Health Policy

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Volume 164, issue C, 2026

Does pay for performance affect socioeconomic inequalities in access? Evidence from hospital specialised care in England

Alberto Núñez-Elvira, Yan Feng, Søren Rud Kristensen, Paula Lorgelly, Rachel Meacock, Luigi Siciliani and Matt Sutton

The impact of pre-admission care on hospital mortality: Results of an instrumental variable analysis from Italy

Francesco Moscone, Elisa Tosetti and Giorgio Vittadini

Cervical cancer in Bulgaria since EU accession in 2007: a struggle in the face of political instability

Irina Todorova, Yulia Panayotova, Tatyana Kotzeva, Rachel Greenley and Martin McKee

Health workforce resilience in the age of polycrisis: A framework to support health workforce policy and planning

Olivier Onvlee, Eelco Jacobs, Noor Tromp, Ajay Bailey and Marjolein Dieleman

Multi-Sector collaboration to promote healthy ageing: A comparative case study of national policy responses in the Western Pacific Region

Tao Yang, Aaron Hagedorn, Wenqian Xu, Siwon Lee, Mikiko Kanda, Sunghun Yun and Honglin Chen

Impact of COVID-19 on primary care consultation mode in England: An interrupted time series analysis

Nicoletta Mesiano and Rita Santos

Pricing matters: A retrospective national study of pricing reform impact on hip fracture procedures in Israel

Gideon Leibner, Meir Liebergall and Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

Understanding the intention–action gap in physician migration during crises: Interrupted time-series evidence from Turkey

Jebağı Canberk Aydın, Emre Atilgan, Aysu Zekioğlu and Işıl Usta Kara

Changing Working Patterns in Irish general practice: Findings from a Qualitative Remote Ethnographic Study

Niamh Humphries, Holly R Hanlon, O’Callaghan, Mike, John-Paul Byrne, Laura Cullen, Andrew W Murphy, Susan M Smith and Éidín Ní Shé

The role of EU funds in capital investment for health-care: a case study of Estonia's approach to provider network transformation 2004-2024

Triin Habicht, Kaija Kasekamp, Yulia Litvinova and Mark Hellowell

Fragmentation of Health Benefits Plans in Chile: Findings from a comparative policy analysis and implications for advancing Universal Health Coverage

Pilar Contreras-Montiel, Nicolás Armijo, Macarena Vera, Oscar Arteaga, Pamela Góngora-Salazar, Carlos Balmaceda and Manuel A. Espinoza

An inventory of policy levers to reduce low value care: Results of a rapid scoping review

Lindsey M Warkentin, Lisa Tjosvold and Ken Bond

Beyond income: The overlooked role of institutional trust and digital access in vaccine equity

Iman Nurjaman

Facemask and respirator use for bushfire smoke protection: A cross-country comparison of public health policies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United States

Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Elizabeth Kpozehouen, Holly Seale, Smita Shah, Guy B. Marks and C Raina MacIntyre

Romania’s 2025 guide for health workforce attraction and retention: Bridging global strategies and local realities

Teodor Cristian Blidaru, Alina-Ioana Forray, Tomas Zapata, Cris Scotter, Yana Andersen, Khamis Al-alawy, Ioana Novac, Rareș Vrîncianu, Alexandru Rafila, Alexandru Florin Rogobete and Dragoș Nicolae Garofil

Cultural competence teaching in public health: a rapid review to support implementation

Martina Paric, Pablo Rodriguez-Feria, María del Carmen Calle, Gloria Lagos, Matt Commers and Katarzyna Czabanowska

From recruitment to retention of young doctors: A comparative analysis of policies in Poland and the United Kingdom

Kamila Michalska, Alejandro Gonzalez-Aquines, Lynn McVey, Gaynor Clark and Alicja Domagała

Associations between residents’ experience and compliance, staffing and clinical quality Star Ratings for Australian residential long-term care homes

Nicole Sutton, Nelson Ma, Jin Sug Yang, Michael Woods, Rachael L. Lewis and Deborah Parker

How are transitions from oncology to palliative care regulated across Europe? A grey literature review in eight countries: Pal-Cycles project

Eduardo Garralda, Tamara Radojičić, Sheila Payne, Rachel Hooley, Csilla Busa, Ian Koper, Wojciech Leppert, Carla Reigada, Flavia Hurducas, Holger Brunsch, Alazne Belar, Carlos Centeno, Jeroen Hasselaar and María Arantzamendi

On “Inequality in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake”

Zachary D.V. Abel, Laurence S.J. Roope, Raymond Duch, Sophie Cole and Philip M. Clarke

Volume 163, issue C, 2026

Towards the development and implementation of hospital-based health technology assessment (HB-HTA) in Poland: Achievements of an exploratory HB-HTA project from 2019–2022

Małgorzata Gałązka-Sobotka, Maciej Furman, Anna Sagan and Iwona Kowalska-Bobko

Exploring barriers to nutritional support for oncology patients in regional and rural settings: A scoping review through the lens of Levesque’s accessibility framework

Annemarie De Leo, Christelle Schofield, Emily Jeffery, Emily Mountford, Elle Cotton, Joshua Lewis, Jonathan Hodgson and Mary A. Kennedy

Corrigendum to “Shall we call for a doctor? How to build trust toward AI in healthcare: Insights from a Polish cross-sectional preference study” [Health policy 159 (2025) 105379]

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

Exploring financial challenges of students and early-career professionals working in the healthcare sector: A scoping review

Samin Huq, Yoonjung Choi, Paul Künzle, Mfonobong Timothy, Cornelia Santoso, Stephanie Hwang and Sherly Meilianti

Healthcare utilization and costs for cardiovascular diseases across different levels of bundled payment adoption in general practice: A data linkage study

J.T. Dros, C.E. van Dijk, R.A. Verheij, I. Bos and B.R. Meijboom

A scoping literature review of rehabilitation policy recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region

Callum Thomas, Justine Gosling, Ruth E Ashton, Rebecca Owen and Mark A Faghy

Backlogs, waiting times and waiting lists of elective surgeries across OECD countries

Luigi Siciliani, Gaetan Lafortune, Marie-Clémence Canaud and Chekwube Madichie

Association between socioeconomic disadvantage and low-value care in acute care hospitals in Japan: Cross-sectional study

So Sato, Hideo Yasunaga, Yuichiro Matsuo, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi and Atsushi Miyawaki

Mortality risk factors in Catalonia’s long-term care system: A population-based survival analysis

Albert Prades-Colomé

The effectiveness of pharmaceutical tenders as a cost containment mechanism: analysis through the Synthetic Control Method. The case of Andalusia (Spain)

Pedro Atienza Montero, Luis Ángel Hierro Recio and Antonio José Garzón Gordón

Different systems, same challenges: a comparative analysis of long-term care resilience in Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Italy and Australia

Martijn Felder, Roland Bal, Eline Ree, Maren Sogstad, Sharon Stoddart, Louise A. Ellis, Florin Tibu, Federico Vola, Paola Cantarelli, Juana María Delgado-Saborit, Estefania Aparicio, Mari Lahti, Eila Kankaanpää, Siri Wiig, Iris Wallenburg and Hilda Bø Lyng

Co-developing an inclusive interprofessional health workforce minimum data standard for enhanced planning and decision-making: A Canadian case with international relevance

Katherine Zagrodney, Dax Bourcier, Neeru Gupta, Sarah Simkin, Rachelle Ashcroft, Brenna Bath, Houssem Eddine Ben-Ahmed, Natalie Crown, Brenda Gamble, Kathleen Leslie, Angela Mashford-Pringle, Sophia Myles, Danielle Rice, Arthur Sweetman and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

How do strategy, scanning, and assessment shape decision-making on technologies in hospitals? insights from a qualitative study in Dutch hospitals

Maria Pinelli, Marcia Tummers and Janneke Grutters

Impact of quality clusters on antibiotic prescribing patterns. A difference-in-differences study from Danish general practice

Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Maria Bundgaard, Eskild Klausen Fredslund, Jens Søndergaard, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Sonja Wehberg and Dorte Ejg Jarbøl

Cash transfers and health outcomes: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Stefania Fontana, Calogero Guccio, Giacomo Pignataro and Domenica Romeo

Health and care workforce preparedness in response to the influx of Ukrainian refugees: a qualitative study from the Czech Republic

Zuzana Kotherová, Karolína Dobiášová, Jolana Kopsa Těšinová and Elena Tulupova

Strategies to improve recruitment, retention, working conditions, and skills among the long-term care workforce: An umbrella review of existing evidence

Andreea Corina Badache, Maja Dobrosavljevic and Sarah Louise Barber

Spatial equity of physiotherapy accessibility in Aotearoa New Zealand in relation to Māori and Pacific ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation, and rurality

Miranda Buhler, Tayyab Shah, Meredith Perry, Marc Tennant, Estie Kruger and Stephan Milosavljevic

How health workers experience health system reform: A qualitative study from Finland

Laura Kihlström, Marjaana Viita-aho, Ilmo Keskimäki and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

Volume 162, issue C, 2025

High health system performance, low health system resilience: Navigating vulnerability – an illustrative example using Small and Island States

Finn McGuire, Megha Rao, Simon Walker, Bruno Meessen, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Gibril Jarjue, Ntombifuthi Ginindza, Emmanuel Odame, Simon Bland, Anna Bershteyn and Paul Revill

Health impact assessments should be mandatory for all relevant government policies

Heidi Lynch, Ian Holdroyd, Martin Birley, Daniel Black, Ben Cave, Margaret Douglas, Rowena Ekermawi, Liz Green, Fiona Haigh, Ben Harris-Roxas, Monica O'Mullane, Joanna Purdy, Anna Stevenson, Salim Vohra and John Ford

Impact of midwifery-led units in Spain: lessons from the first 5 years

Roser Palau-Costafreda, Lluna Orus-Covisa, Edgar Vicente-Castellví, Xavier Espada-Trespalacios, Albert Medina Català, Carlota Alcover, Noemí Obregón Gutiérrez, Ramon Escuriet and Eva Padrosa

Are long-term care systems aligned with person-centered integrated care? Evidence from the Western Pacific

Dongkyu Lee, Soojung Kim, Soonman Kwon, Sunghun Yun, Mikiko Kanda, Siwon Lee, Nicole Sutton, Paul Ong and Andy Inder

Anticipating ethical and social dimensions of the European Health Data Space: A rapid systematic review

Joseph Donia and Luca Marelli

The same, but different: Understanding responsibility attributions for depression with a cross-national survey in the United States and Germany

Anna Wagner, Doreen Reifegerste and Sebastian Scherr

Health hazard discrimination or prejudice? A correspondence experiment in Italy

Paolo Buonanno, Flavio Porta and Marcello Puca

Gender differences in healthcare utilization across Europe: Evidence from the European Health Interview Survey

Davide Golinelli, Francesco Sanmarchi, Giovanni Guarducci, Jacopo Palombarini, Paolo Benetti, Simona Rosa and Jacopo Lenzi

Emotions associated with teleconsultation: An analysis of users' messages on X (Twitter) in Chile

Patricio E. Ramírez-Correa, F. Javier Rondán-Cataluña and Jorge Arenas-Gaitán

Governance of nonpowdered firearms across high-income countries: Results of a scoping review

Nardin Kirolos, Rachel Strauss, Tharani Raveendran, Charlotte Moore Hepburn and Natasha Saunders

Frameworks, theories and models used in the development of health policies: A systematic review of systematic reviews

Simone Diamandis, Tracey Thornley, Shalom Charlie Benrimoj, Kevin Ou and Sarah Dineen-Griffin

Public Health Guidelines for Social Connection: An International Delphi Study

Kiffer G. Card, Jocelle Refol, Taylor G. Hill, Cecilia Benoit, Robert J. Coplan, Steve Joordens, Charlotte M. Roddick, John L. Oliffe, Erin Dej, Frances S. Chen, Elizabeth C. Pinel, Peter J. Helm, Shayna Skakoon-Sparling and Kwame McKenzie

Communication difficulties and strategies in migrant mental healthcare: A European survey of health and social care professionals

Graham Hieke, Demi Krystallidou, Özlem Temizöz, Fang Wang, Cristina Álvaro Aranda, Łucja Biel, Agnieszka Biernacka, Antoon Cox, Katarzyna Czarnocka-Gołębiewska, Silviya Damianova Radeva, Melanie de Looper, Nora Gattiglia, Saskia Hanft-Robert, Soňa Hodáková, Ily Hollebeke, Koen Kerremans, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, Dalia Mankauskienė, Mike Mösko, Urszula Okulska-Łukawska, Carmen Pena Díaz, Elena Pérez Estevan, Cecilia Serena Pace, Barbara Schouten and Sabine Braun

The contribution of health and health systems to other sustainable development goals. An overview of the evidence on co-benefits

Luigi Siciliani and Jonathan Cylus

Barriers to Responsiveness and Provision of Dignified care: A qualitative study of Israeli Physicians

Keren Semyonov-Tal

Determinants of time to access to EMA-approved cancer drugs in Spanish NHS in the past decade: a two cohorts study

Pelayo Nieto-Gómez, Celia Castaño-Amores, Antonio José García-Ruiz and Juan Oliva-Moreno

Population health impacts of national health insurance coverage for neonatal intensive care unit admission in South Korea: evidence from regression discontinuity analyses

Jin-Hwan Kim and Woojoo Lee

Physician and relatives’ role change after shifting to an opt-out organ donation system in the Netherlands: A before and after ethnographic study

Niek Kok, Myrthe van de Meulenhof, Wilson F. Abdo, Jelle L.P. van Gurp and Gert Olthuis

Conceptualising the primary health care workforce: A meta-narrative-inspired review of stakeholder perspectives in Denmark

Andreas Nielsen Hald, Ulrika Enemark, Martin Limbikani Mwale and Viola Burau