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Pakistan's Progress on Universal Health Coverage: Lessons Learned in Priority Setting and Challenges Ahead in Reinforcing Primary Healthcare. 巴基斯坦在全民医保方面取得的进展:巴基斯坦在全民医保方面的进展:确定优先事项方面的经验教训和加强初级医疗保健方面的挑战》。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-03-10 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8450
Ala Alwan, Dean T Jamison, Sameen Siddiqi, Anna Vassall
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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. 巴基斯坦利用证据设计基本一揽子保健服务:审查和分析评估过程不同阶段的优先决策。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-03-09 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8043
Sergio Torres-Rueda, Anna Vassall, Raza Zaidi, Nichola Kitson, Muhammad Khalid, Wahaj Zulfiqar, Maarten Jansen, Wajeeha Raza, Maryam Huda, Frank Sandmann, Rob Baltussen, Sameen Siddiqi, Ala Alwan
{"title":"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.","authors":"Sergio Torres-Rueda, Anna Vassall, Raza Zaidi, Nichola Kitson, Muhammad Khalid, Wahaj Zulfiqar, Maarten Jansen, Wajeeha Raza, Maryam Huda, Frank Sandmann, Rob Baltussen, Sameen Siddiqi, Ala Alwan","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8043","DOIUrl":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pakistan embarked on a process of designing an essential package of health services (EPHS) as a pathway towards universal health coverage (UHC). The EPHS design followed an evidence-informed deliberative process; evidence on 170 interventions was introduced along multiple stages of appraisal engaging different stakeholders tasked with prioritising interventions for inclusion. We report on the composition of the package at different stages, analyse trends of prioritised and deprioritised interventions and reflect on the trade-offs made.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Quantitative evidence on cost-effectiveness, budget impact, and avoidable burden of disease was presented to stakeholders in stages. We recorded which interventions were prioritised and deprioritised at each stage and carried out three analyses: (1) a review of total number of interventions prioritised at each stage, along with associated costs per capita and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) averted, to understand changes in affordability and efficiency in the package, (2) an analysis of interventions broken down by decision criteria and intervention characteristics to analyse prioritisation trends across different stages, and (3) a description of the trajectory of interventions broken down by current coverage and cost-effectiveness.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Value for money generally increased throughout the process, although not uniformly. Stakeholders largely prioritised interventions with low budget impact and those preventing a high burden of disease. Highly cost-effective interventions were also prioritised, but less consistently throughout the stages of the process. Interventions with high current coverage were overwhelmingly prioritised for inclusion.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Evidence-informed deliberative processes can produce actionable and affordable health benefit packages. While cost-effective interventions are generally preferred, other factors play a role and limit efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140856224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Complex Interventions for a Complex System? Using Systems Thinking to Explore Ways to Address Unhealthy Commodity Industry Influence on Public Health Policy. 复杂系统的复杂干预?运用系统思维探索解决不健康商品行业对公共卫生政策影响的方法。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8033
Adam Bertscher, Britta Katharina Matthes, James Nobles, Anna Gilmore, Krista Bondy, Amber Van Den Akker, Sarah Dance, Michael Bloomfield, Mateusz Zatoński
{"title":"Complex Interventions for a Complex System? Using Systems Thinking to Explore Ways to Address Unhealthy Commodity Industry Influence on Public Health Policy.","authors":"Adam Bertscher, Britta Katharina Matthes, James Nobles, Anna Gilmore, Krista Bondy, Amber Van Den Akker, Sarah Dance, Michael Bloomfield, Mateusz Zatoński","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Interventions are needed to prevent and mitigate unhealthy commodity industry (UCI) influence on public health policy. Whilst literature on interventions is emerging, current conceptualisations remain incomplete as they lack considerations of the wider systemic complexities surrounding UCI influence, which may limit intervention effectiveness. This study applies systems thinking as a theoretical lens to help identify and explore how possible interventions relate to one another in the systems in which they are embedded. Related challenges to addressing UCI influence on policy, and actions to support interventions, were also explored.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Online participatory workshops were conducted with stakeholders with expertise in UCIs. A systems map, depicting five pathways to UCI influence, and the Action Scales Model were used to help participants identify interventions and guide discussions. Codebook thematic analysis was used to analyse the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifty-two stakeholders participated in 23 workshops. Participants identified 27 diverse, interconnected and interdependent interventions corresponding to the systems map's pathways that reduce the ability of UCIs to influence policy, e.g., reform policy financing; regulate public-private partnerships; reform science governance and funding; frame and reframe the narrative, challenge neoliberalism and GDP growth; leverage human rights; change practices on multistakeholder governance; and reform policy consultation and deliberation processes. Participants also identified four potential key challenges to interventions (i.e., difficult to implement or achieve; partially formulated; exploited or misused; requires tailoring for context), and four key actions to help support intervention delivery (i.e., coordinate and cooperate with stakeholders; invest in civil society; create a social movement; nurture leadership).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A systems thinking lens revealed the theoretical interdependence between disparate and heterogenous interventions. This suggests that to be effective, interventions need to align, work collectively, and be applied to different parts of the system synchronously. Importantly, these interventions need to be supported by intermediary actions to be achieved. Urgent action is now required to strengthen healthy alliances and implement interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141893378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Subgroups of High-cost Patients and Their Preventable Inpatient Cost in Rural China. 中国农村地区高费用患者亚群及其可预防的住院费用。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8151
Shan Lu, Yan Zhang, Ting Ye, Dionne S Kringos
{"title":"Subgroups of High-cost Patients and Their Preventable Inpatient Cost in Rural China.","authors":"Shan Lu, Yan Zhang, Ting Ye, Dionne S Kringos","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8151","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>High-cost patients account for most healthcare costs and are highly heterogeneous. This study aims to classify high-cost patients into clinically homogeneous subgroups, describe healthcare utilization patterns of subgroups, and identify subgroups with relatively high preventable inpatient cost (PIC) in rural China.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A population-based retrospective study was performed using claims data in Xi County, Henan Province. 32,108 high-cost patients, representing the top 10% of individuals with the highest total spending, were identified. A density-based clustering algorithm combined with expert opinions were used to group high-cost patients. Healthcare utilization (including admissions, length of stay and outpatient visits) and spending characteristics (including total spending, and the proportion of PIC, inpatient and out-of-pocket spending on total spending) were described among subgroups. PIC was calculated based on potentially preventable hospitalizations which were identified according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Prevention Quality Indicators algorithm.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>High-cost patients were more likely to be older (M=51.87, SD=22.28), male (49.03%) and from poverty-stricken families (37.67%) than non-high-cost patients, with 2.49 (SD=2.47) admissions and 3.25 (SD=4.52) outpatient visits annually. Fourteen subgroups of high-cost patients were identified: chronic disease, non-trauma diseases which need surgery, female disease, cancer, eye disease, respiratory infection/inflammation, skin disease, fracture, liver disease, vertigo syndrome and cerebral infarction, mental disease, arthritis, renal failure, other neurological disorders. The annual admissions ranged from 1.83 (SD=1.23, fracture) to 12.21 (SD=9.26, renal failure), and the average length of stay ranged from 6.61 (SD=10.00, eye disease) to 32.11 (SD=28.78, mental disease) days among subgroups. The chronic disease subgroup showed the largest proportion of PIC on total spending (10.57%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>High-cost patients were classified into 14 clinically distinct subgroups which had different healthcare utilization and spending characteristics. Different targeted strategies may be needed for subgroups to reduce preventable hospitalizations. Priority should be given to high-cost patients with chronic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141893379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Trends in Avoidable Mortality in Kazakhstan From 2015 to 2021. 哈萨克斯坦 2015 至 2021 年可避免死亡率趋势。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.7919
Lyazzat Kosherbayeva, Nazgul Akhtayeva, Kamshat Tolganbayeva, Aizhan Samambayeva
{"title":"Trends in Avoidable Mortality in Kazakhstan From 2015 to 2021.","authors":"Lyazzat Kosherbayeva, Nazgul Akhtayeva, Kamshat Tolganbayeva, Aizhan Samambayeva","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.7919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2024.7919","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The health system performance assessment is a challenging process for decision-makers. In case of Kazakhstan's healthcare system, the calculation of avoidable mortality, which has been underutilized to date, could serve as an additional tool to prioritize areas for improvement. Therefore, the aim of the study is to analyse avoidable mortality in Kazakhstan.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The data was retrieved from the Bureau of National Statistics, Kazakhstan. It covers population data by age, mortality rates from disease groups based on the Joint OECD/Eurostat classification of preventable and treatable causes of mortality. The data spans from 2015 to 2021, categorized by gender and 5-year age groups (0, 1-4, 5-9, ..., 70-74). Standardization was performed using the 2015 OECD standard population. We used joinpoint regression analysis to calculate the average annual percentage change.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From 2015 to 2019, the annual percentage change in avoidable mortality per 100000 population was -3.8 (-5.7 to -1.8), and from 2019 to 2021 it increased by 17.6 (11.3 to 24.3). Males exhibited higher avoidable mortality rates compared to females. The preventable mortality rate was consistently higher than the treatable mortality. Both preventable and treatable mortality decreased from 2015 to 2019, with preventable mortality reaching 272.17 before rising to 379.23 per 100000 population in 2021. Between 2015 and 2021, treatable mortality rates increased from 179.3 (176.93- 181.67) to 205.45 (203.08-207.81) per 100000 population.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In Kazakhstan, the leading causes of avoidable mortality were circulatory diseases, respiratory diseases, and cancer. To achieve the goals of Universal Health Coverage and improve the overall population health, there is an urgent need to amend the healthcare system and reduce avoidable mortality. While it is important to acknowledge the influence of COVID-19 on these trends, our study's focus on avoidable mortality provides valuable insights that complement the understanding of pandemic-related effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141893380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Standing on the Shoulder of Power, Representation and Relational Trust; A Response to Recent Commentaries. 站在权力的肩膀上,代表与关系信任对最近评论的回应。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.8695
Anita Kothari, Rebecca Ganann, Tiffany N Scurr, Shannon L Sibbald
{"title":"Standing on the Shoulder of Power, Representation and Relational Trust; A Response to Recent Commentaries.","authors":"Anita Kothari, Rebecca Ganann, Tiffany N Scurr, Shannon L Sibbald","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.8695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.8695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":"13 ","pages":"8695"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11365068/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142768835","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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"Caught in Each Other's Traps": Factors Perpetuating Incentive-Linked Prescribing Deals Between Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry. "陷入对方的陷阱":医生与制药业之间与激励挂钩的处方交易的长期因素》。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8213
Mishal Sameer Khan, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Muhammad Naveed Noor, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Catherine Goodman, Virginia Wiseman, Afshan Khurshid Isani, Wafa Aftab, Sabeen Sharif, Sadia Shakoor, Sameen Siddiqi, Rumina Hasan
{"title":"\"Caught in Each Other's Traps\": Factors Perpetuating Incentive-Linked Prescribing Deals Between Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry.","authors":"Mishal Sameer Khan, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Muhammad Naveed Noor, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Catherine Goodman, Virginia Wiseman, Afshan Khurshid Isani, Wafa Aftab, Sabeen Sharif, Sadia Shakoor, Sameen Siddiqi, Rumina Hasan","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8213","DOIUrl":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite known adverse impacts on patients and health systems, \"incentive-linked prescribing,\" which describes the prescribing of medicines that result in personal benefits for the prescriber, remains a widespread and hidden impediment to quality of healthcare. We investigated factors perpetuating incentive-linked prescribing among primary care physicians in for-profit practices (referred to as private doctors - PDs), using Pakistan as a case study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Our mixed-methods study synthesised insights from a survey of 419 systematically sampled PDs and 68 semi-structured interviews with PDs (n=28), pharmaceutical sales representatives (SRs) (n=12), and provincial and national policy actors (n=28). For the survey, we built a verified database of all registered PDs within Karachi, Pakistan's most populous city, administered an electronic questionnaire in-person and descriptively analysed the data. Semi-structured interviews incorporated a vignette-based exercise and data was analysed using an interpretive approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our survey showed that 90% of PDs met pharmaceutical SRs weekly. Three interlinked factors perpetuating incentive-linked prescribing we identified were: gaps in understanding of conflicts of interest and loss of values among doctors; financial pressures on doctors operating in a (largely) privately financed health-system, exacerbated by competition with unqualified healthcare providers; and aggressive incentivisation by pharmaceutical companies, linked to low political will to regulate an over-saturated pharmaceutical market.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Regular interactions between pharmaceutical companies and PDs are normalised in our study setting. Progress on regulating these is hindered by the substantial role of incentive-linked prescribing in the financial success of physicians and pharmaceutical industry employees. A first step towards addressing the entrenchment of incentive-linked prescribing may be to reduce opposition to restrictions on incentivisation of physicians from stakeholders within the pharmaceutical industry, physicians themselves, and policy-makers concerned about curtailing growth of the pharmaceutical industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":"8213"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11270611/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140857070","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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Phase IV Drug Trials With a Canadian Site: A Comparison of Industry-Funded and Non-Industry-Funded Trials. 在加拿大进行的 IV 期药物试验:工业资助试验与非工业资助试验的比较。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8239
Joel Lexchin, Blue Miaoran Dong, Aravind Ramanathan, Marc-André Gagnon
{"title":"Phase IV Drug Trials With a Canadian Site: A Comparison of Industry-Funded and Non-Industry-Funded Trials.","authors":"Joel Lexchin, Blue Miaoran Dong, Aravind Ramanathan, Marc-André Gagnon","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8239","DOIUrl":"10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8239","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent regulatory reforms have favored expedited drug marketing and increased reliance on Phase IV clinical trials for safety and efficacy assurance. This study, utilizing ClinicalTrials.gov, assesses the characteristics of Phase IV trials, with at least one site in Canada, examining those funded by industry sponsors and those lacking industry funding. Additionally, it compares the publication status of industry-funded and non-industry-funded trials through a manual review of the medical literature. Between 2000 and 2022, 864 Phase IV trials were completed, with 480 (55.6%) receiving industry funding and 384 (44.4%) funded solely by non-industry sources. Industry-funded clinical trials were larger (mean 204 enrollees versus 70), more likely to be international (57.7% versus 9.6%) and reported results more promptly (1.21 years after completion versus 1.85 years), yet both types shared similar designs, outcomes, and completion times. Publication rates were 81.8% for industry-funded and 65.8% for non-industry-funded trials. The ClinicalTrials. gov registry displayed 48 inaccuracies in publication associations, raising concerns about its accuracy. Our findings underscore the existing institutional limitations in ensuring comprehensive reporting and publication of Phase IV trial results funded by both industry and non-industry sources.</p>","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":"13 ","pages":"8239"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11607594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141889170","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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Public Heterogeneous Preferences for Low-Dose Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Service Delivery in Western China: A Discrete Choice Experiment. 中国西部公众对低剂量计算机断层扫描肺癌筛查服务的异质性偏好:离散选择实验》。
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.8259
Wenjuan Tao, Ting Bao, Tao Gu, Jay Pan, Weimin Li, Ruicen Li
{"title":"Public Heterogeneous Preferences for Low-Dose Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Service Delivery in Western China: A Discrete Choice Experiment.","authors":"Wenjuan Tao, Ting Bao, Tao Gu, Jay Pan, Weimin Li, Ruicen Li","doi":"10.34172/ijhpm.8259","DOIUrl":"10.34172/ijhpm.8259","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an efficient method that can reduce lung cancer mortality in high-risk individuals. However, few studies have attempted to measure the preferences for LDCT LCS service delivery. This study aimed to generate quantitative information on the Chinese population's preferences for LDCT LCS service delivery.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The general population aged 40 to 74 in the Sichuan province of China was invited to complete an online discrete choice experiment (DCE). The DCE required participants to answer 14 discrete choice questions comprising five attributes: facility levels, facility ownership, travel mode, travel time, and out-of-pocket cost. Choice data were analyzed using mixed logit and latent class logit (LCL) models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study included 2529 respondents, with 746 (29.5%) identified as being at risk for lung cancer. Mixed logit model (MLM) analysis revealed that all five attributes significantly influenced respondents' choices. Facility levels had the highest relative importance (44.4%), followed by facility ownership (28.1%), while out-of-pocket cost had the lowest importance (6.4%). The at-risk group placed relatively more importance on price and facility ownership compared to the non-risk group. LCL model identified five distinct classes with varying preferences.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study revealed significant heterogeneity in preferences for LCS service attributes among the Chinese population, with facility level and facility ownership being the most important factors. The findings underscore the need for tailored strategies targeting different subgroup preferences to increase screening participation rates and improve early detection outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":14135,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Policy and Management","volume":"13 ","pages":"8259"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11369360/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141889173","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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Narrative Preparedness: Policy-Makers Must Engage With People's Values and Experiences to Ensure Effective Implementation of Interventions in Health Emergencies Comment on "Health Preparedness and Narrative Rationality: A Call for Narrative Preparedness". 关于“卫生准备和叙事合理性:呼吁进行叙事准备”的评论
IF 3.1 3区 医学
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.8627
Catherine Grant
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