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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

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