results responsiveness, effectiveness, and flexibility with eigenvalue of 2.628 were identified as the main aspects of agility in humanitarian health supply chains. the components of visibility, reactivity, and speed were identified as components of responsiveness. quality, reliability, and completeness were identified as components of effectiveness. volume, delivery, mix, and product were know...

Interim Reports on work of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis receive only limited review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organizations, or other organizations supporting the work. Abstract In China the problem of aging is only now emerging, however, when the population does start to age, it will ...

As health reform drives the largest expansion of health insurance since Medicare and policy-makers grapple with how to slow the increase in health care spending, cost-sharing--the division of health care costs between patients and insurers--is considered an important tool. This synthesis reviews the evidence on cost-sharing. Key findings include: Research consistently shows demand for health ca...

If you could have a private half-hour with each major presidential candidate, what would you say about repairing our broken health care system? It is an intriguing question, and I bet each of our readers would give the candidates an earful. Where would you start? Reform the present system of re imbursements? Improve access for the uninsured? Create a national program to promote evidence-based c...

introduction: health system performance assessment provides appropriate information about the status of health systems for governments and communities. therefore, in the recent decade, many countries have focused on performance assessment and reporting in order to develop methods and tools as a mean to help achieving health goals. the present study tries to design an indicator-based model (incl...

A small percentage of the population accounts for a • large share of total health care spending, so significantly decreasing health care spending will require substantially lowering the spending associated with high users of medical services. However, the high–deductible/HSA plan approach is not well designed for lowering the spending of the high-cost population in a manner that does not negati...

T he purpose of this paper is to summarize the burgeoning literature concerning the relationship between public services, or at least government spending, and economic development in the jurisdiction providing those services, as measured by changes in population, employment, income, or the number of firms. Much of this work, particularly the initial studies, arose as a reaction to research exam...

In 2015, the International Confederation of Midwives launched the Midwifery Services Framework: a new evidence-based tool to guide countries through the process of improving their sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health services through strengthening and developing the midwifery workforce. The Midwifery Services Framework is aligned with key global architecture for sexual, reproductiv...

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...