With the passage of Act 48 in May 2011, Vermont has become the first U.S. state to enact a law for a universal, publicly financed health care system. The state is on course for implementing a single payer system by 2017. This first breakthrough in the decades-long struggle for universal health...

The concept of food security has been undergoing many changes during the last 50 years and today it is widely acknowledged to mean much more than physical availability of food on the market in proportion to population. The world produces more food per inhabitant today than ever before. FAO’s...

Objectives. To determine the impact of the national health strategy for England, 'Health of the Nation' (HOTN) at the local level; the mechanisms by which this was achieved; and to provide lessons for the new strategy, 'Saving lives: our healthier nation'. Design. Case studies. Semi-structured...

The following paper analyses the possibilities of forming a single European health care market. This aim is achieved by studying the impact of the differing organisational features of individual European health care systems on the efficiency of health care provision, by examining the...

The sociopolitical significance of the priority national project “Modern Healthcare” for the region of the Russian Federation is revealed. The special attention is given to the analysis of standard documents, government programs and reports, and public opinion

Det är kris både i förlossningsvården och i vården av äldre. Vi ser dagligen reportage om hur patienter vårdas i korridorer på de stora sjukhusen. Politiker gör blixtutryckningar och satsar mer resurser men problemen kvarstår