Innovation in health policy: responding to the health society

Health Innovation for Aging Society

For a definition of standardization in the area of Health Informatics, ISO/TC215 (Health Informatics), the most pivotal and influential health-informatics international standard organization, elucidates its scope as follows: standardization in the field of health informatics, to facilitate the coherent and consistent interchange and use of health-related data, information, and knowledge to supp...

Responding to the Challenge of Mental Health Recovery Policy

The movement towards recovery-oriented mental health service provision has emerged from growing consumer interest to define recovery in terms of personal experience, rather than symptom reduction. In many Western nations, this developing interest has helped to shape governmental health policy (Slade, Amering, & Oades, 2008). Slade, Amering and Oades (2008) state that policy in mental health rec...

evidence of adverse selection in irans health insurance market

در این تحقیق به مطالعه وجود انتخاب نامساعد(کژ گزینی) در بازار بیمه درمان تکمیلی ایران پرداخته شده است. داده های مورد نیاز توسط پرسشنامه و به روش نمونه گیری خوشه ای جمع آوری شده است. پرسشنامه ها در میان افراد شاغل ساکن شهر تهران توریع شد. در این تحقیق با استفاده از تخمین دو مدل لجستیک و به دست آوردن ضریب همبستگی میان تقاضای بیمه درمان تکمیلی و رخداد خسارت به بررسی موضوع مورد نظر پرداخته شده است....

Food Policy: Integrating Health, Environment and Society

Sharpening the Health Policy Analytical Rapier; Comment on “The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy”

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. Second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...