Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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Volume 24, issue 3, 1993

Remuneration of GP services: time for more explicit objectives? A review of the systems in five industrialised countries pp. 203-212

Ivar S. Kristiansen and Gavin Mooney

Foreign medical graduates and U.S. physician supply: old issues and new questions pp. 213-225

Stephen S. Mick

The trade-off between severity of illness and treatment effect in cost-value analysis of health care pp. 227-238

Erik Nord

Central and Eastern European health care financing: report of a visit pp. 239-242

Pierre-Jean Lancry

The role of economic evaluation in setting priorities for elective surgery pp. 243-257

Joanna Coast

Pharmaceuticals and public policy: Learning from the New Zealand experience pp. 259-272

Peter Davis

Doing the splits: contracting issues in the New Zealand health service pp. 273-286

Philippa Howden-Chapman

Bad Medicine. The prescription drug industry in the third world: By M. Silverman, M. Lydecher and P. Lee Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 358 pp., 1992, ISBN 0-8047-1669-2, US$29.95 pp. 287-288

P. Lunde

The profit motive and patient care. The changing accountability of doctors and hospitals: By B. Gray Harvard University Press, London 440 pp., [pound sign]22.95 pp. 288-288

D. E. Detmer

Ethics and epidemiology: International guidelines: Proceedings of the XXVth CIOMS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland Ed. Z. Bankowski et al., CIOMS, Geneva pp. 189 + VIII, 1991, Swfr.25 pp. 289-288

P. Schotsmans

Volume 24, issue 2, 1993

Economic evaluation of osteoporosis prevention pp. 103-124

Magnus Johannesson and Bengt Jonsson

WHO under stress: Implications for health policy pp. 125-144

Gill Walt

Preliminary cost-effectiveness analysis of an AIDS vaccine in Abidjan, Ivory Coast pp. 145-153

Peter Cowley

A comparison of empirical models on determinants of infant mortality: A cross-national study on Africa pp. 155-174

Kwame P. Gbesemete and Dick Jonsson

Local variations in old age care in the welfare state: The case of Sweden pp. 175-186

Stig Berg, Laurence G. Branch, Anne Doyle and Gerdt Sundstrom

Hospital bad debt in France: Who does not pay? pp. 187-194

Isabelle Durand-Zaleski and Francois Lemaire

Local justice. How institutions allocate scarce goods and necessary burdens: By J. Elster Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press 281 pp., 1992, ISBN 0-521-43303-7, [pound sign]27.95 pp. 195-196

Stig Berg

Rationing America's medical care: The Oregon plan and beyond: By M. Strosberg, J. Wiener, R. Baker and A. Fein (Eds.) Washington, D.C., The Brookings institution 238 pp., 1992, ISBN 0-8157-8197-0, $12.95 pp. 195-194

Professor A. Dunning

For health or profit. Medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and the state in New Zealand: Edited by P. Davis, Oxford, Oxford University Press 298 pp., 1992, ISBN 0-19-558243-8, [pound sign]15.95 pp. 196-197

Kerstin Kamke

Volume 24, issue 1, 1993

The impact of aging on health care expenditure in Sweden pp. 1-8

Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Evaluating the policy role of the small area variations and physician practice style hypotheses pp. 9-17

Miron Stano

Can resident-centred inspection of nursing homes work with very sick residents? pp. 19-33

John Braithwaite and Toni Makkai

Does experience improve hospital performance in treating patients with AIDS? pp. 35-43

Charles L. Bennett and Daniel Deneffe

Unjustified use of the quality of well-being scale in priority setting in Oregon pp. 45-53

Erik Nord

The treatment and care costs of people with HIV infection or AIDS: development of a standardised cost framework for Europe pp. 55-70

Keith Tolley and Marlene Gyldmark

Doctors and resource management: incentives and goodwill pp. 71-82

Justin Keen, Martin Buxton and Tim Packwood

Regional inequalities in health and health care in Finland and Norway pp. 83-94

Reijo Salmela

Response to Essink-Bot and Bonsel's letter regarding the papers on the QLDS [Health policy 23 (1993) 265-266] pp. 95-96

Stephen P McKenna and Sonja M Hunt

Geneeskunde, recht en medisch handelen (medicine, law and medical practice): By H. Nys Brussels, E. Story-Scientia 577 pp., 1992, ISBN 90-6439-734-1, BF 5.386, -- pp. 97-96

J Gevers

Decentralization in a developing country: The experience of Papua New Guinea and its health service: Edited by J. Thomason, W. Newbrander and R. Kolehmainen-Aitken Canberra, Australia, National Centre for Development Studies, Pacific Research Monograph No 25 161 pp., 1991, ISBN 0-7315-0940-4 pp. 98-99

S. Jain

The search for rational drug control: By F. Zimring and G. Hawkins New York, Cambridge University Press 219 pp., 1992, ISBN, 0-521-41668-X, $24.95 pp. 99-99

S. Jain

Volume 23, issue 3, 1993

The UK health reforms: The fundholding experiment pp. 179-191

Howard Glennerster and Manos Matsaganis

Competition in the UK National Health Service: Mission impossible? pp. 193-204

Alan Maynard

Health for all indicators in health interview surveys pp. 205-218

Silvia M. A. A. Evers

Searching for a common currency: Critical appraisal of the scientific basis underlying European harmonization of the measurement of health related quality of life (EuroQol(c)) pp. 219-228

Amiram Gafni and Stephen Birch

Regional integration of health services in Poland -- An ambitious pilot project pp. 229-245

Cesary Wlodarczyk and Jolanta Sabbat

The economy and health pp. 247-263

Eyitayo Lambo

Letter to the editor pp. 265-266

Marie-Louise Essink-Bot and Gouke J. Bonsel

Medicare. New directions in quality assurance: By M. Donaldson, J. Harris-Wehling and K. Lohr (Eds.) Washington, D.C., National Academy Press 207 pp., 1991, ISBN 0-309-04429-4, [pound sign]21.50 pp. 267-266

A. F. Casparie

On being in charge. A guide to management in primary health care: By R. McMahon, E. Barton and M. Piot in collaboration with N. Gelina and F. Ross Geneva, World Health Organization 472 pp., 1992, ISBN 92-4-154426-0, Swfr.21,- pp. 268-269

Octavio Gomez-Dantes

Health services research. Key to health policy: By E. Ginzberg (Ed.) Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press 397 pp., 1991, ISBN 0-674-38575-6, [pound sign]31.95 pp. 269-270

F. Pinto

Genetics, ethics and human values. Human genome mapping, genetic screening and gene therapy: By Z. Bankowsld and A. Capron (Eds.) Geneva, Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) 200 pp., 1991, ISBN 92-9036-046-1, Swfr.20 pp. 270-271

P. Schotsmans

Volume 23, issue 1-2, 1993

Introduction pp. 1-5

H. David Banta

An introduction to minimally invasive therapy pp. 7-15

J. E. A. Wickham

Minimally invasive therapy in Denmark pp. 17-30

Inger Schou

Minimally invasive therapy: The French case study pp. 31-47

Caroline Weill

Minimally invasive surgery in the Federal Republic of Germany pp. 49-65

Leo Keuchel and Fritz Beske

Diffusion of minimally invasive therapy in The Netherlands pp. 67-81

Hindrik Vondeling, Enria Haerkens, Ardine de Wit, Michael Bos and H. David Banta

The development of minimally invasive therapy in the United Kingdom pp. 83-95

Bie Nio Ong

Evaluation of argon laser treatment of diabetic retinopathy and its diffusion in The Netherlands pp. 97-111

Hindrik Vondeling

Hysteroscopy: An evolving case of minimally invasive therapy in gynaecology pp. 113-124

Ardine de Wit

Diffusion of minimally invasive therapy in Europe pp. 125-133

H. David Banta and Hindrik Vondeling

The cost-effectiveness of 10 selected applications in minimally invasive therapy pp. 135-151

H. David Banta

The dynamics of innovation in minimally invasive therapy pp. 153-166

Annetine C. Gelijns and A. Mark Fendrick

Implications of minimally invasive therapy pp. 167-177

H. David Banta, Tore Schersten and Egon Jonsson