Measuring socioeconomic differences in use of health care services by wealth versus by income (2009)
Optimism and the perceptions of new risks (2009)
Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline
While many risks, especially new ones, are not objectively quantifiable, individuals still form perceptions of risks using incomplete or unclear evidence about the true nature of those risks. In the...
Private health insurance and the internal market (2009)
Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias
Commentators increasingly have highlighted that there is a dissonance in the European approach to health policy. Within the European Union, the Treaties stipulate healthcare as an area of exclusive...
Financing health care in the European Union: challenges and policy responses (2009)
Thomson, Sarah, Foubister, Thomas, Mossialos, Elias
Health care systems across the European Union face a common challenge: the high cost of health care. Governments strive to ensure that cost pressures do not undermine values such as universal...
Private health insurance in the European Union (2009)
Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias
This report provides an overview and analysis of markets for private health insurance (PHI) in the European Union (EU). Part 1 reviews market role, size, structure and conduct and public policy...
When is the Internet a valued communication device for health information in Europe? (2009)
Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline
The proliferation of new information and communication technologies such as the Internet has arguably changed the way individuals update the information they use to prevent illness and monitor their...
Optimism and the perceptions of new risks (2009)
Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline
While many risks, especially new ones, are not objectively quantifiable, individuals still form perceptions of risks using incomplete or unclear evidence about the true nature of those risks. In the...
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Carl-ardy Dubois, Martin Mckee, Ellen Nolte, Edited Josep Figueras, Martin Mckee, Elias Mossialos, ...
The views expressed by authors or editors do not necessarily represent the decisions or the stated policies of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies or any of its partners. The...
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is an international (2008)
Elias Mossialos, Monique Mrazek, Tom Walley
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Series
department \ lse – health (2008)
Elias Mossialos, Martin Mckee, Advantil Jorbenadze, Naken Kasiev, Eduard Kovác, Bozo Ljubic, ...
on unofficial payments for health care
Luka Voncina, Nadia Jemiai, Sherry Merkur, Christina Golna, Akiko Maeda, Shiyan Chao, ...
Bernd Rechel, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Ladurner, Joy, Mossialos, Elias, Merkur, Sherry, Lear, Julia
Der Artikel präsentiert Ergebnisse der Studie „Qualität in Gesundheitssystemen – mit Schwerpunkt auf strategischen Optionen für Österreich“ des Hauptverbandes und der London School of...
Josep Figueras, Ray Robinson, Elke Jakubowski, Edited Josep Figueras, Martin Mckee, Elias Mossialos, ...
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Richard B. Saltman, Reinhard Busse, Elias Mossialos, Regulating Entrepreneurial
The series The volumes in this series focus on key issues for health policy-making in Europe. Each study explores the conceptual background, outcomes and lessons learned about the development of more...
Physician revalidation in Europe (2008)
Merkur, Sherry, Mossialos, Elias, Long, Morgan, McKee, Martin
Despite the increasing attention on patient mobility, there remains a lack of European-level interest in assuring the sustained competence of health professionals. Specifically, the existing European...
Are feelings of genetically modified food politically driven? (2008)
Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline
Political affiliation can play a key role in shaping interest towards and emotions about new technologies such as genetically modified (GM) food. This paper examines the extent to which emotional...
Gemmill, Marin C, Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias
Abstract As pharmaceutical expenditure continues to rise, third-party payers in most high-income countries have increasingly shifted the burden of payment for prescription drugs to patients. A large...
Gemmill, Marin C., Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias
As pharmaceutical expenditure continues to rise, third-party payers in most high-income countries have increasingly shifted the burden of payment for prescription drugs to patients. A large body of...
Mossialos, Elias, Costa-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline
Abstract Background Maintaining adequately high organ donation rates proves essential to offering patients all appropriate and available treatment options. However, the act of donation is in itself...
Do lifelong learning and revalidation ensure that physicians are fit to practise? (2008)
Merkur, Sherry, Mladovsky, Philipa, Mossialos, Elias, McKee, Martin
Health care financing in the context of social security (2008)
Thomson, Sarah, Foubister, Thomas, Mossialos, Elias
In view of increasing cost pressures, this paper aims to provide guidance to national EU policy-makers faced with the challenge of reconciling financial sustainability of health systems with the...
Mladovsky, Philipa, Mossialos, Elias
The international policy model linking community-based health insurance (CBHI) and universal coverage for health care in low-income countries is implicitly determined by the development of mutual...
Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline
Background Maintaining adequately high organ donation rates proves essential to offering patients all appropriate and available treatment options. However, the act of donation is in itself an...
Mental health policy and practice across Europe : the future direction of mental health care (2007)
Knapp, Martin, McDaid, David, Mossialos, Elias, Thornicroft, Graham
Mental health policy and practice across Europe : the future direction of mental health care (2007)
Knapp, Martin, McDaid, David, Mossialos, Elias, Thornicroft, Graham
Mental health policy and practise across Europe: an overview (2007)
Knapp, Martin, McDaid, David, Thornicroft, Graham, Mossialos, Elias
Mental health policy and practice across Europe: the future direction of mental health care (2007)
Knapp, Martin, McDaid, David, Mossialos, Elias, Thornicroft, Graham
Mental health policy and practise across Europe: an overview (2007)
Knapp, Martin, McDaid, David, Thornicroft, Graham, Mossialos, Elias
Health systems in transition: template for analysis (2007)
Mossialos, Elias, Allin, Sara, Figueras, Josep, Busse, Reinnhard, Dixon, Anna, Grosse-Tebbe, Susanne, ...
Allin, Sara, Masseria, C., Mossialos, Elias
Horizontal equity in health care service use is an area that remains relatively unexamined in the literature on older people. The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent of income-related...
Diabetes and urbanization in the Omani population: an analysis of national survey data (2006)
Al-Moosa, Siba, Allin, Sara, Jemiai, Nadia, Al-Lawati, Jawad, Mossialos, Elias
Abstract Background The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Oman is high and appears to be rising. Rising rates of diabetes and associated risk factors have been observed in populations undergoing...
Diabetes and urbanization in the Omani population: an analysis of national survey data (2006)
Al-moosa, Siba, Allin, Sara, Jemiai, Nadia, Al-Lawati, Jawad, Mossialos, Elias
Diabetes and urbanization in the Omani population: an analysis of national survey data (2006)
Al-moosa, Siba, Allin, Sara, Jemiai, Nadia, Al-Lawati, Jawad, Mossialos, Elias
Novotny, Thomas E, Mordini, Emilio, Chadwick, Ruth, Pedersen, J. Martin, Fabbri, Fabrizio, Lie, Reidar, ...
Thomas E. Novotny, Emilio Mordini, Ruth Chadwick, J. Martin Pedersen, Fabrizio Fabbri, Reidar Lie, ...
The BIG project looks at some of the ethical concerns surrounding globalization and health.
Thomas E. Novotny, Emilio Mordini, Ruth Chadwick, J. Martin Pedersen, Fabrizio Fabbri, Reidar Lie, ...
Permanand, Govin, Novotny, Thomas E, Mordini, Emilio, Chadwick, Ruth, Pedersen, J Martin, Fabbri, Fabrizio, ...
Permanand, Govin, Novotny, Thomas E, Mordini, Emilio, Chadwick, Ruth, Pedersen, J Martin, Fabbri, Fabrizio, ...
Novotny, Thomas, Mordini, Emilio, Chadwick, Ruth, Pedersen, J. Martin, Fabbri, Fabrizio, Lie, Reidar, ...
Novotny, Thomas E., Mordini, Emilio, Chadwick, Ruth, Pedersen, J. Martin, Fabbri, Fabrizio, Lie, Reidar, ...
The term “globalization” was popularized by Marshall McLuhan in War and Peace in the Global Village. In the book, McLuhan described how the global media shaped current events surrounding the...
Private medical insurance in the United Kingdom (2006)
Foubister, T, Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias, McGuire, Alistair
Private medical insurance in the United Kingdom (2006)
Foubister, T, Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias, McGuire, Alistair
Mladovsky, Philipa, Mossialos, Elias
Current thinking in major international development agencies construes community-based health insurance (CBHI) as a transitional mechanism to achieving universal coverage for health care in...
Private medical insurance in the United Kingdom (2006)
Foubister, Thomas, Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias, McGuire, Alistair
Mossialos, Elias, Oliver, Adam
This issue was guest edited by the authors listed.
Special issue: "Analysing the impact of health system changes in the EU member states" (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Maynard, Alan
This issue was edited by the authors listed.
Special Issue: Analysing the Impact of Health System Changes in the EU Member States (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Maynard, Alan
Editors of this special issue of the journal Health Economics.
Provider incentives and prescribing behaviour in Europe (2005)
Mossialos, Elias, Walley, Tom, Rudisill, Caroline
European policy makers have increasingly moved from primarily focusing on supply-side regulation of pharmaceutical costs to offering incentives for providers’ prescribing behavior. The nature and...
Special issue: "Legacies and latitude in European health policy" (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Wilsford, David
This issue was guest edited by the authors listed.
Special Issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy' (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Wilsford, David
Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos and David Wilsford are the editors of this special issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy'.
Mossialos, Elias, Oliver, Adam
The regulation of pharmaceutical markets is an important policy concern in many countries, and is generally undertaken with cost containment, efficiency, quality and equity objectives in mind. This...
Special Issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy' (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Wilsford, David
Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos and David Wilsford are the editors of this special issue on 'Legacies and latitude in European health policy'.
Public policy and the Austrian pharmaceutical market: options for reform (2005)
Mossialos, Elias, Ziniel, Georg, Merkur, Sherry, Walley, Tom, McGuire, Alistair
Gregory P. Marchildon, Sara Allin, Elias Mossialos
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The Wanless report and decision-making in public health (2005)
Allin, Sara, Mossialos, Elias, Holland, Walter, McKee, Martin
Plusca Change: Health Sector Reforms in Greece (2005)
Davaki, Konstantina, Mossialos, Elias
Changes in the health care sector in Greece since the pathbreaking introduction of the National Health System (NHS) in 1983 have been sluggish. Twenty years after its inception and a series of...
European Health Systems Reforms: Looking Backward to See Forward? (2005)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias
In this article we outline the different schools of new institutionalism and a few other selected political science theories. Moreover, we relate the insights offered by a series of analyses of...
The Wanless report and decision-making in public health (2005)
Allin, Sara, Mossialos, Elias, McKee, Martin, Holland, Walter
The Wanless report and decision-making in public health (2005)
Allin, Sara, Mossialos, Elias, McKee, Martin, Holland, Walter
Report on private medical insurance to the UK Department of Health (2005)
McGuire, Alistair, Foubister, Thomas, Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias
Connecting technology assessment to priorities in health care [special issue of journal] (2004)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Robinson, Ray
Editors of this special issue of journal.
Equity of access to health care : outlining the foundations for action (2004)
Oliver, Adam J., Mossialos, Elias
The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based...
Equity of access to health care : outlining the foundations for action (2004)
Oliver, Adam J., Mossialos, Elias
The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based...
Health care systems in transition: Cyprus (2004)
Golna, C, Pashardes, P, Allin, Sara, Theodorou, M, Merkur, Sherry, Mossialos, Elias
EMEA and the evaluation of health-related quality of life data in the drug regulatory process (2004)
Equity of access to health care: outlining the foundations for action (2004)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias
The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based...
Health technology assessment and its influence on health-care priority setting (2004)
Oliver, Adam, Mossialos, Elias, Robinson, Ray
In this article, we review the development of health technology assessment (HTA) in England and Wales, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden, and we summarize the reaction to these developments from a...
Health care systems in transition: Cyprus (2004)
Golna, C, Pashardes, P, Allin, Sara, Theodorou, M, Merkur, Sherry, Mossialos, Elias
EMEA and the evaluation of health-related quality of life data in the drug regulatory process (2004)
Health care systems in transition: Cyprus (2004)
Golna, Christina, Pashardes, Panos, Allin, Sara, Theodorou, Mamas, Merkur, Sherry, Mossialos, Elias
Health and health systems in the new member states of the European Union (2004)
Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias, McKee, M., Nolte, E., Allin, Sara
DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE EVALUATION STUDIES FINANCING, HEALTH (2004)
Simone Sandier, Valérie Paris, Dominique Polton, Sarah Thomson, Elias Mossialos, Health Care Reform
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is a partnership
The regulation of pharmacies in six countries: report prepared for the Office of Fair Trading (2003)
Mossialos, Elias, Mrazek, Monique F.
Annex C of: The control of entry regulations and retail pharmacy services in the UK
Entrepreneurial behaviour in pharmaceutical markets and the effects of regulation (2002)
Mossialos, Elias, Mrazek, Monique. F
Contending that European policy makers, in their efforts to protect patient's health, have enacted an overly bureaucratic and static regulatory regime, this collection of 11 papers argues for a new...
The influence of EU law on the social character of health care systems (2002)
Mossialos, Elias, McKee, Martin
European law is an increasingly important factor in the development and implementation of national and local health policy. Yet for many it remains shrouded in mystery. The situation with regard to...
Health care systems in transition: Denmark (2001)
Vallgårda, Signild, Krasnik, Allan, Vrangbæk, Karsten, Thomson, Sarah (ed.), Mossialos, Elias (ed.)
Early entrance to the job market and its effect on adult health: evidence from Brazil (2001)
Kassouf, Ana Lúcia, McKee, Martin, Mossialos, Elias
Objective: To determine the effect of employment in childhood on self-reported health in adulthood. Method: A cross-sectional household survey, with households selected through two-stage sampling, in...
Joan Costa-Font, Elias Mossialos
We argue that the dread of Genetically Modified (GM) food is an expression of the individual's demand for information as a self-protective action. This study empirically examines the determinants of...
Is there 'patient selection' in the demand for private maternity care in Greece?
Elias Mossialos, Joan Costa-Font, Konstantina Davaki, Konstantinos Karras
The influence of private health insurance (PHI) and gynaecologists' demand for leisure in determining a caesarean section (CS) delivery is examined. A database collected in January 2002 is exploited...
Paying for the NHS : First decide how much we are willing to pay, then think about how to collect it
Health care and the European Union : Profound but uncertain consequences for national health systems
Novotny, Thomas E, Mordini, Emilio, Chadwick, Ruth, Pedersen, J. Martin, Fabbri, Fabrizio, Lie, Reidar, ...
The BIG project looks at some of the ethical concerns surrounding globalization and health.
Diabetes and urbanization in the Omani population: an analysis of national survey data
Al-Moosa, Siba, Allin, Sara, Jemiai, Nadia, Al-Lawati, Jawad, Mossialos, Elias
Paying for the NHS : First decide how much we are willing to pay, then think about how to collect it
Health care and the European Union : Profound but uncertain consequences for national health systems
Novotny, Thomas E, Mordini, Emilio, Chadwick, Ruth, Pedersen, J. Martin, Fabbri, Fabrizio, Lie, Reidar, ...
The BIG project looks at some of the ethical concerns surrounding globalization and health.
Diabetes and urbanization in the Omani population: an analysis of national survey data
Al-Moosa, Siba, Allin, Sara, Jemiai, Nadia, Al-Lawati, Jawad, Mossialos, Elias
Citizens' Views on Health Care Systems in the 15 Member States of The European Union
This paper provides an initial analysis of a Eurobarometer|LSE survey on citizens' views on health care systems which was conducted in the 15 European Union Member States in 1996. It examines and...
Improving access to research data in Europe
Mladovsky, Philipa, Mossialos, Elias, McKee, Martin
The European Commission needs to promote access to the data whose collection it has financed
Analysing the Greek health system: a tale of fragmentation and inertia
Elias Mossialos, Sara Allin, Konstantina Davaki
The Greek health system does not yet offer universal coverage and has fragmented funding and delivery. Funding is regressive, with a reliance on informal payments, and there are inequities in access,...
The contestable nature of health policy analysis
Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos, Alan Maynard
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Joan Costa-Font, Elias Mossialos
Transferring knowledge on new biotechnology applications in the European Union is restricted by limited public support. Explanations for this limited support lead us to examine the influence of...
The Impact of Managed Care on Clinical Research
Traditionally, US teaching hospitals have subsidised research by charging higher costs for treatment; however, this approach is being challenged. The growth of managed-care organisations, concerned...
Outstanding Regulatory Aspects in the European Pharmaceutical Market
Panos Kanavos, Elias Mossialos
This paper identifies and analyses a number of outstanding regulatory aspects in the completion of the European pharmaceutical single market. It discusses pricing and competition in pharmaceuticals...
Gemmill, Marin C, Thomson, Sarah, Mossialos, Elias
As pharmaceutical expenditure continues to rise, third-party payers in most high-income countries have increasingly shifted the burden of payment for prescription drugs to patients. A large body of...
Mladovsky, Philipa, Mossialos, Elias
Summary The international policy model linking community-based health insurance (CBHI) and universal coverage for health care in low-income countries is implicitly determined by the development of...
Which policies effectively enable smoking cessation? Evidence from the European Union
Purpose – To examine the determinants of smoking cessation and tobacco consumption in the European Union (EU) countries. Specifically, the paper seeks to examine the role of smoking risk...
When is the Internet a valued communication device for health information in Europe?
Joan Costa-Font, Elias Mossialos, Caroline Rudisill
The proliferation of new information and communication technologies such as the Internet has arguably changed the way individuals update the information they use to prevent illness and monitor their...