International Journal of Health Governance: Volume 25 Issue 4

Editorial

Irina Ibragimova, Helen Phagava

Understanding national barriers to climate change adaptation for public health: a mixed-methods survey of national public health representatives

Hannah Marcus, Liz Hanna

To uncover the major government constraints to enactment and implementation of public health-targeted climate change adaptation (CCA) strategies in order to equip public health…

Behavioral barriers of tuberculosis notification in private health sector: policy implication and practice

Ayat Ahmadi, Leila Doshmangir, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Reza Majdzadeh

Underreporting of new tuberculosis (TB) cases is one of the main problems in TB control, particularly in countries with high incidence and dominating role of a private sector in…

Do performance measurement models have any impact on primary health care? A systematic review

Brahim Zaadoud, Youness Chbab, Aziz Chaouch

The purpose of this article is to analyze and compare between the frameworks of performance measurement in primary health care in the world. The subject of search is to compare if…

Developing scaled tools for residential and nursing home inspection: feasibility study

Brian J. Taylor, Insa Osterhus, Rachel Stewart, Suzanne Cunningham, Olive MacLeod, Mary McColgan

This study explored the feasibility of developing scaled inspection tools for use during external inspection of health and social care facilities to give improved accuracy in…

Refugee health in Europe: mapping review of research literature (2015–2019)

Irina Ibragimova, Martina Žužak

The purpose of this paper is to map research literature on all aspects of refugee health in Europe (2015–2019): by research domain, study design, targeted population, type of…

Research on hospital-based shared governance: a scoping review

Maiju Kyytsönen, Marco Tomietto, Moona Huhtakangas, Outi Kanste

The purpose of this study is to review research on hospital-based shared governance (SG), focussing on its core elements.

The climate change emergency: impacts on health governance

Fiona MacVane Phipps

To enable readers to gain an overview of the content of any issue of IJHG and in this way select papers most relevant to their interests or requirements.