International Journal of Health Governance: Volume 25 Issue 3

Reflections on COVID-19 and the ethical issues for healthcare providers

Peivand Bastani, Mostafa Sheykhotayefeh, Ali Tahernezhad, Seyyed Mostafa Hakimzadeh, Samaneh Rikhtegaran

Healthcare governance places medical ethics at the forefront of defining and maintaining the quality of care. Examples of serious ethical issues include sexual abuse of patients…

Social cohesion vs COVID-19

Manuel M. Dayrit, Ronald Umali Mendoza

The control of particularly virulent communicable diseases such as COVID-19 can be considered a global public good. Unabated contagion, both within and across borders, can result…

Factors influencing internet usage for health purposes

Sik Sumaedi, Sumardjo Sumardjo

The objective of this paper is to analyse the simultaneous effect of intention, attitude, knowledge, injunctive norm, descriptive norm, facility access, perceived Internet health…

Reimagining proactive strategic planning toward patient-centered care: processes and outcomes in a medical school's department of family and community medicine

Julie Aultman, Diana Kingsbury, Kristin Baughman, Rebecca Fischbein, John M. Boltri

A detailed strategic planning process is presented that entails several beneficial and effective strategies and goals for interdisciplinary academic, clinical and/or service…

Here's to sound action on global hearing health through public health approaches

Farah M. Shroff, David Jung

A global pandemic, non-occupational noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a completely preventable public health problem, which receives limited air time. This study has dual…

Scoping the application of primary care advanced clinical practice roles in England

Juliana Thompson, Sue Tiplady, Phil Hodgson, Carole Proud

This study aims to scope the profile and application of an advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) roles in primary care in the North of England and how these roles meet the…

Treatment cost of HIV/AIDS in Turkey

Hakan Özkaya, Nehir Balcı, Hülya Özkan Özdemir, Tuna Demirdal, Selma Tosun, Şükran Köse, Nur Yapar

The purpose of this study is to estimate the average cost of treatment and investigate the related parameters of HIV/AIDS among patients based on their annual treatment regime…

Through the lens of COVID-19

Fiona MacVane Phipps

The purpose of the IJHG Review is to enable readers to gain a quick overview of articles contained in an individual issue.