The price of health: Australian governments and medical politics 1910–1960

The politics of public health: medical inspection and school nursing in Vermont, 1910-1923.

The Effectiveness of Australian Medical Portals: Are They Meeting the Health Consumers' Needs?

The move to using portals to distribute medical information is supported by Australian Governments and government agencies. The recent success of ‘telemedicine’ is promising for patients and governments alike as it could provide quality care and convenience for patients and reduces the burden on the health budget for governments. The Australian Government is taking a proactive role in developin...

Politics and Power in Global Health: The Constituting Role of Conflicts; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”

In a recent article, Gorik Ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. We claim that Ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. Drawing on the theoretical works of Chantal Mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...

The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria

“happy talk” so prevalent in international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations, as it leads to overestimation of response capabilities. Finally, Kimball warns that the lack of universal health insurance in the United States actually increases societal vulnerability to contagion. In sum, this is a very good book, well-suited to public health practitioners and m...

The Cost of All Types of Dental Services Presented by Farman Farmaeian Comprehensive Health Services Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences using Activity-Based Costing Method in 1397

The Cost of All Types of Dental Services Presented by Farman Farmaeian Comprehensive Health Services Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences using Activity-Based Costing Method in 1397 Ebrahim Jafari Poyan1, Sara Emamgholipour 1, Mobarake Alipanah Dolatabad 2, Pedram Nourizadeh Tehrani 3* 1Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medi...