International Journal of Health Governance: Volume 29 Issue 4

Editorial: Why manuscripts are being unsubmitted and desk-rejected by editors

Irina Ibragimova, Helen Phagava

IJHG Review 29.4: Early career authors

Fiona Ellen MacVane Phipps

Examination of personality types as predictors of safety attitudes/behaviours, in support of enhancing safety in healthcare: a scoping review

Yeojin Kil, Margaret Graham, Anna V. Chatzi

Provisions for the minimisation of human error are essential through governance structures such as recruitment, human resource allocation and education/training. As predictors of…

Remittances, migration and vaccine acceptance/hesitancy

Farid Makhlouf

The SARS-Cov2 pandemic has generated considerable debate about the role of vaccines in the fight against epidemics and the sensitivity and acceptability of new vaccines in…

To rule or not to rule? The policy process of the excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Indonesia

Murwendah Murwendah, Tasya Dinasari Salsabila, Ismail Khozen

The rising incidence of non-communicable diseases and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) consumption in Indonesia is a concern to the central government. However, the excise tax…

Clarifying misconception of quality and safety in healthcare

Anna V. Chatzi, Kyriakos I. Kourousis

Healthcare has undergone multiple phases in gaining understanding, accepting and implementing quality and safety, with the last 3 decades being crucial and decisive in making…

Work engagement in public primary healthcare centers: psychometric analysis of a scale for its evaluation

Víctor Cancino Cancino, Jesus Juyumaya, Germán Rojas-Cabezas

This study aims to validate the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-17) within Public Primary Healthcare Centers, addressing the need for a reliable measure of work…

The role of public health expenditure in reducing infant mortality rate in India: insights from cointegration analysis

Ashutosh Pandey

The purpose of this paper is to investigate (1) whether the public health expenditure rises as the gross state domestic product (GSDP) increases and (2) whether the infant…

Predictive accuracy of the logit model to determine factors affecting delivery and postnatal care services utilization in Tanzania

Mwajuma Muya, Bahati Ilembo, Mackfallen Anasel

This paper examines factors affecting the delivery care (DC) and postnatal care (PNC) services utilization in Tanzania using the predictive accuracy of the binary logit model by…