This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.

This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.

This paper is written as part of a two-year study of climate change policy choices facing Sweden, conducted under the auspices of the Center for Business and Policy Studies in Stockholm. As such, it aims to be a primer on emissions trading as an instrument for limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first section notes ...

A Publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research More than 21% of California’s nonelderly residents—over 6 million children and adults—are without health insurance coverage for all or part of the year based on findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001). This uninsurance rate is one-quarter higher than the national average and the fourth highest in the natio...

This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.

in nigeria, the government is implementing the free maternal and child health care programme (fmchcp). the policy is premised on the notion that financial barriers are one of the most important constraints to equitable access and use of skilled maternal and child healthcare. in ebonyi state, southeastern nigeria the fmchcp is experiencing implementation challenges including: inadequate human re...

Regular physical activity (PA) is an underlying factor since childhood and adolescence for having a healthy and active future for life. The aim of this stud y was to review the evidence on increasing the youth PA to develop the national program at country level. At first, the databases were searched using the sensitive keywords, and systematic reviews of the relevant databases were extracted. T...

Mitochondrial DNA disorders are a group of common genetic diseases which affect both children and adults. They lead to progressive multisystem disease for which there is no curative treatment. Inherited mitochondrial DNA mutations are transmitted maternally, and preventing transmission of these diseases is a priority for families. An important new approach is a novel in vitro fertilisation (IVF...