Health Policy

"Health Policy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.

Descriptor ID	D006291
MeSH Number(s)	I01.655.500.608.400 I01.880.604.825.608.400 N03.623.500.608.428
Concept/Terms	Health Policy Health Policy Health Policies Policies, Health Policy, Health National Health Policy National Health Policy Health Policies, National Health Policy, National National Health Policies Policies, National Health Policy, National Health

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Policy".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Policy [I01.655]
Social Control Policies [I01.655.500]
Public Policy [I01.655.500.608]
Health Policy [I01.655.500.608.400]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Control, Formal [I01.880.604]
Social Control Policies [I01.880.604.825]
Public Policy [I01.880.604.825.608]
Health Policy [I01.880.604.825.608.400]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Policy [N03.623]
Social Control Policies [N03.623.500]
Public Policy [N03.623.500.608]
Health Policy [N03.623.500.608.428]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Health Policy".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Policy".

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Policy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Policy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 125 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2009

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	1	1
1996	3	2	5
1997	1	0	1
1998	1	2	3
1999	0	2	2
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	0	1
2002	1	3	4
2003	1	1	2
2004	1	2	3
2005	1	0	1
2007	2	7	9
2008	2	1	3
2009	6	6	12
2010	4	6	10
2011	3	3	6
2012	3	3	6
2013	5	2	7
2014	5	3	8
2015	2	0	2
2016	6	1	7
2017	3	4	7
2018	5	0	5
2019	3	3	6
2020	1	2	3
2021	2	2	4
2022	3	0	3
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Policy" by people in Profiles.

Boufadel P, Fares MY, Daher M, Mathur A, Saunders P, Abboud JA, Kassam HF. Health Policy Challenges and Reforms: Critical Updates for Orthopaedic Surgeons. JBJS Rev. 2025 Feb 01; 13(2).

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Johnston-Webber C, Bencomo-Bermudez I, Wharton G, van Kessel R, Barone S, Munt? FB, Chadban S, Sanchez JJG, Kocks JWH, Obolensky K, Sandow P, Skolnik N, Zhao MH, Volaco A, Wheeler DC, McGuire A, Mossialos E. A conceptual framework to assess the health, socioeconomic and environmental burden of chronic kidney disease. Health Policy. 2025 Feb; 152:105244.

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Brush PL, Tomlak A, Pohl N, Lee Y, Narayanan R, Meade MH, Lambrechts MJ, Lawall CL, Weber J, Syal A, O'Connor P, Canseco JA, Kaye ID, Kurd MF, Vaccaro AR, Kepler CK, Hilibrand AS, Schroeder GD. Utilization of In-Hospital Orthopaedic Spine Consultations: Evaluating the Impact of Health Care Policy. Am J Med Qual. 2023 Nov 01; 38(6):300-305.

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Walker DM, Shiu-Yee K, Chen S, DePuccio MJ, Jackson RD, McAlearney AS. Community Coalitions' Perspectives on Engaging with Hospitals in Ohio to Address the Opioid Crisis. Popul Health Manag. 2022 Dec; 25(6):729-737.

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Barasche-Berdah D, Wetzler S, Greenshtein I, Greenberg KL, Leiter E, Donchin M, Zwas DR. Municipal community centers as healthy settings: evaluation of a real-world health promotion intervention in Jerusalem. BMC Public Health. 2022 10 07; 22(1):1870.

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Liao JM, Lee RK, McGinty G, Nicola LP, Lee CI. JACR Health Policy Expert Panel: Pay for?Performance. J Am Coll Radiol. 2022 09; 19(9):1074-1076.

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Chowdhury D, Johnson JN, Baker-Smith CM, Jaquiss RDB, Mahendran AK, Curren V, Bhat A, Patel A, Marshall AC, Fuller S, Marino BS, Fink CM, Lopez KN, Frank LH, Ather M, Torentinos N, Kranz O, Thorne V, Davies RR, Berger S, Snyder C, Saidi A, Shaffer K. Health Care Policy and Congenital Heart Disease: 2020 Focus on Our 2030 Future. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 10 19; 10(20):e020605.

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Thakur N, Lovinsky-Desir S, Appell D, Bime C, Castro L, Celedón JC, Ferreira J, George M, Mageto Y, Mainous III AG, Pakhale S, Riekert KA, Roman J, Ruvalcaba E, Sharma S, Shete P, Wisnivesky JP, Holguin F. Enhancing Recruitment and Retention of Minority Populations for Clinical Research in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 08 01; 204(3):e26-e50.

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Moore C, Valenti A, Robinson E, Perkins R. Using Log Data to Measure Provider EHR Activity at a Cancer Center during Rapid Telemedicine Deployment. Appl Clin Inform. 2021 05; 12(3):629-636.

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Goulbourne T, Yanovitzky I. The Communication Infrastructure as a Social Determinant of Health: Implications for Health Policymaking and Practice. Milbank Q. 2021 03; 99(1):24-40.

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