public' into health technology assessment and coverage policy decisions: From principles to practice pp. 37-50

Julia Abelson, Mita Giacomini, Pascale Lehoux and Francois-Pierre Gauvin

Satisfaction with the access to the health services of the people with chronic conditions in Estonia pp. 51-61

Kaja Polluste, Ruth Kalda and Margus Lember

Patient (customer) expectations in hospitals pp. 62-70

Sedat Bostan, Taner Acuner and Gokhan Yilmaz

Price differences between Japan and the US for medical materials and how to reduce them pp. 71-77

Hiroo Ide, Hideo Yasunaga, Tomoaki Imamura and Kazuhiko Ohe

Priority setting at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels in Canada, Norway and Uganda pp. 78-94

Lydia Kapiriri, Ole Frithjof Norheim and Douglas K. Martin

Unemployment, contraceptive behaviour and reproductive outcomes among young Australian women pp. 95-101

Margaret Kelaher, David Dunt and Sarity Dodson

Paternity leave in Sweden--Costs, savings and health gains pp. 102-115

Anna Mansdotter, Lars Lindholm and Anna Winkvist

Pharmaceutical regulation in Greece at the crossroad of change: Economic, political and constitutional considerations for a new regulatory paradigm pp. 116-129

Xenophon Contiades, Christina Golna and Kyriakos Souliotis