Describes the income security, health status, and health care coverage of older persons in Mexico and presents policy recommendations that may lead to increased old-age income security and health in Mexico.
This article examines options for improving value for money in HIV funding by using a case study that focuses on the two largest funders, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund, and antiretroviral therapy.
This article presents the results of an evaluation of health care performance measures, describes how performance measures are being used, summarizes key barriers and facilitators to their use, and identifies opportunities for easing that use.
Discusses obstacles to steering innovation in health care toward activities that are worth their social costs and away from other innovative activities and considers drugs, devices, and delivery, with particular attention to delivery.
This article reviews European markets and applications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in healthcare, and identifies policy issues that need to be addressed by the European Union and other stakeholders.
Describes a study of existing indicators to compare healthcare quality in different countries and their challenges. Case studies of avoidable mortality and cancer survival illustrate the potential of cross-national comparisons and their difficulties.
This article summarizes a review of approaches to funding intensive care in systems that use activity-based payment based on diagnosis-related groups to reimburse hospital care (Victoria/Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, U.S. Medicare).
Provides detail from an evaluation of 211 programs currently sponsored or funded by the Department of Defense to address psychological health and traumatic brain injury, along with recommendations to maximize program effectiveness.
Describes how the British Government's narrower focus of problem drug use on most significant harms may be useful, but carries risks and drawbacks. We find the UK Drug Strategy draws on robust evidence for drug treatment and drug-related crime.
This study, commissioned by DG SANCO, presents a quality assessment of the monitoring information provided by members of the European Alcohol and Health Forum on their commitments to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Bibliometrics is an increasingly important tool for research evaluation. This article provides details from an accessible, “beginner's guide” to bibliometric theory and application in the area of health research and development (R&D) decision-making.
Describes a review of the NIHR Biomedical Research Units scheme. This review was a perceptions audit of senior executives involved in the scheme, and explored what impact they felt the scheme is having on the translational research landscape.
Presents the results of a scoping study that addresses the potential role of the British Library in facilitating access to relevant datasets in the biosciences and environmental science.
This article summarizes the allocation challenges facing funders in the area of mental health research. It provides an overview of research policy in the last 20–25 years and considers what approaches could build an evidence base to support future decisions.
This article describes the development of a survey tool to support research portfolio evaluation at the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK. The research underpinning the project was sponsored by the MRC.
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