Search Results - subject_exact:"Health policy"

Timely access to new pharmaceuticals in Canada, the United States, and the European Union, 2026

Acri, Kristina M. L.; Assad, Lauren - 2026

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Prompted choice and organ donor registrations : quasi-experimental evidence from Italy

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Schulze-Spüntrup, Selina - 2026

We examine the ezects of introducing prompted choice on organ donation behavior. Applying a generalized dizerence-in-dizerences design, we take advantage of the gradual roll-out of a policy in Italy that integrated the question of organ donation preference into the process of identity card...

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Prompted choice and organ donor registrations : quasi-experimental evidence from Italy

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Schulze-Spüntrup, Selina - 2026

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Demystifying artificial intelligence in health : what health policy-makers need to know

Rey Puech, Paula del; Saund, Jasjot; Panteli, Dimitra; … - 2026

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Sanctuaries, islands, and deserts : a typology of regionalized abortion policy

Gannon, Payton; Pullan, Danielle - 2025

This paper elaborates a typology of regionalized abortion policy based on a comparative case study of Italy and the United States. Italy originally legalized abortion in 1978 and has seen little effort to modify the law since. Contrastingly, the United States’ abortion landscape has been in...

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Medical Card coverage and the impact of income limit freezes

Keane, Claire; Sándorová, Simona; Walsh, Brendan - 2025

Ireland is one of the few European countries without a universal healthcare system (UHC). Instead, a complex system of means-tested schemes that provide free access to various healthcare services or reduced cost medication exist. The most central component of this complex system is the Medical...

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Public financial management reforms in India : understanding state-level experiences from the implementation of Single Nodal Agency reform in national health mission

Choudhury, Mita; Chutani, Nitya - 2025

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An agent-based approach to high-cost drugs for infectious diseases

Caravaggio, Andrea; Leoni, Silvia - 2025

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Measure, monitor, minimize : reenvisioning a PhilHealth hospital readmission policy for value-based purchasing and financial risk protection for Filipinos

Siy Van, Vanessa T.; Casas, Lyle; Sigua, Jemar Anne V.; … - 2025

Hospital readmissions are often used to measure quality and continuity of care within health systems. In 2024, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) removed its Single Period Confinement (SPC) Rule, a longstanding policy that denied reimbursements for readmissions within 90...

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Optimal public investment in education, health, and R&D : a unified framework for innovation-driven growth

Parui, Pintu; Prettner, Klaus - 2025

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The urgency of investing in health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to reduce inequality and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

2024

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Everything you always wanted to know about European Union health policies but were afraid to ask

Greer, Scott L.; Rozenblum, Sarah; Fahy, Nick; Panteli, … - 2024 - Fourth, revised edition

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Research landscape of diabetes mhealth technologies

Castillo-Valdez, Pedro F.; Rodriguez-Salvador, Marisela; … - 2024

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Vaccine-skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions

Steinmayr, Andreas; Rossi, Manuel - 2024

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Prompted choice and organ donor registrations: Quasi-experimental evidence from Italy

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Schulze-Spüntrup, Selina - 2026

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What are the impacts of certificate-of-need laws? : a review of the evidence

Courtemanche, Charles; Garuccio, Joseph - 2026

This study reviews the literature on the impacts of Certificate-of-Need (CON) laws, which require the approval of states' health planning agencies for health care providers to engage in regulated actions such as opening or expanding facilities or purchasing equipment. Economic theory suggests...

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Incentives, surrogates, and long-run vaccination

Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2026

Can monetary incentives improve health behaviors in the long run, and do commonly used surrogate outcomes capture these effects? We study these questions in the context of vaccination using a large-scale field experiment. The experiment combines commonly used surrogates-vaccination intentions,...

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Incentives, surrogates, and long-run vaccination

Campos Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2026

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Les politiques de protection sociale et de CSU et leur financement en République Démocratique du Congo

Rached, Patrick; Renmans, Dimitri; Mwene Batu, Pacifique; … - 2026

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Acting early on non-communicable diseases : a framework for health system transformation : white paper

2026

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Lockdown policy rules with a hospital capacity constraint

Li, Hongtao; Nakata, Taisuke; Sakamoto, Hiroki; Uneya, … - 2026

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COVID-19 risk perceptions after the end of the public health emergency

Chiba, Asako; Haganuma, Kazuya; Nakata, Taisuke; Nguyen … - 2026

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The World Health Organization's drive for universal health coverage in Egypt and Morocco

Mahmoud, Mai Mohamed Abdou - 2026

While the World Health Organization’s (WHO) role in global health is well-documented, there is a notable gap in research regarding its influence on domestic health policy in Lower-Middle Income Countries (LMICs). This paper, therefore, explores the WHO’s impact on advancing the Universal...

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The future of Swiss hospital capacity planning : new impulses from realworld evidence and stakeholder inputs

Vogel, Justus; Fu, Enqi; Lang, Charlotte; Ehlig, David; … - 2026

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Tracking Universal Health Coverage : 2025 Global Monitoring Report

World Health Organization - 2026

The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) is for all people to receive the quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without incurring financial hardship. UHC covers the full continuum of essential health services, from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment,...

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Knowledge and vaccination in COVID-19 management efficiency : a Global Malmquist-Luenberger index analysis

Martínez Córdoba, Pedro José; Márquez Arenas, Lorena; … - 2026

The COVID-19 pandemic posed severe challenges for governments, presenting unknown situations and requiring decisions to be made under unprecedented uncertainty. Scientists responded fast, developing vaccines to mitigate the effects of the disease and improve pandemic management. This study...

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Ottawa's enforcement of the Canada health act constrains provincial health care reform

Esmail, Nadeem; Asaad, Lauren; Moir, Mackenzie - 2026

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Are Philippine local governments spending enough on primary health care?

Ulep, Valerie Gilbert; Herrin, Alejandro N.; Sarne, … - 2026

We assessed whether health spending of local government units in the Philippines is sufficient to deliver mandated primary health care (PHC) services under a devolved system, how PHC spending varies with fiscal capacity, and whether increased intergovernmental transfers following the...

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OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Bulgaria 2026

2026

In recent decades, Bulgaria has seen significant improvements in life expectancy as well as in infant and maternal mortality. Despite these achievements, health status, risk factors for health, and the quality of care are worse compared to OECD countries. To address these weaknesses, Bulgaria...

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Healthcare financing, primary care strength, and population health in Europe : evidence from a dynamic panel threshold model

Di Gioacchino, Debora; Ghignoni, Emanuela; Sabani, Laura - 2026

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A technical and political analysis of fiscal space and revenue resources of universal health coverage in Thailand

Theepakorn Jithitikulchai - 2026

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Under pressure? : forced migration and public health

Marques, Renan; Maciel, Mateus; Zuchowski, David - 2026

We study how Venezuelan refugee inflows affect healthcare outcomes and municipal public finances in Brazil's universal, decentralized public healthcare system. For identification, we exploit cross-municipality variation in refugee exposure and use distance to Brazil's only official border...

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Financing Universal Health Coverage in the Lao PDR : A Health Public Expenditure and Institutional Review

2026

Financing Universal Health Coverage in the Lao PDR: A Health Public Expenditure and Institutional Review examines how the Lao People's Democratic Republic finances its health sector and how public institutions translate resources into services, at a time when progress toward universal health...

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Fit to Prosper : Investing in Health for Jobs and Development in Western and Central Africa

2026

Over 200 million children will be born in West and Central Africa (AFW) between 2025 and 2050, a major addition to total regional population of 534 million. By 2050, almost one in five young people globally will be living in AFW. As they look to the future beyond 2050, their prospects - and that...

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Policy or pandemic? : explaining the rise in young adults' private health insurance take-up in Australia

Kettlewell, Nathan; Gao, Tiannan - 2026

This study uses administrative data to estimate how an age-based discount policy introduced in 2019 affected the take-up of private health insurance in Australia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy provided a perpetual premium discount of 2%-10% for people who purchased insurance...

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“We did the best we could with what we had” : a qualitative study on the COVID-19 pandemic vaccine response in Belize

Cabieses, Báltica; Bonilla-Zarrazaga, Lidia; Espinoza, … - 2026

The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented global impact, making the rapid development of vaccines critical. Belize, a small, middle-income country in Central America and the Caribbean, displayed COVID-19 vaccination rapidly. However, to date, no study has been conducted to understand in-depth...

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The economic costs of health protection during COVID-19 : a sign-restricted VAR analysis across countries

Paffenholz, Michaela; Wolf, Gerome - 2026

This paper investigates the dynamic trade-off between health outcomes and economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing a panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model with sign restrictions for 46 countries, we utilize weekly data on infections, the OECD GDP tracker, and the Oxford...

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Pre-booked vaccination appointments as a nudge : evidence from a nationwide intervention

Moeller, Jakob; Halla, Martin; Thomas, Tobias - 2026

We study the effect of pre-booked COVID-19 vaccination appointments using a na- tionwide campaign in Austria. Leveraging administrative microdata on more than 450,000 initially unvaccinated adults, we exploit cross-state variation in program participation and staggered appointment timing in a...

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Pre-booked vaccination appointments as a nudge : evidence from a nationwide intervention

Moeller, Jakob; Halla, Martin; Thomas, Tobias - 2026

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Pre-booked vaccination appointments as a nudge : evidence from a nationwide intervention

Moeller, Jakob; Halla, Martin; Thomas, Tobias - 2026

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Policy views in a pandemic

Hayashi, Reona; Morikawa, So; Nakata, Taisuke; Nguyen … - 2026

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Brazil’s Health Economic Industrial Complex : Policy Innovations to Align Public Health, Industrial Development, and Equity

Sjoblom, Mirja; Fonseca, Flora; Iunes, Roberto; Ivins, … - 2026

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in global health systems, particularly the concentration of research and manufacturing capacity in high-income countries and the resulting inequities in access to medical countermeasures. These lessons informed Brazil’s revitalization of...

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Health Workforce Development to Advance Universal Health Coverage in Cambodia

Lê, Sang Minh; Araujo, Edson C.; Saing, Chan Hang; … - 2026

Cambodia has made substantial progress in improving population health outcomes over the past two decades, including increased life expectancy and major reductions in maternal and child mortality. Despite these achievements, important challenges remain. Significant disparities persist across...

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The health care system in Eritrea

Kibreab, Gebremichael - 2026

This country report provides a description of the emergence of a health care system under public responsibility in Eritrea. The inception of the health care system refers to the first legislation stipulating entitlements to medical care. The report also includes a brief description of major...

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The health care system in Serbia

Milevska-Kostova, Neda - 2026

This country report provides a description of the emergence of a health care system under public responsibility in Serbia. The inception of the health care system refers to the first legislation stipulating entitlements to medical care. The report also includes a brief description of major...

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Governar a saúde : recrutamento burocrático e dinâmicas políticas no executivo federal

Davidian, Andreza - 2026

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International collaboration and diplomacy in Sweden's Covid-19 vaccine strategy

Irwin, Rachel - 2026

This working paper examines Sweden's Covid-19 vaccine procurement and distribution strategy as part of the SCANVAX project on Nordic vaccine diplomacy. Drawing primarily on a review of news media, parliamentary records, government reports and other documentary sources, the study analyses how...

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Exploring the quantitative impact of medical marijuana dispensaries on residential sale prices in Oklahoma

Clark, Joshua; Delgado, Michael S. - 2026

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What role can routine vaccination play in pandemic prevention and preparedness? : an economic evaluation of Mpox vaccination

Laurence, Tim; Moore, Caroline; Keller, Janeen Madan; … - 2026

Since 2022, mpox has triggered two public health emergencies of international concern, with sustained transmission across Africa and beyond. We conducted a modelling study to assess the cost-effectiveness of routine mpox vaccination in endemic African provinces as a strategy to reduce disease...

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The effects of childhood immunization programs on health and education : micro-evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh - 2026

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Rewriting the climate agenda : from failed policies to transformative action

2026

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Do community health centers improve territorial healthcare?

Rizzo, Michel; Grazzini, Lisa; Grilli, Leonardo; … - 2026

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Small-area projections of the general practitioner workforce in Germany : supply, demand and workforce gaps

Bruns, Daniel; Meier, Dennis H.; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2026

Health workforce projections support needs-aligned and geographically equitable care by anticipating service demand, workforce supply, and regional gaps. We develop two indicators: the replacement requirement, measuring capacity needed to offset demand and workforce exits, and the projected...

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The East Asian welfare model : evaluating welfare politics and outcomes from an ideal-typical perspective

2026

This book revisits after about close to 20 years the East Asian Welfare Model when looked at from an ideal-typical perspective. Ideal-typical welfare regimes do not change, in general, quickly, they are stable, due to the higher level of observation applied (using a high-flying bird’s or...

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