Health Policy

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Volume 77, issue 3, 2006

Response to "Use of cervical cancer screening among insured women: the extent of missed opportunities" [Health Policy 73 (2005) 194-201] pp. 245-246

Ralph P. Insinga, Andrew G. Glass and Brenda B. Rush

Surviving decentralisation?: Impacts of regional autonomy on health service provision in Indonesia pp. 247-259

Stein Kristiansen and Purwo Santoso

Physician workload in primary care: What is the optimal size of practices?: A cross-sectional study pp. 260-267

Michel Wensing, Pieter van den Hombergh, Reinier Akkermans, Jan van Doremalen and Richard Grol

Comparing hospital cost efficiency between Norway and Finland pp. 268-278

Miika Linna, Unto Hakkinen and Jon Magnussen

Perceptions on use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in pregnancy and the policy implications for malaria control in Uganda pp. 279-289

Anthony Kabanza Mbonye, Stella Neema and Pascal Magnussen

Reasons for participation in and needs for continuing professional education among health workers in Ghana pp. 290-303

Hirotsugu Aiga

The impact of filipino micro health-insurance units on income-related equality of access to healthcare pp. 304-317

David Dror, Ruth Koren and David Mark Steinberg

Why do not all hip- and knee patients facing long waiting times accept re-referral to hospitals with short waiting time?: Questionnaire study pp. 318-325

Hans Okkels Birk and Lars Onsberg Henriksen

Demand and supply of emergency help: An economic analysis of Red Cross services pp. 326-338

Franz Hackl and Gerald Pruckner

The Common Drug Review: A NICE start for Canada? pp. 339-351

Meghan McMahon, Steve Morgan and Craig Mitton

"Yes", "No" or "Yes, but"? Multinomial modelling of NICE decision-making pp. 352-367

Helen Angela Dakin, Nancy Devlin and Isaac A.O. Odeyemi

Volume 77, issue 2, 2006

Estimating the burden of road traffic injuries among children and adolescents in urban South Asia pp. 129-139

Adnan Ali Hyder, Omar Hussein Amach, Nitin Garg and Mariam Temitope Labinjo

Patterns of health care utilization and health behaviors among street sex workers in Hong Kong pp. 140-148

William C.W. Wong, Sister Ann Gray, Davina C. Ling and Eleanor A. Holroyd

South Asian participation in clinical trials: The views of lay people and health professionals pp. 149-165

Mah Hussain-Gambles, Karl Atkin and Brenda Leese

Self-medication with antibiotics--Does it really happen in Europe? pp. 166-171

Minna Heleena Vaananen, Kirsi Pietila and Marja Airaksinen

Diagnosis and management of tuberculosis by private practitioners in Manila, Philippines pp. 172-181

Christian Auer, Jaime Y. Lagahid, Marcel Tanner and Mitchell G. Weiss

A baseline survey of the Primary Healthcare System in South Eastern Nigeria pp. 182-201

Chinyere Mercellina Chukwuani, Akindeji Olugboji, Edward Erdorga Akuto, Akim Odebunmi, Ezenta Ezeilo and Emmanuel Ugbene

Views of physicians, disciplinary board members and practicing lawyers on the new statutory disciplinary system for health care in The Netherlands pp. 202-211

Jacqueline M. Cuperus-Bosma, Fredericus A.G. Hout, Joep H. Hubben and Gerrit van der Wal

Health care in China: The role of non-government providers pp. 212-220

Yuanli Liu, Peter Berman, Winnie Yip, Haocai Liang, Qingyue Meng, Jiangbin Qu and Zhonghe Li

Evaluating program effects on institutional delivery in Peru pp. 221-232

Michael J. McQuestion and Anibal Velasquez

Economic evaluation of HIV screening in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in India pp. 233-243

Manoj Kumar, Stephen Birch, Andres Maturana and Amiran Gafni

Volume 77, issue 1, 2006

Who cares about quality? Comment on "Why do health and social care providers co-operate? by Van Raak et al. (Health Policy 74(2005)13-23)" pp. 1-243

Timothy Chiu

Measuring operational efficiency in a health care system: A case study from Thailand pp. 2-23

Chutima Suraratdecha and Albert Okunade

Gender equity in health care in Sweden--Minor improvements since the 1990s pp. 24-36

Pia Maria Jonsson, Ingrid Schmidt, Vibeke Sparring and Goran Tomson

Development of a framework with specific reference to exit-level outcomes for the education and training of South African undergraduate physiotherapy students pp. 37-42

Maria W. Krause, Marlene J. Viljoen, Maria M. Nel and Georgina Joubert

The effect of a subsidy policy on the utilization of community care services under a public long-term care insurance program in rural Japan pp. 43-50

Mikiya Sato, Hideki Hashimoto, Nanako Tamiya and Eiji Yano

Cost-of-illness analysis: What room in health economics? pp. 51-63

Rosanna Tarricone

Review of performance assessment and improvement in ambulatory medical care pp. 64-75

Philippe Contencin, Hector Falcoff and Michel Doumenc

The public and public health organizations: Issues for community engagement in public health pp. 76-85

F. Douglas Scutchfield, Laura Hall and Carol L. Ireson

Informal payment for health care: Evidence from Hungary pp. 86-102

Peter Gaal, Tamas Evetovits and Martin McKee

Factors contributing to patient dumping in Taiwan pp. 103-112

Herng-Ching Lin, Senyeong Kao, Chao-Hsiun Tang, Ming-Chin Yang and Hong-Shen Lee

Is decentralisation the real solution?: A three country study pp. 113-120

Ilaria Mosca

Volume 76, issue 3, 2006

Telemedicine services in the Republic of Ireland: An evolving policy context pp. 245-258

Anne MacFarlane, Andrew William Murphy and Pauline Clerkin

Impact of sociocultural factors on hospital length of stay in children with nephrotic syndrome in Japan pp. 259-265

Shin-ichi Toyabe, Pengyu Cao, Toshikazu Abe, Makoto Uchiyama and Kouhei Akazawa

The effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on economic well-being of men with disabilities pp. 266-276

Sangho Moon and Jaeun Shin

Translations of health sector SWAps--A comparative study of health sector development cooperation in Uganda, Zambia and Bangladesh pp. 277-287

Jesper Sundewall and Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson

Do marginal changes in PHI membership accurately predict marginal changes in PHI use in Western Australia? pp. 288-298

Rachael Elizabeth Moorin and Cashel D'Arcy James Holman

The impact of decentralised drug-budgets in Sweden - a survey of physicians' attitudes towards costs and cost-effectiveness pp. 299-311

Sandra Jansson and Anders Anell

Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care pp. 312-319

Alexander Cappelen and Ole Frithjof Norheim

The Norwegian hospital reform of 2002: Central government takes over ownership of public hospitals pp. 320-333

Terje P. Hagen and Oddvar Kaarboe

Priority setting for horizon scanning of new health technologies in Denmark: Views of health care stakeholders and health economists pp. 334-345

Karla Douw, Hindrik Vondeling and Wija Oortwijn

Calculation of prefectural disability-adjusted life expectancy (DALE) using long-term care prevalence and its socioeconomic correlates in Japan pp. 346-358

Sugako Kurimori, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Keiko Nakamura, Masafumi Watanabe and Takehito Takano

A comparison of individual and social time trade-off values for health states in the general population pp. 359-370

Kristina Burstrom, Magnus Johannesson and Finn Diderichsen

Volume 76, issue 2, 2006

Different types and aspects of quality systems and their implications: A thematic comparison of seven quality systems at a university hospital pp. 125-133

Stefan Tony Kunkel and Ragnar Westerling

Providing guidance to the NHS: The Scottish Medicines Consortium and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence compared pp. 134-143

John Cairns

Labour supply in the home care industry: A case study in a Dutch region pp. 144-155

Elly J. Breedveld, Bert R. Meijboom and Aad A. de Roo

The snakes and ladders of user involvement: Moving beyond Arnstein pp. 156-168

Jonathan Quetzal Tritter and Alison McCallum

Prevalence and content of written ethics policies on euthanasia in Catholic healthcare institutions in Belgium (Flanders) pp. 169-178

Chris Gastmans, Joke Lemiengre, Gerrit van der Wal, Paul Schotsmans and Bernadette Dierckx de Casterle

Adolescent immunization rates and the effect of socio-demographic factors on immunization in a cosmopolitan city (ERZURUM) in the eastern Turkey pp. 179-185

Handan Alp, Sevin Altinkaynak, Duygu Arikan and Nurcan Ozyazicioglu

Interprovincial migration of physicians in Canada: What are the determinants? pp. 186-193

Kisalaya Basu and Sameer Rajbhandary

Delayed transfers of older people from hospital: Causes and policy implications pp. 194-201

Karen Bryan, Heather Gage and Ken Gilbert

What are `third way' governments learning? Health care consumers and quality in England and Germany pp. 202-212

Pauline Allen and Petra Riemer Hommel

Responses of Israeli HMOs to environmental change following the National Health Insurance Law: Opening the black box pp. 213-232

Revital Gross and Michael I. Harrison

Social capital and farmer's willingness-to-join a newly established community-based health insurance in rural China pp. 233-242

Licheng Zhang, Hong Wang, Lushang Wang and William Hsiao

Volume 76, issue 1, 2006

Time costs of waiting, doctor-shopping and private-public sector imbalance: Microdata evidence from Hong Kong pp. 1-12

Gabriel Matthew Leung, Raymond Yue Ting Yeung, Irene Oi Ling Wong, Susana Castan-Cameo and Janice Mary Johnston

Analysis of cost outliers within APR-DRGs in a Belgian general hospital: Two complementary approaches pp. 13-25

Magali Pirson, Michele Dramaix, Pol Leclercq and Terri Jackson

Effects of payment incentives, hospital ownership and competition on hospitalization decisions for ambulatory surgical procedures pp. 26-37

Sudha Xirasagar and Herng-Ching Lin

Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs) explain the utilization of primary care in Spain based on information registered in the medical records: A cross-sectional study pp. 38-48

Juan-Francisco Orueta, Javier Urraca, Inaki Berraondo, Jon Darpon and Juan-Jose Aurrekoetxea

Balancing efficiency of health services and equity of access in remote areas in Greece pp. 49-57

Nick Kontodimopoulos, Panagiotis Nanos and Dimitris Niakas

Understanding consumers' preferences and decision to enrol in community-based health insurance in rural West Africa pp. 58-71

Manuela De Allegri, Mamadou Sanon, John Bridges and Rainer Sauerborn

Direct access in primary care and patient satisfaction: A European study pp. 72-79

Madelon W. Kroneman, Hans Maarse and Jouke van der Zee

The impact of loss of Medicaid on health service utilization among persons with HIV/AIDS in New York City pp. 80-92

Margaret Kelaher and Dorothy Jones Jessop

Developing a healthy ageing policy for Ireland: The view from below pp. 93-105

Eamon O'Shea

Low-income Canadians' experiences with health-related services: Implications for health care reform pp. 106-121

Deanna L. Williamson, Miriam J. Stewart, Karen Hayward, Nicole Letourneau, Edward Makwarimba, Jeff Masuda, Kim Raine, Linda Reutter, Irving Rootman and Douglas Wilson