Health Economics, Policy and Law

2006 - 2025

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Volume 20, issue 3, 2025

Exploring the uptake of economic evaluation in Spanish reports positioning medicines for public reimbursement pp. 233-245

Laura Vallejo-Torres, Juan Oliva-Moreno and Félix Lobo

How should medicines reimbursement work? The views of Spanish experts pp. 246-263

Juan Carlos Rejon-Parrilla, David Epstein, Daniel Pérez-Troncoso and Jaime Espin

Why drugs fail health technology assessment: a comparative analysis of health technology assessment rejections across seven OECD countries pp. 264-283

Filippos Papadopoulos, Erica Visintin, Ilias Kyriopoulos and Panos Kanavos

The still incomplete pursuit of universal access to medicines pp. 284-296

Paloma Fernández, Alicia del Llano, Jaume Vidal, Jaime Espín and Juan E. del Llano

Has regional decentralisation saved lives during the COVID-19 pandemic? pp. 297-312

Beatriz González López-Valcárcel and Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas

Health system sustainability and resilience: a preliminary provision of measurement through a “mash-up” index pp. 313-325

A. McGuire, G. Wharton, S. Hodgson, D. Kourouklis, M. Jofre-Bonet and D.L. Tran

Volume 20, issue 2, 2025

Balancing between competition and regulation in healthcare markets pp. 100-109

Maria Trottmann, Piet Stam, Johan Visser and Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

The roads to managed competition for mixed public–private health systems: a conceptual framework pp. 110-125

Josefa Henriquez, Wynand van de Ven, Adrian Melia and Francesco Paolucci

Roadmaps to managed competition: to what extent does South Africa meet the preconditions for equity and efficiency? pp. 126-143

Alex van den Heever

Preconditions for efficiency and affordability in mixed health systems: are they fulfilled in the Australian public–private mix? pp. 144-159

Chiara Berardi, Pablo Arija Prieto, Josefa Henríquez and Francesco Paolucci

Managed competition in the United States: How well is it promoting equity and efficiency? pp. 160-174

Randall P. Ellis, Alex Hoagland and Angelique Acquatella

Managed competition in Colombia: convergence of public and private insurance and delivery pp. 175-189

Ramon Castano, Sergio I. Prada, Norman Maldonado and Victoria Soto

Roadmaps to managed competition: to what extent does Ireland meet the preconditions for equity and efficiency? pp. 190-209

John Armstrong

Managed competition in Aotearoa New Zealand: past experiences and future prospects pp. 210-224

Jacqueline Cumming

Volume 20, issue 1, 2025

Précis of Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage pp. 4-8

Alex Voorhoeve, Elina Dale and Unni Gopinathan

Fair processes for financing universal health coverage? pp. 9-12

Daniel M. Hausman

Enhancing procedural fairness: a critique of the open and inclusive approach to health financing decisions pp. 13-18

John Kinuthia

Procedural fairness to recalibrate the power imbalance in health decision-making: comment on the report: ‘Open and inclusive: Fair processes for financing universal health coverage’ pp. 19-25

Dheepa Rajan and Benjamin Rouffy-Ly

Implications of the fair processes for financing UHC report for development assistance: reflections and an application of the decision-making principles to PEPFAR pp. 26-33

Sara Bennett and Maria W. Merritt

Response to critics of Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage pp. 34-46

Alex Voorhoeve, Elina Dale and Unni Gopinathan

Success and failure in establishing national physician databases: a comparison between Canada and Israel pp. 47-63

Baruch Levi, Nadav Davidovitch and Sara Allin

Just informal patient payments are not enough, ‘personal connections’ and knowledge of the ‘rules’ are also required: a logistic regression analysis of informal practices in health care in Ukraine pp. 64-84

Olena Levenets, Tetiana Stepurko, Abel Polese, Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot

Volume 19, issue 4, 2024

An examination of health care efficiency in Canada: a two-stage semi-parametric approach pp. 409-428

Barry Watson and Gholam R. Amin

Publicly funded health insurance schemes and demand for health services: evidence from an Indian state using a matching estimator approach pp. 429-445

Vanita Singh

Genomics and insurance in the United Kingdom: increasing complexity and emerging challenges pp. 446-458

Padraig Dixon, Rachel H. Horton, William G. Newman, John H. McDermott and Anneke Lucassen

The inefficient effects of non-clinical factors on health care costs pp. 459-473

Shawn McFarland and Jonathan Miller

Pandemic preparedness and response: a new mechanism for expanding access to essential countermeasures pp. 474-497

Nicole Hassoun, Kaushik Basu and Lawrence Gostin

Navigating conflicting expectations in addressing healthcare scarcity: a q-methodology study on the Dutch National Health Care Institute pp. 498-516

Jolien van de Sande, Bert de Graaff, Diana Delnoij and Antoinette de Bont

Virtual reality evidence on the impact of physicians' open versus defensive communication on patients pp. 517-536

Lotte Daniels, Wim Marneffe and Samantha Bielen

Volume 19, issue 3, 2024

The state of American health coverage: the 2022 elections and the Affordable Care Act pp. 292-306

Mickael K. Gusmano and Frank J. Thompson

Medical marijuana laws and mental health in the United States pp. 307-322

Jörg Kalbfuss, Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer

What is a ‘National’ ‘Health’ ‘Service’? A keyword analysis of policy documents leading to the formation of the UK NHS pp. 323-336

Martin Powell and Iestyn Williams

Consolidating political leadership in healthcare: a mediating institution for priority-setting as a political strategy in a local health system pp. 337-352

Emma Bergstedt, Lars Sandman and Ann-Charlotte Nedlund

Why did England change its law on deceased organ donation in 2019? The dynamic interplay between evidence and values pp. 353-369

Lorraine Williams, Jennifer Bostock, Jane Noyes, Leah McLaughlin, Stephen O'Neill, Mustafa Al-Haboubi, Paul Boadu and Nicholas Mays

Emergency care reconfiguration in the Netherlands: conflicting interests and trade-offs from a multidisciplinary perspective pp. 370-386

Nanne van Velzen, Richard Janssen and Marco Varkevisser

From speculative to real: community attitudes towards government COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Western Australia from May 2021 to April 2022 pp. 387-406

Katie Attwell, Leah Roberts and Marco Rizzi

Volume 19, issue 2, 2024

We need to talk about values: a proposed framework for the articulation of normative reasoning in health technology assessment pp. 153-173

Victoria Charlton, Michael DiStefano, Polly Mitchell, Liz Morrell, Leah Rand, Gabriele Badano, Rachel Baker, Michael Calnan, Kalipso Chalkidou, Anthony Culyer, Daniel Howdon, Dyfrig Hughes, James Lomas, Catherine Max, Christopher McCabe, James F. O'Mahony, Mike Paulden, Zack Pemberton-Whiteley, Annette Rid, Paul Scuffham, Mark Sculpher, Koonal Shah, Albert Weale and Gry Wester

A review of heath economic evaluation practice in the Netherlands: are we moving forward? pp. 174-191

Andrea Gabrio

Understanding household healthcare expenditure can promote health policy reform pp. 192-215

Rohan Best and Berna Tuncay

Ten years of German benefit assessment: price analysis for drugs with unproven additional benefit pp. 216-233

Katrin Kleining, Jan Laufenberg, Philip Thrun, Dorothee Ehlert, Jürgen Wasem and Arne Bartol

Pricing of hospital services: evidence from a thematic review pp. 234-252

Andria J. N. Sirur and Rajasekharan Pillai K

How reforms hamper priority-setting in health care: an interview study with local decision-makers in London pp. 253-268

Katharina Kieslich, Clare Coultas and Peter Littlejohns

New governance of the digital health agency: a way out of the joint decision trap to implement electronic health records in Germany? pp. 269-288

Tugce Schmitt

Volume 19, issue 1, 2024

… and in with the new pp. 1-2

Rocco Friebel and Iris Wallenburg

Financial risk protection in private health insurance: empirical evidence on catastrophic and impoverishing spending from Germany's dual insurance system pp. 3-20

Philipp Hengel, Miriam Blümel, Martin Siegel, Katharina Achstetter, Julia Köppen and Reinhard Busse

Health insurance and fertility among low-income, childless, single women: evidence from the ACA Medicaid expansions pp. 21-45

J. Sebastian Leguizamon

Improving access to healthcare in Ireland: an implementation failure pp. 46-56

Sheelah Connolly

Strengthening primary health care in China: governance and policy challenges pp. 57-72

Jiwei Qian and M. Ramesh

Is the emergency department used as a substitute or a complement to primary care in Medicaid? pp. 73-91

Alina Denham, Elaine Hill, Maria Raven, Michael Mendoza, Mical Raz and Peter J. Veazie

Early child health in Africa: do ICT and democracy matter? pp. 92-118

Gaston Brice Nkoumou Ngoa and Jacques Simon Song

Globalisation and mental health: is globalisation good or bad for mental health? Testing for quadratic effects pp. 119-150

Saqib Amin