Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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Volume 161, issue C, 2025

The effects of private equity ownership in U.S. nursing homes quality and financial performance: A systematic review

Gregory N. Orewa, Aizhan Karabukayeva, Rohit Pradhan, Itopa Jimoh and Robert Weech-Maldonado

The role of private equity in the German outpatient sector

Beate Jochimsen and Bernhard Gibis

The challenge of the first 1000 days. The dynamics of early-life health inequalities in a universal healthcare system: Evidence from Italy

Paolo Berta and Gilberto Turati

Unraveling the policies, legislations, and regulations of psychedelics in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, and India

Ramesh Joga, Sravani Yerram, Jayasri Devi Patnam, Khushbhoo K. Choudhary, Priya Varpe, Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi and Saurabh Srivastava

Operationalising public trust for health policymakers - A qualitative study in the EU, France, Italy, and Switzerland

Federica Zavattaro, Viktor von Wyl and Felix Gille

A new integrated conceptual framework of health insurance literacy: Results of a critical interpretive synthesis

Reut Ron, Paula Feder-Bubis, Kierstin Trocha and Moriah Ellen

Mental health as a determinant of work: a scoping review on the impact of mental health on precarious employment

Claire de Oliveira, Margaret Jamieson and Sara Bonato

The associations between prices and taxes and the use of tobacco products in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis

G. Emmanuel Guindon, Ignacio Finot Cornejo, Mauricio Flores Muñoz, Luca Pruzzo and Guillermo Paraje

Strengthening primary health care: The new contribution of midwives to gynecological care in France

Quitterie Roquebert, Henri Panjo and Carine Franc

Under what conditions do people accept health inequality? A cross-national regression analysis of OECD countries

Minjung Kim and Young Jun Choi

Corrigendum to “Impact of territorial case management on hospital admissions for complex chronic patients in Catalonia (Spain)” [Health Policy 159 (2025) 105384]

Jesús Antonio Vaquero Cruzado, Nuria Gutiérrez Jiménez, Laura Carrillo Ciércoles, Eva García Tarrida, María Jesús Megido Badía and Nuria Fabrellas Padrés

Accounting for morbidity in capitation payments: A person-based workload formula for primary medical care in England

Laura Anselmi, Shaolin Wang, Yiu-Shing Lau, Michael Anderson, Evangelos Kontopantelis and Matt Sutton

Overview of Australia’s state-wide cardiovascular program and reflections on its piloting between 2021 and 2024

N.N. Khan, S. Jennings, E. Lugg, A. Beauchamp, J. Ellis, S. Ghasemian, H. Vaniotis, S. Rafferty, S. Yong, A. Wandke, R. Brown, K Yakimov, B. Morris, H. Collins, S. Cheung, S. Chung and A. Driscoll

The 2023 European Commission proposal and the 2024 European Parliament proposal for the EU pharmaceutical legislation: policy content analysis

Simona Gamba, Laura Magazzini and Paolo Pertile

New government, old habits? The opportunity for a turning point in prevention health policies in Germany is now!

Marike Andreas, Lisa Kellermann, Ludgera Lewerich and Falko F. Sniehotta

A population-based exploration of immigrants undergoing general surgery procedures in British Columbia: Do immigrants present for emergency surgeries more than non-immigrants?

Michael Guo, Nicolas Mourad, Ahmer Karimuddin and Jason M. Sutherland

A scoping review of transformational leadership development in health-related PhD programs

Barbara Maria Löfflad-Bürkin, Anja Matthiä, Heather Krasna, Nino Künzli, Julia Bohlius and Katarzyna Czabanowska

Meso-organisational determinants of healthcare workers’ resilience: results of a scoping review

Natalia Oprea, Giorgio Giacomelli, Marco Sartirana, Elisabetta Trinchero and Irène Georgescu

Impact of the 2012 pharmaceutical co-payment reform on drug consumption among children in Catalonia: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Toni Mora

The use of social return on investment approaches to evaluate integrated long-term care in high-income countries: A scoping review

Susana Ramalho Marques, Ricardo Rodrigues, Jürgen Zerth and Carola Orrego

Understanding physician prescription behaviors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of macro, meso, and micro-level influences

Giaele Moretti, Francesca Ferrè, Alma Martelli and Paola Cantarelli

Financial penalty associated with a decline in hospital-acquired complications in Australia

Luke Slawomirski, Petr Otahal, Martin Hensher, Julie Campbell, Stephanie Newell and Barbara de Graaff

Reducing mental health emergency department visits through community-based assessment services. A controlled time-series analysis in the city of Lyon, France

Guillaume Barbalat, Romane De Rozario and Nicolas Franck

What matters most to the population in case of chronic conditions? Results from a discrete choice experiment in Italy

Milena Vainieri, Veronica Spataro, Sabina De Rosis, Filippo Quattrone and Sabina Nuti

The use of discrete choice experiments in evaluating telehealth: a systematic review

Feby Savira, Madison Frith, Dieu Nguyen, Richard Norman, Deniz Senyel, James Boyd and Suzanne Robinson

Comparative analysis of tuberculosis management in Indigenous North Canada and Alaska, USA from 1950s to 2019

Hongyu Huang, Raja Faisal Abbas, Shishi Wu, Jerome Song, Yuchuan Ye, Elizabeth Rea, Christopher Rutty, Ross Upshur, Pamela Orr and Xiaolin Wei

Strengthening innovation capacity in health and care workforce: A role-based framework for the procurement professionals

Klaas Stek, Luc Lefers and Carolina Belotti Pedroso

Employment models for general practitioners in england: evidence from repeated surveys

Jonathan Martin Gibson, Sean Urwin, Sharon Spooner, Kath Checkland and Matt Sutton

Can de-budgeting save primary care in Germany? A turning point for general practice

Damon Mohebbi, Rumeysa Yasar, Altina Ademi, Nazmiye Acar and Shadan Rahimpour

Comparing health outcomes and costs of home and community-based services (HCBS) versus institutional care (IC) for long-term care insurance beneficiaries in South Korea: Can the less severe benefit more?

Sunghun Yun and Soonman Kwon

Implementation of the European health data space: a qualitative study on expectations of health data experts from 23 countries

Patricia Cervera de la Cruz, Teodora Lalova-Spinks and Mahsa Shabani

Is health financing fair? Evidence from 29 countries on the progressivity of health care revenue collection

Thomas Rice, Ruth Waitzberg and Andres Võrk

Measuring health system resilience: Understanding the relationship between excess mortality and health system performance

Irene Papanicolas and Jorge Ledesma

Cumulative legacies and crisis decision-making in shocks to the Irish health system: A mixed methods analysis

Steve Thomas, O’Donoghue, Catherine, Arianna Almirall-Sanchez and Liz Farsaci

Impacts of social determinants on the transient and persistent inefficiency of health systems in OECD countries

Ezgi Önen Efecan and Volkan Efecan

Health care coverage and access for displaced persons from Ukraine: Assessing the implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive across EU Member States

Nicole Mauer, Cristina Hernandez-Quevedo, Astrid Eriksen, Giada Scarpetti, Ewout van Ginneken, Anita Gottlob, Timmy van Dijck, Antoniya Dimova, Mincho Minev, Maja Banadinovic, Iva Lukačević Lovrenčić, Elena Gabriel, Marios Kantaris, Lenka Šlegerová, Jana Votápková, Signe Smith Jervelund, Viktoriia Vereshchakina, Karsten Vrangbæk, Kaija Kasekamp, Kristina Köhler, Kaisa Kontunen, Dr. Outi Linnaranta, Dr. Natalia Skogberg, Marie-Camille Lenormand, Julie Galodé, Miriam Blümel, Lefteris Papagiannakis, Krisztina Davidovics, Viktória Szerencsés, Gergely Varga, Prof Sara Burke, Dr Liz Farsaci, Luisne Mac Conghail, Jo Greene, Antonio Giulio de Belvis, Giuseppe Greco, Daiga Behmane, Alina Dūdele, Laura Miščikienė, Juliane Winkelmann, Alexia Bezzina, Kenneth Grech, Karen Vincenti, Madelon Kroneman, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Gonçalo Augusto, Inês Fronteira, Silvia Gabriela Scîntee, Cristian Vlădescu, Peter Pažitný, Pia Vracko, Ester Angulo-Pueyo, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Clara Lindberg and Ingrid Schmidt

Public perceptions of front-of-package warning label during policy design and implementation in Uruguay: A content analysis of social media narratives

Gastón Ares, Carlos Gómez Corona, Lucía Antúnez and Anne-Marie Thow

We should care about informal carers: Reforms are needed to improve their health and wellbeing

Natalie Winter and Rebecca Haddock

Urgent action needed to address the epidemiological threat of prolonged war in Gaza

Hanane EL Hafa

The role of private equity funds in healthcare: trends, impact and policy responses

Bernd Rechel, Florian Tille, Julien Mercille, Peter Groenewegen and Rob Timans

Health workforce planning should be strategy or policy-driven: From linear forecasts to normative futures

Gareth H Rees, Graham Willis and Cris Scotter

Large language models in radiology workflows: An exploratory study of generative AI for non-visual tasks in the German healthcare system

Stefanie Steinhauser and Sabrina Welsch

Corrigendum to “Mitigating the regressivity of private mechanisms of financing healthcare: An Assessment of 29 countries” [Health Policy 143 (2024) 105058]

Ruth Waitzberg, Sara Allin, Michel Grignon, Åsa Ljungvall, Katharina Habimana, Marios Kantaris, Steve Thomas and Thomas Rice

Volume 159, issue C, 2025

Do faster‑trained physicians fill the gaps? Geographic concentration of emergency medicine physicians with different postgraduate training in Ontario Canada

David Kanter-Eivin, Calvin Armstrong, Anil Esleben, Grant Sweeny, Michaela Dowling, Asil El Galad and Stephenson Strobel

Overseas general practitioners (GPs) and opioid prescriptions in England

Joan E. Madia, Catia Nicodemo, Cristina E. Orso and Cristina Tealdi

Addressing workforce gaps in public health medicine subspecialties in Turkiye: A call to action

Eray Ontas

Education and fertility: Evidence from an instrumental variable approach using higher education expansions in Turkey

Badi Baltagi and Haci M. Karatas

Towards effective policy measures to reduce informal payments in healthcare: addressing sample selection bias and measurement error in surveys

Maria Felice Arezzo, Giuseppina Guagnano, Colin Williams and Adrian V. Horodnic

The impact of a medical residents' walkout on mortality rates in South Korea, 2024

Jin-Hwan Kim and Saerom Kim

Urban NO2-pollution and health outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment in Italy on the simulated benefits of the EU zero-emission-vehicles resolution

Daniele Bondonio, Paolo Chirico, Massimiliano Piacenza and Simone Robbiano

The opportunities and challenges of integrating health and social care in post-stroke patient journey: perceptions of Estonian professionals

Kadi Lubi, Helin Pevkur, Katrin Gross-Paju, Maarja-Liis Elland and Peeter Ross

Private equity investment in long-term care: The case of Ireland

O’Neill, Nicholas and Julien Mercille

Shall we call for a doctor? How to build trust toward AI in healthcare: Insights from a Polish cross-sectional preference study

Katarzyna Kolasa, Katarzyna Baliga-Nicholson, Jaroslaw Wasniewski, Nikola Laskowska, Krystyna Milian and Dominika Ciupek

A new integrative organizational health literacy framework for preventive action through intersectoral collaboration: Results of a landscape review

Francisco Javier Ferreira-Alfaya, Yasmin Cura and María José Zarzuelo-Romero

The progressivity of health care revenue financing in 29 countries: A comparison

Andres Võrk, Peter Pažitný, Ruth Waitzberg, Sara Allin, Daiga Behmane, Nicolas Bouckaert, Damien Bricard, Lucie Bryndová, Antoniya Dimova, Fidelia Cascini, Péter Gaál, Katharina Habimana, Marios Kantaris, Ewa Kocot, Madelon Kroneman, Liubovė Murauskienė, Zeynep Or, Carlo de Pietro, Ingrid S. Saunes, Steve Thomas, Karsten Vrangbæk and Thomas Rice

Implications of multiprofessional collaboration in primary care – benefits for all? A quantitative study of effects on resource utilization of a team-based primary care practice in Sweden

Anna H Glenngård and Mattias Haraldsson

Exploring differences in performance management across public and private providers in primary care: Evidence from Finland and Sweden

Anna Häger Glenngård and Teemu Malmi

Impact of territorial case management on hospital admissions for complex chronic patients in Catalonia (Spain)

Jesús Antonio Vaquero Cruzado, Nuria Gutiérrez Jiménez, Laura Carrillo Ciércoles, Eva García Tarrida, María Jesús Megido Badía and Nuria Fabrellas Padrés

The role of burden of disease estimates in European Union Health policymaking: A systematic analysis of EU legislation

José Chen-Xu, Diana Grad, Nour Mahrouseh, João Vasco Santos, Silvia Riva, Federica Gazzelloni, Brigid Unim, Periklis Charalampous, Enkeleint A. Mechili, Sarah Cuschieri, Vanessa Gorasso, Henk Hilderink, Orsolya Varga and Susana Viegas

Policy makers must adopt agile signal detection tools to strengthen epidemiological surveillance and improve pandemic preparedness

Cédric Mahé and Aimo Kannt