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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (2): 366–386.
Published: 01 April 1983
...Avi Yacar Ellencweig This paper describes the current situation of health care services in Israel. Major problems are discussed and analyzed in terms of the dualism of the main health organizations (the Ministry of Health and the General Sickness Fund), the multiplicity and discontinuity of health...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (6): 1413–1420.
Published: 01 December 1999
... . Rijswijk: Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport. Amsterdam. 23–25 February. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 1992 . The Reform of Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of Seven OECD Countries. Paris: OECD. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (4): 747–755.
Published: 01 August 2003
... ritualized fights between physicians’ associations and ministries of health about the adjustment of the payments (Okma 1999). And of course, the availability of reliable and up-to-date statistical data restricts the possibilities to present comparable data across the con- tinent. Perhaps the heterogeneity...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (6): 1001–1022.
Published: 01 December 2002
... influenced its health care in several ways. It changed the health care system and its financing (by introducing a Bismarckian style of social insurance). It then redistributed power from the Ministry of Health to several stakeholders. A major change occurred in the labor market in health care when the flow...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (3): 361–380.
Published: 01 June 2009
... for grouping patients were developed from a statistical analysis of resource use, the tariff was subsequently set below costs, particularly for the groups with the lowest medical acuity, both because of the prime minister's decision to decrease total health expenditures and because of the health ministry's...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (6): 1129–1149.
Published: 01 December 2006
... by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare and the Japan Medical Association, who strongly objected on the grounds of safety and equity. The compromise reached by the two ministers in charge led to a clarification of the services that are to be covered and of the process for extending coverage to new...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (4): 595–614.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the Ministry of Health from the direct provision of services such as mental health and long-term care. This article explores how punctuated equilibrium and path dependency coexist in the Israeli case. In doing so, it examines the relevance of concepts provided by various theories of social and institutional...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1988) 13 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Morris L. Barer This paper traces the development of British Columbia's controversial Bill 41, which empowers that province's Ministry of Health to restrict the issuance of billing numbers entitling physicians to seek payment from the provincial medical services plan. The bill and its predecessors...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (2): 343–376.
Published: 01 April 2000
... as ways to avoid commercialization of medicine. Instead, they create physicians' conflicts and fuel patient overuse of services. Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) has responded by introducing per-diem payment, thereby creating incentives to decrease services in ways similar to those of American...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (2): 221–249.
Published: 01 April 1979
...John H. Noble, Jr. This paper sets forth a model for examining the relationships between fourteen policy and politicoeconomic variables, and the social benefits and costs of rehabilitation. Based on discussions in early 1977 with scholars, ministry officials, trade unionists, and politicians...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (3): 435–465.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Public Health Act of 1925, and the administrative capacity of Mauritius's Ministry of Health and Quality of Life are the primary factors that drove tobacco control policies in Mauritius. Conclusion: The findings from this study will enrich our understanding of policy change and the politics of tobacco...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (6): 1065–1100.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., Alessandra Lo Scalz, Letizia Orzella, Americo Cicchetti, and Silvia Profili. 2001 . Italy: Health Care Systems in Transition . Copenhagen: European Observatory on Health Care Systems. English, B. 1998 . Hospital Services Plan: Securing Better Hospital Services into the Future . Wellington: Ministry...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (6): 935–954.
Published: 01 December 2012
... institutes (Binder, Adigun, and Greenspan 2008; Binder et al. 2008). These conform to our definition of an agency: an autonomous, professional organization respon- sible to government, but not directly within health ministries, that con- centrates expertise and capacity- building work. Outside...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1978) 3 (2): 155–162.
Published: 01 April 1978
..., with the objectives of efficiency and effective- ness, meant that at the top all health services would come under the direction of a single Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Thus, unlike This paper was presented at the American Public Health Association, Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., October...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (4): 709–726.
Published: 01 August 2001
... with Medical Savings Accounts in Singapore. Health Affairs 14 : 267 -269. Ministerial Committee on Health Policies, Republic of Singapore. 1993 . Affordable Health Care: A White Paper . Singapore: Ministry of Health. Ministry of Health, Republic of Singapore 1995 . Traditional Chinese Medicine...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 June 1983
... with little coordination. The Ministry of Health is responsible for preventive medicine and provides for public and mental health services. On the neighborhood level, it operates free mother-child centers where nurses give preventive care to newborn babies and expectant mothers. Curative health...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (5): 925–930.
Published: 01 October 2000
...: Macmillan. English, S. W. 1998 . Hospital Services Plan: Securing Better Hospital Services into the Future . Wellington: Ministry of Health. Krieble, T., and L. Middleton. 1997 . Health Futures: 2020 Visions . Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies. Labour Party. 1999 . Focus on Patients...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (6): 1027–1064.
Published: 01 December 2005
... 2002 : 7 . Oslo: HERO. Pollitt, C. 2002 . Ministries and Agencies: Performance Management or Poor Parenting? Discussion paper for NOB 2002. Rotterdam: Erasmus University. ———. 2005 . Ministries and Agencies: Steering, Meddling, Neglect, and Dependency. In Challenges to State Capacity...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 71–92.
Published: 01 February 2006
... County Intervention Studies . Paper presented at the International Seminar on Rural Health Care Financing, held by UNICEF and the Chinese Ministry of Health, Beijing, December 11–13. Jamison, D. T. 1984 . China: The Health Sector . Washington, DC: World Bank. Lawrence, S. V. 2002 . The Sickness...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (1): 165–193.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of meritocratic recruitment processes within state bureaucracies has occupied a major space in the literature (Geddes 1994 ; Evans 1995 ). However, other important work has called attention to the role played by networks operating within government ministries and the importance of professional reputations...