Int J Health Serv. 2008;38(1):125-41. Death in China: market reforms and health. Reddy SG. Source Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. sr793@columbia.edu Abstract Has China’s remarkable reduction in income poverty since 1980 been accompanied by comparable progress in health? The author’s findings are fourfold. First, province-level rates of improvement […]

Int J Health Serv. 2010;40(3):443-67. “Medical tourism” and the global marketplace in health services: U.S. patients, international hospitals, and the search for affordable health care. Turner L. Source Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. turne462@umn.edu Abstract Health services are now advertised in a global marketplace. Hip and knee replacements, ophthalmologic procedures, […]

Int J Health Serv. 2012;42(1):9-27. The other side of the Chinese economic miracle. Zhang W. Source Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. wzhang@jhsph.edu Abstract Despite the financial crisis still sinking the world economy, China’s GDP growth rate in 2010 reached 10 percent, continuing the great […]

An unexpected mortality increase in the United States follows arrival of the radioactive plume from Fukushima: is there a correlation? via An unexpected mortality increase in the Un… [Int J Health Serv. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI.

Higher incidence of fatal accidents following changes in daylight savings time: the American experience. via Fatal accidents following changes in daylight savi… [Sleep Med. 2001] – PubMed – NCBI. Abstract Objective: This study examines specific hypotheses that both sleep loss and behavioral changes occurring with the time shifts for Daylight Savings Time (DST) significantly effect […]