Latest issue: Eurohealth Volume 17 Number 4|
The Professional Qualifications Directive
This exciting issue of Eurohealth, the first incorporating Euro Observer, has a new modern look and better navigation. The issue provides perspectives on the Professional Qualifications Directive from a regulator, physicians and nurses. Also covered is the topic of health care fraud and corruption in Europe with an overview and examples from Belgium, Norway and Scotland. Other articles include: Statistics for out-of-pocket spending in the FSU, Theory around pay-for-performance, and Eurohealth Monitor.
Latest issue: Health Economics Policy and Law |
This issue include articles on:
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estimating the monetary value of a QALY (Baker, Chilton, Donaldson et al)
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social preferences re. publicly funded health care (McKie and Richardson)
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HTA and the courts (Keith Syrett)
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the costs of smoking to the NHS (Callum, Boyle and Sandford)
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the economic impact of provisional funding (Mortimer et al)
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corruption (Holmberg and Rothstein)
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choice and privatisation in Swedish health care (Anders Anell).
Implementing Consumer Choice in Long-term Care: The Impact of Individual Budgets on Social Care Providers in England
In common with many advanced welfare states, England has increasingly relied on consumerist principles to deliver both greater quality and improved efficiency in the long-term care system. The Individual Budget (IB) pilots marked the next step in this process, through a new system of funding whereby greater control of resources is given to service users, in lieu of direct in-kind care provision...
Full paper
Wilberforce M, Glendinning C, Challis D, Fernandez JL, Jacobs S, Jones K, Knapp M, Manthorpe J, Moran N, Netten A, Stevens M (2011) Implementing consumer choice in long-term care: the impact of individual budgets on social care providers in England|, Social Policy & Administration, 45, 5, 593–612.
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Eurohealth is a quarterly publication that provides a forum for researchers, policy-makers and experts to express their views on health policy issues and so contribute to a constructive debate on health policy in Europe.
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|Published quarterly, Euro Observer was the health policy bulletin of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. It provided information on key health policy issues and heath care system reforms across Europe through review articles, case studies and commentaries (merged with Eurohealth in 2011).
Globalization and Health|
LSE Health academics, Elias Mossialos, Emma Pitchforth, Corinna Sorenson and Divya Srivastava, in collaboration with Greg Martin (Co-Editor-In-Chief, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency), lead a new Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal, Globalization and Health, published by BioMed Central. The journal's Editorial Board features international scholars and practitioners with expertise in a broad array of global health and policy concerns.
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