The effects of increasing intellectual property protection on public health have been hugely debated, especially after the coming into force of the TRIPS Agreement and with the emphasis on the utilization of compulsory licenses. At the same time, a growing network of bilateral and regional...

In a competitive environment, health care organizations must continuously improve their productivity to sustain long-term growth and profitability. Good productivity performance has been mostly assumed to be a natural outcome of successful health care management. Data envelopment analysis (DEA)...

This paper examines the impact of plan type, health status, and income on the use of health care services. It also examines differences in the use of health services within the CDHP population. Data from the 2005-2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey and the 2008-2011...

Beginning with a brief review of the governance literature, a definition of governance in the National Health Service of England and Wales (NHS) is offered. This introduces an analysis of NHS reform, as presented in the recent policy literature. Using narrative theory, I critique this literature...

Health inequalities represent perhaps the most consequential global health challenge and yet they persist despite increased funding and innovative programs. The United Nations is revising the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that will shape the world for many years to come. What would a...

To contribute to our understanding of the relationship between philosophical ideas and medical and healthcare models. A diachronic analysis is put in place in order to evaluate, from an innovative perspective, the influence over the centuries on medical and healthcare models of two philosophical...

Using the conceptual lenses offered by the ideational and cultural path taken in the health care arena, this article attempts to explain the trajectory of recent major health care reforms in Italy and the reasons for their failure, as well as providing some directions for successful...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) intends to take American health care in a new direction by focusing on preventive medicine and wellness-based treatment. But, in doing so, it does not adequately take into account the potential contribution of complementary and alternative...

This study examines unemployment and underemployment of physicians in urban Mexico. The framework is relevant to countries with substantial increases in physician supply. Based on surveys from 1986 and 1993, the study analyses physician performance in the labour market as a function of...

Public Health had been a burning topic in WTO, especially with the evolution of TRIPS Agreement. The uniform patent regime which was introduced through TRIPS had a negative impact on the efforts made to assure access to medicines to the people of the Developing Countries and the Least Developing...