This article classifies 30 OECD healthcare systems according to a deductively generated
typology by Rothgang and Wendt [1]. This typology distinguishes three core dimensions of …

In recent years, a research area has emerged within social determinants of health that
examines the role of politics, expressed as political traditions/parties and welfare state …

This article addresses the need to establish a comprehensive conceptual framework for
analysing healthcare systems and their transformations. It begins by offering an overview of …

Healthcare systems have been institutionalized to provide healthcare for those in need.
Therefore, comparisons should focus in particular on differences in healthcare provision and …

As health care has become of great importance to both individual citizens and to society, it
has become more important to understand medicine's relationship to the society it serves in …

Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has tested the mettle of
governments across the globe and has thrown entrenched fault lines within health systems …

This literature review pursues two main objectives: first, it argues that research on health
policy actors and healthcare systems need to be separated more thoroughly. Though there …

In 2006, the Netherlands embarked upon an ambitious reform of the Dutch health care
system based upon the principles of regulated competition. Some 15 years later, it is an …

Healthcare organizations and workers are under pressure to produce increasingly complete
and accurate data for multiple data-intensive endeavors. However, little research has …

Background Patient registration with a primary care providers supports continuity in the
patient-provider relationship. This paper develops a framework for analysing the …