A new reimbursement system for general hospitals in Israel was introduced in July 1990. The new system specified that for 15 selected procedures, hospitals would be paid by the insurers prospectively, rather than by the traditional per-diem arrangement. The rates were determined by the Ministry...

Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article “Governance, Government and the Search for New Provider Models,” and use two case studies of health policy changes in Sweden and Spain to shed light on the subject. In this commentary, I seek to...

We are pleased that our recent paper, On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): mind the theory-policy-practice gap (1), generated lively discussion. Most prominent among the respondents were Professors Jean de Kervasdoué (2) and David Hunter (3)

We argue that the field of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. Although there are perennial efforts to reform healthcare systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the theory-policy-practice gap. We highlight four...

Objectives To examine the roles of policy paradigms, in particular new public management and regulated competition in different areas of health policy.Methods Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to assess the degree of success of regulated competition in the Israeli context in terms of...