Health Policy

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The analogue substitution model: Introducing competition in the absence of generic substitution in Danish hospitals	94
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	86
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Exploring the reasons behind low COVID-19 vaccination coverage in ethnic minorities–A qualitative study among Arabic-speaking public in Denmark	60
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Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: A longitudinal study in Hungary	55
Sources of specialist physician fee variation: Evidence from Australian health insurance claims data	50
Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia's universal health care system: A national linked data study	47
Does default organ donation registration compromise autonomous choice? Public responses to a new donor registration system	46
Stakeholder point of view on prescription drug affordability - a systematic literature review and content analysis	45
Which factors influence the decision of hospitals to provide procedures on an outpatient basis? –Mixed-methods evidence from Germany	43
Evaluation of a national e-booking system for medical consultation in primary care in a universal health system	40
Immigrants’ self-perceived barriers to healthcare: A systematic review of quantitative evidence in European countries	40
Should we screen for lung cancer? A 10-country analysis identifying key decision-making factors	36
Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees: A comparison of nine north-western European countries	35
Incremental net benefit of whole genome sequencing for newborns and children with suspected genetic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis of cost-effectiveness evidence	35
Strategic workforce planning in health and social care – an international perspective: A scoping review	35
Integrating planetary health into healthcare: A document analysis	35
Commentary on “The learning rehabilitation system: Strengthening an intersectoral strategy to improve functioning of an ageing population” by Bickenbach et al.	35
Physicians’ responses to time pressure: Experimental evidence on treatment quality and documentation behaviour	35
The effect of a nighttime curfew on the spread of COVID-19	34
Assessing patients’ acceptable and realised distances to determine accessibility standards for the size of catchment areas in outpatient care	33
The launch of the EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA): Improving global pandemic preparedness?	31
Impact of implementation timing on the effectiveness of stay-at-home requirement under the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from the Italian Case	30

Associations of health services utilization by prescription drug coverage and immigration category in Ontario, Canada	30
Mental health of Australian frontline nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a large national survey	30
The resistance toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps: A study of psychological reactance among young adults in Italy	28
Regarding caregivers’ willingness to pay for digital support services: Comparative survey	28
Tensions and opportunities in the roles of senior public health officials in Canada: A qualitative study	28
Achieving higher performing primary care through patient registration: A review of twelve high-income countries	27
Promoting innovation while controlling cost: The UK's approach to health technology assessment	27
Impact of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse outcomes among older delayed discharge patients: Implications for healthcare policy	27
Freedom of choice and health services’ performance: Evidence from a national health system	26
Effectiveness of pay for performance to non-physician health care providers: A systematic review	25
Societal cost of cancer in Norway –Results of taking a broader cost perspective	25
Do health insurers use target marketing as a tool for risk selection? Evidence from the Netherlands	24
Decision making under deep uncertainty for pandemic policy planning	24
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The impact of changing the reference countries on the list prices for patented medicines in Canada: A policy analysis	24
Do international medical graduates’ recruitment policies help to overcome healthcare shortage areas in developed countries? A systematic review	24
Towards population-based payment models in a multiple-payer system: the case of the Netherlands	24
The case for individualised public health interventions: Smoking prevalence and inequalities in Northern Ireland 1985-2015	23
Improved coordination of care after acute myocardial infarction in Poland since 2017: Promising early results	23
Could hospitals operating through a value-based healthcare policy overcome potential management drawbacks in European healthcare?	23
Identifying common enablers and barriers in European health information systems	23
Gendered employment trajectories and later life health in liberal regime countries: A quantitative study in the United States, England, Switzerland and Chile	23
Europeanization of health policy in post-communist European societies: Comparison of six Western Balkan countries	21
Service-, needs-, and quality-based hospital capacity planning – The evolution of a revolution in Switzerland	21
Patients as EU citizens? The implementation and corporatist stakeholders’ perceptions of the EU cross-border health care directive in Austria	20
Erratum Regarding Previously Published Articles	20
Improving health and sustainability: Patterns of red and processed meat consumption across generations	20
COVID-19 vaccinations: An overview of the Italian national health system's online communication from a citizen perspective	20
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Advancing international comparison of pharmaceutical industry funding of patient advocacy: Focus on Denmark	19
RSV prevention options for infants and older adults: A specific expanding competitive arena	19
‘Accident and emergency’? Exploring the reasons for increased privatisation in England's NHS	19
Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors’ preferences for delaying retirement	18
A critical review of methodologies used in pharmaceutical pricing policy analyses	18
Systematic assessment of South Korea’s capabilities to control COVID-19	18
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	18
Understanding women's provider choice for induced abortion in Turkey	18
The role of health and health systems in promoting social capital, political participation and peace: A narrative review	18
Centralizing and decentralizing governance in the COVID-19 pandemic: The politics of credit and blame	18
Strategic cost-shifting in long-term care. Evidence from the Netherlands	18
Making recommendations to subsidize new health technologies in Australia: A qualitative study of decision-makers’ perspectives on committee processes	17
Green zoning: An effective policy tool to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic	17
Taking a local government perspective for economic evaluation of a population-level programme to promote exercise	17
Preferences of patients regarding community pharmacy services: A discrete choice experiment	17
Inferring a cause-effect relationship between lockdown restrictions and COVID-19 pandemic trend during the first wave	17
Italian national policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia and Umbria Regions	16
Satisfaction with primary health care in Ukraine in 2016–2020: A difference-in-differences analysis on repeated cross-sectional data	16
Is there a bias in patient choices for hospital care? Evidence from three Italian regional health systems	16
Market diffusion of biosimilars in off-patent biologic drug markets across Europe	15
The contested authority of international institutions in global health	15

Women's choices of hospital for breast cancer surgery in Italy: Quality and equity implications	15
Should the governance of individual treatment attempts (“Individuelle Heilversuche”) include praxis evaluation? Results from qualitative stakeholder interviews.	14
Cross-border healthcare collaborations in Europe (2007–2017): Moving towards a European Health Union?	14
Would universal general practitioner care impact Irish adolescents’ utilisation?	14
The development of a discrete choice experiment: Investigating pharmacy selection in New Zealand	14
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	14
Mental health between present issues and future expectations	14
Evaluations of public health interventions produced by health technology assessment agencies: A mapping review and analysis by type and evidence content	14
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Lessons learned from the Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative for future risk-sharing and managed access agreements for pharmaceutical and advanced therapies in Canada	14
Effects of cost sharing on long-term care service utilization among home-dwelling older adults in Japan	14
How does nudging the COVID-19 vaccine play out in people who are in doubt about vaccination?	14
Scaling up integrated care: Can community hospitals be an answer? A multiple-case study from the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy	14
Community pharmacists as vaccinators in the Italian SARS-CoV-2 immunization campaign: implications beyond the pandemic	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	13
Variations and inequities in access to cardiac diagnostic services in Ontario Canada	13
Development of a practical framework and indicators for monitoring integrated long-term health and care needs and service use	13
Assessing the equity and coverage policy sensitivity of financial protection indicators in Europe	13
Risky restrictions? Mobility restriction effects on risk awareness and anxiety	13
Does financial incentive for diabetes management in the primary care setting reduce avoidable hospitalizations and mortality in high-income countries? A systematic review	13
Hospital payment schemes and high-priced drugs: Evidence from the French Add-on List	13
Australian federal, state and territory policy on the health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review	13
Effects of giving psychologists prescriptive authority: Evidence from a natural experiment in the United States	13
Pharmaceutical net price transparency across european markets: Insights from a multi-agent simulation model	13
General Practitioners activity patterns: the medium-term impacts of Primary Care Teams in France	12
Patient expectations do matter - Experimental evidence on antibiotic prescribing decisions among hospital-based physicians	12
Loneliness in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Multiple job holding and its influencing factors among Belgian nurses: A cross-sectional study	12
Income-related inequality in smoking habits: A comparative assessment in the European Union	12
Promoting outpatient medication safety in Finland: A mid-term review of a national medication safety programme for community pharmacies (2021–2026)	12
Policies and strategies to control antimicrobial resistance in livestock production: A comparative analysis of national action plans in European Union Member States	12
Priority setting in times of crises: an analysis of priority setting for the COVID-19 response in the Western Pacific Region	12
Factors influencing the experience of empowerment in Flemish (proxy) budget holders: A regression analysis	11
HTA criteria adopted in different models of public healthcare systems for orphan drugs: A scoping review	11
Perspectives from gambling expert stakeholders in relation to electronic gaming machines in New Zealand	11
Early access programs for medical devices in France: Overview of recent reforms and outcomes (2015-2022)	11
Payments reported by the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland from 2015 to 2019: An observational study	11
A good start for all children: Integrating early-life course medical and social care through Solid Start, the Netherlands’ nationwide action programme	11
Interpreting forty-three-year trends of expenditures on public health in Canada: Long-run trends, temporal periods, and data differences	11
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“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
Long-term public healthcare burden associated with intimate partner violence among Canadian women: A cohort study	11
How do HTA agencies perceive conditional approval of medicines? Evidence from England, Scotland, France and Canada	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
Methodological approaches to measuring mental health in a cost-of-living crisis: A rapid review	11
A comparative study of public health and social measures of COVID-19 advocated in different countries	10
Measuring the importance of different barriers to opioid agonist treatment using best-worst scaling in an Australian setting	10
Variation in attendance at emergency departments in England across local areas: A system under unequal pressure	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
How do busy hospital circumstances affect mortality and readmission within 60 days: A cohort study of 680 000 acute admissions in Norway	10
30 years of primary health care reforms in Estonia: The role of financial incentives to achieve a multidisciplinary primary health care system	10
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Social innovation management to support integrated care: Insights from an Italian revelatory case study	10
The beginnings of health system transformation: How Ontario Health Teams are implementing change in the context of uncertainty	10
Strengthening diagnostic services in Latin America requires regional leadership, sustainable funding, and enhanced data sharing	10
A systematic review of policies regulating or removing mark-ups in the pharmaceutical supply and distribution chain	10
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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	10
Facilitators and barriers for implementing patient-reported outcome measures in clinical care: An academic center's initial experience	10
Theories, models and frameworks for health systems integration. A scoping review	10
Individual performance-based incentives for health care workers in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries: a systematic literature review	9
Variation in market access decisions for cell and gene therapies across the United States, Canada, and Europe	9
“Top-Three” health reforms in 31 high-income countries in 2018 and 2019: an expert informed overview	9
COVID-19 and healthcare worker mental well-being: Comparative case studies on interventions in six countries	9
An impact evaluation of the strategy for normal birth care on caesarean section rates and perinatal mortality in Spain	9
The impact of benefits coverage expansion of social health insurance: Evidence from Korea	9
Drug company methodologies used for reporting in the UK pharmaceutical industry payment transparency database between 2015 and 2019: A content analysis	9
Alignment and authority: Federalism, social policy, and COVID-19 response	9
New Zealand's world-first smokefree legislation 'goes up in smoke': A setback in ending the tobacco epidemic	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
The impact of physician exits in primary care: A study of practice handovers	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
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression in older adults: A panel data analysis	9
The introduction of maximum reimbursement prices for digital health applications in Germany in 2022: Current developments	9
Availability of primary care and avoidable attendance at English emergency departments: A regression analysis	9
Developing the 2020-2030 mental health strategy for Malta: Addressing the needs of a small island state undergoing rapid socioeconomic transition	9
Urban–rural disparities in hospital admissions for depression in Austria	9
Regarding the Swedish model for prioritizing research on the use of antibiotics: Aligning public funding with research gaps	8
Promoting early-intervention for suicide prevention: The role of mental health literacy and attitudes towards suicide: A quantitative study in Ireland.	8
Mitigating health policy fragmentation through interlocks. The networks between American and Swiss public-private partnerships	8

The 2017 reform to medical specialty training in Czechia: Exploring student career preferences	8
Lessons learned from a pay-for-performance scheme for appropriate prescribing using electronic health records from general practices in the Netherlands	8
Amortization of gene replacement therapies: A health policy analysis exploring a mechanism for mitigating budget impact of high-cost treatments	8
The impact of COVID-19 on abortion access: Insights from the European Union and the United Kingdom	8
The transition towards community-based mental health care in the European Union: Current realities and prospects	8
European countries' responses in ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity during the first COVID-19 wave	8
Using outcome measures in sub-national level performance management: When and under what circumstances?	8
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A historical overview of policy perspectives towards informal care in Taiwan (1996-2023)	8
Evaluating engagement with equity in Canadian provincial and territorial primary care policies: Results of a jurisdictional scan	7
Has public support for solidarity in healthcare financing in the Netherlands changed over time? A repeated cross-sectional study	7
Virtual clinics versus face-to-face review: Is the benefit the same for new orthopaedic patients?	7
Twenty years evaluating the health impact of urban policies in the city of Barcelona	7
The modernisation of newborn screening as a pan-European challenge – An international delphi study	7
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?	7
Preferences of older adults for healthcare models designed to improve care coordination: Evidence from Western Switzerland	7
A review of the sustainability of vaccine funding across Europe and implications for post-COVID policymaking	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 impact of health on labour market outcomes: A rapid systematic review	7
The establishment of the Korean medical device safety information monitoring center: Reviewing ten years of experience	7
Evaluating whole system reforms: A structured approach for selecting multiple outcomes	7
A comparative assessment of action plans on antimicrobial resistance from OECD and G20 countries using natural language processing	7
Understanding the impact of minimum staff level policies on the ward nursing team: Insights from a qualitative research study conducted in Germany	7
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	7
The future of hospital quality of care policy: A multi-stakeholder discrete choice experiment in Flanders, Belgium	7
Assessment of the introduction of DRG-based reimbursement in Switzerland: Evidence on the short-term effects on length of stay compliance in university hospitals	7
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Stability over time of the “hospital effect” on 30-day unplanned readmissions: Evidence from administrative data	7
The use intention of hospital report cards among patients in the presence or absence of patient-reported outcomes	7
The use of patient-reported outcome and experience measures for health policy purposes: A scoping review in oncology	7
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?	7
Regulatory approaches towards AI Medical Devices: A comparative study of the United States, the European Union and China	7
Utilization and uptake of clinical genetics services in high-income countries: A scoping review	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 ’ 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
Impact of local sports policies in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease: An assessment with spatial data analysis	6
Private equity expansion and impacts in united states healthcare	6
Exploration of current challenges in rehabilitation from the perspective of healthcare professionals: Switzerland as a case in point	6
Ownership, quality and prices of nursing homes in Australia: Why greater private sector participation did not improve performance	6
How and why do health system factors influence general dentists’ participation in publicly funded, contracted primary dental care services: A realist review	6
Regulatory and HTA early dialogues in medical devices	6
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and socioeconomic status in Switzerland: A small area-level analysis	6
Patient mobility within national borders. Drivers and politics of cross-border healthcare agreements in the Spanish decentralized system	6
Health and health system effects on poverty: A narrative review of global evidence	6
Equity in healthcare financing: A review of evidence	6
The Swedish model for prioritising research on the use of antibiotics: Aligning public funding with research gaps	6
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	6
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on temporal trends of workplace violence against healthcare workers in the emergency department	6
Identifying the most effective policies for minimising inappropriate use of antibiotics: A replicability study using three WHO datasets	6
Gender diversity and healthcare performance: A quantitative analysis from the Italian health system	6
Impact of time of diagnosis on out-of-pocket costs of cancer treatment, a side effect of health insurance design in Australia.	6
Environmental co-benefits of health policies to reduce meat consumption: A narrative review	6
Stimulating implementation of clinical practice guidelines in hospital care from a central guideline organization perspective: A systematic review	6
Cost-utility analysis of medication review with follow-up for cardiovascular outcomes: A microsimulation model	6
Predictors of Croatian nurses' turnover intention: A cross-sectional study	6
Barriers and facilitators of meaningful patient participation at the collective level in healthcare organizations: A systematic review	6
The nudge strategies for weight loss in adults with obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Forgone Care of doctor's visits in Germany – Results from three cross-sectional surveys	6
Exploring assisted dying policies for mature minors: A cross jurisdiction comparison of the Netherlands, Belgium & Canada	6
Corrigendum to ‘The Impact of ‘Conscientious Objection’ on Abortion-Related Outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence’	6
Induced demand in kidney replacement therapy	5
How to detect hospitals where quality would not be jeopardized by health cost savings? A methodological approach using DEA with SBM analysis	5
The role of contextual factors in decision-making by General Practitioners on paediatric referral to the Emergency Department in Ireland: A Discrete Choice Experiment	5
The availability of emergency contraception from family health centers in Turkey	5
Opportunities for healthcare digitalization in Europe: Comparative analysis of inequalities in access to medical services	5
Gender bias in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disorders in Catalonia	5
The expression of ‘policy’ in palliative care: A critical review	5
Variability in prescription medication coverage for children and youth across Canada: A scoping review	5
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The influenza vaccination's impact elderly's health outcomes in Catalonia (Spain)	5
Actors’ awareness of network governance in Child Welfare and Healthcare service networks	5
Long-term care insurance purchase decisions of registered nurses: Deep learning versus logistic regression models	5
How have casemix, cost and hospital stay of inpatients in the last year of life changed over the past decade? Evidence from Italy	5
Responsive patient care in Israel: A qualitative study of hospital rules and regulations	5
New legal forms in health services: Evaluation of a Spanish public policy	5
How to further develop quality competition in the German healthcare system? Results of a Delphi expert study	5
Common patterns in the public reporting of waiting time and waiting list information: Findings from a sample of OECD jurisdictions	5
Creating universal health care in Ireland: A legal context	5
Primary prevention in hospitals in 20 high-income countries in Europe – A case of not “Making Every Contact Count”?	5
Fitting places in knowledge translation: Biomedical innovation in healthcare practice	5
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	5
Defining a risk-adjustment formula for the introduction of population-based payments for primary care in France	5
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A comparison of health system responses to COVID-19 in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania in 2020	5
Health literacy, governance and systems leadership contribute to the implementation of the One Health approach: a virtuous circle	5
Effects of lower screening activity during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer patient pathways: Evidence from the age cut-off of organized screening	5
The need to strengthen the evaluation of the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based decision support systems on healthcare provision	5
Implementing cancer patient pathways in Scandinavia how structuring might affect the acceptance of a politically imposed reform	5
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COVID-19 Apps as a Digital Intervention Policy: A Longitudinal Panel Data Analysis in South Korea	5
A country-level analysis comparing hospital capacity and utilisation during the first COVID-19 wave across Europe	5
A trauma-informed approach in Canadian mental health policies: A systematic mapping review	5
Disentangling the impact of alternative payment models and associated service delivery models on quality of chronic care: A scoping review	5
The right to health for socioeconomically disadvantaged TB patients in South Korea: An AAAQ framework analysis	5
Characteristics of self-management support (SMS) interventions and their impact on Quality of Life (QoL) in adults with chronic diseases: An umbrella review of systematic reviews	4