MATERIALS AND METHODS The breathing pattern in the supine position was recorded
utilizing the respiratory inductive plethysmograph in 47 young (50 years) and 18 old (60 years) …

Although access to health care is frequently identified as a goal for health care policy, the
precise meaning of access to health care often remains unclear. We present a conceptual …

We measured the breathing pattern of normal subjects, asymptomatic smokers, asymptomatic
and symptomatic asthmatic patients, and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary …

Objective To evaluate trials of acupuncture for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee, to assess the
methodologic quality of the trials and determine whether low‐quality trials are associated with …

… Stephen Birch would like to acknowledge … we show elsewhere [Birch and Gafni (1991)]
that any of the suggested definitions would appear to be consistent with the welfare economics …

This article examines the degree to which relationships between social capital and health
are embedded in local geographical contexts and influenced by demographic factors, socio-…

Despite the central role of the threshold incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), or
lambda (λ), in the methods and application of cost-effective analysis (CEA), little attention has …

Background South Africa’s maternal mortality rate (625 deaths/100,000 live births) is high
for a middle-income country, although over 90% of pregnant women utilize maternal health …

The application of Sen's notion of capabilities to problems of the allocation of resources to
health in the form of an extra-welfarist framework underlies the justification of quality adjusted …

Researchers examining the efficacy of medical procedures make assumptions about the
nature of placebo. From these assumptions they select the sham interventions to be used in …