Population health is a relatively new term that has not yet been precisely defined. Is it a concept
of health or a field of study of health determinants? We propose that the definition be “the …

The purpose of economic evaluation is to inform decisions intended to improve healthcare.
The new edition of Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes equips …

Despite twenty years of work on supplier-induced demand (SID) there has been little
discussion or investigation of how inducement affects the health of patients. We develop a …

The authors’ 1990 article “Producing Health, Consuming Health Care” presented a
conceptual framework for synthesizing a rapidly growing body of findings on the nonmedical …

Background: It has been shown that patients cared for at private for-profit hospitals have
higher risk-adjusted mortality rates than those cared for at private not-for-profit hospitals. …

Objectives. This study sought to determine whether income inequality, household income,
and their interaction are associated with health status. Methods. Income inequality and area …

While there is a large and growing literature investigating the relationship between an
individual's employment status and health, considerably less is known about the effect on this …

Economic issues have had a growing importance in the health care field as the sector's share
of the gross national product has risen. Clinicians are under increasing pressure to adopt …

Until the past decade, physicians were content to base therapeutic decisions on the clinical
diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis. Subsequently, numerous studies demonstrated that …

The Centre for Health Services and Policy Research was established by the Board of Governors
of the University of British Columbia in December 1990. It was officially opened in July …