the editorial by jeremy shiffman, “knowledge, moral claims and the exercise of power in global health”, highlights the influence on global health priority-setting of individuals and organizations that do not have a formal political mandate. this sheds light on the way key functions in global health depend on private funding, particularly from the bill & melinda gates foundation.

BACKGROUND Japan's National Database (NDB) includes data on health checks and health insurance claims, is linkable using hash functions, and is available for research use. However, the linkage rate between health check and health insurance claims data has not been investigated. METHODS Linkage rate was evaluated by comparing observed medical and pharmaceutical charges among health check recip...

OBJECTIVE To describe the use of nutrition and health claims in products directed at children via television in Spain and to analyse their nutrient profile. METHODS A cross-sectional study of television food advertisements over 7 days in five Spanish television channels popular among children. The products were classified as core, non-core or miscellaneous, and as either healthy or less healt...

I. INTRODUCTION Prior to 1984, federal regulations effectively prohibited health claims in food labeling and advertising .' In recent years, however, public policy makers have taken a more permissive approach. 2 The result has been a proliferation of claims in food advertising suggesting that use of a product decreases the risk of certain chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, high b...

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adopting general requirements pertaining to: (1) The use of health claims that characterize the relationship of a substance to a disease or health related condition on the labels and in labeling of foods in conventional food form (conventional foods), and (2) the content of petitions regarding the use of such health, claims pertaining to specif...

National Health Service (NHS) statistics in the United Kingdom demonstrate an increase in clinical negligence claims over the past 30 years. Reasons for this include elements of a cultural shift in attitudes toward the medical profession and the growth of the legal services industry. This issue affects medical and surgical health providers worldwide.The authors analyzed 2117 NHS Litigation Auth...

Health claims may contribute to better informed and healthier food choices and to improved industrial competitiveness by marketing foods that support healthier lifestyles in line with consumer preferences. With the more stringent European Union regulation of nutrition and health claims, insights into consumers' health-related goal patterns and their reactions towards such claims are needed to i...

BACKGROUND A robust medical claims review system is crucial for addressing fraud and abuse and ensuring financial viability of health insurance organisations. This paper assesses claims adjustment rate of the paper- and electronic-based claims reviews of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional comparative assessment of paper- and electroni...

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. This article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.