Volume 86, Number 11, November, 817-908

THIS MONTH'S SPECIAL THEME: HEALTH FINANCING

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Special theme issue: health financing; Primary health care; Formula funding; Health promotion; Barriers to reform; Solidarity gains; Ready for change; Priority health care; Devolution for health; Big steps; Public-private divide; Fragmented systems; Out-of-pocket payments; Roundtable discussion; Public health classic; User fees, Taxes and aid; risks of receiving aid; Universal coverage; Debt relief and health
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EDITORIALS

Exploring the features of universal coverage
- Guy Carrin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060137
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Universal coverage and health financing from China's perspective
- Shanlian Hu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060046
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The positive contributions of global health initiatives
- Prerna Banati & Jean-Paul Moatti
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049361
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NEWS

News
Making health care affordable in China
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Sharing the burden of sickness: mutual health insurance in Rwanda
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Public tensions, private woes in Chile
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Portugal's rapid progress through primary health care
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Recent news from WHO
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Time is ripe for health-care reform. An interview with Paul Krugman
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Devolved power: key for health care in India. An interview with Michael Tharakan.
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RESEARCH

Effect of mutual health organizations on use of priority health-care services in urban and rural Mali: a case-control study
- Lynne Miller Franco et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051045
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The impact of user fees on health service utilization in low- and middle-income countries: how strong is the evidence?
- Mylene Lagarde & Natasha Palmer
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049197
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Coping with out-of-pocket health payments: empirical evidence from 15 African countries
- Adam Leive & Ke Xu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049403
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POLICY & PRACTICE

Universal coverage of health services: tailoring its implementation
- Guy Carrin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049387
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Development assistance for health: should policy-makers worry about its macroeconomic impact?
- Eleonora Cavagnero et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053090
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Beyond fragmentation and towards universal coverage: insights from Ghana, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania
- Diana McIntyre et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053413
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Are current debt relief initiatives an option for scaling up health financing in beneficiary countries?
- M Kaddar & E Furrer
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053686
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Resource allocation and purchasing in the health sector: the English experience
- Peter C Smith
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049528
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ROUND TABLE

Can coutnries of the WHO Africa region wean themselves off donor funding for health?
- Joses Muthuri Kirigia & Alimata J Diarry-Nama
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054932
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Impossible to "wean" when more aid is needed
- Gorik Ooms & Wim Van Damme
doi: 10.241/BLT.08.059485
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Response to Ooms and Van Damme
- Joses Muthuri Kirigia & Alimata J Diarra-Nama
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060079
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The role of aid in the long term
- Felix Masiye
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058156
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PERSPECTIVES

Financing health promotion in Japan and Mongolia
- Dorjsuren Bayarsaikhan
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052126
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Can earmarking mobilize and sustain resources to the health sector?
- Phusit Prakongsai et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049593
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Constraints and obstacles to social health protection in the Maghreb: the cases of Algeria and Morocco
- Driss Zine-Eddine El-Idrissi et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053736
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS

The case for public intervention in financing health and medical services
- Jacky Mathonnat
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055707
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Research capacity for mental health in low- and middle-income countries: results of a mapping project
- Feng Wei
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053249
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LETTERS

Corrections needed to Pakistani programme details
- Yasir Bin Nisar
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058131
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A need to improve quality, rigour and dissemination of operations research
- Tove Ryman & Vance Dietz
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047019
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