Tag: Health Policy

Tunisia's first national clinical practice guideline for autism spectrum disorder in children and adolescents adapts the 2023 Singapore guideline into ...

Modeling and Gaps Define HIV Surveillance in Sub-Saharan Africa

A review of five African countries revealed that HIV surveillance relies heavily on mathematical modeling and infrequent surveys, with significant ...

Why Fracture Patients Fall Through the Cracks: Depression, Fear of Falling and the Missing Data in Bone-Care Pathways

A new policy review argues that depression and fear of falling may contribute to patient loss in fracture liaison services, ...

Why repurposed drugs failed against COVID-19: evidence, policy and the Bulgarian case

A systematic review and meta-analysis confirms that hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, ivermectin, azithromycin and doxycycline lack clinically meaningful efficacy against COVID-19, and ...

China’s County Medical Communities Show U-Shaped Effect on Patient Retention

A provincial panel study finds a U-shaped link between the implementation intensity of China's county-level medical communities and patient retention, ...

China’s Medical Boom Fails to Deliver Health Gains, Decoupling Study Finds

A 12-year analysis of all 31 Chinese provinces finds that medical service provision expanded while composite population health outcomes declined, ...

China’s outpatient insurance reform linked to falling inpatient costs over time

An interrupted time series analysis of claims data from one Chinese province found that the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance ...

Scoping review maps multi-level barriers and fixes in healthcare access for autistic children

A scoping review of 22 studies from 14 countries finds that barriers to healthcare for children with autism spectrum disorder, ...

Robotic rehabilitation returns NT$6.86 per NT$1 invested, Taiwan analysis finds

A Social Return on Investment analysis of an advanced robotic-assisted rehabilitation program in Taiwan estimated NT$6.86 of social value for ...

Policy analysis maps Somalia’s health-service delivery constraints and reform sequence

A policy analysis of 61 sources identifies fragmented authority, household payment exposure and operational constraints in Somalia, and supports a ...

Bundled payments modestly reduced Dutch joint-replacement spending, study finds

A two-year Dutch study found that bundled payments modestly reduced hip or knee replacement spending without significantly changing complication rates ...

Lebanon’s private insurers weigh pooled fund to cover oral cancer medicines

A stakeholder study in BMC Health Services Research proposes an ACAL-managed stand-alone cancer fund, insurer-pharmaceutical partnerships, and public-private collaboration to ...

Canada’s new reliance rule for foreign drug approvals may not fix pediatric shortages

A new analysis argues that Canada's Ministerial Order allowing reliance on foreign regulatory decisions may speed approvals but lacks the ...

Cost, Distance and Shortages Block Nuclear Medicine Access in Nigerian Study

October 25, 2026

A qualitative study at University College Hospital in Ibadan finds that radioiodine therapy costs of up to ₦750,000, long travel ...

China’s volume-based drug procurement linked to modest rise in R&D intensity

A study of 293 Chinese A-share listed pharmaceutical manufacturers finds direct selection in national volume-based drug procurement was associated with ...

China’s Decade of Merged Residency Training and Graduate Degrees Leaves Doctors Overstretched

A narrative review of China's ten-year experiment merging professional master's degrees with standardized residency training finds that the dual student-resident ...

Willingness Outpaces Action: Parental HPV Vaccine Beliefs Across the Middle East

A systematic review of 33 studies and 18,170 parents shows that Middle Eastern parents often express willingness to vaccinate their ...

Paediatric Radiology Grows Past 1,600 Members but Training Gaps Persist Across Europe