Introduction Performance measurement systems have become essential managerial tools
for healthcare organisations in the last few decades. They allow hospital managers to pilot …

About a decade ago, two overviews of research on attitudes towards the welfare state
appeared in the Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (Svallfors 2010) and the Oxford …

This paper calls on social policy scholars to approach health differently in their research. Our
goal is to bring core insights from social epidemiology into conversation with welfare state …

Mature welfare states must increasingly handle growing fiscal pressures and a multitude of
needs with smaller resources. Meanwhile, evaluations of policy outputs are characterized as …

Differences in welfare attitudes of Eastern and Western Europeans have often been
explained in terms of legacies of communism. In this article, we explore evaluations of …

Introduction: Access to the healthcare system when patients are vulnerable and living
outside metropolitan areas can be challenging. Our objective was to explore healthcare …

Background Health system satisfaction is an important but understudied indicator of health
system performance. It has far-reaching implications for sustainability but has been widely …

Objectives: This study sought to systematically review the existing literature on self-reported
unmet healthcare needs in Southeastern Europe. Methods: A systematic literature review of …

Do personal experiences matter for public attitudes towards the role of the government? In
the domain of healthcare, I argue that policies change the salience of personal experiences …

Abstract Background In Romania, the passage from a culture in which healthcare were
freely available to a culture in which people must contribute financially, at least in part, has …