International Journal of Health Planning and Management最新文献

This study examines the optometric research landscape in three East Asian countries—China, Japan, and Korea—analysing how research trends align with each country's national health strategies. By evaluating published articles and reviews from national journals between 2006 March 2025, we identify key areas of focus, including paediatric optometry, refractive errors, and advanced diagnostic techniques. China's research emphasises pathogenesis and retinal diseases, driven by its aging population and high prevalence of chronic conditions, while Japan prioritises binocular vision and professional practice across all age groups. Korea focuses on accommodation, contact lenses, and the impact of digital technology on vision, reflecting its high prevalence of myopia among children. These variations are shaped by demographic trends and public health strategies. China's targeted health policy, the “China Five-Year National Plan for Eye Health 2016–2020,” has directly influenced domestic research, particularly in artificial intelligence and diagnostics. In contrast, Japan's “Vision Health Care 2035” and Korea's “National Health Plan 2030” have had a more limited effect on shaping optometry research, with trends driven more by societal needs—such as Japan's aging population and Korea's focus on children's digital device use. The findings highlight how China's policy-driven approach directly influences research priorities, while in Japan and Korea, research responds more to demographic shifts. This comparative analysis underscores the importance of targeted national policies in advancing healthcare innovation and shaping research directions in optometry. This study offers actionable insight into how targeted health policies, demographic transitions, and clinical practice models shape national optometric research agendas, providing a framework for aligning future research with healthcare goals.

The One Health paradigm recognises the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, calling for collaborative and cross-sectoral responses to increasingly complex health threats. However, operationalising this vision requires more than biomedical or ecological knowledge. It requires systems thinking, structured decision-making, performance evaluation, and governance mechanisms. Management science—including decision analysis, operations research, systems modelling, and digital innovation—can play a pivotal role in transforming the One Health framework from aspirational policy to effective practice. We build upon recent interdisciplinary literature to demonstrate how Management Science is inherently transversal to One Health research fields. Drawing from examples involving artificial intelligence, data governance, and collaborative networks, we propose a revised roadmap for embedding Management Science capacity across One Health platforms, underlining the need for a human-centred, ethically grounded, and digitally enabled ecosystem for action.

Gaza's health system has been devastated by a confluence of political determinants that long predated the 2023–25 Israeli military assault and were dramatically intensified during it. Using historical, political economy, ethical, and health systems lenses, this article argues that settler colonialism, military occupation, and a protracted blockade created chronic shortages, workforce erosion, and institutional fragility, leaving services acutely vulnerable to targeted destruction of facilities and personnel. We examine the role and limitations of international medical deployments and field hospitals, which provided lifesaving care but operated under stringent access controls, supply interdictions, and security risks. Short rotations, poor continuity of care, and donor restrictions that discourage engagement with local authorities contributed to parallel systems, fragmentation, and dependency. We then identify four intersecting barriers to reconstruction: ongoing blockade and humanitarian access denials; lack of protection and accountability for attacks on health; governance fragmentation and the sidelining of Palestinian leadership; and donor fatigue amid politicised aid. The article proposes a justice-centred pathway for recovery that prioritises accountability and reparations, an end to the blockade and occupation, inclusive Palestinian-led governance, alignment of aid with national plans, avoidance of parallel structures through early transition to local ownership, workforce stabilisation, and long-term partnerships. Without these political preconditions, reconstruction efforts will remain fragile and inequitable.

Learning health systems collect and analyse data on an ongoing basis to make real-time, evidence-informed decisions. Patient involvement is central to learning health systems. In this perspective paper, we describe implications that LHSs' distinguishing features have for patient involvement. These include the need to: build capacity for patients to engage across cycles of data collection and analysis; flesh out the role of patients with respect to collection and analysis of health system data; and create infrastructure to support involvement within learning-intensive environments. We argue that meaningfully involving patients in LHSs requires attention to the relational and epistemological complexity of this endeavour. We conclude with six recommendations for practice, policy, and research.