Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems
Health system policies should incentivise high-quality health care in areas of highest need at the lowest feasible cost. Our aim is to expand our understanding of policies that result in healthier populations and achieve sustainability while being responsive to patients’ needs.
Health Information and the Consumer
1 January 1995
This book contains the proceedings of a conference held by the Office of Health on 30 November 1994 entitled ‘Health Information and the Consumer’ and chaired…
Hypothecated Health Taxes: An evaluation of recent proposals
1 January 1995
The subject of earmarked or hypothecated taxes dropped out of the mainstream of public finance theory a great many years ago. It is doubtful whether many…
The Impact of Behavioural and Biomedical Advance on Health Trends over the Next 25 Years
11 January 1994
Recent decades have seen a significant improvement in the health status of citizens in Western Europe and the USA. This is evident from death rate statistics…
Heath Information and the Consumer
5 January 1994
In the last decade society has become more health conscious than ever before. A major factor in this change of attitude is the widespread availability of…
A Doctor Looks at Health Economics
1 March 1994
Inequality in health is back on the political agenda in the UK. Three factors have made inequality an issue – firstly, concern that the internal market…
Managing the NHS: past, present and agenda for the future
1 March 1994
The recent pace of administrative change in the NHS has been rapid, culminating in the October 1993 decision to abolish the Regional tier of management and…
The Impact of Unemployment on Health
1 July 1993
That there is a positive association between unemployment and a variety of measures of ill health is clear. What is less clear is how this association…
Aids in Africa: Meeting the Challenge through Training Education and Prevention
1 January 1992
AIDS poses a formidable challenge to African policy makers and health professionals. Of the estimated 9 to 11 million cases of HIV infection worldwide, some 7…
AIDS: Worldwide Policies and Problems
1 September 1991
The condition which was later to be called AIDS emerged in the early 1980s in several widely separated locations, including the United States, Haiti, Belgium, France,…