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“That’s a tricky question”: perceptions of mandatory vaccination among parents and paediatricians in Austria “这是一个棘手的问题”:奥地利父母和儿科医生对强制性疫苗接种的看法
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105331
Nora Hansl, Katharina T. Paul
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Availability of primary care and avoidable attendance at English emergency departments: A regression analysis 英国急诊科初级保健的可获得性和可避免的出勤率:回归分析
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105330
Timothy Jamieson , Hugh Gravelle , Rita Santos
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Common institutional ownership and the erosion of competition in the American health insurance market: A quantitative analysis 共同机构所有权与美国健康保险市场竞争的侵蚀:一个定量分析
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105316
Kevin Smith
{"title":"Common institutional ownership and the erosion of competition in the American health insurance market: A quantitative analysis","authors":"Kevin Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105316","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105316","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Empirical studies have shown that when large institutional investors and private equity funds own a significant stake in multiple publicly traded firms within an industry, this common ownership may lead to anti-competitive behavior. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed. This law created health insurance exchanges that allowed for Americans to purchase health insurance plans directly on a marketplace. The insurers on this marketplace have common institutional owners, that could influence the level of competition in these markets.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To assess the causal effects of common ownership on competition in the US health insurance market.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>To identify the causal impact of common ownership, I use two empirical strategies: the Arellano-Bond Dynamic Panel Model and Bartik-style Instruments. Data on firm ownership came the paper, “Common Ownership Data: Scraped SEC form 13F filings for 1999-2017” by Matthew Backus, Christopher Conlon, and Michael Sinkinson.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results show that a one standard deviation increase in common ownership leads to a 7.7 % increase in monthly premiums charged for certain health insurance plans. This finding is robust to different model specifications and suggests that common ownership reduces competition in the health insurance exchanges.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The results from this paper indicate that policymakers and regulators need to formulate policies that limit the amount that institutional investors and private equity funds can own of companies in the health insurance industry in the US. Additionally, policymakers need to make more data on firm ownership available, as the data that is available has quality issues.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55067,"journal":{"name":"Health Policy","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 105316"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824152","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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Making integrated care happen: Middle managers' views on leadership for promoting multidisciplinary collaboration at the early stage of the Finnish social and healthcare reform. 使综合护理成为可能:在芬兰社会和医疗改革的早期阶段,中层管理者对促进多学科合作的领导力的看法。
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105320
Soila Karreinen, Satu Paatela, Henna Paananen, Moona Huhtakangas, Markku Satokangas, Harri Jalonen, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen
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Growth and changing landscape of the cost-utility literature: an Australian perspective, 1992-2022 成本效用文献的增长和变化景观:澳大利亚视角,1992-2022
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105319
Qing Xia , Steven M McPhail , Clifford Afoakwah , Linh K Vo , Megumi Lim , David Brain , John Paul Kuwornu , Hannah E. Carter
{"title":"Growth and changing landscape of the cost-utility literature: an Australian perspective, 1992-2022","authors":"Qing Xia ,&nbsp;Steven M McPhail ,&nbsp;Clifford Afoakwah ,&nbsp;Linh K Vo ,&nbsp;Megumi Lim ,&nbsp;David Brain ,&nbsp;John Paul Kuwornu ,&nbsp;Hannah E. Carter","doi":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105319","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105319","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Since the introduction of cost-utility analysis (CUA) in the 1990s, its methodologies and applications have evolved significantly in Australia.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>To provide a comprehensive overview of the volume, trends, and characteristics of the application of CUA in healthcare decision-making.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Bibliometric analysis of published CUAs identified from the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry, a `1comprehensive source of CUA data between 1992 and 2022. Multinomial logistic regression models were conducted to explore the associations between ICERs and variables including sponsorship, perspective, and discount rate.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div><em>N</em> = 484 unique Australian-based CUAs were analysed. Over the last three decades, the volume and quality of CUAs in Australia have steadily increased. Commonly evaluated interventions included pharmaceuticals (21.5 %), health education/behaviour (18.0 %), and models of care (16.6 %), while diseases of circulatory system, cancers, and metabolic diseases were the most studied health conditions. Only nine CUAs involved First Nations people. Most CUAs (72.9 %) were conducted from a healthcare payer perspective, with only 19.0 % adopting a societal perspective. Approximately half of studies applied a 5 % discount rate, and 50.4 % used a $50,000 WTP threshold. 14.7 % CUAs were sponsored by industry. Regression analyses showed that industry sponsorship, societal perspective, and lower discount rate were positively associated with lower ICERs.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The increasing volume of CUAs underscores the importance of efficient allocation of scare resources in Australian health system. However, gaps remain, particularly in the inclusion of First Nations populations and the societal costs. Further research is needed to address these gaps and to evaluate the impact of sponsorship and discounting on CUA outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55067,"journal":{"name":"Health Policy","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 105319"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826300","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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Contact time in GP Care: Descriptive patterns and a scoping review of the literature 全科医生护理的接触时间:描述模式和文献的范围审查
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105315
Simon Reif , Jan Köhler , Sabrina Schubert , Benedikt Stelter
{"title":"Contact time in GP Care: Descriptive patterns and a scoping review of the literature","authors":"Simon Reif ,&nbsp;Jan Köhler ,&nbsp;Sabrina Schubert ,&nbsp;Benedikt Stelter","doi":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105315","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105315","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Contact time in general practice (GP) refers to the duration a physician spends with a patient during an appointment. There are significant differences in contact times across OECD countries, raising questions about the influencing factors and potential consequences of these variations.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To study the determinants and consequences of the length of consultations in GP care.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>We descriptively investigate differences in average appointment durations in GP care across OECD countries. We then conduct a scoping review of the literature encompassing 150 studies in seven topical clusters.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We identify considerable differences in contact times across countries and find evidence for substitution effects between the length of consultations and the number of consultations per year. There is also an association between reimbursement schemes and visit lengths. The review reveals consistent evidence for a few determinants, such as patient characteristics and physician experience, but mixed evidence on the effects of contact time on shared decision-making and health outcomes. The literature is dominated by correlational studies.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Descriptive comparisons show shorter contact times are substituted with more frequent visits, and fee-for-service payment systems result in longer contact times compared to capitation systems. For future health policy discussions, it is crucial to clarify which service delivery form is socially desired and economically sustainable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55067,"journal":{"name":"Health Policy","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 105315"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143864002","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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The ethics of behaviour-based insurance models: Solidarity-based concerns in Germany's statutory health insurance 基于行为的保险模式的伦理:德国法定健康保险中基于团结的关切
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105318
Carl Justus Bredthauer , Eva Kuhn , Alena Buyx
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Disparities in the organisation of national healthcare systems for treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe 欧洲银屑病关节炎和轴性脊柱炎患者治疗的国家卫生保健系统组织的差异
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105311
Brigitte Michelsen , Mikkel Østergaard , Michael John Nissen , Adrian Ciurea , Burkhard Möller , Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg , Pavel Horák , Bente Glintborg , Alan MacDonald , Karin Laas , Tuulikki Sokka-Isler , Bjorn Gudbjornsson , Florenzo Iannone , Pasoon Hellamand , Tore Kristian Kvien , Ana Maria Rodrigues , Catalin Codreanu , Ziga Rotar , Isabel Castrejón , Johan Karlsson Wallman , Merete Lund Hetland
{"title":"Disparities in the organisation of national healthcare systems for treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe","authors":"Brigitte Michelsen ,&nbsp;Mikkel Østergaard ,&nbsp;Michael John Nissen ,&nbsp;Adrian Ciurea ,&nbsp;Burkhard Möller ,&nbsp;Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg ,&nbsp;Pavel Horák ,&nbsp;Bente Glintborg ,&nbsp;Alan MacDonald ,&nbsp;Karin Laas ,&nbsp;Tuulikki Sokka-Isler ,&nbsp;Bjorn Gudbjornsson ,&nbsp;Florenzo Iannone ,&nbsp;Pasoon Hellamand ,&nbsp;Tore Kristian Kvien ,&nbsp;Ana Maria Rodrigues ,&nbsp;Catalin Codreanu ,&nbsp;Ziga Rotar ,&nbsp;Isabel Castrejón ,&nbsp;Johan Karlsson Wallman ,&nbsp;Merete Lund Hetland","doi":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105311","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105311","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Studies on national policies for biologics are warranted.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>To map and compare national healthcare set-ups for prescription, start, switch, tapering, and discontinuation of biologic/targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe, and assess the healthcare set-ups in relation to countries’ socio-economic status.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>An electronic survey was developed to collect and compare information on national healthcare systems. The relationship between the cumulative score of biologic/targeted synthetic DMARD regulations, socioeconomic indices, and biologic originator costs were assessed by linear regression.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>National healthcare set-ups differed considerably across the 15 countries, with significantly fewer regulations with increasing socioeconomic status measured by GDP/current health expenditure/human development index, and with increasing biologic originator costs. In most countries, the biologic/targeted synthetic DMARD prescribing doctor was required to adhere to country and/or hospital recommendations, and about a third of countries had a national/regional tender process. Prescription regulations for biologic/targeted synthetic DMARDs, including pre-treatment and disease activity requirements, varied substantially. Approximately a third of countries had criteria for discontinuation and tapering, whereas only few had for switching. Notably, two countries disallowed biologic/targeted synthetic DMARD retrials, and one imposed limit on the maximum number of biologic/targeted synthetic DMARDs permitted.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The findings highlight substantial variability in healthcare set-ups for biologic/targeted synthetic DMARD use in psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe and their association with socioeconomic status and drug costs. These insights provide a basis for rheumatology societies, policymakers, and stakeholders to evaluate and potentially optimize healthcare policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55067,"journal":{"name":"Health Policy","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 105311"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833693","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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What are the policy options for regulating private equity involvement in health care? A review of policies implemented or considered in seven high-income countries 监管私人股本参与医疗保健的政策选择有哪些?对七个高收入国家实施或考虑的政策的审查
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105312
Matthew Tracey , Katharine Schulmann , Florian Tille , Thomas Rice , Julien Mercille , Rob Timans , Sara Allin , Alexis Dottin , Sanna Syrjälä , Tiia Sotamaa , Ilmo Keskimäki , Bernd Rechel
{"title":"What are the policy options for regulating private equity involvement in health care? A review of policies implemented or considered in seven high-income countries","authors":"Matthew Tracey ,&nbsp;Katharine Schulmann ,&nbsp;Florian Tille ,&nbsp;Thomas Rice ,&nbsp;Julien Mercille ,&nbsp;Rob Timans ,&nbsp;Sara Allin ,&nbsp;Alexis Dottin ,&nbsp;Sanna Syrjälä ,&nbsp;Tiia Sotamaa ,&nbsp;Ilmo Keskimäki ,&nbsp;Bernd Rechel","doi":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105312","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105312","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past two decades, private equity investment in health care has increased substantially. Proponents argue that private equity can optimize and improve health services, while critics warn that the business model of these firms is not aligned with the social values of care delivery and has harmful consequences for health systems and patients. It remains unclear to what extent — and how — subnational, national and supranational governments have attempted to regulate this activity. The purpose of this study therefore was to identify examples of implemented and proposed policy options for regulating private equity activity within health care, with the goal of elucidating the policy options available to regulators. We conducted a narrative review to identify proposed or implemented policy instruments in selected high-income countries, grouping them by type using a conceptual framework based on the works of Milton Friedman and Avedis Donabedian. Our search identified several examples of proposed or implemented policy options for addressing private equity activity in the countries under review. Most of these intervention examples fall into the category of disclosure, while only one focused on regulation of outcomes. Our study suggests that while some countries have started to develop policy interventions to directly address the role of private equity in health care, other countries do not specifically regulate private equity activity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55067,"journal":{"name":"Health Policy","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 105312"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143837920","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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Time to completion of conditions required by Health Canada after approving new drugs: A cohort study 批准新药后完成加拿大卫生部要求的条件的时间:一项队列研究
IF 3.6 3区 医学
Health Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105314
Joel Lexchin
{"title":"Time to completion of conditions required by Health Canada after approving new drugs: A cohort study","authors":"Joel Lexchin","doi":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105314","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105314","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>To ensure that promising drugs for serious illnesses reach Canadians in a timely manner, Health Canada can approve them conditionally provided companies commit to conducting confirmatory studies to verify the benefits.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To determine how long it takes until the conditions are fulfilled and if certain factors affect that length of time.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A list of conditional approvals for new drugs and new indications for existing drugs to the end of 2024 was compiled from Health Canada databases. Orphan drug status was determined from the US Food and Drug Administration databases. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were constructed to determine how long it took to complete the studies.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>There were 153 conditional approvals: 91 were fulfilled, 45 have not been fulfilled as of January 18, 2025 and 17 were withdrawn. The median time for fulfillment was 1200 (IQR 777, 1852) days. Orphan drug status and whether the conditional approval was for a new drug or a new indication for an existing drug did not affect the time to completion.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Some NOC/c take considerable time to be fulfilled. Health Canada should require studies to be underway at the time that a NOC/c is granted except in exceptional circumstances and it should be transparent about the completion date for confirmatory studies and provided detailed reports about any delays. In the case of delays that cannot be justified it should be given the power to impose significant financial penalties on manufacturers through the NOC/c pathway being converted from a policy into legislation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55067,"journal":{"name":"Health Policy","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 105314"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799349","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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