International Journal of Health Governance: Volume 27 Issue 3

Editorial: Preprints and peer-reviewed journals

Irina Ibragimova, Helen Phagava

Global analysis of timely COVID-19 vaccinations: improving governance to reinforce response policies for pandemic crises

Igor Benati, Mario Coccia

The goal of this study is to analyze the relationship between public governance and COVID-19 vaccinations during early 2021 to assess the preparedness of countries to timely…

Physicians' experiences of challenges in working conditions related to the provision of care during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Karin Nilsson, Bodil J. Landstad, Kerstin Ekberg, Anna Nyberg, Malin Sjöström, Emma Hagqvist

This aim of this study was to explore how hospital-based physicians in Sweden experienced the challenges in working conditions related to the provision of care during the initial…

Barriers and reliability of patient experience evaluation in Ontario: perspectives of healthcare providers, managers, and policymakers

Moutasem A. Zakkar, Craig Janes, Samantha Meyer

Patient experience (PE) evaluation can identify critical issues in healthcare quality. Various methods are used for PE evaluation in the healthcare system in Ontario; however…

Association between use of clinical governance systems at the frontline and patient safety: a pre-post study

Jigi Lucas, Sandra G. Leggat, Nicholas F. Taylor

To investigate the association between implementation of clinical governance and patient safety.

Evaluation of community-based participatory governance interventions to improve access to health-related public entitlements in India

Mayur Trivedi, Minjan Patel, Divya Nair H, Bharati Sharma

As the investment in social and health protection remained poor in India, the most vulnerable citizens lack access to existing health related government initiatives with…

Health technology assessment processes: a North-South comparison of the evaluation and recommendation of health technologies in Canada and Chile

Cristián Mansilla, Lucy Kuhn-Barrientos, Natalia Celedón, Rafael de Feria, Julia Abelson

Health systems are progressively stressed by health spending, which is partially explained by the increase in the cost of health technologies. Countries have defined processes to…

Barriers to healthcare for Venezuelan migrants: physicians' perspective

Akeem Modeste-James, Camille Huggins

Increased migration to small island developing states poses major challenges on receiving countries' healthcare systems. Due to public health policy on treating migrants in…

Are individual risky behaviours relevant to healthcare allocation decisions? An exploratory study

Micaela Pinho, Natércia Durão, Boyan Zahariev

The problematic surrounding patients' prioritization decisions are currently at the centre of political leaders' concerns. How to define whom to treat when there are not enough…

IJHG 27.3 Review

Fiona Ellen MacVane Phipps