Health Policy

1984 - 2026

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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

Volume 160, issue C, 2025

Social innovation management to support integrated care: Insights from an Italian revelatory case study

Francesca Costanza and Giada Li Calzi

Scaling up integrated care: Can community hospitals be an answer? A multiple-case study from the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy

Francesca Meda, Michela Bobini, Michela Meregaglia and Giovanni Fattore

What mechanisms lead to the endurance of health and social care integration? A multiple case study in Italy

Eleonora Gheduzzi, Silvia Mitidieri, Maria Picco and Federica Segato

Implementing integrated care infrastructure: A longitudinal study on the interplay of policies, interorganizational arrangements and interoperability in NHS England

Andrey Elizondo, Robin Williams, Stuart Anderson and Kathrin Cresswell

Scaling up integrated care for chronic diseases in belgium: A process evaluation

Josefien van Olmen, Katrien Danhieux, Edwin Wouters, Veerle Buffel, Roy Remmen and Monika Martens

Barriers and facilitators to integrated primary care from the perspective of people with chronic conditions and multiple care needs: A scoping review

L. Fischer, R.G.M. Smeets, M. Rijken and A.M.J. Elissen

‘Uncharted territory’: The experiences of health and social care practitioners in a multi-agency collaboration to support integrated service provision for children and young people in a disadvantaged community

Cris Townley, Rebekah Grace and Tuval Keidar

Fostering integrated healthcare in rural Australia: A review of service models for older Australians with preventable chronic conditions

Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Vanette McLennan, Harry Gaffney, Sarah Miles, Sarah Crook, Lewis Grove, Matthew Gray and Victoria Flood

Making integrated care happen: Middle managers’ views on leadership for promoting multidisciplinary collaboration at the early stage of the Finnish social and healthcare reform

Soila Karreinen, Satu Paatela, Henna Paananen, Moona Huhtakangas, Markku Satokangas, Harri Jalonen and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

Planning the scale-up of integrated care programs: A qualitative multiple-case study of case management for adults with complex needs in Quebec, Canada

Catherine Hudon, Alexandra Lemay-Compagnat, Mathieu Bisson, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Gregory Moullec, Lourdes Rodriguez del Barrio, Émilie Angrignon-Girouard, Marie-Dominique Poirier and Marie-Mychèle Pratte

How do policy supports enable the implementation, scale, and sustainability of integrated care programs in England, Germany, and The Netherlands? Lessons for Canada

Stefanie Tan, Julie Farmer, Walter P. Wodchis and Sara Allin

Understanding the influence of leadership, organisation, and policy on delivering an integrated child health and social care service in community settings: A qualitative exploration using the SELFIE framework

I Litchfield, L Harper, M Syed, F Dutton, M Melyda, C Wolhuter and C Bird

Developing recommendations and actions for integrated services delivery through primary health care teams in Canada: a deliberative dialogue approach for a national knowledge translation event

Nelly D. Oelke, Ashmita Rai, Peter Hirschkorn, Breton Mylaine, Catherine Donnelly, Stephanie Montesanti, Gaboury Isabelle, Karin Maiwald and Paul Wankah

Evaluation of the implementation experiences of the Hungarian integrated care coordination pilot

Peter Andras Gaal, Tamas Evetovits, Eszter Sinko, Krisztina Davidovics and Judit Lam

Reframing the evaluation of integrated care; examples from the NHS in England

Tom Ling, Nick Fahy and Jessica Dawney

Understanding the influences on the design and delivery of an integrated child health and social care service in underserved communities in the UK: A qualitative exploration using the SELFIE framework

I Litchfield, L Harper, M Syed, F Dutton, M Melyda, C Wolhuter and C Bird

How to scale up and implement integrated care?

Ewout van Ginneken, Verena Struckmann, Mieke Rijken, Roland Bal and Maureen Rutten-van Molken