Health Policy

Article	Citations
Which factors influence the decision of hospitals to provide procedures on an outpatient basis? –Mixed-methods evidence from Germany	107
Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: A longitudinal study in Hungary	102
Exploring the reasons behind low COVID-19 vaccination coverage in ethnic minorities–A qualitative study among Arabic-speaking public in Denmark	102
Editorial Board	88
Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees: A comparison of nine north-western European countries	69
Incremental net benefit of whole genome sequencing for newborns and children with suspected genetic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis of cost-effectiveness evidence	63
Editorial Board	59
Evaluation of a national e-booking system for medical consultation in primary care in a universal health system	59
Editorial Board	54
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	53
The ethics of behaviour-based insurance models: Solidarity-based concerns in Germany's statutory health insurance	50
Immigrants’ self-perceived barriers to healthcare: A systematic review of quantitative evidence in European countries	45
Physicians’ responses to time pressure: Experimental evidence on treatment quality and documentation behaviour	42
The impact of C-level positions on hospital performance: A scoping review of top management team outcomes	42
Sources of specialist physician fee variation: Evidence from Australian health insurance claims data	41
Should we screen for lung cancer? A 10-country analysis identifying key decision-making factors	41
Assessing patients’ acceptable and realised distances to determine accessibility standards for the size of catchment areas in outpatient care	39
The analogue substitution model: Introducing competition in the absence of generic substitution in Danish hospitals	38
Strategic workforce planning in health and social care – an international perspective: A scoping review	37
The launch of the EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA): Improving global pandemic preparedness?	36
Commentary on “The learning rehabilitation system: Strengthening an intersectoral strategy to improve functioning of an ageing population” by Bickenbach et al.	36
The effect of a nighttime curfew on the spread of COVID-19	33
Private provision of health services in Ukraine: A qualitative exploration of current policy challenges, and considerations for reform	31
Does default organ donation registration compromise autonomous choice? Public responses to a new donor registration system	31
Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia's universal health care system: A national linked data study	30

Gendered employment trajectories and later life health in liberal regime countries: A quantitative study in the United States, England, Switzerland and Chile	30
Could hospitals operating through a value-based healthcare policy overcome potential management drawbacks in European healthcare?	30
The impact of changing the reference countries on the list prices for patented medicines in Canada: A policy analysis	29
Editorial Board	29
Do international medical graduates’ recruitment policies help to overcome healthcare shortage areas in developed countries? A systematic review	29
Impact of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse outcomes among older delayed discharge patients: Implications for healthcare policy	28
Do health insurers use target marketing as a tool for risk selection? Evidence from the Netherlands	28
Towards population-based payment models in a multiple-payer system: the case of the Netherlands	27
Effectiveness of pay for performance to non-physician health care providers: A systematic review	26
Regarding caregivers’ willingness to pay for digital support services: Comparative survey	26
Tensions and opportunities in the roles of senior public health officials in Canada: A qualitative study	25
The resistance toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps: A study of psychological reactance among young adults in Italy	25
Europeanization of health policy in post-communist European societies: Comparison of six Western Balkan countries	25
Mental health of Australian frontline nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a large national survey	24
Achieving higher performing primary care through patient registration: A review of twelve high-income countries	24
Identifying common enablers and barriers in European health information systems	24
Freedom of choice and health services’ performance: Evidence from a national health system	24
Impact of implementation timing on the effectiveness of stay-at-home requirement under the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from the Italian Case	23
COVID-19 vaccinations: An overview of the Italian national health system's online communication from a citizen perspective	23
Service-, needs-, and quality-based hospital capacity planning – The evolution of a revolution in Switzerland	23
The case for individualised public health interventions: Smoking prevalence and inequalities in Northern Ireland 1985-2015	23
Decision making under deep uncertainty for pandemic policy planning	23
Promoting innovation while controlling cost: The UK's approach to health technology assessment	21
Improving health and sustainability: Patterns of red and processed meat consumption across generations	21
A population-based exploration of immigrants undergoing general surgery procedures in British Columbia: Do immigrants present for emergency surgeries more than non-immigrants?	21
RSV prevention options for infants and older adults: A specific expanding competitive arena	20
The use of social return on investment approaches to evaluate integrated long-term care in high-income countries: A scoping review	20
Editorial Board	20
Towards effective policy measures to reduce informal payments in healthcare: addressing sample selection bias and measurement error in surveys	20
Making recommendations to subsidize new health technologies in Australia: A qualitative study of decision-makers’ perspectives on committee processes	19
Inferring a cause-effect relationship between lockdown restrictions and COVID-19 pandemic trend during the first wave	19
A critical review of methodologies used in pharmaceutical pricing policy analyses	19
Shall we call for a doctor? How to build trust toward AI in healthcare: Insights from a Polish cross-sectional preference study	19
Patients as EU citizens? The implementation and corporatist stakeholders’ perceptions of the EU cross-border health care directive in Austria	19
Advancing international comparison of pharmaceutical industry funding of patient advocacy: Focus on Denmark	18
The role of health and health systems in promoting social capital, political participation and peace: A narrative review	18
Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors’ preferences for delaying retirement	18
Strategic cost-shifting in long-term care. Evidence from the Netherlands	18
Centralizing and decentralizing governance in the COVID-19 pandemic: The politics of credit and blame	18
Erratum Regarding Previously Published Articles	18
‘Accident and emergency’? Exploring the reasons for increased privatisation in England's NHS	18
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	17
Mental health between present issues and future expectations	17
The development of a discrete choice experiment: Investigating pharmacy selection in New Zealand	17
Munich goes viral: Measuring the impact of the Oktoberfest on COVID-19 infection rates using difference-in-differences	17
Women's choices of hospital for breast cancer surgery in Italy: Quality and equity implications	17
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	17
Italian national policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia and Umbria Regions	17
Should the governance of individual treatment attempts (“Individuelle Heilversuche”) include praxis evaluation? Results from qualitative stakeholder interviews.	16
The contested authority of international institutions in global health	16

How does nudging the COVID-19 vaccine play out in people who are in doubt about vaccination?	16
Community pharmacists as vaccinators in the Italian SARS-CoV-2 immunization campaign: implications beyond the pandemic	16
Cross-border healthcare collaborations in Europe (2007–2017): Moving towards a European Health Union?	15
Satisfaction with primary health care in Ukraine in 2016–2020: A difference-in-differences analysis on repeated cross-sectional data	15
Market diffusion of biosimilars in off-patent biologic drug markets across Europe	15
Mortality risk factors in Catalonia’s long-term care system: A population-based survival analysis	14
Effects of cost sharing on long-term care service utilization among home-dwelling older adults in Japan	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
Effects of giving psychologists prescriptive authority: Evidence from a natural experiment in the United States	14
Is there a bias in patient choices for hospital care? Evidence from three Italian regional health systems	14
Accounting for morbidity in capitation payments: A person-based workload formula for primary medical care in England	14
General Practitioners activity patterns: the medium-term impacts of Primary Care Teams in France	14
Development of a practical framework and indicators for monitoring integrated long-term health and care needs and service use	14
Preferences of patients regarding community pharmacy services: A discrete choice experiment	14
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	14
Risky restrictions? Mobility restriction effects on risk awareness and anxiety	14
Scaling up integrated care: Can community hospitals be an answer? A multiple-case study from the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy	13
Financial challenges of students and early-career professionals working in the healthcare sector: A scoping review	13
Would universal general practitioner care impact Irish adolescents’ utilisation?	13
Policies and strategies to control antimicrobial resistance in livestock production: A comparative analysis of national action plans in European Union Member States	13
Editorial Board	13
Common institutional ownership and the erosion of competition in the American health insurance market: A quantitative analysis	13
Loneliness in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Exploring differences in performance management across public and private providers in primary care: Evidence from Finland and Sweden	12
Promoting outpatient medication safety in Finland: A mid-term review of a national medication safety programme for community pharmacies (2021–2026)	12
Does financial incentive for diabetes management in the primary care setting reduce avoidable hospitalizations and mortality in high-income countries? A systematic review	12
Variations and inequities in access to cardiac diagnostic services in Ontario Canada	12
Patient expectations do matter - Experimental evidence on antibiotic prescribing decisions among hospital-based physicians	12
Multiple job holding and its influencing factors among Belgian nurses: A cross-sectional study	12
Priority setting in times of crises: an analysis of priority setting for the COVID-19 response in the Western Pacific Region	12
Pharmaceutical net price transparency across european markets: Insights from a multi-agent simulation model	12
Lessons learned from the Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative for future risk-sharing and managed access agreements for pharmaceutical and advanced therapies in Canada	12
Assessing the equity and coverage policy sensitivity of financial protection indicators in Europe	12
Income-related inequality in smoking habits: A comparative assessment in the European Union	12
Policy recommendations for healthcare authorities, organizations and professionals on vaccine hesitancy in Europe: From evidence to practice	12
Factors influencing the experience of empowerment in Flemish (proxy) budget holders: A regression analysis	11
Editorial Board	11
Methodological approaches to measuring mental health in a cost-of-living crisis: A rapid review	11
A good start for all children: Integrating early-life course medical and social care through Solid Start, the Netherlands’ nationwide action programme	11
How do HTA agencies perceive conditional approval of medicines? Evidence from England, Scotland, France and Canada	11
Early access programs for medical devices in France: Overview of recent reforms and outcomes (2015-2022)	11
How COVID-19 illness perceptions and individual shocks are associated with trust during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa	11
Perspectives from gambling expert stakeholders in relation to electronic gaming machines in New Zealand	11
HTA criteria adopted in different models of public healthcare systems for orphan drugs: A scoping review	11
Comparative analysis of tuberculosis management in Indigenous North Canada and Alaska, USA from 1950s to 2019	11
Long-term public healthcare burden associated with intimate partner violence among Canadian women: A cohort study	11
A systematic review of policies regulating or removing mark-ups in the pharmaceutical supply and distribution chain	11
Interpreting forty-three-year trends of expenditures on public health in Canada: Long-run trends, temporal periods, and data differences	11
“My problems aren't severe enough to seek help”: Stress levels and use of mental health supports by Canadian hospital employees during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
New government, old habits? The opportunity for a turning point in prevention health policies in Germany is now!	11
Theories, models and frameworks for health systems integration. A scoping review	10
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	10
Disparities in the organisation of national healthcare systems for treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe	10
Editorial Board	10
An impact evaluation of the strategy for normal birth care on caesarean section rates and perinatal mortality in Spain	10
30 years of primary health care reforms in Estonia: The role of financial incentives to achieve a multidisciplinary primary health care system	10
The role of private equity funds in healthcare: trends, impact and policy responses	10
Strengthening diagnostic services in Latin America requires regional leadership, sustainable funding, and enhanced data sharing	10
Evaluation of the implementation experiences of the Hungarian integrated care coordination pilot	10
How do busy hospital circumstances affect mortality and readmission within 60 days: A cohort study of 680 000 acute admissions in Norway	10
The beginnings of health system transformation: How Ontario Health Teams are implementing change in the context of uncertainty	10
Backlogs, waiting times and waiting lists of elective surgeries across OECD countries	10
Urban–rural disparities in hospital admissions for depression in Austria	10
Social innovation management to support integrated care: Insights from an Italian revelatory case study	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
Editorial Board	10
Variation in attendance at emergency departments in England across local areas: A system under unequal pressure	10
Measuring the importance of different barriers to opioid agonist treatment using best-worst scaling in an Australian setting	10
The impact of physician exits in primary care: A study of practice handovers	9
Drug company methodologies used for reporting in the UK pharmaceutical industry payment transparency database between 2015 and 2019: A content analysis	9
Individual performance-based incentives for health care workers in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries: a systematic literature review	9
The 2017 reform to medical specialty training in Czechia: Exploring student career preferences	9
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
Alignment and authority: Federalism, social policy, and COVID-19 response	9
The introduction of maximum reimbursement prices for digital health applications in Germany in 2022: Current developments	9
Developing the 2020-2030 mental health strategy for Malta: Addressing the needs of a small island state undergoing rapid socioeconomic transition	9
A historical overview of policy perspectives towards informal care in Taiwan (1996-2023)	9
Understanding the impact of minimum staff level policies on the ward nursing team: Insights from a qualitative research study conducted in Germany	9

Twenty years evaluating the health impact of urban policies in the city of Barcelona	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
The impact of benefits coverage expansion of social health insurance: Evidence from Korea	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
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression in older adults: A panel data analysis	9
Promoting early-intervention for suicide prevention: The role of mental health literacy and attitudes towards suicide: A quantitative study in Ireland.	9
Variation in market access decisions for cell and gene therapies across the United States, Canada, and Europe	9
Implementation of the European health data space: a qualitative study on expectations of health data experts from 23 countries	9
New Zealand's world-first smokefree legislation 'goes up in smoke': A setback in ending the tobacco epidemic	9
Price regulation and competition among on-patent anticancer drugs in Italy	9
Preferences of older adults for healthcare models designed to improve care coordination: Evidence from Western Switzerland	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
The use of patient-reported outcome and experience measures for health policy purposes: A scoping review in oncology	8
Regulatory approaches towards AI Medical Devices: A comparative study of the United States, the European Union and China	8
The transition towards community-based mental health care in the European Union: Current realities and prospects	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
Mitigating health policy fragmentation through interlocks. The networks between American and Swiss public-private partnerships	8
Using outcome measures in sub-national level performance management: When and under what circumstances?	8
Lessons learned from a pay-for-performance scheme for appropriate prescribing using electronic health records from general practices in the Netherlands	8
Editorial Board	8
Evaluating whole system reforms: A structured approach for selecting multiple outcomes	8
The future of hospital quality of care policy: A multi-stakeholder discrete choice experiment in Flanders, Belgium	8
Amortization of gene replacement therapies: A health policy analysis exploring a mechanism for mitigating budget impact of high-cost treatments	8
Evaluating engagement with equity in Canadian provincial and territorial primary care policies: Results of a jurisdictional scan	7
A comparative assessment of action plans on antimicrobial resistance from OECD and G20 countries using natural language processing	7
How and why do health system factors influence general dentists’ participation in publicly funded, contracted primary dental care services: A realist review	7
Identifying the most effective policies for minimising inappropriate use of antibiotics: A replicability study using three WHO datasets	7
Private sector expansion and the widening NHS treatment gap between rich and poor in England: Admissions for NHS-funded elective primary hip and knee replacements between 1997/98 and 2018/19	7
The impact of health on labour market outcomes: A rapid systematic review	7
Barriers and facilitators of meaningful patient participation at the collective level in healthcare organizations: A systematic review	7
Gender diversity and healthcare performance: A quantitative analysis from the Italian health system	7
Editorial Board	7
Virtual clinics versus face-to-face review: Is the benefit the same for new orthopaedic patients?	7
What matters most to the population in case of chronic conditions? Results from a discrete choice experiment in Italy	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
The nudge strategies for weight loss in adults with obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Forgone Care of doctor's visits in Germany – Results from three cross-sectional surveys	7
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on temporal trends of workplace violence against healthcare workers in the emergency department	7
Ownership, quality and prices of nursing homes in Australia: Why greater private sector participation did not improve performance	7
Has public support for solidarity in healthcare financing in the Netherlands changed over time? A repeated cross-sectional study	7
The second Trump administration: A policy analysis of challenges and opportunities for European health policymakers	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
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
Corrigendum to “Mitigating the regressivity of private mechanisms of financing healthcare: An Assessment of 29 countries” [Health Policy 143 (2024) 105058]	7
The use intention of hospital report cards among patients in the presence or absence of patient-reported outcomes	7
The modernisation of newborn screening as a pan-European challenge – An international delphi study	7
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and socioeconomic status in Switzerland: A small area-level analysis	6
The impact of a medical residents' walkout on mortality rates in South Korea, 2024	6
Exploration of current challenges in rehabilitation from the perspective of healthcare professionals: Switzerland as a case in point	6
Predictors of Croatian nurses' turnover intention: A cross-sectional study	6
Equity in healthcare financing: A review of evidence	6
Impact of local sports policies in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease: An assessment with spatial data analysis	6
Environmental co-benefits of health policies to reduce meat consumption: A narrative review	6
Patient mobility within national borders. Drivers and politics of cross-border healthcare agreements in the Spanish decentralized system	6
The Swedish model for prioritising research on the use of antibiotics: Aligning public funding with research gaps	6
Development of an evidence-based reference framework for care coordination with a focus on the micro level of integrated care: A mixed method design study combining scoping review of reviews and nomin	6
Stimulating implementation of clinical practice guidelines in hospital care from a central guideline organization perspective: A systematic review	6
Contact time in GP Care: Descriptive patterns and a scoping review of the literature	6
Impact of time of diagnosis on out-of-pocket costs of cancer treatment, a side effect of health insurance design in Australia.	6
The role of private equity in the German outpatient sector	6
Disentangling the impact of alternative payment models and associated service delivery models on quality of chronic care: A scoping review	6
Corrigendum to ‘The Impact of ‘Conscientious Objection’ on Abortion-Related Outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence’	6
Understanding the influences on the design and delivery of an integrated child health and social care service in underserved communities in the UK: A qualitative exploration using the SELFIE framework	6
Private equity expansion and impacts in united states healthcare	6
Cost-utility analysis of medication review with follow-up for cardiovascular outcomes: A microsimulation model	6
Defining a risk-adjustment formula for the introduction of population-based payments for primary care in France	6
Exploring assisted dying policies for mature minors: A cross jurisdiction comparison of the Netherlands, Belgium & Canada	6
Meso-organisational determinants of healthcare workers’ resilience: results of a scoping review	6
Early access to medicines with added therapeutic value: Measuring and comparing time to medicines access in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain	6
How to further develop quality competition in the German healthcare system? Results of a Delphi expert study	5
The right to health for socioeconomically disadvantaged TB patients in South Korea: An AAAQ framework analysis	5
Lessons learned from the Baltic countries’ response to the first wave of COVID-19	5
Editorial Board	5
A comparison of health system responses to COVID-19 in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania in 2020	5
Variability in prescription medication coverage for children and youth across Canada: A scoping review	5
Is health financing fair? Evidence from 29 countries on the progressivity of health care revenue collection	5
Health and health system effects on poverty: A narrative review of global evidence	5
Editorial Board	5
Primary prevention in hospitals in 20 high-income countries in Europe – A case of not “Making Every Contact Count”?	5
Germany's national public health gets reorganized: A new institute shall take center stage	5
The effects of private equity ownership in U.S. nursing homes quality and financial performance: A systematic review	5
Opportunities for healthcare digitalization in Europe: Comparative analysis of inequalities in access to medical services	5
COVID-19 Apps as a Digital Intervention Policy: A Longitudinal Panel Data Analysis in South Korea	5
The challenge of the first 1000 days. The dynamics of early-life health inequalities in a universal healthcare system: Evidence from Italy	5
Overseas general practitioners (GPs) and opioid prescriptions in England	5
Editorial Board	5
Reframing the evaluation of integrated care; examples from the NHS in England	5
Development of an organizational typology of interprofessional primary care teams in Quebec, Canada: A multivariate analysis	5
The availability of emergency contraception from family health centers in Turkey	5
Actors’ awareness of network governance in Child Welfare and Healthcare service networks	5
Operationalising public trust for health policymakers - A qualitative study in the EU, France, Italy, and Switzerland	5
A country-level analysis comparing hospital capacity and utilisation during the first COVID-19 wave across Europe	5