Financé par le programme de surveillance de la santé de la Commission européenne et rédigé par des experts de chaque pays, ce rapport dresse un état des lieux de l’état de santé des populations européennes en 1997 pour les 15 États membres à cette date. Il présente ensuite...

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three...

The change of health policies' paradigm at the end of 70's is contemporary with a revolution of hospital reality conception. When health expenses are now looked as a load for national economy, a new definition of hospital modernization is becoming firmly established. Whereas the priority was...

Objectives. We investigated involvement and cooperation patterns of local Brazilian AIDS program actors and the consequences of these patterns for program implementation and sustainability. Methods. We performed a public policy analysis (documentary analysis, direct observation, semistructured...