Health care beyond professional health systems: The sociocultural context

Population health systems: going beyond integrated care

Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?

Patient and user choice are at the forefront of the debate on the future direction of health and public services provision in many industrialized countries in Europe and elsewhere. It is used both, as a means to achieve desired policy goals in public health care systems such as greater efficiency and improved quality of care, and as a good with its own intrinsic value. However, the evidence sug...

Health in global context; beyond the social determinants of health?

The rise of the social determinants of health (SDH) discourse on the basis of statistical evidence that correlates ill health to SDH and pictures causal pathways in comprehensive theoretical frameworks led to widespread awareness that health and health disparities are the outcome of complex pathways of interconnecting SDH. In this paper we explore whether and how SDH frameworks can be translate...

What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

Letter to Editor

Beyond health care--socioeconomic status and health.

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