Workshop on evidence for health policy: burden of disease, cost-effectiveness, and health systems: 1. Health expectancy: from a population health indicator to a tool for policy making; A single index of mortality and morbidity; 3. POlicy relevance of the health expectancy indicator; an inventory in European Union countries; 4. Health expectancy in Canada, Late 1970s: Demographic, regional, and social dimensions; 5. Adjusting life expectancy to account for disability in a population: a comparison of three techniques; 6. Health-life expectancy according to various functional levels; 7. Health inequality concepts: The relationship between socioeconomic status and health: a review of the literature; 8. Defining and measuring health inequality: an approach based on the distribution of health expectancy; 9. Health inequalities and the health of the poor: what do we know ? what can we do ?; 10. Sociodemographic differentials in adult mortality: a review of analytic approaches; 11. Income inequality and population health; 12. Making the most of statistical analysis: improving interpretation and presentation; 13. International variation in socioeconomic inequalities in self reported health; 14. Health inequalities and social group differences: what should we measure ?; 15. The extended beta binomial model in political analysis; 16. Problem in the measurement and international comparisons of socio-economic differences in mortality; 17. Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons; 18. Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries; 19. The concepts and principles of equity and health; 20. Socioeconomic determinants of health: health inequalities: relative or absolute material standards ?; 21. A framework for measuring responsiveness; 22. Patient satisfaction: a review of issues and concepts; 23. Expectations as determinants of patient satisfaction: concepts, theory and evidence; 24. The meaning of patient satisfaction: an explanation of high reported levels; 25. Principles of the system of health accounts; 26. Estimates of national health accounts (NHA) for 1997: GPE discussion paper series: No.27 ; 27. A system of health statistics toward a new conceptual framework for integrating health data; 28. Macroeconomic theory and policy; 29. Permanent household income and consumption in urban South America; 30. Economics of the public sector; 31. Household health expenditures in Nepal: implications for health care financing reform; 32. Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons; 33. Equity in the finance and delivery of health care: an international perspective; 34. Structured pluralism: towards an innovative model for health system reform in Latin America; 35. Health sector development: from aid coordination to resource management; 36. The health care quadrilemma: an essay on technological change insurance, quality of care, and cost containment; 37. National health accounts in developing countries: appropriate methods and recent applications; 38. Proposals for a homogeneous treatment of health expenditures in the national accounts; 39. State health expenditure accounts: building blocks for state health spending analysis; 40.