International Journal of Health Planning and Management

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Volume 36, issue S1, 2021

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Ethan Guillén, Marine Buissonnière and Christopher T. Lee

Global health and health workforce development: what to learn from COVID‐19 on health workforce preparedness and resilience pp. 5-8

Ellen Kuhlmann, Gilles Dussault and Tiago Correia

The health workforce: Central to an effective response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the European Region pp. 9-13

Tomas Zapata, James Buchan and Natasha Azzopardi‐Muscat

Public health competences through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic: what matters for health workforce preparedness for global health emergencies pp. 14-19

Katarzyna Czabanowska and Ellen Kuhlmann

From lionizing to protecting health care workers during and after COVID‐19—systems solutions for human tragedies pp. 20-25

Ethan Guillén, Marine Buissonnière and Christopher T. Lee

Health workforce surge capacity during the COVID‐19 pandemic and other global respiratory disease outbreaks: A systematic review of health system requirements and responses pp. 26-41

Neeru Gupta, Sarah A. Balcom, Adrienne Gulliver and Richelle L. Witherspoon

The vulnerabilities of the Brazilian health workforce during health emergencies: Analysing personal feelings, access to resources and work dynamics during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 42-57

Gabriela Lotta, Michelle Fernandez and Marcela Corrêa

Global health and innovation: A panoramic view on health human resources in the COVID‐19 pandemic context pp. 58-70

Jean Louis Denis, Nancy Côté, Charles Fleury, Graeme Currie and Dimitrios Spyridonidis

Health workforce response to Covid‐19: What pandemic preparedness planning and action at the federal and state levels in Germany? pp. 71-91

Julia Köppen, Kimberly Hartl and Claudia B. Maier

Health workforce management in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A survey of physicians in Serbia pp. 92-111

Milan Dinić, Milena Šantrić Milićević, Stefan Mandić‐Rajčević and Katica Tripković

Support for global health and pandemic preparedness in medical education in Germany: Students as change agents pp. 112-123

Annika Kreitlow, Sandra Steffens, Alexandra Jablonka and Ellen Kuhlmann

Employment outcomes and job satisfaction of international public health professionals: What lessons for public health and COVID‐19 pandemic preparedness? Employment outcomes of public health graduates pp. 124-150

Goel Treviño‐Reyna, Katarzyna Czabanowska, Sharmi Haque, Christine M. Plepys, Laura Magaña and John Middleton

Labour market competition for public health graduates in the United States: A comparison of workforce taxonomies with job postings before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 151-167

Heather Krasna, Katarzyna Czabanowska, Angela Beck, Linda F. Cushman and Jonathon P. Leider

Prioritizing people and rapid learning in times of crisis: A virtual learning initiative to support health workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 168-173

Beth Engelbrecht, Lucy Gilson, Pierre Barker, Krish Vallabhjee, Gareth Kantor, Mike Budden, Anita Parbhoo and Uta Lehmann

Healthcare workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Experiences of doctors and nurses in Bangladesh pp. 174-181

Mehdi Hussain, Tahmina Begum, Syeda A. Batul, Nastaran N. Tui, Md. N. Islam and Bashir Hussain

Navigating the health system in responding to health workforce challenges of the COVID‐19 pandemic: the case of Maldives (short case) pp. 182-189

Sofoora Kawsar Usman, Sheena Moosa and Aminath Shaina Abdullah

The implications of COVID‐19 for health workforce planning and policy: the case of Peru pp. 190-197

Gareth H Rees, Felipe Peralta Quispe and Cris Scotter

Volume 36, issue 6, 2021

'We did everything we could': An account of toxic leadership pp. 1972-1989

Calum Paton

Developing COVID‐19 emergency response centres in geographically challenged areas of Pakistan: A case study of the Aga Khan Development Network pp. 1990-1997

Rafat Jan, Miraj Uddin, Ihsan Ullah, Mubarek Bibi, Sardar Nawaz, Mehnaz Rehmani and Salima Meherali

After the European Global Vaccination Summit—The need for practical policies to boost vaccination delivery to children in Europe pp. 1998-2010

Michael J. Rigby

Resuming outpatient services during COVID times: Our approach and experience at India's apex institute pp. 2011-2019

Radhika Sarda, Bhawna Mattoo, Arvind Kumar, Vikas H, Nirupam Madaan and Naveet Wig

Rethinking health services operations to embrace patient experience of healthcare journey pp. 2020-2029

Mahdi Mahdavi, Leila Doshmangir and Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan

Rising cholera cases: Harnessing the momentum of COVID‐19 to strengthen Nigeria's health systems pp. 2030-2034

Rasaq Kayode Oladapo, Afeez Babatunde Oyetola, Onyinyechi Patience Obidiro, Adekunle Olajide, Eze Osuagwu‐Nwogu, Olajide Mariam Olaitan, Chinonso Ngokere, Igbalajobi Monisola, Bakare Ibraheem and Abiola Afolayan

COVID‐19 calls for health systems strengthening in Africa: A case of Nigeria pp. 2035-2043

Emmanuel Ebuka Elebesunu, Gabriel Ilerioluwa Oke, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi and Ifeanyi McWilliams Nsofor

Addressing conflicts of interest of ethical reviewers of health planning, management, policy and systems research proposals pp. 2044-2047

Alexandre Manguele, Mohsin Sidat, Carel IJsselmuiden and Paulo Ferrinho

Public trust and the COVID‐19 vaccination campaign: lessons from the Philippines as it emerges from the Dengvaxia controversy pp. 2048-2055

Ronald U. Mendoza, Manuel M. Dayrit, Cenon R. Alfonso and Madeline Mae A. Ong

Toward strengthening active case finding for ending tuberculosis in India pp. 2056-2061

Nibras K. Thodika, Susanna Ghosh Mitra, Arkalgud Ramaprasad and Sulegai Dhondusa Sreeganga

Kanban system applications in healthcare services: A literature review pp. 2062-2078

Paloma Lanza‐León, Lidia Sanchez‐Ruiz and David Cantarero‐Prieto

Improving healthcare performance through Activity‐Based Costing and Time‐Driven Activity‐Based Costing pp. 2079-2093

Angels Niñerola, Ana‐Beatriz Hernández‐Lara and Maria‐Victòria Sánchez‐Rebull

Developing and validating regression models for predicting household consumption to introduce an equitable and sustainable health insurance system in Cambodia pp. 2094-2105

Haruyo Nakamura, Floriano Amimo, Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Tomoya Yoshida, Makoto Tobe, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Daisuke Yoneoka, Aya Ishizuka and Shuhei Nomura

Households' out‐of‐pocket expenditure for healthcare in Bangladesh: A health financing incidence analysis pp. 2106-2117

Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Khorshed Alam, Nausad Ali, Nurnabi Sheikh, Raisul Akram and Alec Morton

Adapted fairness benchmarks for the evaluation of Iran health system reform pp. 2118-2128

Reyhaneh Mojdehkar, Katayoun Jahangiri, Kamran Hajinabi and Leila Riahi

The out‐of‐pocket medication burden: Which health problems impact the Czech population aged 50+? pp. 2129-2144

Veronika Kočiš Krůtilová

Does exposure of mass media associate with utilisation of ANC services? A trend analysis from Nepal demographic and health surveys pp. 2145-2161

Devaraj Acharya, Ramesh Adhikari and Gary L. Kreps

Cluster analysis of health systems in Europe according to life expectancy at birth pp. 2162-2181

Mehmet Top and Songul Cinaroglu

Ethnic, socio‐economic and geographic inequities in maternal health service coverage in Australia pp. 2182-2198

Haylee Fox, Stephanie M. Topp, Daniel Lindsay and Emily Callander

Measuring work complexity for acute care services pp. 2199-2214

Shuguang Lin, Paul Rouse, Fan Zhang and Ying‐Ming Wang

Financial and social impacts of drug price changes: Evidence from 2017 healthcare reform in Liaoning Province, China pp. 2215-2230

Fulai Gu, Xiaobing Liu, Lian Qi, Xiaowei Xu and Zheng Zeng

Exploring the triggering process of a cancer care reform in three Scandinavian countries pp. 2231-2247

Per Magnus Mæhle, Senada Hajdarevic, Erna Håland, Rikke Aarhus, Sigbjørn Smeland and Bjørn Erik Mørk

Putting the local back into planning‐experiences and perceptions of state and district health functionaries of seven aspirational districts in India on an innovative planning capacity building approach pp. 2248-2262

Enisha Sarin, Nitin Bisht, Jaya Swarup Mohanty, Naresh Chandra Joshi, Arvind Kumar, Surajit Dey and Harish Kumar

Examining the incentives and disincentives in the maintenance of Insecticide‐Treated Nets among householders in Ghana pp. 2263-2276

Robert Opoku, Padmore Adusei Amoah and Kingsley Atta Nyamekye

Examining the implementation of the Linda Mama free maternity program in Kenya pp. 2277-2296

Stacey Orangi, Angela Kairu, Joanne Ondera, Boniface Mbuthia, Augustina Koduah, Boniface Oyugi, Nirmala Ravishankar and Edwine Barasa

How medicines sales staff is responding to presumptive COVID‐19 patients attending drug retail outlets: An exploratory qualitative study pp. 2297-2312

Muhammad Atif, Muhammad Ahmad, Iram Malik, Irem Mushtaq, Nafees Ahmad, Mehjabin and Zaheer‐Ud‐Din Babar

The geographic scope of conflict and HIV pp. 2313-2322

Yiyeon Kim

An innovative outpatient monitor service for gynecological patients in the United Kingdom: Case study evaluation of clinical effectiveness, economic outcomes, patient safety, and service improvement pp. 2323-2335

Michela Tinelli, Anne Jackson, Sulman Siddique and Brian Hamilton

Prenatal consultation and survival of children under five in Togo pp. 2336-2350

Yaovi Tossou

HIV/AIDS policy‐making in Iran: A stakeholder analysis pp. 2351-2365

Rahim Khodayari‐Zarnaq, Hamid Ravaghi, Ali Mohammad Mosaddegh‐rad, Habib Jalilian and Mohammad Bazyar

Filling the gap between theory and practice: A pilot study on parents' perceptions of integrated care for patients with borderline personality disorder pp. 2366-2375

Irene Gabutti

Quantitative evaluation of the joint disease prevention and control policy in China using the difference‐in‐difference method pp. 2376-2391

Qin Qin and Youhai Sun

Strategies and interventions for improving safety culture in Australian Emergency Departments: A modified Delphi study pp. 2392-2410

Muhammad Ahmed Alshyyab, Gerard FitzGerald, Rania Ali Albsoul, Joseph Ting, Frances B. Kinnear and Erika Borkoles

Citizens lack access to healthcare facilities: How COVID‐19 lockdown and social distancing policies boost roadside chemist businesses in South‐Eastern Nigeria pp. 2411-2423

Victor Chidubem Iwuoha, Ernest Toochi Aniche, Charles Arinze Obiora and Uchenna T. Umeifekwem

Establishment of a psychological intervention mechanism for healthcare workers facing public health emergencies in the context of the COVID‐19 outbreak pp. 2424-2429

Xiaoyan Zhang, Fenghua Sun, Yuxuan Wang and Zhiyan Zhu

The dilemma of treating the infected versus the wounded: Gaza's healthcare system is choked pp. 2430-2435

Alifiya Aamir, Hashir Ali Awan, Mufaddal Najmuddin Diwan, Syeda Kanza Kazmi, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Zain Douba and Irfan Ullah

Increments of gender‐based violence amid COVID‐19 in Bangladesh: A threat to global public health and women’s health pp. 2436-2440

Md. Rabiul Islam and Md. Jamal Hossain

Resurgence of tuberculosis amid COVID‐19 in Peru: Associated risk factors and recommendations pp. 2441-2445

Fatima Muhammad Asad Khan, Zohra Kazmi, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Ana Carla dos Santos Costa, Shoaib Ahmad and Mohammad Yasir Essar

Volume 36, issue 5, 2021

The precariousness of political management of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic in the search for scientific answers: Calling for prudence in public health emergencies pp. 1387-1391

Tiago Correia

‘There's the end of an auld sang’: Farewell to the NHS market pp. 1392-1396

Calum Paton

The ‘hub and spoke model’ for the management of surgical patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 1397-1406

Ramanathan Kasivisvanathan, Henry S. Tilney, Shaman Jhanji, Michelle O’Mahony, Pascale Gruber, David Nicol, Dominic Morgan, Emma Kipps and Shahnawaz Rasheed

Looking around the corner: COVID‐19 shocks and market dynamics in US medical tourism pp. 1407-1416

Irving Stackpole, Elizabeth Ziemba and Tricia Johnson

COVID‐19 and progress towards achieving universal health coverage in Africa: A case of Nigeria pp. 1417-1422

Oladunni Abimbola Amos, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Adeola Bamisaiye, Alaka Hassan Olayemi, Esther Bosede Ilesanmi, Alumuku Iordepuun Micheal, Aniekan Ekpenyong and Don Eliseo Lucero‐Prisno

An information‐based framework for development national twin registry: Scoping review and focus group discussion pp. 1423-1444

Hamidreza Abtahi, Marsa Gholamzadeh, Leila Shahmoradi and Mamak Shariat

Effectiveness of optimised care chain for hip fractures in elderly Chinese pp. 1445-1464

Zhaofu Wang, Meixue Chen, Xiaohai Luo, Xianghua Xiong and Feng Ma

An evaluation of the healthcare costs associated with adverse events in patients with breast cancer pp. 1465-1475

Lin‐Chien Wang, Hsuan‐Ming Chen, Jin‐Hua Chen, Yi‐Chun Lin and Yu Ko

Healthcare systems and Covid19: Lessons to be learnt from efficient countries pp. 1476-1485

Muhammed Ordu, Hediye Kirli Akin and Eren Demir

Communication Styles Inventory—Brief: Adaptation and validation for Spanish nursing pp. 1486-1499

María del Carmen Pérez‐Fuentes, José Jesús Gázquez Linares, María del Mar Molero Jurado and África Martos Martínez

National accreditation programmes for hospitals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Case studies from Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon pp. 1500-1520

Wesam Mansour, Alan Boyd and Kieran Walshe

Examining health sector application and utility of program‐based budgeting: County level experiences in Kenya pp. 1521-1532

Benjamin Tsofa, Protus Musotsi, Nancy Kagwanja, Dennis Waithaka, Sassy Molyneux, Edwine Barasa, Thomas Maina and Jane Chuma

Providers' perspectives on the performance of primary healthcare centres in India: The missing link pp. 1533-1552

Rajeshwari Bangalore Sathyananda, Anja Krumeich, Usha Manjunath, Angelique de Rijk and C. P. van Schayck

Place of birth for unintended pregnancies in six former Soviet Union countries pp. 1553-1560

Saverio Bellizzi, Giuseppe Pichierri, Catello M Panu Napodano, Paola Murgia, Susanna Padrini and Quique Bassat

Geographical distribution and prevalence of mental disorders among healthcare workers in China: A cross‐sectional country‐wide survey pp. 1561-1574

Xiaoguang Yang, Danni Chen, Yuntao Chen, Nan Wang, Chao Lyv, Yao Li, Junqin Jie, Taiqi Zhou, Yongbin Li and Ping Zhou

The density paradox: Are densely‐populated regions more vulnerable to Covid‐19? pp. 1575-1588

Imad A. Moosa and Ibrahim N. Khatatbeh

Prevalence of food insecurity and related factors among slum households in Kerman, south of Iran pp. 1589-1599

Mohammadreza Amiresmaeili, Vahid Yazdi‐Feyzabadi and Majid Heidarijamebozorgi

Resource generation challenges for burn care in Iran pp. 1600-1612

Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh, Mostafa Amini‐Rarani and Farzaneh Mohammadi

Comparing the properties of the EQ‐5D‐5L and EQ‐5D‐3L in general population in Iran pp. 1613-1625

Satar Rezaei, Abraha Woldemichael, Sina Ahmadi, Amjad Mohamadi Bolbanabad, Farman Zahir Abdullah and Bakhtiar Piroozi

The effects of health insurance on the choice of medical procedures: Evidence from heart attacks and childbirths pp. 1626-1652

Marco A. Castaneda and Meryem Saygili

Does price deregulation increase drug price in China? An interrupted time series analysis pp. 1653-1665

Yao Xiong, Judy Xu and Yuexia Gao

Factors affecting the quality of diagnosis coding data with a triangulation view: A qualitative study pp. 1666-1684

Nafiseh Hosseini, Khalil Kimiafar, Sayyed Mostafa Mostafavi, Behzad Kiani, Kazem Zendehdel, Armin Zareiyan and Saeid Eslami

Drought, desertification and poverty: A geospatial analysis of snakebite envenoming in the Caatinga biome of Brazil pp. 1685-1696

Thiago L. Jucá, Leonardo R. Oliveira Normando, Abdulrazak B. Ibrahim, Alex Chapeaurouge, Ana Cristina de Oliveira Monteiro‐Moreira and Stephen P. Mackessy

The impact of retirement on mental health pp. 1697-1713

Lin Xie, Yingxi Shen, Yuanyang Wu and Hualei Yang

Mixed time series approaches for forecasting the daily number of hospital blood collections pp. 1714-1726

Xinli Zhang, Xin Zhao, Xiaoying Mou and Mingying Tan

Problems in the home and community‐based long‐term care for the elderly in China: A content analysis of news coverage pp. 1727-1741

Kun Wang, Yongjian Ke, Shankar Sankaran and Bo Xia

Emergency management to avoid the spread of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Gaza Strip pp. 1742-1757

Alaa M. A. Musalam, Raed E. S. Abunamous, Nizam M. El‐Ashgar and Ahmed S. Alhana

After Action Reviews of COVID‐19 response: Case study of a large tertiary care hospital in Italy pp. 1758-1771

Sebastiano Sorbello, Eleonora Bossi, Camilla Zandalasini, Greta Carioli, Carlo Signorelli, Fabio Ciceri, Alberto Ambrosio, Alberto Zangrillo and Anna Odone

Financial sustainability strategies of public primary health care centres in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 1772-1788

Severin Rakic, Aljosa Djudurovic and Darijana Antonic

Policy considerations for scaling up access to HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis for adolescent girls and young women: Examples from Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda pp. 1789-1808

Jeff Lane, Audrey Brezak, Pragna Patel, Andre R. Verani, Irene Benech and Aaron Katz

Determinants of choice of health insurance: Empirical evidence from responses of Indian households pp. 1809-1829

Milind Yadav and Pratap C. Mohanty

Identification of public health priorities, barriers, and solutions for Kuwait using the modified Delphi method for stakeholder consensus pp. 1830-1846

Janvier Gasana, Harri Vainio, Joseph Longenecker, Tom Loney, Balázs Ádám and Mustafa Al‐Zoughool

HIV‐MSS: A user‐friendly management support system for better planning of HIV care services pp. 1847-1860

Eren Demir, Shola Adeyemi, Andre Pascal Kengne, Gbenga A. Kayode and Adekunle Adeoti

Catastrophic health expenditures for children with disabilities in Iran: A national survey pp. 1861-1873

Ghobad Moradi, Amjad Mohamadi Bolbanabad, Farman Zahir Abdullah, Hossein Safari, Satar Rezaei, Abbas Aghaei, Siros Hematpour, Salahaddin Farshadi, Nima Naleini and Bakhtiar Piroozi

Organisation of the State, model of health system and COVID‐19 health outcomes in six European countries, during the first months of the COVID‐19 epidemic in 2020 pp. 1874-1886

Jorge Simões, João Paulo Moreira Magalhães, André Biscaia, António da Luz Pereira, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto and Inês Fronteira

Measuring catastrophe in paying for healthcare: A comparative methodological approach by using National Sample Survey, India pp. 1887-1915

Rinshu Dwivedi, Jalandhar Pradhan and Ramesh Athe

Projecting the effect of easing societal restrictions on non‐COVID‐19 emergency demand in the UK: Statistical inference using public mobility data pp. 1936-1942

Anna L. Powell and Richard M. Wood

Employing medical anthropology approach as an additional public health strategy in promoting COVID‐19 vaccine acceptance in Bhutan pp. 1943-1946

Ian Christopher N. Rocha

The massive attack of COVID‐19 in India is a big concern for Bangladesh: The key focus should be given on the interconnection between the countries pp. 1947-1949

Sohel Daria, Md. Asaduzzaman, Mohammad Shahriar and Md. Rabiul Islam

The use of cow dung and urine to cure COVID‐19 in India: A public health concern pp. 1950-1952

Sohel Daria and Md. Rabiul Islam

The association between Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance and depressive symptoms among Chinese middle‐aged and older adults: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Jian Sun, Nengliang Yao and Shoujun Lyu

Volume 36, issue 4, 2021

Decreasing transmission and initiation of countrywide vaccination: Key challenges for future management of COVID‐19 pandemic in Bangladesh pp. 1014-1029

Md. Maruf Ahmed Molla, Jannat Ara Disha, Mahmuda Yeasmin, Asish Kumar Ghosh and Tasnim Nafisa

Learning from organisational changes in the management of breast cancer patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Preparing for a second wave at a breast unit in northern Italy pp. 1030-1037

Antonella Ferro, Paolo Cristofolini, Carlos A. Garcia‐Etienne, Orazio Caffo, Marco Pellegrini, Carmine Fantò, Salvatore Mussari, Monica Campregher, Silvia Lazzeri, Sara Cantarelli and Giovanni Maria Guarrera

Regulatory environment for complementary and alternative medicine in Georgia—a health policy analysis pp. 1038-1051

Ilia Nadareishvili, Giorgi Pkhakadze, Nato Japiashvili and Karsten Lunze

‘We are not aware of notification of tuberculosis’: A mixed‐methods study among private practitioners from western India pp. 1052-1068

Mihir P. Rupani, Chinmay J. Shah, Jigna D. Dave, Atul V. Trivedi and Kedar G. Mehta

Governance structures and practices in for‐profit and not‐for profit hospitals in Egypt pp. 1069-1080

AbdAlrahman Magdy Said Fayed, Shymaa Mahmoud Youssef Elshoura and Rasha Ali Mosallam

Antenatal care and skilled birth in the fragile and conflict‐affected situation of Burundi pp. 1081-1106

Bianca R Ziegler, Moses Kansanga, Yuji Sano, Joseph Kangmennaang, Daniel Kpienbaareh and Isaac Luginaah

Digital health and management of chronic disease: A multimodal technologies typology pp. 1107-1125

Camille Vansimaeys, Lamya Benamar and Christine Balagué

Evaluation of health appraisal project of primary school children: a study in Egypt pp. 1126-1142

Hoda Ibrahim Rizk, Madiha Said Abdel‐Razik and Eman Hany Elsebaei

Impact of National Health Mission on infant mortality in India: An interrupted time series analysis pp. 1143-1152

Shankar Prinja, Atul Sharma, Ruby Nimesh, Vineeta Sharma, K Madan Gopal, Nina Badgaiyan, Lakshmi Pvm and Madhu Gupta

Organizational climate for safe and effective inter‐unit handoffs in Japanese hospitals pp. 1153-1165

Xiuzhu Gu and Kenji Itoh

COVID‐19 Rumination Scale (C‐19RS): Initial psychometric evidence in a sample of Dutch employees pp. 1166-1177

Irina Nikolova, Marjolein Caniëls and Petru L. Curseu

Effects of non‐pharmaceutical interventions against COVID‐19: A cross‐country analysis pp. 1178-1188

Yunus Gokmen, Cigdem Baskici and Yavuz Ercil

Evidence and politics of patient experience in Ontario: The perspective of healthcare providers and administrators pp. 1189-1206

Moutasem A. Zakkar, Samantha B. Meyer and Craig R. Janes

Science in action? A critical view of UK blood donation deferral policy and men who have sex with men pp. 1207-1222

Temitope Fisayo

Assessment of public hospitals performance in Gaza governorates using the Pabón Lasso Model pp. 1223-1235

Iyad Ibrahim Shaqura, Masoomeh Gholami and Ali Akbari Sari

Application of DEA‐Based Malmquist Productivity Index on Health Care System Efficiency of ASEAN Countries pp. 1236-1250

Shailender Singh, Muhammad M. Bala, Nishant Kumar and Hawati Janor

A roadmap for bio‐medical waste management research pp. 1251-1259

Kashyap Shwetmala, Ramaprasad Arkalgud and Munikrishnappa Anilkumar

‘There is always a way to living with illness’—Self‐management strategies reported by Chinese hospitalized patients with cardiovascular disease: A descriptive qualitative study pp. 1260-1275

Ruolin Qiu, Kara Schick‐Makaroff, Leiwen Tang, Xiyi Wang, Qi Zhang and Zhihong Ye

Determinants of postnatal care coverage among mothers and new‐borns in India: Evidence from a nationally representative survey pp. 1276-1286

Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy and Marie Gilbert Majella

A study on financial sustainability of healthcare indicators for Turkey under the health transformation program pp. 1287-1307

Esra N. Kilci

Efficiency and productivity of county‐level traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in Hubei Province, China: A retrospective study based on 17 years of panel data pp. 1308-1325

Jingkai Yue, Ying Zhou, Jie Ning, Gang Yin, Yaping Wu, Junyi Li and Hongbing Tao

What activities of daily living at discharge affect the discharge destination of patients in an acute‐care hospital in Japan: A retrospective factor analysis pp. 1326-1337

Tomoya Tachi, Manami Otsubo, Manabu Toyoshima, Hayato Katsuno, Anri Ueno, Yoshihiro Noguchi, Satoshi Aoyama, Masahiro Yasuda, Takashi Mizui, Chitoshi Goto and Hitomi Teramachi

The impact of increased outpatient telehealth during COVID‐19: Retrospective analysis of patient survey and routine activity data from a major healthcare system in England pp. 1338-1345

Joshua M.B. Tyler, Adrian C. Pratt, Job Wooster, Christos Vasilakis and Richard M. Wood

Grasping the reality of health care access for migrants: An initial strategy to end social injustice pp. 1346-1348

Erwin Jiayuan Khoo

Comments on: Ye and Zhang (2019) ‘visualizing the knowledge structure of medication‐adherence research: A bibliometric analysis (1997–2016)’, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 34: 1333–1353 pp. 1349-1351

Yuh‐Shan Ho

Digitisation and realtime sharing of unified surveillance tool and clinicopathological data for efficient management of disease outbreaks pp. 1352-1354

Suyesh Shrivastva, Tapas Chakma, Aparup Das and Anil Kumar Verma

Decentralizing COVID‐19 care—Moving towards a COVID‐19‐capable healthcare system (CCHS) pp. 1355-1361

Vishakh C. Keri, Brunda R.l, Pankaj Jorwal, Prayas Sethi and Naveet Wig

Citizens' trust in the health care institutions as a neglected dimension in strategic health planning data from Guinea‐Bissau pp. 1362-1365

Joaninha D. G. Correia, Paulo Ferrinho and Luís Andrade

The next three epochs: Health system challenges amidst and beyond the COVID‐19 era pp. 1366-1369

Anish K. Arora

The safety concern of plant‐based supplements: A public health topic pp. 1370-1372

Olta Allkanjari

Volume 36, issue 3, 2021

Implementing voluntary assisted dying in Victoria, Australia pp. 602-609

Margaret O'Connor, Catherine Mandel, Greg Mewett, John Catford Dch and Jarrod McMaugh

COVID‐19: Learning from the HIV/AIDS pandemic response in Africa pp. 610-617

Isaac Olufadewa, Ifeoluwa Oduguwa, Miracle Adesina, Koton Ibiang, Nnenne Eke, Blessing Adewumi, Inimfon Ebong, Funmilayo Abudu and Nancy Adeyelu

Impacts of the Covid‐19 pandemic on the health of university students pp. 618-627

Laura Ihm, Han Zhang, Alexandra van Vijfeijken and Mark G. Waugh

Consumers' perception of nutritional facts table and nutritional traffic light in food products' labelling: A qualitative study pp. 628-642

Arezoo Haghighian Roudsari, Seyedeh Fatemeh Abdollah Pouri Hosseini, Ali Milani Bonab, Maliheh Zahedi‐rad, Fatemeh Mohammadi Nasrabadi and Azizollaah Zargaraan

Spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities in coastal region of Bangladesh pp. 643-655

Niaz Mahmud Zafri, Md Nurullah, Meher Nigar Neema and Md Waliullah

Decomposition of gendered socioeconomic‐related inequality in outpatient health care utilization: A cross‐sectional study from Iran pp. 656-667

Sajad Vahedi, Vajiheh Ramezani‐Doroh, Mohammad Shamsadiny and Aziz Rezapour

Do the determinants of institutional delivery among childbearing women differ by health insurance enrolment? Findings from a population‐based study in Nigeria pp. 668-688

Bola Lukman Solanke

Patients' attitude toward informal payments in Iran: an application of the cluster analysis method pp. 689-702

Ehsan Zarei, Adeleh Nikkhah, Soheila Khodakarim and Milena Pavlova

Integration of community health workers into the health system in Tanzania: Examining the process and contextual factors pp. 703-714

Peter Mgawe and Stephen O. Maluka

Association of outdoor air pollution with the medical expense of ischemic stroke: The case study of an industrial city in western China pp. 715-728

Siyu Zeng, Li Luo, Fang Chen, Yue Li, Mei Chen and Xiaozhou He

The preferred method for reminding a child's vaccination schedule among Iranian parents pp. 729-737

Leila Ahmadian, Zohreh Hashemi, Reza Khajouei and Mona Najaf Najafi

Outpatient prescribing trends, rational use of medicine and impact of prescription audit with feedback at a tertiary care centre in India pp. 738-753

Shubham Atal, Ratinder Jhaj, Akanksha Mathur, Niket Rai, Saurav Misra and Balakrishnan Sadasivam

Suggesting a framework for preparedness against the pandemic outbreak based on medical informatics solutions: a thematic analysis pp. 754-783

Marsa Gholamzadeh, Hamidreza Abtahi and Reza Safdari

Appearance characteristics of incision, satisfaction with the aesthetic effect, and quality of life in of thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy pp. 784-792

Yong Hong Liu, Ling Bo Xue, Shuai Zhang, Yan Fang Yang and Jie Li

Resources management impact on neonatal services performance in the United Kingdom: A system dynamics modelling approach pp. 793-812

Reda Lebcir and Rifat Atun

Mental health: The burden of social stigma pp. 813-825

Peter Zweifel

The association mechanism between social network types and health‐related behaviours among the elderly in rural Hubei Province, China pp. 826-846

Liping Ye and Xinping Zhang

Limited knowledge and distrust are important social factors of out‐patient’ s ‘inappropriate diagnosed seeking behaviour’: a qualitative research in Shanghai pp. 847-865

Yuhui Ruan, Chenyang Zhuang, Weisin Chen, Jinyu Xie, Yaodong Zhao, Lufa Zhang and Hong Lin

From paper to practice: an exploratory study of policy making and implementation in alternative forms of healthcare public‐private partnership in Ghana pp. 866-884

Gordon Dugle, Stephen Debar Kpinpuo and Benjamin Baisie Ghartey

Exploring health and nutrition stakeholders' expectations and perception toward establishment of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance in Iran pp. 885-895

Maryam Amini, Delaram Ghodsi, Azam Doustmohammadian, Bahareh Nikooyeh and Tirang R. Neyestani

Evaluation of performance at Palestinian public hospitals using Pabón Lasso model pp. 896-910

Iyad Ibrahim Shaqura, Masoomeh Gholami and Ali Akbari Sari

Identifying healthcare cost drivers in Palestine pp. 911-924

Rabeh Morrar, Samer Jabr, Rula Ghandour, Niveen ME Abu‐Rmeileh, Dana A. Forgione and Mustafa Younis

Association between health expenditures, economic growth and environmental pollution: Long‐run and causality analysis from Asian economies pp. 925-944

Samia Nasreen

Perceptions among Muslims regarding fasting, medication use and provider engagement during Ramadan in the United States pp. 945-957

Ahmed M. Alshehri, Jamie C. Barner, Shui Ling Wong, Kemi R. Ibrahim and Sana Qureshi

Iran hospital accreditation standards: challenges and solutions pp. 958-975

Fatemeh Ghazanfari, Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad, Ebrahim Jaafari Pooyan and Hossein Mobaraki

When informal work and poor work conditions backfire and fuel the COVID‐19 pandemic: Why we should listen to the lessons from Latin America pp. 976-979

Gabriela Lotta and Ellen Kuhlmann

Strategic assessment of mental health and suicide amid COVID‐19 pandemic in Bangladesh pp. 980-985

Faria Ahmed and Ridwan Islam Sifat

Training and practices of quack nurses in Nigeria: A public health concern pp. 986-991

Abdullahi T. Aborode, Abdulhammed O. Babatunde and Progress Agboola

International Journal of Health Planning and Management Covid‐19 in Brazil: Three dimensions to understand our tragedy pp. 992-994

Arthur Chioro, Alexandre Padilha, José Gomes Temporão and Humberto Costa

Some lessons that Peru did not learn before the second wave of COVID‐19 pp. 995-998

Percy Herrera‐Añazco, Angela Uyen‐Cateriano, Edward Mezones‐Holguin, Alvaro Taype‐Rondan, Percy Mayta‐Tristan, Germán Malaga and Adrian V. Hernandez

Volume 36, issue 2, 2021

Beyond the screening: The need for health systems intervention for prevention and management of sickle cell disease among tribal population of India pp. 236-243

Konathala Geethakumari, Yadlapalli S. Kusuma and Bontha V. Babu

The influence of the learning health system to address the COVID‐19 pandemic: An examination of early literature pp. 244-251

Brian J. Douthit

Conflict of interest in regulatory investigations on medical professionals pp. 252-256

Sayan Bhattacharya and Tom Kark Qc

An overview of the effect of bioaerosol size in coronavirus disease 2019 transmission pp. 257-266

Marcelo I. Guzman

The ‘Health Transformation Plan’ in Iran: A policy to achieve universal health coverage in slums and informal settlement areas pp. 267-272

Masoud Behzadifar, Maryam Saran, Meysam Behzadifar, Mariano Martini and Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

Patient–public engagement interventions for health system improvement in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A systematic scoping review protocol pp. 273-281

Samuel Egyakwa Ankomah, Adam Fusheini, Christy Ballard, Emmanuel Kumah, Gagan Gurung and Sarah Derrett

Global fund: Analyzing 10 Years of bridging health inequalities pp. 282-287

Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa, Miracle Ayomikun Adesina, Ruth Ifeoluwa Oladele, Moyinoluwa Joshua Oladoye and Nnenne Florence‐Ayambem Eke

Socio‐economic inequality in maternal health care utilization in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Evidence from Togo pp. 288-301

Esso–Hanam Atake

A critical look at the Portuguese public–private partnerships in healthcare pp. 302-315

Miguel A. Pereira, Diogo C. Ferreira and Rc Marques

Determinants of catastrophic health expenditure in Vietnam pp. 316-333

Nguyen Thi Thu Thuong, Yme Van Den Berg, Tran Quang Huy, Do Anh Tai and Bui Nu Hoang Anh

The effectiveness of electronic health record promotion for healthcare providers in the United States since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act: An empirical investigation pp. 334-352

Bocong Yuan, Jiannan Li and Peiguan Wu

Likelihood of admission to hospital from the emergency department is not universally associated with hospital bed occupancy at the time of admission pp. 353-363

Ellen Tolestam Heyman, Martin Engström, Amir Baigi, Lina Dahlén Holmqvist and Markus Lingman

Instrument development of health providers' Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Hospice Care Scale in China pp. 364-380

Zhiqun Shu, Yiting Wang, Tiantian Li, Limei Jing and Xiaoming Sun

Paradox of sustainability in tobacco control in Thailand: A comprehensive assessment of three‐decade experiences pp. 381-398

Paibul Suriyawongpaisal, Roengrudee Patanavanich, Wichai Aekplakorn, Ignacio Martinez‐Moyano and Thanita Thongtan

Factors affecting in‐hospital cost and mortality of patients with stroke: Evidence from a case study in a tertiary hospital in China pp. 399-422

Chuang Liu, Li Luo, Lijuan Duan, Shangyan Hou, Baoyue Zhang and Yan Jiang

A study on the motivation of Indian patients to consult complementary and alternative medicine practitioners to treat coronary artery disease pp. 423-441

Arti Singh and Shikha Dixit

Factors associated with the choice of primary treatment at the community level among the middle‐aged and elderly in China pp. 442-458

Tiantian Tao, Lili Hou and Rong Shao

Were the hospital bed reductions proposed by English Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in the sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) achievable? Insights from a new model to compare international bed numbers pp. 459-481

Rodney P. Jones

The effect of catastrophic health expenditure on exit from poverty among the poor in South Korea pp. 482-497

Eunkyoung Kim and Soonman Kwon

Effective supervision model for improved primary healthcare services: case of Egypt pp. 498-514

Madiha Said Abdel‐Razik, Fayrouz El‐Aguizy, Ghada Wahby, Ahmed Samir Elsayad and Eman Moawad Elhabashi

The impact of childhood experience of starvations on the health of older adults: Evidence from China pp. 515-531

Yiwei Liu, Li Diao and Ling Xu

The effect of mushroom management style and perceived supervisor support on employee performance: ‘An application with university hospital employees’ pp. 532-544

Gamze Yorgancioglu Tarcan, Gülsün Erigüç, Nazan Kartal, Gülsüm Şeyma Koca and Ayça Karahan

Does environment quality and public spending on environment promote life expectancy in China? Evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approach pp. 545-560

Muhammad Haroon Shah, Nianyong Wang, Irfan Ullah, Ahsan Akbar, Karamat Khan and Kebba Bah

Evaluating the healthcare practice by defining healthcare principles: An autoregressive integrated moving average model based on time series pp. 561-578

Jingjing Yan

Recent trends for the management of hypertension in older adults in Latin America in the context of universal coverage: Evidence from Mexico pp. 579-586

Armando Arredondo, Ana Lucia Recamán, José Carlos Suarez‐Herrera and Silvia Magali Cuadra

Locally produced personal protective equipment can offer hospital staff protection against Covid‐19 if combined with surgical masks and rigorous personal protective equipment cleaning routine pp. 587-589

Pieternella Pieterse, Claire Dickson, Lilian Ndyetabula, Megan Hardeman and Patricia Scanlan

Volume 36, issue 1, 2021

Telemedicine is an important aspect of healthcare services amid COVID‐19 outbreak: Its barriers in Bangladesh and strategies to overcome pp. 4-12

Saifur Rahman Chowdhury, Tachlima Chowdhury Sunna and Shakil Ahmed

Impact of COVID‐19 on access to healthcare in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Current evidence and future recommendations pp. 13-17

Melody Okereke, Nelson Ashinedu Ukor, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Isaac Olushola Ogunkola, Eseosa Favour Iyagbaye, Greatman Adiela Owhor and Don Eliseo Lucero‐Prisno

Bioethics and healthcare policies. The benefit of using genetic tests of BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 in elderly patients pp. 18-29

Vasco Fonseca and Joaquim Caeiro

Can management decentralisation resolve challenges faced by healthcare service delivery organisations? Findings for managers and researchers from a scoping review pp. 30-41

Mikael Ohrling, John Øvretveit and Mats Brommels

Factors influencing the inappropriate use of antibiotics in the Rupandehi district of Nepal pp. 42-59

Anant Nepal, Delia Hendrie, Linda A. Selvey and Suzanne Robinson

Quality and quantity of price elasticity of cigarette in Iran pp. 60-70

Enayatollah Homaie Rad, Mohammad Habibullah Pulok, Satar Rezaei and Anita Reihanian

Development of a composite indicator to prioritize districts for implementation of human immunodeficiency virus programmes in Maharashtra, India pp. 71-82

Shrikala Acharya, Maninder Singh Setia, Amol Palkar, Dandu Chandra Sekar Reddy, Padmaja Keskar, Pramod Deoraj, Mugundu Ramien Parthasarthy, Padum Narayan, Shobhini Rajan and Alok Saxena

What attracts and sustain urban poor to informal healthcare practitioners? A study on practitioners' perspectives and patients' experiences in an Indian city pp. 83-99

Abdul Azeez E P, G. Anbu Selvi, Garima Sharma and Senthil Kumar A P

Association of leisure sedentary time with common chronic disease risk factors: A longitudinal study of China Health and Nutrition Surveys pp. 100-112

Xiaolu Yin, Minfang Chen, Ruibo He, Song Wu, Hongjie Xia, Feili Xie and Huajing Wang

The cream‐skimming effect in China's health care services: A mixed methods study pp. 113-133

Dongjin Chen and Youxing Lang

Changes in knowledge and use of clinical coordination mechanisms between care levels in healthcare networks of Colombia pp. 134-150

Heisel Gloria León‐Arce, Amparo‐Susana Mogollón‐Pérez, Ingrid Vargas and María‐Luisa Vázquez

Analysis on chronic pain management: Focus on the Italian network pp. 151-157

Francesco Amato, Silvia Ceniti, Sara Laurita, Erika Pasceri, Roberto Guarasci, Francesca Parisi, Luciano Parrilla, Giuseppina Panizzoli and Anna Perri

Women's decision‐making autonomy and utilization of antenatal, natal and post‐natal healthcare services: Insights from Tajikistan's national surveys pp. 158-172

Alena Auchynnikava and Nazim Habibov

Association of Chinese drifting elderly's intergenerational support satisfaction with expectation: A mixed method study in Shanghai pp. 173-188

Yuhui Ruan and Demi Zhu

Are family medicine centres achieving their target in Turkey: Impact on health care utilization of mothers and infants pp. 189-208

Aysun Aygun

The impact of the COVID‐19 disease on the referral and admission of the non‐COVID‐19 patients pp. 209-211

Mohammad Ali Zakeri and Mahlagha Dehghan

Catastrophe and the cure: Looking beyond the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 212-214

Roshan Mathew, Ankit Sahu and Ritin Mohindra

Stigma and COVID‐19 crisis: A wake‐up call pp. 215-218

Prince Peprah and Razak M. Gyasi

COVID‐19 pandemic and adolescent health and well‐being in sub‐Saharan Africa: Who cares? pp. 219-222

Evelyn Aboagye Addae

Reimagining One Health in Africa: a strategy to ending re‐emerging infections and anti‐microbial resistance pp. 223-225

Isaac I. Olufadewa, Miracle A. Adesina, Toluwase Ayorinde and Ruth I. Oladele