Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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Volume 154, issue C, 2025

The 2017 reform to medical specialty training in Czechia: Exploring student career preferences

Lenka Šlegerová, Lucie Bryndová, Petr Michenka and Martin Kočí

Needs of non-pharmacological management versus sedation or general anesthesia for dental treatment in older adults with special needs: A systematic review

Kamheang Vacharaksa, Ticha Thongrakard and Anjalee Vacharaksa

Health economic evaluation evidence of interventions for peripartum depression: A scoping review

Gülcan Tecirli, Mehtap Çakmak Barsbay, Greg Sheaf, Nurettin Öner, Ana Ganho-Ávila, Roser Palau-Costafreda, Inês Ribeiro, Eva Lassemo, Elizabeth Camacho, Pedro Lopes Ferreira and Annette Bauer

Avoidable visits to UK emergency departments from the patient perspective: A recursive bivariate probit approach

Chiara Calastri, John Buckell and Romain Crastes dit Sourd

Unveiling patterns and drivers of immigrant health integration policies: A model-based cluster and panel data analysis in MIPEX countries

Cheng Chow

Immigrants’ self-perceived barriers to healthcare: A systematic review of quantitative evidence in European countries

Chiara Allegri, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Stefania Maria Lorenza Rimoldi

Public versus private access in the Italian NHS - The use of propensity score matching to provide more insight on the increasing adoption of voluntary health insurance

Elenka Brenna

Determinants and associated costs of unmet healthcare need and their association with resource allocation. Insights from Finland

Lien Nguyen and Unto Häkkinen

Volume 153, issue C, 2025

The development of a discrete choice experiment: Investigating pharmacy selection in New Zealand

James Nind, Carlo A. Marra, Shane Scahill, Damien Mather and Alesha Smith

Classifying the WHO European countries by noncommunicable diseases and risk factors

Tevfik Bulut

How and why do health system factors influence general dentists’ participation in publicly funded, contracted primary dental care services: A realist review

Paul Leavy, Sophie Mulcahy Symmons, David Mockler, Pádraic Fleming, Blánaid Daly, John Ford and Sara Burke

Understanding private equity-owned HHAs in the U.S.: A performance comparison between pe-owned and non-pe-owned agencies

Mohammad Ishtiaque Rahman

Inequality in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of COVID vaccine acceptance and uptake in 13 countries

Zachary DV Abel, Laurence SJ Roope, Raymond Duch, Sophie Cole and Philip M Clarke

Regulatory approaches towards AI Medical Devices: A comparative study of the United States, the European Union and China

Daolu Tang, Xuezhi Xi, Yong Li and Meiling Hu

Health care provider payment schemes and their changes since 2010 across nine Central and Eastern European countries – a comparative analysis

Costase Ndayishimiye, Marzena Tambor, Daiga Behmane, Antoniya Dimova, Alina Dūdele, Aleksandar Džakula, Barbora Erasti, Péter Gaál, Triin Habicht, Pavel Hroboň, Liubove Murauskienė, Tamás Palicz, Silvia Gabriela Scîntee, Lenka Šlegerová, Cristian Vladescu and Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk

Volume 152, issue C, 2025

Development of an organizational typology of interprofessional primary care teams in Quebec, Canada: A multivariate analysis

Maria Alejandra Rodriguez-Duarte, Pamela Fernainy, Lise Gauvin, Géraldine Layani, Marie-Eve Poitras, Mylaine Breton, Claire Godard-Sebillotte, Catherine Hudon, Janusz Kaczorowski, Yves Couturier, Anaïs Lacasse, Marie-Thérèse Lussier, Cristina Longo and Nadia Sourial

Variation in day surgery rates across Irish public hospitals

Aoife Brick, Brendan Walsh, Theano Kakoulidou and Harry Humes

Gendered employment trajectories and later life health in liberal regime countries: A quantitative study in the United States, England, Switzerland and Chile

Ignacio Cabib, Ariel Azar, Isabel Baumann, Andr Biehl, Laurie Corna, Eric Mautz and Martina Yopo-Díaz

Equity in healthcare financing: A review of evidence

Emilia Luyten and Sandy Tubeuf

A good start for all children: Integrating early-life course medical and social care through Solid Start, the Netherlands’ nationwide action programme

Eric A.P. Steegers, Jeroen N. Struijs, Angela J.M. Uijtdewilligen and Tessa J. Roseboom

Caregiver preferences and willingness-to-pay for home care services for older people with dementia: A discrete choice experiment in the Milan metropolitan area

Michela Meregaglia, Simone Manfredi, Eleonora Perobelli, Andrea Rotolo, Elisabetta Donati and Elisabetta Notarnicola

How beliefs and policy characteristics shape the public acceptability of nutritional policies—A survey study in Germany

Marike Andreas, Anna K. Kaiser, Raenhha Dhami, Vincent Brugger and Falko F. Sniehotta

Public reporting in five health care areas: A comparative content analysis across nine countries

Maxime Sapin, David Ehlig, Alexander Geissler and Justus Vogel

Key stakeholder's attitudes towards the professional accountabilities and responsibilities of newly qualified Pharmacist Independent Prescribers (IPs) in England and enablers to implementation at scale?

Bruce Warner, Tracey Thornley, Claire Anderson and Anthony Avery

Innovations in primary healthcare in Slovenia 2011–2020: Exploring the stepwise process behind effective implementation

Katherine Polin, Giada Scarpetti and Pia Vracko

Public contributions to R&D of medical innovations: A framework for analysis

Claudia Wild, Ozren Sehic, Louise Schmidt and Daniel Fabian

The right to health for socioeconomically disadvantaged TB patients in South Korea: An AAAQ framework analysis

Juyeon Lee, Yeori Park and Myoung-Hee Kim

Policies and strategies to control antimicrobial resistance in livestock production: A comparative analysis of national action plans in European Union Member States

Caetano Luiz Beber, Maurizio Aragrande and Massimo Canali

A historical overview of policy perspectives towards informal care in Taiwan (1996-2023)

Yu-Ching Liu and Chen-Fen Chen

The role of socio-economic determinants in the interregional allocation of healthcare resources: Some insights from the 2023 reform in the Italian NHS

Roberto Fantozzi, Stefania Gabriele and Alberto Zanardi

Immigration of medical personnel from Ukraine to Poland – Context, regulations, and trends

Liudmyla Andriiashenko, Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Paweł Lipowski and Alicja Domagała

National COVID-19 plans: Equity is unlikely without public participation and transparency

Alain Braillon

A conceptual framework to assess the health, socioeconomic and environmental burden of chronic kidney disease

Charlotte Johnston-Webber, Isaac Bencomo-Bermudez, George Wharton, Robin van Kessel, Salvatore Barone, Francisco Brotons Muntó, Steven Chadban, Juan Jose Garcia Sanchez, Janwillem W.H. Kocks, Kyra Obolensky, Petra Sandow, Neil Skolnik, Ming-Hui Zhao, Alexei Volaco, David C. Wheeler, Alistair McGuire and Elias Mossialos

Projected costs of long-term care for older people in England: The impacts of housing quality improvements

Bo Hu, Nicola Brimblecombe, Javiera Cartagena-Farias and Wagner Silva-Ribeiro

Could hospitals operating through a value-based healthcare policy overcome potential management drawbacks in European healthcare?

Cristina Caramés, Javier Arcos, Bernadette Pfang, Ion Cristóbal and Juan Antonio Álvaro

Volume 150, issue C, 2024

The impact of NHS outsourcing of elective care to the independent sector on outcomes for patients, healthcare professionals and the United Kingdom health care system: A rapid narrative review of literature

Simon Fletcher, Oya Eddama, Michael Anderson, Rachel Meacock, Vasudha Wattal, Pauline Allen and Stephen Peckham

The long-run effect of COVID-19 on hospital emergency department attendances:evidence from statistical analysis of hospital data from England

Nikita Jacob, Rita Santos and Peter Sivey

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED): A systematic mixed-methods review focusing on the carers’ experiences

Christina Mensger, Yang Jiao, Maximiliane Jansky, Christian Banse, Friedemann Nauck, Monika Nothacker and Henrikje Stanze

German centralization strategy during COVID-19: Continuing or interrupting a trend?

Ines Marina Niehaus, Andreas Lehr, André Kaiser, Helena Sophie Müller and Ludwig Kuntz

Impact of local sports policies in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease: An assessment with spatial data analysis

Miguel Viegas, João Valente dos Santos and Manuel João Coelho e Silva

Variation in attendance at emergency departments in England across local areas: A system under unequal pressure

Nikita Jacob, Martin Chalkley, Rita Santos and Luigi Siciliani

RSV prevention options for infants and older adults: A specific expanding competitive arena

Livio Garattini and Antonio Clavenna

Does financial incentive for diabetes management in the primary care setting reduce avoidable hospitalizations and mortality in high-income countries? A systematic review

Thaksha Thavam, Michael Hong, Rose Anne Devlin, Kristin K Clemens and Sisira Sarma

Do international medical graduates’ recruitment policies help to overcome healthcare shortage areas in developed countries? A systematic review

Loup Beduchaud, Enoa Celingant, Clara Faure, Mathilda Meunier and Iñaki Blanco-Cazeaux

Which factors influence the decision of hospitals to provide procedures on an outpatient basis? –Mixed-methods evidence from Germany

Robert Messerle, Fenja Hoogestraat and Eva-Maria Wild

Abolishing age criterion to determine organ transplant recipients in Israel: A qualitative study of medical staff perceptions

Eyal Katvan, Orly Korin, Israel Issi Doron, Eytan Mor, Boaz Shnoor, Daniel Gelman and Tamar Ashkenazi

Volume 149, issue C, 2024

Lessons learned from a pay-for-performance scheme for appropriate prescribing using electronic health records from general practices in the Netherlands

I.G. Arslan, R.A. Verheij, K. Hek and L. Ramerman

How competition play a role in dental pricing? A study on French medico-administrative and tax reports dataset

Anne-Charlotte Bas and Jérôme Wittwer

Promoting early-intervention for suicide prevention: The role of mental health literacy and attitudes towards suicide: A quantitative study in Ireland

McBride Thomás, McBride Ciara, McHugh Laura and Burns Richéal

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (2024): Implications for healthcare

Hannah van Kolfschooten and Janneke van Oirschot

Availability and financing of CAR-T cell therapies: A cross-country comparative analysis

Yulia Litvinova, Sherry Merkur, Sara Allin, Ester Angulo-Pueyo, Daiga Behmane, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Miriam Dalmas, Antonio De Belvis, Nigel Edwards, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Peter Gaal, Sophie Gerkens, Margaret Jamieson, Alisha Morsella, Dario Picecchi, Hilde Røshol, Ingrid Sperre Saunes, Terry Sullivan, Balázs Szécsényi-Nagy, Inneke Van De Vijver, Ricciardi Walter and Dimitra Panteli

Maternal outcomes and pre, syn, and post-partum care in the united states and five high-income countries: An exploratory comparative qualitative study

Irene Papanicolas, Robert A. Berenson, Tania Sawaya and Laura Skopec

Drug company methodologies used for reporting in the UK pharmaceutical industry payment transparency database between 2015 and 2019: A content analysis

James Larkin, Britta Matthes, Mohamed Azribi, Conor Kearns, Shai Mulinari, Emily Rickard, Frank Moriarty, Tom Fahey and Piotr Ozieranski

The modernisation of newborn screening as a pan-European challenge – An international delphi study

Sandra Gillner, Gulcin Gumus, Edith Gross, Georgi Iskrov, Ralitsa Raycheva, Georgi Stefanov, Rumen Stefanov, Anne-Sophie Chalandon, Alicia Granados, Julian Nam, Andreas Clemens and Carl Blankart

Freedom of choice for specialized consultation in Portugal: An observational analysis of response to hospital quality

Joana Vales, Joana Cima and Julian Perelman

The challenges of regulatory pluralism

Sandra Gillner, Katharina Blankart, Florence Tanya Bourgeois, Ariel Dora Stern and Carl Blankart

Enhancing rural community engagement through palliative care networks: A scoping review

Lina María Vargas-Escobar, Erwin Hernando Hernández-Rincón, Marta Ximena León-Delgado, Sofia Elizabeth Muñoz-Medina, Nidia Mantilla-Manoslava, Juan Esteban Correa-Morales, Jose David Amorocho-Morales and Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas

Development of a practical framework and indicators for monitoring integrated long-term health and care needs and service use

Hongsoo Kim, Nan-He Yoon, Dongmin Seo and Yoon Kim

Health effects of introducing an unconditional child benefit in Poland: Evidence from a difference in differences analysis

Michał Brzeziński and Artur Yaniuk

Responsive patient care in Israel: A qualitative study of hospital rules and regulations

Keren Semyonov-Tal

Investigating the relationship between health and gender equality: What role do maternal, reproductive, and sexual health services play?

Yuxi Wang and Aleksandra Torbica

Exploring assisted dying policies for mature minors: A cross jurisdiction comparison of the Netherlands, Belgium & Canada

Sydney Campbell, Alexandra Cernat, Avram Denburg, Fiona Moola, Jeremy Petch and Jennifer Gibson

Understanding the evolution of competing institutional logics in the marketization of care: A stage model analysis of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme

Fanny Salignac, Ralf Barkemeyer, Elizabeth Franklin-Johnson and Tulin Dzhengiz

How general practitioners in France are coping with increased healthcare demand and physician shortages. A panel data survey and hierarchical clustering

Bérengère Davin-Casalena, Dimitri Scronias, Yann Videau and Pierre Verger

Identifying health inequities faced by older adults with rare diseases: A systematic literature review and proposal for an ethical spectrum and resource allocation framework

Jean Pierre Uwitonze, Lize Duminy and Carl Blankart