Health Policy

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Volume 165, issue C, 2026

Healthcare workforce distribution during multiple crises: a 12-year analysis of physician allocation, retention and equity patterns in Turkey

Eray Ontas and Cavit Işık Yavuz

The impact of primary care networks on emergency hospitalisations in the English NHS: An interrupted time series analysis

Lana Kovacevic, Lindsay Forbes, Hutan Ashrafian, Erik Mayer, Elias Mossialos and David Lugo-Palacios

Judicious resource managers or administrative intermediaries: A systematic review of family physician perspectives on the administrative process of referring patients to other clinicians in high income countries

Asiana Elma, Alison K. Scholes, Alexander Singer, Jennifer Shuldiner, Katrina Shen, Ian Scott, O’Toole, Danielle, Deena M. Hamza, Lawrence Grierson, Russell Dawe, Alexandra Cernat and Meredith Vanstone

A composite and synthetic index of potentially avoidable hospitalization in adults to assess primary care quality: an application across Italian geopolitical areas

Aurora Heidar Alizadeh, Marcello Cuomo, Alessandra Burgio, Alessandro Solipaca, Paola Arcaro, Danilo Catania, Barbara Giordani, Walter Ricciardi, Giovanni Baglio and Gianfranco Damiani

Nurse-led models of care and their potential to improve primary healthcare for refugees in Germany: A qualitative multiple-case study

Andreas W. Gold, Clara Perplies and Kayvan Bozorgmehr

South Korea's 2024 medical school expansion: From healthcare reform to constitutional crisis

Daihun Kang

The impact of the new ‘guard rails’ for price negotiations on pharmaceutical expenditure in Germany: A simulation exercise and retrospective analysis

C. Kranich, D. Möller and C.M. Dintsios

Provision of community health services and use of hospital care in England: Nationwide retrospective observational study

Beth Parkinson, Matt Sutton and Rachel Meacock

Factors influencing eHealth adoption among healthcare users in Türkiye: A stepwise logistic regression analysis

Zeynep Güldem Ökem, Betül Akbuğa Özel, Gül Pamukçu Günaydın and Furkan Enes Dilek

Health access reforms in the Caribbean Netherlands from 2010-2023

Nathan Shuftan, O’Flynn, Jane, Judith Meijer, Robert Borst, Soraya Verstraeten, Dorette Courtar, Giovanni Frans, Amy van der Linden, Indira Madhuban, Michael Mercuur and Ewout van Ginneken

Community health workers: a comparative assessment of capacities of a global policy approach in selected European health systems

Ellen Kuhlmann, Gabriela Lotta, Viola Burau, Tiago Correia, Michelle Falkenbach, Marius-Ionut Ungureanu, Iris Wallenburg, Gemma A Williams and Uta Lehmann

The relationship between trust and compliance in the Italian NHS: Results of the People's Voice Survey

Rosanna Tarricone, Patrizio Armeni, Catherine Arsenault and Margaret E. Kruk

Small countries face specific challenges in health workforce sustainability, but policy responses are a testbed for resilience for all countries

Erica Richardson, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Marios Kantaris, Anne-Charlotte Lorcy, Bernd Rechel, Nathan Shuftan, Ewout van Ginneken and Gemma A Williams

Editorial for the special issue How do Health Systems and Health contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals?

Luigi Siciliani, Jonathan Cylus, Michelle Falkenbach, Josep Figueras, Scott Greer and Matthias Wismar

Social policies, health systems, and care delivery: Policy implications of eight papers in empirical health economics

Chiara Seghieri, Luigi Siciliani and John Mullay

Editorial. The health and care workforce: How to move from crisis to capacities?

Ellen Kuhlmann, Tiago Correia, Michelle Falkenbach, Gabriela Lotta and Ligia Paina

Survey data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Recommendations for an improved data collection infrastructure

Tobias Gummer, Karolina von Glasenapp, Thomas Skora, Elias Naumann, Saskia Bartholomäus and Sophia Piesch

Impact of prospective payment systems: An umbrella review of systematic reviews

Mélanie Lefèvre, Koen Van den Heede and Carine Van de Voorde

National policy responses to address loneliness: A global scoping review of 194 WHO member states

Nina Goldman, Melek Alemdar, Herlind Megges, Naka Matsumoto, Eric Schoenmakers, Pauline van den Berg, Mathias Lasgaard, Julie Christiansen, Niina Junttila, Andreas Goldman, Debora Draxl, Austen El-Osta and Pamela Qualter

Factors influencing the experience of client-centeredness in flemish (Proxy) budget holders: a moderation analysis

Eva Pattyn, Paul Gemmel, Ruben Willems, Susan Lagaert and Jeroen Trybou

Prosocial versus self-interested appeals in offline health communication: A randomized trial of framed messages during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland

Anna-Corinna Kulle, Stefanie Schumacher and Frauke von Bieberstein

Pancreatic cancer mortality and associated productivity losses in Spain: A population-based estimate (2013–2022)

Josep Darbà, Meritxell Ascanio and Antonio Rodríguez

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