Global Studies In Health Affairs' March Issue

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27 Feb, 2015, 14:00 GMT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The March variety of Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy, contains several studies about global health.  The study titles, authors, and a description of one study is below.

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English National Health Services's Savings Plan May Have Helped Reduce The Use Of Three 'Low-Value' Procedures; Sophie Coronini-Cronberg of Imperial College London and co-authors

A flattening budget coupled with growing service demand drove the UK's National Health Service (NHS) to seek spending cumulative efficiency savings of 17 percent over four years beginning in 2011.  Identifying ineffective, overused, or inappropriate procedures was largely left to the local commissioning organizations to implement.  The authors identified six high-volume but low-value procedures and two benchmark procedures in England and compared their rates between 2002 and 2011 with the changes seen in the first year of efficiency savings, beginning in fiscal year 2011.  The authors found significant reductions in three of the six procedures in the program's first year and no change in benchmark procedures, compared to prior years' trends. 

ALSO:

  • New Analysis Reexamines The Value Of Cancer Care In The United States Compared To Western Europe; Samir Soneji of Dartmouth College (US) and co-author
  • In Tanzania, The Many Costs Of Pay-For-Performance Leave Open TO Debate Whether The Strategy Is Cost-Effective; Josephine Borghi of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-authors
  • Compulsory Licensing Often Did Not Produce Lower Prices For Antiretrovirals Compared To International Procurement; Reed F. Beall of the University of Ottawa (Canada) and co-authors
  • Reflections On The 20th Anniversary Of Taiwan's Single-Payer National Health Insurance System; Tsung-Mei Cheng of Princeton University (US)
  • People In Sub-Saharan Africa Rate Their Health And Health Care Among The Lowest In The World; Angus S. Deaton of Princeton University (US) and co-author

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