Showing papers in "Health Policy in 2012"

TL;DR: It is revealed that welfare regimes may be an important determinant of employment-related health, and Scandinavian welfare states in particular report better or equal health status when compared to their permanent counterparts.

TL;DR: The objectives of this paper are to better understand the concept and its evolution in the healthcare sector, to propose an operational definition, and to describe some French and international experiences of benchmarking in the Healthcare sector.

TL;DR: It is essential that in such a period of public funding constraints health authorities monitor incidence of diseases and access to care of the most vulnerable groups and specifically target interventions to those who may be disproportionally hit by the crisis.

TL;DR: It is as yet too early to draw firm conclusions regarding their effectiveness, but more rigorous evaluation studies are necessary to determine what constitutes best care for the increasing number of people with multiple chronic conditions.

TL;DR: The model used in Denmark ensured involvement and cooperation between bureaucrats, health professionals and politicians and afterwards a successful national implementation of the Cancer Patient Pathways has significantly reduced waiting times and is thought to increase survival.

TL;DR: The present study showed the relevance of the provider's ability to acknowledge the active role of the patient as an informed, involved and interactive partner in the treatment process in the highly specialized treatment process of rare diseases.

TL;DR: There is great potential for the ICCC Framework to serve as a road map for transformation, with its special emphasis on integration, and on the role of the community and of a positive political environment.

TL;DR: There is little policy evaluation to determine which pro-generic policies increase generic medicines utilization in LMICs, with only 10 evaluation studies looking at the impact of competition, trade, pricing and prescribing policies on generic medicine price and/or volume.

TL;DR: Nudging, or libertarian paternalism, is presented as a new and ethically justified way of improving people's health and has proved influential and is currently taken up by the governments in the US, the UK and France.

TL;DR: EPR is a widely used pricing policy in Europe and is still actively used as well as adjusted by national authorities, however, there is room for improvement by implementing more detailed legislations in terms of the revision of prices and by identifying alternative countries in case a product is not on the market.

TL;DR: The analysis of migrant health policies in Europe is still in its infancy and there is an urgent need to monitor the implementation and evaluate the effectiveness of these diverse policies.

TL;DR: This study showed that DPC/PDPS was associated with reduced resource usage, but not improved healthcare quality, as with DRG/PPSs in other countries.

TL;DR: Comparing the levels of stress, depression, and intention to leave among clinical nurses employed in different medical units in relation to their demographic characteristics under the National Health Insurance (NHI) System in Taiwan indicated significant differences existed among various medical units.

TL;DR: It is suggested that SSB or soft drink taxation policy may be more effective in reducing obesity prevalence where existing obesity prevalence and soft drink consumption levels are high, and in countries where the baseline tax rate is already considered high.

TL;DR: Results suggest that open innovation practices in health care lead to interesting innovation outcomes and are well accepted by participants, and analysis of communication content shows that empathic support and exchange of information are important elements of communication on the platform.

TL;DR: A cybernetic model of leadership and governance comprising three fundamental functions: priority setting, performance monitoring and accountability arrangements is presented, concluding that a judicious mix of accountability mechanisms is likely to be appropriate in most settings.

TL;DR: Universal income-based catastrophic coverage appears to be emerging as an implicit national standard for provincial pharmacare, but convergence on this model does not equate to substantial progress towards expanding coverage or reducing interprovincial disparities.

TL;DR: The evidence from Germany suggests that private ownership is not necessarily associated with higher efficiency compared to public ownership, which may be a surprising result to many policy makers as private for-profit hospitals are often perceived the most efficient ownership type by the public.

TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to convey the specific health care actions and policies undertaken by the Spanish government, as well as by regional governments, as a result of the economic crisis and to argue that there are a number of factors which have been neglected in the discourse and in the actions undertaken.

TL;DR: This literature review argues that research on health policy actors and healthcare systems need to be separated more thoroughly and suggests that concentrating not only on actors and institutions but also on outcomes is theoretically valuable, practically feasible, and policy relevant.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed how far current data collection systems in the European Union (EU) allow to monitor migrant health and found that most EU member states lack information on the health of migrants, limiting the possibility for monitoring and improving migrant health.

TL;DR: Changes on user charges in the Portuguese NHS were substantial (roughly doubling their previous levels) although exemptions also expanded considerably the fraction of the population that is not required to pay user charges.

TL;DR: To identify diverging HTA recommendations across five countries, understand the rationale for decision-making in specific therapeutic categories, and suggest ways forward to minimize these inter-country differences, a comparative analysis of HTARecommendations for 287 drug-indication pairs appraised by five countries between 2007 and 2009 is conducted.

TL;DR: In reviewing the literature, it is concluded that it is unclear what the evidence suggests about the reasons for health inequalities as well as the best possible instruments to measure both inequality and socioeconomic health gradients.

TL;DR: Having correct understanding and having experience were significantly associated with willingness to accept generic drug substitution and doctors' and pharmacists' attitudes towards substitution recommendation.

TL;DR: This paper presents a framework for the health system with health workers at the core, which is useful for structuring research on the health workforce and for identifying health-worker research issues.

TL;DR: The results seemed to indicate that in hospitals where the culture promotes stability, control and goal setting, patient uncertainty is reduced and a culture of stability can better sustain a desired outcome of reform or implementation of new care models such as person centered care.

TL;DR: It is revealed that there are only a few rigorous studies which assess the effectiveness of a strategy to implement clinical guidelines in Europe, and the results are not consistent in showing which strategy is the most appropriate to facilitate their implementation.

TL;DR: The estimated Canadian shortage of RNs based on current circumstances can be resolved in the short to medium tern through modest improvements in RN retention, activity and productivity.

TL;DR: It is indicated that there is considerable scope for improvement in the methods used to develop clinical guidelines for the prevention, management and treatment of chronic diseases in Europe.