Health Policy

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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

Volume 136, issue C, 2023

General Practitioners activity patterns: the medium-term impacts of Primary Care Teams in France

Matthieu Cassou, Julien Mousquès and Carine Franc

Challenges facing mental health systems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 14 European and North American countries

Janet R. Cummings, Xinyue Zhang, Coralie Gandré, Alisha Morsella, Laura Shields-Zeeman, Juliane Winkelmann, Sara Allin, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Fidelia Cascini, Zoltán Cserháti, Antonio Giulio de Belvis, Astrid Eriksen, Inês Fronteira, Margaret Jamieson, Liubovė Murauskienė, William L. Palmer, Walter Ricciardi, Hadar Samuel, Silvia Gabriela Scintee, Māris Taube, Karsten Vrangbæk and Ewout van Ginneken

The resistance toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps: A study of psychological reactance among young adults in Italy

Camilla Barbarossa, Michela Patrizi, Maria Vernuccio, Maria Carmen Di Poce and Alberto Pastore

The need to strengthen the evaluation of the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based decision support systems on healthcare provision

Kathrin Cresswell, Michael Rigby, Farah Magrabi, Philip Scott, Jytte Brender, Catherine K. Craven, Zoie Shui-Yee Wong, Polina Kukhareva, Elske Ammenwerth, Andrew Georgiou, Stephanie Medlock, Nicolette F. De Keizer, Pirkko Nykänen, Mirela Prgomet and Robin Williams

The toll of COVID-19 on organ donation and kidney transplantation in Europe: Do legislative defaults matter?

Zeynep B Ugur and Alberto Molina Pérez

Organization and quality of care in patient-sharing networks

Ronja Flemming and Leonie Sundmacher

Value assessment of antimicrobials using the STEDI framework – How steady is the outcome?

Simon Brassel, Amer Al Taie and Lotte Steuten

Impacts of an interpretation fee on immigrants’ access to healthcare: Evidence from a Danish survey study among newly arrived immigrants

Maj Rørdam Nielsen and Signe Smith Jervelund

Perspectives from gambling expert stakeholders in relation to electronic gaming machines in New Zealand

Retina Rimal, Robin-Marie Shepherd, Louise Elizabeth Curley and Frederick Sundram

Barriers and facilitators for implementing lifestyle-related treatment modalities in osteoarthritis: A cross-sectional study among primary and secondary healthcare professionals

Sjoukje Bouma, Martin Stevens, Lucas van der Woude, Ron Diercks and Inge van den Akker-Scheek

Don't stand so close to me: Perceptions of others’ compliance with COVID-19 recommendations and support for strict policy measures in Norway

Adrian Kellner, Pål Erling Martinussen and Eli Feiring

Is secondhand smoke associated with mental health issues? A narrative review of the evidence and policy implications

Yvette van der Eijk and Joanne Woh

Therapeutic value of new medicines not submitted to Health Canada 2014-2021: Cross-sectional study

Joel Lexchin

Volume 135, issue C, 2023

The European health data space: Too big to succeed?

Luca Marelli, Marthe Stevens, Tamar Sharon, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Martin Boeckhout, Ilaria Colussi, Alexander Degelsegger-Márquez, Seliem El-Sayed, Klaus Hoeyer, Robin van Kessel, Dorota Krekora Zając, Mihaela Matei, Sara Roda, Barbara Prainsack, Irene Schlünder, Mahsa Shabani and Tom Southerington

The 2022 primary care reform in Italy: Improving continuity and reducing regional disparities?

Marianna Mauro and Monica Giancotti

COVID-19 and healthcare worker mental well-being: Comparative case studies on interventions in six countries

John-Paul Byrne, Niamh Humphries, Robert McMurray and Cris Scotter

Systemic anticancer treatment in the Netherlands: Few hospitals treat many patients, many hospitals treat few patients

Niels W.L. Peeters, Rick A. Vreman, Geert A. Cirkel, Marie José Kersten, Hanneke W.M. van Laarhoven and Lonneke Timmers

The Learning Rehabilitation System: Strengthening an intersectoral strategy to improve functioning of an ageing population

Jerome Bickenbach, Sara Rubinelli, Carla Sabariego and Gerold Stucki

The impact of physician exits in primary care: A study of practice handovers

Linn Hjalmarsson, Boris Kaiser and Tamara Bischof

The case for individualised public health interventions: Smoking prevalence and inequalities in Northern Ireland 1985-2015

Duyen Thuy Nguyen, Michael Donnelly, Minh Van Hoang and Ciaran O'Neill

Characteristics of self-management support (SMS) interventions and their impact on Quality of Life (QoL) in adults with chronic diseases: An umbrella review of systematic reviews

Lotte Timmermans, Elena Golder, Peter Decat, Veerle Foulon, Ann Van Hecke and Birgitte Schoenmakers

Volume 134, issue C, 2023

A critical review of methodologies used in pharmaceutical pricing policy analyses

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

Evidence on the effectiveness of policies promoting price transparency - A systematic review

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

The 2022 restructure of Aotearoa New Zealand's health system: Will it succeed in advancing equity where others have failed?

Tim Tenbensel, Jacqueline Cumming and Esther Willing

Toward future triage regulations: Investigating preferred allocation principles of the German public

Philipp Sprengholz, Lisa Felgendreff, Alena Buyx and Cornelia Betsch

Effects of giving psychologists prescriptive authority: Evidence from a natural experiment in the United States

Agnitra Roy Choudhury and Alicia Plemmons

A framework for comparing N95 and elastomeric facepiece respirators on cost and function for healthcare use during a pandemic- A literature review

Ceilidh Bray and Peter T. Vanberkel

How does nudging the COVID-19 vaccine play out in people who are in doubt about vaccination?

Denise de Ridder, Marieke Adriaanse, Laurens van Gestel and Jonas Wachner

The cost of waiting and the death toll in Italy during the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic

Alessandro Girardi and Marco Ventura

Illustrating the impact of commercial determinants of health on the global COVID-19 pandemic: Thematic analysis of 16 country case studies

Toby Freeman, Fran Baum, Connie Musolino, Joanne Flavel, Martin McKee, Chunhuei Chi, Camila Giugliani, Matheus Zuliane Falcão, Wim De Ceukelaire, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Thanh Huong Nguyen, Hani Serag, Sun Kim, Alvarez Dardet Carlos, Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Leslie London, Jennie Popay, Lauren Paremoer, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, T Sundararaman, Sulakshana Nandi and Eugenio Villar

Volume 133, issue C, 2023

Was priority setting included in the Canadian COVID-19 pandemic planning and preparedness? A comparative analysis of COVID-19 pandemic plans from eight provinces and three territories

Lydia Kapiriri, Beverley M. Essue, Claudia M. Velez, Abelson Julia, Nouvet Elysee, Aguilera Bernardo, Danis Marion, Goold Susan and Williams Ieystn

The social value of health: A frontier analysis of life expectancy gaps across 33 European countries

Leonardo Becchetti, Gianluigi Conzo and Giovanni Trovato

Healthcare utilization patterns for knee and hip osteoarthritis before and after changes in national health insurance coverage: a data linkage study from the Netherlands

Jesper T. Dros, Christel E. van Dijk, Isabelle Bos, Willemijn M. Meijer, Astrid Chorus, Harald Miedema, Cindy Veenhof, Ilgin G. Arslan, Bert R. Meijboom and Robert A. Verheij

Introduction of quality indicators in German hospital capacity planning – Do results show an improvement in quality?

Silvia Klein, Johannes Rauh, Jürgen Pauletzki, Regina Klakow-Franck and Britta Zander-Jentsch

Decision making under deep uncertainty for pandemic policy planning

Sophie Hadjisotiriou, Vincent Marchau, Warren Walker and Marcel Olde Rikkert

The media's coverage and framing of hospital reforms: The case of Denmark

Astrid Eriksen, Elke Berger, Christoph Reichebner, Annemarie Wiedicke and Reinhard Busse

Towards a less voluntary vaccination policy in the Netherlands? Findings from an expert interview study

Rogier C. Simons, Marieke A.R. Bak, Johan Legemaate and Corrette Ploem

Tracking the digital health gap in elderly: A study in Italian remote areas

Milena Vainieri, Andrea Vandelli, Stefano Casini Benvenuti and Gaia Bertarelli

Negotiating precarity: Recent immigrants’ perceptions of waiting for public healthcare in Ontario, Canada

Ashika Niraula, Nicole Ratti, Michele Colley, Mark Rosenberg, Effat Ghassemi and Kathi Wilson

The launch of the EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA): Improving global pandemic preparedness?

Olivier J. Wouters, Rebecca Forman, Michael Anderson, Elias Mossialos and Martin McKee