Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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Volume 158, issue C, 2025

Private provision of health services in Ukraine: A qualitative exploration of current policy challenges, and considerations for reform

Mark Hellowell, Olga Demeshko, Radmyla Hrevtsova, Tomas Roubal, Kateryna Fishchuk, Solomiya Kasyanchuk and Jarno Habicht

The second Trump administration: A policy analysis of challenges and opportunities for European health policymakers

Scott L. Greer, Holly Jarman, Rachel Kulikoff, Dimitra Panteli, Ewout van Ginneken and Matthias Wismar

Initiatives to increase childhood vaccination coverage: an international comparison

Madelon Kroneman, Alfons Fermin, Bernd Rechel, Sara Allin, Anders Anell, Daiga Behmane, Theresa Bengough, Miriam Blümel, Lucie Bryndová, Krisztina Davidovics, Antonio Giulio De Belvis, Chrystala Charalambous, Charalambos Economou, Shaza Fadel, Inês Fronteira, Petér Gaál, Michel Grignon, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Iva Lukačević Lovrenčić, Sarah Mantwill, Liubovė Murauskienė, Marge Reinap, Maria Rohova, Ingrid Sperre Saunes, Mamas Theodorou, Ruth Waitzberg and Judith D. de Jong

Lived experience of out-of-pocket costs of health care and medicines by people with chronic conditions and their families in Australia: a systematic review of the qualitative literature

Jane Desborough, Charles Maskell-Knight, Shelley Wang, Anne Parkinson, Danielle Butler, Hsei-Di Law, Kamania Butler, Leanne Watts, Elisabeth Huynh, Fiona Hodson, Samar Ibrahim, Julie Veitch, Jillian Kingsford-Smith, Michael Kidd and Cam Donaldson

Policy recommendations for healthcare authorities, organizations and professionals on vaccine hesitancy in Europe: From evidence to practice

Tiago Correia, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Cátia Guerreiro, Joana Mendonça, Rita Morais, Fábio Rafael Augusto and André Beja

Equal access to primary care – A reference for spatial allocation in Germany

Alexander Haering, Matthias Kaeding and Anna Werbeck

Volume 157, issue C, 2025

Early access to medicines with added therapeutic value: Measuring and comparing time to medicines access in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain

Sophie Delcroix-Lopes, Nadia Amer, Christophe Chaignot and Charlotte Pelletan

Availability of primary care and avoidable attendance at English emergency departments: A regression analysis

Timothy Jamieson, Hugh Gravelle and Rita Santos

“That’s a tricky question”: perceptions of mandatory vaccination among parents and paediatricians in Austria

Nora Hansl and Katharina T. Paul

Munich goes viral: Measuring the impact of the Oktoberfest on COVID-19 infection rates using difference-in-differences

Daniel Herold, Phil-Adrian Klotz and Jan Thomas Schäfer

The role of community pharmacists in natural disasters: Experiences from the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes

Samet Dinçer, Fatma Gündüz, Ezgi Atalay, Galip Usta and Sare Peçe Göktaş

Examining COVID-19 mortality inequalities across 169 countries: Insights from the COVID-19 mortality inequality curve (CMIC) and Theil index analysis

Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Kristina Miljkovic, Kodjo Barnor and Dragan Miljkovic

The impact of C-level positions on hospital performance: A scoping review of top management team outcomes

Matthias Lukas Zuchowski, Dennis Henzler, Mark Dominik Alscher and Eckhard Nagel

From clicks to care: Exploring the digital strategies of Italian health authorities in communicating ‘General Practitioner Selection’ service

Alessandro Vinci, Luca Pirrotta, Giulia Venturi and Milena Vainieri

Price regulation and competition among on-patent anticancer drugs in Italy

Michele Caimmi, Beatrice Canali, Laura Candelora, Alessandra Di Costanzo, Francesca Fiorentino, Chiara Vassallo and Maria Luisa Mancusi

Volume 156, issue C, 2025

The challenge of access to healthcare services as a condition for territorial equity. A methodological approach for sparsely populated rural areas

Héctor Martínez Sánchez-Mateos and Ángel Raúl Ruiz Pulpón

Disparities in the organisation of national healthcare systems for treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe

Brigitte Michelsen, Mikkel Østergaard, Michael John Nissen, Adrian Ciurea, Burkhard Möller, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Pavel Horák, Bente Glintborg, Alan MacDonald, Karin Laas, Tuulikki Sokka-Isler, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Florenzo Iannone, Pasoon Hellamand, Tore Kristian Kvien, Ana Maria Rodrigues, Catalin Codreanu, Ziga Rotar, Isabel Castrejón, Johan Karlsson Wallman, Karel Pavelka, Anne Gitte Loft, Maureen Heddle, Sigrid Vorobjov, Heikki Relas, Gerdur Gröndal, Elisa Gremese, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma, Eirik Klami Kristianslund, Maria José Santos, Corina Mogosan, Matija Tomsic, Federico Diaz-Gonzalez, Daniela Di Giuseppe, Stig Winther Nielsen and Merete Lund Hetland

What are the policy options for regulating private equity involvement in health care? A review of policies implemented or considered in seven high-income countries

Matthew Tracey, Katharine Schulmann, Florian Tille, Thomas Rice, Julien Mercille, Rob Timans, Sara Allin, Alexis Dottin, Sanna Syrjälä, Tiia Sotamaa, Ilmo Keskimäki and Bernd Rechel

The effect of enrolment policies on patient affiliation to a family physician: A quasi-experimental evaluation in Canada

Caroline King, M. Ruth Lavergne, Kimberlyn McGrail and Erin Strumpf

Contact time in GP Care: Descriptive patterns and a scoping review of the literature

Simon Reif, Jan Köhler, Sabrina Schubert and Benedikt Stelter

Common institutional ownership and the erosion of competition in the American health insurance market: A quantitative analysis

Kevin Smith

The ethics of behaviour-based insurance models: Solidarity-based concerns in Germany's statutory health insurance

Carl Justus Bredthauer, Eva Kuhn and Alena Buyx

Growth and changing landscape of the cost-utility literature: an Australian perspective, 1992-2022

Qing Xia, Steven M McPhail, Clifford Afoakwah, Linh K Vo, Megumi Lim, David Brain, John Paul Kuwornu and Hannah E. Carter

Volume 155, issue C, 2025

Identification of health-related needs: The needs examination, evaluation and dissemination (NEED) assessment framework

Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Muriel Levy, Rani Claerman, Mats de Jaeger, Robby De Pauw, Laurence Kohn, Claudia Schönborn and Irina Cleemput

Private equity expansion and impacts in united states healthcare

Lynn Unruh and Thomas Rice

Identifying the most effective policies for minimising inappropriate use of antibiotics: A replicability study using three WHO datasets

Kathleen A. Holloway and David Henry

The impact of eliminating out-of-pocket payments for medicines on low-income households: a controlled interrupted time series analysis using linked administrative data from British Columbia

Kartik Sharma, Lucy Cheng, Colin R. Dormuth, Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Mary A. De Vera, Fiona Clement, Rita K. McCracken, Muhammed Mamdani and Michael R. Law

Forgone Care of doctor's visits in Germany – Results from three cross-sectional surveys

Christine Haeger, Raphael Kohl, Julie L. O'Sullivan and Susanne Schnitzer

Long-term public healthcare burden associated with intimate partner violence among Canadian women: A cohort study

Gabriel John Dusing, Beverley M. Essue, Patricia O'Campo and Nicholas Metheny

The introduction of maximum reimbursement prices for digital health applications in Germany in 2022: Current developments

Hendrikje Rödiger, Reinhard Busse and Cornelia Henschke

Promoting outpatient medication safety in Finland: A mid-term review of a national medication safety programme for community pharmacies (2021–2026)

Emilia Mäkinen, Tiina Koskenkorva, Anna-Riia Holmström, Marja Airaksinen, Marianne Kuusisto, Henna Kyllönen, Anna Schoultz and Charlotta Sandler

Understanding the impact of minimum staff level policies on the ward nursing team: Insights from a qualitative research study conducted in Germany

Felix Miedaner, Werner Barbara, Bernhard Roth and Linda Metzner

Strengthening diagnostic services in Latin America requires regional leadership, sustainable funding, and enhanced data sharing

Andres Moreira-Soto, Nils Gade, Bert Hoffmann and Jan Felix Drexler

Multiple job holding and its influencing factors among Belgian nurses: A cross-sectional study

Senne Vleminckx, Anke Sevenans, Manal Bouchatta, Ive Verbeeck, Erik Franck and Filip Haegdorens

Factors influencing the experience of empowerment in Flemish (proxy) budget holders: A regression analysis

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

Medicare austerity reforms and patient out-of-pocket costs: The experience from Australian cancer patients

Maryam Naghsh-Nejad, Kees Van Gool, Phil Haywood and Jane Hall

Quantitative trend analysis of well-established use mutual recognition and decentralised products indicates codified disharmonisation in the European Economic Area

Péter Szabó

Participatory policy processes in a black box? Stakeholder interviews about the development of Germany´s national nutrition strategy

Marike Andreas, Anna K. Kaiser and Falko F. Sniehotta

Rapid evaluation of the NHS Recovery Support Programme (RSP) in England: Implementing intensive national improvement support for challenged healthcare providers and systems

Maartje Kletter, Stephanie Gillibrand, Elaine Harkness, Jo Dumville and Paul Wilson

Framing the loss: Preferences for vaccine hesitancy and gender effect in France and Italy

Anna Rinaldi, Pierfrancesco Dellino and Massimo Paradiso

Physicians’ responses to time pressure: Experimental evidence on treatment quality and documentation behaviour

Claudia Souček, Tommaso Reggiani and Nadja Kairies-Schwarz

Commentary on “The learning rehabilitation system: Strengthening an intersectoral strategy to improve functioning of an ageing population” by Bickenbach et al

Nicola Manocchio, Concetta Ljoka, Valerio Ferdinandi, Lucia Cicchi and Calogero Foti

Global health and care worker migration requires a global response

Ellen Kuhlmann, Michelle Falkenbach, Tiago Correia, Niamh Humphries, Eleanor Hutchinson, Gareth H Rees, Marius-Ionut Ungureanu, Tomas Zapata and Julia Lohmann

Twenty years evaluating the health impact of urban policies in the city of Barcelona

María-José López, Katherine Pérez, Xavier Continente and Carme Borrell

How does OTC drugs consumption relate to prescribed drugs and health care consultations in Europe?

Aida Isabel Tavares

From policy to practice: Rolling out the clinical nurse specialist role in Portugal

Mário Amorim-Lopes, Sofia Cruz-Gomes, Elisa Doldi and Bernardo Almada-Lobo

Hospital resilience in the Face of Covid-19 in France: A multilevel analysis of the impact of past practice quality on cancer surgery resumption

Noémie Malléjac and Zeynep Or

Time to completion of conditions required by Health Canada after approving new drugs: A cohort study

Joel Lexchin

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