Background There is increasing interest in using systems thinking to tackle ‘wicked' policy problems in preventive health, but this can be challenging for policy-makers because the literature is amorphous and often ...

China's estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China's health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What ...

This commentary addresses Bowen et al's empirical study of perspectives of Canadian healthcare staff towards research and their call for multi-faceted action to improve misalignments in the system. ...

Background Donor funded projects are small scale and time limited, with gains that soon dissipate when donor funds end. This paper presents findings that sought to understand successes, challenges and barriers that ...

The ageing of the countries' populations, and in particular the growing number of the very old, is increasing the need for long-term care (LTC). Not surprisingly, therefore, the financing of LTC ...

This paper comments on Naoki Ikegami's editorial entitled “Financing long-term care: lessons from Japan." Adding to the editorial, this paper focuses on analyzing the political and cultural foundations ...