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March 2025
This issue of the Quarterly opens with a thoughtful Perspective on equity in evidence-informed decision making, and is followed by original scholarship on an array of policy topics, including: insurance to improve patient access to cell and gene therapy; essential medicines in the World Health Organization’s Model Lists; access to mental health treatment; principles for embedding health equity language in policy research and practice; comprehensiveness in primary care; and whole person health assessments. More
February 2025
Context: The World Health Organization (WHO) Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) aims to help countries select medicines based on the priority… More
Over the past 50 years, population health researchers have made significant progress in clarifying the empirical and theoretical relationships… More
Context: Language specificity in research, advocacy, and writing is an important tool to ensure more equitable health policies. All health policy… More
January 2025
Context: Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) offer treatment to rare and oftentimes deadly diseases. Because of their high price and uncertain clinical… More
Context: Frustration with the burden of proliferating measures in health care focused on diseases and care processes has added to the growing desire… More
Context: Mental health problems represent a major public health issue for the United States, and access to mental health treatment is both inadequate… More
December 2024
In this issue of the Quarterly, readers will find an engaging mix of articles, beginning with two Perspectives and original scholarship on a range of policy topics. More
This scoping review explored how comprehensiveness in primary care is conceptualized and defined in order to map its attributes in support of being able to more clearly and precisely define this key concept in research, practice, and policy. More
Public trust is critical to both system legitimacy and the successful implementation of data-driven health initiatives. Legislations are an essential instrument for building public trust, as they can have a dual effect on trust: a passive effect by reinforcing the public perception of an active regulatory system that upholds the rule of law and an active effect as a tool for policymakers to signal trust-building actions to be undertaken during the implementation phase. More
