Issue Information

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.201
• Published date: 01 March 2017
• Date: 01 March 2017

Editorial

Global Health Security at the Crossroads Arnauld Nicogossian, Bonnie Stabile, Otmar Kloiber,

and Edward Septimus 4

Articles

Paid Parental Leave Policies and Infant Mortality Rates in OECD Countries: Policy

Implications for the United States Dana Patton, Julia F. Costich, and Niklas Lidströmer 6

Patient Copayments, Provider Incentives, and Income Effects: Theory and Evidence

From the Essential Medications List Under China’s 2009 Healthcare Reform

Brian K. Chen, Y. Tony Yang, and Karen Eggleston 24

Hepatitis C Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Drug Policies in the

Republic of Georgia Dessa Bergen-Cico, Ketavan Sikharulidze, Nato Ivanashvili,

Mikheil Ivanishvili, and Tamar Keshelava 45

A Multilevel Logit Estimation of Factors Associated With Modern Contraception

in Urban Nigeria Chinelo Okigbo, Ilene Speizer, Marisa Domino, and Sian Curtis 65

Effect of Prenatal Care Frequency, Timing, and Quality on Child Birth Weight

in Tajikistan Nazim Habibov, Lida Fan, Derek Campbell, and Chi Ho Cheung 89

Indexes as a Metric for Drug and Alcohol Policy Evaluation and Assessment

Vivienne L. Moxham-Hall and Alison Ritter 103

Commentaries

Moving Beyond the WHO Def‌i nition of Health: A New Perspective for an Aging World

and the Emerging Era of Value-Based Care Alan J. Card 127

Health Care for All in Ireland? The Consequences of Politics for Health Policy

Vivienne Byers 138

Book Reviews 152

World Medical & Health Policy

Volume 9 • Number 1 • March 2017

WMHP

An International Journal of Public Policy