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Volume 125, issue 12, 2021

Achieving higher performing primary care through patient registration: A review of twelve high-income countries pp. 1507-1516

Gregory P. Marchildon, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Mark Dayan, Antonio Giulio De Belvis, Coralie Gandré, David Isaksson, Madelon Kroneman, Stefan Neuner-Jehle, Ingrid Sperre Saunes, Steven Thomas, Karsten Vrangbæk and Wilm Quentin

Identifying common enablers and barriers in European health information systems pp. 1517-1526

Petronille Bogaert, Marieke Verschuuren, Herman Van Oyen and Hans van Oers

The nudge strategies for weight loss in adults with obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1527-1535

Ruxue Li, Yating Zhang, Xue Cai, Dan Luo, Wuai Zhou, Tianxue Long, Huijing Zhang, Hua Jiang and Mingzi Li

Comparison of outpatient coverage in Canada: Assistive and medical devices pp. 1536-1542

Allie Peckham, Fiona A. Miller and Gregory P. Marchildon

The beginnings of health system transformation: How Ontario Health Teams are implementing change in the context of uncertainty pp. 1543-1549

Gayathri Embuldeniya, Jennifer Gutberg, Shannon S. Sibbald and Walter P. Wodchis

Variation in market access decisions for cell and gene therapies across the United States, Canada, and Europe pp. 1550-1556

Sean Tunis, Eve Hanna, Peter J. Neumann, Mondher Toumi, Omar Dabbous, Michael Drummond, Frank-Ulrich Fricke, Sean D. Sullivan, Daniel C. Malone, Ulf Persson and James D. Chambers

Interpreting forty-three-year trends of expenditures on public health in Canada: Long-run trends, temporal periods, and data differences pp. 1557-1564

Mehdi Ammi, Emmanuelle Arpin and Sara Allin

The future of hospital quality of care policy: A multi-stakeholder discrete choice experiment in Flanders, Belgium pp. 1565-1573

Jonas Brouwers, Bianca Cox, Astrid Van Wilder, Fien Claessens, Luk Bruyneel, Dirk De Ridder, Kristof Eeckloo and Kris Vanhaecht

Navigating the political and technical challenges of developing a national HRH strategy: a case study in Greece pp. 1574-1579

Olivier Onvlee, Daphne Kaitelidou, Cris Scotter and Marjolein Dieleman

Accessibility to SARS-CoV-2 swab test during the Covid-19 pandemic: Did age make the difference? pp. 1580-1586

Caterina Trevisan, Claudio Pedone, Stefania Maggi, Marianna Noale, Mauro Di Bari, Aleksandra Sojic, Sabrina Molinaro, Andrea Giacomelli, Fabrizio Bianchi, Marcello Tavio, Stefano Rusconi, Gabriele Pagani, Massimo Galli, Federica Prinelli, Fulvio Adorni and Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi

Volume 125, issue 11, 2021

The access to medicine index: How ranking pharmaceutical companies encourages polycentric health governance pp. 1399-1405

Akiko Kato and Yoshiko Naiki

Cost-utility analysis of medication review with follow-up for cardiovascular outcomes: A microsimulation model pp. 1406-1414

Antonio Ahumada-Canale, Constanza Vargas, Francisco Martinez-Mardones, José Cristian Plaza-Plaza, Shalom Benrimoj and Victoria Garcia-Cardenas

Preferences of patients regarding community pharmacy services: A discrete choice experiment pp. 1415-1420

Jeroen M. van de Pol, Mette Heringa, Ellen S. Koster and Marcel L. Bouvy

Purchase of prescription medicines via social media: A survey-based study of prevalence, risk perceptions, and motivations pp. 1421-1429

Charlotte Moureaud, John Hertig, Yao Dong, Iago S. Muraro and Saleem Alhabash

COVID-19 Apps as a Digital Intervention Policy: A Longitudinal Panel Data Analysis in South Korea pp. 1430-1440

Hwang Kim

Inferring a cause-effect relationship between lockdown restrictions and COVID-19 pandemic trend during the first wave pp. 1441-1447

Rosario Megna

Simply the best? The impact of quality on choice of primary healthcare provider in Sweden pp. 1448-1454

Cecilia Dahlgren, Margareta Dackehag, Per Wändell and Clas Rehnberg

Regulating voluntary assisted dying practice: A policy analysis from Victoria, Australia pp. 1455-1474

Eliana Close, Lindy Willmott and Ben P White

Ownership, quality and prices of nursing homes in Australia: Why greater private sector participation did not improve performance pp. 1475-1481

Jongsay Yong, Ou Yang, Yuting Zhang and Anthony Scott

Identifying the gaps in Irish cancer care: Patient, public and providers’ perspectives pp. 1482-1488

Dervla Kelly, Monica Casey, Firinna Beattie McKenna, Miriam McCarthy, Patrick Kiely, Feargal Twomey, Liam Glynn, Norma Bargary and Des Leddin

Because it was new: Unexpected experiences of physician providers during Canada's early years of legal medical assistance in dying pp. 1489-1497

Janine Penfield Winters, Neil Pickering and Chrystal Jaye

Patients as EU citizens? The implementation and corporatist stakeholders’ perceptions of the EU cross-border health care directive in Austria pp. 1498-1505

Carina Diesenreiter and August Österle

Volume 125, issue 10, 2021

Health reforms in the United States: The outlook after Biden's first 100 days pp. 1277-1284

Thomas Rice, Andrew J. Barnes, Pauline Rosenau, Lynn Y. Unruh and Ewout van Ginneken

Bad law or implementation flaws? Lessons from the implementation of the new law on epidemics during the response to the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland pp. 1285-1290

Igor Francetic

Testing surge capacity—A Canadian COVID-19 experience, Ontario's surge capacity for the first wave pp. 1291-1296

Michael Ho-Yan Lee, Grace Xu, Fanny Cheng and Ahmad Firas Khalid

Payments reported by the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland from 2015 to 2019: An observational study pp. 1297-1304

Frank Moriarty, James Larkin and Tom Fahey

Physician-dispensing as a determinant of clinical and process measurements in patients at increased cardiovascular risk: A cross-sectional study in Swiss general practice pp. 1305-1310

Yael Rachamin, Rahel Meier, Fabio Valeri, Thomas Rosemann and Leander Muheim

Associations of health services utilization by prescription drug coverage and immigration category in Ontario, Canada pp. 1311-1321

Valentina Antonipillai, G. Emmanuel Guindon, Arthur Sweetman, Andrea Baumann, Olive Wahoush and Lisa Schwartz

Regulatory and HTA early dialogues in medical devices pp. 1322-1329

Carl Blankart, Florian Dams, Hannah Penton, Zoltán Kaló, Antal Zemplényi, Kosta Shatrov, Rowan Iskandar and Carlo Federici

Fitting places in knowledge translation: Biomedical innovation in healthcare practice pp. 1330-1339

David Foord

Implementing cancer patient pathways in Scandinavia how structuring might affect the acceptance of a politically imposed reform pp. 1340-1350

Per Magnus Mæhle and Sigbjørn Smeland

Surgical procedures in inpatient versus outpatient settings and its potential impact on follow-up costs pp. 1351-1358

Beat Brüngger, Caroline Bähler, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Agne Ulyte, Holger Dressel, Viktor von Wyl, Oliver Gruebner, Wenjia Wei, Miquel Serra-Burriel and Eva Blozik

Public satisfaction with health care system in 30 countries: The effects of individual characteristics and social contexts pp. 1359-1366

Yaqi Yuan

Institutional investors’ sustainability policies and the outcomes for the healthcare sector portfolios pp. 1367-1376

Slavek Roller

Incentives for physician teams: Effectiveness of performance feedback and payment distribution methods pp. 1377-1384

Li-Lin Liang, A Dale Tussing, Nicole Huang and Shu-Ling Tsai

Understanding women's provider choice for induced abortion in Turkey pp. 1385-1392

Didem Pekkurnaz, Zeynep Güldem Ökem and Mehmet Çakar

Stability over time of the “hospital effect” on 30-day unplanned readmissions: Evidence from administrative data pp. 1393-1397

Afsaneh Roshanghalb, Cristina Mazzali, Emanuele Lettieri, Anna Maria Paganoni and Alex Bottle

Volume 125, issue 9, 2021

From sandbox to pandemic: Agile reform of Canadian drug regulation pp. 1115-1120

Ipek Eren Vural, Matthew Herder and Janice E. Graham

Comparing public policies impacting prescribing and medication management in primary care in two Canadian provinces pp. 1121-1130

Sara Allin, Elisabeth Martin, David Rudoler, Michael Church Carson, Agnes Grudniewicz, Sydney Jopling and Erin Strumpf

Impact of the removal of patient co-payments for antiretroviral therapy (ART) on out-of-pocket expenditure, adherence and virological failure among Australian adults living with HIV pp. 1131-1139

Lee Evelyn, Mao Limin, de Wit John, Rule John, Carr Andrew and Siefried Krista J

Medicine price transparency and confidential managed-entry agreements in Europe: findings from the EURIPID survey pp. 1140-1145

Pierluigi Russo, Angelica Carletto, Gergely Németh and Claudia Habl

Potentially inappropriate prescriptions: Associations with the health insurance contract and the quality of the patient–physician relationship? pp. 1146-1157

Pauline Chauvin, Sarah Fustinoni, Laurence Seematter-Bagnoud, Marie Herr and Brigitte Santos Eggimann

Stakeholder point of view on prescription drug affordability - a systematic literature review and content analysis pp. 1158-1165

Boris Rachev, Jennifer Uyei, Rajpal Singh, Stacey Kowal and C. Erwin Johnson

The impact of a co-payment increase on the consumption of type 2 antidiabetics – A nationwide interrupted time series analysis pp. 1166-1172

Hanna Rättö, Terhi Kurko, Jaana E. Martikainen and Katri Aaltonen

Reduction of the emergency activity, during the Covid 19 Italian lockdown, what's the lesson to learn? pp. 1173-1178

M Inama, A Casaril, L Alberti, T F Cappellari, H G Impellizzeri, M Bacchion, M Creciun and G Moretto

Corona-regionalism? Differences in regional responses to COVID-19 in Italy pp. 1179-1187

Iris Bosa, Adriana Castelli, Michele Castelli, Oriani Ciani, Amelia Compagni, Matteo Galizzi, Matteo Garofano, Simone Ghislandi, Margherita Giannoni, Giorgia Marini and Milena Vainieri

Assessing the effectiveness of the Italian risk-zones policy during the second wave of COVID-19 pp. 1188-1199

Matteo Pelagatti and Paolo Maranzano

School openings and the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. A provincial-level analysis using the synthetic control method pp. 1200-1207

Vincenzo Alfano, Salvatore Ercolano and Lorenzo Cicatiello

The impact of patient and public involvement in health research versus healthcare: A scoping review of reviews pp. 1208-1221

Anton Modigh, Filipa Sampaio, Linda Moberg and Mio Fredriksson

Online alcohol sales and home delivery: An international policy review and systematic literature review pp. 1222-1237

Stephanie Colbert, Claire Wilkinson, Louise Thornton, Xiaoqi Feng and Robyn Richmond

Economic evaluation of nutrition interventions: Does one size fit all? pp. 1238-1246

Giovanni Fattore, Carlo Federici, Michael Drummond, Mario Mazzocchi, Patrick Detzel, Zsuzsa V Hutton and Bhavani Shankar

Facilitators and barriers for implementing patient-reported outcome measures in clinical care: An academic center's initial experience pp. 1247-1255

Marzyeh Amini, Arvind Oemrawsingh, Lisanne M. Verweij, Hester F. Lingsma, Jan A. Hazelzet, Frank Eijkenaar and Nikki van Leeuwen

Financial protection in health among the middle-aged and elderly: Evidence from the Greek economic recession pp. 1256-1266

Ilias Kyriopoulos, Zlatko Nikoloski and Elias Mossialos

Substitutes or complements between informal and formal home care in the Canadian longitudinal study on aging: Functional impairment as an effect modifier pp. 1267-1275

Wei Zhang, Huiying Sun and Jacynthe L'Heureux

Volume 125, issue 8, 2021

A comparative study of public health and social measures of COVID-19 advocated in different countries pp. 957-971

Di Wang and Zhifei Mao

How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective pp. 972-980

Francesco Fallucchi, Luise Görges, Joël Machado, Arne Pieters and Marc Suhrcke

Green zoning: An effective policy tool to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic pp. 981-986

Miquel Oliu-Barton and Bary S.R. Pradelski

The early weeks of the Italian Covid-19 outbreak: sentiment insights from a Twitter analysis pp. 987-994

Sabina De Rosis, Milena Lopreite, Michelangelo Puliga and Milena Vainieri

On the management of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy pp. 995-1001

Fabio Santeramo, Marco Tappi and Emilia Lamonaca

Common patterns in the public reporting of waiting time and waiting list information: Findings from a sample of OECD jurisdictions pp. 1002-1012

Mandy Lee, Margaret Martin-Carroll, Wendy von Mollendorff, Claire Condon, Matthew Kavanagh and Stephen Thomas

Needs, issues, and expectations on dementia care at home across Europe to inform policy development: Findings from a transnational research study pp. 1013-1022

Valentina Bressan, Henriette Hansen, Kim Koldby, Knud Damgaard Andersen, Allette Snijder, Valentina Tageo, Natalia Allegretti, Federica Porcu, Sara Marsillas, Alvaro García and Alvisa Palese

Promoting health-enhancing physical activity in Europe: Surveillance, policy development and implementation 2015–2018 pp. 1023-1030

Stephen Whiting, Romeu Mendes, Sara Tribuzi Morais, Peter Gelius, Karim Abu-Omar, Lea Nash, Ivo Rakovac and João Breda

How have casemix, cost and hospital stay of inpatients in the last year of life changed over the past decade? Evidence from Italy pp. 1031-1039

Paolo Berta, Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio and Stefano Verzillo

Impact of ongoing centralization of acute stroke care from “drip and ship” into “direct-to-mothership” model in a Dutch urban area pp. 1040-1046

M. Christien van der Linden, Naomi van der Linden, Rianne C. Lam, Peter Stap, Crispijn L. van Den Brand, Tamara Vermeulen, Korné Jellema and Ido R. van Den Wijngaard

Is time-to-treatment associated with higher mortality in Korean elderly lung cancer patients? pp. 1047-1053

Kyu-Tae Han, Woorim Kim, Areum Song, Yeong Jun Ju, Dong-Woo Choi and Seungju Kim

Evaluations of public health interventions produced by health technology assessment agencies: A mapping review and analysis by type and evidence content pp. 1054-1064

Pascale Renée Cyr, Vageesh Jain, Kalipso Chalkidou, Trygve Ottersen and Unni Gopinathan

Australian federal, state and territory policy on the health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review pp. 1065-1076

Daniel Waller, Fiona Brooks, Lin Perry, Melissa Kang and Katharine Steinbeck

Power, legitimacy and urgency: Unravelling the relationship between Dutch healthcare organisations and their financial stakeholders pp. 1077-1084

(Tessa) van Dijk, T.S., (Wilma) van der Scheer, W.K. and Janssen, R.T.J.M. (Richard)

Migrant health and language barriers: Uncovering macro level influences on the implementation of trained interpreters in healthcare settings pp. 1085-1091

Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, Mary Phelan and Anne MacFarlane

Territorial differences in access to prenatal care and health at birth pp. 1092-1099

Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi

Societal cost of cancer in Norway –Results of taking a broader cost perspective pp. 1100-1107

Christoffer Bugge, Erik Magnus Sæther, Odd Terje Brustugun and Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen

Wish for euthanasia persists for at least one year after the request was declined by Euthanasia Expertise Center pp. 1108-1113

Caroline van den Ende, Eveline M. Bunge and Suzanne van de Vathorst

Volume 125, issue 7, 2021

“Top-Three” health reforms in 31 high-income countries in 2018 and 2019: an expert informed overview pp. 815-832

Katherine Polin, Maximilien Hjortland, Anna Maresso, Ewout van Ginneken, Reinhard Busse and Wilm Quentin

The 2020 reform of the employment status of Hungarian health workers: Will it eliminate informal payments and separate the public and private sectors from each other? pp. 833-840

Peter Gaal, Zita Velkey, Viktoria Szerencses and Erin Webb

The impact of COVID-19 on abortion access: Insights from the European Union and the United Kingdom pp. 841-858

Neva Bojovic, Jovana Stanisljevic and Guido Giunti

Long-term care at home and female work during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 859-868

Shinya Sugawara and Jiro Nakamura

Beyond COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Italy exploring the covid collateral impacts on healthcare services pp. 869-876

Maria Rosaria Gualano, Alessio Corradi, Gianluca Voglino, Fabrizio Bert and Roberta Siliquini

Utilization and uptake of clinical genetics services in high-income countries: A scoping review pp. 877-887

Nick Dragojlovic, Nicola Kopac, Kennedy Borle, Rachel Tandun, Shahrzad Salmasi, Ursula Ellis, Patricia Birch, Shelin Adam, Jan M. Friedman, Alison M. Elliott and Larry D. Lynd

The value of caregiver inclusive practices in geriatric transitions of care: A systematic review pp. 888-898

Isabelle Meulenbroeks, Joanne Epp and Liz Schroeder

A trauma-informed approach in Canadian mental health policies: A systematic mapping review pp. 899-914

Eunjung Lee, Toula Kourgiantakis, Olive Lyons and Andrea Prescott-Cornejo

Pharmaceutical industry self-regulation and non-transparency: country and company level analysis of payments to healthcare professionals in seven European countries pp. 915-922

Shai Mulinari, Luc Martinon, Pierre-Alain Jachiet and Piotr Ozieranski

Hospital payment schemes and high-priced drugs: Evidence from the French Add-on List pp. 923-929

Laurie Rachet-Jacquet, Lea Toulemon and Lise Rochaix

General practitioners’ views on the influence of long-term care reforms on integrated elderly care in the Netherlands: a qualitative interview study pp. 930-940

Sietske Grol, Gerard Molleman, Nanne van Heumen, Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Nynke Scherpbier-de Haan and Henk Schers

The establishment of the Korean medical device safety information monitoring center: Reviewing ten years of experience pp. 941-946

Soo Jeong Choi, Ki Chang Nam, Sooin Choi, Jin Kuk Kim, You Kyoung Lee and Bum Sun Kwon

Promoting healthy eating habits among youth according to their preferences: Indications from a discrete choice experiment in Tuscany pp. 947-955

Ilaria Corazza, Francesca Pennucci and Sabina De Rosis

Volume 125, issue 6, 2021

The impact of premium subsidies on health plan choices in Switzerland: Who responds to the incentives set by in-kind as opposed to cash transfers? pp. 675-684

Shalvaree Vaidya

Incentives for voluntary health insurance in a national health system: Evidence from Italy pp. 685-692

Anna Marenzi, Dino Rizzi and Michele Zanette

Informal out-of-pocket payments experience and individuals’ willingness-to-pay for healthcare services in Greece pp. 693-700

Theodoros V. Giannouchos, Benjamin Ukert, Athanassios Vozikis, Evangelia Steletou and Kyriakos Souliotis

Inequality in out of pocket fees, government funding and utilisation of maternal health services in Australia pp. 701-708

Emily J. Callander, Antonia Shand and Natasha Nassar

The effect of commissioning on Portuguese Primary Health Care units’ performance: A four-year national analysis pp. 709-716

António da Luz Pereira, André Ramalho, João Viana, Alberto Pinto Hespanhol, Alberto Freitas and André Biscaia

Does more investment in primary care improve health system performance? pp. 717-724

Kees van Gool, Chunzhou Mu and Jane Hall

The Indigenous primary health care and policy research network: Guiding innovation within primary health care with Indigenous peoples in Alberta pp. 725-731

Crowshoe, Lynden (Lindsay), Anika Sehgal, Stephanie Montesanti, Cheryl Barnabe, Andrea Kennedy, Adam Murry, Pamela Roach, Michael Green, Cara Bablitz, Esther Tailfeathers and Rita Henderson

Hospital reimbursement and capacity constraints: Evidence from orthopedic surgeries pp. 732-738

Ingrid Huitfeldt

Assessment of the introduction of DRG-based reimbursement in Switzerland: Evidence on the short-term effects on length of stay compliance in university hospitals pp. 739-750

Stefan Boes and Christoph Napierala

Bundled payments for chronic diseases increased health care expenditure in the Netherlands, especially for multimorbid patients pp. 751-759

Milad Karimi, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Willemijn Looman, Jonathan Stokes, Mirte van Galen and Maureen Rutten-van Mölken

Cost and quality impacts of treatment setting for type 2 diabetes patients with moderate disease severity: Hospital- vs. GP-based monitoring pp. 760-767

Ryan Pulleyblank, Mauro Laudicella and Kim Rose Olsen

Control rooms in publicly-funded health systems: Reviving value in healthcare governance pp. 768-776

Élizabeth Côté-Boileau, Mylaine Breton and Jean-Louis Denis

Creating universal health care in Ireland: A legal context pp. 777-785

Manfred Lau, Charles Larkin, Michael Harty and Shaen Corbet

The prevalence and determinants of unmet health care needs in Turkey pp. 786-792

Dilek Başar, Fatih Hakan Dikmen and Selcen Öztürk

Using national clinical guidelines to reduce practice variation – the case of Denmark pp. 793-798

Nis Lydiksen, Jane Greve, Marie Jakobsen and Søren Kristensen

Integrating planetary health into healthcare: A document analysis pp. 799-806

Maya R. Kalogirou, Sherry Dahlke, Sandra Davidson and Shelby Yamamoto

A model for evaluating the economic value of prevention programs for illicit use of anabolic androgenic steroids pp. 807-813

Filipa Sampaio, Richard Ssegonja, Ingemar Thiblin and Camilla Nystrand

Volume 125, issue 5, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine challenges: What have we learned so far and what remains to be done? pp. 553-567

Rebecca Forman, Soleil Shah, Patrick Jeurissen, Mark Jit and Elias Mossialos

Systematic assessment of South Korea’s capabilities to control COVID-19 pp. 568-576

Katelyn J. Yoo, Soonman Kwon, Yoonjung Choi and David Bishai

Consumer directed care aged care reforms in Australia since 2009: A retrospective policy analysis pp. 577-581

Corey B. Moore

Institutional reforms to strengthen patient and public involvement in the Czech Republic since 2014 pp. 582-586

Karolína Dobiášová, Zuzana Kotherová and Dino Numerato

Improved coordination of care after acute myocardial infarction in Poland since 2017: Promising early results pp. 587-592

Anna Sagan, Maciej Rogala, Piotr P. Buszman and Iwona Kowalska-Bobko

The Role of Patient Experience in the Value Assessment of Complex Technologies – Do HTA Bodies Need to Reconsider How Value is Assessed? pp. 593-601

Grammati Sarri, Andreas Freitag, Boglarka Szegvari, Irina Mountian, Diana Brixner, Neil Bertelsen, Zoltán Kaló and Sheela Upadhyaya

Establishing a national HTA program for medical devices in Italy: Overhauling a fragmented system to ensure value and equal access to new medical technologies pp. 602-608

Rosanna Tarricone, Fabio Amatucci, Patrizio Armeni, Helen Banks, Ludovica Borsoi, Giuditta Callea, Oriana Ciani, Francesco Costa, Carlo Federici, Aleksandra Torbica and Marcella Marletta

Worlds of long-term care: A typology of OECD countries pp. 609-617

Mareike Ariaans, Philipp Linden and Claus Wendt

Explaining variation in health information seeking behaviour – Insights from a multilingual survey pp. 618-626

Henrike Schmidt, Eva-Maria Wild and Jonas Schreyögg

Stopping healthcare misinformation: The effect of financial incentives and legislation pp. 627-633

Cheuk Hang Au, Kevin K.W. Ho and Dickson K.W. Chiu

Physicians’ views and experiences of defensive medicine: An international review of empirical research pp. 634-642

Nola M. Ries and Jesse Jansen

The role of education in psychological response to adverse health shocks pp. 643-650

Cinzia Di Novi, Lucia Leporatti and Marcello Montefiori

Taking a local government perspective for economic evaluation of a population-level programme to promote exercise pp. 651-657

Paolo Candio, David Meads, Andrew J. Hill and Laura Bojke

Why is Quality Improvement so Challenging? A Viable Systems Model Perspective to Understand the Frustrations of Healthcare Quality Improvement Managers pp. 658-664

Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Jeff Foote, Richard Greatbanks, Tim Stokes and Robin Gauld

Understanding eating choices among university students: A study using data from cafeteria cashiers’ transactions pp. 665-673

Valentina Lorenzoni, Isotta Triulzi, Irene Martinucci, Letizia Toncelli, Michela Natilli, Roberto Barale and Giuseppe Turchetti

Volume 125, issue 4, 2021

Emerging electronic cigarette policies in European member states, Canada, and the United States pp. 425-435

L. Morgan Snell, Nicole Nicksic, Dimitra Panteli, Sara Burke, Thomas Eissenberg, Giovanni Fattore, Charmaine Gauci, Helena Koprivnikar, Liuba Murauskiene, Marge Reinap and Andrew J. Barnes

A longitudinal study on public policy and the health of in-house caregivers in Europe pp. 436-441

Laia Calvó-Perxas, Joan Vilalta-Franch, Howard Litwin, Pedro Mira and Josep Garre-Olmo

Factors that influence specialist physician preferences for fee-for-service and salary-based payment models: A qualitative study pp. 442-449

Yewande Kofoworola Ogundeji, Amity Quinn, Meaghan Lunney, Christy Chong, Derek Chew, George Danso, Shelly Duggan, Alun Edwards, Gareth Hopkin, Peter Senior, Glen Sumner, Jennifer Williams and Braden Manns

Does an alignment of employment policies and individual preferences affect intention to stay in the profession? Evidence from Canadian Midwives pp. 450-458

Farimah HakemZadeh, Firat K. Sayin, Elena Neiterman, Isik Urla Zeytinoglu, Johanna Geraci, Jennifer Plenderleith and Derek Lobb

Burnout of intrinsically motivated GPs when exposed to external regulation pp. 459-466

Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Elisabeth Assing Hvidt, Frans Boch Waldorff and Merethe Kousgaard Andersen

How the organisation of medical work shapes the everyday work experiences underpinning doctor migration trends: The case of Irish-trained emigrant doctors in Australia pp. 467-473

John-Paul Byrne, Edel Conway, Aoife M. McDermott, Anne Matthews, Lucia Prihodova, Richard W. Costello and Niamh Humphries

Conditions for successful interprofessional collaboration in integrated care – Lessons from a primary care setting in Denmark pp. 474-481

Andreas Nielsen Hald, Mickael Bech and Viola Burau

Senior clinical and business managers’ perspectives on the influence of different funding mechanisms, and barriers and enablers to implementing models of employing General Practitioners in or alongside emergency departments: Qualitative study pp. 482-488

Mazhar Choudhry, Michelle Edwards, Alison Cooper, Pippa Anderson, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Matthew Cooke, Jeremy Dale, Peter Hibbert, Thomas Hughes, Alison Porter, Timothy Rainer, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena and Adrian Edwards

Dutch shared savings program targeted at primary care: Reduced expenditures in its first year pp. 489-494

Arthur Hayen, Michael Jack van den Berg, Jeroen Nathan Struijs and Westert (Gert), Gerard Pieter

Challenges facing primary health care in federated government systems: Implementation of Primary Health Networks in Australian states and territories pp. 495-503

Toby Freeman, Fran Baum, Sara Javanparast, Anna Ziersch, Tamara Mackean and Alice Windle

Do access, quality and cost of general practice affect emergency department use? pp. 504-511

Anton Pak and Brenda Gannon

The shift from inpatient care to outpatient care in Switzerland since 2017: Policy processes and the role of evidence pp. 512-519

Aron Baumann and Kaspar Wyss

Concentrating stroke care provision in the Czech Republic: The establishment of Stroke Centres in 2011 has led to improved outcomes pp. 520-525

Lucie Bryndová, Michal Bar, Roman Herzig, Robert Mikulík, Jiří Neumann, Daniel Šaňák, Ondřej Škoda, David Školoudík, Daniel Václavík and Aleš Tomek

Assessing the future direction of sustainable development in public hospitals: Time-horizon, path and action pp. 526-534

Rocío Rodríguez, Göran Svensson and Carlos Ferro

Using newspaper obituaries to “nowcast” daily mortality: Evidence from the Italian COVID-19 hot-spots pp. 535-540

Paolo Buonanno and Marcello Puca

Italian responses to the COVID-19 emergency: Overthrowing 30 years of health reforms? pp. 548-552

Marianna Mauro and Monica Giancotti

Volume 125, issue 3, 2021

Sláintecare implementation status in 2020: Limited progress with entitlement expansion pp. 277-283

Steve Thomas, Bridget Johnston, Sarah Barry, Rikke Siersbaek and Sara Burke

The 2019 introduction of the new National Healthcare System in Cyprus pp. 284-289

Panagiotis Petrou

The 2017 Primary Health Care (PHC) reform in Greece: Improving access despite economic and professional constraints? pp. 290-295

Maria Emmanouilidou

Reimbursement models to tackle market failures for antimicrobials: Approaches taken in France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States pp. 296-306

Dzintars Gotham, Lorenzo Moja, Maarten van der Heijden, Sarah Paulin, Ingrid Smith and Peter Beyer

Uncertainty tolerance among experts involved in drug reimbursement recommendations: Qualitative evidence from HTA committees in Canada and Poland pp. 307-319

Wiesława Dominika Wranik, Liesl Gambold and Stuart Peacock

Financial payments made by pharmaceutical companies to the authors of Japanese hematology clinical practice guidelines between 2016 and 2017 pp. 320-326

Kayo Harada, Akihiko Ozaki, Hiroaki Saito, Toyoaki Sawano, Kana Yamamoto, Anju Murayama, Yuki Senoo and Tetsuya Tanimoto

A survey of Australian public attitudes towards funding of high cost cancer medicines pp. 327-334

Narcyz Ghinea, Christine Critchley, Bronwen Morrell, Ian Kerridge, Terry Campbell, Richard Day, Madlen Gazarian, David Isaacs, Winston Liauw, Ian Olver, Jessica Pace, Sallie Pearson, Glenn Salkeld and Wendy Lipworth

Impact of a risk-sharing agreement in rheumatoid arthritis in Spain pp. 335-340

Carlos Gustavo García-Collado, Juan Enrique Martínez-de-la-Plata, María del Mar Maldonado Montoro, Alberto Jiménez Morales, Miguel Ángel Calleja Hernández and Fernando Martínez Martínez

Gaps in coverage and access in the European Union pp. 341-350

Willy Palm, Erin Webb, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Giada Scarpetti, Suszy Lessof, Luigi Siciliani and Ewout van Ginneken

Integration of health services for the elderly in Asia: A scoping review of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia pp. 351-362

Alex Jingwei He and Vivien F.Y. Tang

The impact of cash-for-care schemes on the uptake of community-based and residential care: A systematic review pp. 363-374

Eva Pattyn, Amber Werbrouck, Paul Gemmel and Jeroen Trybou

Interventions promoting employee “speaking-up” within healthcare workplaces: A systematic narrative review of the international literature pp. 375-384

Aled Jones, Joanne Blake, Mary Adams, Daniel Kelly, Russell Mannion and Jill Maben

Addressing perinatal health inequities in Dutch municipalities: Protocol for the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All-3 programme pp. 385-392

Lisa S. Barsties, Leonie A. Daalderop, Jacqueline Lagendijk, Frank van Steenbergen, Jasper V. Been, Loes C.M. Bertens, Adja J.M. Waelput, Hanneke van Zoest, Derk Loorbach and Eric A.P. Steegers

Health assessment for migrants and asylum seekers upon arrival and while hosted in reception centres: Italian guidelines pp. 393-405

Maria Elena Tosti, Maurizio Marceca, Erica Eugeni, D’Angelo, Franca, Salvatore Geraci, Silvia Declich, Maurella Della Seta, Luigina Ferrigno, Rosalia Marrone, Chiara Pajno, Scilla Pizzarelli, Annalisa Rosso, Giulia De Ponte, Concetta Mirisola and Giovanni Baglio

Private choices, public costs: Evaluating cost-shifting between private and public health sectors in New Zealand pp. 406-414

Erin Penno, Trudy Sullivan, Dave Barson and Robin Gauld

Should I care for my mum or for my kid? Sandwich generation and depression burden in Italy pp. 415-423

Elenka Brenna

Volume 125, issue 2, 2021

Alternatives to sharing COVID-19 data with law enforcement: Recommendations for stakeholders pp. 135-140

Stephen Molldrem, Mustafa I. Hussain and Alexander McClelland

COVID-19: R0 is lower where outbreak is larger pp. 141-147

Pietro Battiston and Simona Gamba

Population density index and its use for distribution of Covid-19: A case study using Turkish data pp. 148-154

Onur Baser

Frequency of nasopharyngeal swab collection and positivity for SARS-CoV-2 infection in the population of the Italian province of Udine with and without chronic conditions pp. 155-159

Francesca Valent, Giada Mazzilis, Anna Doimo and Corrado Pipan

Assessing primary care organization and performance: Literature synthesis and proposition of a consolidated framework pp. 160-167

Nicolas Senn, Mylaine Breton, Sonja T. Ebert, Catherine Lamoureux-Lamarche and Jean-Frédéric Lévesque

The role of the state in financing and regulating primary care in Europe: a taxonomy pp. 168-176

Ana Belén Espinosa-González, Brendan C. Delaney, Joachim Marti and Ara Darzi

Community participation and empowerment in primary health care in Emilia-Romagna: A document analysis study pp. 177-184

Daniela Luisi and Kerstin Hämel

Testing the 2017 PHC reform through pilots: Strengthening prevention and chronic care coordination pp. 185-190

Katarzyna Badora-Musiał, Anna Sagan, Alicja Domagała and Iwona Kowalska-Bobko

Impact of interprofessional collaboration on chronic disease management: Findings from a systematic review of clinical trial and meta-analysis pp. 191-202

Domenico Pascucci, Michele Sassano, Mario Cesare Nurchis, Michela Cicconi, Anna Acampora, Daejun Park, Carmen Morano and Gianfranco Damiani

Assessing the readiness of Turkish health information systems for integrating genetic/genomic patient data: System architecture and available terminologies, legislative, and protection of personal data pp. 203-212

Ayhan Serkan Şık, Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu and Yeşim Aydın Son

Cancer care at home or in local health centres versus in hospital: Public policy goals and patients’ preferences in the Rhône-Alps region in France pp. 213-220

Jennifer Margier, Amiram Gafni and Nora Moumjid

Creating a priority list of non-communicable diseases to support health research funding decision-making pp. 221-228

Saeideh Babashahi, Paul Hansen and Trudy Sullivan

From individual behaviour strategies to sustainable food systems: Countering the obesity and non communicable diseases epidemic in New Zealand pp. 229-238

Radilaite Cammock, Tonumaipe’a, Daysha, Cath Conn, Sa’uLilo, Losi, El-Shadan Tautolo and Shoba Nayar

What components are important for effective healthcare alliance governance? Findings from a modified Delphi study in New Zealand pp. 239-245

Adeel Akmal and Robin Gauld

An innovative approach to identify past exposure to asbestos integrating questionnaire information and administrative data pp. 246-253

Luca Fontana, Stefania Massari, Patrick Maisonneuve, Benedetta Persechino, Alessandro Marinaccio, Cristiano Rampinelli, Lorenzo Spaggiari, Giulia Veronesi and Sergio Iavicoli

Effect of Strict and Soft Policy Interventions on Laboratory Diagnostic Testing in Ontario, Canada: A Bayesian Structural Time Series Analysis pp. 254-260

Nadine Chami, Yin Li, Sharada Weir, James G. Wright and Jasmin Kantarevic

Smoking and income distribution: Inequalities in new and old products pp. 261-268

Giovanni Carnazza, Paolo Liberati, Giuliano Resce and Sabrina Molinaro

Employment Vulnerability of People With Severe Mental Illness pp. 269-275

Akissi S. Diby, Pascale Lengagne and Camille Regaert

Volume 125, issue 1, 2021

The 2019 Health Basic Law in Portugal: Political arguments from the left and right pp. 1-6

Jorge Simões, Inês Fronteira and Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto

The 2017 Italian reform on mandatory childhood vaccinations: Analysis of the policy process and early implementation pp. 7-11

Mattia Casula and Federico Toth

Implications of the 2018 Canadian Cannabis Act: Should regulation differ for medicinal and non-medicinal cannabis use?⋆ pp. 12-16

Chelsea Cox

2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK pp. 17-21

Jordan A Parsons and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

A decade of public long-term care insurance in South Korea: Policy lessons for aging countries pp. 22-26

Hongsoo Kim and Soonman Kwon

Effects of the reform of the Dutch healthcare into managed competition: Results of a Delphi study among experts pp. 27-33

Hein de Vries, Jos Vahl, Jean Muris, Silvia Evers, Henriëtte van der Horst and Kei Long Cheung

Who contextualises clinical epidemiological evidence? A political analysis of the problem of evidence-based medicine in the layered Dutch healthcare system pp. 34-40

Martijn Felder, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Willem Jan Meerding and Antoinette de Bont

Does independent needs assessment limit use of publicly financed long-term care? pp. 41-46

Pieter Bakx, Rudy Douven and Frederik T. Schut

Informal help in a local setting: The Dutch Social Support Act in practice pp. 47-53

Eline Berkers, Mariëlle Cloïn and Ioana Pop

A systematic review of economic evaluations of public health interventions targeting alcohol, tobacco, illicit drug use and problematic gambling: Using a case study to assess transferability pp. 54-74

Camilla Nystrand, Mihretab Gebreslassie, Richard Ssegonja, Inna Feldman and Filipa Sampaio

Effects of cigarette price increase on fresh food expenditures of low-income South Korean households that spend relatively more on cigarettes pp. 75-82

Hyun Joung Jin and Sung Min Cho

The reimagination of sustainable integrated care in Ontario, Canada pp. 83-89

Gayathri Embuldeniya, Jennifer Gutberg and Walter P. Wodchis

The impact of the health-care sector on national economies in selected European countries pp. 90-97

Timotej Jagrič, Christine Brown, Tammy Boyce and Vita Jagrič

Financial incentives and patient selection: Hospital physicians’ views on cream skimming and economic management focus in Norway pp. 98-103

Gjertrud Hole Kjøstolfsen, Janusha Baheerathan, Pål E. Martinussen and Jon Magnussen

Systems medicine 2030: A Delphi study on implementation in the German healthcare system pp. 104-114

Clarissa Lemmen, Christiane Woopen and Stephanie Stock

An overview of health policies for asylum-seekers in Germany pp. 115-121

Nora Gottlieb and Mirjam Schülle

Personalised medicine and the state: A political discourse analysis pp. 122-129

Viola Burau, Nina Nissen, Morten Deleuran Terkildsen and Ulla Væggemose