What happens at the end of life? Using linked administrative health data to understand healthcare usage in the last year of life in New Zealand
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Source: Health Policy - May 25, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Richard Hamblin, Nikolai Minko, Carl Shuker, Jennifer Hill, Alan F. Merry Source Type: research
Influence of municipal policy and individual characteristics on the use of informal and formal domestic help in the Netherlands
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Source: Health Policy - May 24, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Anna Maria Marangos, Geeke Waverijn, Mirjam de Klerk, Jurjen Iedema, Peter P. Groenewegen Source Type: research
Improving the forecasting of hospital services: a comparison between projections and actual utilization of hospital services
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Source: Health Policy - May 24, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Nicolas Bouckaert, Koen Van den Heede, Carine Van de Voorde Source Type: research
Sl áintecare – A ten-year plan to achieve universal healthcare in Ireland
On 30 May 2017, an Irish cross-party parliamentary committee published the ‘Houses of the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare Sláintecare report’ [1]. The report known as ‘Sláintecare’ was a ‘unique and historic opportunity for TDs (the Irish term for members of parliament) from across the political spectrum to come together to develop consensus on a long-term policy direction for Ireland’s healthcare system’ P4 [1]. (Source: Health Policy)
Source: Health Policy - May 22, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Burke, Sarah Barry, Rikke Siersbaek, Bridget Johnston, Maebh N í Fhallúin, Steve Thomas Tags: Health reform monitor Source Type: research
Universal coverage reforms in the USA: From Obamacare through Trump
Since the election of Donald Trump as President, momentum towards universal health care coverage in the United States has stalled. Most notable was the repeal of the individual mandate to purchase health insurance in late December 2017. However, outright repeal of President Obama ’s signature piece of legislation – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – has not yet come to pass. Though the Republican Party controls the Presidency and both Houses of Congress, attempts at wholesale repeal and replacement of the ACA during the summer and early fall of 2017 failed. (Source: Health Policy)
Source: Health Policy - May 22, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Thomas Rice, Lynn Y. Unruh, Ewout van Ginneken, Pauline Rosenau, Andrew J. Barnes Tags: Health Reform Monitor Source Type: research
Sl áintecare – a ten-year plan for Irish health reform devised through political consensus
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Source: Health Policy - May 22, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Burke, Sarah Barry, Rikke Siersbaek, Bridget Johnston, Maebh N í Fhallúin, Steve Thomas Tags: Health Reform Monitor Source Type: research
Universal coverage reforms in the USA: From Obama care through Trump
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Source: Health Policy - May 22, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Thomas Rice, Lynn Y. Unruh, Ewout van Ginneken, Pauline Rosenau, Andrew J. Barnes Tags: Health Reform Monitor Source Type: research
The Americanization of the British National Health Service: A Typological Approach
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Source: Health Policy - May 21, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Martin Powell, Daniel Beland, Alex Waddan Source Type: research
A Multilevel Analysis of the determinants of emergency care visits by the elderly in France
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Source: Health Policy - May 18, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Zeynep Or, Anne Penneau Source Type: research
Lessons for Achieving Health Equity Comparing Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States
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Source: Health Policy - May 14, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Marshall H. Chin, Paula T. King, Rhys G. Jones, Bryn Jones, Shanthi N. Ameratunga, Naoko Muramatsu, Sarah Derrett Source Type: research
Personal health records, global policy and regulation review
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Source: Health Policy - May 14, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Yakov Flaumenhaft, Ofir Ben-Assuli Source Type: research
Pathways to DRG-based hospital payment systems in Japan, Korea, and Thailand
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Source: Health Policy - May 7, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Peter Leslie Annear, Soonman Kwon, Luca Lorenzoni, Stephen Duckett, Dale Huntington, John C. Langenbrunner, Yuki Murakami, Changwoo Shon, Ke Xu Source Type: research
Advancing Indigenous Primary Health Care Policy in Alberta, Canada
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Source: Health Policy - May 7, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Rita Henderson, Stephanie Montesanti, Lindsay Crowshoe, Charles Leduc Tags: Health Reform Monitor Source Type: research
Editorial Board
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Source: Health Policy - May 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Cross-country comparative research – Lessons from advancing health system and policy research on the occasion of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies’ 20th anniversary
This issue of Health Policy is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and particularly the Observatory ’s contribution to shaping comparative health system and policy research in Europe – the domain of this journal too. Below, we will briefly outline the origin and functions of the Observatory as well as its contribution to research over the past two decades. We then put the selected papers in th is issue into perspective and provide an overview on comparative papers published in Health Policy since 2014, i.e. (Source: Health Policy)
Source: Health Policy - May 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Reinhard Busse, Ewout van Ginneken Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: research
