In 2005 the Global Health Council convened healthcare providers, community organizers, policymakers and researchers at Health Systems: Putting Pieces Together to discuss health from a systems perspective. Its report and others have established healthcare access and quality as two of the most...

In efforts to decrease emergency department (ED) crowding and health care costs, frequent users of ED services have been targeted for interventions to decrease their utilization. Previous studies have had different definitions for frequent users and have considered all frequent users as a...

In July 2004 the international community will convene in Bangkok, Thailand, for the 15th international AIDS conference. The gathering occurs at an opportune time in global health as just months earlier, the World Health Organization and UNAIDS launched the quot;3 by 5quot; programme a global...

The years 2003-2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the rapid rise and demise of the Clinton administration's health reform efforts. Health reform may again be a political issue in the 2008 congressional and presidential elections. However, analysts still disagree over why large-scale health...

The global health community continues to look to the World Health Organization (WHO) to solve current global health governance (GHG) problems. But today's WHO is a compromised institution. On a theoretical level, WHO lacks a substantive justice oriented conception of international institutional...

Objectives: To determine and compare costs of a nurse-administered behavioral intervention for pregnant substance users that integrated motivational enhancement therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy (MET-CBT) to brief advice (BA) administered by an obstetrical provider. Both interventions...

Through implementation of its 2000 pharmaceutical reform, the South Korean government expected to reduce the cost of medications and improve service levels, medical appropriateness of care, and drug effectiveness. However, despite the reform's lofty goals, unintended consequences have distorted...

The government of Morocco approved two reforms in 2005 to expand health insurance coverage. The first is a payroll-based mandatory health insurance plan for public- and formal private-sector employees to extend coverage from the current 16 percent of the population to 30 percent. The second...

"Health Capability: Conceptualization and Operationalization" received numerous comments. In this response I clarify some misconceptions regarding health capability and the health capability paradigm developed in "Health and Social Justice" (Ruger 2009). Health capability rests on both health...

"The Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health" received numerous comments. In this response I restate the specific aims of the paper and offer comments regarding the Bank's structural adjustment programs and governance structure, its support of privatization and user fees, its...