Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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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 151, issue C, 2025

How COVID-19 illness perceptions and individual shocks are associated with trust during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa

Marie-Hélène Broihanne, Daria Plotkina, Stefanie Kleimeier, Anja S. Göritz and Arvid O.I. Hoffmann

Please mind the gap between guidelines & behavior change: A systematic review and a consideration on effectiveness in healthcare

Stefano Gandolfi, Nicola Bellè and Sabina Nuti

NHS action on social and economic development in England: Vague national policy expectations

Phoebe Dunn, Lucinda Allen, Luisa Buzelli, Leo Ewbank and Hugh Alderwick

Using outcome measures in sub-national level performance management: When and under what circumstances?

Pushkar Silwal, Tim Tenbensel, Daniel Exeter and Arier Lee

Implementation of socio-economic variables in risk adjustment systems: A quantitative analysis using the example of Germany

Gerald Lux, Theresa Hüer, Florian Buchner and Jürgen Wasem

Predictors of Croatian nurses' turnover intention: A cross-sectional study

Ivana Gusar, Dragan Šijan, Tomislav Sorić, Sonja Šare, Mediana Županović and Marija Ljubičić

Primary prevention in hospitals in 20 high-income countries in Europe – A case of not “Making Every Contact Count”?

Bernd Rechel, Béatrice Durvy, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Isabelle Aujoulat, Daiga Behmane, Anne-Carole Bensadon, Sara Burke, Melissa D'Agostino, Krisztina Davidovics, Mark Dayan, Antonio Giulio De Belvis, Judith de Jong, Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Inês Fronteira, Elena Gabriel, Giuseppe Greco, Peter Groenewegen, Signe Smith Jervelund, Marios Kantaris, Madelon Kroneman, Jerneja Farkas-Lainscak, Benjamin Maurice, Luisne Mac Conghail, Liubove Murauskiene, Mircha Poldrugovac, Zsuzsa Rákosy, Silvia Gabriela Scintee, Christoph Sowada, Frédéric Turblin, Desislava Vankova, Zita Velkey, Cristian Vladescu, Dorja Vocanec, Karsten Vrangbæk, Johannes Wünscher and Tuija Ylitörmänen

Physical activity policy implementation and physical activity levels in the European Union: Are we on track to close the gap between policy and practice?

Stephen Whiting, Karim Abu-Omar, Peter Gelius, João Firmino-Machado, Ivo Rakovac and Romeu Mendes

Derek Parfit, personal identity, and the obligation to reduce others' Suffering

Akshay Pendyal

Urban–rural disparities in hospital admissions for depression in Austria

Michael Berger, Martin Zuba and Judit Simon

Corrigendum to “How COVID-19 illness perceptions and individual shocks are associated with trust during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa” [Health policy (2024) 105178]

Marie-Hélène Broihanne, Daria Plotkina, Stefanie Kleimeier, Anja S. Göritz and Arvid O.I. Hoffmann

The influenza vaccination's impact elderly's health outcomes in Catalonia (Spain)

Toni Mora, Montserrat Martínez-Marcos and Carmen Cabezas-Peña

Mental health of Australian frontline nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a large national survey

Akbar Zamanzadeh, Marion Eckert, Nadia Corsini, Pam Adelson and Greg Sharplin

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