Showing papers in "Health Policy in 2011"

TL;DR: Despite three decades of research, no published estimate of the cost of developing a drug can be considered a gold standard and studies on this topic should be subjected to reasonable audit and disclosure of the drugs which authors purport to provide development cost estimates for.

TL;DR: User fee alleviation secured equitable access to care across socio-economic groups, but alone did not ensure that all women benefited from ANC and from skilled attendance at birth.

TL;DR: Amenable mortality continues to fall across high-income nations although the USA is lagging increasingly behind other high income countries, and remains a useful indicator to monitor progress of nations.

TL;DR: The social determinants of health (SDH) represent the next frontier for reducing health inequalities, a point reinforced by the work of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health.

TL;DR: Promising results indicate that MHI has had a strong positive impact on access to health care and can continue to improve health of Rwandans even more if its limitations are addressed further.

TL;DR: To improve access, policy makers should improve public sector provision of care, increase health insurance coverage, and expand medicines benefit policies in health insurance systems.

TL;DR: The key recommendations from this paper are for more evidence to be collected at the country and international level, and for countries to consider trade in health services from a bi-lateral rather than multi- lateral perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of income as a key socioeconomic status marker in accounting for the increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) was highlighted. But, the authors did not examine the association between income and prevalence of T2DM.

TL;DR: Results suggest that prominent health warnings with graphic pictures will reduce demand for cigarettes, and regulators should not only consider this type of warning label, but also plain packaging policies for tobacco products.

TL;DR: The empirical analysis suggest that firearms regulations which function to reduce overall gun availability have a significant deterrent effect on male suicide, while regulations that seek to prohibit high risk individuals from owning firearms have a lesser effect.

TL;DR: The government's recent efforts to emphasize the significance of community healthcare services in China have started to change patterns of healthcare use, but many problems still inhibit the development of CHOs, including unsustainable governmental roles, issues of human resource inadequacy and laggard GP practice, poorly designed payment schemes, patient's trust crisis and continue to inhibit theDevelopment of community-based primary care.

TL;DR: The results suggest that despite several years of primary care reform, current performance remains poor and a quality and accountability framework for community health service is needed so that increased funding can produce a strong foundation for China's health system.

TL;DR: Although it is widely believed that disease management programs reduce healthcare expenditures, the present study shows that evidence for this claim is still inconclusive and well-designed economic evaluations should be stimulated.

TL;DR: Patient satisfaction could prove a useful right to health indicator, as developed in the General Comment 14/2000 of the ICESCR.

TL;DR: The criteria represent a pluralistic combination of needs-based, maximizing and egalitarian principles, and a methodology for deriving the weights for criteria related to technologies' 'benefits' is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that health workers are involved in 'rent-seeking' activities, such as creating artificial shortages and deliberately lowering the quality of service, in order to extract extra payments from patients or to bargain for a higher share of the payments received by their colleagues.

TL;DR: The issues raised in this paper should assist researchers in developing and conducting systematic reviews with the involvement of the public.

TL;DR: The ACG System for characterizing multimorbidity is the only widely used method that is based on combinations of different TYPES of diagnoses over time, rather than the presence or absence of particular conditions or numbers of conditions.

TL;DR: Policy implementation gaps of user fees plus exemptions and health insurance in providing financial access to primary clinical care for children under five in Ghana are examined to find policies that do not take into account the incentives for frontline worker adherence and align them better with policy objectives may experience implementation gaps.

TL;DR: In opportunistic programmes, differences in participation across socio-economic groups are evident in respect of both breast and cervical cancer screening, which may have implications for treatment and outcomes across socioeconomic groups.

TL;DR: The public awareness program on generic drugs should be expanded to include more detailed information so that patients obtain the correct understanding of generic substitution and provide the correct information to patients.

TL;DR: In their efforts to secure improvement in a neglected field UK policymakers have unleashed a torrent of top-down actions, and attention needs to be paid to constructing strong, system-wide, partnerships and to examining the cumulative impact of policy actions.

TL;DR: Key among them is improved monitoring and evaluation of NCD programs and the development of nationally representative NCD surveillance data which includes prevalence and associated risk factors.

TL;DR: This paper aims to review and critically discuss findings on the subject of dual practice effects for the public health care and investigates how the dual practitioners divide labour between the two jobs, and analyses the costs of enforcing restrictions on dual practice.

TL;DR: A general theme across all national procurement systems was a focus on cost-containment, but like other areas of technology policy, basing purchasing decisions on a broader range of criteria, such as quality and health outcomes, might better allow governments to achieve value for money and support patient access to beneficial innovations.

TL;DR: It can be concluded that the policy can work, but the features of the programs have to be well-thought-out, and some problems allied with the policy and the effects in the long term are still unclear.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that significant and substantial primary health care cost savings may be associated with greater participation in land management activities, in addition to the market and non-market economic benefits of a healthier population and environmental benefits.

TL;DR: This study proposes a multi-criteria decision-making approach with grey incidence analysis to measure horizontal equity of health care resource allocation of the NHI in Taiwan, in which payment for health care suppliers can be adopted as an efficient strategy to induce the disparity of resource allocation.

TL;DR: Schools need support from their environment not only in building resources but also in taking the important step of institutionalising HP into their core and management processes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that advocacy and public health education is effective in increasing the commitment of policymakers to provide resources for implementing evidence-based maternal and child health services in Nigeria.