Denmark implemented a major reform of the administrative and political structure in 2007
when the previous 13 counties were merged into five new regions and the number of …

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

Public choice scholars have attended only modestly to issues in public health. We expect
that to change rapidly given the Covid-19 pandemic. The time therefore is ripe for taking …

The Italian National Health Service began experimenting with a significant regionalisation
process during the 1990s. The purpose of this article is to assess the effects that this …

Fee-for-service remains a popular mode of paying for healthcare despite widespread
knowledge of its ill effects. This has resulted in a gap between policy knowledge …

The Nordic countries are healthcare systems with tax-based financing and ambitions for
universal access to comprehensive services. This implies that distribution of healthcare …

Public health investments help to prevent mortality and reduce health care costs. Yet very
few studies have examined the determinants of preventive care investments across …

Objectives Public health systems have been centre stage during the COVID-19 pandemic,
but governments invest relatively little in public health as compared to curative care …

The methods and application of cost-effectiveness analysis have reached an advanced
stage of development. Many decision makers consider cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to …

The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently
account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation …