Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Health Policy

Health policy encompasses the decisions, plans, and actions undertaken by governments, health systems, and organizations to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society. Research published in Public Health International examines health policy across diverse settings and populations, addressing regulatory frame…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 79× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Health policy encompasses the decisions, plans, and actions undertaken by governments, health systems, and organizations to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society. Research published in Public Health International examines health policy across diverse settings and populations, addressing regulatory frameworks such as tobacco control strategies and sugar-sweetened beverage taxation, access barriers facing vulnerable groups including elderly populations in Tanzania and rural adolescents in Rwanda, and the integration of traditional healthcare practices with national health systems. Studies investigate self-medication behaviors among pregnant women, pharmaceutical workforce challenges including job satisfaction among community pharmacists, and healthcare worker retention issues such as nurse turnover in hospital settings. The journal also features research on community health needs assessments in urban African contexts, municipal decision-making tools for waterborne disease prevention, and the intersection of infectious disease emergence with geopolitical considerations. This body of work matters because effective health policy directly influences population health outcomes, healthcare quality, and equitable access to services, particularly in resource-limited settings where policy decisions must balance competing priorities, cultural practices, and systemic constraints to strengthen public health infrastructure and improve health equity.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 79 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Health Policy, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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