The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series consists of country-based reviews that provide
a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or …

Background Decentralised governance of health care has been widely adopted globally
over the past three decades. But despite being implemented as a management strategy …

Background National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic depend on national
preparedness systems that must be understood as components of global public health …

With the urgent need to regulate provider behaviors, China developed a novel patient
classification with global budget payment system, expecting to achieve both easy …

Background Physician turnover is a concern in many health care systems globally. A better
understanding of physicians' reasons for leaving their job may inform organisational policies …

Principles in Health Economics and Policy, second edition, is a concise introduction to
health economics and its application to health policy. It introduces the subject of economics …

In many European countries, since the World War II, there has been a trend towards
decentralization of health policy to lower levels of governments, while more recently there …

The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of
surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals that share their waiting lists and ORs. We …

Abstract New Public Management-inspired reforms in the Norwegian hospital sector have
introduced several features from the private sector into a predominantly public healthcare …

This study investigates the determinants of regional variations in health care expenditures
(HCE) in Switzerland, since there are significant differences between cantons per capita …