Preconditions for efficiency and affordability in competitive healthcare markets: Are they fulfilled in Belgium, Germany...
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Community case management to accelerate access to healthcare in Mali: A realist process evaluation nested within a clust...
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The Proactive Community Case Management (ProCCM) trial in Mali reinforced the health system across both arms with user fee removal, professional Community Health Workers (CHWs), and upgraded primary health centres (PHCs)-and randomized village-clusters to receive proactive home visits by CHWs (intervention) or fixed site-based services by passive C...
Navigating the path towards successful implementation of the EU HTA Regulation: key takeaways from the 2023 Spring Conve...
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BACKGROUND: The European Regulation on Health Technology Assessment (EU HTA R), effective since January 2022, aims to harmonize and improve the efficiency of common HTA across Member States (MS), with a phased implementation from January 2025. At "midterms" of the preparation phase for the implementation of the Regulation our aim was to identify an...
Evaluation of interactive web-based tools to stimulate reflection and communication about advance care planning with peo...
BACKGROUND: People with dementia and their family caregivers often encounter challenges in engaging in advance care planning (ACP), such as a lack of information and difficulties in engaging in ACP conversations. Using a user-centred design, we developed two interactive web-based tools as part of an ACP support website to stimulate ACP reflection a...
The Politics of the Gender Gap in COVID-19: Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Preferences in the US
Several studies demonstrate gender and partisan differences among Americans in COVID-19 socioeconomic consequences, attitudes, and behaviors. The authors of this study use six waves of panel survey data to explore the intersection of gender and party across COVID-19 mitigation behaviors, concerns, and policy preferences. The authors observe small g...
Sociodemographic Correlates of Mental Health Treatment Seeking Among College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Anal...
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OBJECTIVE: College students have high rates of mental health problems and low rates of treatment. Although sociodemographic disparities in student mental health treatment seeking have been reported, findings have not been synthesized and quantified. The extent to which differences in perceived need for treatment contribute to overall disparities re...
Scope and Incentives for Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets With Regulated Competition: A Conceptual Framework a...
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Learnings from cross-border biosimilar pricing policies in Europe
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Population Adjusted-Indirect Comparisons in Health Technology Assessment: A Methodological Systematic Review
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Patient-Centered Innovation
BackgroundInvolving patients in the health-care delivery innovation has many benefits. Open social innovation (OSI) presents a fitting lens to examine and advance patient engagement in innovation. OSI offers a participatory approach to innovation, in which diverse groups of participants collaboratively generate ideas and scale solutions on complex ...
