Health Policy

Article	Citations
COVID-19 vaccine challenges: What have we learned so far and what remains to be done?	216
A comparison of 2020 health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America	80
European countries' responses in ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity during the first COVID-19 wave	65
Interventions promoting employee “speaking-up” within healthcare workplaces: A systematic narrative review of the international literature	61
A decade of public long-term care insurance in South Korea: Policy lessons for aging countries	60
The best person (or machine) for the job: Rethinking task shifting in healthcare	50
Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic	48
When fear backfires: Emergency department accesses during the Covid-19 pandemic	46
Providing health services effectively during the first wave of COVID-19: A cross-country comparison on planning services, managing cases, and maintaining essential services	43
The impact of patient and public involvement in health research versus healthcare: A scoping review of reviews	43
Impact of interprofessional collaboration on chronic disease management: Findings from a systematic review of clinical trial and meta-analysis	43
Population density index and its use for distribution of Covid-19: A case study using Turkish data	42
The uses of Patient Reported Experience Measures in health systems: A systematic narrative review	41
A country-level analysis comparing hospital capacity and utilisation during the first COVID-19 wave across Europe	41
Transformations in the landscape of primary health care during COVID-19: Themes from the European region	39
Online alcohol sales and home delivery: An international policy review and systematic literature review	39
Reimbursement models to tackle market failures for antimicrobials: Approaches taken in France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States	38
Centralizing and decentralizing governance in the COVID-19 pandemic: The politics of credit and blame	38
Integration of health services for the elderly in Asia: A scoping review of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia	38
Early health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mediterranean countries: A tale of successes and challenges	35
Systematic assessment of South Korea’s capabilities to control COVID-19	34
School openings and the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. A provincial-level analysis using the synthetic control method	34
A comparative study of public health and social measures of COVID-19 advocated in different countries	33
What have European countries done to prevent the spread of COVID-19? Lessons from the COVID-19 Health system response monitor	32
Worlds of long-term care: A typology of OECD countries	31

How to address medicines shortages: Findings from a cross-sectional study of 24 countries	31
The impact of COVID-19 on abortion access: Insights from the European Union and the United Kingdom	30
Stopping healthcare misinformation: The effect of financial incentives and legislation	29
#Covid-19: An exploratory investigation of hashtag usage on Twitter	29
Corona-regionalism? Differences in regional responses to COVID-19 in Italy	29
Facilitators and barriers for implementing patient-reported outcome measures in clinical care: An academic center's initial experience	28
Physicians’ views and experiences of defensive medicine: An international review of empirical research	28
An overview of critical decision-points in the medical product lifecycle: Where to include patient preference information in the decision-making process?	27
Gaps in coverage and access in the European Union	27
Italian responses to the COVID-19 emergency: Overthrowing 30 years of health reforms?	27
Drawing light from the pandemic: Rethinking strategies for health policy and beyond	27
A comparison of health system responses to COVID-19 in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania in 2020	26
Pharmaceutical industry self-regulation and non-transparency: country and company level analysis of payments to healthcare professionals in seven European countries	25
“Top-Three” health reforms in 31 high-income countries in 2018 and 2019: an expert informed overview	25
How resilient is health financing policy in Europe to economic shocks? Evidence from the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 global financial crisis	25
Horizontal inequity in the utilisation of healthcare services in Australia	25
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on temporal trends of workplace violence against healthcare workers in the emergency department	24
A comparative analysis of COVID-19 vaccination certificates in 12 countries/regions around the world: Rationalising health policies for international travel and domestic social activities during the p	24
“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	24
A reversal of fortune: Comparison of health system responses to COVID-19 in the Visegrad group during the early phases of the pandemic	23
Balancing financial incentives during COVID-19: A comparison of provider payment adjustments across 20 countries	23
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic: Initial responses in 2020 in selected social health insurance countries in Europe	23
Establishing a national HTA program for medical devices in Italy: Overhauling a fragmented system to ensure value and equal access to new medical technologies	22
The early weeks of the Italian Covid-19 outbreak: sentiment insights from a Twitter analysis	22
Assessing the effectiveness of the Italian risk-zones policy during the second wave of COVID-19	22
Financial payments made by pharmaceutical companies to the authors of Japanese hematology clinical practice guidelines between 2016 and 2017	21
Consumer directed care aged care reforms in Australia since 2009: A retrospective policy analysis	21
Beyond COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Italy exploring the covid collateral impacts on healthcare services	20
Should I care for my mum or for my kid? Sandwich generation and depression burden in Italy	20
Promoting health-enhancing physical activity in Europe: Surveillance, policy development and implementation 2015–2018	19
Lessons learned from the Baltic countries’ response to the first wave of COVID-19	18
Explaining variation in health information seeking behaviour – Insights from a multilingual survey	17
A longitudinal study on public policy and the health of in-house caregivers in Europe	16
An overview of health policies for asylum-seekers in Germany	16
How the organisation of medical work shapes the everyday work experiences underpinning doctor migration trends: The case of Irish-trained emigrant doctors in Australia	16
Green zoning: An effective policy tool to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic	16
The use of patient-reported outcome and experience measures for health policy purposes: A scoping review in oncology	16
Why is Quality Improvement so Challenging? A Viable Systems Model Perspective to Understand the Frustrations of Healthcare Quality Improvement Managers	16
Metrics and indicators used to assess health system resilience in response to shocks to health systems in high income countries—A systematic review	16
Community participation and empowerment in primary health care in Emilia-Romagna: A document analysis study	16
The role of education in psychological response to adverse health shocks	16
Emerging electronic cigarette policies in European member states, Canada, and the United States	15
Improving the value of healthcare systems using the Triple Aim framework: A systematic literature review	15
Alignment and authority: Federalism, social policy, and COVID-19 response	15
Open science communication: The first year of the UK's Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies	15
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression in older adults: A panel data analysis	15
Identifying common enablers and barriers in European health information systems	14
When patients get stuck: A systematic literature review on throughput barriers in hospital-wide patient processes	14
Health assessment for migrants and asylum seekers upon arrival and while hosted in reception centres: Italian guidelines	14
Supporting government policies to embed and expand rehabilitation in health systems in Europe: A framework for action	14

Loneliness in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Incremental net benefit of whole genome sequencing for newborns and children with suspected genetic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis of cost-effectiveness evidence	14
On the management of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	14
Purchase of prescription medicines via social media: A survey-based study of prevalence, risk perceptions, and motivations	13
Uncovering the potential of innovation ecosystems in the healthcare sector after the COVID-19 crisis	13
Bundled payments for chronic diseases increased health care expenditure in the Netherlands, especially for multimorbid patients.	13
Concentrating stroke care provision in the Czech Republic: The establishment of Stroke Centres in 2011 has led to improved outcomes	13
Public satisfaction with health care system in 30 countries: The effects of individual characteristics and social contexts	13
Utilization and uptake of clinical genetics services in high-income countries: A scoping review	13
Government policies targeting primary care physician practice from 1998-2018 in three Canadian provinces: A jurisdictional scan	13
The shift from inpatient care to outpatient care in Switzerland since 2017: Policy processes and the role of evidence	13
The nudge strategies for weight loss in adults with obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
The 2017 Italian reform on mandatory childhood vaccinations: Analysis of the policy process and early implementation	13
How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective	13
The European health data space: Too big to succeed?	12
Challenges facing primary health care in federated government systems: Implementation of Primary Health Networks in Australian states and territories	12
Achieving higher performing primary care through patient registration: A review of twelve high-income countries	12
Insurance status and waiting times for hospital-based services in Ireland	12
Cost-effectiveness of home-based stroke rehabilitation across Europe: A modelling study	12
Variation in market access decisions for cell and gene therapies across the United States, Canada, and Europe	12
2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK	11
Regulating voluntary assisted dying practice: A policy analysis from Victoria, Australia	11
Burnout of intrinsically motivated GPs when exposed to external regulation	11
Promoting innovation while controlling cost: The UK's approach to health technology assessment	11
Societal cost of cancer in Norway –Results of taking a broader cost perspective	11
Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees: A comparison of nine north-western European countries	11
Assessing primary care organization and performance: Literature synthesis and proposition of a consolidated framework	11
Medicine price transparency and confidential managed-entry agreements in Europe: findings from the EURIPID survey	11
Tracking the digital health gap in elderly: A study in Italian remote areas	11
Sláintecare implementation status in 2020: Limited progress with entitlement expansion	11
The Role of Patient Experience in the Value Assessment of Complex Technologies – Do HTA Bodies Need to Reconsider How Value is Assessed?	11
Should we screen for lung cancer? A 10-country analysis identifying key decision-making factors	11
The prevalence and determinants of unmet health care needs in Turkey	11
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Managing COVID-19 in four small countries: Initial response to the pandemic in San Marino, Montenegro, Malta and Cyprus	11
Conditions for successful interprofessional collaboration in integrated care – Lessons from a primary care setting in Denmark	11
Assessing the future direction of sustainable development in public hospitals: Time-horizon, path and action	11
The 2022 restructure of Aotearoa New Zealand's health system: Will it succeed in advancing equity where others have failed?	10
COVID-19 and healthcare worker mental well-being: Comparative case studies on interventions in six countries	10
The 2017 Primary Health Care (PHC) reform in Greece: Improving access despite economic and professional constraints?	10
Promoting healthy eating habits among youth according to their preferences: Indications from a discrete choice experiment in Tuscany	10
Long-term care at home and female work during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Centralization and integration of public health systems: Perspectives of public health leaders on factors facilitating and impeding COVID-19 responses in three Canadian provinces	10
After the four-year transition period: Is the European Union's Medical Device Regulation of 2017 likely to achieve its main goals?	10
The beginnings of health system transformation: How Ontario Health Teams are implementing change in the context of uncertainty	10
Birth models of care and intervention rates: The impact of birth centres	10
Challenges facing mental health systems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 14 European and North American countries	10
Ownership, quality and prices of nursing homes in Australia: Why greater private sector participation did not improve performance	10
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?	10
Behavioral interventions for vaccination uptake: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
The effect of a nighttime curfew on the spread of COVID-19	10
The role of the state in financing and regulating primary care in Europe: a taxonomy	10
COVID-19: R0 is lower where outbreak is larger	10
COVID-19 Apps as a Digital Intervention Policy: A Longitudinal Panel Data Analysis in South Korea	9
A critical analysis of national dementia care guidances	9
The impact of the health-care sector on national economies in selected European countries	9
Regulatory and HTA early dialogues in medical devices	9
Uncertainty tolerance among experts involved in drug reimbursement recommendations: Qualitative evidence from HTA committees in Canada and Poland	9
The need to strengthen the evaluation of the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based decision support systems on healthcare provision	9
Understanding eating choices among university students: A study using data from cafeteria cashiers’ transactions	9
Payments reported by the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland from 2015 to 2019: An observational study	9
Economic evaluation of nutrition interventions: Does one size fit all?	9
Australian federal, state and territory policy on the health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review	9
The 2019 introduction of the new National Healthcare System in Cyprus	9
Simply the best? The impact of quality on choice of primary healthcare provider in Sweden	9
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	9
Translating health information into policy-making: A pragmatic framework	9
Migrant health and language barriers: Uncovering macro level influences on the implementation of trained interpreters in healthcare settings	9
Strategic purchasing and health systems resilience: Lessons from COVID-19 in selected European countries	9
Amortization of gene replacement therapies: A health policy analysis exploring a mechanism for mitigating budget impact of high-cost treatments	9
Stakeholder perspectives towards implementing the national framework on palliative care in Canada	9
Integrating planetary health into healthcare: A document analysis	9
Variability drivers of treatment costs in hospitals: A systematic review	8
Effects of lower screening activity during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer patient pathways: Evidence from the age cut-off of organized screening	8
Alternatives to sharing COVID-19 data with law enforcement: Recommendations for stakeholders	8
The diffusion of robotic surgery: Examining technology use in the English NHS	8
What components are important for effective healthcare alliance governance? Findings from a modified Delphi study in New Zealand	8
The reimagination of sustainable integrated care in Ontario, Canada	8
Teleconsultation adoption since COVID-19: Comparison of barriers and facilitators in primary care settings in Hong Kong and the Netherlands	8
Is time-to-treatment associated with higher mortality in Korean elderly lung cancer patients?	8

From sandbox to pandemic: Agile reform of Canadian drug regulation	8
Analysis of weekend effect on mortality by medical specialty in Helsinki University Hospital over a 14-year period	8
The impact of benefits coverage expansion of social health insurance: Evidence from Korea	8
COVID-19 vaccinations: An overview of the Italian national health system's online communication from a citizen perspective	8
The impact of cash-for-care schemes on the uptake of community-based and residential care: A systematic review	8
Prioritization of implementation barriers related to integrated care models in Central and Eastern European countries	8
Creating a priority list of non-communicable diseases to support health research funding decision-making	8
Employment Vulnerability of People With Severe Mental Illness	8
Evidence on the effectiveness of policies promoting price transparency - A systematic review	7
A trauma-informed approach in Canadian mental health policies: A systematic mapping review	7
Smoking and income distribution: Inequalities in new and old products	7
From individual behaviour strategies to sustainable food systems: Countering the obesity and non communicable diseases epidemic in New Zealand	7
Impact of formal care consumption on informal care use in Europe: What is happening at the beginning of dependency?	7
Public and patient involvement in health policy decision-making on the health system level – A scoping review	7
Towards population-based payment models in a multiple-payer system: the case of the Netherlands	7
General practitioners’ views on the influence of long-term care reforms on integrated elderly care in the Netherlands: a qualitative interview study	7
Requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide of people without (severe) illness	7
Pharmaceutical net price transparency across european markets: Insights from a multi-agent simulation model	7
Complex community health and social care interventions – Which features lead to reductions in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions? A systematic literature review	7
Personalised medicine and the state: A political discourse analysis	7
Tensions and opportunities in the roles of senior public health officials in Canada: A qualitative study	7
Factors that influence specialist physician preferences for fee-for-service and salary-based payment models: A qualitative study	7
Implications of the 2018 Canadian Cannabis Act: Should regulation differ for medicinal and non-medicinal cannabis use?⋆	7
Substitutes or complements between informal and formal home care in the Canadian longitudinal study on aging: Functional impairment as an effect modifier	7
Incentives for voluntary health insurance in a national health system: Evidence from Italy	7
Because it was new: Unexpected experiences of physician providers during Canada's early years of legal medical assistance in dying	7
Influenza vaccination behavior and media reporting of adverse events	7
Testing the 2017 PHC reform through pilots: Strengthening prevention and chronic care coordination	7
Structural barriers or patient preference? A mixed methods appraisal of medical abortion use in England and Wales	7
Public health lessons from the French 2012 soda tax and insights on the modifications enacted in 2018	7
Using newspaper obituaries to “nowcast” daily mortality: Evidence from the Italian COVID-19 hot-spots	7
Do access, quality and cost of general practice affect emergency department use?	7
The impact of a co-payment increase on the consumption of type 2 antidiabetics – A nationwide interrupted time series analysis	7
The Indigenous primary health care and policy research network: Guiding innovation within primary health care with Indigenous peoples in Alberta	7
Preferences of patients regarding community pharmacy services: A discrete choice experiment	6
The establishment of the Korean medical device safety information monitoring center: Reviewing ten years of experience	6
Accessibility to SARS-CoV-2 swab test during the Covid-19 pandemic: Did age make the difference?	6
The impact of different types of NHS expenditure on health: Marginal cost per QALY estimates for England for 2016/17	6
Health promotion policies for elderly—Some comparisons across Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland	6
How to pay primary care physicians for SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations: An analysis of 43 EU and OECD countries	6
The Impact of ‘conscientious objection’ on abortion-related outcomes: A synthesis of legal and health evidence	6
Does more investment in primary care improve health system performance?	6
European immigrant health policies, immigrants’ health, and immigrants’ access to healthcare	6
Deterioration, drift, distraction, and denial: How the politics of austerity challenges the resilience of prison health governance and delivery in England	6
Interpreting forty-three-year trends of expenditures on public health in Canada: Long-run trends, temporal periods, and data differences	6
The introduction of a data-driven population health management approach in the Netherlands since 2019: The Extramural LUMC Academic Network data infrastructure	6
Spill Over Effects of Inpatient Bed Capacity on Accident and Emergency Performance in England	6
Effects of the reform of the Dutch healthcare into managed competition: Results of a Delphi study among experts	6
Barriers for the evaluation of advanced therapy medicines and their translation to clinical practice: Umbrella review	6
Short-term impact of co-payment level increase on the use of medication and patient-reported outcomes in Finnish patients with type 2 diabetes	6
Pricing of in-patent pharmaceuticals in the Middle East and North Africa: Is external reference pricing implemented optimally?	6
Dutch shared savings program targeted at primary care: Reduced expenditures in its first year	6
The value of caregiver inclusive practices in geriatric transitions of care: A systematic review	6
Informal out-of-pocket payments experience and individuals’ willingness-to-pay for healthcare services in Greece	6
Improving risk-equalization in Switzerland: Effects of alternative reform proposals on reallocating public subsidies for hospitals	6
Control rooms in publicly-funded health systems: Reviving value in healthcare governance	6
The paradox of the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact on patient demand in Japanese hospitals	6
Public health insurance and mortality in the older population: Evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing	6
Effects of cost sharing on long-term care service utilization among home-dwelling older adults in Japan	6
Health and healthcare variables associated with Italy's excess mortality during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological study	6
Post-COVID health policy responses to healthcare workforce capacities: A comparative analysis of health system resilience in six European countries	6
Systems medicine 2030: A Delphi study on implementation in the German healthcare system	6
Factors associated with cervical cancer screening utilisation by people with physical disabilities: A systematic review	6
Measuring research in the big data era: The evolution of performance measurement systems in the Italian teaching hospitals	6
Telemonitoring in Portugal: where do we stand and which way forward?	6
Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for healthcare in Canada	6
The role of the European Union in global health: The EU’s self-perception(s) within the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Clinical innovation ethics frameworks: A systematic narrative review	6
Supporting evidence-informed policy making in rehabilitation: A logic framework for continuous improvement of rehabilitation programs	6
Current and future costs of obesity in Sweden	6
Trends in hastened death decision criteria: A review of official reports	5
Virtual clinics versus face-to-face review: Is the benefit the same for new orthopaedic patients?	5
Cross-border healthcare collaborations in Europe (2007–2017): Moving towards a European Health Union?	5
Demographics of COVID-19 hospitalisations and related fatality risk patterns	5
Equity in access to zero-fees and low-cost Primary Health Care in Aotearoa New Zealand: Results from repeated waves of the New Zealand Health Survey, 1996-2016	5
Why the US spends more treating high-need high-cost patients: a comparative study of pricing and utilization of care in six high-income countries	5
Individual performance-based incentives for health care workers in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries: a systematic literature review	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 Danish health care quality programme: Creating change through the use of quality improvement collaboratives	5
Prioritization and surgical wait lists: A cross-sectional survey of patient's health-related quality of life	5
Effect of Strict and Soft Policy Interventions on Laboratory Diagnostic Testing in Ontario, Canada: A Bayesian Structural Time Series Analysis	5
The measurement and improvement of maternity service performance through inspection and rating: An observational study of maternity services in acute hospitals in England	5
Understanding women's provider choice for induced abortion in Turkey	5
Creativity at the margins: A cross-country case study on how Dutch and Norwegian peripheries address challenges to quality work in care for older persons	5
Prevalence, predictors and reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Results of a global online survey	5
Improving hospital nurse staffing during the pandemic: Implementation of the 2019 Fund for Health Care Staff in Belgium	5
Measuring health insurance literacy in the Netherlands – First results of the HILM-NL questionnaire	5
The 2022 primary care reform in Italy: Improving continuity and reducing regional disparities?	5
Belief in COVID-19 related conspiracy theories around the globe: A systematic review	5
The future of hospital quality of care policy: A multi-stakeholder discrete choice experiment in Flanders, Belgium	5
Integration processes within the Croatian palliative care model in 2014 – 2020	5
Pandemic preparedness and response regulations in Finland: Experiences and implications for post-COVID-19 reforms	5
Addressing perinatal health inequities in Dutch municipalities: Protocol for the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All-3 programme	5
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	5
Impact of a risk-sharing agreement in rheumatoid arthritis in Spain	5