BACKGROUND Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are potential instruments to enable private collaboration in the health sector. Despite theoretical debate, empirical analyses have thus far tended to focus on the contractual or project dimension, overlooking institutional PPPs, i.e., formal legal entities run by proper corporate-governance mechanisms and jointly owned by public and private parties...

The design of the entire system was carried out by the National Center for Informatics in the Public Administration of Italy (DigitPA), followed by efforts for the implementation and testing of the service. The DigitPA has given the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and in particular the Institute of Information Science and Technologies at the CNR (ISTI), the task of running tests on pro...

On January 1, 1947, it was just one hundred years since the first medical officer of health was appointed in Britain,Dr. Duncan of Liverpool. Much public health history has been made during these years and the century is punctuated with dates of special significance. None is likely to be of greater significance than that in which the National Health Service Bill became an Act of Parliament. Man...

Given the prevalence of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation in modern societies, and the correlation between sleepiness and work and driving accidents, the excessive daytime sleepiness is an important issue. Although many studies showed that patients with untreated Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) and narcolepsy have an higher risk for driving accidents, neither the European Community...

OBJECTIVE: beta-blockers have provided evidence of improving survival in chronic heart failure patients. Specifically, the Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study II has shown a significant reduction in mortality and morbidity among patients with moderate to severe chronic heart failure treated with bisoprolol. Our aim was to investigate the economic consequence of bisoprolol therapy in chronic ...

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 achieving its long-term purpose to remould the british state. powell seeks greater clarity amidst the confusion but the lack of clarity is a principal weapon in the government’s...

This article reviews how Italian National Health Service (NHS) pediatricians have tried to fulfill the obligations of modern primary care providers in a managed care environment, with special reference to the experience of the Veneto region in Italy and compares this situation with the present changes of the health system in the United States. Italian NHS primary care pediatricians work indepen...