Effective coverage is a measure of health system performance that combines three aspects of health care service delivery into a single measure: need, use, and quality. In this technical note, the concept of effective coverage is explained, methodological issues are discussed and the implications...

This paper presents some of the background research that contributed to the discussions within the Inter-American Development Bank's policy and strategy regarding indigenous health issues. The paper's conceptual approach and good practice research helped focus the discussion on the importance of...

This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An increasing level of interest in the role of faith in...

Im Herbst soll im Bundestag eine Reform der GKV verabschiedet werden und zum 1. Januar 2011 in Kraft treten. Philipp Rösler, Bundesgesundheitsminister, unterstreicht, dass die Reform den Einstieg in den Systemwechsel bedeutet: Denn mit der Festschreibung des prozentualen Beitragssatzes und der...

Gehaltserhöhungen spielen sich nie im luftleeren Raum ab, sondern beeinflussen alle Marktteilnehmer und ihre Ergebnisse. So dürfte eine 30%ige Gehaltserhöhung für Krankenhausärzte ca. 3 Mrd. Euro Zusatzkosten im Krankenhaussektor verursachen. Sollten Krankenhäuser diese Zusatzbelastungen...

The article deals with the situation in the area of social services in Slovak Republic and general concept of the evaluation from the perspective of diff erent authors. It also defines the objectives of the evaluation, types of evaluation and different kinds of assessment. Article is also...

This report is an overview to the presentations and discussions in the seminar Survival or performance? Healthcare viewed through organization, information management, and personnel held on 3.9.2012. The seminar provided an interdisciplinary forum for the question how the health care system may...

Healthcare utilization studies show how well documented disparities between migrants and non-migrants. Reducing such disparities is a major goal in European countries. However, healthcare utilization among Italian immigrants is under-studied. The objective of this study is to explore differences...

Black–white mortality disparities remain sizable in the United States. In this study, we use the concept of avoidable/amenable mortality to estimate cause-of-death contributions to the difference in life expectancy between whites and blacks by gender in the United States in 1980, 1993, and...

The role of values in organizations has been a highly researched topic (Collins in Good to Great, HarperCollins, New York, <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2001</CitationRef>; Collins and Porras in Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, HarperCollins, New York, <CitationRef CitationID="CR4">1997</CitationRef>; Frederick and Weber <CitationRef CitationID="CR20">1990</CitationRef>; Kouzes and Posner, The...</citationref></citationref></citationref>