Special issue: Evidence-based research for improving health and public affairs as extended to global health affairs

International Journal of Public Policy 5(2/3) 2010

• Global health research strategies
• Comparison of nursing home care between the USA and China
• Evidence based medicine as a strategy for quality improvement
• Nursing home quality: does financial performance matter?
• Transfer from a home and community-based long-term care program to a nursing home: the Ohio experience
• Patient satisfaction in hospital-based emergency departments: recommendation for healthcare management and policy
• System transformation: USA and international strategies in healthcare organisation and policy
• The diffusion of bariatric surgery programs within US community hospitals, 1995 to 2000
• Pursuing an extension of the 'Minnowbrook spirit' in the US healthcare system
• Healthcare access, socioeconomic factors and late-stage cancer diagnosis: an exploratory spatial analysis and public policy implication
• Determinants of primary care physicians' referral pattern: a structural equation model approach
• Job design and the psychological status of Taiwanese pharmacists on job outcomes: an application of the job characteristics model