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review 27.1
Fiona Ellen MacVane Phipps International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.118-124 (Source: International Journal of Health Governance)
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - February 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fiona Ellen MacVane Phipps Source Type: research

Editorial
Irina Ibragimova, Helen Phagava International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.1-7 (Source: International Journal of Health Governance)
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - February 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Irina Ibragimova Helen Phagava Source Type: research

Developing an analytical framework to identify early warnings of serious problems with the quality and safety of care
Steven Wilson International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to describe the approach taken in National Health Service Scotland to sharing information between health and care oversight bodies and the development of an analytical framework to monitor and identify early signals of serious problems in the quality and safety of health and care services. A review of the reports from UK public inquiries into serious failures in health and social care services identified the prominent themes that appear repeatedly as the causes of failure...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - February 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Steven Wilson Source Type: research

The Internet search engines as an additional tool in public health research in the context of disease outbreaks
Andrey Valerievich Batrimenko, Svetlana Denisova, Dmitrii Lisovskii, Sergey Orlov, Sergey Soshnikov International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The study aims to help epidemiologists identify new patterns and trends in spreading infections on the example of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using data from search engines. The study identified the types of thematic search of Russian Internet users and queries that have a mathematically confirmed correlation with public health indicators: mortality and morbidity from COVID-19. T...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - January 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Andrey Valerievich Batrimenko Svetlana Denisova Dmitrii Lisovskii Sergey Orlov Sergey Soshnikov Source Type: research

Bringing ethics into governance: the case of the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app
Gabrielle Samuel, Federica Lucivero International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- In April 2020, it was announced that NHSX, a unit of the UK National Health Service (NHS) responsible for digital innovation, was developing a contact tracing app that would offer a digital solution to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the urgency with which the app was developed, a clear commitment was made to designing the technology in a way that enshrined key ethical principles, and an ethics advisory board (EAB) was established to provide timely advice, guidan...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - December 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gabrielle Samuel Federica Lucivero Source Type: research

Assessing community health governance for evidence-informed decision-making: a cross-sectional study across nine districts of India
Shantanu Sharma, Sucheta Rawat, Faiyaz Akhtar, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Sunil Mehra International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.8-20 The authors intend to assess the village health sanitation and nutrition committees (VHSNC) on six parameters, including their formation, composition, meeting frequencies, activities, supervisory mechanisms and funds receipt and expenditures across nine districts of the three states of India. The cross-sectional study, conducted in the states of Uttar Pradesh (five districts), Odisha (two districts) and Rajasthan (two districts), used a quantita...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - December 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shantanu Sharma Sucheta Rawat Faiyaz Akhtar Rajesh Kumar Singh Sunil Mehra Source Type: research

Board level “Picture-Understanding-Action”: a new way of looking at quality
Jennifer Martin, Maureen A. Flynn, Zuneera Khurshid, John J. Fitzsimons, Gemma Moore, Philip Crowley International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.105-117 The purpose of this study is to present a quality improvement approach titled “Picture-Understanding-Action” used in Ireland to enhance the role of healthcare boards in the oversight of healthcare quality and its improvement. The novel and practical “Picture-Understanding-Action” approach was implemented using the Model for Improvement to iteratively introduce changes across three quality improvement projects. Th...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - December 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jennifer Martin Maureen A. Flynn Zuneera Khurshid John J. Fitzsimons Gemma Moore Philip Crowley Source Type: research

A critical analysis of the social media policies in Ontario's healthcare system
This study analyses the social media policies of healthcare regulatory authorities in Ontario and explores how these policies encourage or discourage healthcare professionals' use of social media for collecting patient stories and understanding patient experience. The study used qualitative content analysis to analyse the policy documents, focusing on the manifest themes in these documents. It used convenient sampling to select 12 organizations, including regulating and licensing bodies and health service delivery organizations in Ontario. The authors collected 24 documents from these organizations, including policies...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - December 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Moutasem A. Zakkar Samantha B. Meyer Craig R. Janes Source Type: research

Factors affecting hospital costs and revenue: integrating expert opinions and literature review
Rostam Zalvand, Mohammad Mohammadian, Mohammad Meskarpour Amiri International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.21-40 There is not enough comprehensive evidence on factors affecting hospital costs and revenue (HCR). The main objective of the current study is to identify and classify factors affecting HCR integrating experts' opinions and literature review. First, a restricted literature review is conducted to identify the factors affecting HCR. In the second step, the targeted semi-structured interviews are conducted with 15 experts to identify, validate and classify the lat...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - December 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rostam Zalvand Mohammad Mohammadian Mohammad Meskarpour Amiri Source Type: research

Vaccine hesitancy and implications on childhood immunisation in Malaysia
Noor Hazilah Abd Manaf, Mohd Azahadi Omar, Fatin Husna Suib International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.76-86 The World Health Organization identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the ten threats to global health in 2019. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the implications and factors affecting parental decision on childhood immunisation in Malaysia. This paper reviews literature on vaccine hesitancy and evaluation of factors affecting parental decision on childhood immunisation in Malaysia. Vaccine hesitancy is a growing public health concern in Malaysia with ...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - December 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Noor Hazilah Abd Manaf Mohd Azahadi Omar Fatin Husna Suib Source Type: research

What drives the healthcare sector's economic impact? Evidence from European countries
Timotej Jagric, Stefan Otto Grbenic, Vita Jagric International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.41-53 With high public debts and suffering economies after the COVID-19 pandemic, governments will look for ways to promote recovery. Literature substantially reports on the favorable macroeconomic impact of the healthcare sector. The authors use data on 19 European countries. Over 30 variables are analyzed to find factors that foster or suppress the economic impact of the healthcare sector. The economic impact is thereby expressed through five types of total multipliers, acting ...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - November 18, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Timotej Jagric Stefan Otto Grbenic Vita Jagric Source Type: research

Rapid evidence review to understand effective frailty care pathways and their components in primary and community care
Juliana Thompson, Glenda Cook, Claire Masterman, Mark Parkinson, Lesley Bainbridge International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.54-75 Different pathways of frailty care to prevent or delay progression of frailty and enable people to live well with frailty are emerging in primary and community care in the UK. The purpose of the study is to understand effective frailty care pathways and their components to inform future service development and pathway evaluation in primary- and community-care services. A rapid evidence review was conducted: 11 research publications met the ...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - November 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Juliana Thompson Glenda Cook Claire Masterman Mark Parkinson Lesley Bainbridge Source Type: research

Strategies and lessons learnt from user involvement in researching quality and safety in nursing homes and homecare
Ingunn Aase, Eline Ree, Terese Johannessen, Elisabeth Holen-Rabbersvik, Line Hurup Thomsen, Torunn Strømme, Berit Ullebust, Lene Schibevaag, Hilda Bø Lyng, Jane O'Hara, Siri Wiig International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp.384-396 The purpose is to share strategies, rationales and lessons learnt from user involvement in a quality and safety improvement research project from the practice field in nursing homes and homecare services. This is a viewpoint paper summarizing how researchers and co-researchers from the practice field of nursing homes and homecare services (nu...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - October 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ingunn Aase Eline Ree Terese Johannessen Elisabeth Holen-Rabbersvik Line Hurup Thomsen Torunn Str ømme Berit Ullebust Lene Schibevaag Hilda B ø Lyng Jane O'Hara Siri Wiig Source Type: research

Strategies of communicating health-related risks to vulnerable groups of immigrants during a pandemic: a scoping review of qualitative and quantitative evidence
This study covered health-related risk communication in the context of pandemics, addressing the need to investigate different groups of immigrants and the challenges related to communicating risks to these groups. (Source: International Journal of Health Governance)
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - October 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Olena Koval Ole Andreas Engen Jacob Kringen Siri Wiig Source Type: research

Editorial
Irina Ibragimova, Helen Phagava International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp.221-224 (Source: International Journal of Health Governance)
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - October 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Irina Ibragimova Helen Phagava Source Type: research