Health Policy and Planning

Editorials:

Jonathan D Quick

Essential medicines twenty-five years on: closing the access gap
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 1-3; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review articles:

Damian Walker

Cost and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in developing countries: is there an evidence base?
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 4-17; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.4 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles:

Louisiana Lush, Gill Walt, and Jessica Ogden

Transferring policies for treating sexually transmitted infections: what’s wrong with global guidelines?
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 18-30; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.18 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucy Gilson, Jane Doherty, Sally Lake, Di McIntyre, Chris Mwikisa, and Stephen Thomas

The SAZA study: implementing health financing reform in South Africa and Zambia
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 31-46; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.31 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Di McIntyre, Jane Doherty, and Lucy Gilson

A tale of two visions: the changing fortunes of Social Health Insurance in South Africa
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 47-58; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.47 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rita Giacaman, Hanan F Abdul-Rahim, and Laura Wick

Health sector reform in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT): targeting the forest or the trees?
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 59-67; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.59 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anders Jeppsson, Per-Olof Östergren, and Bo Hagström

Restructuring a ministry of health – an issue of structure and process: a case study from Uganda
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 68-73; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.68 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Soeters and Fred Griffiths

Improving government health services through contract management: a case from Cambodia
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 74-83; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.74 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Soonman Kwon

Payment system reform for health care providers in Korea
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 84-92; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.84 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abdullahel Hadi

Fighting arsenic at the grassroots: experience of BRAC’s community awareness initiative in Bangladesh
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 93-100; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.93 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Asaduzzaman Khan

Factors associated with oral contraceptive discontinuation in rural Bangladesh
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 101-108; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.101 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Ayuku, Wilson Odero, Charles Kaplan, Rene De Bruyn, and Marten De Vries

Social network analysis for health and social interventions among Kenyan scavenging street children
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 109-118; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.109 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan D Quick and Hans V Hogerzeil

Ten best readings in . . . essential medicines
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 119-121; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.119 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews:

John Porter

Public Health Law and Ethics: a reader
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 122; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.122 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes and news:

Conferences
Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 123; doi:10.1093/heapol/18.1.123 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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