Health Policy

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Volume 42, issue 3, 1997

Comparative research and analysis methods for shared learning from health system reforms pp. 187-209

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Block

Utilisation of medical technology assessment in health policy pp. 211-222

Wim J. A. van den Heuvel, Roelof Wieringh and Lisette P. M. van den Heuvel

Willingness to pay for health insurance in a developing economy. A pilot study of the informal sector of Ghana using contingent valuation pp. 223-237

Kwadwo Asenso-okyere, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Adote Anum and Ernest N. Appiah

Healthcare access and mobility between the UK and other European Union states: an `implementation surplus' pp. 239-253

Rod Sheaff

Quality systems in Dutch health care institutions pp. 255-267

Anton F. Casparie, Emmy M. Sluijs, Cordula Wagner and Dinny H. de Bakker

Volume 42, issue 2, 1997

Under-the-counter payments for health care: Evidence from Bulgaria pp. 89-100

Evgenia Delcheva, Dina Balabanova and Martin McKee

Predictors of health care utilization in the chronically ill: a review of the literature pp. 101-115

Angela G. E. M. de Boer, Wouter Wijker and Hanneke C. J. M. de Haes

The distribution of cataract surgery services in a public health eye care program in Nepal pp. 117-133

Elliot Marseille and Richard Brand

Measuring the clinical consistency of panelists' appropriateness ratings: the case of coronary artery bypass surgery pp. 135-143

Richard L. Kravitz, Rolla Edward Park and James P. Kahan

The importance of lifestyle to self-assessed health pp. 145-155

Asa Ericsson

Association between attitudes toward health promotion and opinions regarding organ transplants in Japan pp. 157-170

Akihito Hagihara, Masayoshi Murakami, Alan S. Miller and Koichi Nobutomo

Casting the screening net: separating big fish from little fish pp. 171-184

Barbara A. Markham, Brian Hutchison, Stephen Birch, Laurie J. Goldsmith and C. Edward Evans

Volume 42, issue 1, 1997

Transaction costs economics as a conceptual framework for the analysis of barriers to the diffusion of telemedicine pp. 1-14

Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury, Valerie Fargeon, Jean-Louis Lanoe and Michele Fardeau

Waiting for coronary revascularization: A comparison between New York State, the Netherlands and Sweden pp. 15-27

Steven J. Bernstein, Henk Rigter, Bengt Brorsson, Lee H. Hilborne, Lucian L. Leape, Annejet P. Meijler, Jan K. Scholma and Ann-Sofie Nord

General practice fundholders' prescribing savings in one region of the United Kingdom, 1991-1994 pp. 29-37

Robert P. H. Wilson, Juanita Hatcher, Stuart Barton and Tom Walley

Costs and financial consequences of the changing epidemiologogical profile in Mexico pp. 39-48

Armando Arredondo

Priority setting in health care: learning from international experience pp. 49-66

Chris Ham

Effect of panel composition on physician ratings of appropriateness of abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery: elucidating differences between multispecialty panel results and specialty society recommendations pp. 67-81

Jeph Herrin, Jeff A. Etchason, James P. Kahan, Robert H. Brook and David J. Ballard

Volume 41, issue Supplement 1, 1997

Comparative experience in home care and pharmaceutical policy pp. S1-S7

Nancy M. Kane and Richard B. Saltman

The context for health reform in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and the United States pp. S9-S26

Richard B. Saltman

The management of the cost and utilisation of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom pp. S27-S43

Michael L. Burstall

Management of cost and utilization of pharmaceuticals in Germany pp. S45-S53

J. -Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg

Cost and utilisation of pharmaceuticals in Sweden pp. S55-S69

Mats-Olof Ljungkvist, David Andersson and Bo Gunnarsson

Pharmaceutical cost containment and innovation in the United States pp. S71-S89

Nancy M. Kane

Decentralisation from acute to home care settings in England pp. S91-S108

Gerald Wistow

A study on decentralizing from acute care to home care settings in Germany pp. S109-S129

Juergen Wasem

Decentralisation from acute to home care settings in Sweden pp. S131-S143

Lennarth Johansson

Managed care for the elderly in the United States: outcomes to-date and potential for future growth pp. S145-S162

Anne Doyle and Jean Masland

Assessing cost and utilization in managed mental health care in the United States pp. S163-S174

Barbara Dickey

Volume 41, issue 3, 1997

A note on prevention versus cure pp. 181-187

Magnus Johannesson and Per-Olov Johansson

Is it cost effective to introduce screening programmes for colorectal cancer? Illustrating the principles of optimal resource allocation pp. 189-199

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Cost-utility analysis and varying preferences for health pp. 201-205

Magnus Johannesson and Richard M. O'Conor

International assistance and health care reform in Poland: barriers to project development and implementation pp. 207-227

Jolanta Sabbat

The cost-effectiveness of permethrin impregnated bednets in preventing child mortality in Kassena--Nankana district of Northern Ghana pp. 229-239

Fred N. Binka, Omer A. Mensah and Anne Mills

Health policy versus industrial policy in the pharmaceutical sector: the case of Canada pp. 241-260

Michael Vandergrift and Panos Kanavos

Psychosocial cancer care: Patient Education and Counselling, Special Issue (vol. 28, no. 2), Elsevier Science, Shannon, 232 pp., 1996, ISSN 0738-3991 pp. 261-262

Ann Tanghe

Volume 41, issue 2, 1997

New Zealand policy strategies concerning the funding of general practitioner care pp. 87-104

Malcolm C. Brown and Peter Crampton

The cost-effectiveness of a cardiovascular risk reduction program in general practice pp. 105-119

Glenn Salkeld, Philayrath Phongsavan, Brian Oldenburg, Magnus Johannesson, Paula Convery, Peita Graham-Clarke, Sheila Walker and John Shaw

Reform of primary health care: the case of Spain pp. 121-137

Itziar Larizgoitia and Barbara Starfield

Physician participation in a Medicaid managed care program, the Kansas Primary Care Network pp. 139-156

Sunday E. Ubokudom

Hospital care for persons with AIDS in the European Union pp. 157-176

Maarten J. Postma, Keith Tolley, Reiner Leidl, Angela M. Downs, Eduard J. Beck, Andrea M. Tramarin, Yves A. Flori, Miguel Santin, Fernando Antonanzas, Helen Kornarou, Vasili C. C. Paparizos, Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf, Jan Borleffs, August J. P. Luijben and Johannes C. AU - Jager

Advances in the economics of aging: D. Wise (Ed.), National Bureau of Economic Research, 354 pp., The University of Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1996, ISBN 0-266-90302-8, US $65.00 pp. 177-179

C. M. Fokkema

Volume 41, issue 1, 1997

Structured pluralism: towards an innovative model for health system reform in Latin America pp. 1-36

Juan-Luis Londono and Julio Frenk

Principal-agent problems in health care systems: an international perspective pp. 37-60

Peter C. Smith, Adolf Stepan, Vivian Valdmanis and Piet Verheyen

Economic evaluations of drug therapy: attitudes of primary care prescribing advisers in Great Britain pp. 61-72

Tom Walley, Stuart Barton, Jonathan Cooke and Michael Drummond

Biotechnology: a special case for health technology assessment? pp. 73-81

James Mason and Michael Drummond

Volume 40, issue 3, 1997

Health technology assessment: Decentralized and fragmented in the US compared to other countries pp. 177-198

Seymour Perry and Mae Thamer

The role of economic evaluation in the pricing and reimbursement of medicines pp. 199-215

Michael Drummond, Bengt Jonsson and Frans Rutten

Less fog on the Tyne? Programme budgeting in Newcastle and North Tyneside pp. 217-229

Paul Miller, David Parkin, Neil Craig, David Lewis and Karen Gerard

HIV prevention in Hungary pp. 231-236

Renee Danziger

Household income and health care expenditures in Mexico pp. 237-255

Susan Parker and Rebeca Wong

The prevention of mental illness in primary care: Cambridge University Press, T. Kendrick, A. Tylee, P. Freeling, 398 pp. ISBN 0-521-57648-2 pp. 257-258

Mrs. Eydis Sveinbjarnardottir

Bull's eye or Achilles' heel: WHO's European Health for All Targets Evaluated in the Netherlands. H. van de Water, L. van Herten, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, 229 pp, 1996. ISBN 90-6743-432-9 pp. 258-260

Xavier R. Leus

Assessment of health care technologies: Case Studies, Key Concepts and Strategic Issues, A. Szczepura and J. Kankaanpaa (Eds.). John Wiley and Sons, West Sussex, 247 pp., 1996, [pound sign]24.95. ISBN 0-471-96571-5 pp. 260-261

Katrien Kesteloot

Volume 40, issue 2, 1997

Analysing changes in the nature of health service management in England pp. 91-102

Tim Packwood

The effect of fundholding on prescribing and referral costs: a review of the evidence pp. 103-114

Toby Gosden and David J. Torgerson

Regulating biotechnology: a rational-political model of policy development pp. 115-138

Mary Wiktorowicz and Raisa Deber

Health policy as a fuzzy concept: Methodological problems encountered when evaluating health policy reforms in an international perspective pp. 139-155

Madelon W. Kroneman and Jouke van der Zee

Choice and participation in the health services: a survey of preferences among swedish residents pp. 157-168

Anders Anell, Per Rosen and Catharina Hjortsberg

Doctor's health and need for services: A Study by the Department of Public Health Medicine UMDS St. Thomas's Campus. C. McKevitt, M. Morgan, J. Simpson, W. Holland, 61 pp., The Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust, London, 1996, ISBN 0900574-94-1 pp. 169-170a

A. J. Dunning

Taking care of doctors' health, reducing avoidable stress and improving health services for doctors who fall III: 35 pp., The Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust, London, 1996, ISBN 0-900574-95-X pp. 169-170b

A. J. Dunning

Slee's health care terms. Third comprehensive edition: Edited by V. Slee, D. Slee and H. Schimdt. Tringa Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, ISBN 0-9615255-8-4, pp. 655, $49.95 pp. 170-170

Mia Defever

Market mechanisms and the health sector in Central and Eastern Europe: A. Preker, R. Feachem. A World Bank Technical Paper No. 293, 48 pp., The World Bank, Washington DC, 1996, ISSN 0253-7494 pp. 171-172

Mr. Pierre-Jean Lancry

Volume 40, issue 1, 1997

Patients' willingness to pay for autologous blood donation pp. 1-12

Stephanie J. Lee, Peter J. Neumann, W. Hallowell Churchill, Marie E. Cannon, Milton C. Weinstein and Magnus Johannesson

Future health scenarios as a tool in the surveillance of unintentional injuries pp. 13-28

Eduard F. van Beeck and Johan P. Mackenbach

Evaluation of provision and availability of health care services in Iran: a human rights approach pp. 29-41

Ahmad Besarati Nia and Raj Kumar Bansal

Does budget-holding have a long-term effect on expenditure, staff and patients? pp. 43-67

Revital Gross and Nurit Nirel

After compulsory licensing: coming issues in Canadian pharmaceutical policy and politics pp. 69-80

Joel Lexchin

Social dimensions of adjustment. World bank experience, 1980-1993: C.A.B. Jayarajah, W.H. Branson, B. Sen. A World Bank Operations Evaluation Study. 218 pp., The World Bank, Washington DC, 1996, US$ 13.95 ISBN 0-8213-3610-X pp. 83-84

J. F. Wendte