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Policy Actors’ Perceptions of Conflicts of Interest and Alcohol Industry Engagement in UK Policy Processes
Background  Alcohol industry organisations occupy a prominent position in UK alcohol policy, but their involvement has bee...
Health Insurance Schemes and Their Influences on Healthcare Variation in Asian Countries: A Realist Review and Theory’s Testing in Thailand
Background  Various features in health insurance schemes may lead to variation in health care. Unwarranted variations rais...
Intersectoral Partnerships Between Local Governments and Health Organisations in High-Income Contexts: A Scoping Review
Background  Local governments are the closest level of government to the communities they serve. Traditionally providing r...
Institutional Priority-Setting for Novel Drugs and Therapeutics: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Background  There is a lack of guidance on approaches to formulary management and funding for high-cost drugs and therapeu...
Barriers and Opportunities for WHO ‘Best Buys’ Non-Communicable Disease Policy Adoption and Implementation From a Political Economy Perspective: A Complexity Systematic Review
Background  Improving the adoption and implementation of policies to curb non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major chal...
Costing Interventions for Developing an Essential Package of Health Services: Application of a Rapid Method and Results From Pakistan
BackgroundThe Federal Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (MNHSR&C) in Pakistan has com...
Delivery and Prioritization of Surgical Care in Canada During COVID-19: An Environmental Scan
Background  During COVID-19 healthcare systems had to make concessions to make room for the surge of COVID-19 patients req...
Long-term Care Insurance and Health and Perceived Satisfaction of Older Chinese: Comparisons Between Urban/Rural Areas, Chronic Conditions, and Their Intersectionality
Background  Evidence of the impact of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on health and wellbeing has predominantly come from ...
Predictors of Mothers’ Care Seeking Behavior for Common Childhood Illnesses: Findings From the Afghanistan Health Survey 2015
Background  Mothers’ care seeking behavior for childhood illness is a key factor of utilizing healthcare for children. We ...
New Zealand Pae Ora Healthcare Reforms 2022: Viable by Design? A qualitative Study using the Viable System Model
Background The New Zealand (NZ) Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) health reforms came into effect in July 2022 with the establishm...
How to Design Integrated Strategies to Improve Healthcare Quality Whilst Containing Healthcare Costs? A Response to the Recent Commentaries
Wackers, E., Stadhouders, N., Heil, A., van Dulmen, S., Jeurissen, P. (2023). 'How to Design Integrated Strategies to...
Doing Health Policy Analysis: The Enduring Relevance of Simple Models; Comment on “Modelling the Health Policy process: One Size Fits All or Horses for Courses”
The analysis of health policy processes in low and middle income countries (LMICs) emerged as a research area in the early...
Supporting Youth Participation in Health and Climate Justice Through Advocacy Training; Comment on “Between Rhetoric and Reality: Learnings From Youth Participation in the Adolescent and Youth Health Policy in South Africa”
This paper responds to lessons from the Adolescent and Youth Health Policy (AYHP) process in South Africa by drawing compa...
Assessing Global Evidence on Cost-Effectiveness to Inform Development of Pakistan’s Essential Package of Health Services
Background  Countries designing a health benefit package (HBP) to support progress towards universal health coverage (UHC)...
Patients’ and Care Professionals’ Evaluation of the Effect of a Hospital Group on Integrated Care in Chinese Urban Health Systems: A Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Differences Regression Approach
Background  A hospital group is an organizational integration strategy that has recently been widely implemented in Chines...
Predictors of Mothers’ Care Seeking Behaviour for Common Childhood Illnesses: Findings From the Afghanistan Health Survey 2015
Background Mothers’ care seeking behavior for childhood illness is a key factor of utilizing healthcare for children. We e...
The Use of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for Designing the Essential Package of Health Services in Pakistan
Background  The Disease Control Priorities 3 (DCP3) project provides long-term support to Pakistan in the development and ...
The Experiences of Strategic Purchasing of Healthcare in Nine Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Qualitative Review
Background  Efforts to move towards universal health coverage (UHC) aim to rebalance health financing in ways that increas...
Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency
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The Experiences of Strategic Purchasing of Healthcare in Nine MiddleIncome Countries: A Systematic Qualitative Review
Background Efforts to move towards universal health coverage (UHC) aim to increase efficiency, equity, and quality. Resour...
Addressing the UHC Challenge Using the Disease Control Priorities 3 Approach: Lessons Learned and an Overview of the Pakistan Experience
Background Pakistan developed its first national Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) as a key step towards acceler...
Adaptive Mechanisms of Health Zones to Chronic Traumatic Events in Eastern DRC: A Multiple Case Study
Background  The Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been affected by armed conflict for several yea...
How to Build Healthy Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Relevant Conceptual Frameworks
Background As the Sustainable Development Goals deadline of 2030 draws near, greater attention is being given to health be...
What Are Healthy Societies? A Thematic Analysis of Relevant Conceptual Frameworks
Background While support for the idea of fostering healthy societies is longstanding, there is a gap in the literature on ...
Health System Considerations for Community-Based Implementation of Automated Respiratory Counters to Identify Childhood Pneumonia in 5 Regions of Ethiopia: A Qualitative Study
BackgroundIn Ethiopia, childhood pneumonia is diagnosed in primary health care settings by measuring respiratory rate (RR)...
Factors Associated With Emergency Department Visits Among Patients Receiving Publicly-Funded Homecare Services: A Retrospective Chart Review From Southern Taiwan Regional Hospital
Background  The public health strategy of increasing access to comprehensive home or community-based healthcare services a...
Benchmarking Drug Regulatory Systems for Capacity Building: An Integrative Review of Tools, Practice and Recommendations
BackgroundBenchmarking has been increasingly used on drug regulatory systems to achieve sustainable pharmaceutical system ...
Examining the Long-term Spillover Effects of a Pay-forPerformance Program in a Healthcare System That Lacks Referral Arrangements
Background  Several studies have examined the intended effects of pay-for-performance (P4P) programs, yet little is known ...
Implementation of Medicines Pricing Policies in Ghana: The Interplay of Policy Content, Actors’ Participation, and Context
Background  Implementing medicines pricing policy effectively is important for ensuring equitable access to essential medi...
How the Stringency of the COVID-19 Restrictions Influences Motivation for Adherence and Well-Being: The Critical Role of Proportionality
Background  The stringency of the measures taken by governments to combat the COVID-19 pandemic varied considerably across...
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