Variables in health care policy-making: resolving a quandary?

Including Both Costs and Effects – The Challenge of Using Cost-Effectiveness Data in National-Level Policy-Making: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Care Integration – From “One Size Fits All” to Person Centred Care; Comment on “Achieving Integrated Care for Older People: Shuffling the Deckchairs or Making the System Watertight for the Future?”

Integrating services is a hot topic amongst health system policy-makers and healthcare managers. There is some evidence that integrated services deliver efficiencies and reduce service utilisation rates for some patient populations. In their article on Achieving Integrated Care for Older People, Gillian Harvey and her colleagues formulate some critical insights from practice and research around...

رابطۀ متغییرهای کلان اقتصادی با سلامت در ایران

Objective: Health is one of the main national indicators that is affected by macroeconomic variables and impact on them. In this paper, the effect of macroeconomic variables on two health indicators. i.e. life expectancy at birth and under-5 mortality rate, is tested. Method: VECM model is used. Findings: The variables economic growth, unemployment rate, inflation rate, balance of payment...

رابطۀ متغییرهای کلان اقتصادی با سلامت در ایران

Objective: Health is one of the main national indicators that is affected by macroeconomic variables and impact on them. In this paper, the effect of macroeconomic variables on two health indicators. i.e. life expectancy at birth and under-5 mortality rate, is tested. Method: VECM model is used. Findings: The variables economic growth, unemployment rate, inflation rate, balance of payment...

Decisions of Value: Going Backstage; Comment on “Contextual Factors Influencing Cost and Quality Decisions in Health and Care: A Structured Evidence Review and Narrative Synthesis”

This commentary expands on two of the key themes briefly raised in the paper involving analysis of the evidence about key contextual influences on decisions of value. The first theme focuses on the need to explore in more detail what is called backstage decision-making looking at how actual decisions are made drawing on evidence from ethnographies about decision-making. These studies point to l...