Health Policy
Overview
Health Policy is a reputable academic journal that focuses on the critical analysis and discussion of health policies, systems, and reforms. It covers a wide range of topics, including healthcare financing, delivery, organization, and evaluation, aiming to provide valuable insights and evidence-based recommendations to policymakers, researchers, and practitioners in the field of health policy.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Health Policy
Start
1984
End
Continuing
Frequency
Twelve no. a year
p-ISSN
0168-8510
e-ISSN
1872-6054
Country
Ireland
Language
English
Specialties
Public Health
Health Services
Health Services
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 2626
110
SJR / Ranks: 2807
1206
CiteScore / Ranks: 4133
5.70
JIF / Ranks: 3040
3.3
Recent Articles
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Manocchio N, Ljoka C, Ferdinandi V, Cicchi L, Foti C
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105303.
PMID: 40088544
Bickenbach et al. in their paper propose the transformation of the Learning Health System paradigm into a Learning Rehabilitation System. The shift towards Rehabilitation, as opposed to the traditional anatomical-physiological...
2.
Townley C, Grace R, Keidar T
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
:105299.
PMID: 40082145
This paper explores an Australian place-based collaboration of ten agencies to reform the delivery of integrated health and social care services to children and families with complex health and social...
3.
Pattyn E, Gemmel P, Willems R, Lagaert S, Trybou J
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105295.
PMID: 40081215
The Flemish government implemented a cash-for-care scheme in 2017, allocating a personal budget (PB) as a voucher or cash budget to persons with physical and intellectual disabilities to increase budget...
4.
Fischer L, Smeets R, Rijken M, Elissen A
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
:105283.
PMID: 40057422
Background: Integrated care attempts to address multiple care needs, but barriers to implementation remain. The service user perspective can guide policy and practice to advance implementation. Objective: To map barriers...
5.
Makinen E, Koskenkorva T, Holmstrom A, Airaksinen M, Kuusisto M, Kyllonen H, et al.
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105285.
PMID: 40056717
Pharmacotherapies are common therapeutic interventions in patient care. Despite most medications being self-managed by patients at home, little attention has been paid to medication risks in the outpatient medication management...
6.
Maertens de Noordhout C, Levy M, Claerman R, de Jaeger M, De Pauw R, Kohn L, et al.
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105263.
PMID: 40056716
Innovation in healthcare is highly supply-driven, leading to underinvestment in less profitable health areas, unmet needs and inefficient use of public resources. This study proposes a framework to structure the...
7.
Vleminckx S, Sevenans A, Bouchatta M, Verbeeck I, Franck E, Haegdorens F
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105288.
PMID: 40056715
Multiple job holding (MJH), historically referred to as moonlighting, is increasingly recognized among healthcare workers, yet it remains underexplored among nurses. This study investigates the prevalence and motivations for MJH...
8.
Rodiger H, Busse R, Henschke C
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105284.
PMID: 40056714
Germany serves as a pioneering example for the integration of digital health applications. Since October 2020, digital health applications that passed a benefit evaluation have been provisionally or permanently included...
9.
Szabo P
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105297.
PMID: 40056713
The growing number of well-established use (WEU) applications was reported by the Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh). The procedures from the CMDh annual statistics...
10.
Miedaner F, Barbara W, Roth B, Metzner L
Health Policy
. 2025 Mar;
155:105286.
PMID: 40048757
Background: The implementation of legally mandated staffing levels for nurses has complex and wide-ranging effects on the organizational environment in which they operate. Objective: The aim of this study was...