Volume 5, Issue 1
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The Challenge of Complementary and Alternative Medicine After Austerity: A Response to Recent Commentaries
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is frequently used in Portugal and it contributes to the improvement of people's health. CAM and Western Medicine (WM) are taken as complements both in the diagnosis and ...
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Cross-Border Mobility in Italy: Some Considerations in Response to the Recent Commentaries
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)
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What Makes Whistleblowers So Threatening?; Comment on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Whistleblowing is defined by the retaliation that those who speak out receive. Why some organizations find it almost impossible not to retaliate depends more on the properties of the organization than the act of the ...
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Policy Capacity for Health Reform: Necessary but Insufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress ...
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Whistleblowing Need not Occur if Internal Voices Are Heard: From Deaf Effect to Hearer Courage; Comment on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Whistleblowing by health professionals is an infrequent and extraordinary event and need not occur if internal voices are heard. Mannion and Davies' editorial on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of ...
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On Management Matters: Why We Must Improve Public Health Management Through Action; Comment on “Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Public health management is a pillar of public health practice. Only through effective management can research, theory, and scientific innovation be translated into successful public health action. With this in mind, the ...
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The Role of Employee Whistleblowing and Raising Concerns in an Organizational Learning Culture – Elusive and Laudable?; Comment on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)It is inevitable that healthcare workers throughout their careers will witness actual or potential threats to patient safety in the course of their work. Some of these threats will result in serious harm occurring to others, ...
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The Slow, Lingering Death of the English NHS; Comment on “Who Killed the English National Health Service?”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) may be slow in coming but that does not mean that it is not the Conservative-led UK government's desired end state. The government is displaying tactical cunning in ...
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Care Seeking Patterns of STIs-Associated Symptoms in Iran: Findings of a Population-Based Survey
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Background Understanding the prevalence of symptoms associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and how care is sought for those symptoms are important components of STIs control and prevention. People's ...
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Accelerate Implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel: Experiences From the South East Asia Region; Comment on “Relevance and Effectiveness of the WHO Global Code Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel – Ethical and Systems Perspectives”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Strengthening the health workforce and universal health coverage (UHC) are among key targets in the heathrelated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be committed by the United Nations (UN) Member States in September ...
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Introducing New Priority Setting and Resource Allocation Processes in a Canadian Healthcare Organization: A Case Study Analysis Informed by Multiple Streams Theory
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Background In this article, we analyze one case instance of how proposals for change to the priority setting and resource allocation (PSRA) processes at a Canadian healthcare institution reached the decision agenda ...
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The Relationship Between the Scope of Essential Health Benefits and Statutory Financing: An International Comparison Across Eight European Countries
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)Background Both rising healthcare costs and the global financial crisis have fueled a search for policy tools in order to avoid unsustainable future financing of essential health benefits. The scope of essential ...
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Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, ...
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Is It More Important to Address the Issue of Patient Mobility or to Guarantee Universal Health Coverage in Europe?; Comment on “Regional Incentives and Patient Cross-Border Mobility: Evidence From the Italian Experience”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)This paper discusses whether European institutions should devote so much attention and funding to cross-border healthcare or they should instead prioritise guaranteeing universal health coverage ...
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Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-01-01)All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by ...
