Special issue: Public affairs and health informatics research

International Journal of Public Policy 8 (1-3) 2012

• Why healthcare became so expensive in China? The transformation of healthcare financing during Chinese economic development
• Nursing home research in Jinan, China: a focus group approach
• Factors influencing Chinese long-term care
• The challenges measuring the effectiveness of a statewide Medicaid long-term care managed care programme: the Florida experience
• A decomposition of income-related inequality in EQ-5D: a South Korea study
• Recommendations for the design of an integrated informatics policy in Costa Rica
• Provider perceptions of electronic medical records and e-prescribing and their integration into safety net clinics
• Organisational factors associated with adoption of comprehensive and basic electronic-record systems in US hospitals
• Planning for pharmacy information systems among US hospitals
• Mining medical claims data with exploratory to confirmatory statistical methods
• Health consumer susceptibility to medical care fraud: an exploratory analysis
• Comparison of technical efficiency of South Korean and Vietnamese public hospitals in 2006-2009
• Failed alternative development programs: an implementation analysis of coca supply-reduction programs in Bolivia
• Factors affecting job satisfaction among public servants: a South Korean case