Health Policy

1984 - 2025

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Volume 142, issue C, 2024

Immigration, policies of integration and healthcare expenditure: A longitudinal analysis of the INHS (2002‒2018)

Antonio D'Andreamatteo, Francesca Neri, Gianluca Antonucci and Massimo Sargiacomo

Barriers and best practices to improving clinical trials transparency at UK public research institutions: A qualitative interview study

Nicholas J. DeVito, Jessica Morley and Ben Goldacre

A comparison of social prescribing approaches across twelve high-income countries

Giada Scarpetti, Hannah Shadowen, Gemma A. Williams, Juliane Winkelmann, Madelon Kroneman, Peter P. Groenewegen, Judith D. De Jong, Inês Fronteira, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Sonia Hsiung, Siân Slade, Daniela Rojatz, Daniela Kallayova, Zuzana Katreniakova, Iveta Nagyova, Marika Kylänen, Pia Vracko, Amrita Jesurasa, Zoe Wallace, Carolyn Wallace, Caroline Costongs, Andrew J. Barnes and Ewout van Ginneken

Priority setting in times of crises: an analysis of priority setting for the COVID-19 response in the Western Pacific Region

Beverley M. Essue, Lydia Kapiriri, Hodan Mohamud, Claudia-Marcela Vélez, Elysee Nouvet, Bernardo Aguilera, Iestyn Williams and Suzanne Kiwanuka

The association of hospital profitability and digital maturity – An explorative study using data from the German DigitalRadar project

Justus Vogel, Johannes Hollenbach, Alexander Haering, Boris Augurzky and Alexander Geissler

Stakeholder participation in the COVID-19 pandemic preparedness and response plans: A synthesis of findings from 70 countries

Bernardo Aguilera, Razavi s. Donya, Claudia-Marcela Vélez, Lydia Kapiriri, Julia Abelson, Elysee Nouvet, Marion Danis, Susan Goold, Ieystn Williams and Mariam Noorulhuda

Co-benefits from health and health systems to education

Ines Lee

Health and health system effects on poverty: A narrative review of global evidence

Owen O'Donnell

Factors influencing the effects of policies and interventions to promote the appropriate use of medicines in high-income countries: A rapid realist review

Mathieu Charbonneau, Steven G. Morgan, Camille Gagnon, Cheryl A. Sadowski, James L. Silvius, Cara Tannenbaum and Justin P. Turner

Associations between corporate ownership of primary care providers and doctor wellbeing, workload, access, organizational efficiency, and service quality

Anthony Scott, Tamara Taylor, Grant Russell and Matt Sutton

Moral obligations towards human persons’ wellbeing versus their suffering: An analysis of perspectives of moral philosophy

Bjørn Hofmann

Marginal cost per QALY estimates: What are they good for?

Christopher Sampson and Graham Cookson

Volume 141, issue C, 2024

Financing COVID-19-related health care costs in the Dutch competitive health system during 2020 and 2021: Overall experiences and policy recommendations for improving health system resilience

Frederik T Schut, Frédérique M.E. Franken, Stéphanie A. van der Geest and Marco Varkevisser

The end of an era? Activity-based funding based on diagnosis-related groups: A review of payment reforms in the inpatient sector in 10 high-income countries

Ricarda Milstein and Jonas Schreyögg

An international comparative policy analysis of opioid use disorder treatment in primary care across nine high-income jurisdictions

Kellia Chiu, Saloni Pandya, Manu Sharma, Ashleigh Hooimeyer, Alexandra de Souza and Abhimanyu Sud

Financial incentives for integrated care: A scoping review and lessons for evidence-based design

Dimitar Yordanov, Anne Sophie Oxholm, Thim Prætorius and Søren Kristensen

Vaccine nationalism is not unethical from a political ethics perspective: Learning from the global COVID-19 vaccine distribution failure

Qi Shao

Theories, models and frameworks for health systems integration. A scoping review

Celia Piquer-Martinez, Amaia Urionagüena, Shalom I. Benrimoj, Begoña Calvo, Sarah Dineen-Griffin, Victoria Garcia-Cardenas, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Fernando Martinez-Martinez and Miguel Angel Gastelurrutia

How did European countries set health priorities in response to the COVID-19 threat? A comparative document analysis of 24 pandemic preparedness plans across the EURO region

Iestyn Williams, Lydia Kapiriri, Claudia-Marcela Vélez, Bernardo Aguilera, Marion Danis, Beverley Essue, Susan Goold, Mariam Noorulhuda, Elysee Nouvet, Donya Razavi and Lars Sandman

The role of health and health systems in promoting social capital, political participation and peace: A narrative review

Giacomo De Luca and Xi Lin

A global comparative analysis of the the inclusion of priority setting in national COVID-19 pandemic plans: A reflection on the methods and the accessibility of the plans

Lydia Kapiriri, Claudia-Marcela Vélez, Bernardo Aguilera, Beverley M. Essue, Elysee Nouvet, Razavi s Donya, Williams Ieystn, Danis Marion, Goold Susan, Julia Abelson and Kiwanuka Suzanne

Volume 140, issue C, 2024

AI maturity in health care: An overview of 10 OECD countries

Alexandre Castonguay, Gerit Wagner, Aude Motulsky and Guy Paré

A global comparative analysis of the criteria and equity considerations included in eighty-six national COVID-19 plans

Lydia Kapiriri, Williams Ieystn, Claudia-Marcela Vélez, Beverley M. Essue, Goold Susan, Marion Danis and Bernardo Aguilera

Overseas general practitioners (GPs) and prescription behaviour in England

Catia Nicodemo, Cristina E. Orso and Cristina Tealdi

International strategies, experiences, and payment models to incentivise day surgery

Anika Kreutzberg, Helene Eckhardt, Ricarda Milstein and Reinhard Busse

Variations in the intended utilization of emergency care in case of gastrointestinal diseases

Jens Klein, Sarah Koens, Martin Scherer, Annette Strauß, Martin Härter and Olaf von dem Knesebeck

Evaluating engagement with equity in Canadian provincial and territorial primary care policies: Results of a jurisdictional scan

Sarah Spencer, Tai Hollingbery, Aidan Bodner, Lindsay Hedden, David Rudoler, Erin Christian and M Ruth Lavergne

Volume 139, issue C, 2024

The 2022 community-based integrated care reform in Italy: From desiderata to implementation

Gianmario Cinelli and Giovanni Fattore

Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and socioeconomic status in Switzerland: A small area-level analysis

Jacques Spycher, Kevin Morisod, Karine Moschetti, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux, Patrick Bodenmann, Richard Cookson, Victor Rodwin and Joachim Marti

Communication in refugee and migrant mental healthcare: A systematic rapid review on the needs, barriers and strategies of seekers and providers of mental health services

Demi Krystallidou, Özlem Temizöz, Fang Wang, Melanie de Looper, Emilio Di Maria, Nora Gattiglia, Stefano Giani, Graham Hieke, Wanda Morganti, Cecilia Serena Pace, Barbara Schouten and Sabine Braun

Opportunities for healthcare digitalization in Europe: Comparative analysis of inequalities in access to medical services

Dawid Majcherek, Scott Hegerty, Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski, Małgorzata Stefania Lewandowska and Desislava Dikova

What impact do self-referral and direct access pathways for patients have on health inequalities?

Adam Harvey-Sullivan, Heidi Lynch, Abraham Tolley, Guy Gitlin-Leigh, Isla Kuhn and John Alexander Ford

Post-COVID health policy responses to healthcare workforce capacities: A comparative analysis of health system resilience in six European countries

Viola Burau, Sofie Buch Mejsner, Michelle Falkenbach, Michael Fehsenfeld, Zuzana Kotherová, Stefano Neri, Iris Wallenburg and Ellen Kuhlmann

Making recommendations to subsidize new health technologies in Australia: A qualitative study of decision-makers’ perspectives on committee processes

Marcus Sellars, Stacy M. Carter, Emily Lancsar, Kirsten Howard and Joanna Coast

Exploring the reasons behind low COVID-19 vaccination coverage in ethnic minorities–A qualitative study among Arabic-speaking public in Denmark

Ghuna Al-Saudi, Abrar K. Thabit, Jimmy Jose, Aisha F. Badr, Lama Jad, Susanne Kaae and Ramune Jacobsen

How to increase COVID-19 vaccination among a population with persistently suboptimal vaccine uptake? Evidence from the North Macedonia mobile vaccination and public health advice caravan

Manuel Serrano-Alarcón, Martin Mckee, Leonardo Palumbo, Cristiana Salvi, Anne Johansen and David Stuckler

Volume 138, issue C, 2023

Educational attainment affects the diagnostic time in type 2 diabetes mellitus and the mortality risk of those enrolled in the diabetes pay-for-performance program

Yi-Shu Liao, Wen-Chen Tsai, Li-Ting Chiu and Pei-Tseng Kung

Building on value-based health care: Towards a health system perspective

Peter C. Smith, Anna Sagan, Luigi Siciliani and Josep Figueras

A systematic review of policies regulating or removing mark-ups in the pharmaceutical supply and distribution chain

Iris R. Joosse, David Tordrup, Julie Glanville, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse and Hendrika A. van den Ham

Feasibility of introducing effective alcohol harms reduction strategies in a low regulation region: A qualitative study from Hong Kong

Jiazhou Yu, Dong Dong, Timothy S. Sumerlin and Jean H. Kim

Economic sanctions and spread of infectious diseases

Mehdi Aloosh and Arash Aloosh

Public preferences in healthcare resource allocation: A discrete choice experiment in South Korea

Eun-Young Bae, Min Kyoung Lim, Boram Lee, Green Bae and Jihyung Hong

Evaluating whole system reforms: A structured approach for selecting multiple outcomes

Alfariany Fatimah, Philip Britteon, Alex J Turner, Laura Anselmi, Stephanie Gillibrand, Paul Wilson, Matt Sutton and Yiu-Shing Lau

Profit and Prudence: Navigating Psychedelic Commercialization Through Lessons from the Prescription Opioid Crisis

Daniel Eisenkraft Klein

The Council of Europe's AI Convention (2023–2024): Promises and pitfalls for health protection

Hannah van Kolfschooten and Carmel Shachar

The role of academia practice partnerships in the well-being economy: Retracing synergies between health and social sciences using bibliometric analysis

Tahnee Ooms, Klaudijo Klaser and Armine Ishkanian

How to further develop quality competition in the German healthcare system? Results of a Delphi expert study

Daniel Negele, Michael Lauerer, Eckhard Nagel and Volker Ulrich

Measuring the importance of different barriers to opioid agonist treatment using best-worst scaling in an Australian setting

Natasha Yvonne Hall, Long Le, Julie Abimanyi-Ochom and Cathy Mihalopoulos

The impact of collaborative organisational models and general practice size on patient safety and quality of care in the English National Health Service: A systematic review

Lana Kovacevic, Ravi Naik, David G. Lugo-Palacios, Hutan Ashrafian, Elias Mossialos and Ara Darzi

‘Accident and emergency’? Exploring the reasons for increased privatisation in England's NHS

Benjamin Goodair

Online health information seeking and Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from 50+ Europeans

Francesco Principe and Guglielmo Weber

Patients pathways before and after treatments in emergency departments: A retrospective analysis of secondary data in Germany

Patrik Dröge, Thomas Ruhnke, Antje Fischer-Rosinsky, Cornelia Henschke, Thomas Keil, Martin Möckel, Christian Günster and Anna Slagman

French mental health care system: Analysis of care utilisation patterns and the case for a stepped care approach

V. Kovess-Masfety, L. Rabaté, D. Caby and P. Nicaise

Barriers and facilitators of meaningful patient participation at the collective level in healthcare organizations: A systematic review

Henrike J. Westerink, Tom Oirbans, Mirjam M. Garvelink, Cornelia F. van Uden-Kraan, Ouisam Zouitni, Hans A.J. Bart, Philip J. van der Wees and Paul B. van der Nat

Building confidence and trust in Ireland's National Maternity Services Workforce –What matters most and how?

Adegboyega Ojo, Nina Rizun, Grace S. Walsh, Wojciech Przychodzen, Mona Isazad Mashinchi, Conor Foley and Daniela Rohde