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Applying the Test-Questions .......
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Appendix 9: Analysis of Material Re
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List of Abbreviations ABS Australia
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Attestation of Authorship I hereby
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I gratefully acknowledge Major Camp
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Abstract This thesis explores how g
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Chapter 1: Introduction What is thi
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making? Should a person’s level o
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there is no mathematical calculatio
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health, disability, treatment of ol
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I then moved to the subject of rati
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In Chapter 3, New Zealand’s past
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Chapter 2: Background Introduction
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The following journals have no auto
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Technological and pharmaceutical di
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in every sense, and attenuates the
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waiting time for first (or subseque
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Macro-Level Distributions Macro-lev
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(2000) in a report for the Ministry
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level, too many to discuss here. On
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effectiveness of treatment. However
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surgical treatment for ectopic preg
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In a study conducted by the Commonw
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They claim that health inequities c
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these presentations are correct, th
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waiting list for patient priority.
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care within finite resources. The c
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to pay for this co-operation. In 20
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Other results showed that 81% of th
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may be grounds for litigation. Henc
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determine if decisions on the appli
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Chapter 4: Philosophical Framework
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extra person with a good or service
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just actions by individuals. The th
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among the members of the society, a
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example of well off and powerful pe
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necessarily much advantaged over a
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among individuals and communities.
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needs. This was because distinguish
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systematic and transparent. In her
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why PHARMAC would subsidise unecono
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parents refusing treatment for thei
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The first two test-questions covere
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There was no clarity provided by th
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good may be served by their not rec
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Evans (2003) ranked the various typ
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The Use of the Test-Questions in Th
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Qualitative research methods were d
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equirements and considerable politi
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material and by working through the
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and printed copies of Hansard are a
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PHARMAC was criticised in 16 of the
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I tried to find an interviewee from
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The flow of discussion in the inter
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that the disclosure is commercially
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6. Producing the report The final o
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The following tables outline the no
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Table 3: Tree Nodes Used in NVivo A
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At this point, I stopped using NViv
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Chapter 6: Research Findings Introd
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DHBs were given the role of funding
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These measures were in response to
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Table 5: The Submitters to the Heal
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towards New Zealand and for them to
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monopolies as such. In their opinio
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for the delivery of such services (
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NCWNZ that S42(a) of the Bill, requ
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contentious among Maori Iwi. Any Ma
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Dugdale further advised that if non
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cumbersome and recommended that PHA
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following text, I have individually
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Herceptin. The plaintiffs forwarded
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the treatment of cancer in the DHB
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eligible people in New Zealand and
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confirmation that the DHB hospital
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the eight women involved in this ca
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the plaintiffs adequate opportunity
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Judge’s Concluding Remarks The fi
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A Selection of the Media Stories Ca
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Case 4: “Worn out by endless figh
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Case 6: “PHARMAC scolded for MS-d
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The drug to treat Pompe’s Disease
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The Voice of Patients and Family Me
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Sclerosis Society did this three ti
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was suffering would not pass the ra
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Eight of the twelve persons approac
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Part II: The Key Informant Intervie
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agreed this was done. Secondly, PHA
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the pharmaceutical schedule. The or
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No we have never thought that $3 mi
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Insights were given as to the indep
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and Now some people can say that’
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Q Be a voice for the family? A Yes,
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key issue here. Some clinicians wer
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I deeply suspect that Community Exc
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should be developing the capacity o
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make. And so PHARMAC has been a hug
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and PHARMAC is not above rationing
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This case demonstrated that the cos
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and budget management. It says this
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Q Do you recall the Kaletra issues
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Q Can I ask you about PHARMAC’s c
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….successfully…for things espec
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This was also done for the hard cop
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The Ministry of Health could not lo
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consultation documents which relate
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The following information was recei
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with the application. The discharge
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Again no report was attached from t
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The patient was also prescribed pre
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circumstances described were not su
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treatment was not unusual and the c
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their clinical circumstances would
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Theme 1. Theme 2. Theme 3. Theme 4.
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Chapter 7: Discussion Introduction
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the intellectual property to recove
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The use of QALY’s was tested in t
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Test-Question 2 “Is this distribu
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claimants (and unsuccessful drug co
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(2011-2012) in an open and transpar
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The cost-utility analysis system ha
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Another form of decision making use
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discuss how (or if) PHARMAC meets t
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Test-question 4 also raises the pro
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when there is no profound evidence
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for example value for money, equity
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Community Exceptional Circumstances
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Interferon available to a limited n
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challenges are multiple: to identif
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The data from the research showed h
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PHARMAC could be more open about st
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Chapter 8: Conclusions Introduction
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Limitations to the Research The ite
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