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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation Societal costs of air pollution-related health hazards: A review of methods and results  - 11/09/2008 This paper aims to provide a critical and systematic review of the societal costs of air pollution-r...... Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation to prevent age-related macular degeneration  - 11/09/2008 Background: Tobacco smoking is a risk factor for age-related macular degeneration, but studies of ex...... The costs of traumatic brain injury due to motorcycle accidents in Hanoi, Vietnam  - 22/08/2008 Background: Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in Vietnam....... People's willingness to pay for health insurance in rural Vietnam  - 11/08/2008 Background: The inequity caused by health financing in Vietnam, which mainly relies on out-of-pocket...... Are there differences between unconditional and conditional demand estimates? implications for future research and policy  - 05/08/2008 Background: Estimations of the demand for healthcare often rely on estimating the conditional probab...... Health Policy and Planning - current issue Future directions for health policy analysis: a tribute to the work of Professor Gill Walt  - 13/08/2008 ...... The terrain of health policy analysis in low and middle income countries: a review of published literature 1994-2007  - 13/08/2008 This article provides the first ever review of literature analysing the health policy processes of ...... 'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges  - 13/08/2008 The case for undertaking policy analysis has been made by a number of scholars and practitioners. H...... Policy to tackle the social determinants of health: using conceptual models to understand the policy process  - 13/08/2008 Like health equity, the social determinants of health (SDH) are becoming a key focus for policy-mak...... The role of state and non-state actors in the policy process: the contribution of policy networks to the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Thailand  - 13/08/2008 Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is difficult in poor settings. In 2001, the Thai government adopted th...... Health Promotion International - current issue Welcoming the e-age: the e-age has finally caught up with our Journal  - 26/08/2008 ...... Evaluation of a health promotion intervention for skin cancer prevention in Spain: the SolSano program  - 26/08/2008 The incidence of skin cancer is increasing worldwide, and Spain is no exception. SolSano is the fir...... Health-promoting school development in Zhejiang Province, China  - 26/08/2008 In 2003, after three pilot projects successfully implemented WHO's Health-Promoting Schools (HPS) c...... Using health promotion outcomes in formative evaluation studies to predict success factors in interventions: an application to an intervention for promoting physical activity in Dutch children (JUMP-in)  - 26/08/2008 JUMP-in is a systematically developed intervention aimed at promoting physical activity among prima...... Effectiveness of a brief intervention based on the '5A' model for smoking cessation at the primary care level in Santiago, Chile  - 26/08/2008 Chilean women have the highest smoking rates in Latin America. Prevalence in this population is abo...... Human Resources for Health Human resources for maternal health: multi-purpose or specialists?  - 30/09/2008 A crucial question in the aim to attain MDG5 is whether it can be achieved faster with the scaling u...... Training of front-line health workers for tuberculosis control: lessons from Nigeria and Kyrgyzstan  - 29/09/2008 Background: Efficient human resources development is vital for facilitating tuberculosis control in ...... The health worker recruitment and deployment process in Kenya: an emergency hiring program  - 16/09/2008 Despite a pool of unemployed health staff available in Kenya, staffing levels at most facilities wer...... Incentives for retaining and motivating health workers in Pacific and Asian countries  - 15/09/2008 This paper was initiated by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) after ident...... Developing a competency-based curriculum in HIV for nursing schools in Haiti  - 29/08/2008 Background: Preparing health workers to confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic is an urgent challenge in Hai...... BBC News 'Safer' test developed for Down's  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Scientists develop a blood test that could tell pregnant women if their unborn baby has Down's syndr...... Smoking 'costs the NHS billions'  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Smoking is costing the NHS in England £2.7bn pounds a year, up from £1.7bn a decade earlier, a repor...... Dementia patients 'suffer stigma'  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 The stigma surrounding dementia makes life much harder for many patients suffering the condition, re...... Nobel prize for viral discoveries  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 The discovery of HIV and work linking a virus to cervical cancer jointly win the Nobel Prize for Med...... Pollution linked to appendicitis  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Air pollution may increase risk of developing the life-threatening condition appendicitis, research ...... Single jab cancer therapy backed  - Sun, 05 Oct 2008 A major study has proved a single dose of chemotherapy is the best way to cure testicular cancer in ...... Contraception myths revealed  - Sun, 05 Oct 2008 Women miss out on the best contraception for them because of false beliefs and fears, a snapshot sur...... Hospital tied up elderly patients  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Five pensioners were "inappropriately" restrained by staff at a north-west London hospital, an inqui...... Hospital cleaning chemical fears  - Sun, 05 Oct 2008 Hospitals have been warned not to over-dilute cleaning chemicals amid fears that this could boost an...... The brain creates illusions and superstitions at times of stress  - Fri, 03 Oct 2008 The mind naturally creates illusions and superstitions at times of stress - and this could be adding...... Asthma shower  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Air purification system may cut symptoms...... New era  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Is Dr Beetroot's fall a boost for South Africa's Aids fight?...... Saving mothers  - Sat, 04 Oct 2008 The struggle to cut maternal mortality in Afghanistan...... Tattoo culture  - Sat, 04 Oct 2008 A badge of belonging or a mark of individuality?...... Medical notes  - Mon, 16 Jun 2008 A comprehensive guide to clinical conditions......