Stephen Birch

TL;DR: The neighbourhood and associational involvement relationships with health were not dependent upon one another, suggesting that neighbourhood of residence did not help to explain the positive health effects of this particular measure of social capital.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework that defines access to health care as the empowerment of an individual to use health care and as a multidimensional concept based on the interaction (or degree of fit) between health care systems and individuals, households, and communities is presented.

TL;DR: The existing evidence suggests that acupuncture may play a role in the treatment of knee OA and future research should define an optimal acupuncture treatment, measure quality of life, and assess acupuncture combined with other modalities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the theoretical foundations of cost-effectiveness and cost utility analyses and the validity of the decision rules adopted as methods of achieving the stated goals and show that although applications of the techniques can be used to pursue some managerial objectives in the context of highly constrained environments, such applications are inconsistent with both welfare economic objectives and the interpretations of these applications.

TL;DR: It is argued that the threshold value provides no useful information for determining the efficiency of using available resources to support new health care programs, and there is 'silence of the lambda' with respect to justification of the value of ICER thresholds.