Health Policy

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Volume 75, issue 3, 2006

Representation strategies in public participation in health policy: The Aboriginal Community Health Council pp. 243-250

Darryl Quantz and Wilfreda E. Thurston

Moral hazard or realised access to care?: Empirical observations in Hong Kong pp. 251-261

Irene Oi Ling Wong, Wai-Sum Chan, Sarah Choi, Su-Vui Lo and Gabriel Matthew Leung

The inequity of informal payments for health care: The case of Hungary pp. 262-271

Agota Szende and Anthony Culyer

The cost to health services of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection among tuberculosis patients in Sudan pp. 272-279

A.I. El-Sony

Principles and indicators of successful consumer involvement in NHS research: Results of a Delphi study and subgroup analysis pp. 280-297

Jonathan Boote, Rosemary Barber and Cindy Cooper

The impact of population ageing on future Danish drug expenditure pp. 298-311

Helle Wallach Kildemoes, Terkel Christiansen, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen and Morten Andersen

Impoverishment and patients' "willingness" and "ability" to pay for improving the quality of health care in Palestine: An assessment using the contingent valuation method pp. 312-328

Awad Mataria, Rita Giacaman, Rana Khatib and Jean-Paul Moatti

Estimated prevalence of osteoporosis from a Nationwide Health Insurance database in Taiwan pp. 329-337

Nan-Ping Yang, Chung-Yeh Deng, Yiing-Jenq Chou, Po-Quang Chen, Ching-Heng Lin, Pesus Chou and Hong-Jen Chang

Paper tigers--Do clinical guidelines improve health care quality in patients with testicular germ cell tumors in Germany? pp. 338-346

Mark Schrader, Wei[ss]bach, Lothar, Steffen Weikert, Martin Schostak and Kurt Miller

Economic stability and health status: Evidence from East Asia before and after the 1990s economic crisis pp. 347-357

Sandra Hopkins

The health workforce: Managing the crisis ethical international recruitment of health professionals: will codes of practice protect developing country health systems? pp. 358-367

Tim Martineau and Annie Willetts

Volume 75, issue 2, 2006

Suitability of the health and social care resources for persons requiring long-term care in Spain: An empirical approach pp. 121-130

Jorge Garces, Francisco Rodenas and Vicente Sanjose

Factors associated with health care utilization by the elderly in a public health care system pp. 131-139

C. Fernandez-Olano, J.D. Lopez-Torres Hidalgo, R. Cerda-Diaz, M. Requena-Gallego, C. Sanchez-Castano, L. Urbistondo-Cascales and A. Otero-Puime

Household health-seeking behaviour in Khartoum, Sudan: The willingness to pay for public health services if these services are of good quality pp. 140-158

Khalid Habbani, Wim Groot and Izabela Jelovac

Drug treatment disparities among Hispanic drug-using women in Puerto Rico and New York City pp. 159-169

Rafaela Rivera Robles, Tomas David Matos, Sherry Deren, Hector Manuel Colon, Hardeo Sahai, Carmen Amalia Marrero, Juan Carlos Reyes, Jonny Andia and Elizabeth Winfield Shepard

Self-medication and health insurance coverage in Mexico pp. 170-177

Jose A. Pagan, Sara Ross, Jeffrey Yau and Daniel Polsky

Life expectancy and health care expenditures: A new calculation for Germany using the costs of dying pp. 178-186

Friedrich Breyer and Stefan Felder

Future costs for long-term care: Cost projections for long-term care for older people in the United Kingdom pp. 187-213

Martin Karlsson, Les Mayhew, Robert Plumb and Ben Rickayzen

Optimising health care within given budgets: Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in different regions of Sweden pp. 214-229

Emil Lofroth, Lars Lindholm, Lars Wilhelmsen and Mans Rosen

Quality management systems and clinical outcomes in Dutch nursing homes pp. 230-240

Cordula Wagner, Karen Klein Ikkink, Gerrit van der Wal, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Dinny Herman de Bakker and Peter Paulus Groenewegen

Volume 75, issue 1, 2005

Healthcare reform involving the introduction of user fees and drug revolving funds: influence on health workers' behavior in southeast Nigeria pp. 1-8

Benjamin Uzochukwu and Obinna Onwujekwe

Deregulating the pharmacy market: the case of Iceland and Norway pp. 9-17

Anders Anell

Out-of-pocket payments and utilization of health care services in Albania: Evidence from three districts pp. 18-39

David Richards Hotchkiss, Paul Lawrence Hutchinson, Altin Malaj and Andres Alejandro Berruti

Medical decision-making for seriously ill non-elderly and elderly patients pp. 40-48

Astrid M. Vrakking, Agnes van der Heide, Johannes J.M. van Delden, Caspar W.N. Looman, Michelle H. Visser and Paul J. van der Maas

Effective financing of maternal health services: A review of the literature pp. 49-58

Tim Ensor and Jeptepkeny Ronoh

Feasibility first: Developing public performance indicators on patient safety and clinical effectiveness for Dutch hospitals pp. 59-73

Marc Berg, Yvonne Meijerink, Marit Gras, Anne Goossensen, Wim Schellekens, Jan Haeck, Marjon Kallewaard and Herre Kingma

Closing the youth access gap: The projected health benefits and cost savings of a national policy to raise the legal smoking age to 21 in the United States pp. 74-84

Sajjad Ahmad

Cost-effectiveness of an active implementation strategy for the Dutch physiotherapy guideline for low back pain pp. 85-98

Margreet Hoeijenbos, Trudy Bekkering, Leida Lamers, Erik Hendriks, Maurits van Tulder and Marc Koopmanschap

Income in large residential areas and premature mortality in six countries of the European Union pp. 99-108

Enrique Regidor, Lourdes Lostao, Cruz Pascual, David Martinez, M Elisa Calle and Vicente Dominguez

Strategic opportunities in the oversight of the U.S. hospital accreditation system pp. 109-115

Maurice Moffett, Robert O. Morgan and Carol M. Ashton

Volume 74, issue 3, 2005

European prices of newly launched reimbursable pharmaceuticals - a pilot study pp. 235-246

Jaana Martikainen, Ismo Kivi and Ismo Linnosmaa

Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh: spatial mitigation planning with GIS and public participation pp. 247-260

M. Manzurul Hassan

Converging patterns in hospital organization: beyond the professional bureaucracy pp. 261-281

Federico Lega and Carlo DePietro

Case-mix payment in Japanese medical care pp. 282-286

Shinichi Okamura, Ryota Kobayashi and Tetsuo Sakamaki

The cost of epidemiological transition: A study of a decrease in pertussis vaccination coverage pp. 287-303

Dorota Zdanowska Girard

Economic evaluation of HIV treatments: The I.CO.N.A. cohort study pp. 304-313

Monica Merito, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni, Gianluca Baio, Claudio Arici, Antonella D'Arminio Monforte, Patrizio Pezzotti, Dario Corsini, Andrea Tramarin, Roberto Cauda, Vincenzo Colangeli and Giuseppe Pastore

What happened to the care of older persons in Sweden?: A retrospective analysis based upon simulation model calculations, 1985-2000 pp. 314-324

Marten Lagergren

Whither care of older persons in Sweden?--a prospective analysis based upon simulation model calculations, 2000-2030 pp. 325-334

Marten Lagergren

Ambulatory care visits and quality of care: does the volume-control policy matter? pp. 335-342

Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh, Ying-Ying Lo and Thomas T.H. Wan

Equity in health care prioritisation: An empirical inquiry into social value pp. 343-355

Elly A. Stolk, Stefan J. Pickee, Andre H.J.A. Ament and Jan J.V. Busschbach

Volume 74, issue 2, 2005

Characteristics of psychiatric hospitals associated with length of stay in Japan pp. 115-121

Hirohisa Imai, Jun Hosomi, Hiroyuki Nakao, Hiromasa Tsukino, Takahiko Katoh, Toshihiro Itoh and Takahiko Yoshida

Implementing WHO DOTS strategy in the Russian Federation: stakeholder attitudes pp. 122-132

Rifat A. Atun, Juan Baeza, Francis Drobniewski, Vera Levicheva and Richard J. Coker

Health care reform and change in public-private mix of financing: a Korean case pp. 133-145

Hyoung-Sun Jeong

Cost-effectiveness analysis in relation to budgetary constraints and reallocative restrictions pp. 146-156

Eddy Adang, Leo Voordijk, Gert Jan van der Wilt and Andre Ament

When being `tired of living' plays an important role in a request for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide: patient characteristics and the physician's decision pp. 157-166

Mette L. Rurup, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide and Gerrit van der Wal

The "unexpected" growth of the private health sector in Greece pp. 167-180

Yannis Tountas, Panagiota Karnaki, Elpida Pavi and Kyriakos Souliotis

The economics of non-attendance and the expected effect of charging a fine on non-attendees pp. 181-191

Mickael Bech

State policy affecting pain management: recent improvements and the positive impact of regulatory health policies pp. 192-204

Aaron M. Gilson, Martha A. Maurer and David E. Joranson

An exploration of the social stigma of tuberculosis in five "municipios" of Nicaragua to reflect on local interventions pp. 205-217

Jean Macq, Alejandro Solis, Guillermo Martinez, Patrick Martiny and Bruno Dujardin

Changes in the utilization of diagnostic codes in neonatology following the introduction of activity-based financing pp. 218-223

Thor Willy Ruud Hansen

Implication of socio-economic status on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Greek adults: the ATTICA study pp. 224-232

Yannis Manios, Dimosthenis Panagiotakos, Christos Pitsavos, Evangelos Polychronopoulos and Christodoulos Stefanadis

Volume 74, issue 1, 2005

Explicit rationing of elective services: implementing the New Zealand reforms pp. 1-12

Kevin Dew, Jacqueline Cumming, Deborah McLeod, Sonya Morgan, Eileen McKinlay, Anthony Dowell and Tom Love

Why do health and social care providers co-operate? pp. 13-23

Arno van Raak, Aggie Paulus and Ingrid Mur-Veeman

Inequity in the price of physician activity across surgical procedures pp. 24-38

Kenshi Hayashida and Yuichi Imanaka

Hepatitis A and B seropositivity among medical students pp. 39-45

Serkan Oncu, Selcen Oncu and Serhan Sakarya

Comparison of cost accounting methods from different DRG systems and their effect on health care quality pp. 46-55

Jan Eric Leister and Jurgen Stausberg

Understanding the structure and practices of research ethics committees through research and audit: a study from Mexico pp. 56-68

Edith Valdez-Martinez, Bernardo Trumbull, Juan Garduno-Espinosa and John David Henley Porter

The effect of the market opening on trends in smoking rates in Taiwan pp. 69-76

Chih Cheng Hsu, David Theodore Levy, Chi Pang Wen, Ting Yuan Cheng, Shan Pou Tsai, Ted Chen, Michael P. Eriksen and Chen Chun Shu

Can we estimate the `social' value of a QALY?: Four core issues to resolve pp. 77-84

Richard D. Smith and Jeff Richardson

Process utility from providing informal care: the benefit of caring pp. 85-99

Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel, Bernard van den Berg, Geertruidis A.M. van den Bos and Marc A. Koopmanschap

Gender role and child health care utilization in Nepal pp. 100-109

Subhash Pokhrel, Rachel Snow, Hengjin Dong, Budi Hidayat, Steffen Flessa and Rainer Sauerborn

Corrigendum to "Decision makers' views on health care objectives and budget constraints: results from a pilot study" [Health Policy 70 (2004) 33-48] pp. 109-111

Maiwenn J. Al, Talitha Feenstra and Werner Brouwer