Advancing tuberculosis control within reforming health systems.

Private Practitioners’ Perspectives on Their Involvement With the Tuberculosis Control Programme in a Southern Indian State

Background Public and private health sectors both play a crucial role in the health systems of low- and middleincome countries (LMICs). The tuberculosis (TB) control strategy in India encourages the public sector to actively partner with private practitioners (PPs) to improve the quality of front line service delivery. However, ensuring effective and sustainable involvement of PPs constitutes a...

Reforming federal quarantine law in the wake of Andrew Speaker: the "tuberculosis traveler".

Policy brief: the Institute of Medicine report Dying in America: Improving quality and honoring individual preferences near the end of life.

The Institute of Medicine's 2014 report Dying in America: Improving quality and honoring individual preferences near the end of life provides recommendations for creating transformational change in the models of end-of-life care delivery, clinician-patient communication, and advance care planning; improving professional education, reforming policies, and payment systems; and engaging and educat...

Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

Tackling challenges of TB/MDRTB in China: concerted actions are imperative

China is the second largest TB epidemic with the most number of people infected with multi-drug resistant (MDR). Over the past decade, a large number of TB control projects have been funded by the government of China and international organizations, and epidemic in China has been effectively controlled. However TB control in China still faced many challenges. Strategies to address these challen...