Health Policy

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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

Volume 132, issue C, 2023

Residents' choice of a placement in periphery hospitals in Israel: The significance of personal/family and professional considerations

Paula Feder-Bubis, Gabi Bin-Nun, Dana Zarhin, Michael Sherf and Nitza Heiman-Neuman

The introduction of a data-driven population health management approach in the Netherlands since 2019: The Extramural LUMC Academic Network data infrastructure

F.H. Ardesch, M.C. Meulendijk, J.M. Kist, R.C. Vos, H.M.M. Vos, J.C. Kiefte-de Jong, M Spruit, M.A. Bruijnzeels, M.J. Bussemaker, M.E. Numans and J.N. Struijs

Introduction of miscarriage bereavement leave in New Zealand in 2021: A comparison with international experiences

Dr Nathan Hodson and Ray Jerram

Structural barriers or patient preference? A mixed methods appraisal of medical abortion use in England and Wales

Katy Footman

The impact of different types of NHS expenditure on health: Marginal cost per QALY estimates for England for 2016/17

Stephen Martin, Karl Claxton, James Lomas and Francesco Longo

Pandemic preparedness and response regulations in Finland: Experiences and implications for post-COVID-19 reforms

Soila Karreinen, Pauli Rautiainen, Ilmo Keskimäki, Markku Satokangas, Marjaana Viita-aho and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

The long-term effects of hospitalization on health care expenditures: An empirical analysis for the young-old population in Lombardy

Irene Torrini, Claudio Lucifora and Antonio Giampiero Russo

Integrated case management between primary care clinics and hospitals for people with complex needs who frequently use healthcare services in Canada: A multiple-case embedded study

Catherine Hudon, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Olivier Dumont-Samson, Annie-Pier Gobeil-Lavoie, Jean Morneau, Mélanie Paradis, Yves Couturier, Marie-Eve Poitras, Thomas Poder, Véronique Sabourin and Mireille Lambert

The role of contextual factors in decision-making by General Practitioners on paediatric referral to the Emergency Department in Ireland: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Therese McDonnell, Emma Nicholson, Gerard Bury, Claire Collins, Ciara Conlon, Aoife De Brún, Edel Doherty and Eilish McAuliffe

A comparative overview of health and social care policy for older people in England and Scotland, United Kingdom (UK)

Navneet Aujla, Helen Frost, Bruce Guthrie, Barbara Hanratty, Eileen Kaner, Amy O'Donnell, Margaret E. Ogden, Helen G. Pain, Susan D. Shenkin and Stewart W. Mercer

Long-term projections of health care funding, bed capacity and workforce needs in England

Laurie Rachet-Jacquet, Stephen Rocks and Anita Charlesworth

Impact of dialysis reimbursement policies on care outcomes in peritoneal dialysis patients in Taiwan

Ray-E Chang, Shih-Pi Lin and Robert C. Myrtle

Market diffusion of biosimilars in off-patent biologic drug markets across Europe

Anna-Katharina Böhm, Isa Maria Steiner and Tom Stargardt

Preferences of older adults for healthcare models designed to improve care coordination: Evidence from Western Switzerland

Anna Nicolet, Clémence Perraudin, Nicolas Krucien, Joël Wagner, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux and Joachim Marti

Private health insurance in the universal public healthcare system: The role of healthcare provision in Finland

Konsta Lavaste

The Credibility of Physician Rating Websites: A Systematic Literature Review

Bernhard Guetz and Sonja Bidmon

Access to outpatient care in Manhattan and Paris: A tale of real change in two world cities

Michael K. Gusmano, Daniel Weisz, Grégoire Mercier, Maria Vasile and Victor G. Rodwin

Gender bias in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disorders in Catalonia

O. Alonso Gelabert, M. Barcena Veciana, V. Brumwell Valsells, M. Crunas Baqe and Catia Nicodemo

Same Day Discharge Strategy by Default in a Tertiary Catheterization Laboratory in Belgium: Value Based Healthcare-Change in Practice

Eric Wyffels, Monika Beles, Ann Baeyens, Kristien Croeckaert, Tom De Potter, Guy Van Camp, Carlos Collet, Jeroen Sonck, Marc Vanderheyden, Jozef Bartunek, Emanuele Barbato, Konstantinos Bermpeis, Dario Tino Bertolone, Emanuele Gallinoro, Giuseppe Esposito, Guy Schoonjans, Frank Staelens, Els Van Laer and Bernard De Bruyne

Strategic workforce planning in health and social care – an international perspective: A scoping review

Claire Sutton, Julie Prowse, Lynn McVey, Mai Elshehaly, Daniel Neagu, Jane Montague, Natasha Alvarado, Chris Tissiman, Kate O'Connell, Emma Eyers, Muhammad Faisal and Rebecca Randell

Volume 131, issue C, 2023

Counter-contestation in global health governance: The WHO and its member states in emergency settings

Thomas Lange, Pedro A. Villarreal and Till Bärnighausen

Trajectories of the socioeconomic gradient of mental health: Results from the CLSA COVID-19 Questionnaire Study

Yukiko Asada, Michel Grignon, Jeremiah Hurley, Samuel A. Stewart, Nathan K. Smith, Susan Kirkland, Jacqueline McMillan, Lauren E. Griffith, Christina Wolfson and Parminder Raina

Evaluation of a national e-booking system for medical consultation in primary care in a universal health system

Aude Motulsky, Delphine Bosson-Rieutort, Susan Usher, Geneviève David, Marie-Pierre Moreault, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Tibor Schuster and Claude Sicotte

Utilising the dental workforce in England, United Kingdom, to optimise the response to COVID-19

Gavin J Wilson, Valerie Wordley, Ryan Grocock, Sagar Shah, Urshla Devalia, Julija Iricijan, Meelad Sayma, Ini Adelaja, Greta MacLachlan, Martyn Ormond and Sara Hurley

Telemonitoring in Portugal: where do we stand and which way forward?

Rafael Miranda, Monica Oliveira, Filipa Matos Baptista and Isabel Albuquerque

Has public support for solidarity in healthcare financing in the Netherlands changed over time? A repeated cross-sectional study

Marloes A. Meijer, Anne E.M. Brabers and Judith D. de Jong

Predictable profits and losses in a health insurance market with risk equalization: A multiple-contract period perspective

Anja A. Withagen-Koster, Richard C. van Kleef and Frank Eijkenaar

The entrepreneurial orientation of general practitioners—Current theory and practice in the Czech Republic

Pavla Marciánová and Petr Pirožek

Women's choices of hospital for breast cancer surgery in Italy: Quality and equity implications

Francesca Ferré, Chiara Seghieri and Sabina Nuti

The contested authority of international institutions in global health

Thomas Lange, Pedro A. Villarreal and Till Bärnighausen

A new case-mix based payment system for the psychiatric day care sector in Switzerland: proposed methods for developing the tariff structure

Samuel Noll, Sarah Haag, Rémi Guidon and Simon Hölzer

Community pharmacists as vaccinators in the Italian SARS-CoV-2 immunization campaign: implications beyond the pandemic

Francesca Baratta, Lorenzo Ravetto Enri and Paola Brusa

Conflicting perspectives during guidelines development are an important source of implementation failure

Jonathan A Michaels and Ravi Maheswaran