International Journal of Health Planning and Management

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Volume 39, issue 5, 2024

Inter‐regional patient mobility in decentralised Spain: Explaining regional budget imbalances pp. 1202-1222

Gibran Cruz‐Martinez, Roberta Perna and Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes

Exploring the experiences and perceptions of trainees undertaking a critical incident debrief training programme: A qualitative study pp. 1223-1239

Lucy Pointon, Kerry Hinsby, Chris Keyworth, Nigel Wainwright, Jenny Bates, Lucie Moores and Judith Johnson

Effect of HIV/AIDS on labour productivity and the moderating role of literacy rate: A panel study of Africa and its sub‐regions pp. 1240-1260

Joel C. Ogbodo, Jonathan E. Ogbuabor, Chimaroke Omenazu, Anthony Eyimoga and Adeleye Olaide David

Tackling social inequalities in health: Assessing contexts for implementing integrated health access for people with severe mental illness pp. 1261-1276

Sofie Buch Mejsner, Mickael Bech, Michael Fehsenfeld, Luna Lundberg, Caroline Louise Westergaard, Kathrine Vixø and Viola Burau

Understanding the training, mentorship, and professional development priorities of early career embedded researchers pp. 1277-1297

Otuto Amarauche Chukwu, Jessica Nadigel, Bahar Kasaai, Rhonda Boateng, Richard H. Glazier and Meghan McMahon

‘We're at war.’ Healthcare workers’ experience with organisational change, uncertainty and vaccine hesitancy in 2021 and 2022 during the COVID‐19 vaccination programe in Poland pp. 1298-1312

Michał Wróblewski, Joanna Stankowska and Ewa Kawiak‐Jawor

Can pain be self‐managed? Pain change in vulnerable participants to a health education programme pp. 1313-1329

Charlotte Faurie, Alexandra Alvergne, Demi Cheng, Claire Duflos, Liset Elstgeest, Rosanna Ferreira, Hein Raat, Verushka Valsecchi, Alberto Pilotto, Graham Baker, Marta M. Pisano and Yves‐Marie Pers

Challenges and countermeasures for China's centralised volume‐based procurement policy in healthcare pp. 1330-1349

Qi Chang, Yihui Tian, Lingyun Gao and Nan Xia

How hospital autonomy affects provider payment reform effectiveness pp. 1350-1369

Sian Hsiang‐Te Tsuei and Winnie (Chi‐Man) Yip

Collaborative governance in a primary health care partnership in Papua New Guinea pp. 1370-1382

Georgina Dove, Adam Craig, Jethro Usurup, Annmaree O’Keeffe, Geoff Scahill, Ben Harris‐Roxas and Angela Kelly‐Hanku

Socio‐demographic and infrastructural variables influencing maternal risk concentration among ever‐married women of reproductive age in rural West Bengal, India pp. 1383-1410

Alokananda Ghosh and Biswaranjan Mistri

The impact of digital literacy on personal health: Evidence from the China family panel study pp. 1411-1433

Hao Li and Zihan Yang

Counselling with a focus on product and price transparency for over‐the‐counter headache medicines: A simulated patient study in community pharmacies in Munich, Germany pp. 1434-1455

Bernhard Langer, Christian Kunow, Josephine Bolduan, Lea Sackmann, Laura Schreiter, Katja Schüler and Marie Ulrich

Determinants of parental demand of human papillomavirus vaccination for adolescent daughters in China: Contingent valuation survey pp. 1456-1481

Jie Chang, Shan Zhu, Yuting Zhang, Natalie Carvalho, Sen Xu, Yunshu Lu, Xin Liu, Yu Fang and Qingyue Meng

The impact of urbanisation on green total factor productivity: Exploring threshold and mediating effects of human capital pp. 1482-1502

Guimei Wang, Muhammad Salman and Kuangwei Zhang

Women's decision‐making power can influence modern contraceptive use: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 1503-1515

Jahar Bhowmik, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Joanne Williams and Sima Rani Dey

A policy option towards improving efficiencies in Victorian public oral healthcare pp. 1516-1529

Tan Minh Nguyen and Martin Hall

Seasonal differences in participation and time spent in physical activity in Russia: The Know Your Heart survey pp. 1530-1550

Maria Kaneva, Sofia Malyutina, Victoria Moiseenko and Alexander Kudryavtsev

Trends in resource allocation for primary health care in rural China: Concentration curve and decomposition analysis pp. 1551-1561

Huiwen Li, Beibei Yuan, Suhang Song, Qingyue Meng and Ichiro Kawachi

Does environmental regulation matter for healthcare utilisation in China? An interrupted time series study pp. 1562-1583

Wen He

Tobacco control policies and the multidimensional context of tobacco use by gender: The case of Türkiye pp. 1584-1602

Ebru Caglayan‐Akay, Merve Ertok‐Onurlu and Fulden Komuryakan

Public health priorities for the Gulf states pp. 1603-1611

Rasha Alfawaz, Raghad Alhumud, Andrew Joseph Amato‐Gauci and Pasi Penttinen

COVID‐19 vaccination in low and middle‐income countries: Creating a sustainable roadmap for promoting public health intervention pp. 1612-1625

Rasaq Kayode Oladapo, Onyinyechi Patience Obidiro, Afeez Babatunde Oyetola, Adekunle Olajide, Mariam Olaitan Oladapo, Usen Stephanie Lawrence, Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Zarmina Islam, Abdulhafeez Ayodele Mustapha, Eze Osuagwu‐Nwogu, Shamas Ghazanfar, Modinat Aderonke Olaleye, Igbalajobi Monisola, Bakare Ibraheem, Abiola Abidemi Afolayan, Akinrinde Barakat and Mary Omotola Adewole

Adopting telemedicine in the fight against antimicrobial resistance in West Africa pp. 1626-1632

Babatunde Jamiu Dauda, Michael Chukwubuikem Offor, Olakulehin Adebusuyi and Caleb Promise Owolabi

Examining primary healthcare services following earthquake shocks in Turkiye: A critical analysis of the initial 3 months and the vital role of humanitarian policy transfer for rapid response pp. 1633-1641

Cuma Ali Özbek and Cem Hatunoğlu

A lean approach for improving medicines management in Australia's first cardiac hospital inventory system pp. 1642-1651

Viviane Khalil and Siang Foo

The male birth control pill – A new approach to family planning and population control pp. 1652-1657

Huda Ahmed, Aaima Memon, Fatimah Hoda and Jenelle Alvares

The World Health Organisation Global Code of Practice and migration of health workers from Zimbabwe pp. 1658-1664

Abel Chikanda

A brighter future: Tackling energy poverty through disability‐informed policies in Europe pp. 1665-1668

Christos Tsagkaris, Dimitrios V. Moysidis, Islam Kourampi, Fani Tsolaki and Georgios I. Tagarakis

Healthcare quality improvement: It's time to update the Donabedian approach with a complex systems perspective pp. 1669-1672

Una Geary

Volume 39, issue 4, 2024

Preparing for the ‘next pandemic’: Why we need to escape from our silos pp. 973-979

Tiago Correia, Walter Ricciardi and Martin McKee

Operational status of mental health, substance use, and problem gambling services: A system‐level snapshot two years into the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 980-992

Sherry Hao, Arthur McLuhan, Gary Moloney, Nerinderjit Kaur, Rahim Moineddin, Nigel E. Turner and Flora I. Matheson

What affects how Chinese patients wish to be involved in health care delivery? Perspectives of the Chinese policy and institutional contexts pp. 993-1008

Jingyan Zhu and Ping Sui

Evaluating emergency service response to COVID‐19: A scoping review pp. 1009-1021

Sara Waring, Caitlin Bromley and Susan Giles

Participatory governance in public health emergencies: A case study of Quanzhou from a legal perspective pp. 1022-1039

Zhang Wenxiang

Enabling environment and challenges for UN joint programming to strengthen nutrition: A multi‐country survey in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal pp. 1040-1055

Maimouna Halidou Doudou, Ousmane Ouedraogo, Sarah Cruz, Diasso Dieudonné and Mohamed Levrac

Factors associated with public and private healthcare utilization for outpatient care among older adults in India: A Wagstaff's decomposition of Anderson's behavioural model pp. 1056-1080

Margubur Rahaman, Avijit Roy, Pradip Chouhan, Nanigopal Kapasia and T. Muhammad

Building capacity for equitable healthcare workforce policy, learning from migrant healthcare workers: A qualitative study with Romanian physicians working in Germany during COVID‐19 pp. 1081-1096

Ellen Kuhlmann, Marius‐Ionuț Ungureanu, Nancy Thilo, Leonie Mac Fehr, Nicoleta‐Carmen Cosma, Monica Georgina Brînzac and Alexandra Dopfer‐Jablonka

Unpacking participation in healthcare governance: Lessons from two local health councils in Brazil and Spain pp. 1097-1112

José Carlos Suarez‐Herrera, Lina Diaz‐Castro, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez‐Rojas and Blanca Estela Pelcastre‐Villafuerte

Trends by age and sex and projections of disease prevalence from studying hypertensive heart disease in China over the past three decades pp. 1113-1130

Yao Su, Honghong He, Jingtao Yang, Ya Liu, Weiwei Jiang, Chen Li, Yang Wei, Jun Cheng and Yiguo Chen

A systematic review of qualitative research on the self‐management experience of breast cancer patients pp. 1131-1145

Xi‐Bo Sun, He‐Peng Su, He Jiang, Bing Wang, Shuai Lu, Jin‐Xiu Qu, Xiang‐Qi Li and Ben‐Qiang Rao

Classification and focus comparison of health financing frameworks: A scoping review pp. 1146-1171

Minoo Alipouri Sakha, Mohammad Bazyar and Arash Rashidian

Performance measurement and user‐centeredness in the healthcare sector: Opening the black box adapting the framework of Donabedian pp. 1172-1182

Sabina De Rosis

Raising the issue of quality in implementation science reporting in global health: Implications for health planning and practice pp. 1183-1187

Alexandra L. Rose, Helen E. Jack, Muneera A. Rasheed and Jessica F. Magidson

Letter to Japanese physicians' perceptions of conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies: Estimating two different questioning approaches pp. 1188-1191

Anju Murayama, Hinari Kugo and Yuki Senoo

Implications for the specialty board system: The struggle of young doctors in Japan's rigid healthcare framework pp. 1192-1194

Yudai Kaneda, Akihiko Ozaki, Akika Ando, Lorrance Majewski and Michioki Endo

Letter to the Editor on "The Chief Wellness Officer: A long overdue catalyst for systemic change in Emergency Medicine" pp. 1195-1197

Danielle L. Sarno, Adaira I. Landry and Amy S. Oxentenko

Volume 39, issue 3, 2024

The workforce crisis in healthcare: Moving the debate to bridge evidence and policy pp. 607-613

Ellen Kuhlmann, Gabriela Lotta, Gilles Dussault, Michelle Falkenbach and Tiago Correia

The mental health needs of healthcare workers: When evidence does not guide policy. A comparative assessment of selected European countries pp. 614-636

Ellen Kuhlmann, Michelle Falkenbach, Monica‐Georgiana Brînzac, Tiago Correia, Maria Panagioti and Marius‐Ionut Ungureanu

Mapping and analysing community health worker programmes in the Eastern Mediterranean region pp. 637-652

Uta Lehmann, Gulin Gedik and Arooj Jalal

The impact of international health worker migration and recruitment on health systems in source countries: Stakeholder perspectives from Colombia, Indonesia, and Jordan pp. 653-670

Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes, Ferry Efendi, Nuzulul Kusuma Putri, Mery Bolivar‐Vargas, Rami Saadeh, Pedro A. Villarreal, Thit Thit Aye, Manuela De Allegri and Julia Lohmann

From humanitarian crisis to employment crisis: The lives and livelihoods of South Sudanese refugee health workers in Uganda pp. 671-688

Jennifer Palmer, Stephen Sokiri, Jacob Nhial Bol Char, Amuna Vivian, Denise Ferris, Georgia Venner and John Jal Dak

‘Government don't know me and if I stop, they won't know’: A qualitative study on the lived experiences of volunteer health workers in the Nigerian health system and their implications for the sustainable development goals pp. 689-707

Aloysius Odii, Eleanor Hutchinson, Obinna Onwujekwe, Pamela Adaobi Ogbozor, Prince Agwu, Charles T. Orjiakor, Dina Babalanova and Martin McKee

Medical deserts in Spain—Insights from an international project pp. 708-721

Katarzyna Dubas‐Jakóbczyk, Ana Isabel Gonzalez, Alicja Domagała, Maria Pilar Astier‐Peña, Veronica Casado Vicente, Antonia‐Gema Planet, Agueda Quadrado, Rosa Mari Serrano, Isabel Serafina Abellán, Alba Ramos, Marta Ballester, Laura Seils, Sorin Dan, Linda Flinterman, Robert Likic and Ronald Batenburg

Job crafting as retention strategy: An ethnographic account of the challenges faced in crafting new nursing roles in care practice pp. 722-739

Martijn Felder, Syb Kuijper, Davina Allen, Roland Bal, Iris Wallenburg and RN2Blend Consortium

Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS: A qualitative study pp. 740-756

Choon Key Chekar, Liz Brewster, Michael Lambert and Tasneem Patel

How can intersectoral collaboration and action help improve the education, recruitment, and retention of the health and care workforce? A scoping review pp. 757-780

Tara Tancred, Michelle Falkenbach, Joanna Raven and Margaret Caffrey

Bolstering health systems to cope with the impacts of climate change events: A review of the evidence on workforce planning, upskilling, and capacity building pp. 781-805

Yvonne Zurynski, Georgia Fisher, Shalini Wijekulasuriya, Elle Leask, Putu Novi Arfirsta Dharmayani, Louise A. Ellis, Carolynn L. Smith and Jeffrey Braithwaite

Addressing the workforce crisis in (rural) social care: A scoping review pp. 806-823

Dean B. Carson, Albert Brunet Johansson, Mia Schaumberg and Anna‐Karin Hurtig

Effects of interprofessional practice on nursing workload in hospitals: A systematic review pp. 824-843

Danielle Fabiana Cucolo, João Lucas de Campos Oliveira, Rosana Aparecida Salvador Rossit, Vivian Aline Mininel, Marcia Galan Perroca and Jaqueline Alcântara Marcelino da Silva

Critical route for development of medical student leadership competencies in 35 Pan American Health Organization member states: A scoping review and thematic analysis pp. 844-859

Pablo Rodríguez‐Feria, Martina Paric, Luis Jorge Hernández Flórez, Suzanne Babich and Katarzyna Czabanowska

Implementing coaching programmes for healthcare professionals—A review of the barriers and facilitators pp. 860-878

E. J. Jansen, K. Czabanowska, A. P. J. de Pagter and R. J. de Koeijer

How can countries respond to the health and care workforce crisis? Insights from international evidence pp. 879-887

Barbara McPake, Prarthna Dayal, Julia Zimmermann and Gemma A. Williams

Global health workforce strategies to address the COVID‐19 pandemic: Learning lessons for the future pp. 888-897

Gemma A. Williams, Margaret Ziemann, Candice Chen, Rebecca Forman, Anna Sagan and Patricia Pittman

Situations of anomie and the health workforce crisis: Policy implications of a socially sensitive and inclusive approach to human resources pp. 898-905

Nancy Côté and Jean‐Louis Denis

Emergency responses for a health workforce under pressure: Lessons learned from system responses to the first wave of the pandemic in Canada pp. 906-916

Alison Coates, Mara Mihailescu and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Developing the future research agenda for the health and social care workforce in the United Kingdom: Findings from a national forum for policymakers and researchers pp. 917-925

Tara Lamont, Cat Chatfield and Kieran Walshe

Health workforce in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: From COVID‐19 lessons to actions pp. 926-932

Gulin Gedik, Arooj Jalal, Gohar Wajid, Awad Mataria, Rana Hajjeh and Ahmed Al‐Mandhari

Landscape analysis of healthcare workforce and resilience actions in the Sahelian context of high security challenge areas: The case of Burkina Faso pp. 933-944

Ousmane Ouedraogo, Salif Siguré, Simon Sanou, Aissata Kaboré, Marie Michele Dahany and Saidou Diallo

Healthcare workforce equity for health equity: An overview of its importance for the level of primary health care pp. 945-955

M. Santric Milicevic, C. D. P. Scotter, A. Bruno‐Tome, C. Scheerens and K. Ellington

The paradoxical surplus of health workers in Africa: The need for research and policy engagement pp. 956-962

Eleanor Hutchinson, Suzanne Kiwanuka, Richard Muhindo, Christine Nimwesiga, Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee and Freddy Eric Kitutu

Forced displacement and the health workforce crisis: Venezuelan healthcare workers in Peru pp. 963-969

Gareth H. Rees

Volume 39, issue 2, 2024

Two urgent actions related to international health emergencies amid the escalating conflict in Gaza pp. 160-163

Tiago Correia

Assessing public health sector performance in Bangladesh: Implications for health systems strengthening and universal health coverage – A secondary data analysis pp. 164-174

Shila Sarkar, Sangay Wangmo, Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Shah Md Jashim Uddin, Murad Sultan and John Grundy

Building flexible data structure for disaster response pp. 175-185

Margaret S. Wright

The Reality of Cost Sharing in Japan pp. 186-195

Koichi Kawabuchi and Keiko Kajitani

Young graduates and economic recession: Lessons from the pandemic to prevent the (re)incidence of mental health symptoms pp. 196-203

Fátima Suleman and Diana Carvalho

Systems archetypes to investigate the unintended consequences of telehealth in rural Australia: A systems thinking approach to telehealth evaluation and policymaking pp. 204-219

Sagda Osman, Kate Churruca, Louise A. Ellis and Jeffrey Braithwaite

European Health Union: An emergent reality pp. 220-228

Inês Fronteira, João Paulo Magalhães and Paulo Ferrinho

COVID‐19 vaccine wastage in Africa: A case of Nigeria pp. 229-236

Muhammad Kabir Musa, Abdullateef Abdulsalam, Usman Abubakar Haruna, Farida Zakariya, Sanusi Muhammad Salisu, Bisola Onajin‐Obembe, Suleman Hadejia Idris and Don Eliseo Lucero‐Prisno

Accountability in healthcare in the Netherlands: A scoping review pp. 237-261

Dennis R. Van Kerkvoorden, Roelof G. A. Ettema and Mirella M. N. Minkman

Assessing the status of oral health integration in South East Asian Regional Office countries' Universal Health Coverage–A scoping review pp. 262-277

Shashidhar Acharya, Manu Raj Mathur, Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla and Angela Brand

Identifying potential predictable indicators for the management of tertiary hospitals pp. 278-292

Yolima Cossio‐Gil, Francisco Javier Pérez‐Sádaba, Jaume Ribera, Emmanuel Giménez, Luís Marte, Rosa Ramos, Eva Aurin, Michael Peterlunger, Jens Steinbrink, Elena Angela Maria Bottinelli, Nina Nelson, Lynn Seveke, Noe Garin and Cesar Velasco

Is health insurance really benefitting Indian population? Evidence from a nationally representative sample survey pp. 293-310

Aashima and Rajesh Sharma

The role of primary health care in improving health status, financial protection and health equity in the context of China's health system reform pp. 311-328

Dawei Zhu, Xuefeng Shi, Siyuan Chen, Xin Ye, Stephen Nicholas and Ping He

Effect of a community‐based primary healthcare programme on adverse pregnancy outcomes in Northern Ghana pp. 329-342

Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, Abdullah A. Mamun, James F. Phillips and Martin J. O’Flaherty

Seeking outcomes under tight budgets: A case for health impact bonds in Post‐COVID times pp. 343-362

Mehdi Shiva

Overcoming the constraints of competitive clientelism? Explaining the success of Ghana's poorest region in reducing maternal mortality pp. 363-379

Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai

The experience of Australian aged care workers during a trial implementation of a palliative care outcomes programme pp. 380-396

Esther L. Davis, Judy Mullan, Claire E. Johnson, Sabina Clapham, Barbara Daveson, Gaye Bishop, Malene Ahern, Alanna Connolly, Walter Davis and Kathy Eagar

The dynamics of knowledge sharing in chronically ill patient‐led online health communities pp. 397-416

Vestina Vainauskienė and Gintarė Žemaitaitienė

Targeting systems not individuals: Institutional and structural drivers of absenteeism among primary healthcare workers in Nigeria pp. 417-431

Prince Agwu, Obinna Onwujekwe, Uche Obi, Martin McKee, Aloysius Odii, Charles Orjiakor, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova

Impacts of a new diagnosis‐related group point payment system on children's medical services in China: Length of stay and costs pp. 432-446

Sisi Wang, Nuan Wu, Huiyi Wang, Xiaotong Zhang, Fubang Li, Xiaohao Wang and Wei Wang

It's not special treatment… That's part of the Treaty of Waitangi! Organisational barriers to enhancing the Aged Residential Care environment for older Māori and Whānau in New Zealand pp. 447-460

Karen Keelan, Suzanne Pitama, Tim Wilkinson and Cameron Lacey

Drivers of healthcare expenditure growth in West Africa: A panel data investigation pp. 461-476

Rasaki Dauda and Fiyinfoluwa Adeyinka Balogun

How regulatory frameworks drive differences in home‐care agencies: Results from a national multicenter cross‐sectional study in Switzerland pp. 477-501

Nathalie Möckli, Matthias Wächter, Giusi Moffa, Michael Simon, Tania Martins and Franziska Zúñiga

The impact of armed conflicts on the nutritional status of children: Evidence from Northern Nigeria pp. 502-529

Olabayo Ojeleke, Wim Groot, Isaac Bonuedi and Milena Pavlova

Efficacy of remote audio‐visual system versus standard onsite buddy system to monitor the doffing of personal protective equipment during COVID‐19 pandemic: An observational study pp. 530-540

Michelle Shirin Lazar, Venkata Ganesh, Naveen Naik B, Ajay Singh, G. D. Puri and Sukhpal Kaur

Japanese physicians' perceptions of conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies: Estimating two different questioning approaches pp. 541-555

Hiroaki Saito, Akihiko Ozaki, Michio Murakami and Yoshitake Takebayashi

Appraising Nigeria’s approach to combating antimicrobial resistance pp. 556-562

Solomon Inalegwu Onah and Hadiza Joy Umar

Evaluation of an acute trust Domestic Abuse Coordinator role: Impact findings and a budget impact model pp. 563-570

G. J. Melendez‐Torres, Louise Crathorne, Eleanor Hepworth, Vanessa Sloane, Sally Jackson, Rachel Nicholas and Charlotte E. Cohen

Policy interplay among social health insurance system, pension system, delayed retirement initiative and implications for the self‐rated health status of older workers pp. 571-582

Jiannan Li, Bocong Yuan, Kunmei Li and Longtao He

How to facilitate the introduction of value‐based payment models? pp. 583-592

Diogo L. L. Leao, Milena Pavlova and Wim N. J. Groot

The role of stakeholder structure in fostering community ownership: A case study of community‐based projects pp. 593-601

Yurie Kobashi, Aya Goto and Chunhuei Chi

Wearable technology to leverage home—Based cardiac rehabilitation: A step forward in cardiovascular disease management pp. 602-604

Ahsan Zil‐E‐Ali and Christos Tsagkaris

Volume 39, issue 1, 2024

Artificial intelligence and the future in health policy, planning and management pp. 3-8

Mário Amorim Lopes, Henrique Martins and Tiago Correia

Access to assisted human reproduction techniques in Colombia: Disparity between the recognition of reproductive rights and their effective implementation pp. 9-21

Boris Julián Pinto‐Bustamante, Ana Isabel Gómez‐Córdoba, Alexander Gómez‐Rivadeneira, Camilo Alberto Caicedo Montaño, Vivian Andrea Roa Vargas, Helena Arango Romero, María Gabriela Méndez Pascual and José Ignacio Madero Cervera

Exploring causes of neonatal mortality in south east of Iran: A qualitative study pp. 22-35

Elham Amini, Mohammad Heidarzadeh, Samira Sohbati, Maryam Behseresht and Mohammadreza Amiresmaili

Design and validation of a scale of core components of community interventions in mental health pp. 36-47

Felipe Agudelo‐Hernández and Rodrigo Rojas‐Andrade

Healthcare costs for patients with rare diseases: Evidence from China pp. 48-61

Xiaoyan Zhang, Liyi Dai, Yulin Long, Xin Chen and Mohammed A. K. Alhafi

Impacts of unconditional cash transfers on health care utilisation in informal sector households in Togo pp. 62-82

Esso‐Hanam Atake, Yevessé Dandonougbo, Fifonsi Adjidossi Gbeasor‐Komlanvi, Malb Ama N’Danida Yagninim and Didier Koumavi Kouevi

Evaluation of collaborative mental health services in Latin America: Theoretical and methodological basis pp. 83-99

Jaime C. Sapag and Brian Rush

The evolving impact of engaging in leisure activities towards life quality: A longitudinal study of elderly in the UK pp. 100-118

Lukman Aroean, Ismail Golgeci and Bryan Usrey

Public opinion on COVID‐19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Disruption to public lives and trust in government's immunisation performance pp. 119-134

Raaj Kishore Biswas, Awan Afiaz, Samin Huq, Maysha Farzana and Enamul Kabir

Rare diseases in developing countries: Insights from China's collaborative network pp. 135-140

Jishizhan Chen, Yihan Li and Jinke Chang

The Chief Wellness Officer: A long overdue catalyst for systemic change in Emergency Medicine pp. 141-151

Shabana Walia, Kristen E. Nordenholz, Diann Krywko, Jeffrey G. Norvell, Keia VR Hewitt, Katerina Tsapos Parmele, Randall M. Levin, Joseph Kennedy and Rita A. Manfredi

From novel coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic to sexually transmitted infection concerns: Japan's multifaceted birth rate dilemma pp. 152-154

Yudai Kaneda