OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities	30
Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America	25
Section 1115 Substance Use Disorder Waivers: Opportunities and Limitations	23
Same as It Ever Was? Persistence and Transformation in US Health Care Policy	21
The Politics of the Gender Gap in COVID-19: Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Preferences in the United States	19
MAHA Will Not Make Americans Healthy Again: The Politicization of US Federal Health Agencies During the Second Trump Administration	18
Public Health Under Attack: Continuity, Discontinuity, and History	17
EU Economic Governance as a Supranational Determinant of Health Inequalities in the Eurozone	17
The Impacts of Politicization on Public Health Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Oregon and Montana	17
Entrenching Inequity, Eroding Democracy: State Preemption of Local Housing Policy	16
Marketing Opioids to Veterans and Older Adults: A Content Analysis of Internal Industry Documents Released from State of Oklahoma v. Purdue Pharma LP, et al.	16
The Limits to Food and Beverage Industry Influence over Fiscal and Regulatory Policy in Latin America	16
Why Some Nonelderly Adult Medicaid Enrollees Appear Ineligible Based on Their Annual Income	16
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life	13
Using New Techniques to Examine the Past: A Computational Assessment of the First 50 Years of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law	13
Medicaid's Political Development since 1965: How a Fragmented and Unequal Program Has Expanded	12
Medicare for All—Running Down a Dream	12
State Courts, State Legislatures, and Setting Abortion Policy	12
Implementing Primary Care Reform in France: Bargaining, Policy Adaptation, and the Maisons de Santé Pluriprofessionnelles	12
The EU as a Political Determinant of Global Health: The Case of Research and Development Incentives for Orphan Medicines and Biotechnology	11
State Efforts to Regulate Provider Networks and Directories: Lessons for the Future	10
Hospital Consolidation Across Geographic Markets: Insights from Market Participants on Mechanisms for Price Increases	10
The Evolution of Long-Term Care and Health Policy in the United States	10
Building Power for Health: The Grassroots Politics of Sustaining and Strengthening Medicaid	9
Market Failure, State Failure: The Political Economy of Supply Chain Strengthening to Ensure Equitable Access to Vaccines and Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	9

Does Policy Uncertainty Boost Vaccine Hesitancy? Political Controversy, the FDA, and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Fall 2020	9
How War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to Our Health	8
Vaccine Nationalism: How China's State Media Misinform about Western Vaccines and Highlight the Successes of Chinese Vaccines to Different Audiences	8
Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State.	8
Variation in Public Support for Government Action on Unexpected Medical Bills	8
What the Evolution of 1332 Waivers Tells Us about Their Innovative Potential	8
When Protections Work but Processes Stall: Evaluating the No Surprises Act's Implementation Record	7
Criminal Records and Licensure in Five Allied Health Professions: Is There Evidence of a Disparate Impact on Historically Marginalized Groups?	7
Which US States Are Most Generous in Their Medicaid Policies and Why?	7
Introduction: The Politics of Abortion 50 Years afterRoe	7
From Relf v. Weinberger to Drive-Through Delivery: Unpacking Democratic Responsiveness and Administrative Levers in U.S. Sterilization Policy	7
Strategies to Promote Vaccine Uptake in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the “Ladder of Intrusiveness” in Three Countries	7
Is Redistribution Good for Our Health? Examining the Macrocorrelation between Welfare Generosity and Health across EU Nations over the Last 40 Years	6
Science and Public Health in the Trump Era: The Dismantling of Evidence and Institutions, and Proposals for Reconstruction	6
The Political Economy of Market Power in Pharmaceuticals	6
It’s Only a Crisis if It’s Fit to Print: Examining the Relationship Between Overdose Rates, News Coverage, and the Presence of the Opioid Crisis in State Legislative Campaigns	6
Patent Litigation and the Timing of Entry by Biologic Biosimilars Compared to Small Molecule Generics in the U.S., 2015–2015	6
Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices	6
Medicaid Waivers to Address Homelessness: Political Development and Policy Trajectories	6
The Changing Politics of Guns in America	5
The Political Determinants of Health and the European Union	5
Intellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good during COVID-19: Framing Law, Institutions, and Ideas during TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the WTO	5
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us	5
Medicare at 60: A Popular Program Facing Challenges	5
Lots of Pain for Little Gain: Three Decades of Medicaid Estate Recovery	5
Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccination in a Polarized and Partisan United States	5
The Implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR.1) for Long-Term Services and Supports	5
Administering a Chill Pill? Better Regulation and the Potential for Regulatory Chill in European Union Health Policy	5
Entrenched Opportunity: Medicaid, Health Systems, and Solutions to Homelessness	5
More Than Words? How Highlighting Target Populations Affects Public Opinion about the Medicaid Program	4
Partisanship and the Pandemic: How and Why Americans Followed Party Cues on COVID-19	4
Popular Votes on Tobacco Tax Increases, 2012–2022	4
HERA-lding More Integration in Health? Examining the Discursive Legitimation of the European Commission's New Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority	4
Shifting Federal and State Policy Landscapes for Health Insurance Coverage of Noncitizen Immigrants: Where Are We 30 Years After PRWORA?	4
The Importance of Dreaming About (and Mobilizing to Create) Equitable Futures	4
Work Requirements and Medicaid Enrollments: Will States Stanch Erosion?	4
Self-Sourced Medication Abortion, Physician Authority, and the Contradictions of Abortion Care	4
Dreamscapes of World Health: The History of the World Health Organization	4
Factors Affecting State-Level Enforcement of the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: A Cross-Case Analysis of Four States	4
Political Partisanship, Trust, and Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccines in Indonesia	3
Abortion Politics: Physician Mobilization in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision	3
Medicare at 60: Many Successes but More Work to Do	3
A Framework for Studying EU Health Policy through a Political Determinants of Health Lens: The Case of the European Health Union	3
Public Health Insurance Coverage for Immigrants during Pregnancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Discussion of Relevant Policies and Evidence	3
Emergency Regulatory Procedures, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Politics, and the Political Economy of Vaccine Regulation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
What Information Elicits Policy Enthusiasm? Older Americans, the ACA, and Medicare	3
Introduction: Entrenchment and Health Equity	3
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care	3
Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda	2
Escaping Policy Traps: Strategic Options for Overcoming Entrenchment	2

Communicative Infrastructure and the Global Diffusion of Latin American Food Policy	2
Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States	2
Awareness of COVID-19 at the Local Level: Perceptions and Political Consequences	2
The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies	2
Don't Take Your Guns to Town? Rural Socialization and the Long-Term Politics of Firearms	2
Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies	2
Entrenchment and Health Equity: Lessons for Advocates, Policy Makers, and Researchers	2
The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough	2
Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth	2
Never Waste a Crisis: The Past, Present, and Future of FDA Reform	2
Medical Doctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England and Canada	2
Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors	2
Legislative and Regulatory Options for Improving Medicare Advantage	2
Frankenstein or My Fair Lady? Lessons on Participatory Governance from Oregon Medicaid's Priority-Setting Experiment	2
Checkmating the Nutri-Score: Will Food Patriotism Prevent the Harmonization of Front-of-Pack Labeling Schemes within the EU?	2
“Thoughts and Prayers”: The (Non) Effect of Partisan Responses to Mass Shootings on Public Opinion	2
Community Health Centers and Voting, 2006–2022	1
State Regulation and Hospital Community Benefit Spending in Medicaid Expansion States	1
Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States	1
On the Importance and Intrinsic Difficulties of Incorporating Health Insurance Benefits in Absolute Poverty Trends	1
Policy Feedback and the Politics of Childhood Vaccine Mandates: Conflict and Change in California, 2012–2019	1
Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics	1
Newer Comparisons	1
The Paradoxical Politics of Community Health Centers from the Great Society to the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Impervious to Elite Influence: Americans’ ACA Attitudes, 2009–2020	1
“The CDC Won't Let Me Be”: The Opinion Dynamics of Support for CDC Regulatory Authority	1
Introduction: JHPPL at 50	1
The Future of State All-Payer Claims Databases	1
Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook	1
The Affordable Care Act: At the Nexus of Politics and Policy	1
Embracing Controversy: A Second Look at CDC Reform Efforts in the Wake of COVID-19	1
History and Politics of Medication Abortion in the United States and the Rise of Telemedicine and Self-Managed Abortion	1
A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding the Disconnection between Perceptions of Abortion Acceptability and Support for Roe v. Wade among US Adults	1
Invoking Identity? Partisan Polarization in Discussions of Race, Racism, and Gender in 2022 Midterm Advertising in the United States	1
Medicare at 60	1
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America	1
State Capacity and COVID-19: Targeted versus Population-Wide Restrictions	1
Unending War: Realities of Health Care Systems for America's Soldiers and Veterans	1
The Changing Role of the Government in American Health Law	1
Pandemic Times and Health Care Exclusion: Attitudes toward Health Care Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants	1
Social Stigma and COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal in France	1
Mental Health in Times of Democratic Backsliding: Insights from Trump's Second Term	1
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution	1