Health Policy

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The analogue substitution model: Introducing competition in the absence of generic substitution in Danish hospitals	184
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Strategic workforce planning in health and social care – an international perspective: A scoping review	113
Exploring the reasons behind low COVID-19 vaccination coverage in ethnic minorities–A qualitative study among Arabic-speaking public in Denmark	88
Immigrants’ self-perceived barriers to healthcare: A systematic review of quantitative evidence in European countries	73
Assessing patients’ acceptable and realised distances to determine accessibility standards for the size of catchment areas in outpatient care	71
Commentary on “The learning rehabilitation system: Strengthening an intersectoral strategy to improve functioning of an ageing population” by Bickenbach et al.	66
Evaluation of a national e-booking system for medical consultation in primary care in a universal health system	61
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	60
Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees: A comparison of nine north-western European countries	58
Should we screen for lung cancer? A 10-country analysis identifying key decision-making factors	58
Physicians’ responses to time pressure: Experimental evidence on treatment quality and documentation behaviour	56
Private provision of health services in Ukraine: A qualitative exploration of current policy challenges, and considerations for reform	52
The effect of a nighttime curfew on the spread of COVID-19	50
Does default organ donation registration compromise autonomous choice? Public responses to a new donor registration system	47
The impact of C-level positions on hospital performance: A scoping review of top management team outcomes	47
Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: A longitudinal study in Hungary	44
The launch of the EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA): Improving global pandemic preparedness?	43
Which factors influence the decision of hospitals to provide procedures on an outpatient basis? –Mixed-methods evidence from Germany	43
The ethics of behaviour-based insurance models: Solidarity-based concerns in Germany's statutory health insurance	43
Romania’s 2025 guide for health workforce attraction and retention: Bridging global strategies and local realities	39
Sources of specialist physician fee variation: Evidence from Australian health insurance claims data	38
Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia's universal health care system: A national linked data study	37

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Policy innovation in voluntary hospital private health insurance: Combining risk adjustment and risk sharing in Australia	35
A population-based exploration of immigrants undergoing general surgery procedures in British Columbia: Do immigrants present for emergency surgeries more than non-immigrants?	35
Effectiveness of pay for performance to non-physician health care providers: A systematic review	34
Decision making under deep uncertainty for pandemic policy planning	33
Mental health of Australian frontline nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a large national survey	32
Impact of implementation timing on the effectiveness of stay-at-home requirement under the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from the Italian Case	32
Towards population-based payment models in a multiple-payer system: the case of the Netherlands	31
The resistance toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps: A study of psychological reactance among young adults in Italy	30
Regarding caregivers’ willingness to pay for digital support services: Comparative survey	30
The impact of changing the reference countries on the list prices for patented medicines in Canada: A policy analysis	30
COVID-19 vaccinations: An overview of the Italian national health system's online communication from a citizen perspective	30
The use of social return on investment approaches to evaluate integrated long-term care in high-income countries: A scoping review	29
Do international medical graduates’ recruitment policies help to overcome healthcare shortage areas in developed countries? A systematic review	29
Gendered employment trajectories and later life health in liberal regime countries: A quantitative study in the United States, England, Switzerland and Chile	28
Tensions and opportunities in the roles of senior public health officials in Canada: A qualitative study	28
Freedom of choice and health services’ performance: Evidence from a national health system	27
The case for individualised public health interventions: Smoking prevalence and inequalities in Northern Ireland 1985-2015	27
Could hospitals operating through a value-based healthcare policy overcome potential management drawbacks in European healthcare?	26
Towards effective policy measures to reduce informal payments in healthcare: addressing sample selection bias and measurement error in surveys	25
Service-, needs-, and quality-based hospital capacity planning – The evolution of a revolution in Switzerland	25
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Improving health and sustainability: Patterns of red and processed meat consumption across generations	25
Europeanization of health policy in post-communist European societies: Comparison of six Western Balkan countries	25
A critical review of methodologies used in pharmaceutical pricing policy analyses	23
Erratum Regarding Previously Published Articles	23
Advancing international comparison of pharmaceutical industry funding of patient advocacy: Focus on Denmark	23
Barriers to Responsiveness and Provision of Dignified care: A qualitative study of Israeli Physicians	23
Shall we call for a doctor? How to build trust toward AI in healthcare: Insights from a Polish cross-sectional preference study	23
RSV prevention options for infants and older adults: A specific expanding competitive arena	22
Provision of community health services and use of hospital care in England: Nationwide retrospective observational study	22
Cervical cancer in Bulgaria since EU accession in 2007: a struggle in the face of political instability	22
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Lived experience of out-of-pocket costs of health care and medicines by people with chronic conditions and their families in Australia: a systematic review of the qualitative literature	22
Making recommendations to subsidize new health technologies in Australia: A qualitative study of decision-makers’ perspectives on committee processes	21
Centralizing and decentralizing governance in the COVID-19 pandemic: The politics of credit and blame	21
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	21
The development of a discrete choice experiment: Investigating pharmacy selection in New Zealand	20
Munich goes viral: Measuring the impact of the Oktoberfest on COVID-19 infection rates using difference-in-differences	20
‘Accident and emergency’? Exploring the reasons for increased privatisation in England's NHS	20
The role of health and health systems in promoting social capital, political participation and peace: A narrative review	20
Communication difficulties and strategies in migrant mental healthcare: A European survey of health and social care professionals	20
Feeling lonely? Preferences for support programmes to reduce loneliness among older adults in Australia: A discrete choice experiment	19
Mental health between present issues and future expectations	19
Should the governance of individual treatment attempts (“Individuelle Heilversuche”) include praxis evaluation? Results from qualitative stakeholder interviews.	19
Mortality risk factors in Catalonia’s long-term care system: A population-based survival analysis	19
Accounting for morbidity in capitation payments: A person-based workload formula for primary medical care in England	18
Women's choices of hospital for breast cancer surgery in Italy: Quality and equity implications	18
The contested authority of international institutions in global health	18
Frameworks, theories and models used in the development of health policies: A systematic review of systematic reviews	17

What are the policy options for regulating private equity involvement in health care? A review of policies implemented or considered in seven high-income countries	17
Market diffusion of biosimilars in off-patent biologic drug markets across Europe	17
Effects of cost sharing on long-term care service utilization among home-dwelling older adults in Japan	17
Is there a bias in patient choices for hospital care? Evidence from three Italian regional health systems	16
Factors influencing eHealth adoption among healthcare users in Türkiye: A stepwise logistic regression analysis	16
Satisfaction with primary health care in Ukraine in 2016–2020: A difference-in-differences analysis on repeated cross-sectional data	16
Community pharmacists as vaccinators in the Italian SARS-CoV-2 immunization campaign: implications beyond the pandemic	16
Pancreatic cancer mortality and associated productivity losses in Spain: A population-based estimate (2013–2022)	16
Cross-border healthcare collaborations in Europe (2007–2017): Moving towards a European Health Union?	16
How does nudging the COVID-19 vaccine play out in people who are in doubt about vaccination?	16
Would universal general practitioner care impact Irish adolescents’ utilisation?	15
Risky restrictions? Mobility restriction effects on risk awareness and anxiety	15
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Income-related inequality in smoking habits: A comparative assessment in the European Union	14
Multiple job holding and its influencing factors among Belgian nurses: A cross-sectional study	14
Scaling up integrated care: Can community hospitals be an answer? A multiple-case study from the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy	14
Assessing the equity and coverage policy sensitivity of financial protection indicators in Europe	14
Promoting outpatient medication safety in Finland: A mid-term review of a national medication safety programme for community pharmacies (2021–2026)	14
Does financial incentive for diabetes management in the primary care setting reduce avoidable hospitalizations and mortality in high-income countries? A systematic review	14
Effects of giving psychologists prescriptive authority: Evidence from a natural experiment in the United States	14
Patient expectations do matter - Experimental evidence on antibiotic prescribing decisions among hospital-based physicians	14
Pharmaceutical net price transparency across european markets: Insights from a multi-agent simulation model	14
Survey data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Recommendations for an improved data collection infrastructure	14
Common institutional ownership and the erosion of competition in the American health insurance market: A quantitative analysis	14
Healthcare utilization patterns for knee and hip osteoarthritis before and after changes in national health insurance coverage: a data linkage study from the Netherlands	14
Integrated care in the Baltic countries over a five-year period: an expert-informed cross-country analysis of progress, challenges and future directions	14
Comparative analysis of tuberculosis management in Indigenous North Canada and Alaska, USA from 1950s to 2019	13
HTA criteria adopted in different models of public healthcare systems for orphan drugs: A scoping review	13
Lessons learned from the Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative for future risk-sharing and managed access agreements for pharmaceutical and advanced therapies in Canada	13
Development of a practical framework and indicators for monitoring integrated long-term health and care needs and service use	13
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	13
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Perspectives from gambling expert stakeholders in relation to electronic gaming machines in New Zealand	13
Factors influencing the experience of empowerment in Flemish (proxy) budget holders: A regression analysis	13
New government, old habits? The opportunity for a turning point in prevention health policies in Germany is now!	13
Variations and inequities in access to cardiac diagnostic services in Ontario Canada	13
Priority setting in times of crises: an analysis of priority setting for the COVID-19 response in the Western Pacific Region	13
Exploring differences in performance management across public and private providers in primary care: Evidence from Finland and Sweden	13
Policy recommendations for healthcare authorities, organizations and professionals on vaccine hesitancy in Europe: From evidence to practice	13
How COVID-19 illness perceptions and individual shocks are associated with trust during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa	13
The impact of primary care networks on emergency hospitalisations in the English NHS: An interrupted time series analysis	13
Determinants of time to access to EMA-approved cancer drugs in Spanish NHS in the past decade: a two cohorts study	13
Loneliness in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Policies and strategies to control antimicrobial resistance in livestock production: A comparative analysis of national action plans in European Union Member States	13
General Practitioners activity patterns: the medium-term impacts of Primary Care Teams in France	13
Exploring financial challenges of students and early-career professionals working in the healthcare sector: A scoping review	13
Nurse-led models of care and their potential to improve primary healthcare for refugees in Germany: A qualitative multiple-case study	13
How do HTA agencies perceive conditional approval of medicines? Evidence from England, Scotland, France and Canada	13
Methodological approaches to measuring mental health in a cost-of-living crisis: A rapid review	12
Strengthening diagnostic services in Latin America requires regional leadership, sustainable funding, and enhanced data sharing	12
Long-term public healthcare burden associated with intimate partner violence among Canadian women: A cohort study	12
A good start for all children: Integrating early-life course medical and social care through Solid Start, the Netherlands’ nationwide action programme	12
Early access programs for medical devices in France: Overview of recent reforms and outcomes (2015-2022)	12
A systematic review of policies regulating or removing mark-ups in the pharmaceutical supply and distribution chain	12
Measuring the importance of different barriers to opioid agonist treatment using best-worst scaling in an Australian setting	12
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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	11
How do busy hospital circumstances affect mortality and readmission within 60 days: A cohort study of 680 000 acute admissions in Norway	11
30 years of primary health care reforms in Estonia: The role of financial incentives to achieve a multidisciplinary primary health care system	11
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How do strategy, scanning, and assessment shape decision-making on technologies in hospitals? insights from a qualitative study in Dutch hospitals	11
Variation in attendance at emergency departments in England across local areas: A system under unequal pressure	11
Social innovation management to support integrated care: Insights from an Italian revelatory case study	11
Disparities in the organisation of national healthcare systems for treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe	11
Health workforce resilience in the age of polycrisis: A framework to support health workforce policy and planning	10
Backlogs, waiting times and waiting lists of elective surgeries across OECD countries	10
The impact of physician exits in primary care: A study of practice handovers	10
New Zealand's world-first smokefree legislation 'goes up in smoke': A setback in ending the tobacco epidemic	10
Evaluation of the implementation experiences of the Hungarian integrated care coordination pilot	10
‘Uncharted territory’: The experiences of health and social care practitioners in a multi-agency collaboration to support integrated service provision for children and young people in a disadvantaged	10
Theories, models and frameworks for health systems integration. A scoping review	10
Are long-term care systems aligned with person-centered integrated care? Evidence from the Western Pacific	10
The impact of benefits coverage expansion of social health insurance: Evidence from Korea	10
The role of private equity funds in healthcare: trends, impact and policy responses	10
The social media turn in medicine: platform-based marketization of health care, ethics, professionalism, and lessons from Turkey	10
Urban–rural disparities in hospital admissions for depression in Austria	10
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression in older adults: A panel data analysis	10
European countries' responses in ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity during the first COVID-19 wave	9
Availability of primary care and avoidable attendance at English emergency departments: A regression analysis	9

Price regulation and competition among on-patent anticancer drugs in Italy	9
Addressing the challenge of post-approval regulation of pharmaceuticals: The case for independent third-party evaluations	9
COVID-19 and healthcare worker mental well-being: Comparative case studies on interventions in six countries	9
Preconditions for efficiency and affordability in competitive healthcare markets: Are they fulfilled in Belgium, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and Switzerland? Ten years later	9
Developing the 2020-2030 mental health strategy for Malta: Addressing the needs of a small island state undergoing rapid socioeconomic transition	9
Individual performance-based incentives for health care workers in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries: a systematic literature review	9
Drug company methodologies used for reporting in the UK pharmaceutical industry payment transparency database between 2015 and 2019: A content analysis	9
The introduction of maximum reimbursement prices for digital health applications in Germany in 2022: Current developments	9
The Impact of reference pricing on prescribing patterns, costs, and health services utilization of proton pump inhibitors: A quasi-experimental study in British Columbia, Canada	9
Association between socioeconomic disadvantage and low-value care in acute care hospitals in Japan: Cross-sectional study	9
Implementation of the European health data space: a qualitative study on expectations of health data experts from 23 countries	9
Alignment and authority: Federalism, social policy, and COVID-19 response	9
A historical overview of policy perspectives towards informal care in Taiwan (1996-2023)	8
Twenty years evaluating the health impact of urban policies in the city of Barcelona	8
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	8
The second Trump administration: A policy analysis of challenges and opportunities for European health policymakers	8
Evaluating whole system reforms: A structured approach for selecting multiple outcomes	8
The transition towards community-based mental health care in the European Union: Current realities and prospects	8
What matters most to the population in case of chronic conditions? Results from a discrete choice experiment in Italy	8
The 2017 reform to medical specialty training in Czechia: Exploring student career preferences	8
Healthcare workforce distribution during multiple crises: a 12-year analysis of physician allocation, retention and equity patterns in Turkey	8
Valuing health system resilience: The limits of conventional economic evaluation under catastrophic risk	8
Using outcome measures in sub-national level performance management: When and under what circumstances?	8
Mitigating health policy fragmentation through interlocks. The networks between American and Swiss public-private partnerships	8
Regarding the Swedish model for prioritizing research on the use of antibiotics: Aligning public funding with research gaps	8
A review of the sustainability of vaccine funding across Europe and implications for post-COVID policymaking	8
Understanding the impact of minimum staff level policies on the ward nursing team: Insights from a qualitative research study conducted in Germany	8
Has public support for solidarity in healthcare financing in the Netherlands changed over time? A repeated cross-sectional study	7
The role of EU funds in capital investment for health-care: a case study of Estonia's approach to provider network transformation 2004-2024	7
Regulatory approaches towards AI Medical Devices: A comparative study of the United States, the European Union and China	7
How and why do health system factors influence general dentists’ participation in publicly funded, contracted primary dental care services: A realist review	7
Promoting early-intervention for suicide prevention: The role of mental health literacy and attitudes towards suicide: A quantitative study in Ireland.	7
Germany's Path to a National Kidney Exchange Program: An Assessment of the 2024 Legislative Proposal	7
A comparison of 2020 health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America	7
On “Inequality in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake”	7
The role of private equity in the German outpatient sector	7
Don't stand so close to me: Perceptions of others’ compliance with COVID-19 recommendations and support for strict policy measures in Norway	7
Virtual clinics versus face-to-face review: Is the benefit the same for new orthopaedic patients?	7
A comparative assessment of action plans on antimicrobial resistance from OECD and G20 countries using natural language processing	7
High health system performance, low health system resilience: Navigating vulnerability – an illustrative example using Small and Island States	7
The use of patient-reported outcome and experience measures for health policy purposes: A scoping review in oncology	7
Co-developing an inclusive interprofessional health workforce minimum data standard for enhanced planning and decision-making: A Canadian case with international relevance	7
Lessons learned from a pay-for-performance scheme for appropriate prescribing using electronic health records from general practices in the Netherlands	7
The use intention of hospital report cards among patients in the presence or absence of patient-reported outcomes	7
Gender diversity and healthcare performance: A quantitative analysis from the Italian health system	7
Barriers and facilitators of meaningful patient participation at the collective level in healthcare organizations: A systematic review	7
Evaluating engagement with equity in Canadian provincial and territorial primary care policies: Results of a jurisdictional scan	7
Corrigendum to ’ Same Day Discharge Strategy by Default in a Tertiary Catheterization Laboratory. Value Based Healthcare-Change in Practice.’ [Health Policy, Volume 132, June 2023, 104826, ISSN 0168-8	7
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Fragmentation of Health Benefits Plans in Chile: Findings from a comparative policy analysis and implications for advancing Universal Health Coverage	7
Preferences of older adults for healthcare models designed to improve care coordination: Evidence from Western Switzerland	7
Identifying the most effective policies for minimising inappropriate use of antibiotics: A replicability study using three WHO datasets	7
Corrigendum to “Mitigating the regressivity of private mechanisms of financing healthcare: An Assessment of 29 countries” [Health Policy 143 (2024) 105058]	7
The impact of health on labour market outcomes: A rapid systematic review	7
Meso-organisational determinants of healthcare workers’ resilience: results of a scoping review	7