New Issue

World Medical & Health Policy

 

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The Policy Studies Organization and Berkeley Electronic Press are pleased to announce the following new issue of World Medical & Health Policy.

Editorial

Medicine, Ethics, and Information Technology: The Road Ahead

Arnauld Nicogossian, Otmar Kloiber, Tom Zimmerman, Anatoly I. Grigoriev, Naoru Koizumi, Jeremy D. Mayer, William Jacobs, and Charles R. Doarn


Invited Articles

Global Perspectives of Pharmacy Education and Practice

Claire Anderson, Ian Bates, Billy Futter, Diane Gal, Mike Rouse, and Sarah Whitmarsh

The Global Role of the Doctor in Healthcare

David Gordon and Stefan C. Lindgren


Invited Commentaries

Transportation and Health: the Good and the Bad

Kenneth J. Button

Reflections on the Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Experience in Argentina

Hebe Vazquez, Cecilia Dignani, Rosa Bologna, Magda Rojas, and Daniel Stamboulian


Letters and Commentaries

The Limited Role of Citizens in Shaping Healthcare Policies

Shahrokh Esfandiari

HIV: The Hidden Face of Human Trafficking

Richard A. Stein


Original Articles

Medical and Public Health Civic Action Programs: Using Health Engagement as a Tool of Foreign Policy

George H. Avery and Bradley J. Boetig

Use of the Balanced Scorecard to Assess Provincial Hospital Performance in Afghanistan

Christine S. Chang, Philippe Bonhoure, Sahibullah Alam, Peter Hansen, and Gilbert Burnham

Access to Care versus Access to Coverage: What Can We Learn from the Louisiana State Hospital Model?

Mary A. Clark

Health System Strengthening Beyond the MDGs for Maternal and Child Health in Malawi: Lessons from Policy Analysis

Judith Melinda Daire and Doris D. Khalil

Assessing the Potential Role of Indian Homeopathic Practitioners in HIV Education and Prevention

Sheba George, Adey Nyamathi, Ann Lowe, Vijay Singh, Anil Khurana, and Divya Taneja

Public-Private Partnership for TB Control in Bangladesh: Role of Private Medical Practitioners in the Management of TB Patients

Abu Naser Zafar Ullah, Rumana Huque, Vikarunnessa Begum, James Newell, and Nancy Gerein

A New Approach to Producing Geographic Profiles of HIV Prevalence: An Application to Malawi

Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Peter Lanjouw

Disease Mongering in Psychiatry: Is It Fact or Fiction?

Sahoo Saddichha

Social Capital and Health in Latin America: Ecological and Individual Level Analyses

Jaime C. Sapag and Ichiro Kawachi

Stem Cells, Cloning, and Political Liberalism

Bonnie B. Stabile

Behavioral Features of Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Harbin, China

Houlin Tang, Weidong Zhang, and Fan Lv

The Ecology of Health Policymaking and Reform in the U.S.A.

Sunday E. Ubokudom and Jagdish Khubchandani

Addressing the Inadequacies of the Current Healthcare Model with a Universal Healthcare System in the United States

Angelo Homayoun All


Policy Forum

How to Find the Right Approach to Quality Measurement: Determinants of Quality and Its Measurement in Healthcare

Christian Thielscher


Medical and Health Technology

Technology Implications in Global Health

Charles R. Doarn


Book Reviews

A Review of T.R. Reid's The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

Jeremy D. Mayer

Review of L.H. Kahn's Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises

Arnauld Nicogossian

Review of G. Trotter's "The Ethics of Coercion in Mass Casualty Medicine"

Len Singer


In the News

In the News

William Jacobs and Arnauld Nicogossian


PSO Proceedings

Proceedings of the PSO, New Series no. 7

Daniel I. Gutierrez-Sandoval

About this journal

World Medical & Health Policy studies the ways that public policy affects the practice of medicine. Though medical practice itself focuses on the individual patient, it occurs in an increasingly complex global environment to be governed by macro-level policy decisions with social and economic contexts. Diseases, patients, treatments, doctors, and medical technology spread and travel around the world, and medical practice is now as much subject to global policy decisions as it is to micro-level clinical practices. The mission of World Medical & Health Policy is to publish evidence-based research on the intersection of public policy and medical practice, and to translate it into policy implications and recommendations. Edited by a group of medical doctors, medical researchers, and policy scholars from the World Medical Association and George Mason University, the journal helps clinicians navigate the often tangled world of policies, regulation, medical ethics, procedures, and helps policymakers design policies that improve health outcomes.

World Medical & Health Policy is indexed in CAB Abstracts, PAIS International (CSA), Scopus, Social Work Abstracts, and WorldCat.

Edited by

Arnauld Nicogossian
George Mason University

Otmar Kloiber
World Medical Association

Thomas Zimmerman
International Society of Microbial Resistance

Anatoly Grigoriev
Russian Academy of Sciences

Bonnie Stabile
George Mason University

Naoru Koizumi
George Mason University

Jessica Heineman-Pieper
George Mason University

Call for Papers
The editors of World Medical & Health Policy invite your submissions on topics germane to the mission of the journal. Please visit the Aims & Scope page for more information.
 

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