John Peabody (University of California and QURE Healthcare) and David Paculdo (QURE Healthcare)
When governments look for ways to improve health care they grapple with questions of where and how best to spend scarce healthcare dollars. Urgency seems to take over effectiveness and they rarely ask what is the best…
By Martin McKee (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Cross-posted with kind permission from the BMJ Opinion blog.
The long awaited Brexit White Paper has finally appeared. Yet Martin McKee finds it fails to shed any light on how Brexit’s consequences for health (or much else) will…
By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Most cited content in 2016
The top 10 most cited is dominated entirely by our supplement papers on ‘The Emergence and Effectiveness of Global Health Networks’ published in April 2016. I have included the link to the supplement above- please…
Happy New Year to all of our readers, authors, reviewers, editorial board members and health policy and planning community!
In 2016 we achieved some exciting developments at Health Policy and Planning and so in this blog, we take a look back at the previous year with our top 10 highlights…
By Jamie Enoch (Research Assistant in AIDS Policy, LSHTM)
Has 2016 been one of the worst years in history? Whatever your take on the overall state of the world, there is room to approach World AIDS Day with cautious optimism. UNAIDS estimates that over 18 million people are accessing antiretroviral…
By Richard Coker and Mishal Khan (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
The recent election of Donald Trump has cast a dark cloud of uncertainty over the United States’ role in international development, and for HIV/AIDS, has thrown the future of global control efforts into question.
Mitchell Warren…
By Mishal Khan (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
This blog is extracted with kind permission and modifications from Singapore Sling.
The long flight back home from the Fourth Health Systems Research Symposium in Vancouver provided an opportunity to reflect on the plethora of thought-provoking discussions that took…
By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Today marks the start of the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research; a wonderful and also challenging programme addressing the theme of ‘Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world’ from 14-18th November in Vancouver, Canada. This…
By Dana Greeson (Columbia University) and Karen Grépin (Wilfrid Laurier University)
The success of health initiatives depends on how they are accepted by target communities. Do community members perceive the initiative as addressing a priority issue? Is the intervention culturally sensitive? Is there buy-in from community influencers? We…
By Kjell Arne Johansson (University of Bergen) Kirsten Bjerkreim Strand (University of Bergen), Abebaw Fekadu (Addis Ababa University) and Dan Chisholm (World Health Organization)
This blog is published as a policy brief here: http://www.uib.no/en/rg/globpri
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