To complement our reviews of health plan organization in the civilian managed-care sector and readiness issues in the military sector, we reviewed past reports on the MHS and interviewed senior DoD officials and others who are knowledgeable about military health issues. The past studies revealed a debate on military health system organization that has continued intermittently for five decades. ...

Given the fiscal sustainability challenge faced by health systems, an effective dialogue across government agencies responsible for budget is crucial. One important aspect medium-term financial planning health, which involves taking a strategic, multi-annual approach to budgeting, looking beyond one-year annual budget. This includes defining priorities and allocating resources over period so th...

S OF SIKH STUDIES: JULY-SEPT 2010 / 542 NS 38 better health levels compared to the people living in Southern states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu where one could see much better education and health related indicators than that of Punjab (Brar, 2002). Since the mid-1980s in Punjab, the under-currents of political turmoil, severe state resource crunch and nonresponsive administration in the state o...

Background The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Mozambique became a People that Deliver (PtD) focus country in 2011. Soon after the PtD Conference in 2011, the MOH re-ignited the development of a Strategic Plan for Pharmaceutical Logistics and decided to make reform of Human Resources for the Supply Chain (HR for SC) a key pillar of the plan, as well as a component of the Health Sector Strategic Pla...

The private pension structure in the United States, once dominated by defined benefit (DB) plans, is currently divided between defined contribution (DC) and DB plans. Wealth accumulation in DC plans depends on the participant's contribution behavior and on financial market returns, while accumulation in DB plans is sensitive to a participant's labor market experience and to plan parameters. Thi...

In Chile there is a public insurance system where people contribute a fixed percentage of their income, and also a private system where people pay a premium based on their personal characteristics. Using a large survey for 1996, we study the determinants of the decision to buy a private health plan. We find that the probability of buying a private health plan is positively correlated with incom...

The NHS Plan, published in July 2000, presented an ambitious blueprint for the transformation of the way the NHS delivers health care. The backdrop to the Plan is the substantial increase in resources for the NHS promised for the next 5 years. At the heart of the Plan is the aim of ensuring these resources are used effectively to provide a health service “designed around the patient”. After rev...