International Journal of Health Governance: Volume 27 Issue 2

Editorial: How to build health?

Lars Münter, Kristine Sørensen, Tanja Schjoedt Jørgensen, Bobbie Nicole Ray-Sannerud

Strategies of communicating health-related risks to vulnerable groups of immigrants during a pandemic: a scoping review of qualitative and quantitative evidence

Olena Koval, Ole Andreas Engen, Jacob Kringen, Siri Wiig

The purpose of this rapid scoping review was to map existing literature on risk communication strategies implemented by authorities and aimed at vulnerable immigrants in the…

Exploring the nexus of health promotion, sport and well-being to improve future synergies and public health capacity through integrated approaches

Kristine Sørensen, Lars Steen Pedersen, Jakob Sander

New models of thinking, organization and governance are needed when health systems are under pressure. Inspired by a recent Danish community project called Your Health, this paper…

Governance for global health: the role of Nordic countries

Irina Ibragimova

Global health challenges and threats could be confronted by collaborative efforts of international community. Governance for global health is a set of formal and informal…

Bringing ethics into governance: the case of the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app

Gabrielle Samuel, Federica Lucivero

In April 2020, it was announced that NHSX, a unit of the UK National Health Service (NHS) responsible for digital innovation, was developing a contact tracing app that would offer…

The Internet search engines as an additional tool in public health research in the context of disease outbreaks

Andrey Valerievich Batrimenko, Svetlana Denisova, Dmitrii Lisovskii, Sergey Orlov, Sergey Soshnikov

The study aims to help epidemiologists identify new patterns and trends in spreading infections on the example of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using…

Developing an analytical framework to identify early warnings of serious problems with the quality and safety of care

Steven Wilson

This paper aims to describe the approach taken in National Health Service Scotland to sharing information between health and care oversight bodies and the development of an…

India’s COVID-19 vaccination policy-an analysis of problem, politics and policy

Devasheesh Mathur

The article aims to critically examine India's COVID-19 vaccination policy by analyzing the problem, politics and policy developed during the pandemic. The article would help the…

IJHG 27.2 Review

Fiona Ellen MacVane Phipps