Health Policy

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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

Volume 137, issue C, 2023

Behavioral interventions for vaccination uptake: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Amyn A. Malik, Noureen Ahmed, Mehr Shafiq, Jad A. Elharake, Erin James, Kate Nyhan, Elliott Paintsil, Hannah Camille Melchinger, Yale Behavioral Interventions Team, Fauzia A. Malik and Saad B. Omer

Prevalence, predictors and reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Results of a global online survey

Paolo Candio, Mara Violato, Philip M Clarke, Raymond Duch and Laurence SJ Roope

Policy stringency and the spread of COVID-19: The moderating role of culture and its implications on first responses

Ke Tu, Shirley Chen and Rhiannon MacDonnell Mesler

Under-spending, over-spending or substitution among services? Spatial patterns of unexplained shares of health care expenditures

Irene Torrini, Luca Grassetti and Laura Rizzi

Belief in COVID-19 related conspiracy theories around the globe: A systematic review

Emmanouil Alexandros Fotakis and Effie Simou

Analysing changes to the flow of public funding within local health and care systems: An adaptation of the System of Health Accounts framework to a local health system in England

Charlie Moss, Laura Anselmi, Marcello Morciano, Luke Munford, Jonathan Stokes and Matt Sutton

Community-based participatory research to engage disadvantaged communities: Levels of engagement reached and how to increase it. A systematic review

Riccardi Maria Teresa, Pettinicchio Valentina, Di Pumpo Marcello, Altamura Gerardo, Nurchis Mario Cesare, Markovic Roberta, Šagrić Čedomir, Stojanović Miodrag, Rosi Luca and Damiani Gianfranco

Oral health status and coverage of oral health care: A five-country comparison

Cornelia Henschke, Juliane Winkelmann, Astrid Eriksen, Eugenia Orejas Pérez and David Klingenberger

Passing on the hot potato. Dutch municipalities under financial pressure have incentives to shift the costs of social care for older people to the central government

France Portrait, Yvonne Krabbe-Alkemade, Tjerk Budding and Marcel Canoy

Hospital response to Activity-Based Funding and price incentives: Evidence from Ireland

Gintare Valentelyte, Conor Keegan and Jan Sorensen

Satisfaction with primary health care in Ukraine in 2016–2020: A difference-in-differences analysis on repeated cross-sectional data

Valentyna Anufriyeva, Milena Pavlova, Chernysh (Stepurko), Tetiana and Wim Groot