International Journal of Health Governance: Volume 28 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Digital health and governance: implications and challenges

Mark Allen Storey, Sergey Soshnikov

IJHG Review 28.3

Fiona Ellen MacVane Phipps

Strengthening health data governance: new equity and rights-based principles

Louise Holly, Shannon Thom, Mohamed Elzemety, Beatrice Murage, Kirsten Mathieson, Maria Isabel Iñigo Petralanda

This paper introduces a new set of equity and rights-based principles for health data governance (HDG) and makes the case for their adoption into global, regional and national…

A study on next-generation digital tool for health data management: the e-Pulse portal

Seda H. Bostancı, Seda Yıldırım, Durmus Cagri Yildirim

This study aims to investigate the working way of the e-Pulse portal in Türkiye as a sample of a next-generation digital tool for health data management. Accordingly, this study…

Popular diffusion as an instrument for overcoming barriers to digital health in Iran: the critical role of the pandemic

Kioomars Ashtarian, Manal Etemadi

The importance of champion leaders including tech-savvy leaders to digital government has been highlighted in the literature. Meanwhile, what was in the authors’ interest to…

The role of lifestyles in the commitment to the Unites Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3. An exploratory study

Micaela Pinho

The World Health Organisation recognises that health and well-being are essential to achieve the United Nations Development Agenda 2030. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the…

Mediating effect of integrated health commodities procurement system on the relationship between responsiveness and health service delivery

Baraka Israel

The problems that face health service delivery across different countries are compounded by financial, political, institutional and technical deficiencies. Yet, the role of…

An evaluation of blood collection efficiency at the regional level: the case of Turkey

Gokhan Agac, Birdogan Baki, Kazim Baris Atici

The aim of this study is to analyze Turkey's blood collection efficiency at the regional level between 2018 and 2021 and discuss managerial implications.

The perception of competition in the hospital healthcare market of the Republic of Moldova

Eduard Aneste, Oleg Lozan

Identifying the perception of competition between public and private providers in the national hospital market can help authorities to develop appropriate management strategies…

The cost-effectiveness of resilient healthcare

Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Siri Wiig, Riccardo Patriarca, Tor Olav Grotan

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to develop a model of the hypothesized relationships between investments and outcomes of resilient health care (RHC).