Evaluating the efficiency of primary health care institutions in China: an improved three-stage data envelopment analysis approach by Wanmin Su, Yatian Hou, Mengge Huang, Jiamian Xu, Qingfeng Du, Peixi Wang

“…Abstract Background Primary health care (PHC) institutions are key to realizing the main functions of the health care system. Since the new health care reform in 2009, the Chinese government has invested heavily in PHC institutions and launched favorable initiatives to improve the efficiency of such institutions. …”
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Essays on health care delivery and financing by Chan, David C. (David Cchimin)

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Exploring experiential learning within interprofessional practice education initiatives for pre-licensure healthcare students: a scoping review by Daniel A. Nagel, Jamie L. Penner, Gayle Halas, Mark T. Philip, Carol A. Cooke

“…Abstract Background Interprofessional collaborative team-based approaches to care in health service delivery has been identified as important to health care reform around the world. Many academic institutions have integrated interprofessional education (IPE) into curricula for pre-licensure students in healthcare disciplines, but few provide formal initiatives for interprofessional practice (IPP). …”
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Understanding the Integrated Health Management System Policy in China From Multiple Perspectives: Systematic Review and Content Analysis by Yang Yu, Sufen Wang, Lijue You

“… BackgroundThe integrated health management system (IHMS), which unites all health care–related institutions under a health-centered organizational framework, is of great significance to China in promoting the hierarchical treatment system and improving the new health care reform. China’s IHMS policy consists of multiple policies at different levels and at different times; however, there is a lack of comprehensive interpretation and analysis of these policies, which is not conducive to the further development of the IHMS in China. …”
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Research on the Efficiency and Equity of Rural Medical and Health Resources Allocation in China Based on DEA-GIS Methodology by GAO Dian, SHI Lushaobo, LIN Jinhui, WANG Xingmin, WANG Dong

“…Background "Strengthening primary health care" is one of the focuses of China's health care reform, and the study of the efficiency and equity of rural medical and health resources allocation in China is of great significance in promoting the orderly development of primary health care services, but at present, there are few relevant literature based on the DEA-GIS methodology with both equity and efficiency. …”
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Toward a sustainable and wise healthcare approach: potential contributions from hospital Internal Medicine Departments to reducing inappropriate medical spending by Roberto Nardi, Franco Berti, Leonardo M. Fabbri, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Ido Iori, Giovanni Mathieu, Giorgio Vescovo, Andrea Fontanella, Antonino Mazzone, Mauro Campanini, Carlo Nozzoli, Dario Manfellotto, on behalf of the FADOI and their Friends in the FFA Project Group

“…We firmly believe that reinforcing a common agenda between medicine and public health, and sharing a common vision among professionals and decision makers in the planning of care, may be the greatest opportunity for any every health care reform. The future of the health care system cannot be restricted to mere cost reduction, but should aim to deliver better health care in relation to the money spent. …”
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Issues of medical workers’ protection in the strategy of professional nursing and medical self-government in the healthcare system of Ukraine by O.N. Lytvynova, A.H. Shulhai, H.S. Saturska

“…Summary. Recent health care reform measures in Ukraine, as well as changes in the functioning of the health care system throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, have made significant adjustments to the work of health professionals, especially medical nurses and physicians, who have a heavy workload at the primary level of healthcare, as well as round-the-clock monitoring and care at the secon­dary and tertiary level of healthcare. …”
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Primary Care and General Practice Research Paper Productivity Report in China in 2021 by CAO Xingyang, WANG Yang, XU Zhijie, XU Yanli

“…Background With the deepening of health care reform in China, primary care and general practice researches have developed rapidly in recent years, and the number of papers published has increased rapidly. …”
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Horizontal inequity trends of health care utilization in rural China after the medicine and healthcare system reform: based on longitudinal data from 2010 to 2018 by Jinpeng Xu, Guomei Tian, Jiale Sun, Jian Liu, Fangting Chen, Qi Shi, Ting Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Jingran He, Fangmin Deng, Bokai Zhang, Haixin Wang, Qunhong Wu, Zheng Kang

“…Abstract Background To assess the effectiveness of China's medicine and health care reform in promoting equity in health care utilization among rural residents, it is necessary to analyze temporal trends in equity in health care utilization among rural residents in China. …”
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Des solutions pour améliorer l’accessibilité aux soins : l’expérience suédoise by Christina Aschan-Leygonie

“…The current paper examines the consequences of the primary health care reform and the development of e-health care on geographic accessibility to care. …”
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The Establishment of Ontario's Local Health Integration Networks: A Conflation of Regionalization with Integration of Health Services by Ga Eun Lee

“…The decade long experience of the LHINs is a lesson for the Patients First Act enacted in 2016, the next phase of Ontario health care reform involving LHINs as key players. L’Ontario est devenue en 2006 la dernière province canadienne à régionaliser ses services de santé avec la mise en place des Réseaux Locaux d’Intégration des Services de Santé (RLISS). …”
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Legislating Interprofessional Regulatory Collaboration in Nova Scotia by William Lahey

“…The legislation was adopted primarily for two reasons: collaborative development and unanimous support by all of the province’s self-regulating professions; and alignment with the government’s health care reform agenda and its emphasis on collaborative team-based care. …”
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The Leadership Role of the New Health Authorities: An Agenda for Research and Development by Pettigrew, A, Ferlie, E, Fitzgerald, L, Wensley, R

“…The recent health care reforms include major changes to the composition (and, it is hoped, role) of health authorities. …”

THE INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE OF GLOBALIZATION IN HEALTH SYSTEM by V. A. Alekseev, K. N. Borisov

“…The general in health care reforming in the modern world of globalization is the state way of financing and health care regulation, including obligatory medical insurance (compulsory health insurance) and the state guarantees of free medical care with emphasis on prevention.…”
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Comprehensive Assessment of Health System Performance in Odisha, India by Winnie Yip, Anuska Kalita, Bijetri Bose, Jan Cooper, Annie Haakenstad, William Hsiao, Liana Woskie, Michael R. Reich

“…ABSTRACTIndia has recently implemented several major health care reforms at national and state levels, yet the nation continues to face significant challenges in achieving better health system performance. …”
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Det krevende spennet mellom arbeid, hjemmet og gamle hjelpetrengende foreldre En hermeneutisk studie om kvinners situasjon i skjæringspunktet mellom yrkesliv og dobbelt omsorgsansv... by Ingrid S. Berthinussen, Sven-Tore Dreyer Fredriksen

“…Life expectancy has increased in the western world since World War Two, leading to an increasing number of elderly, and elderly with health problems, in need of care and assistance. Additional, health care reforms reguire the elderly to continue to live in their own homes for as long as possible. …”
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Roemer 20 Years Later: When a Classical Health-System Typology Meets Market-Oriented Reforms by Melanie Bourque, Jean-Simon Farrah

“…It is fair to say, then, that over the last two decades, health care reformers have adopted a market-oriented governance model that blends new public management (NPM) and managed competition reforms in the provision of health care services to transform supply- and demand-side actors into “responsibilized” customers, payers or providers. …”
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Competition measurement of hospitals in Poland: the Herfindahl-Hirschman index approach by Justyna Rój

“…Section 2 outlines the Polish health care reforms especially those applying to hospitals. …”
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Make or buy" decisions in the production of health care goods and services: new insights from institutional economics and organizational theory by Alexander S Preker, April Harding, Phyllida Travis

“…A central theme of recent health care reforms has been a redefinition of the roles of the state and private providers. …”
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Overview of the Performance of Rural Family Physician in Iran by Alireza Jabari, Gholamreza Sharifirad, Azad Shokri, Najmeh Bahmanziari, Ayan Kordi

“…Keywords: Physicians, Family; Health Care Reforms; Iran…”
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