Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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Volume 30, issue 1-3, 1994

Health care technology as a policy issue pp. 1-21

H. David Banta

Health care technology in Australia pp. 23-72

David Hailey

Health care technology in Canada (with special reference to Quebec) pp. 73-122

Renaldo N. Battista, Robert Jacob and Matthew J. Hodge

Health care technology in France pp. 123-162

Caroline Weill

Health care technology in the Federal Republic of Germany pp. 163-205

Stefan Kirchberger

Health care technology in the Netherlands pp. 207-255

Michael Bos

Health care technology in Sweden pp. 257-294

Egon Jonsson and H. David Banta

Health care technology in the United Kingdom pp. 295-334

Jackie Spiby

Health care technology in the United States pp. 335-396

Sean R. Tunis and Hellen Gelband

Lessons from the eight countries pp. 397-421

Renaldo N. Battista, H. David Banta, Egon Jonnson, Matthew Hodge and Hellen Gelband

Volume 29, issue 3, 1994

The role of national quality registers in the Swedish health service pp. 183-195

Peter Garpenby and Per Carlsson

Health care expenditures for the elderly and reforms in the health care system in Japan pp. 197-208

Yasuki Kobayashi

The economic consequences of malaria for households: a case-study in Nepal pp. 209-227

Anne Mills

Disability development and the structure of care: some results from simulation of an area-based system of long-term care for elderly people pp. 229-246

Marten Lagergren

The Chinese medicines market: moving towards a market system? pp. 247-259

Christine Huttin

Dangerous diagnostics. The social power of biological information: By D. Nelkin and L. Tancredi, (Eds.) The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 207 pp., 1994 ISBN 0-226-57129-7 pp. 261-262

J. J. Cassiman

Volume 29, issue 1-2, 1994

Introduction to health care reform in New Zealand pp. 1-3

George Salmond, Gavin Mooney and Miriam Laugesen

New Zealand health care: a background pp. 11-23

Miriam Laugesen and George Salmond

Reform of the New Zealand health care system pp. 25-40

Claudia D. Scott

Core services and priority-setting: the New Zealand experience pp. 41-60

Jacqueline Cumming

Shopping for health: purchasing health services through contracts pp. 61-83

Philippa Howden-Chapman and Toni Ashton

New Zealand's health providers in an emerging market pp. 85-100

Laurence Malcolm and Pauline Barnett

Disability support services and the reforms pp. 101-112

Helen Carter

The impact of the new subsidy regime in general practice in New Zealand pp. 113-125

Peter Davis, Barry Gribben, Roy Lay Lee and Brian McAvoy

Public health and the reforms: the New Zealand experience pp. 127-141

Don Bandaranayake

Maori health and the health care reforms pp. 143-156

Patricia Laing and Eru Pomare

The management of health care: a model of control pp. 157-171

Kerry Jacobs

A reflection on the New Zealand health care reforms pp. 173-182

Gavin Mooney and George Salmond

Volume 28, issue 3, 1994

The politics of health care benefits pp. 181-184

Mia Defever

Medical device regulation in Canada: direction for change pp. 185-195

Joel F. Finlay, Brian Henderson and Devidas Menon

Profitability of HMOs: does non-profit status make a difference? pp. 197-210

Herrington J. Bryce

Economic development and the health care system in Hong Kong pp. 211-234

David K. W. Chu

What future WHO? pp. 235-256

Bo Stenson and Goran Sterky

Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing quality of care for hospitalized patients with AIDS-related pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: A RAND Note. C. Bennett, C. Pindar Roth, A Iqbal, W. Lance George, D. Rodrique, M. Sherwood, S. Gilman, M. Shapiro 172 pp., 1993, RAND, Santa Monica, CA pp. 257-256

W. Peetermans

Increasing the relevance for education for health professionals. Report of a WHO Study Group on problem-solving education for the health professions: 29 pp., WHO Technical Reports Series nr. 838, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1993, Sw.fr. 8.-. ISBN 924-120838-4 pp. 257-258

Zohair Nooman

Strategic issues in health care management: Edited by M. Malek, J. Rasquinha, P. Vacani 279 pp., John Wiley pp. 258-259

M. Borowitz

Volume 28, issue 2, 1994

Hospital financing in Norway pp. 79-88

Fredrik Carlsen

Cost containment and health care reform: a study of the European Union pp. 89-132

Brian Abel-Smith and Elias Mossialos

Cost-effectiveness ratios: in a league of their own pp. 133-141

Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni

Costs and outcomes of inpatient versus outpatient hernia repair pp. 143-152

Janet B. Mitchell and Brooke Harrow

Disability transitions in an area-based system of long-term care for the elderly and disabled pp. 153-174

M. Lagergren

Health economics of depression: Edited by B. Jonsson, J. Rosenbaum (Eds.) Perspectives in Psychiatry, Volume 4, 153 pp., John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1993, [pound sign]29.95 ISBN 0-471-93746-0 pp. 175-176

Sylvia Evers

Organizing and managing tropical disease control programs. Case studies: By B. Liese, P. Sachdeva and D. Cochrane, pp. 123, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1992 Technical Paper 167 ISBN 0-8213-2086-6 pp. 176-177

Xavier Leus

Volume 28, issue 1, 1994

The cost-effectiveness of the switch towards more expensive antihypertensive drugs pp. 1-13

Magnus Johannesson

Self-referral and self-payment in Danish primary care pp. 15-22

Niels de Fine Olivarius, Frank Ingemann Jensen, Dorte Gannik and Poul A. Pedersen

Case-based hospital financing: the case of Norway pp. 23-36

Jon Magnussen and Kjell Solstad

Explaining cost variations in DRGs `Acute Myocardial Infarction' by severity of illness pp. 37-50

Gemma B. W. E. Voss, Arie Hasman, Frans Rutten, Chris de Zwaan and Jan J. Carpay

Compliance with practice guidelines: clinical autonomy revisited pp. 51-66

Niek Klazinga

Social care and HIV-AIDS: The Hull-York Research Team (Ed.) University of York, Centre for Health Economics, University of Hull, Institute for Health Studies 214 pp., HMSO Books, Norwich, ISBN 0-11-701718-3,13.70 pp. 71-69

Khut Arne Holtedahl

Tough choices, in vitro fertilization and the reproductive technologies: By P. Stephenson and M. Wagner (Eds.) Philadelphia, Temple University Press 170 pp., 1993, ISBN 1-56639-060-5, US$34.95 pp. 72-73

Henk ten Have

Guidelines for the quality assurance programmes for blood transfusion services: Geneva, World Health Organisation 50 pp., 1993, ISBN 92-4-154448-1, Sw. Fr.8.40 pp. 73-73

P. Goubau

Treatment for tuberculosis, guidelines for national programmes: Geneva, World Health Organization 43 pp., 1993, ISBN 92-4-154451-1, Sw.fr. 10.- pp. 73-74

Em. A. Gyselen

Health and function in the third age, papers prepared for the carnegie inquiry into the third age: By G. Evans, M. Goldacre, H. Hodkinson, S. Lamb and M. Savory (Eds.) Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 206 pp., 1993, ISBN 090057481 X pp. 74-75

M. Defever

Cinquante ans d'exercise de la medicine en France. Carrieres et pratiques des medicins francais 1930-1980 (Fifty years of medical practice in France. Career and practice patterns of French physicians 1930-1980): By C. Herzlich, M. Bungener, P. Paicheler, P. Roussin and M.C. Zuber (Eds.) 274 pp., Les editions INSERM, ISBN 2-85598-536-6 pp. 76-77

J. Bacou