Health Policy

Health Management, Health Policy, Patient Safety
January 11, 2026
Impact of Work Hours on Healthcare Workers’ Mental Health
This article quantifies how weekly work hours map onto multiple dimensions of mental health in healthcare workers inside a Chinese medical consortium, with a…
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August 28, 2025
Thematic Review of the Health Policy Literature: A Report on the Top 50 Most Cited Articles in Web of Science
Introduction Health policy is approached not only as the regulation and delivery of health services but also as a multidimensional field encompassing economic, social,…
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Health Policy, Research Methods
August 28, 2025
Realist Case Studies for Health in All Policies Implementation
The article, “Strengthening the implementation of Health in All Policies: a methodology for realist explanatory case studies,” was authored by Ketan Shankardass, Emilie Renahy,…
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August 15, 2025
Priority Problem Areas in Health Policies: An Overview from Global to Local
This text examines the top 20 priority problem areas in the field of health policy that the discipline of Health Management seeks to address,…
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August 15, 2025
Temperature and Mental Health Outcomes
This paper, authored by Jamie T. Mullins and Corey White, delves into the critical relationship between ambient temperatures and a wide range of mental…
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August 15, 2025
Building Health System Resilience: Lessons from Global Shocks
Discover the Blueprint for Health System Resilience in an Unpredictable World! The recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa, alongside the European…
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August 15, 2025
Food Systems, Health Equity, and Sovereignty
“Food systems and health equity: a meta-narrative mapping exercise” by Anelyse M. Weiler and colleagues offers a crucial and insightful exploration into the complex…
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August 15, 2025
Climate Change and Infectious Disease in Europe
In an era where global health security is paramount, the intersection of climate change and infectious diseases presents a formidable challenge, particularly across Europe.…
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August 15, 2025
Health System Resilience: An Empirical Review
Unveiling the Reality of Health System Resilience: A Critical Look at Empirical Research The concept of health system resilience has become a prominent feature…
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August 14, 2025
Climate Change in Medical School Curricula
Urgent Call to Action: Why Climate Change Must Be Integrated into Medical Education Now! Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it is…
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July 11, 2025
Roma and Sinti Healthcare Access and Disparities: A Review
This detailed introductory text presents a scoping review titled “Health Care and Access to Quality Social-Health Services of the Roma and Sinti: A Scoping…
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July 11, 2025
Health System Software: A Scoping Review
This article presents a comprehensive scoping review of how the concept of health system software has been utilized in health policy and systems research…
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July 11, 2025
Orthopaedic Health Policy: Challenges and Reforms
The article, “Health Policy Challenges and Reforms: Critical Updates for Orthopaedic Surgeons”, authored by Peter Boufadel, Mohamad Y. Fares, Mohammad Daher, Abhay Mathur, Patrick…
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Health Management, Health Policy
July 8, 2025
Contextual Determinants of Suicide Prevention Interventions
This research article, titled “The Role of Contextual Determinants in Implementation of Complex Suicide Prevention Interventions: An Application of the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation and…
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Health Management, Health Policy
July 6, 2025
Social Participation in Collective Health, Sanitation, and Education Policies
This article, titled “Políticas em saúde, saneamento e educação: trajetória da participação social na saúde coletiva” (Policies in health, sanitation, and education: trajectory of…
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Health Management, Health Policy
July 2, 2025
Framework for Mentally Healthy Workplaces
This article, titled “A mentally healthy framework to guide employers and policy makers” by Deady, Sanatkar, Tan, et al. (2024), provides an updated comprehensive…
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Health Management, Health Policy
June 29, 2025
Real-World Data for Gene Therapy Contracts in Medicaid
This response introduces the article, “Using Real-World Data to Inform Value-Based Contracts for Cell and Gene Therapies in Medicaid,” by Antal Zemplenyi, Jim Leonard,…
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Health Management, Health Policy
June 27, 2025
Essential Tobacco Cessation for Asthma and COPD Patients
The article, titled “Neglecting the neglected: Tobacco cessation support is essential for the management of asthma and COPD” by Karadoğan et al., published in…
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June 26, 2025
Identifying Health Needs: The NEED Assessment Framework
This document introduces an academic article titled “Identification of health-related needs: The needs examination, evaluation and dissemination (NEED) assessment framework”. Authored by Charline Maertens…
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June 26, 2025
Improving Doctor Retention in Deprived Areas: Key Findings
In an era of persistent healthcare workforce challenges, particularly in socioeconomically deprived regions, understanding why doctors choose to remain in their roles is as…
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June 26, 2025
Exploring Health Equity in Primary Health Care: Key Findings from a Scoping Review
This article, titled “Possible connections between health equity and primary health care: a scoping review” by Fernandes et al. and published in BMC Public…
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June 26, 2025
The Future of Health Technology Assessment in Iran
This research article, titled “Assessing the development of health technology assessment in Iran: a policy analysis using Kingdon’s Multiple streams framework: a qualitative study,”…
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June 26, 2025
Interpretable Survival Analysis for Hospital Length of Stay
The research by Li et al. (2025) addresses a critical challenge in healthcare: accurately predicting in-hospital Length of Stay (LOS). This metric, defined as…
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June 26, 2025
Maternal Health Equity: Leveraging Data Resources
This article, titled “Determining What Matters: Data Resources for Examining Maternal Health Equity,” authored by Leremy A. Colf and Karina M. Shreffler, addresses the…
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Policy
June 26, 2025
Machine Learning for Public Health Policy Evaluation
The article, “Machine learning and public health policy evaluation: research dynamics and prospects for challenges” by Li, Zhou, Xu, and Ma (2025), addresses the…
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June 25, 2025
Untrustworthy Evidence in Public Health Policy
The research article titled “Investigating the trustworthiness of research evidence used to inform public health policy: a qualitative interview study on the use of…
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June 25, 2025
Exploring Knowledge Translation in Health Systems
The article titled “A scoping review of knowledge translation in strengthening health policy and practice: sources, platforms, tools, opportunities, and challenges”, authored by Resham…
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June 25, 2025
Mental Health Policy Implementation in LMICs: Insights from a Realist Review
The article titled “Understanding how, why, for whom, and under what conditions national mental health policy implementation works or fails in low- and middle-income…
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Health Policy, Health Sociology
June 15, 2025
Understanding Spiritual Needs in Cancer Patients
When someone is diagnosed with cancer, the impact extends beyond the physical. It touches the psychological, social, and deeply personal spiritual dimensions of life.…
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Health Management, Health Policy
June 15, 2025
Understanding the Link Between Unemployment and Suicide Rates
A growing body of research has long pointed to a troubling connection between economic downturns and suicide rates. Yet, in the aftermath of the…
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June 15, 2025
Understanding Menstruation in Global Health Policy
Despite growing public and academic attention, menstruation remains underrepresented and inconsistently framed in global health policy. The article “Where is menstruation in global health…
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Health Policy, Health Sociology
June 15, 2025
Understanding Intersectional Stigma in Health Care
The article “Challenges and opportunities in examining and addressing intersectional stigma and health” offers a powerful synthesis of emerging scholarship in health-related stigma. It…
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Health Management, Health Policy
June 15, 2025
Understanding the Global Burden of Autism: Insights from the GBD 2021 Study
The article titled “The global epidemiology and health burden of the autism spectrum: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” published in…
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June 5, 2025
The Importance of Sample Size in AI Health Predictions
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping healthcare by enabling more accurate and individualized clinical predictions. Yet, amid the excitement over technological advancement, one fundamental issue…
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