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From the Editor

Global Health: Challenges Without Borders Susan Dentzer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reform Goes Global

PROLOGUE: China And India: Reform Goes Global [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Health Care Systems Of China And India: Performance And Future Challenges Winnie Yip and Ajay Mahal [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

From A National, Centrally Planned Health System To A System Based On The Market: Lessons From China Jin Ma, Mingshan Lu, and Hude Quan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Regulating Health Care Markets In China And India Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, and David H. Peters [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Specialty Care Systems: A Pioneering Vision For Global Health Aman Bhandari, Sandra Dratler, Kristiana Raube, and R.D. Thulasiraj [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective

PERSPECTIVE: The State Of Health Services In China And India: A Larger Context Pranab Bardhan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: When Incentives And Professionalism Collide William C. Hsiao [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Improving Health Services In India: A Different Perspective Julian Schweitzer [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Evolution Of Health Insurance In India And China Mark V. Pauly [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Paying For Care

PROLOGUE: Paying For Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Financing Health Improvements In India Anil B. Deolalikar, Dean T. Jamison, Prabhat Jha, and Ramanan Laxminarayan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Decentralization And Public Delivery Of Health Care Services In India Nirvikar Singh [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Insurance In China And India: Segmented Roles For Public And Private Financing Ashoke S. Bhattacharjya and Puneet K. Sapra [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Social Health Insurance And Drug Spending Among Cancer Inpatients In China Bo Zhou, Li Yang, Qingmin Sun, Haijuan Gu, and Bin Wang [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Biotech & Drugs

PROLOGUE: Biotechnology And Drugs [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Indian And Chinese Health Biotechnology Industries: Potential Champions Of Global Health? Sarah E. Frew, Hannah E. Kettler, and Peter A. Singer [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmaceutical Policy In China Qiang Sun, Michael A. Santoro, Qingyue Meng, Caitlin Liu, and Karen Eggleston [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disease & Demography

PROLOGUE: Disease And Demography [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Health Of Aging Populations In China And India Somnath Chatterji, Paul Kowal, Colin Mathers, Nirmala Naidoo, Emese Verdes, James P. Smith, and Richard Suzman [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Will China’s Nutrition Transition Overwhelm Its Health Care System And Slow Economic Growth? Barry M. Popkin [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Finding A Policy Solution To India’s Diabetes Epidemic Karen Siegel, K.M. Venkat Narayan, and Sanjay Kinra [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit 3] [Reprints & Permissions]

Tackling HIV In India: Evidence-Based Priority Setting And Programming Mariam Claeson and Ashok Alexander [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

INTERVIEW: China’s Latest Health Reforms: A Conversation With Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu Tsung-Mei Cheng [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Chinese Translations] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: The Impact Of Consumer-Directed Health Plans On Prescription Drug Use Jessica Greene, Judith Hibbard, James F. Murray, Steven M. Teutsch, and Marc L. Berger [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Drive Change In Enrollees’ Health Care Behavior? Anna Dixon, Jessica Greene, and Judith Hibbard [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Medicare Psychiatric Admissions, 1987–2004: Does The Past Offer Insights For The Future? Philip G. Cotterill [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Rapid Antiretroviral Therapy Scale-Up In Hubei Province, China Renslow Sherer, Xien Gui, Faxian Zhan, Caroline Teter, Diana Liu Ping, and Randolph F. Wykoff [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Stories Beyond The Box Pauline W. Chen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disorientation Alok A. Khorana [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Do Managed Care Plans’ Tiered Networks Lead To Inequities In Care For Minority Patients? Troyen A. Brennan, Claire M. Spettell, Joaquim Fernandes, Roberta L. Downey, and Lisa M. Carrara [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Impact Of Pay-For-Performance On Health Care Quality In Massachusetts, 2001–2003 Steven D. Pearson, Eric C. Schneider, Ken P. Kleinman, Kathryn L. Coltin, and Janice A. Singer [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH REPORT: Research Glut And Information Famine: Making Research Evidence More Useful For Policymakers David C. Colby, Brian C. Quinn, Claudia H. Williams, Linda T. Bilheimer, and Sarah Goodell [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 31 July] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: The Medicaid Enigma Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Baby Boomers: Hope For The Best Or Plan For The Worst? Leonard D. Schaeffer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Wartime Health Disparities And Their Aftermath Sarah B. Dine [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Warning: Side Effects May Include Distorted Vision Alan J. Gelenberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

The Hidden Cost Of Progress Thomas Aldridge, Kevin Hutchinson, and Christopher Pilkington [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Female Physicians: Paying A Price Catherine V. Caldicott [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Caring And Compromise Heather Taffet Gold [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Amenable Mortality: A Different View George Alleyne [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Amenable Mortality: The Authors Respond Ellen Nolte and C. Martin McKee [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Should Drug Prices Be Negotiated Under Part D? Peter Wickersham [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Negotiating Drug Prices: The Authors Respond Richard G. Frank and Joseph P. Newhouse [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

SCHIP: Where Are The Data? E. Mitchell Roob, Jr. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

SCHIP Data: An Author Responds Genevieve M. Kenney [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

Beyond The Efficiency Index: Finding A Better Way To Reduce Overuse And Increase Efficiency In Physician Care Robert A. Greene, Howard B. Beckman, and Thomas Mahoney (published online 20 May 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Pharmaceutical Reform In South Korea And The Lessons It Provides Hak-Ju Kim and Jennifer Prah Ruger (published online 28 May 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

On The Road To Universal Coverage: Impacts Of Reform In Massachusetts At One Year Sharon K. Long (published online 3 June 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Massachusetts Health Reform Implementation: Major Progress And Future Challenges John E. McDonough, Brian Rosman, Mehreen Butt, Lindsey Tucker, and Lisa Kaplan Howe (published online 3 June 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: How Many Are Underinsured? Trends Among U.S. Adults, 2003 And 2007 Cathy Schoen, Sara R. Collins, Jennifer L. Kriss, and Michelle M. Doty (published online 10 June 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [PBS Interview with Susan Dentzer & Cathy Schoen] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Nanomedicine—The Power Of Proteins: A Conversation With Lance Liotta And Emanual Petricoin Barbara J. Culliton (published online 17 June 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Is Special FDA Regulation Of Nanomedicine Needed? A Conversation With Norris E. Alderson Barbara J. Culliton (published online 17 June 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public And Private Health Insurance: Stacking Up The Costs Leighton Ku and Matthew Broaddus (published online 24 June 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

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