OBJECTIVE The objective of the paper is to describe the impact of Spanish psychiatric reform on the organization and functioning of mental health services. METHOD This paper is based on official administrative reports and on relevant related publications. RESULTS The most significant achievements of Spanish psychiatric reform have been: (i) the development of a new organization of mental he...

Financial bottlenecks – budget shortfalls, irregular funding flows, lack of flexibility in the use of public revenues – are major challenges for countries as they strive towards providing universal health coverage (UHC). To help countries achieve sustainable funding for UHC, World Health Organization (WHO) economists are developing a package of technical support for health ministries, so that t...

AP Betran, MR Torloni, JJ Zhang, AM G€ ulmezoglu, for the WHO Working Group on Caesarean Section* a UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland b Brazilian Cochrane Center and Department of Obstetrics, S~ao Paulo School o...

Highlights Q The Good: Sweeping reform plan does not pass because it is too costly to be financed without huge taxes. But, healthcare disinflation continues; drug companies keep their pricing increases to CPI or CPI + 1%. Health supply/device stocks unit growth flattens, but best companies still achieve 12-15% growth. Firms withdraw from marginal businesses, trim sales forces/product lines and ...

shiffman rightly raises questions about who exercises power in global health, suggesting power is a complex concept, and the way it is exercised is often opaque. power that is not based on financial strength but on knowledge or experience, is difficult to estimate, and yet it may provide the legitimacy to make moral claims on what is, or ought to be, on global health agendas. twenty years ago p...

AIMS OF THE STUDY This study wants to examine the availability of Belgian healthcare data in the three main international health databases: the World Health Organization European Health for All Database (WHO-HFA), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Health Data 2009 and EUROSTAT. METHODS For the indicators present in the three databases, the availability of Belgian data...

As health care delivery organizations react to the changes brought about by public and private sector reform initiatives, RNs can anticipate that, in addition to intended outcomes, there will be unpredictable pressures and unintended consequences arising from reform. Biennial national surveys of RNs conducted over the past decade have explored various changes in the nursing workforce, quality o...