The author defines some central concepts for construction of the subject of "public health organizations". The concept of culture is exceedingly broad, and must be adjusted to the types of particular phenomena analyzed. As perceived in a public health organization, culture implies phenomena belonging to different social dimensions and which can be grasped through the concepts of political, civi...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...