World Health Organization - Health & Human Rights team
Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights - 2009

Available online at: http://www.who.int/hhr/activities/factsheets/en/index.html

Kannika Damrongplasit,postdoctoral research fellow in health services at the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, and the RAND Corp.
Glenn Melnick, professor and Blue Cross of California Chair of Health Care Finance at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and a senior economist with RAND in Santa Monica.
HEALTH AFFAIRS - Web Exclusive – March 31, 2009
Project HOPE–The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc

Available online at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.28.3.w457/DC1

Experience In Thailand After Universal Coverage

Exploring the reasons why some households still incur high levels of spending--even under universal coverage--
can help policymakers devise solutions.

Tewarit Somkotra, a lecturer on the faculty of dentistry at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Leizel Lagrada is in the Department of Health Policy Sciences at Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Tokyo, Japan.
HEALTH AFFAIRS - Web Exclusive – March 31, 2009
Project HOPE–The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc

Textbook Project:

HDCA Textbook convened by Séverine Deneulin
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, Oxford Department of International Development
Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK 2009
** These are draft chapters for comments only. They are not to be cited or reproduced without the permission of the authors.**

Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2008 for and on behalf of the
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), 2008

Available online as PDF file [288p.] at:
http://www.unchs.org/pmss/getElectronicVersion.asp?nr=2562&alt=1

Special Edition of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management:

April/June 2009, Volume 32, Issue 2 at: http://www.ambulatorycaremanagement.com/

From the preface:

March 27, 2009

There is an emerging consensus that health reform must encompass ways to improve quality and value in the system, and one of the prime targets for reform is the way care is delivered. Some health care organizations have combined thoughtful use of technology and better use of personnel to improve preventive care and treatment of chronic disease, obtain better outcomes, and offer additional job satisfaction to their health care workforce. This briefing, sponsored by the Alliance, Kaiser Permanente and the AFL-CIO, explored ways to enhance a team approach to care.

National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)

Website: http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hsr_project/home_proj.cfm

A free, online database of current HSR projects. HSRProj contains descriptions on more than 6,000 ongoing health services research projects funded by government and state agencies, foundations, and private organizations.

J P Ruger
J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:998–100

Website: http://jech.bmj.com

Article: http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/60/11/998?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&author1=ruger&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&fdate=//&tdate=//&resourcetype=HWCIT,HWELTR

Background:

IMF International Monetary Fund
Working Paper No. 09/61: March 2009
Tsounta, Evridiki

Available online as PDF [37p.] at: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2009/wp0961.pdf

“……Despite the increasing interest in universal health care, little is known about the optimal way to finance, design, and implement it. This paper attempts to fill this gap by providing some general policy recommendations on this important issue. While most of the paper addresses the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries, its policy implications are applicable to any country.