Health systems and reform

01 1 October 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2712053

Antimicrobial Resistance in Somalia: Policy Without Implementation in a Fragile Health System

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Aniso Mohamed Abdi, Hibo Hassan Mohamed, Ilyas Abdullahi Khalif et al.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as a leading global health threat, responsible for an estimated 1.27 million deaths directly and 4.95 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR i...

02 15 September 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2720979

Effects, Challenges, and Preconditions for Implementing Direct Health Facility Financing and the Prime Vendor Model in Low-Resource Settings: The Experience from Tanzania

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Peter Binyaruka, Douglas Ndeki, Raymond Kiwesa et al.

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) under the Sustainable Development Goal 3.8 remains a key policy goal in many settings. UHC requires that all people access quality health services without ...

03 24 August 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2704239

From Data to Policy: Strengthening Kuwait’s Health Insurance for Sustainability and Equity

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Jade Khalife, Batoul Dawi, Abdulrahman Alqashaan et al.

Health financing is a key part of health systems, involving revenue generation, fund pooling, and service procurement.1 Health financing has been linked to Universal Health Coverage (UHC),1,2 healt...

04 18 August 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2708910

A Pragmatic Call to Integrate and Regulate Non-State Actors in Fragile Health Systems

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Augustus Osborne, Abdirasak Sharif Ali, Umaru Sesay

In a South Sudan village, a mother brings her feverish child to a clinic. The nurse works for a faith-based group, medicines come from an NGO, and vaccination records are managed by another team. M...

05 21 July 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2693357

Challenges to Achieving Universal Health Coverage Through Public Financial Management Reforms: Insights from the Implementation of Single Nodal Agency Reform in India

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Mita Choudhury, Nitya Chutani

Improving Public Financial Management (PFM) is being increasingly seen as a tool for expanding fiscal space for health and advancing progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In many low- an...

06 6 July 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2688285

Mexico's New Health Reform: El Servicio Universal de Salud.

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Michael R Reich

07 6 July 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2688953

Health Systems Research for a New Era: Launch Editorial

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Michael R. Reich, Corrina Moucheraud, Pablo Villalobos et al.

Health Systems & Reform is pleased to launch an open discussion and Article Collection on the theme of “Health Systems Research for a New Era: Foundations, Frontiers, Futures.” The global health ec...

08 3 June 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2668734

Health Policy and Systems Research: Where Are We and What Does the Future Hold?

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Tolib Mirzoev, Ana B. Amaya, David Daniels et al.

Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is a relatively young and multidisciplinary field of applied and policy-relevant science. It bridges the worlds of research, practice, and advocacy, and is dedicated to producing evidence to impr...

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09 6 April 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2648262

Framing Overtreatment as Consumer Fraud: Analysis and Implications of China’s First Civil Public Interest Litigation in Healthcare

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Jiayi Jiang, Mushiyi Yang

10 19 March 2026

DOI 10.1080/23288604.2026.2627652

Global Mega-Challenges and International Collaboration in Science, Education, and Health

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Harvey V. Fineberg

We live in an interdependent world riven by ideology, factions, and rivalries, and we face enormous challenges such as climate disruption, an aging population, and coping with the consequences of technologies such as gene editing and art...

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