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The Use of Evidence to Design an Essential Package of Health Services in Pakistan: A Review and Analysis of Prioritisation Decisions at Different Stages of the Appraisal Process
Background  Pakistan embarked on a process of designing an essential package of health services (EPHS) as a pathway toward...
Reflections on the Health System Impact Fellowship and the Future of Embedded Research; Comment on “Early Career Outcomes of Embedded Research Fellows: An Analysis of the Health System Impact Fellowship Program”
The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program in Canada offers a transformative approach to health services and policy...
Construct Clarity in Physician-Hospital Alignment: The Need for Precision in Definition, Measurement, and Management; Comment on “Alignment in the Hospital-Physician Relationship: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study of Medical Specialist Enterprises in the Netherlands”
The study by Ubels and van Raaij highlights the importance of alignment in hospital-physician relationships and the challe...
Building Trust and Trustworthiness in Public Institutions: Essential Elements in Placing Trust at the Heart of Health Policy and Systems; Comment on “Placing Trust at the Heart of Health Policy and Systems”
In this commentary, I argue that societies are facing major crises in trust that extends well beyond health systems, outli...
How Could We Establish Monitoring and Surveillance of Health-Harming Corporations and Can Governments Be Trusted to Do It?; Comment on “National Public Health Surveillance of Corporations in Key Unhealthy Commodity Industries – A Scoping Review and Framework Synthesis”
In the context of growing interest in the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) which has been defined as “the systems,...
Countering Coloniality in Global Health; Comment on “The Rhetoric of Decolonizing Global Health Fails to Address the Reality of Settler Colonialism: Gaza as a Case in Point”
This commentary joins the chorus of rightful critiques of global health as it continues to further colonial agendas under ...
To What Extent Can Digital Health Technologies Comply With the Principles of Responsible Innovation? Practice- and Policy-Oriented Research Insights Regarding an Organisational and Systemic Issue
Background Digital health technologies (DHTs) have expanded exponentially since the COVID-19 crisis and have prompted ques...
Understanding the Politics of Food Regulation and Public Health: An Analysis of Codex Standard-Setting Processes on Food Labelling
Background  The importance of the international food regulatory system to global health, is often overlooked. There are ca...
An Exploration of the Utility and Impacts of Implementation Science Strategies by Cancer Registries for Healthcare Improvement: A Systematic Review
Background  Cancer data registries are central elements of cancer control programs providing critical insights in measures...
Lobbying in the Sunlight: A Scoping Review of Frameworks to Measure the Accessibility of Lobbying Disclosures
Background  While anyone can lobby governments, most lobbying is driven by commercial interests. Due to limited government...
Systematic Review of Tools and Approaches for Evaluating the Transferability of Health Technology Assessments Across Different Jurisdictions
Background  This study aims to review tools that have been developed for the transferability of health technology assessme...
Association of Launch Price and Clinical Value With Reimbursement Decisions for Anticancer Drugs in China
Background  The potential role played by launch price and clinical value in reimbursement decisions has not been sufficien...
Discrepancies Among Hospitals and Regions in the Provision of Low-Value Care
Background  Low-value care (LVC) is a critical issue in terms of patient safety and fiscal policy; however, little has bee...
Effect of the Presence of Emergency Departments With 300 or More Hospital Beds in Health Service Areas on 30-Day Mortality in Korea: A Nationwide Retrospective Cross-sectional Study
Background  Disparities in emergency care accessibility exist between health service areas (HSAs). There is limited eviden...
“Caught in Each Other’s Traps”: Factors Perpetuating Incentive-Linked Prescribing Deals Between Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Background  Despite known adverse impacts on patients and health systems, “incentive-linked prescribing,” which describes ...
Exploring the County Level Mortality Pattern Variations in Rural Areas of Iran (2006-2016)
Background  Mortality rate in rural areas is a useful measure of the health of the population and the function of the heal...
Forecasting the Early Impact of COVID-19 on Physician Supply in EU Countries
Background  Many countries faced health workforce challenges even before the pandemic, such as impending retirements, nega...
Continuing Education in Digital Skills for Healthcare Professionals — Mapping of the Current Situation in EU Member States
The rapid advancement of technology in healthcare is creating new competency requirements for professionals, such as skill...
Entry of Migrant Workers to Malaysia: Consideration to Implement Mass Drug Administration Against Intestinal Parasitic Infections
Over the last five decades, widespread industrialisation and urbanisation have resulted in the influx of low-skilled worke...
The Adaptation of Digital Health Solutions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hungary: A Scoping Review
Background  Before the pandemic, digital health was merely a potential alternative to established systems of health care p...
Spatial Distribution and Birth Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease in Iran: A Systematic Review and Hierarchical Bayesian Meta-analysis
Background  This study aimed to comprehensively analyze the overall congenital heart disease (CHD) prevalence in live birt...
Equity Lens on Canada’s COVID-19 Response: Review of the Literature
Background  A growing literature has documented how the secondary effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have compounded socioec...
The Economic Rationale for Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform is analyzed from an economic perspective. First, the economic rationale for providing access to healthca...
Can a Wellbeing Economy Save Us?
The COVID-19 pandemic led many countries to consider reforms to their economic policies, in part to better deal with globa...
Research Coproduction: An Underused Pathway to Impact
Knowledge translation and implementation science have made many advances in the last two decades. However, research is sti...
Placing Trust at the Heart of Health Policy and Systems
Trusted interactions are crucial in health systems. Trust facilitates effective healthcare by encouraging patients to seek...
Pakistan’s Progress on Universal Health Coverage: Lessons Learned in Priority Setting and Challenges Ahead in Reinforcing Primary Healthcare
Pakistan developed an essential package of health services at the primary healthcare (PHC) level as a key component of hea...
Costing Interventions for Developing an Essential Package of Health Services: Application of a Rapid Method and Results From Pakistan
BackgroundThe Federal Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (MNHSR&C) in Pakistan has com...
Delivery and Prioritization of Surgical Care in Canada During COVID-19: An Environmental Scan
Background  During COVID-19 healthcare systems had to make concessions to make room for the surge of COVID-19 patients req...
Long-term Care Insurance and Health and Perceived Satisfaction of Older Chinese: Comparisons Between Urban/Rural Areas, Chronic Conditions, and Their Intersectionality
Background  Evidence of the impact of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on health and wellbeing has predominantly come from ...
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