Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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Volume 10, issue 3, 1988

Quality of life pp. 215-216

G. L. Engel and J. Bergsma

Quantitative issues in health-related quality of life assessment pp. 217-230

Neil K. Aaronson

Research into quality of life: a qualitative approach in the evaluation of a liver transplant programme pp. 231-240

Tj. Tymstra, J. W. Heyink, J. Roorda, C. M. A. Bijleveld, C. H. Gips and M. J. H. Slooff

Role of quality of life in therapeutic strategies in brain tumors pp. 241-257

Pirjo Koivukangas and John Koivukangas

Life: quality, value and justice pp. 259-266

John Harris

Quality of life: does measurement help? pp. 267-279

J. Bergsma and G. L. Engel

Volume 10, issue 2, 1988

Rural community hospital closure and health policy pp. 123-135

Ross M. Mullner and David G. Whiteis

Cost of illness studies: no aid to decision making? Reply to Shiell et al. (Health Policy, 8 (1987) 317-323) pp. 137-141

Cornelia Behrens and Klaus-Dirk Henke

DRGs U.K. style: a comparison of U.K. and U.S. policies for hospital cost containment and their implications for health status pp. 143-154

Stephen Birch

The Swedish medical care programs: an interim assessment pp. 155-176

Leslie Pine, Urban Rosenqvist, Marilynn M. Rosenthal and Francine Shapiro

El Salvador's Ministry of Health, 1975-1986: a provisional performance assessment pp. 177-206

John L. Fiedler

Health and deprivation. Inequality and the North: by P. Townsend, P. Phillimore and A. Beattie (eds.) Croom Helm Ltd, London, 1987 221 pp., ISBN 0-7099-4352-0, [pound sign]8.95 pp. 207-206

J. P. Mackenbach

Controversy about american hospitals. Funding, ownership and performance: by J.R. Hollingsworth and E.J. Hollingsworth American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington D.C., 1987 160 pp., ISBN 0-8477-3637-6, $24.75 pp. 208-206

C. W. Neumann

Health, knowledge and the demand for medical care: by E.K. Van Doorslaer Van Gorcum, Assen, 1987 171 pp., ISBN 90-232-2335-7, Dfl. 29.00 pp. 209-210

P. Zweifel

Volume 10, issue 1, 1988

Treating AIDS: the economic issues pp. 1-19

Michael Drummond and Linda Davies

A change of direction in the Dutch health care system? pp. 21-32

Ruud M. Lapre

A note on nutrition and economics pp. 33-39

Darrel P. Doessel

The de-institutionalization of care of the elderly: some notes about implementation and outcome of a Swedish case-study pp. 41-56

Mats Thorslund

Long-term institutional care or home care? What is the best solution for the Canton of Vaud? pp. 57-63

Bernard Bachelard and Gerald Tinturier

A three-tiered health system and its inherent cost inflation: the case of medical care inflation in Chile 1979-1983 pp. 65-76

Joseph L. Scarpaci and Douglas D. Bradham

Undergraduate medical education in Indonesia and its relevance for the needs of primary health care services pp. 77-109

Peter J. Blizard

Sante mon cher souci: By B. Majnoni-d'Itignano ed. Economica, Paris, 1987 130 pp., 25.00 FF pp. 115-116

J. P. Poullier

Personal data protection in health and social services: By P. Pearce, P. Parsloe, H. Francis, A. Macara and D. Watson Croom Helm Ltd Publishers, London, 1988 134 pp., [pound sign]19.95 pp. 116-117

F. H. Roger

Medicaid and pediatric primary care: By J. Perloff, P. Kletke and K. Neckerman The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1988 190 pp., $33.00 pp. 117-119

M. Young

Technology assessment and new kidney stone treatment methods: by F. Kamper-Jorgensen, S. Challah and T. Folmer Andersen (eds.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988 189 pp., [pound sign]25.00 pp. 119-120

D. Banta

Cost management for hospitals: by J. Nackel, G. Kis and P. Fenaroli Aspen Publishers Inc., Rockville, MD, 1987 263 pp pp. 120-121

F. H. Roger

Volume 9, issue 3, 1988

Preface pp. 239-122

Christian Dutreil

The aims and methods of technology assessment pp. 241-250

Jay H. Glasser

Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of health services: the methodology and its application pp. 251-265

A. Griffiths

Medical technology assessment: adequate questions, appropriate methods, valuable answers pp. 267-276

Jay H. Glasser and Richard S. Chrzanowski

Importance of databases for technology assessment pp. 277-284

Harald Hansluwka, Richard S. Chrzanowski, Felix Gutzwiller and Fred Paccaud

Study design for technology assessment: critical issues pp. 285-296

Richard S. Chrzanowski and Fred Paccaud

A perspective on ethical issues in technology assessment pp. 297-300

Stanley J. Reiser

Skull radiography in head trauma: a successful case of technology assessment pp. 301-307

N. T. Racoveanu

Economic considerations in technology assessment: the case of genetic disease pp. 309-315

D. R. Lairson and J. M. Swint

Technology assessment in health care: the U.S. perspective pp. 317-324

Seymour Perry

Examples of the influence of evaluation on health policy pp. 325-330

Pierre Durieux, Catherine Viens-Bitker, Dominique Jolly and Claudine Blum-Boisgard

The implications of a national study of risk of anaesthesia pp. 331-336

L. Tiret, F. Hatton, J. M. Desmonts and G. Vourc'h

Technology assessment policy: top down or bottom up? pp. 337-339

Joel J. Nobel

Technology assessment at the French National Centre for hospital equipment pp. 341-347

Jean Claude Stephan

WHO concept on health technology assessment pp. 349-351

Kirsten Staehr Johansen

Volume 9, issue 2, 1988

The impact of DRGs on the cost and quality of health care in the United States pp. 117-131

Carolyne K. Davis and Deborah J. Rhodes

DRGs as a basis for prospective payment pp. 157-165

Miriam M. Wiley

Study of cost by type of diagnosis in Switzerland pp. 167-175

Mahesh Patel, Alain Mottaz, Thierry Blanc and Luc Schenker

Prospects for using DRGs in Swedish hospitals pp. 177-192

Stefan Hakansson, Eric Paulson and Kaj Kogeus

DRGs and documentation: the information problem pp. 193-204

Francis H. Roger

DRGs: evaluating the experience pp. 205-210

Linda Jenkins

Concurrent clinical review: using microcomputer-based DRG-software pp. 211-217

D. Huertas-Portocarrero, P. Perez Ruiz and J. P. Serna Marmol

Economic appraisal of health technology in the european community: by M.F. Drummond (Ed.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987 265 pp., ISBN 0-19-261634-X, [pound sign]30.00 pp. 227-229

A. T. Ghelijns

Paying the hospital. The organization, dynamics and effects of differing financial arrangements: by W.A. Glaser Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, 1987 483 pp., ISBN 1-55542-048-6, $45.00 pp. 229-231

M. Wiley

Medicare at maturity: Achievements, lessons and challenges: by R.G. Evans and G.L. Stoddart (Eds.) University of Calgary Press, Calgary Alberta, 1987 480 pp., ISBN 0-919813-35-6, $24.95 pp. 231-232

M. Bas

Measurement in health promotion and protection: by T. Abelin, Z.J. Brzezinski and V.D. Carstrairs (Eds.) WHO regional publications, Copenhagen, 1987 658 pp., ISBN 92-1113-0, Sw.fr. 80.00 pp. 232-233

S. Hunt

Vitamin a supplementation: Methodologies for field trials: by the National Research Council National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1987 91 pp pp. 234-235

H. Kigutha

Malnutrition. What can be done? Lessons from world bank experience: by A. Berg the Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1987 139 pp., ISBN 0-8018-3553, $10.95 pp. 234-233

H. Kigutha

Radiation and health: The biological effects of low-level exposure to ionizing radiation: by R. Russell Jones and R. Southwood (Eds.) John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, Sussex, 1987 292 pp., ISBN 0-471-91674-9, [pound sign]19.95 pp. 235-237

W. F. Passchier

Volume 9, issue 1, 1988

Social perception of AIDS in the general public: a French study pp. 1-8

J. P. Moatti, L. Manesse, C. Le Gales, J. P. Pages and F. Fagnani

Rising medical costs and the reform of Japan's health insurance system pp. 9-24

Mitsuru Fujii and Michael R. Reich

Training health services managers: improving health by more health economics? pp. 25-37

Reiner Leidl

The cost of diabetes in France pp. 39-48

A. Triomphe, Y. A. Flori, D. Costagliola and E. Eschwege

Aging in the 21st century: projections, personal preferences, public policies - a consumer view pp. 49-58

Anne R. Somers

Efficiency in the National Health Service: lessons from abroad pp. 59-74

Michael Drummond and Alan Maynard

Economic analysis of an immunosuppressive strategy in renal transplantation pp. 75-89

T. Schneider, F. Fagnani, J. L. Lanoe, M. Hourmant and J. P. Soulillou

Cost-effectiveness prospects of picture archiving and communication systems pp. 91-101

Robert Hindel and Walter Preger

Medical care medical costs. The search for a health insurance policy: by R. Fein Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986 240 pp., $22.95 pp. 109-110

A. Ron

DRGs and health care. The management of case mix: by M. Bardsley, J. Coles and L. Jenkins (eds.) Oxford University Press for King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Oxford, 1987 244 pp., [pound sign]30.00 pp. 110-111

F. Paccaud

The demographics of physician supply: Trends and projections: by the Center for Health Policy Research American Medical Association, Chicago, 1987 i-ix, 1-62 pp. 111-112

S. S. Mick

Perspectives on health policy: Australia, New Zealand, United States: by M. Raffel and N. Raffel (eds.) John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, U.K., 1987 292 pp., [pound sign]27.50 pp. 113-114

M. Liveris and D. Boldy