Health Policy

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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

Volume 130, issue C, 2023

30 years of primary health care reforms in Estonia: The role of financial incentives to achieve a multidisciplinary primary health care system

Triin Habicht, Kaija Kasekamp and Erin Webb

Multiple jobholding and part-time work among nurses in long-term care homes compared to other healthcare sectors: Evidence from Ontario

Alyssa Drost, M Injamam Alam, Sheila Boamah, Boris Kralj, Andrew Costa and Arthur Sweetman

Global health in Germany: Understanding interdisciplinarity in the academic sector

Caroline I Gotsche, Heide Weishaar and Johanna Hanefeld

Antibiotic prescription: Knowledge among physicians and nurses in western Sweden

Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Jacobsson and Elina Lampi

Geographical variation in the use of private health insurance in a predominantly publicly-funded system

Marianna Cavazza, Mario Del Vecchio, Giovanni Fattore and Lorenzo Fenech

A critical analysis of national dementia care guidances

Rasita Vinay and Nikola Biller-Andorno

Understanding the activity of oncology nurse coordinators: An elaboration of a framework based on an abductive approach

Maria-Ximena Acero, Etienne Minvielle and Mathias Waelli

Caregivers’ willingness to pay for digital support services: Comparative survey

Alhassan Yosri Ibrahim Hassan, Marco Cucculelli and Giovanni Lamura

Should the governance of individual treatment attempts (“Individuelle Heilversuche”) include praxis evaluation? Results from qualitative stakeholder interviews

Alice Faust, Lena Woydack and Daniel Strech

Work like a Doc: A comparison of regulations on residents' working hours in 14 high-income countries

Rina Maoz Breuer, Ruth Waitzberg, Adin Breuer, Peter Cram, Lucie Bryndova, Gemma A. Williams, Kaija Kasekamp, Ilmo Keskimaki, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Verena van Ginneken, Eszter Kovács, Sara Burke, Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne, Carol Norton, Barbara Whiston, Daiga Behmane, Ieva Grike, Ronald Batenburg, Tit Albreh, Rade Pribakovic, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Francisco Estupiñan-Romero, Ester Angulo-Pueyo and Adam J. Rose

Does continuity of care improve patient satisfaction? An instrumental variable approach

Chi-Chen Chen and Shou-Hsia Cheng

The implementation of the 2017 national policy on patient-reported outcomes in Denmark: An overview of developments after six years

Cecilie Lindström Egholm, Sanne Jensen, Annette Wandel and Mogens Hørder

Volume 129, issue C, 2023

Cannabis policy in The Netherlands: Rationale and design of an experiment with a controlled legal (‘closed’) cannabis supply chain

J. André Knottnerus, Tom Blom, Sanne van Eerden, Jan H.H. Mans, Dike van de Mheen, J.Nico D. de Neeling, David C.L. Schelfhout, Jaap C. Seidell, Albert H. van Wijk, (Karin) van Wingerde, C.G. and Wim van den Brink

The use of patient-reported outcome and experience measures for health policy purposes: A scoping review in oncology

E. Minvielle, A. Fierobe, A. Fourcade, M. Ferrua, M. di Palma, F. Scotté and O. Mir

Effectiveness of measures to preserve labour and childbirth companionship at the times of COVID-19 outbreak

Ilaria Corazza, Amerigo Ferrari and Manila Bonciani

The impact of having a carer on adult health and social care utilisation across five settings of care: A matched cohort study

J. Shand, M. Gomes and S. Morris

Clinical innovation ethics frameworks: A systematic narrative review

Miriam Wiersma, Ian Kerridge and Wendy Lipworth

The 2021 plan for hospital care centralization in Poland – When politics overwhelms the policy process

Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Alicja Domagała, Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko and Christoph Sowada

Long-term care insurance purchase decisions of registered nurses: Deep learning versus logistic regression models

Hon-Yi Shi, Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh, Hsueh-Chih Chou and Wen Chun Wang

Ten years after the 2015 Canada Health Transfer reform: A persistent equity concern of insufficient risk-equalization

Mohammad Hajizadeh and Daniel Keays

The effect of a nighttime curfew on the spread of COVID-19

Johannes Apel, Niklas Rohde and Jan Marcus

The effects of provider contract types and fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of the Polish hospital sector: A data envelopment analysis across 16 health regions

Ewa Kosycarz, Monika Dędys, Maria Ekes and Wiesława Dominika Wranik

The Impact of ‘conscientious objection’ on abortion-related outcomes: A synthesis of legal and health evidence

Fiona de Londras, Amanda Cleeve, Maria I. Rodriguez, Alana Farrell, Magdalena Furgalska and Antonella F. Lavelanet

Volume 128, issue C, 2023

The uses of Patient Reported Experience Measures in health systems: A systematic narrative review pp. 1-10

Kendall Jamieson Gilmore, Ilaria Corazza, Lucrezia Coletta and Sara Allin

Patient expectations do matter - Experimental evidence on antibiotic prescribing decisions among hospital-based physicians pp. 11-17

Sophie Y. Wang, Paola Cantarelli, Oliver Groene, Tom Stargardt and Nicola Belle

Trust as a key measure of quality and safety after the restriction of family contact in Canadian long-term care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 18-27

P.V. Hunter, H.A. Ward and G. Puurveen

Relationships between sales of legal medical cannabis and alcohol in Canada pp. 28-33

Michael J. Armstrong

Income-related inequality in smoking habits: A comparative assessment in the European Union pp. 34-41

Giovanni Carnazza, Paolo Liberati and Giuliano Resce

Mental health between present issues and future expectations pp. 42-48

Emilia Barili, Veronica Grembi and Anna C. Rosso

The Italian policy of mandating SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for healthcare workers: Analysis of the policy processes and preliminary outcomes pp. 49-54

Costanza Vicentini, Giacomo Garzaro, Alessandro Roberto Cornio, Davide Bosio, Enrico Bergamaschi, Giovanna Pacchiana Parravicini and Carla Maria Zotti

Why the US spends more treating high-need high-cost patients: a comparative study of pricing and utilization of care in six high-income countries pp. 55-61

Luca Lorenzoni, Alberto Marino, Zeynep Or, Carl Blankart, Kosta Shatrov, Walter Wodchis, Nils Janlov, Jose F. Figueroa, Nicholas Bowden, Enrique Bernal-Delgado and Irene Papanicolas

Pay-for-performance for primary health care in Brazil: A comparison with England's Quality Outcomes Framework and lessons for the future pp. 62-68

Garibaldi Dantas Gurgel, Søren Kristensen, Everton Nunes da Silva, Luciano Bezerra Gomes, Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto, Roxanne J Kovacs, Juliana Sampaio, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra, Keila Silene de Brito e Silva, Helena Eri Shimizu, Allan Nuno Alves de Sousa, Nasser Fardousi, Josephine Borghi and Timothy Powell-Jackson

Improving hospital nurse staffing during the pandemic: Implementation of the 2019 Fund for Health Care Staff in Belgium pp. 69-74

Koen Van den Heede, Koen Balcaen, Nicolas Bouckaert, Luk Bruyneel, Justien Cornelis, Walter Sermeus and Carine Van de Voorde

Lithuanian physicians practising abroad: Reasons to leave and conditions to return to Lithuania. A survey pp. 75-83

Monika Radike and Tadas Zuromskis

Volume 127, issue C, 2023

The role of the European Union in global health: The EU’s self-perception(s) within the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 5-11

Susan Bergner

Alignment and authority: Federalism, social policy, and COVID-19 response pp. 12-18

Scott L. Greer, Kenneth A. Dubin, Michelle Falkenbach, Holly Jarman and Benjamin D. Trump

Centralization and integration of public health systems: Perspectives of public health leaders on factors facilitating and impeding COVID-19 responses in three Canadian provinces pp. 19-28

Robert William Smith, Tamika Jarvis, Harman Singh Sandhu, Andrew D. Pinto, Meghan O'Neill, Erica Di Ruggiero, Jasmine Pawa, Laura Rosella and Sara Allin

Actors’ awareness of network governance in Child Welfare and Healthcare service networks pp. 29-36

Mariëlle Blanken, Jolanda Mathijssen, Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen, Jörg Raab and Hans van Oers

European immigrant health policies, immigrants’ health, and immigrants’ access to healthcare pp. 37-43

Paul Dourgnon, Nadereh Pourat and Lorenzo Rocco

Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia's universal health care system: A national linked data study pp. 44-50

Hsei Di Law, Dinith Marasinghe, Danielle Butler, Jennifer Welsh, Emily Lancsar, Emily Banks, Nicholas Biddle and Rosemary Korda

Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for healthcare in Canada pp. 51-59

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Sujita Pandey and Mohammad Habibullah Pulok

The 2021 proposal to increase market forces in the Australian residential aged-care sector pp. 60-65

Henry Cutler, Yuanyuan Gu, Anam Bilgrami and Andrew Partington

Creativity at the margins: A cross-country case study on how Dutch and Norwegian peripheries address challenges to quality work in care for older persons pp. 66-73

Hester van de Bovenkamp, Nienke van Pijkeren, Eline Ree, Ingunn Aase, Terese Johannessen, Hans Vollaard, Iris Wallenburg, Roland Bal and Siri Wiig

The long process by which HTA became a paradigm: A longitudinal conceptual structure analysis pp. 74-79

Alessandra Belfiore, Alessandro Scaletti, Domenica Lavorato and Corrado Cuccurullo

Uncovering the potential of innovation ecosystems in the healthcare sector after the COVID-19 crisis pp. 80-86

Dominique Lepore, Emanuele Frontoni, Alessandra Micozzi, Sara Moccia, Luca Romeo and Francesca Spigarelli