China's 3 year, CN¥ 850 billion (US $125 billion) reform plan, launched in 2009, marked the
first phase towards achieving comprehensive universal health coverage by 2020. The …

The relationship between quality of care and the cost of the nursing workforce is of concern
to policymakers. This study assesses the evidence for a relationship between the nursing …

Introduction: Women now outnumber men in British medical schools. This paper charts the
history of women in medicine and provides current demographic trends. Sources of data: A …

Viewpoint patient and their relatives the choice of effective treatments. However, Sackett and
colleagues do not accept the social ethic associated with the pursuit of the maximum gains …

This book reports the results of a study of intergenerational income mobility in Great Britain,
based on a follow-up survey of the families interviewed in Rowntree's study of poverty in …

The structure of health care services varies enormously from country to country and the
responses of policy makers to these difficulties exhibit similar characteristics. There are a …

An extensive review of published studies where doctors were replaced by other health
professions demonstrates considerable scope for alterations in skill mix. However, the …

The planning of supply of and demand for human resources in healthcare is a neglected
topic characterised by significant methodological weaknesses which have been discussed …

What can be learned from international experience of efforts to control spending and to
improve efficiency and access in pharmaceutical markets? Policymakers tend to reinvent …

Throughout the world, healthcare policy makers confront common problems: expenditure
inflation, inefficiency and inequity in access to care. The development of health economics …