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Public-Private engagement and health systems resilience in times of health worker strikes: a Ghanaian case study. 卫生工作者罢工时的公私参与和卫生系统复原力:加纳案例研究。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae018
Bettina Buabeng-Baidoo, Jill Olivier
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Prospective policy analysis-a critical interpretive synthesis review. 前瞻性政策分析--批判性解释综述。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae009
Ligia Paina, Ruth Young, Oyinkansola Oladapo, Jose Leandro, Zhixi Chen, Takeru Igusa
{"title":"Prospective policy analysis-a critical interpretive synthesis review.","authors":"Ligia Paina, Ruth Young, Oyinkansola Oladapo, Jose Leandro, Zhixi Chen, Takeru Igusa","doi":"10.1093/heapol/czae009","DOIUrl":"10.1093/heapol/czae009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most policy analysis methods and approaches are applied retrospectively. As a result, there have been calls for more documentation of the political-economy factors central to health care reforms in real-time. We sought to highlight the methods and previous applications of prospective policy analysis (PPA) in the literature to document purposeful use of PPA and reflect on opportunities and drawbacks. We used a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) approach as our initial scoping revealed that PPA is inconsistently defined in the literature. While we found several examples of PPA, all were researcher-led, most were published recently and few described mechanisms for engagement in the policy process. In addition, methods used were often summarily described and reported on relatively short prospective time horizons. Most of the studies stemmed from high-income countries and, across our sample, did not always clearly outline the rationale for a PPA and how this analysis was conceptualized. That only about one-fifth of the articles explicitly defined PPA underscores the fact that researchers and practitioners conducting PPA should better document their intent and reflect on key elements essential for PPA. Despite a wide recognition that policy processes are dynamic and ideally require multifaceted and longitudinal examination, the PPA approach is not currently frequently documented in the literature. However, the few articles reported in this paper might overestimate gaps in PPA applications. More likely, researchers are embedded in policy processes prospectively but do not necessarily write their articles from that perspective, and analyses led by non-academics might not make their way into the published literature. Future research should feature examples of testing and refining the proposed framework, as well as designing and reporting on PPA. Even when policy-maker engagement might not be feasible, real-time policy monitoring might have value in and of itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":12926,"journal":{"name":"Health policy and planning","volume":" ","pages":"429-441"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11005837/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139982741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The effect of gradually lifting the two-child policy on demographic changes in China. 逐步取消二胎政策对中国人口变化的影响。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae008
Yidie Lin, Baiyang Zhang, Meijing Hu, Qiang Yao, Min Jiang, Cairong Zhu
{"title":"The effect of gradually lifting the two-child policy on demographic changes in China.","authors":"Yidie Lin, Baiyang Zhang, Meijing Hu, Qiang Yao, Min Jiang, Cairong Zhu","doi":"10.1093/heapol/czae008","DOIUrl":"10.1093/heapol/czae008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Low-fertility rate has been a common problem in many industrialized countries. To reverse the declining trend of new births, Chinese government gradually lifted its restrictions on the number of births per family, allowing for a household to have no more than two children. Little is known about the additional births or population increase contributed by the gradual relaxation of birth restrictions. To fill this gap, this quasi-experimental design study including data from 124 regions used the synthetic control method and controlled interrupted time series analysis to evaluate the differences in birth rates and rates of natural population increase between China and its synthetic control following implementation of the two-child policy from 2011 to 2020. A total of 123 regions were included in the control pool. Data collected during 1990-2010 were used to identify the synthetic China for each study outcome. The mean rate differences of birth rates and rates of natural increase between China and synthetic China after two-child policy implementation were 1.16 per 1000 population and 1.02 per 1000, respectively. These rate differences were distinguished from variation due to chance (one-sided pseudo-P-values: P for birth rates = 0.047, P for rates of natural increase = 0.020). However, there were statistically significant annual reductions in the pre-post trend of birth rates and rates of natural increase compared with those of controls of <0.340 per 1000 population per year [P = 0.007, 95% CI = (-0.584, -0.096)] and <0.274 per 1000 per year [P = 0.028, 95% CI = (-0.518, -0.031)]. The results suggested that lifting birth restrictions had a short-term effect on the increase in birth rates and rates of natural population increase. However, birth policy with lifting birth restrictions alone may not have sustained impact on population growth in the long run.</p>","PeriodicalId":12926,"journal":{"name":"Health policy and planning","volume":" ","pages":"363-371"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11005836/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139706578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Citizen engagement in national health insurance in rural western Kenya. 肯尼亚西部农村地区公民参与国家医疗保险的情况。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae007
Beryl Maritim, Adam D Koon, Allan Kimaina, Jane Goudge
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Unravelling collaborative governance dynamics within healthcare networks: a scoping review. 揭示医疗保健网络中的合作治理动态:范围界定审查。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae005
Zakaria Belrhiti, Maryam Bigdeli, Aniss Lakhal, Dib Kaoutar, Saad Zbiri, Sanaa Belabbes
{"title":"Unravelling collaborative governance dynamics within healthcare networks: a scoping review.","authors":"Zakaria Belrhiti, Maryam Bigdeli, Aniss Lakhal, Dib Kaoutar, Saad Zbiri, Sanaa Belabbes","doi":"10.1093/heapol/czae005","DOIUrl":"10.1093/heapol/czae005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In many countries, healthcare systems suffer from fragmentation between hospitals and primary care. In response, many governments institutionalized healthcare networks (HN) to facilitate integration and efficient healthcare delivery. Despite potential benefits, the implementation of HN is often challenged by inefficient collaborative dynamics that result in delayed decision-making, lack of strategic alignment and lack of reciprocal trust between network members. Yet, limited attention has been paid to the collective dynamics, challenges and enablers for effective inter-organizational collaborations. To consider these issues, we carried out a scoping review to identify the underlying processes for effective inter-organizational collaboration and the contextual conditions within which these processes are triggered. Following appropriate methodological guidance for scoping reviews, we searched four databases [PubMed (n = 114), Web of Science (n = 171), Google Scholar (n = 153) and Scopus (n = 52)] and used snowballing (n = 22). A total of 37 papers addressing HN including hospitals were included. We used a framework synthesis informed by the collaborative governance framework to guide data extraction and analysis, while being sensitive to emergent themes. Our review showed the prominence of balancing between top-down and bottom-up decision-making (e.g. strategic vs steering committees), formal procedural arrangements and strategic governing bodies in stimulating participative decision-making, collaboration and sense of ownership. In a highly institutionalized context, the inter-organizational partnership is facilitated by pre-existing legal frameworks. HN are suitable for tackling wicked healthcare issues by mutualizing resources, staff pooling and improved coordination. Overall performance depends on the capacity of partners for joint action, principled engagement and a closeness culture, trust relationships, shared commitment, distributed leadership, power sharing and interoperability of information systems To promote the effectiveness of HN, more bottom-up participative decision-making, formalization of governance arrangement and building trust relationships are needed. Yet, there is still inconsistent evidence on the effectiveness of HN in improving health outcomes and quality of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":12926,"journal":{"name":"Health policy and planning","volume":" ","pages":"412-428"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11005841/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139650667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The economic costs and cost-effectiveness of HIV self-testing among truck drivers in Kenya. 肯尼亚卡车司机进行 HIV 自我检测的经济成本和成本效益。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae013
Deo Mujwara, Elizabeth A Kelvin, Bassam Dahman, Gavin George, Daniel Nixon, Tilahun Adera, Eva Mwai, April D Kimmel
{"title":"The economic costs and cost-effectiveness of HIV self-testing among truck drivers in Kenya.","authors":"Deo Mujwara, Elizabeth A Kelvin, Bassam Dahman, Gavin George, Daniel Nixon, Tilahun Adera, Eva Mwai, April D Kimmel","doi":"10.1093/heapol/czae013","DOIUrl":"10.1093/heapol/czae013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>HIV status awareness is critical for ending the HIV epidemic but remains low in high-HIV-risk and hard-to-reach sub-populations. Targeted, efficient interventions are needed to improve HIV test-uptake. We examined the incremental cost-effectiveness of offering the choice of self-administered oral HIV-testing (HIVST-Choice) compared with provider-administered testing only [standard-of-care (SOC)] among long-distance truck drivers. Effectiveness data came from a randomized-controlled trial conducted at two roadside wellness clinics in Kenya (HIVST-Choice arm, n = 150; SOC arm, n = 155). Economic cost data came from the literature, reflected a societal perspective and were reported in 2020 international dollars (I$), a hypothetical currency with equivalent purchasing power as the US dollar. Generalized Poisson and linear gamma regression models were used to estimate effectiveness and incremental costs, respectively; incremental effectiveness was reported as the number of long-distance truck drivers needing to receive HIVST-Choice for an additional HIV test-uptake. We calculated the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of HIVST-Choice compared with SOC and estimated 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using non-parametric bootstrapping. Uncertainty was assessed using deterministic sensitivity analysis and the cost-effectiveness acceptability curve. HIV test-uptake was 23% more likely for HIVST-Choice, with six individuals needing to be offered HIVST-Choice for an additional HIV test-uptake. The mean per-patient cost was nearly 4-fold higher in HIVST-Choice (I$39.28) versus SOC (I$10.80), with an ICER of I$174.51, 95% CI [165.72, 194.59] for each additional test-uptake. HIV self-test kit and cell phone service costs were the main drivers of the ICER, although findings were robust even at highest possible costs. The probability of cost-effectiveness approached 1 at a willingness-to-pay of I$200 for each additional HIV test-uptake. HIVST-Choice improves HIV-test-uptake among truck drivers at low willingness-to-pay thresholds, suggesting that HIV self-testing is an efficient use of resources. Policies supporting HIV self-testing in similar high risk, hard-to-reach sub-populations may expedite achievement of international targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":12926,"journal":{"name":"Health policy and planning","volume":" ","pages":"355-362"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11005835/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140027966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The effects of a large-scale home visiting programme for child development on use of health services in Brazil. 巴西大规模儿童发展家访计划对使用医疗服务的影响。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae015
Eduardo Viegas da Silva, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Aisha Yousafzai, Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Joseph Murray
{"title":"The effects of a large-scale home visiting programme for child development on use of health services in Brazil.","authors":"Eduardo Viegas da Silva, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Aisha Yousafzai, Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Joseph Murray","doi":"10.1093/heapol/czae015","DOIUrl":"10.1093/heapol/czae015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Partnership between early childhood development interventions and primary health care services can help catalyse health care uptake by socially vulnerable families. This study aimed to assess the real-life effects of a large-scale home visiting programme [Primeira Infância Melhor (PIM)] in Brazil on the use of preventive (prenatal visits, well child visits, dentist visits and vaccination) and recovery (emergency room visits and hospitalization) health services. A quasi-experiment nested in a population-based birth cohort study was conducted. The intervention group was firstly defined as all children enrolled in PIM up to age 6 months, and afterwards stratified between those enrolled during pregnancy or after birth up to 6 months. Children receiving PIM were matched with controls on propensity scores based on 27 confounders to estimate effects on health service use from prenatal to age 2 years. Double adjustment was applied in outcome Quasi-Poisson regressions. No evidence was found for effects of PIM starting anytime up to 6 months (262 pairs), or for the children enrolled only after birth (133 pairs), on outcomes occurring after age 6 months. When the programme started during pregnancy (129 pairs), there was a 13% higher prevalence of adequate prenatal visits (prevalence ratio = 1.13; 95% confidence interval 1.01-1.27), but no effect on use of any other health service. Sensitivity analyses suggested longer participation in the programme with reduced visitor turnover might improve its impact on prenatal visits. Integration between PIM and primary health care was not adequate to affect overall patterns of contacts with health services. Nevertheless, prenatal home visits showed potential to increase health service contact during a sensitive period of development, indicating the need to start such programmes before birth, when there is more time for maternal care, and family engagement in a network of services is facilitated.</p>","PeriodicalId":12926,"journal":{"name":"Health policy and planning","volume":" ","pages":"344-354"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11005834/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140140213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A story of (in)coherence: climate adaptation for health in South African policies. 一个(不)连贯的故事:南非健康政策中的气候适应。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae011
Amanda V Quintana, Susannah H Mayhew, Sari Kovats, Lucy Gilson
{"title":"A story of (in)coherence: climate adaptation for health in South African policies.","authors":"Amanda V Quintana, Susannah H Mayhew, Sari Kovats, Lucy Gilson","doi":"10.1093/heapol/czae011","DOIUrl":"10.1093/heapol/czae011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate adaptation strengthens and builds the resilience of health systems to future climate-related shocks. Adaptation strategies and policies are necessary tools for governments to address the long-term impacts of climate change and enable the health system to respond to current impacts such as extreme weather events. Since 2011 South Africa has national climate change policies and adaptation strategies, yet there is uncertainty about: how these policies and plans are executed; the extent to which health policies include adaptation; and the extent of policy coherence across sectors and governance levels. A policy document analysis was conducted to examine how South African climate change, development and health policy documents reflect the health adaptation response across national and Western Cape levels and to assess the extent of coherence across key health and environment sector policy documents, including elements to respond to health-related climate risks, that can support implementation. Our findings show that overall there is incoherence in South African climate adaptation within health policy documents. Although health adaptation measures are somewhat coherent in national level policies, there is limited coherence within Western Cape provincial level documents and limited discussion on climate adaptation, especially for health. Policies reflect formal decisions and should guide decision-makers and resourcing, and sectoral policies should move beyond mere acknowledgement of adaptation responses to a tailored plan of actions that are institutionalized and location and sector specific. Activities beyond documents also impact the coherence and implementation of climate adaptation for health in South Africa. Clear climate risk-specific documents for the health sector would provide a stronger plan to support the implementation of health adaptation and contribute to building health system's resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":12926,"journal":{"name":"Health policy and planning","volume":" ","pages":"400-411"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11005833/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140140212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The role of constraints and information gaps in driving risky medicine purchasing practices in four African countries. 制约因素和信息差距在推动非洲四国风险性药品采购行为方面的作用。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae006
Janelle M Wagnild, Nasima Akhter, Diana Lee, Babatunde Jayeola, Delese Mimi Darko, Moji Christianah Adeyeye, James P Komeh, David Nahamya, Adetayo Kasim, Kate Hampshire
{"title":"The role of constraints and information gaps in driving risky medicine purchasing practices in four African countries.","authors":"Janelle M Wagnild, Nasima Akhter, Diana Lee, Babatunde Jayeola, Delese Mimi Darko, Moji Christianah Adeyeye, James P Komeh, David Nahamya, Adetayo Kasim, Kate Hampshire","doi":"10.1093/heapol/czae006","DOIUrl":"10.1093/heapol/czae006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Substandard and falsified (SF) medical products pose a major threat to public health and socioeconomic development, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In response, public education campaigns have been developed to alert consumers about the risks of SF medicines and provide guidance on 'safer' practices, along with other demand- and supply-side measures. However, little is currently known about the potential effectiveness of such campaigns while structural constraints to accessing quality-assured medicines persist. This paper analyses survey data on medicine purchasing practices, information and constraints from four African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda; n > 1000 per country). Using multivariate regression and structural equation modelling, we present what we believe to be the first attempt to tease apart, statistically, the effects of an information gap vs structural constraints in driving potential public exposure to SF medicines. The analysis confirms that less privileged groups (including, variously, those in rural settlements, with low levels of formal education, not in paid employment, often women and households with a disability or long-term sickness) are disproportionately potentially exposed to SF medicines; these same demographic groups also tend to have lower levels of awareness and experience greater levels of constraint. Despite the constraints, our models suggest that public health education may have an important role to play in modifying some (but not all) risky practices. Appropriately targeted public messaging can thus be a useful part of the toolbox in the fight against SF medicines, but it can only work effectively in combination with wider-reaching reforms to address higher-level vulnerabilities in pharmaceutical supply chains in Africa and expand access to quality-assured public-sector health services.</p>","PeriodicalId":12926,"journal":{"name":"Health policy and planning","volume":" ","pages":"372-386"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11005838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139650666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Correction to: Justice implications of health and food security policies for Indigenous peoples facing COVID-19: a qualitative study and policy analysis in Peru. Correction to:健康和粮食安全政策对面临 COVID-19 的土著人民的司法影响:秘鲁的定性研究和政策分析。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Health policy and planning Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czae014
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