Globalization

Competition and Economic Performance: Lessons from Korean Experience — Dec 31, 2006

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Requirements for High Impact Diagnostics in the Developing World — Dec 31, 2005

This paper focuses on the technologies required to meet the global health diagnostics needs presented in the previous papers, highlighting how new diagnostic technologies might have the potential to change medical and public-health scenarios in the developing world.

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Global Health Services Research: Challenging the Future — Dec 31, 2003

Health and global well-being are inextricably intertwined. Yet much of the data and research necessary to fashion good health policy is either inadequate or missing altogether. The risks of failing to address the problems of disease, poverty, and unrest, paired with the opportunities for constructive health policy change, prompts a powerful cry for proactive efforts and for greater resources to conduct the research needed to guide that…

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• International Affairs Research Area

Assessing Benefits from Health Research Projects: Can We Use Questionnaires Instead of Case Studies? — Dec 31, 1998

An evaluative framework was developed by the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) for the UK's Department of Health (DH) to assess the benefits from DH-funded R&D.

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An Intercultural Comparison of Home Case Management of Acute Diarrhea in Mexico: Implications for Program Planners — Dec 31, 1997

The results suggest that the propensity of families to choose private schools is insensitive to out-of-pocket tuition costs, which implies that providing school vouchers would encourage few families to shift from public to private schools.

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Translating Clinical Practice Into Health Policy: An Example from China — Dec 31, 1995

Understanding a health problem and even having the technological capability to solve it are often not enough to lead to changes in health policy. To help accomplish such policy changes, the authors propose a five-step approach.

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Quality of Care in Public and Private Primary Health Care Facilities: Structural Comparisons in Jamaica — Dec 31, 1993

Uses structural measures to assess quality in 366 public and 189 private clinics in Jamaica in 1990.

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Coronary Angiography and Revascularization: Defining Procedural Indications Through Formal Group Processes — Dec 31, 1993

Presents the results of a Canadian panel that assessed the appropriateness and necessity of coronary angiography and coronary revascularization using the RAND appropriateness method.

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Calidad De La Atencion En Establecimientos Publicos Y Privados De Atencion Primaria De Salud: Comparaciones Estructurales En Jamaica — Dec 31, 1993

Uses structural measures to assess quality in 366 public and 189 private clinics in Jamaica in 1990.

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Maintaining Hospital Quality: The Need for International Cooperation — Dec 31, 1992

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