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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities	25
Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America	24
Section 1115 Substance Use Disorder Waivers: Opportunities and Limitations	23
The Impacts of Politicization on Public Health Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Oregon and Montana	17
The Line between Medicaid and Marketplace: Coverage Effects from Wisconsin's Partial Expansion	17
The Politics of the Gender Gap in COVID-19: Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Preferences in the United States	14
Same as It Ever Was? Persistence and Transformation in US Health Care Policy	14
MAHA Won't Make Americans Healthy Again: The Politicization of U.S. Federal Health Agencies During the Second Trump Administration	14
Entrenching Inequity, Eroding Democracy: State Preemption of Local Housing Policy	13
EU Economic Governance as a Supranational Determinant of Health Inequalities in the Eurozone	13
Public Health Under Attack: Continuity, Discontinuity, and History	13
Why Some Nonelderly Adult Medicaid Enrollees Appear Ineligible Based on Their Annual Income	13
The Limits to Food and Beverage Industry Influence over Fiscal and Regulatory Policy in Latin America	12
Assessing US Pharmaceutical Policy and Pricing Reform Legislation in Light of European Price and Cost Control Strategies	12
Authoritarian Regime Legitimacy and Health Care Provision: Survey Evidence from Contemporary China	12
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.	11
State Courts, State Legislatures, and Setting Abortion Policy	11
Medicaid and Accelerated Approval: Spending on Drugs with and without Proven Clinical Benefits	11
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life	11
Implementing Primary Care Reform in France: Bargaining, Policy Adaptation, and the Maisons de Santé Pluriprofessionnelles	10
Medicaid's Political Development since 1965: How a Fragmented and Unequal Program Has Expanded	10
Medicare for All—Running Down a Dream	10
Using New Techniques to Examine the Past: A Computational Assessment of the First 50 Years of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law	10
The EU as a Political Determinant of Global Health: The Case of Research and Development Incentives for Orphan Medicines and Biotechnology	9
Hospital Consolidation Across Geographic Markets: Insights from Market Participants on Mechanisms for Price Increases	8

State Efforts to Regulate Provider Networks and Directories: Lessons for the Future	8
The Evolution of Long-Term Care and Health Policy in the United States	8
Does Policy Uncertainty Boost Vaccine Hesitancy? Political Controversy, the FDA, and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Fall 2020	8
Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State.	7
Building Power for Health: The Grassroots Politics of Sustaining and Strengthening Medicaid	7
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	7
What the Evolution of 1332 Waivers Tells Us about Their Innovative Potential	7
International Reference Pricing in the Context of US Drug Policy	7
Vaccine Nationalism: How China's State Media Misinform about Western Vaccines and Highlight the Successes of Chinese Vaccines to Different Audiences	7
Introduction: The Politics of Abortion 50 Years afterRoe	6
Variation in Public Support for Government Action on Unexpected Medical Bills	6
Science and Public Health in the Trump Era: The Dismantling of Evidence and Institutions and Proposals for Reconstruction	5
Strategies to Promote Vaccine Uptake in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the “Ladder of Intrusiveness” in Three Countries	5
The Political Determinants of Health and the European Union	5
Medicaid Waivers to Address Homelessness: Political Development and Policy Trajectories	5
The Political Economy of Market Power in Pharmaceuticals	5
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	5
Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices	5
Criminal Records and Licensure in Five Allied Health Professions: Is There Evidence of a Disparate Impact on Historically Marginalized Groups?	5
Potemkin Protections: Assessing Provider Directory Accuracy and Timely Access for Four Specialties in California	5
Is Redistribution Good for Our Health? Examining the Macrocorrelation between Welfare Generosity and Health across EU Nations over the Last 40 Years	5
Entrenched Opportunity: Medicaid, Health Systems, and Solutions to Homelessness	4
Medicare at 60: A Popular Program Facing Challenges	4
The Changing Politics of Guns in America	4
Self-Sourced Medication Abortion, Physician Authority, and the Contradictions of Abortion Care	4
Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccination in a Polarized and Partisan United States	4
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
Administering a Chill Pill? Better Regulation and the Potential for Regulatory Chill in European Union Health Policy	4
Lots of Pain for Little Gain: Three Decades of Medicaid Estate Recovery	4
Intellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good during COVID-19: Framing Law, Institutions, and Ideas during TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the WTO	4
The Importance of Dreaming About (and Mobilizing to Create) Equitable Futures	3
Factors Affecting State-Level Enforcement of the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: A Cross-Case Analysis of Four States	3
What Information Elicits Policy Enthusiasm? Older Americans, the ACA, and Medicare	3
Shifting Federal and State Policy Landscapes for Health Insurance Coverage of Noncitizen Immigrants: Where Are We 30 Years After PRWORA?	3
Popular Votes on Tobacco Tax Increases, 2012–2022	3
Political Partisanship, Trust, and Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccines in Indonesia	3
Public Health Insurance Coverage for Immigrants during Pregnancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Discussion of Relevant Policies and Evidence	3
Reforming the Medicare Part D Benefit Design: Financial Implications for Beneficiaries, Private Plans, Drug Manufacturers, and the Federal Government	3
Dreamscapes of World Health: The History of the World Health Organization	3
HERA-lding More Integration in Health? Examining the Discursive Legitimation of the European Commission's New Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority	3
A Framework for Studying EU Health Policy through a Political Determinants of Health Lens: The Case of the European Health Union	3
Centralization vs. Decentralization in COVID-19 Responses: Lessons from China	3
Insulin Shocks	2
Never Waste a Crisis: The Past, Present, and Future of FDA Reform	2
The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies	2
Entrenchment and Health Equity: Lessons for Advocates, Policy Makers, and Researchers	2
Awareness of COVID-19 at the Local Level: Perceptions and Political Consequences	2
Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States	2
The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough	2

Checkmating the Nutri-Score: Will Food Patriotism Prevent the Harmonization of Front-of-Pack Labeling Schemes within the EU?	2
Reduction in Medicaid Rebates Paid by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers for Outpatient Infused, Injected, Implanted, Inhaled, or Instilled Drugs: The 5i Loophole	2
Medical Doctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England and Canada	2
Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies	2
Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors	2
Introduction: Entrenchment and Health Equity	2
Medicare at 60: Many Successes but More Work to Do	2
Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth	2
Legislative and Regulatory Options for Improving Medicare Advantage	2
Escaping Policy Traps: Strategic Options for Overcoming Entrenchment	2
Emergency Regulatory Procedures, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Politics, and the Political Economy of Vaccine Regulation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care	2
Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States	1
Social Stigma and COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal in France	1
The Paradoxical Politics of Community Health Centers from the Great Society to the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Unending War: Realities of Health Care Systems for America's Soldiers and Veterans	1
Policy Feedback and the Politics of Childhood Vaccine Mandates: Conflict and Change in California, 2012–2019	1
On the Importance and Intrinsic Difficulties of Incorporating Health Insurance Benefits in Absolute Poverty Trends	1
The Future of State All-Payer Claims Databases	1
Embracing Controversy: A Second Look at CDC Reform Efforts in the Wake of COVID-19	1
Introduction: JHPPL at 50	1
Pandemic Times and Health Care Exclusion: Attitudes toward Health Care Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants	1
The Affordable Care Act: At the Nexus of Politics and Policy	1
The Changing Role of the Government in American Health Law	1
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution	1
Newer Comparisons	1
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America	1
Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook	1
State Capacity and COVID-19: Targeted versus Population-Wide Restrictions	1
Value-Based Insurance Design: Clinically Nuanced Consumer Cost Sharing to Increase the Use of High-Value Medications	1
Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics	1
History and Politics of Medication Abortion in the United States and the Rise of Telemedicine and Self-Managed Abortion	1