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From the Editor

Global Health Care Matters: Broadening The Focus John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Overview

PROLOGUE: Health Care Financing Worldwide: An Overview [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Financing Global Health: Mission Unaccomplished George J. Schieber, Pablo Gottret, Lisa K. Fleisher, and Adam A. Leive [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Bigger And Better? Scaling Up And Innovation In Health Aid Christopher Lane and Amanda Glassman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

Cost Pressures

PROLOGUE: Health Care Cost Pressures In A Global Context [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why Is A Systemic View Of Health Financing Necessary? William C. Hsiao [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What Should A Country Spend On Health Care? William D. Savedoff [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Out-Of-Pocket Spending

PROLOGUE: Out-Of-Pocket Health Spending And The Poor [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Protecting Households From Catastrophic Health Spending Ke Xu, David B. Evans, Guido Carrin, Ana Mylena Aguilar-Rivera, Philip Musgrove, and Timothy Evans [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Informal Payments And The Financing Of Health Care In Developing And Transition Countries Maureen Lewis [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Country Studies

PROLOGUE: A Global View Of Health: Country Studies [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Universal Coverage In The Land Of Smiles: Lessons From Thailand’s 30 Baht Health Reforms David Hughes and Songkramchai Leethongdee [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Financing And Insurance Reform In Morocco Jennifer Prah Ruger and Daniel Kress [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Analysis Of Equity In Brazilian Health System Financing Maria Alicia Domínguez Ugá and Isabela Soares Santos [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Informal Payments In The Health Sector: A Case Study From Turkey Mehtap Tatar, Hacer Özgen, Bayram Sahin, Paolo Belli, and Peter Berman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Adult Health In The Russian Federation: More Than Just A Health Problem Patricio Marquez, Marc Suhrcke, Martin McKee, and Lorenzo Rocco [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Technological And Social Innovation: A Unifying New Paradigm For Global Health Charles A. Gardner, Tara Acharya, and Derek Yach [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

INTERVIEW: Health, Equity, And Political Economy: A Conversation With Paul Farmer Fitzhugh Mullan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Global Infectious Disease Surveillance And Health Intelligence Stephen S. Morse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Measuring And Reducing Waiting Times: A Cross-National Comparison Of Strategies Sharon Willcox, Mary Seddon, Stephen Dunn, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Jim Pearse, and Jack V. Tu [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Mental Health Disorders In Childhood: Assessing The Burden On Families Susan H. Busch and Colleen L. Barry [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Benefits For Employees With Children With Special Needs: Findings From The Collaborative Employee Benefit Study James M. Perrin, Christina F. Fluet, Lynda Honberg, Betsy Anderson, Nora Wells, Susan Epstein, Deborah Allen, Carol Tobias, and Karen A. Kuhlthau [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Inverse Relationship Between Mortality Rates And Performance In The Hospital Quality Alliance Measures Ashish K. Jha, E. John Orav, Zhonghe Li, and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Prevalence And Trends In Obesity Among Aged And Disabled U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries, 1997–2002 Jalpa A. Doshi, Daniel Polsky, and Virginia W. Chang [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In Spending For Substance Abuse Treatment, 1986–2003 Tami L. Mark, Katharine R. Levit, Rita Vandivort-Warren, Rosanna M. Coffey, Jeffrey A. Buck the SAMHSA Spending Estimates Team [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Confronting Trade-Offs In Health Care: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Organizational Ethics Program James E. Sabin and David Cochran [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Awakening To Global Health Claire Panosian Dunavan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Elevators, Falafel, And Thalassemia Aisha Saad [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

The Impact Of An AIDS Vaccine In Developing Countries: A New Model And Initial Results John Stover, Lori Bollinger, Robert Hecht, Clara Williams, and Eva Roca [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

International Medical Graduate Physicians In The United States: Changes Since 1981 L. Gary Hart, Susan M. Skillman, Meredith Fordyce, Matthew Thompson, Amy Hagopian, and Thomas R. Konrad [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hospital Consolidation And Racial/Income Disparities In Health Insurance Coverage Robert J. Town, Douglas R. Wholey, Roger D. Feldman, and Lawton R. Burns [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH INTERVIEW: The Application Of Business Models To Medical Research: Interviews With Two Founders Of Directed-Philanthropy Foundations Kathryn A. Phillips [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 31 July][GrantWatch Online 16 August][GrantWatch Online 30 August] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: Not Learning, Even By Doing Philip Musgrove [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Don’t Leave Home Without Them Fitzhugh Mullan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Devil In Mr. Johnson William M. Sage [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

SCHIP Needs Updating Steven E. Wegner [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Children And Compartmentalized Coverage Nina Owcharenko [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Children And Compartmentalized Coverage: An Author Responds Lisa Dubay [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DALYs And QALYs In Developing Countries Victor Zarate [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Selective Use Of References? Norman Kalant [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Brand-Name Versus Generic Kennon R. Copeland and Stephen J. Boccuzzi [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Brand-Name Versus Generic: The Authors Respond Aaron S. Kesselheim, Michael A. Fischer, and Jerry Avorn [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

TRENDS: Medicare Advantage In 2006–2007: What Congress Intended? Marsha Gold (published online 15 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Next Steps For Tennessee: A Conversation With Gov. Phil Bredesen Alan Weil (published online 22 May 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Setting A Standard Of Affordability For Health Insurance Coverage Linda J. Blumberg, John Holahan, Jack Hadley, and Katharine Nordahl (published online 4 June 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Substance Abuse Benefits: Still Limited After All These Years Jon R. Gabel, Heidi Whitmore, Jeremy D. Pickreign, Katharine R. Levit, Rosanna M. Coffey, and Rita Vandivort-Warren (published online 7 June 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Parity For Whom? Exemptions And The Extent Of State Mental Health Parity Legislation Thomas C. Buchmueller, Philip F. Cooper, Mireille Jacobson, and Samuel H. Zuvekas (published online 7 June 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Table] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Trends In The Golden State: Small-Group Premiums Rise Sharply While Actuarial Values For Individual Coverage Plummet Jon Gabel, Jeremy Pickreign, Roland McDevitt, Heidi Whitmore, Laura Gandolfo, Ryan Lore, and Katy Wilson (published online 14 June 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Reflections On Science, Judgment, And Value In Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Conversation With David Eddy Sean R. Tunis (published online 19 June 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Making Pay-For-Performance Work In Medicaid Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Gilbert Gimm, and Stephanie Peterson (published online 26 June 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Evaluating Pay-For-Performance In Medicaid Through Real-World Observation Jon B. Christianson (published online 26 June 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Redesigning Care Delivery In Response To A High-Performance Network: The Virginia Mason Medical Center Hoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg, Kelly McKenzie, and Arnold Milstein (published online 10 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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